Wild Fiction
Nuker
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| 02 Dec 2007 4:44 PM |
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| I agree with that nickel and dime comment about WH4L. On the face of it they tell you that everything is included but when you try and add anything to your account they charge you. That was the second most annoying thing about WH4L. |
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Déclic Vidéo FX
Nuke Pro
Posts:88
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| 12 Dec 2007 7:58 AM |
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Well, just to let you know, I can not continue like that with WH4L, the downtime is 1 hour EVERY DAY now...
They keep continue changing me from server to server, without any solution...
I have sent an email to CEO (on saturday), no answer since then....
I have 2 tickets opened, no answer from the manager (after several discussion with technical people), I would like to have a solution, to find something which permit to be hosted.
Seems like they can not guarantee 99.9% uptime (they claim that 99.9% is related to server, not to application pool...)
Conclusion, I have well below 99.9%, but it is related to application pool which is not recycled...
Very sad...I still have hope to find a solution. Cross fingers, I am waiting their feedback...
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Pawel
Nuke Newbie
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| 18 Oct 2008 7:03 PM |
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Hi, I've been with www.webhost4life.org for many years and I'm impressive with its clients' service support and hosting
service; I always introduce it to my friends and other colleagues;
My blog "www.needhost.cn"
If you want to host your website with them, you may refer to the
http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=Googleweb
to visit their website.
Rgs,
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Ryan
Nuke Newbie
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| 29 Oct 2008 2:15 PM |
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WebHost4Life is clearly the best Windows based Web host service I know of. But to say this actually surprised myself, because I have been trying to find a “better” host company and moved away from WebHost4Life in the past year and half. I looked for alternative providers not because of any bad service I see, but because the bad ratings I see from online forums abut Webhost4Life. Now after trying 4 other Windows hosting providers, I can confidently say that WebHost4Life stands out among competitions and I will be a happy customer for a long time to come.
WebHost4Life has many advantages over the competitions, and what I specifically like is the flexibility they provide for the site mangers. For example, their Control Panel web site is more user-friendly and much faster than those of other providers I tried. (most other providers use Plesk what I just hate! Too slow!!) For SQL Server hosting, the Control Panel allows site mangers to backup and restore SQL Server databases in a DIY-way without having to submitting a support ticket. This is very convenient. Plus, their online support has always been prompt and helpful. I highly recommend WebHost4Life.
The site I host with WebHost4life is Karooba.com. We have high hope for this site (we hope it is the next big thing to come) and have worked hard to find the best web hosting provider. I can confidently say that WebHost4Life is the one! |
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Jim McManus
Nuke Newbie
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| 29 Nov 2008 12:30 AM |
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My experience with webhost4life is recent but that in no way minimizes the value of the folllowing comments.
I develop customized DNN sites for customers who want content control but generally don't have the technical expertise to implement their own sites. I do not offer dirt cheap do it yourself websites. I know my customers personally. In that light I need a hosting provider that I can depend on.
Over the years I have used three previous hosting providers. The last was for two years. This company provided a reasonably affordable product and adequate support. As my business grew it became necessary for me to consider dedicated hosting. That was too expensive so I was excited when my provider offered Virtual Private Servers (VPS). I jumped at the opportunity. That mistake jeapordized my client relationships. The performance was awful and the support was atagonistic.
I quote
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"James,
I am sorry there may have been some confusion. The VPS is active until the 1st of December as it has been paid for until then.
Unfortunately we cannot pro-rate refund VPS servers as there is a very high overhead for us in setting them up and we do not charge setup fees for VPS servers.
I am very sorry that you feel this way but the service does perform normally but your VPS server was overloaded as explained to you and required additional upgrades or additional VPS servers to run efficiently with all the resources located on it.
Will you be keeping your account with us? I will check with management to see if we can however give some type of credit on that.
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With that response I spent the weekend searching for a new hosting provider. Thank goodness I found webhost4life. I bought a shared hosting account and throughly tested the service and support of webhost4life. During the next week I purchased an Advanced VPS and moved all my clients. The performance, support and even control panel have been exceptional. The value for my dollar positions me to offer my clients unparalled service and support. If you are looking for a hosting resource that lives up to its advertising then webhost4life is my recommended choice. While this is my opinion, it is based upon my experience. Thanks webhost4life.
Jim McManus
JAM Web Service
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Lori King
Nuke Newbie
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| 15 Feb 2009 5:58 PM |
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| I have been with WebHost4Life for almost a year now, and I have been very impressed with the service, ESPECIALLY their customer service. I have not had many complaints, but when I had questions, I was able to resolve them quite quickly using their ticketing system. I also had a chance to use their live-chat option tonight, and spoke with Elainey, who was very patient and helpful. With all the options for hosting and domain services out on the web, my interest always rests on how good the customer service is. These guys have it! |
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Déclic Vidéo FX
Nuke Pro
Posts:88
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| 14 Mar 2009 5:33 AM |
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Hi there,
Just to let you know my experience since 2007 when I posted. Everything was solved, after long long discussion and intervention from manager.
It runs just great, with some troubles every 3 months. But every 3 months, when I contacted the support, it was always great and solved in few minutes/hours.
But now, that's may be interesting to note that WH4L is currently having very big problems with their server (global problem as I have been told). I am hosted on VPS (Virtual Private Server, which is not the lowest price and you should attend a good level of uptime/service/quality). Unfortunately, since 33 days, I am running into very big problems (DNN very very slow, unusable, etc...). They had some issues with server, they migrate all websites to another one. And it is still awfull. Today, my website is still down (since 8 hours). I contacted support, and I do not have any answer.
The only answer I got is through chat, where I am informed that "a virus scan" is performed on all server, that's why it is down... Hum, I did not know that virus scan was performed during hours and it was shutting down server (8 hours downtime as I said).
:-(
I have submitted my ticket to a manager for an answer, and I am waiting a clear statement.
I will let you know the end of the story. I sincerely hope that we will be able to find an issue, I was always happy with them, but since 33 days, I can say that it is just awfull. Why ?? I do not know...
DV FX
PS: Ticket 490213 |
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Déclic Vidéo FX
Nuke Pro
Posts:88
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| 15 Mar 2009 6:21 AM |
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That's amazing, I just found some reviews on Amazon.com. Some of the 5 stars review have been made by... PEOPLE WORKING AT WEBHOST4LIFE !!
Look here: Amazon / Webhost4life review (Eric Chen is one of the guy working there, close to CEO person....). Funny.
For the moment, my website is still down (36 hours). There are plenty of other servers which are running well (with DNN on it), I have requested to be migrated there, I am waiting a statement.
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Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Staff
Nuke Master V
Posts:5307
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| 18 Mar 2009 11:25 AM |
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just for your info - I am testing a new uptime reporting service which I find to be really handy - you can test them with a 30 day trial - they will send you an SMS whenever your site is down so you can quickly act to get the problem solved.
Of course this does not help you with your current situation as you are working on getting it fixed, but it maybe useful in the future.
www.pingdom.com
Thanks,
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Lee Sykes
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Déclic Vidéo FX
Nuke Pro
Posts:88
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| 22 Mar 2009 1:47 AM |
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Hello Lee,
Thanks for the information, I was using pingdom tools for monitoring the startup time of my website, did not know about the tool for downtime. Excellent !!!
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tridom
Nuke Newbie
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| 22 Mar 2009 2:16 PM |
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WOW! Can't believe some of the comments I've seen!
I don't know why some of you had such problems, but I haven't experienced them!
I've used WH4L for 6 years with up to 6 domains. They have set the bar for web hosts....and that bar is exceedingly high. I truly believe I can't find another host as good with the value added for as low a price.
Name it- they provide it. I've watched them grow and improve in all aspects of their business over the last 6 years. I've never waited more than a day to have a problem resolved...and there have been very few problems- unlike other hosts I've used. They certainly strive to maintain their promise of 99.9% uptime. They've even willingly, professionally, and efficiently helped me resolve problems that I was the cause of.
I'd recommend no other!
(BTW- I DO NOT work for WH4L, nor have I ever. I'm just a very satisfied customer!) |
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Déclic Vidéo FX
Nuke Pro
Posts:88
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| 24 Mar 2009 4:02 PM |
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So, here is the end of the story:
1/ they solved my problems
2/ they improved my DNN (it was very slow)
3/ they apologize
3/ they gave me a compensation
CONCLUSION: I am happy now...
;-)
Just one regret, they should have better communicate on the topic, they did not answer to my first request and I had to wait one day before having my first answer, which is unusual...
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BRgafanhoto
Nuke Newbie
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| 28 Apr 2009 11:51 PM |
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I'm a Brazilian client and I tried to find some web host in my country, but after some unsuccessful attempts decided to host my site with webhost4life ...
Since then I am very pleased and the support that they offer is the best of all ... always very quick and efficient. Even when I had a problem with my Domain Registra they helped me
Tanks BRgafanhoto
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CarmineXX
Nuke Newbie
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| 14 Jul 2009 6:56 PM |
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| Webhost4Life is a very good webhosting I've found for my little network of sites (a central portal, a blog, and various little sub-sites); and it's the one that offers lots and lots of features (MySQL, MS SQL,a lot of web space, a powerful control panel, support of PHP, ASP.Net, ASP, many commercial CMS and blog/forum engines, etc.) at a very cheap price. I think Webhost4life is the perfect choice for medium/big websites, and for network of various little websites. It offers, moreover, free subdomains, and a single hosting can handle more than a single primary domain.
I recommend this hoster to anyone.
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gizmoboy
Nuke Newbie
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| 16 Sep 2009 10:29 AM |
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| Are there any posters with more than 1 post who are able to vouch for WH4L?
Their deal is compelling. I think I will try them out while we're in development and see how it goes. |
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Gym Media
Nuke Pro
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| 16 Sep 2009 10:43 AM |
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I am able to vouch for WH4L. Though be prepared to be nickeled, and dimed.
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GymnasticsMeida.com
The Ultimate Portal for the Ultimate Sport |
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sillyman
Nuke Newbie
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| 30 Oct 2009 12:40 PM |
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 They Deliver - Great Support, Great Service, Great Price!
I am an on-the-side website developer. I have a few customers I've had for year. I was using a service that sounded like all the others. But they did not deliver. In fact, they finally were down for days and I couldn't get ahold of them... and I lost the customer. That was it. I searched and found webhost4life. I signed up for the MS Web 2008 Advanced Hosting Plan and they had me going in one day and after two more days when the changes took affect over the internet, I cancelled my old host service and it felt great. Webhost4life has fast/knowledgeable customer support, great service, and great up-time. And they even saved me money. You can't beat that! I love 'em.
Plan: $9.95 MS Web 2008 Advanced Hosting Plan
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jgregory
Nuke Newbie
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| 25 Nov 2009 9:22 AM |
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| My church started in 2004 and we looked for a good provider with decent workable aplications that would be consistant for the best price. We were disapointed in what we discovered. In fact we struggled with our hositng company for over a year and finally gave up and started to look around for a better solution. We found webHost4life and have not looked back. They have been consistant and reliable for the duration of our time with them. Outages are extreemly rare and most importantly, they have communicated with us if there were any concerns that they were addressing. We are very satisfied with Webhost's service and the quality of the product. |
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Richard Edwards
Nuke Newbie
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| 20 Feb 2010 8:48 AM |
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Hi all,
I just wanted to provide a little update here about WebHost4Life. I've been hosting with them since 2004 and up until recently I've been quite happy with them. For the price, the support and everything else was good. They are making a move to another server infrastructure now and I've been testing the new server they igned me and the results are not good. Recently I haven't been happy with the page speed on my site (around 3-4 seconds per page) but when testing on the new servers I'm now getting 35-40 seconds per page. Ouch. I emailed their support with both urls so they could see what's going on but no response now for a couple days.
Yesterday I set up an account at PowerDNN and I'm impressed with the speed so far. The same pages that were taking 3-4 seconds are now sub 1 second, most around .6 seconds. I'm going to play around with this account for the trial period and test out a few other things before I commit.
Richard
DNNStuff
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Déclic Vidéo FX
Nuke Pro
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| 13 Mar 2010 3:23 PM |
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Same for me Richard....
I am (was?) hosted with WebHost4Life since many years with MS VPS account...
(http://declic-video-fx.com/language/en-US/DNN.aspx)
Unfortunately, WebHost4Life has been bought by another company, and we have been asked to migrate to a new plateform... The migration is currently pending (for more than 1 month in my case), and so far I was not able to run the DNN website on the new plateform.
Unfortunately, after spending hours with the support to try solving the problem, I am still alone with my problem and unable to migrate to the new plateform. That's a pity, the service was great, but now it is just unusable for DNN.... :-(
So if anyone has a similar experience or idea, I am willing to inform you that I migrate to Power DNN. I am VERY VERY happy !
I was looking for
- semi dedicated hosting (with dedicated app pool)
- same price range (59 $ / month with WH4L and I pay now 20$/month)
- 5 Go storage
- Email functionnality (Smarter Mail or similar) with at least 100 alias and multiple email account
- IMAP
- SMTP Server relay (no limit, or reasonnable limit, like 100 emails/hour)
- 2 DB and 2 domains
- Each DB with a limit of 300 Mb minimum (currently 50 Mb per DB)
- possibility to connect to the database remotely with the web (MyLittle Admin or similar) --> this is problematic, I am using Management Studio 2008
- possibility to manually backup the database and to restore it (option for automatic backup is an advantage, backup to be downloaded manually is perfect)
- possibility to use FTP, 10 accounts (using currently 3 accounts)
- 301 redirect www.domain.com to domain.com
- Fast response time (no slow DNN please...) !!
Kind regards,
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