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Reddit · r/Hosting · yesterday

After about four years on the host, the swap from SiteLock to the host's own AI protection meant malware was found twice without any notification or cleanup for a small business site.

Reddit · r/webhosting · yesterday

About 20 WordPress sites kept crashing on shared plans, and the move to a managed VPS on the host's advice made things worse, so they are leaving.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 2 days ago

After years on a shared plan, renewal hikes put their bill at about $20.63 a month, above the $17.95 list price, so they feel overcharged and are shopping around.

Reddit · r/VPS · 3 days ago

Uses Hostinger for website hosting and says it has always been pretty good.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 8 days ago

Has been with Hosting.com for about five years on a reseller plan and is leaving after three price increases in a single year, the plan renaming and going from $39.60 to $48.60 a month. Says he was not told the amounts in advance and found out only when charged; he cancelled and is moving elsewhere.

HostingRecs · 10 days ago

Moved the bakery's WordPress site and email here almost three years ago because the first year was so cheap. For a long time it was fine. cPanel is the normal one, installing WordPress took about ten minutes, and the chat agents were polite even if half the time they just sent me a knowledge base link. This year was rough. Renewal came in at more than double what I first paid. Then in August the whole thing was down for most of a day, site and mailboxes, and live chat was down too, so the only updates I could find were posts on X. Customer orders that came in by email didn't reach me until the next day. A couple of times around holidays the site also showed a resource limit page when traffic went up. Fine for a hobby site. If your business runs on email, put it somewhere else. I'm moving mine this month.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 14 days ago

After 25+ years, their WordPress installs were all hit with bot and spam files for the first time during DreamHost's security incident.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 18 days ago

Locked out of email for three days after a forced password reset; DreamHost ignored repeated requests to reset MFA and does not take phone calls.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 19 days ago

When they reported a hacked site, DreamHost support gave minimally useful info but kept the site up and put a restored backup in a separate directory.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 19 days ago

Left SiteGround because the plan renewed at several times the introductory price after the first year, and moved to Hetzner where the renewal matched the signup price.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 20 days ago

After a malware attack on shared hosting, HostGator support wanted over $300 to fix and restore.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 21 days ago

InMotion left a client's VPS unpatched for a security issue for over a day while two tickets went unanswered and phone support could not escalate.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 21 days ago

With A2/Hosting.com for over 12 years, says support feels less personal now but is more effective and faster for many issues, and that things have been stable lately.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 21 days ago

Six years with A2, now Hosting.com, with no issues from the change apart from pricing, and great support.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 21 days ago

Started building a site on Bluehost, went another way, and found cancelling hard: no online option, and customer service kept questioning the reason for more than 15 minutes.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 22 days ago

Stayed with MDD Hosting for about a decade and still calls them fantastic, leaving only because they could not swing the pricing for another three years.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 22 days ago

Moved to A2 Hosting for better performance than GoDaddy; after the Hosting.com acquisition the legacy plan rises from $11.99 to $16.99/month.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 22 days ago

Sites on their IONOS account went down during the PHP incident while SiteGround and Krystal were fine.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago

Says their Hosting.com server stayed unpatched against a critical PHP exploit for 12+ hours, forcing them to take production servers down for a day, and plans to leave at renewal.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago

Former A2 customer pleasantly surprised two years after the Hosting.com takeover: prices remain attractive, services run as intended and tech support is great once past the AI bot.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago

Found SiteGround middling: better than Bluehost and worse than Kinsta, with pricing that matches that middle position.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago

Hosts about 418 WordPress sites for work on a SiteGround server; sites keep going offline and SiteGround blames the uptime monitoring tools, which the poster disputes.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago

Manages about 150 small-business client sites on SiteGround, likes the control panel and extra services and rarely needs support, but would not use its VPS or cloud plans for heavy sites.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 23 days ago

SiteGround updated all their sites within an hour during a critical PHP patch while WP Engine lagged.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 25 days ago

They stopped using IONOS hosting last year yet were charged a large amount for Web Hosting Plus. Their cancellation had been scheduled for October 2027 and they had to exchange multiple emails to request a refund.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 25 days ago

Very happy with SiteGround: one yearly plan covers 10–20 sites with unlimited mailboxes, the interface is easy and real people answer for troubleshooting.

Reddit · r/webdev · 26 days ago

Migrating to Namecheap hosting, one primary site lost all its content and backups could not fix it.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 29 days ago

They have used A2 for about 6 years for a static site, email and Mailman lists, and the package does what they need. Renewals are now many multiples of the original price, so they plan to move.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 29 days ago

They used A2 for 10 years and say Hosting.com is not the same company, advising to dump it. They now use only nonprofit hosts.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 30 days ago

Runs Next.js on a Hostinger VPS for about 8 dollars a month versus 20 on Vercel, but notes it is only cheaper because they do the fiddly ops work themselves.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 33 days ago

Long-time customer facing a steep renewal price increase and a support reply from an AI bot, after several outages in the past year that forced their first support tickets; switching hosts.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 34 days ago

Says Hosting.com support is now AI responses where they used to get a human with decent support.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 36 days ago

Had an A2 reseller account for nine years and says that after Hosting.com took over, WHM was inaccessible for days, cPanel crashed, prices rose and support was horrific, so they left.

Reddit · r/webdev · 39 days ago

They have used Hostinger for over a decade for their agency, hosting hundreds of clients with zero issues, possibly helped by an agency account.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 43 days ago

They came to Reddit to praise the A2/Hosting.com support team after a really smooth support experience, saying the team has been fantastic for them.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 43 days ago

Customer for years with a few reliability issues. Their site was shut off after exceeding traffic limits and the warning email never arrived because email was also down. They upgraded to a VPS and find it expensive.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 43 days ago

They host a couple of client sites with InMotion and find it great so far, if a bit pricey.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 43 days ago

They run client sites across a VPS and a dedicated server, are happy so far, and find the tech support really competent.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 44 days ago

Their IONOS account was deleted, they can no longer log in and all their websites are down. They got no help from IONOS customer service.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 45 days ago

They cancelled their Prime Hosting account in April but got an invoice in September and were charged anyway. Support claimed to have no record of the cancellation, so they disputed the charge.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 49 days ago

They host several sites and recently saw availability and performance problems. Support blamed abusive activity from other accounts on the shared server and recommended an upgrade.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 52 days ago

They used Hostinger shared hosting for a couple of years, rate the cost-benefit above average, and say their site never went offline with decent loading speeds.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 53 days ago

Submitting a cancellation 11 days before renewal still resulted in a 235-dollar card charge, and support refused to issue a full refund.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 54 days ago

Has used DreamHost for years without issue.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 58 days ago

They have had sites there for a decade and say support dropped sharply after the rebrand, with an aggressive support bot that gave them false information several times.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 58 days ago

As a customer they noticed support tickets started being answered by AI, ending one of the last human support portals they used.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 58 days ago

They are a legacy A2 Hosting customer and say support has declined significantly since the acquisition. They rarely reach anyone knowledgeable on chats or tickets.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 59 days ago

Their website was taken down over a flagged malicious file, and the host asks $160 to resolve it. They find the charge ridiculous.

Reddit · r/VPS · 62 days ago

Four years on Hostinger with good hosting for small WordPress sites, but support is mostly AI that kept them in a loop during an urgent matter.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 63 days ago

They have been with DreamHost for 20-plus years and are thinking of moving, but say mail hosting is still the best deal when emails are added.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 65 days ago

As a five-year customer on one shared plan, they were charged US$369.99 three days before the due date despite an open do-not-renew ticket. Support confirmed a refund in writing, then withdrew it after they completed all verification steps.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 67 days ago

Likes SiteGround but the GoGeek renewal is $450 for one year, which seems expensive.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 68 days ago

Long-time InMotion customer says recent support changes made staying untenable: limited AI chat, 30+ minute human queues and unanswered tickets.

Reddit · r/webdev · 69 days ago

They host sites and email on IONOS and often have to create a mailbox about three times before it works. Manual configuration sometimes still fails.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 70 days ago

A Hostinger user finds it enough to host multiple browsing sites, though they prefer Google Workspace for high email volume.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 72 days ago

They moved from Bluehost to InMotion and describe it as a very good experience.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 73 days ago

Sites hosted on Namecheap had intermittent downtime for weeks and support could not help; moving hosting elsewhere.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 73 days ago

A Bluehost customer of about six years says it fits their multi-site and email needs well.

Reddit · r/webdev · 74 days ago

They paid 2 years upfront for Hostinger shared hosting, but the account was blocked within 6 months with no refund and no way to access the admin panel. They say they have heard similar reports and advise switching.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 74 days ago

On IONOS shared hosting they have had zero issues with the hosting itself but are tired of extra charges, such as paying for SSL and for enhanced support to stay on an older PHP version. They are switching to another host.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 74 days ago

An InMotion Hosting customer runs a few sites there and barely has to think about hosting, which is the point.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 74 days ago

A Hostinger customer says there is barely any human support and the price rises after the first term, though the platform itself is amazing.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 77 days ago

They host many client sites and got an alarming malicious-content email, then a sales call offering a paid fix with no details. After they pushed back, Hosting.com said it was a mistake, so they see it as selling services people do not need.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 78 days ago

Has used HostArmada and FastComet; both pretty decent and far better than Hostinger for shared hosting.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 78 days ago

Good run with InMotion for client sites: consistent performance and solid support.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 79 days ago

Years of use with great performance and best-ever support, and no poor performance experienced.

YouTube · on Emit.Reviews · 79 days ago

Going through hell with Hostinger and its Horizon AI tool and regrets the time spent.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 79 days ago

On Hostinger Cloud Startup the server works well but support is poor and takes days.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 79 days ago

A small host who used Hostinger says it has no phone line, only slow email support and occasional slow live chat, and migrating off it got harder.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 80 days ago

They hosted part of an ecommerce catalog on DreamHost for over 2 years before the account was terminated without warning after a third-party phishing report. Support refused to explain, and it was restored after about 26 hours, costing them a day of revenue.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 84 days ago

A web agency uses Hostinger's Business plan for client sites and finds it easy to manage, though renewal costs rise each year.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 85 days ago

Left HostGator because it charges your account for unneeded services and asks permission later.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 86 days ago

Fed up with InMotion Hosting and its security issues.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 86 days ago

Linking two URLs crashed all their HostGator-hosted sites, the backup did not work and promised compensation never came.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 87 days ago

They have had a DreamHost account for about 30 years but were hit with an unannounced $5 monthly old-PHP fee that built up until the account was disabled, taking sites and email offline. Support kept pointing to a knowledge base article, though a refund eventually came.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 88 days ago

They have two sites on an IONOS shared plan and both were unaffected during the outage. They downloaded a backup as a precaution.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 88 days ago

Finds SiteGround cheap, fast, good value with excellent support, with no limitations apart from one image optimizer issue.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 89 days ago

Their IONOS shared hosting went down the day after they launched their product, and IONOS could not even move the sites to another server. They moved to another host that day.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 89 days ago

Their websites were down for 6 hours during the IONOS outage. Support confirmed the problem but gave no ETA.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 91 days ago

They hold two accounts and were affected by the data center outage; with two months left on one they may move it to another location.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 91 days ago

Their hosting was down since 7:30am during the Hosting.com data center outage.

Reddit · r/webdev · 91 days ago

A Namecheap VPS was dead for most of the day during the Phoenix outage.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 92 days ago

Three of their hosting accounts were down for hours in a Phoenix data center outage, with no answer on failover. They have been with A2 for years for support and Turbo speed but are now looking around.

Reddit · r/webdev · 92 days ago

A Namecheap datacenter cooling failure took their sites down for most of a day, and Namecheap communicated poorly beyond Twitter threads.

Reddit · r/webdev · 92 days ago

Their one site hosted on Namecheap went down during the Phoenix outage with no real communication, while the nearly 100 registered sites were fine, so they will move it.

Reddit · r/webdev · 92 days ago

Sites hosted on Namecheap were down for six hours during the datacenter outage and they plan to leave.

Reddit · r/webdev · 92 days ago

Used Namecheap for decades without uptime problems until the datacenter outage, when they received no notification email.

Reddit · r/webdev · 92 days ago

During the outage their 15 Namecheap-hosted sites in a different datacenter had no issues.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 92 days ago

During the August Namecheap outage, couldn't access business emails.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 92 days ago

A few of their sites were down during Namecheap's August 13 outage.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 92 days ago

Site and WordPress backend down for hours during Namecheap's August outage.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 93 days ago

Their hosting account was deleted at server level two weeks before the renewal date, taking their site and cPanel offline. Support wants the renewal paid before restoring from offsite backups.

YouTube · on Emit.Reviews · 93 days ago

Cannot give a collaborator builder access because their premium hosting plan is not the agency tier.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 94 days ago

Instant, knowledgeable live chat support and solid hardware, but renewal prices jump to 3.5x the initial promotional rate.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 94 days ago

Has used DreamHost for various things for over 20 years; DreamPress is decent and support has always been good.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 97 days ago

Namecheap suspended their hosting account after 3 months pending ID verification and refused a refund on the $108 two-year plan.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 99 days ago

They have a small blog on managed WordPress with IONOS and call the service awful. Support replies rarely and only tries to upsell them to expensive packages.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 99 days ago

They ran a non-profit WordPress blog on IONOS and found it expensive and awful, then moved hosting elsewhere.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 106 days ago

Their managed WordPress site on IONOS got disconnected at random a few months ago without them doing anything. They phoned customer support, who fixed it.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 106 days ago

Their 8 core 32GB VPS became unusably slow with low CPU and RAM use. A video of WHM loading slowly got only a generic link on optimizing WordPress sites. An earlier thread described a node change request answered with an unrequested LS Cache plugin update.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 109 days ago

Their IONOS-hosted WordPress site was hacked and then unreachable, and support could not help at first. Several restores failed because malware was detected, but IONOS later provided a clean backup from before the attack.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 111 days ago

Customer for many years who just upgraded from shared to VPS with 10 domains without problems. Chat support answered in about 5 minutes and sorted out their CWP question quickly.

Reddit · r/Domains · 112 days ago

Moved from GoDaddy to SiteGround because SSL is free.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 112 days ago

Has used DreamHost for years: excellent uptime, very good support and reasonable prices.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 114 days ago

Both of their websites went down last week due to a Bluehost server problem; they moved to another host and say Bluehost got bad.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 114 days ago

A user recommends InMotion's VPS, which has been pretty reliable in their experience.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 115 days ago

A WordPress developer of 18 years says SiteGround has been dismal every time they have tried a site on it.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 115 days ago

A developer moved a client site from Bluehost to Krystal after cost-cutting led to issues, though they thought Bluehost's customer service was pretty good.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 115 days ago

A digital goods seller with 20-30k monthly visitors is leaving Hostinger after more downtime than expected and a crypto-miner infection that was a nightmare to clean up.

Reddit · r/webdev · 116 days ago

They switched from GoDaddy after a sales promise of better, but found the design process frustrating, the WP admin tools clunky and support as ineffective as before. They say the switch was wasted money.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 116 days ago

Prices crept, malware returned the same day after cleaning, and HostGator's SiteLock was useless, so they left.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 116 days ago

A blogger on Bluehost for three years says the price went up every year and it isn't worth the hassle anymore.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 116 days ago

A user says they have used SiteGround for years and it has been awesome.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 117 days ago

They cancelled their contract after being billed four payments for the same hosting, with IONOS claiming they had ordered it four times.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 118 days ago

Reseller of about 80 sites for 10+ years. Months of 500 errors were traced to a 25 connection cap, and the only fix offered was a pricier plan or a VPS upsell with no tenure discount. They plan to migrate away.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 118 days ago

They were very happy for years and made many referrals but say support has declined recently.

Reddit · r/webflow · 120 days ago

They moved their Webflow site to WordPress on their Hostinger plan using an AI agent that produced a theme zip, and report the site was a pixel-perfect copy and easier than expected.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 120 days ago

They run a site on IONOS shared hosting and could not get the ionCube loader working for a plugin. IONOS support was busy, the phone line is overseas, and the help they got did not work.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 121 days ago

For several months their sites showed database-level problems that made product pages and forms unusable while the host showed no downtime, and support denied any problem. They then lost all sites for over 8 hours during an important campaign.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 121 days ago

They transferred two domains to DreamHost expecting email to be included, then learned each mailbox costs $19.99 per year extra. They bought two mailboxes anyway.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 121 days ago

They used InMotion managed dedicated servers at a former employer and had a good experience.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 121 days ago

The June renewal notice did not mention the new email plan or 20GB limit, then it autorenewed with extra charges.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 121 days ago

A customer for years now pays $30 a month for a plan that was under $10, with new domain and MySQL limits.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 121 days ago

A long-time developer found neither Hostinger's AI nor its human support could fix a simple FTP problem, and calls the support unacceptable.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 122 days ago

Their whole account, including email accounts, was shut down over an alleged DDoS attack on one unused site, without the host contacting them first.

Reddit · r/webdev · 124 days ago

They canceled a one-year Hostinger subscription but say Hostinger kept trying to renew it and charge their card. A recently renewed card prevented the charge.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 126 days ago

InMotion was their first web host around 2008-2009. They left after a few years because of value.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 127 days ago

They run InMotion dedicated servers and say they have been very happy with them.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 129 days ago

Bluehost is a nightmare to cancel and tries to charge at renewal even after you tried to stop everything.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 136 days ago

After ten years HostGator now charges $36 a year extra for a third mailbox with only three weeks notice.

Reddit · r/webdev · 136 days ago

Has hosted many websites, simple and complex, at DreamHost for 20 years.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 137 days ago

They were with HostGator for over 20 years and wanted to leave for years, staying only because of many domains, client sites, reseller and WHM setups, before finally deciding to move.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 137 days ago

Moved hosting from Namecheap to Krystal and migrated a VPS to KnownHost, with zero complaints for either.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 138 days ago

On Namecheap Stellar Plus hosting for email, their SMTP server is not trusted by all recipients, forcing external SMTP services.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 140 days ago

They were charged 4 euros for a hosting package that showed 1 euro in the cart, then could not log in because the account seemed not to exist.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 140 days ago

They have used IONOS for 15+ years, and tech support went above and beyond when an issue came up; a newer VPS account has had no billing surprises.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 141 days ago

Their website took 7 seconds to load and support tried to upsell an expensive hosting package instead of fixing it; a technician only fixed it after a separate ticket.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 141 days ago

They recently moved their personal sites to IONOS on a 2 year commitment at a pretty good price and are happy so far.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 141 days ago

HostGator moved their seven tiny mailboxes to an email plan costing an extra $38 a month, after years of unannounced price hikes.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 141 days ago

HostGator added file size limits that trap their projects on the shared server.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 142 days ago

They report no issues at all and consider the price really good for what is offered.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 143 days ago

Has used SiteGround for 18 years and doesn't mind it.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 144 days ago

Three-year hosting plan worked well, but the renewal rate is triple the cost of signing up as a new customer.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 144 days ago

Five-plus year customer finds SiteGround's new Site Tools layout clunky, adding clicks to every task.

Reddit · r/webdev · 144 days ago

A Hostinger customer of six years never renews; they buy a new promo plan and migrate the site to avoid the renewal price.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 146 days ago

After they complained, support moved them to a new server and it has run without issues for about a year. They think problems come from the neighbours on shared hardware.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 146 days ago

Used InMotion Hosting in the past and still has clients on it who are pretty content.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 146 days ago

Hosts three domains on Namecheap, one on its own instance, and finds the price rise noticeable but still acceptable.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 147 days ago

They say quality dropped after the rebrand, with frequent downtime and overload that made their shared hosting too slow. They want a Singapore-based alternative.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 153 days ago

Pays yearly for Hostinger and finds the pricing good; Lighthouse performance was in the high 90s like their other hosts.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 155 days ago

Runs multiple high-traffic sites on ChemiCloud for the past year with nothing to complain about.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 156 days ago

Bluehost raised the renewal to over $700 from about $250 for three years.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 157 days ago

They pay $649 for a handful of hobby sites and found the upcoming bill listed at $536, so the actual charge is about $100 higher. They also got an email prepping them for a price increase without numbers.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 159 days ago

They get 10-50 daily visitors yet ScalaHosting flagged CPU usage as too high for shared plans. Cloudflare and plugin cleanup did not help, so they plan to try the Entry Cloud plan.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 163 days ago

Six years of issues: DNS changes never going live, support staff lying, and SSL auto-renew breaking randomly.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 164 days ago

SiteGround auto-installed an AI plugin that broke their site's forms and cost over $10k; they are leaving.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 165 days ago

Paying about $200 a year at A2 Hosting, they get persistent 503 errors with AI chat only and unanswered calls.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 169 days ago

A Hostinger customer cancelled within 30 days but was refused a refund and kept being charged; support is AI-only and they filed a card dispute.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 170 days ago

After 18 years on a legacy IONOS shared plan, successive price hikes pushed their bill to about $30 a month, and they say they are overpaying for resources a static site never uses and keep getting pushed into Premium tiers.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 170 days ago

Left GoDaddy over renewal rates and moved to DreamHost, whose WordPress migration tool made it very easy.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 172 days ago

They have used IONOS for about 10 years with 10 domains and 27 mailboxes, paying just over 500 pounds a year. Support was unhelpful about a Search Console email warning, so they are considering moving.

YouTube · on Emit.Reviews · 174 days ago

Finds bulk loads into MariaDB blocked as a security risk, making large imports a pain.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 174 days ago

Bluehost raised their WordPress price roughly 10x on auto-renewal and would do nothing about it.

Reddit · r/webdev · 175 days ago

After about two years they say long early hold times have improved dramatically. A support specialist helped them clean up infected files during a ransomware attempt.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 176 days ago

A HostGator pre-sales technician could not understand a simple image-hosting use case, so they ruled the host out.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 180 days ago

cPanel performance degraded from sluggish to unacceptable over a year, with frequent downtime including a 24-hour outage and unhelpful support.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 181 days ago

They had no issues on the managed WordPress Plus plan in the past year, but the renewal jumped from the $148 introductory price to $428. They are weighing a $299 plan or another host.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 181 days ago

Years on DreamHost, started with great support and fair prices, but support is now hit or miss and prices have steadily climbed.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 183 days ago

They tried IONOS to set up multiple WordPress installs and got frustrated in 30 minutes. Support was only AI responses, and after cancelling the next day they were still invoiced despite the 30 day money back guarantee.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 185 days ago

Support replies now take hours instead of minutes and a hosted site has been throwing 5XX errors for a full week.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 185 days ago

They have paid for well over a decade and say service got steadily worse. Their IP was blocked for a day and several support tickets produced no fix, so they are leaving.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 185 days ago

A Hostinger Business customer gets constant 429 errors in wp-admin from their office network; support confirmed new rate limits but won't adjust them.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 190 days ago

They picked the cheapest IONOS plan for a class, then months later noticed charges of 81 and 89 dollars a month for add-on contacts they do not recall signing up for. Their WordPress site also stopped working.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 190 days ago

Five days down after the cPanel incident and Bluehost's response suggested files were missing.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 191 days ago

They have four low traffic WordPress sites hit by bots and say ScalaHosting cut their PHP-FPM processes so pages take up to a minute to load. The only fix seems to be a pricier plan.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 191 days ago

They had no real technical issues at HostGator but disliked the heavy sales messaging. They say HostGator upgraded them unilaterally just before an auto renewal.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 191 days ago

Their business VPS (originally from ixwebhosting 22 years ago, then A2) was offline for over 3 days and the email server for over 5 days after the Hosting.com takeover, with no backup available to them.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 192 days ago

Reports a discount-code bait and switch with $403 for basic hosting and a $131 charge for downgrading; dispute lost.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 193 days ago

Website down for at least three days during the Bluehost outage.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 195 days ago

Bluehost VPS outage after the cPanel vulnerability: the longest outage they have experienced with the host.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 195 days ago

During the cPanel-related outage, the live tech lied about what was going on.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 197 days ago

SiteGround switched off a client's site after marking a standard PHP library as malware, then pushed paid support and scanning.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 198 days ago

The staging environment on their Managed WordPress plan never populated, and a ticket got the same daily investigating emails for 3 weeks. They also hit the cPanel outage and bought WP Engine to migrate.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 198 days ago

They were frustrated that Hosting.com had not yet applied the cPanel patch and restored cPanel hours after release.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 199 days ago

They run 10-15 WordPress domains at Hosting.com and say one or another is hacked daily despite updates, 2FA and Wordfence; this started about 6 months ago after 2 quiet years, and they restore via support tickets.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 200 days ago

They say IONOS deleted their website data multiple times, forcing them to rebuild the site repeatedly. They had been a customer for over 10 years since the 1&1 days and say service declined after the rebrand.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 200 days ago

A Hostinger customer says their site is down all the time and the only support is an AI chatbot, so they'd never recommend it.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 201 days ago

Namecheap shared hosting changed terms three months in, capping aliases at 10 per mailbox when the user had over 1,200, so they left.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 202 days ago

A new business site on Bluehost took 10-15 seconds per page and the WordPress backend was nearly unusable; switching hosts fixed it.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 204 days ago

They paid $14 for web hosting yet received many emails claiming an outstanding balance, and IONOS added a product they did not order. Support then stopped responding to their email address.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 206 days ago

Used SiteGround in the past: OK, but load felt slow from overloaded servers, so moved key sites to Smoothosting.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 206 days ago

A Bluehost customer paying $21.99 a month for what is now a $13.99 plan was refused any credit for the remaining prepaid term.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 207 days ago

They have the same legacy-server problem as the original poster and do not want to move. They were already considering leaving because Hosting.com removed their lifetime discount.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 208 days ago

SiteGround defaulted to annual billing and auto-renew, charging about $400 unauthorised; refund took 5 hours of chat.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 209 days ago

Runs a solo consulting site on Hostinger WordPress hosting, which handles security updates; two contracts have come via Google search.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 209 days ago

Used Hostinger with a business partner and found it easy to build a five-page site, mobile-friendly, with low fees.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 213 days ago

With SiteGround for many years and says they have fantastic customer support.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 213 days ago

DNS suddenly stopped pointing to domains and SiteGround support could not explain why.

Reddit · r/webdev · 214 days ago

They host their site on IONOS and manage files with FileZilla. They find IONOS not easy to navigate but say support helps make the site live, and they might choose another host if starting over.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 214 days ago

Kept paying for SiteGround hosting they did not use after telling support their site was on Showit; refund refused outside the 30-day policy.

Reddit · r/WIX · 217 days ago

A WooCommerce site on Hostinger could not cope with the small resource slice, so they migrated to another host the same price.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 219 days ago

They are on a legacy reseller plan paid until Nov 2027 and spent about 30 emails with agents trying to get newer technologies, facing constant upsells. After the rant support reached out and the feature turned out to be already available.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 219 days ago

After 14 years with web and email on HostGator, the cost became unsustainable, so they moved email to Purelymail.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 221 days ago

They moved from SiteGround to ScalaHosting Entry Cloud and say it is working well, probably overkill for their site. They were annoyed it went on sale days after purchase.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 222 days ago

SiteGround is usually willing to work with anyone; they phoned about the bot-check page and it got fixed.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 225 days ago

Deleting a Python App left a stale nginx directive that broke their WordPress site; first-level support could not fix it on shared hosting and only suggested a VPS upgrade, so they built a workaround.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 227 days ago

A DreamHost customer of over 10 years can go straight to a human in chat and has always found support understood and fixed the issue.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 228 days ago

Site went down for several days with 522 errors and support first blamed their side; a support agent then spent hours helping them find an unnoticed shared IP change to update in Cloudflare. They plan to stay, but with more caution.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 228 days ago

A customer quit Hostinger because they could never get past its AI chatbot to a human; even email was answered by the bot.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 228 days ago

A SiteGround customer says you can reach a real person at support fairly quickly.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 228 days ago

A freelancer runs 17 sites on SiteGround; like other hosts it hikes the price after the intro year, but overall it's pretty solid.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 228 days ago

A Hostinger customer says it works well for them.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 230 days ago

They switched to Namecheap hosting after the A2 price jump and found the move easy. They report no issues so far.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 230 days ago

Company emails on Bluehost are constantly blocked by Spamhaus and Gmail/Yahoo mail goes to spam; emails sometimes stop entirely.

Reddit · r/webdev · 231 days ago

DreamHost called right away and enabled security measures for free during a domain dispute and provides good customer service and UI; customer for life.

Reddit · r/webdev · 231 days ago

Has used DreamHost for 20 years for static sites.

Reddit · r/VPS · 231 days ago

Two servers at InMotion and happy with their support so far.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 232 days ago

Found SiteGround overrides wp-config auto-update settings and pushes updates; the delay option lives in the hosting panel.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 233 days ago

A Hosting.com (formerly A2) customer of over a decade says downtime is nil, though support is infrequently frustrating.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 234 days ago

A Bluehost customer's site was down 8+ hours with 429 errors; support told them to pay an extra $200 a month for bot protection.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 236 days ago

They have been fighting IONOS for a month over changing file and folder permissions and must call support each time. They like the price but plan to leave when their year is up.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 237 days ago

They were happy with A2 for years, but after the Hosting.com takeover their account keeps hitting disk full with only 2GB of 15GB used. Support gave a canned answer and they are moving away.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 238 days ago

Support quality collapsed after three years of good service, with staff failing to address actual issues and prompting a full migration of all sites.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 238 days ago

They moved to Namecheap Web Hosting after the A2 price hike and have no regrets so far. Namecheap did the migration for free.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 238 days ago

They host five light websites on A2 and say customer service dropped while their hosting cost rose by 50% after the WHG acquisition.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 238 days ago

They got the same large renewal price increase and only a small discount offer after complaining. They are searching for a new host.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 240 days ago

After 11 years of excellent support, the World Host Group acquisition brought daily server outages and clueless support staff.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 240 days ago

HostGator shared plans reject python-requests user agents, support would not escalate, and suggested a VPS the rescue groups cannot afford.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 240 days ago

SiteGround was great at first but the last year has been a nightmare, with support unreachable behind an unhelpful AI.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 241 days ago

An A2 Hosting customer seeing huge server load problems, with a load average around 48 on 24 cores on a good day. Support only offered to migrate them to a different server.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 241 days ago

HostGator maintenance took their websites dark around midnight and they were still down ten hours later.

Reddit · r/webdev · 241 days ago

A Hostinger user gets 403 errors on their site all day long.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 242 days ago

On Hosting.com (formerly A2) reseller hosting they see speed that has decreased and prices that have increased. Their updown.io apdex was 0.03 and uptime was bad at times.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 243 days ago

Got Hostinger business email on a $0.5/month deal and it works like a charm.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 244 days ago

They moved all their clients from Brixly to a Krystal reseller account. Krystal handled the migration of 150+ cPanel accounts after they uploaded the backups.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 244 days ago

SiteGround was historically great but lately adds AI bot-check pages that clients see and it refuses to remove.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 245 days ago

New to SiteGround with about 60 sites and really happy with support and features.

Reddit · r/webdev · 246 days ago

A Hostinger customer since 2024 finds it very fast, with a clean, beginner-friendly dashboard.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 247 days ago

Happy with SiteGround's service but the GrowBig renewal at about $29 is expensive.

Reddit · r/webdev · 249 days ago

A Hostinger customer of about two years moved from its builder to hosting and a VPS and finds it stable and good value.

Reddit · r/webdev · 249 days ago

A Hostinger customer of 18 months says the renewal jump is real but reasonable, and support got noticeably better after the first year.

Reddit · r/webdev · 250 days ago

They have used Hostinger cloud hosting for their clients for 5-6 years. They describe the server uptime as reliable and the service as easy and secure.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 250 days ago

Years of running a major client site and a reseller package have been brilliant, with hands-on migration help from support at every step.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 252 days ago

Moved most projects and Node apps to Hostinger Node.js hosting, which is much cheaper than relying on Vercel alone.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 252 days ago

Stayed about a year after Bluehost jacked up the rate, then moved to another host.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 255 days ago

They say Hosting.com raised prices and the starter plan lacks cPanel, so they will not use it again.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 255 days ago

After an account breach Namecheap ignored emails for 24+ hours and held domains and hosting for days while an attacker had control.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 255 days ago

After a year, performance is hit or miss, the dashboard lags, and support does not help or put in effort.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 255 days ago

Left Bluehost over the renewal bill but had no other issues with them.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 259 days ago

They enjoyed the service for 3 years on one low-traffic site, but the 3-year renewal is $827, nearly 3x the initial charge. They are looking at alternatives.

Reddit · r/webdev · 260 days ago

Customer since 2014 who feels they pay too much, with a 179 dollar renewal and billing chat that could not explain the charge. They expect the price to double after a year on newer plans.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 261 days ago

An agency on Hostinger's Agency Startup plan sees 5-second response times and frequent downtime with only 9 sites, and support keeps contradicting itself.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 261 days ago

A Hostinger user finds hPanel very easy and support great, but scaling gets hard and the renewal came in at 3-4 times the first-year price.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 263 days ago

After 10+ years: performance fine, but issues increase and customer support has become genuinely unhelpful.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 264 days ago

They ran a business site on Hostinger for about 3 years until it disappeared without clear warning. Support, mostly an AI chatbot, was not helpful to them.

Reddit · r/webdev · 264 days ago

Runs a few projects on DreamHost shared hosting that get quite a bit of traffic with no issues, with Cloudflare in front.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 265 days ago

A managed dedicated server at Namecheap: support couldn't solve simple tasks and stalled for an hour during a bot attack.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 265 days ago

Namecheap hosting latency was too high to pass PageSpeed; moving to WPX roughly halved load times.

Reddit · r/webdev · 266 days ago

Customer for about a decade who finds InMotion pricey but consistent. Phone or chat support reaches a knowledgeable person, unlike GoDaddy and Bluehost tests.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 266 days ago

A Bluehost customer was told they were near the 50GB limit and upgraded from $60 to $400 a year, then found auto-generated stats files filling the space.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 268 days ago

They hosted a half-dozen sites and email with A2 for 3 years and got a renewal notice about 320% above the introductory rate. They say it is inexcusable and are leaving.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 268 days ago

A new Hostinger customer expecting an $11 monthly plan was charged $194 for a year, cancelled within hours, and weeks later still had no refund.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 270 days ago

They hosted hobby sites and email with A2 for over a decade at $85.97 a year. They were told the renewal would be $155, an 80% jump, and a complaint got only a one-time 10% discount.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 273 days ago

They deployed their first full-stack Next.js app on Hostinger Node.js hosting. They like keeping everything in one place instead of using several providers.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 273 days ago

Bluehost VPS got stuck in a reboot; a ticket found within 2 hours that an engineer caused it by accident.

Reddit · r/vercel · 274 days ago

Moved to Hostinger Node.js hosting as a more predictable way to deploy apps and avoid surprise bill charges.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 275 days ago

They moved from A2 to SiteGround and say they could not be happier.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 276 days ago

They are on A2's legacy LiteSpeed Max shared plan with over a year left, and it was good until the MariaDB 10.5 end-of-life. Support refused to update the database on the legacy server and told them to buy a new plan.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 276 days ago

They have been with InMotion for over 15 years with no issues. They report consistently good customer and technical support.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 276 days ago

They used InMotion dedicated servers and licensing, and all licenses expired at the start of a long weekend. Support blamed a third party API and said the dev team would not prioritise it, so they bought licenses elsewhere and paid twice until migrating away.

Reddit · r/webdev · 277 days ago

Long-time SiteGround customer: service outstanding, but GoGeek renewal is £863.71 for 24 months so they migrated away.

Reddit · r/webdev · 277 days ago

Left SiteGround because renewals were brutal, upgrading each year just for intro pricing, and moved to Cloudflare static hosting.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 277 days ago

Tested Bluehost managed VPS: a firewall request took 24-48 hours and was never installed, no remote backups, and the 30-day guarantee did not apply to monthly plans.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 280 days ago

They moved their WordPress sites to ScalaHosting shared hosting and found them offline several times a day for 5 minutes or more. The host blamed resource use and told them to hire a developer.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 280 days ago

They host 7-8 WordPress sites and are leaving DreamHost because email is now an extra fee; with around 60 mailboxes per domain their annual spend would rise from about $100 to about $500.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 280 days ago

They had a DreamHost VPS for ecommerce sites that was still slow, so they switched to Hostinger.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 281 days ago

Service quality deteriorated into a mess after the company was sold, prompting plans to migrate over 20 client sites elsewhere.

Reddit · r/WIX · 282 days ago

Built a WordPress site on Krystal hosting with the Bricks theme and found it far cheaper and less complicated than Wix.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 283 days ago

Customer since 2019: support did not understand a hijacked domain, and storage was cut to 20% without notice before they left.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 283 days ago

Bluehost was fine for a client site, but upsells during checkout are annoying.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 283 days ago

Finds Bluehost Cloud solid for speed and uptime, but dashboard upsells and high renewal rates are frustrating.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 283 days ago

Moved from SiteGround to Namecheap and liked it, but now finds support not what it was, harder to reach by chat, and confusing bundles.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 283 days ago

Avoids SiteGround as too expensive for what it is, upselling everything.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 283 days ago

Hosts content sites and client portfolios on Hostinger: clean interface, decent speed with many plugins and rock-solid with no drama.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 284 days ago

Hired Bluehost for a redesign: tickets unanswered, $500/month SEO billed before delivering a site, and 3 months in they had no website and were out $1500.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 284 days ago

Bluehost site files kept getting corrupted with injected code; support fixed it twice then called it their responsibility, and the rebuilt site elsewhere has had zero issues.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 287 days ago

A new SiteGround buyer could not reach any support; order verification failed and a contact form led to a dead page, so they chose another host.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 287 days ago

SiteGround support was fantastic 3 years ago, but after 6 years they left as answers stopped; a domain setup issue took 2 months to resolve.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 289 days ago

SiteGround is their favorite WordPress host.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 290 days ago

They use Hostinger Node.js hosting for simple projects and find it cheap and reliable. They say it has been the simplest deployment they have had.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 290 days ago

Calls SiteGround the most junk cloud hosting service they have used.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 293 days ago

IONOS now charges $57/month for a small website and keeps claiming their bank is denying payment.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 295 days ago

They moved from Vercel to Hostinger Node.js hosting and found the setup simpler and much cheaper.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 295 days ago

Switched a Next.js app from Vercel to Hostinger Node.js hosting, finding it much cheaper and easier.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 297 days ago

Ticket response times worsened from 10-15 minutes to around 2-3 hours after the company was acquired, prompting a search for a VPS to move about 60 sites to.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 297 days ago

They moved from Netlify to Hostinger Node.js hosting on a tight budget and are glad they did. Their premium plan costs just $2.99, far below their Vercel account.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 297 days ago

After a malware infection, HostGator blocked all outbound HTTP/HTTPS connections, breaking SMTP, Twilio, Stripe webhooks, license checks and REST calls.

Reddit · r/webdev · 297 days ago

A 15-year WordPress site owner on Bluehost's Business plan got a year free from a competition but is moving to Hostinger after a rebuild.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 298 days ago

Left SiteGround because the yearly fees were too high.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 301 days ago

A customer had to fight through a painful refund process with Hostinger for a service they never subscribed to.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 302 days ago

Customer service is terrible, emails go undelivered and HostGator wanted $350 to clean malware, which another host did automatically.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 302 days ago

Moved to Hostinger from SiteGround and says it has been ok, at a lower price.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 302 days ago

Moved from SiteGround to Namecheap shared hosting, cutting $360/yr to $22/yr with zero issues so far.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 303 days ago

They used an InMotion VPS with CWP for years and found it expensive, with plugin uploads timing out and crashes. They later moved to a WP Pro server and report everything working great at a fraction of the price.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 303 days ago

Says SiteGround offers the best support received from any hosting company in 15 years.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 303 days ago

On Namecheap EasyWP they could not force a www redirect (no .htaccess); support only suggested plugins, so they added Cloudflare.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 303 days ago

IONOS closed their business accounts after verification without notice, cutting access to hosted projects and data.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 303 days ago

Nine-year customer: GoGeek auto-renewal came in at £604 with renewal haggling every year, but says support is outstanding.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 304 days ago

They moved to Hostinger Node.js hosting on the $2.99 per month starter plan and find it reliable and easier. They say it is much cheaper than Vercel and Coolify.

Reddit · r/webdev · 304 days ago

They have used InMotion for years and consider support great, contrasting it with a poor GoDaddy experience.

Reddit · r/webdev · 304 days ago

They found InMotion expensive, more so with new cPanel licensing, but were impressed by their past dealings with support.

Reddit · r/webdev · 304 days ago

They tried moving a few personal sites to InMotion and call the experience a disaster.

Reddit · r/webdev · 304 days ago

They recommend InMotion to clients, finding servers usually stable and quick. They dislike the backup manager and saw support slip during Covid but report recent contacts as great.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 307 days ago

An agency running 50 WordPress sites on Hostinger's Cloud Startup plan finds service, performance and hPanel good, but is fed up with constant AI add-ons and deal banners.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 308 days ago

A Bluehost customer since 2009 saw their renewal jump about 168%, and retention would not budge.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 312 days ago

Invoiced 19 times in a month, billed for web hosting they never ordered, and unable to cancel or remove their card.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 313 days ago

A reseller hosting 30-40 customer sites on Bluehost five years ago constantly had issues with the server being DDoS attacked.

Reddit · r/webdev · 315 days ago

Runs several client sites on Stellar Plus; Namecheap migrated a WP site for them and everything just works.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 316 days ago

Used Hostinger's website builder, which is not the greatest but easy and good enough with click and drag.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 320 days ago

Lean nonprofit sites on a shared DreamHost server zip along just fine, and they have been rather impressed.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 320 days ago

Had occasional slowness on DreamHost shared hosting even with a very basic website.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 321 days ago

Found Namecheap VPS silently proxies outbound port 25 SMTP and strips STARTTLS; support confirmed it, so they plan to move to a provider that does not.

Reddit · r/webdev · 322 days ago

A German IONOS user finds it just keeps working, with great German-language service, for domains and free static hosting.

Reddit · r/webdev · 322 days ago

A user dealing with IONOS since its 1&1 days calls it cheap with horrible service.

Reddit · r/webdev · 322 days ago

A hobbyist has used IONOS (formerly 1und1) for their web site for more than 20 years and always found it reliable.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 324 days ago

HostGator cut Hatchling plan mailbox size from 500MB to 100MB, so they are moving email to Purelymail.

Reddit · r/webdev · 324 days ago

Has simple websites on a Hostinger shared plan with no problems and decent performance for the cost.

Reddit · r/webdev · 325 days ago

Runs many very simple websites on Hostinger shared hosting and thinks a newcomer would be happy with it.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 325 days ago

Finds Namecheap hosting a bit unreliable.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 328 days ago

They began on shared WordPress hosting and upgraded as traffic grew, saying Bluehost made the upgrade easy without a forced migration.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 328 days ago

As a former A2 employee they had a free hosting plan and found it too unreliable to use. It was down both times, a few months apart, that they needed it for a class.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 331 days ago

Good overall experience with helpful support and fast server speeds for WordPress.

Reddit · r/webdev · 334 days ago

They bought a Hostinger shared plan but found they could not upload their Node.js files and would need a VPS. They still consider Hostinger good for WordPress sites.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 334 days ago

Replaced SiteGround after support became inaccessible; says InMotion Hosting is amazing.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 336 days ago

They moved to A2 expecting to avoid a post-sale decline like Bluehost, but after the takeover they cannot access their main domain and get no help.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 337 days ago

Ten years hosting small sites on DreamHost; one of the best budget WordPress options left.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 337 days ago

Six years and still likes DreamHost, but recent Cloudflare and SSL renewal headaches and slipping support, and the cheapest shared tier was painfully slow for clients.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 337 days ago

DreamHost VPS is simple to manage for email, SSL and PHP but has more downtime than their Lightsail sites.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 338 days ago

Years with no issues, but shared hosting was unpredictable and usually slow until upgrading to DreamPress, which was really fast.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 338 days ago

Used DreamHost for a while, then switched to Namecheap because it became too costly for a zero-traffic site.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 338 days ago

Says DreamHost is fine but slow and often oversells its servers.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 340 days ago

A small-business owner with several Hostinger sites is unhappy with renewal pricing around $10.99 a month and is moving sites away.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 342 days ago

They bought the largest shared plan a month earlier and found cPanel missing features such as Webalizer, AWstats and hotlink protection, and say support will not enable them.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 342 days ago

Dedicated DreamHost server for 18 years crashed only three times while serving 1-2 million uniques a month; best deal found despite odd issues.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 342 days ago

A Hostinger customer saw one shared hosting plan renew at three times the price.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 344 days ago

An agency found Bluehost silently blocking contact-form emails at the server; support denied it for days before escalation admitted it.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 346 days ago

A freelancer who chose GreenGeeks for client WordPress sites finds its chat support awesome and super helpful so far.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 346 days ago

A SiteGround customer of four years left after it began charging $50 per half hour for WordPress support that used to be included.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 349 days ago

SiteGround was stable with good people, but the yearly renewal fee could not be justified for a low-income site.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 350 days ago

A PHP 8 500 error was fixed when HostGator reviewed the error log and found a wp-config misconfiguration.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 351 days ago

A customer whose old host was deleted got Hostinger support to try restoring both their .wpress and .zip backups and offer to do the migration directly.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 352 days ago

A site owner moved from DreamHost to Hostinger a few years ago and says it has been stellar.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 353 days ago

On a DreamHost Basic VPS, they feel DreamHost pushes AI products so hard that it is the reason they are leaving.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 359 days ago

Runs WordPress sites on Namecheap hosting, ridiculously affordable, and credits fantastic support when a plugin took a site down.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 361 days ago

Hated HostGator: email sending and receiving problems because spammer-hosting IPs were blocked, and migrating the site was hard.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 361 days ago

SiteGround was user friendly but only the first year was reasonably priced, then about a 5x increase.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 362 days ago

A user had horrible results with IONOS: an unintuitive interface and constant DNS and routing issues.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 363 days ago

They have used 1and1 and IONOS for themselves and clients as a web developer. They say they were personally sent to collections by the company over a $20 debt.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 364 days ago

They have kept a Premium hosting account, originally from 1and1, since December 2003 and used the site until recently. Creating email addresses in the web interface pushes paid options selected by default.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 364 days ago

Someone managing 300+ domains says Hostinger is fine and good value for a small site, with shared hosting around $30 a year.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 365 days ago

Moving from shared to a Snappy 2000 VPS lost four months of email, though support has been fairly decent since; the VPS upgrade quote was steep.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 365 days ago

After moving from a Linode VPS to DreamHost shared hosting with 512MB, the WordPress backend became extremely slow.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 365 days ago

A user has used Hostinger for years for themselves and others without problems.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 366 days ago

They praise InMotion support for helping resolve a ModSecurity 406 error on their shared hosting after a theme update.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 367 days ago

They have used IONOS with WordPress and never had issues. Their tip is to ask for the server support team in Philadelphia, which they find far better than average support.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 368 days ago

Used Namecheap hosting and found some of the lowest resource limits and very slow performance.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 369 days ago

Uses Namecheap shared hosting: SSL is free the first year, then $13.20 per year per certificate.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 372 days ago

A WordPress site owner who used SiteGround before prefers Hostinger now, on a cloud plan with daily backups.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 373 days ago

Had many bad experiences with IONOS years ago and moved everything to other hosts.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 373 days ago

A business bought extra email storage from Hostinger and lost half its business correspondence in the transfer; support only said sorry.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 374 days ago

IONOS turned a £6 yearly domain into £12 monthly billing; after missed payments a debt collector letter arrived despite 18 emails.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 374 days ago

Says IONOS will deliberately trash your site if your DNS burps.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 379 days ago

Customer since 2006 battling peak-time 503 errors on shared hosting from noisy neighbors; reports get answered with upsells.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 382 days ago

They had mostly idle A2 hosting that moved to Hosting.com and say cancellation was refused and their card was charged. They report threatening support messages and a lost domain.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 384 days ago

Uses SiteGround and finds its SG Migrator plugin makes site migration very easy.

Reddit · r/webdev · 386 days ago

A WordPress host customer would recommend Hostinger, but it auto-renewed a domain they had disabled and took a week of support chats to refund it.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 388 days ago

Customer since 2009 who loved DreamHost until the latest price hike, now ready to leave with their clients.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 390 days ago

They run an InMotion VPS for their sites but find it too much work to keep updated, and want a managed service instead.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 391 days ago

Eight years hosting dozens of domains on multiple plans with a great experience across support and sales, until a redesigned dashboard showed 2FA disabled without notice.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 392 days ago

They say they wasted hours with Hosting.com tech support based in India and found it hopelessly inefficient.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 393 days ago

They have kept a WordPress blog on DreamHost for a number of years but feel paying for it is no longer worth it and are looking to back up and migrate.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 400 days ago

A web designer for small businesses hasn't had many issues with Hostinger and finds it good value for money.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 401 days ago

Their VPS went down with 150+ sites, then the PHP version was changed and could not be reverted; ticket replies took 8-12 hours and their sites were down four days. They moved away and are demanding a pro-rated refund.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 401 days ago

A Bluehost customer of over a decade is leaving because they keep getting charged more for features that used to be free.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 401 days ago

A freelancer has hosted about 20 client sites on Hostinger's cloud plan for 4-5 years without a single issue with the service or support.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 401 days ago

A Hostinger customer saw prices jump after the new-customer period, and its AI chat support twice gave wrong information that led to refunds.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 401 days ago

A Hostinger customer with a few WordPress sites and email has always been very happy, and restoring backups has always worked.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 403 days ago

Managed WordPress then VPS kept crashing; DreamHost bumped RAM to 2GB, fixed it and gave free years, but the renewal price now looks astronomical.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 406 days ago

Bluehost email forwarders delivered days or weeks late or not at all; four support fixes only worked for 4-6 months.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 407 days ago

A customer on Hostinger's 2-year Business plan sees 2+ second server response times and got only a generic answer from support.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 408 days ago

SiteGround's introductory rate became about $35 a month, which seems like a lot.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 408 days ago

Uptime alerts showed the Bluehost site down almost daily for 5 minutes to an hour, and upgrading to a VPS did not help.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 412 days ago

On a 3-year Shared Unlimited plan with no major issues, everything included and a simple custom panel they prefer over cPanel; renewal is $12.99 a month.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 412 days ago

Calls DreamHost as good as it gets for a big host, with reasonable prices and top-tier features.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 412 days ago

Pays for Shared Unlimited only for email, giving each client unlimited addresses with 25GB of disk space.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 412 days ago

After 19 years of unlimited space (almost 700GB), Bluehost capped them at 250GB for $22/month versus about $100 a year before.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 419 days ago

A WooCommerce site with only ~1,200 visits/month exceeds GoGeek CPU limits.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 420 days ago

DreamHost managed VPSs have been great for all their WordPress sites.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 421 days ago

Support was once excellent but lately has bot loops and reps who say it is fixed; premium price no longer matches.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 422 days ago

Hacked twice in a month on HostGator shared hosting; support cleaned files but the malware kept returning.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 422 days ago

Has used DreamHost for years; shared hosting is almost as fast as the VPS with a separate database server.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 423 days ago

15-year customer says support went downhill; their VPS SQL server kept disconnecting and Bluehost couldn't resolve it.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 424 days ago

Moved a WordPress site from GoDaddy to Hostinger and it has been a breath of fresh air.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 425 days ago

Hates SiteGround: an hour with a tech who hung up on them; support hard to reach without paid help options.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 426 days ago

After 15 years they were told a $200 migration fee would be waived then billed anyway, and an hour-long support call with an agent lacking root access.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 426 days ago

Shared plans shrank from 960GB to 10GB and HostGator moved them to a Pro plan with a $1000 renewal.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 429 days ago

They hosted a site on IONOS shared hosting for 21 years at about 20 pounds a month and found it cheap and reliable until database connection errors started. First line support was clueless and the migrations team took 7 days to reply, though one call helped.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 430 days ago

Realized how terrible the platform was with a second site and url rewrites dumped in the site; moved within two months.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 432 days ago

Over the last year Bluehost had a bad upgrade, scripted support, high renewals and slow malware cleanup help across several accounts.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 434 days ago

They got a three year plan at a big discount and say it has been pretty good so far. They may need to ping the site hourly to keep processes spinning and still have caching to configure.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 436 days ago

A HostGator Snappy 8000 VPS ran out of RAM during traffic spikes for a voting site, and support only suggested optimisations.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 437 days ago

A former Bluehost customer of years found their site always sluggish and support unhelpful when things went wrong.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 440 days ago

They tried the IONOS hosting free trial, forgot to cancel and were locked into a year-long contract at about $17 a month. Support would not terminate early until they found a workaround by downgrading the plan to a free shell.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 440 days ago

They stayed with A2 through the Hosting.com rebrand and describe a mostly positive experience, having negotiated a good deal on a Turbo hosting package with sales.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 444 days ago

They had a reseller plan with A2 and, after Hosting.com took over, found support meh and communication about the change nonexistent, so they are moving domains and the reseller plan to SiteGround.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 452 days ago

They have built websites since 2004 and call IONOS the best of about 20 hosts they have used. They suggest a low tier plan at around $20 a month.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 453 days ago

They host about 30 sites on one IONOS account and say plain HTML, CSS and JS sites load very fast there. They moved WordPress sites away because they were clogging the file limit.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 454 days ago

Their site was suspended with no reason or email despite payments being current, and they report many issues since their Kenya Web Experts host moved to Hosting.com.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 454 days ago

A client on Namecheap hosting lost sitemaps after server work, had a failed large migration, and sites were slower than SiteGround.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 454 days ago

Used Namecheap for years with no issues, great support and pricing.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 455 days ago

Happy with SiteGround GoGeek but renewals are too expensive.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 455 days ago

Nine-plus years on SiteGround; prefers the control and sites load insanely fast on GCP servers without a caching plugin.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 455 days ago

SiteGround's support is a well-informed human with clear English who often solves problems before you finish.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 456 days ago

Moved a site from GoDaddy to Hostinger after trouble at Bluehost and has been very happy; its migration tool needed little technical knowledge.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 456 days ago

Multiple WordPress sites on Namecheap shared hosting keep getting infected and restored from backups.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 456 days ago

A Bluehost customer of 8 years says support reps repeatedly broke their site after guaranteeing they wouldn't, killing organic leads for weeks.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 457 days ago

They took the $1 a month first-year deal to test a few websites and found speeds fine, uptime solid and support excellent. The interface is not sleek but the deals are good.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 457 days ago

Contact form mail drained hourly due to a shared quota; one DreamHost chat agent said the limit is per user, another said it is shared.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 459 days ago

They paid $52 for the year and were charged $66 the next month for renewal, then billed $24 for add-ons listed as included. Three calls did not resolve it and they reported IONOS to the BBB.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 459 days ago

Had speed issues with Bluehost (and GoDaddy) at different times and moved to a different host.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 460 days ago

Their sites have been down for 2 days and support only says it is looking into it; they say support was great before.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 462 days ago

A client on a big SiteGround package gets 502 errors with a small traffic uptick, being shared hosting.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 463 days ago

They bought a $1 annual hosting deal and were charged $65 the next day for services they say they did not sign up for. IONOS then refused a refund.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 463 days ago

Tried SiteGround, Hostinger, Bluehost and Cloudways and rates SiteGround best with good speed and reliability.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 463 days ago

Hostinger migration was the fastest and simplest ever seen, with SSL and CDN set up automatically and minimal downtime.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 463 days ago

SiteGround support is incredible and its tools are great.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 464 days ago

Their A2 reseller account used to work fine but since the Hosting.com change the server keeps having problems and going down.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 464 days ago

After 25 years, email changes and static sites going down more often made them leave, though they loved DreamHost for most of that time.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 465 days ago

After about 10 years on shared hosting, DreamHost moved their site to a new PHP version without telling them and lost the backups.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 466 days ago

They are on the Turbo Velocity plan (now Pro) and call their experience okayish. The site has gone down a couple of times in recent months, but performance has been good enough.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 469 days ago

A Hostinger customer had their whole account banned and all sites taken down without notice over a domain they had sold 1.5 years earlier.

Reddit · r/WIX · 470 days ago

Switched from Wix to Hostinger after poor support and says it works a lot better.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 470 days ago

Most impressed with SiteGround's support on another site.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 470 days ago

Uses Hostinger for two sites and rates its support best, even the AI can update PHP automatically.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 471 days ago

After 10+ years, Bluehost senior support refused to move them off a blacklisted shared IP, so they left.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 472 days ago

They returned to the host and found broken sitemap XML files caused by a custom file and code the host added to wp-config.php on Softaculous installs. Support would not disable it per account, so they moved away and got a refund under the 45-day guarantee.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 473 days ago

Recurring monthly downtime of several hours paired with nonsensical excuses from support led to moving sites away.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 474 days ago

A six-hour outage took all sites and the client panel offline with no status page notice, and support refused to honor the uptime guarantee.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 477 days ago

After 4 years on GrowBig, SiteGround says they use too many resources without specifics and just wants an upgrade to a $45/month plan.

Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 478 days ago

Ten years on SiteGround with near-instant support and sub-1-second page loads at peak on shared hosting.

Reddit · r/webdev · 478 days ago

Moved to GreenGeeks last year and it has been good so far.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 480 days ago

They currently host WordPress on IONOS and find loading times pretty slow, and they are missing a Softaculous-style installer.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 480 days ago

HostGator's own page says all servers have mssql, but support spent an hour insisting it needs a dedicated Windows plan, then refused to install it.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 483 days ago

After 15 years Namecheap suspended their shared hosting twice over backup archive files, support gave no straight answer, and they migrated away.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 484 days ago

They got conflicting answers from different support agents about upgrading PostgreSQL on their A2/hosting.com cPanel plan. After requesting the upgrade they were told version 13.2 is still the highest available.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 487 days ago

Their HostGator site slowed to 5-10 seconds per request.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago

SiteGround was great 3-4 years ago but sites got slower, resources seemed oversold and support worsened; Hetzner VPS was much faster.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago

Switched from WP Engine to SiteGround in 2022 and never looked back.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago

Moved from WP Engine to SiteGround, which does one-click deploy and is much cheaper.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago

SiteGround has high TTFB unless a paid CDN is added and its AI chatbot is good, but reaching a human can be difficult though staff are great.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago

SiteGround suspends sites without warning for things like inode usage.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 488 days ago

They bought several one-year VPS plans, tried to cancel on day 31, and were put through a lengthy info process before being refused a prorated refund.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 488 days ago

A Bluehost customer says they have been happy with it and its tech support is great.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 489 days ago

Has been using Bluehost and finds it super affordable.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 490 days ago

A long-time JustHost customer, absorbed into Bluehost, suddenly got 404 errors on WordPress pages that exist and wants to leave.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 493 days ago

Long-time customer says Namecheap's Unmetered SSD plan is really capped at about 40GB, with account termination or a VPS upsell above 10GB per category.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 494 days ago

After 9 good years on A2 Hosting, they say Hosting.com held their domain hostage and for over a month they could not get the EPP code to transfer away.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 494 days ago

Their Kenya Web Experts domains have been stuck for 3 weeks in the migration to Hosting.com, with no access via the old client area.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 494 days ago

They have used Hostinger for a year and call it good service. They describe it as affordable with decent performance for a beginner with little traffic.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 494 days ago

Several HostGator shared servers suddenly became very slow and support blamed their scripts.