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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.
“So i setup online monitoring alerts and every day my whole server is offline several times per day for liek 5 minutes or more”
They moved a 10 year old WordPress site from SiteGround to ScalaHosting for PCI compliance. After migrating the site still fails PCI scans and SSL was not activated at first.
“I switched hosting from Siteground to Scala Hosting because it’s PCI compliant. After migrating the site and domain, it’s still failing the scans”
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.
“Scala Hosting noticed me that my CPU usage is too high for shared hosting plans”
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.
“they cut my PHP FPM processes and now takes up to a minute to load some pages”
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.
“I went with the Entry Cloud to test. So far, it is working well”
Of the 5 reviews with a clear verdict, 20% are positive, 20% mixed and 60% negative. The most common complaint is outages.
The complaints reviewers mention most: outages (1 review), poor support (1 review) and slow (1 review). For example: 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.
5 are quotes from discussions on Reddit, each linked to the original post. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear, and only they count toward the star rating; quotes never do.