leesykes
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| 25 Aug 2005 4:45 AM |
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www.webhost4life.com
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Lee Sykes
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delphinec
Nuke Newbie
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| 17 Jan 2006 5:10 PM |
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I had a few sites on their server. The email through DNN never worked, nor were they able to ever help me with it.
plus their server was always very slow and they had a ton of customers that did a great job at crahing the others... I DO NOT RECOMMND THIS HOST.
If you sign up they will spam you on a constant basis reminding you to sign up again with them. There is no way to unsubscribe... absolutely unprofessional.
Cheap though. |
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robo_arnold
Nuke Newbie
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| 28 Jan 2006 3:59 AM |
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Any good hosting company to recommend? Currently, I have a
DNN4/ASP.NET 2.0 site running with dotnetpark. Installation is a
snap and its new admin panel/statistics are very good. It is supposed
to be among the best in business but I find my site very slow and
unstable. Ton of exceptions in log everyday for no apparent
reason. The log also indicated the application started/shutdown
numerous times. I think the cultprit is that their SQL server is
too busy, causing all kind of chaos. Perhap the whole platform is
not stable enough yet in a hosting environment. I don't know but
am thinking to find an alternative hosting for comparsion
purpose.
Ideally, I prefer a hosting company with phone support (if needed) and
enterprise level reliability and support. Not a one-liner
response like dotnetpark. When I emailed them my site was
down, they came back with something like "Check it out. It
is now fixed." with no explanation whatsoever. Well, at least
they acted quick whenever the site became inaccessible.
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PeterNolan
Nuke Newbie
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| 28 Feb 2006 6:45 AM |
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Posted By robo_arnold on 28 Jan 2006 3:59 AM
Any good hosting company to recommend? Currently, I have a DNN4/ASP.NET 2.0 site running with dotnetpark. Installation is a snap and its new admin panel/statistics are very good. It is supposed to be among the best in business but I find my site very slow and unstable. Ton of exceptions in log everyday for no apparent reason. The log also indicated the application started/shutdown numerous times. I think the cultprit is that their SQL server is too busy, causing all kind of chaos. Perhap the whole platform is not stable enough yet in a hosting environment. I don't know but am thinking to find an alternative hosting for comparsion purpose.
Ideally, I prefer a hosting company with phone support (if needed) and enterprise level reliability and support. Not a one-liner response like dotnetpark. When I emailed them my site was down, they came back with something like "Check it out. It is now fixed." with no explanation whatsoever. Well, at least they acted quick whenever the site became inaccessible.
I use discountasp.net....they are not so 'discount' if you only want a minimal and cheap site...but for a small company they charge USD240/year including 50 email boxes, 100MB sql server space, 750MB file space. This is more than enough for a small company and if you are slightly larger they sell extras at very reasonable prices.
For people who want a truely 'discount' provider I'd suggest enom.com where you can buy your mailboxes in packs of 10 and you can host many portals on the one site....I use discountasp.net to host many portals but that has the problem that I do not offer email with these sites...
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gymnasticsmedia
Nuke Pro
Posts:70
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| 27 Apr 2006 10:33 AM |
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| I'm currently with WebHost4Life. Looking to change providers. WH4L servers are slow, and now they want to charge me extra for ASP.NET 2.0 AFTER I renewed for a third year. |
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GymnasticsMeida.com
The Ultimate Portal for the Ultimate Sport |
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rodneyjoyce
Nuke Newbie
Posts:6
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| 18 May 2006 7:37 AM |
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I have recently move from WH4L to PowerDNN - I have published my speed results here:
http://www.dnncreative.com/Forum/tabid/88/forumid/7/tpage/1/view/topic/postid/597/Default.aspx#790 |
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Rodney
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jtran
Nuke Newbie
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| 06 Jun 2006 3:11 AM |
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I have good experience from webhost4life. My DNN site works just fine as well as the email part. Speed is fast. I am hosting close to 10 dnn site on it now and still good. I definately suggest Webhost4life to host DNN.
I do also have an account with discountasp.net but it's not any faster compare to webhost4life and yes, it does cost more with Discountasp.net. But i'll keep 2 account just incase one goes bad =) |
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wildfiction
Nuker
Posts:11
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| 20 Jun 2006 5:46 PM |
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One of the problems with WH4L are all of their hidden costs. For example, today I tried to point a domain at a sub folder and got this:
ATTENTION, since your domain name was pointed to ROOT for free, changing your path will incur a charge of $15/year fee. If you agree, please simply continue to proceed.
I have no problem with WH4L charging fees like that. What I have a problem with is that they don't let you know what these fees are before you sign up. No where on their web site does it give you any indication of what these fees will be. They will also charge you $10/year (I think) if you want to add email to any of your extra domains.
My other host is 1&1. When you tabulate and compare them against WH4L they look like they are priced about the same. However, 1&1 include everything in the advertised price so there are no hidden surprises.
As I mentioned. WH4L can charge those fees but they shouldn't deceive consumers by hiding the prices or not giving us access to all the costs before we sign up. How can I trust WH4L when they do things like that? |
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earner
Nuke Newbie
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| 07 Oct 2006 4:11 PM |
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I am new to DNN and WebHost4Life.
You need the ADVANCED HOSTING to have DNN.
I have mixed feelings about WH4L so far. Their servers do seem very slow at times - and crash a couple of times a day for me.
So far I haven't managed to get the Newsletter/bulk email working from DNN through WH4L, I get an email that says the bulk mail was sent, but as I registered myself twice with my portal to check it while setting it up, I know it didn't as I didn't receive it on either of my email addresses (one hotmail, one another domain I own)
I will be looking to move hosts if my site ever gets popular (... er, after if it ever goes live)
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mlspector
Nuker
Posts:14
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| 20 Oct 2006 3:06 PM |
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| I just started using Webhost4life and the control panel, live chat support and help seems OK. The download of DNN4 was very slow and even the help line staff thought it was slow and suggested that I use DNN3. My site seems slow when I first log on and then speeds up. I hope it does not persist. How does one know if it the server or the program that is slow? |
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wildfiction
Nuker
Posts:11
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| 20 Oct 2006 5:00 PM |
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What is your DNN web site URL? Try "racing" it against another DNN site hosted on WebHost4Life. This one is mine: www.headvert.com
If you let us know your URL then I can also race the 2 and see how they do against each other. |
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gymnasticsmedia
Nuke Pro
Posts:70
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| 20 Oct 2006 7:29 PM |
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The reason your site might be slow, then speeds up... could be because it's not cached in the servers memory. You can use a type of "keep alive" service that it's your site every 5-15 minutes to keep it cached, and loaded so when a user hits the site they don't get that initial "slowness". We use host-tracker.com. I think I read about this on here @ DNN Creative. |
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GymnasticsMeida.com
The Ultimate Portal for the Ultimate Sport |
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nsmith555
Nuke Newbie
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| 15 Nov 2006 8:52 PM |
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| I dropped WH4L because it was slow and one day I noticed my database had just disappeared. Not a good thing when running DNN. Seems things just don't work so well without it. Now I still get spam from them saying you are -181 days before your site expires. Because it was a test site I never moved it elsewhere. But I'm currently checking into hosts. So far ihostasp looks most promising for my next potential site. |
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DanRowe
Nuke Newbie
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| 01 Dec 2006 3:57 PM |
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| Power DNN has been nothing but a blessing to me. The support and the performance are both great. |
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skhalidi
Nuke Newbie
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| 02 Dec 2006 1:41 AM |
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i have been three years now with WH4L and they are great, ok sometimes they are slow but with a mulit domain service for 10 bucks is really cheap,
all their SQL servers are both 2000 and 2005, and migtatiON is for free,
i know the 15$ for to setup an email domain account is normal, do not expect to get a multi domain host for a mere 5$, too good to be true
all those who complain about WH4L are comparing a 10$ with a 50$ with another host, obviously the higher price tag will be better, it is logical
another complain i read was WH4L termianted the servce cuz he had 4 GB day transfer,
i think it is unfair for somebody to eat up all the bandwidth on a share enviroment and only pay 10 bucks
if the site has 4GB he shud get himself a dedicated server and not run it cheap! |
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nwarren
Nuke Newbie
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| 02 Jul 2007 8:25 AM |
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I've used these guys for a year - and the functionality has been good, but the performance (from the UK) has been poor.
I've used these guys to monitor my site access for a few weeks now - the 'average' load time on my test DNN page is 7 secs, and it regularly goes over 25 secs - I've had loads of comments from my users that it's 'very' slow to load.
http://site24x7.com/login/status.do?execute=StatusReport¶m=IVLJ7u9nlTybShwa0B%2FcBrkTxD28gqPLdEe7MjUu0g4%3D&urlid=8166000000012003&color=%23FFFFFF
I tried the same test on a test page hosted with M6.net and the average load time over a week was just over a second, which is much more acceptable. I don't know whether this is truly a fair measure of performance, but I can't think of any other way to compare hosts? |
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miamiray
Nuker
Posts:13
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| 25 Aug 2007 3:20 PM |
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Wow ! Dude ! Your site is fast!
I know you posted your little challenge almost a year ago, but trying to "race" against your site now would be like trying to race a beam of light. You loaded for me (first time Id ever been there) within about 1 second. Google isnt that fast.
... you sure you're running DNN on Webhost4life? I would be embarrased for you to even see how slowly my webhost4life site loads sometimes. |
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Declic Video FX
Nuke Pro
Posts:67
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| 25 Aug 2007 3:25 PM |
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Posted By rodneyjoyce on 18 May 2006 7:37 AM
I have recently move from WH4L to PowerDNN - I have published my speed results here:
http://www.dnncreative.com/Forum/tabid/88/forumid/7/tpage/1/view/topic/postid/597/Default.aspx#790
Hello rodneyjoyce,
I have checked your loadtime and compared to my website hosted with webhost4life, it is similar. Have you changed something ????
DV FX
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Declic Video FX
Nuke Pro
Posts:67
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| 25 Aug 2007 3:26 PM |
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Posted By miamiray on 25 Aug 2007 3:20 PM Wow ! Dude ! Your site is fast! I know you posted your little challenge almost a year ago, but trying to "race" against your site now would be like trying to race a beam of light. You loaded for me (first time Id ever been there) within about 1 second. Google isnt that fast. ... you sure you're running DNN on Webhost4life? I would be embarrased for you to even see how slowly my webhost4life site loads sometimes.
miamiray,
Which site are you talking about ??? Can you give us the URL ?
DV FX
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Peter72
Nuke Newbie
Posts:5
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| 02 Sep 2007 8:30 AM |
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 WH4L is the slowest host with non-existing support. They offer lots of space, but servers are soooo slow! |
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Declic Video FX
Nuke Pro
Posts:67
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| 27 Nov 2007 4:00 PM |
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jtran, and others... I now have problems with downtime (~1 hour per day).
Did you experiment such kind of problems ? We have changed server one time, changed application pool, it is ok for 10 days, and then it comes back with downtime...
:-(
What about other people ???
I am sending my 7th request ticket, without any good solution, I will be obliged to move... :-(
Any advice is welcomed !! It will be my second DNN hosting provider which did not give satisfaction.
Anyway, I still hope to find a solution with WH4L
DV
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wildfiction
Nuker
Posts:11
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| 27 Nov 2007 9:10 PM |
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| I just received a check from WH4L today as a partial refund after I closed my account with them. I'm now with www.godaddy.com - and I know that you'll appreciate the reason. I have been with one other web host before WH4L (1and1) and both WH4L and 1and1 have 1 MAJOR problem. Their support staff are based in the far east and have very bad English / language skills and frequently misunderstand what you are saying. The great thing about GoDaddy is that all the support is US based and native English speakers. Wait times when you call in are short (max I've ever waited was 3 minutes) and they almost always have a solution for you. They are very good. I've been hosting sites for 5 years now and I've learned that the most important thing with hosting is support. I'm very happy with GoDaddy. |
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Declic Video FX
Nuke Pro
Posts:67
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| 28 Nov 2007 2:19 PM |
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Well... Opinion vary in fact...
I was with GoDaddy before, then another hosting provider (Ultima Hosts), and now WH4L.
Very satisfied with support, only problem: regular downtime...
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wildfiction
Nuker
Posts:11
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| 28 Nov 2007 7:58 PM |
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| Why did you leave GoDaddy? |
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Declic Video FX
Nuke Pro
Posts:67
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| 30 Nov 2007 2:19 PM |
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Awfully slow, horrible !!! And very hard to put your DNN install into root folder.
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wildfiction
Nuker
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| 30 Nov 2007 6:38 PM |
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We obviously had different experiences. I run 8 DNN sites from 1 code base and DB and there is a fair amount of traffice to those sites and other sites that I'm hosting. I have used 3 hosting companies so far: 1and1, WH4L, and GoDaddy. 1and1 and WH4L, with the sites that I'm running, are much slower. GoDaddy is lightning fast by comparison.
I'm thinking that maybe there's something different about our DNN installations that makes yours better suited to WH4L and mine to GoDaddy when speed is concerned. |
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jeffk
Nuke Newbie
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| 01 Dec 2007 2:18 PM |
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| I was a former WH4L customer for several years. While I didn't have any specific complaints, the speed was sufficient and I got help when I needed it. I didn't like being billed in advance and got nickeled and dimed for adding a domains and other charges. I moved to 3Essentials (http://www.3essentials.com?3eref=15045) and am very happy there. For $14/mo I get up to ten separate DNN installs and databases on a shared server, unlimited emails, no extra charges. They bill by the month. I don't have a lot of volume at my sites, but I haven't noticed any performance problems. Their support has been excellent, they are DNN savvy and usually get back to me quickly. They use the Plesk admin tool which I find much simpler and more robust than the WH4L admin tool. |
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gymnasticsmedia
Nuke Pro
Posts:70
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| 01 Dec 2007 2:26 PM |
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I've had WH4L for quite awhile, and I have had performance issues in the past. They charged me to switch from a server that was ASP.NET 1.0/1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0  . Though the server I'm on now has had 100% uptime for over 3 month. Though I've complained in the past, I can't currently. 
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GymnasticsMeida.com
The Ultimate Portal for the Ultimate Sport |
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gymnasticsmedia
Nuke Pro
Posts:70
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| 01 Dec 2007 3:22 PM |
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Damn! I shouldnt have posted! 10 minutes later I went down for 10 or 15 mins.  |
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GymnasticsMeida.com
The Ultimate Portal for the Ultimate Sport |
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Declic Video FX
Nuke Pro
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