Review - Bad: ait.com & globat.com / Good: HostGator

Just a couple of hosting services I would not recommend.

I was with both of them for almost a year until I got fed up and switched to the other. Initally I was with globat, then went to AIT.com. Globat had excellent prices and I had very little experience with hosting companies (and a little broke, too). I had an ecommerce (oscommerce) site. Initially everything was fine, for about 3-4 months then started becoming very slow, taking up to 5 minutes to load the home page (with 6 queries). The site would se 20-30 visits a day so it wasn't that busy. I asked them to see if they could do something and all they could say was it was due to the "load" of the shared server and nothing they could do and then offered me a "dedicated hosting plan" for $200 a month that would solve the problem. After a couple more months I got tired of it and moved to ait.com.

ait.com advertised that they didn't overload their servers and that there would be no issues with server load during the day. Also, for the first couple months everything seemed to work fine. After a couple months I added another hosting account and started a forum using vbulletin. Things seemed to be okay then suddenly I started getting slow pages loads (like with globat) I contacted them several times regarding the issue and that before signing up I was told t.hat it would not be an issue. Again, I was told that it was because it was a shared hosting plan, and that it is inevitible and was also offered a dedicated hosting plan. I upgraded to 3.6.8 and started having errors with the quick reply where it would say "error" and not show an error. After refreshing the page it showed the post. The problem ended up being because of low php memory limit (8mb) for the hosting account I was using.

So, I started reading the vbulletin.org/com forums looking for a new host and seemed hostgator was reasonable. I signed up and moved everything over about a month ago and the forum has been loading extremely fast at all times of the day and I'm very pleased. The quick reply error has also disappeared with the 40mb php memory limit. So far I'm happy. I like the cpanel interface.

i'm happy to read such review about these hosts... usually, the reviews are not documented, they are jut like "i hate them"... but you have the best way of telling why... thanks!

i would suggest you post your review here as well: http://forums.hostgator.com/ in the "Customer Reviews" forum.

[dfdems]

I have one of my boards on Hostgator. They have always been top notch for my needs to this point.

[sgrisole]

Originally Posted by dfdems

I have one of my boards on Hostgator. They have always been top notch for my needs to this point.

What hosting plan are you on? I'm looking for a good hosting for my forum: about 50 online users at a time and 500 posts/day. What would you suggest? Thanks.

[gforce75]

I've gotten mixed reviews about host gator. I think it just depends what cluster your on.

[chick]

I have 2 vb boards (separate domain accounts) that I host through my prime whm account and so far so good. They seem very quick to respond and helped me with an ssl cert since I had no clue. Also there always seems to be a 'live operator' available to speak with and answer every stupid question I've had. So thumbs up to HG so far.

[iogames]

I'm Happy with HostMonster.com never heard of problems with them... does anybody?