Greetings Snow Revolution and Milan1frank !!
I have been waiting for support ticket and email responses from prospective providers, and I am saddened to report that after days have passed the news is not good at all:
1. No support tickets have gotten any further replies;
2. Those with direct emails have either not answered, or the emails have bounced from non-existent accounts or server timeouts.
None of that stuff should EVER happen from any good provider.
If their claimed fast response times are shown to be lies - then so also will be their promised 99+% uptimes.
A very poor state of affairs indeed.
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The info below is badly out of date since I posted it almost a year ago !!!
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I've been at this investigation since starting it almost a month ago.
Frankly the results are almost depressing.
Seems to me that lots of the bad results are in direct relation to the 2020 mess our world is in.
As I mentioned before - many don't even answer, many have broken ticket systems, and so on.
Of all those I've found and tried to get pre-sales info from, the best of the lot is still the provider listed in the OP of this thread;
They are not super-cheap, but their reseller hosting offer is quite good still.
The provider whom I've used for ~10 years has just informed me of a 20% discount on shared or reseller hosting for new clients.
If that info is desired I will only provide it privately as I've done before.
Here is another provider which may be of interest to some folks:
=>DELETED, no longer selling hosting<=
This next provider does reply to pre-sales queries, and my liking of big allotments in this time of TB storage leans heavily towards trying them out, actually:
R2 (400GB SSD) (Unlimited Bandwidth) (Unlimited Accounts)
Annually: $49.99 with coupon: WHT49
info@subwayhost.com
https://secure.subwayhost.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=8
If you ARE after
super-cheap hosting, here is a deal that I will not even try to use because they are just a small bit of a huge conglomerate based in the US (Global Contacts Inc) and actually run from Hyderabad, India with horrible support thereby.
They only use rented servers, and their published offer is a lie as they now only do cPanel to cPanel migrations now.
Here are their offers if you want some=>
DA hosting:
https://www.panelsecure.com/us/
1 Plan = 1 Price $17 Per Year 5 (five) DirectAdmin Accounts
Unlimited Space, BW, E-Mail, Alias (Parked) Domains, FREE SSL
cPanel hosting:
https://www.panelsecure.com/us/nginx-hosting.html
$45 Per Year - 5 (five) cPanel Accounts with WHM
Unlimited Space, BW, E-Mail, Alias (Parked) Domains, FREE SSL
BTW, I asked them this:
Where can I find some POSITIVE reviews of your services (not on your site) ??
Quote:Nowhere!! We don't have time to write positive reviews
Customers who are happy just mind their business and enjoy the service.
Please let me know if you need any additional assistance.
That is all for now and hopefully the info here is useful for some folks.
Bluehost, Host gator, Big rock, site builder.com, domain.com, reseller club, constant contact, cloud bazaar and as many as other hosting companies are owned by one same company Endurance. Some hosting buyers don't know that they are run by same group and shift to hosting to other companies in same group and get cheated again. They have almost 80 brands under their group. Check all the brands under Endurance here
https://researchasahobby.com/full-list-e...es-brands/
Relating with reply #13 - here is some info from the site linked there:
Quote:Why you should avoid Endurance International Group (EIG).
In very short, the main reason is that EIG has a very bad reputation of ruining the hosts it acquires. HostGator, Arvixe, A Small Orange, Site5 and so on – we all have heard a huge mass of horrible stories from former clients of these hosts which sharply deteriorated their services after being bought by EIG. EIG “optimizes” cost structure of the hosts it buys out, fires great (expensive) support staff and migrate clients to a worse hardware infrastructure.
And here is the (regularly updated...?) list image from that site:
![[Image: EIGHosting.jpg]](https://researchasahobby.com/shared/EIGHosting.jpg)
I can state that personally I've had very bad experiences with 1 or more on that list (which I neither recommend nor use myself...) and also with others whom they have not bought out (yet...at least AFAIK).
Godaddy and whatever 1&1 changed to are also best avoided 100% as they are simply evil.
Within the recent couple of days I've been in contact with a very new provider with an attractive and low priced offer, so I grabbed that and pointed an unused domain at it - so far, so good - good support responses thus far too.
Interesting thread, and thank you for posting Op.
Found my webhost on blackhatworld a couple of years ago, and now in the market for a better provider!
That said, the afformentioned site has loads of hosting deals, for whatever product or grogram you want to promote.
This list is helpful, but too small for one to make an informed decision about the best hosting deal/s on the market.
Good to know I am not the only one seeking a new webshost though.
Will compare your recommended list against those on BHW!
Thanks op
Hi Smithknowt,
Thanks for the interesting thread.
Did you do any research on A2 hosting?
I need a new ssd host :-)
Thanks and max reps added
Yes Gamelord, I have and just now took another look to be current.
Responding to your query directly:
1st - Whether hosting uses SSDs or not is of far lower importance than the quality of their internet connectivity and in case this makes little sense to you, here's why=>
Most hosting is now on servers that are VMs as an overhead lowering measure.
2nd - You did not specify if you have more than a single domain, but since most folks here now do, reseller hosting is best for that situation.
3rd - If speed is your thing, then what you want is a VPS to set up your own VM server(s) on.
To be completely open and clear on this:
I do NOT resell hosting at all;
I ONLY use reseller hosting as it is most economical for what I do.
That all being said, A2 has been under that name for ~20 years, and as such was most likely sold to a large corpy (as clearly shown about other providers in prior replies here).
Most long term successes in hosting have been snarfed up that way and A2's 'about' page does not reveal or deny this fact of hosting life.
Lastly, my take on A2 is that even their minimal reseller hosting is vastly overpriced, thus it has been of no interest to me - I can do better easily any day of the week and have a great provider whose services cost far less with very stable and reliable uptime.
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Can you recommend some provider that offers master reseller hosting? ;o
hi
any body try this ?
is this a trusted company ?
Can recommend some offers master reseller hosting?
Seeing the 2 most recent replies here - I wonder what folks would want master reseller hosting for as opposed to regular reseller hosting ??
I do have some of it myself, but only because my goal was to give the maximum amount of financial support to my long term provider - I would never consider reselling WHM accounts.
As to sources - there is plenty of info right inside this thread.
(Mostly thus far about what to avoid, sadly...)
I am with another provider that I am still using after ~10 years myself as my main one.
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