Bad Hosts

gushy

Ok, after my discussion on the forum today with Darren of php4hosting I got thinking.

People post to this forum asking about good PHP/MySQL hosts practically everyday (do you think the search button should be bigger?!), and most people reply with "try XXX they're pretty good" etc.

Well I think knowing who have had problems with which hosts and what the problems were would be more helpful.

Then perhaps we could get Tim could stick up a definitive list on the site.

What do you think guys? Good idea? If so, post your comments!!!

(For my own benefit, if anyone has any bad things to say about phpwebhosting.com, tell me now before I sign up!!)

php4hosting

I think this is a good idea but the hosts should have an option to put there side forward.

Darren

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If you only post the bad things, you end up choosing the "least bad" host.
Give the hosts a fair chance, and post both the good and the bad stories, and explain why it's good or bad.
Posts like "they suck" are useless.

gushy

Don't get me wrong I think the hosts should put their side forward.

And I wasn't thinking of commentrs like "they suck", what use is that?

If a hosts has problems with uptime I want to hear about it? If they've had a hard disk failure, and then you've found at that they only take backup's once a month, I want to know? If they have bandwidth problems, or can't keep to their claims I want to know.

The key words here are constructive and informative. Just saying host A is good and host B is bad is not much help.

Yes we should have good comments on when hosts have performed well, but again why?

I didn't ask for bad things because I'm completely negative, but it's the bad comments that are usually more indicative of a hosts capabilities.

And from a host's (my company is a host) point of view, good comments are always welcome, but bad comments are very useful. How else can one improve service, if one isn't told what to improve?

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Well I hope you get some good and trustworthy reports.

Anon

Hi.
I am completely new here.
Was it an idea to create a database with the input prom people. I am willing to creatre a form to fill in with check boxes and remark fields etc.
Carl.

gushy

Hi Carl,

thanks for the offer, but for the moment I just wanted people's opinions.

If a good response is recieved, then maybe we'll compile a list/db.

Nick

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