HOW TO CHOOSE A WEBHOSTING SERVICEI NEEDED a WEBSITE FAST. My DOMAINMONGER had gone up to 8$ a month
and I wanted to switch. I wrote my tekkie pal, "Say, you're the expert,
how about a CHEAPER WEBHOST maybe GoDaddy.com which is a
dollar or something. The Tekkie winced. "Anita, your material
is a little on the edge for them. You talk up guerilla capitalism, how to
launder money, how to marry a billionaire, holistic medicine, every one of those
things is going to ring bells over there and GoDaddy penalizes you big cash and
cuts you off, both. They use extortion-like methods. Say that someone
complains about your site, they disable it and hold it for ransom. Gotta
pay them $200 to get it back but they already took the money from your bank account
by automatic debit citing contract infringement, so frankly there is NO
getting it back! That has happened to quite a few people !!!!Most of the cases I heard of involved spam complaints. And they
weren't even valid complaints. But that didn't matter. With GoDaddy, if
someone complains you are presumed guilty. And there's no reasoning with
them. Like a robot, all they can say is "WE TOOK $200 out of your bank
account, fool. Try gettin' it back, huh?."It doesn't have to be spam complaints, though. If you have what their president considers to be objectionable contenton your web site and they find out about it, they could hold your domain name for ransom. Lots of people like GoDaddy, but I won't do business with them because of this." GO DADDY will edit your content, FINE you 200$ and shut you down if they don’t like what you do. No arguing, that money is taken from your accounts.. WHAT SERVER DOES THAT? GO-DADDY does. AVOID THEM like the plague: read thsee FACTS ON GODADDY and their outrageous, criminal penalties. Read how one subscriber was handed a bill for seven thousand bucks by Go Daddy which should be called GRAB DADDY.
I posted that story on my website and an EX AOL subscriber told me: I don't think that story was an error at all; its like the electronic voting machines that can be programmed in a particular way. I had a similar problem with AOL broadband when I left them in 2008 for another service provider. I had been with them since 1998, first paying by the minute, as it was at that time, and then later by monthly standing order. When I moved up from London to Chesterfield in 2003, retaining AOL, I then got broadband. There was never a contract and nothing signed, just a monthly account to come and go as I pleased. Their broadband service was an abomination with many technical problems, frequently requiring support. In early 2008 I started looking for another supplier and found one, who asked me to obtain the MAC code, which I then got from AOL and passed it to the new supplier. Having signed up with the new firm I cancelled my direct debit with AOL; there was a period of ten days between the closure of the AOL connection to receiving the broadband box from the new one. After about six weeks I started receiving demands from AOL, which went on for several months; the first letters I tore up and threw away, believing they were a technical error. Then they started sending RED warning letters with pending legal action. That got my back up! Eventually I proved to them that they were wrong with their demands, but they never sent an apology. I realised later that this was a ploy they used with customers who ditched them sending demand letters, and keep on sending them; most people get fright with kittens and pay up. AOL had set up a special debt collection organisation to take over this role - I discovered this after doing research; a big facade of a debt collection agency to send terror down people's spines. That's the name of the game in modern corrupt business.I know that one reason GO DADDY takes your seven thousand bucks is CONTENT IS EDGY! Well --I talk about GUERILLA CAPITALISM, HOW TO MARRY a BILLIONAIRE, if you're gorgeous, how to launder money, work under the table and all kinds of EDGY STUFF so that wouldn't do for me! But probably it would be OK for you. Get back to me on what they charge now so I can update this. astrology at earthlink. net
However, then PHIL C. my TEKKIE pal solved the problem for me he wrote me of a SUPERIOR WEBHOST
"Anita, I've heard good things about this one:
http://www.aquariusstorage.com/affordable-web-hosting.phpYou can put up to ten domains on their least expensive account. And
with a name like that, they have to be good... :-) He and I are Aquarians!
------------------Now, I LOVE http://www.5dollarhosting.com 5$ a month, 60$ a year, endlessly
big websites. I have used one there for 8 years but I was hoping to pay less and
have it be a name I can remember. So that's when another pal told me
she'd been with drak.net for 7 yrs, perfect experience. 3$ s month, 36$ a year though
they doubled their prices recently. And the girls who owned it disappeared and a guy
took over, a rude cuss, too. Used to be if you wanted 3 websites price went down
to 5$ a month for all three. That is less than 2$ each website per month!.
Well, I wrote them a letter at their website. THE girls who owned it and started the
host server off ANSWERED a mere ten minutes later.
I realized that they do something NO HOST DOES.
THEY ANSWER immediately. Though now it's a guy but they do have
attentive online TEKKIES 24/7. Perhaps that comes from it being
an all woman staff owners as women would never hear you talk and not respond.
They structured their mode of operation. Then, one day, their prices went up. I called
and got a RUDE MAN. He'd taken over the joint. I dismissed all thughts of signing
up with them. But hey, you try them. See who answers you. RUDE
BOY OR SMART POLITE GIRLS. And remember, http://www.5dollarhosting.com/ is
your back up position.A TEKIE WROTE ME: Don't worry about DRAK turning to DREK
I've heard good things about this one:
http://www.aquariusstorage.com/affordable-web-hosting.phpYou can put up to ten domains on their least expensive account. And
with a name like that, they have to be good...Another Pal tells me to investigate http://www.bravenet.com
He thinks highly of them. And http://www.brinkster.com but he didn't give prices.
Maybe you have some suggestions of webhosts you like... to give me?I'm currently thinking of names for it. FRUGAL LIVING.ORG
HOW TO MARRY A BILLIONAIRE.ORG
I've got dozens up my sleeve. VULTURE SANDWICH for my
FAMINE charity as vultures find all these orphaned children
in Africa these days. See http://www.masterjules.net/homelessindex.htmAnd the RECESSION TECH 101 SEMINAR needs its own website. Problem
is I had a lot of poverty lately. Even cutting back on catfood!And my political site http://www.masterjules.net/index2.htm needs its own
domain name. I'm thinking MATRIXBUSTERS.ORG! It has Snap Crackle & POP!THIS JUST IN: EARTHLINK offers a STARTER SITE
is $9.98/mo. for first 3 mos. + free domain name for 2 years.
Free domain name for 2 years — $40 value
Free setup — $25 value
Free site builder — get online in under 1 hr.5GB of web hosting storage
20GB of monthly data transfer
100 email boxes Give them my name astrology at earthlink and I get a free month Puhleeze!MANY of my websites are the freebie ones, they look like this
http://home.earthlink.net/~astrology/
http://home.earthlink.net/~anitaastrologer/
and http://home.earthlink.net/~loveguru/THESE are site names that you cannot easily give to a friend or client BUT YOU CAN do CRAIGS LIST ads and put them in. My "FREE SEMINAR" series of ads features these URLS. Folks click on them, they're up and they're live links at Craigs. My articles contain them, dozens of them per article. I never LISTED MY URLS at search engines but those search engines FIND my sites, deliver them to searchers, cuz I have META TEXT in the coding. You also want to edit your meta text after you finish an article.
GAL ON MY LIST SEZ GO DADDY OK IF YOU KEEP an EYE PEELED!
"I have used GoDaddy for years. Ironically GoDaddy owns most of the other web
hosting services also. Some people buy the smallest hosting program that GoDaddy has, which is
either free or about $4 a month, and then not pay attention to how much
space they are actually using. As she said in the blog you linked to, "...for a
simple $7 more I could have avoided the big charge when I exceeded the
bandwidth. I check my site once a month to see how much space I am using. I've only
gotten close to going over once, so I upgraded to unlimited. GoDaddy has
the BEST customer service and will walk you through almost anything, which
was great when I first got my websites. Their terms are right there and you
agree to them before they host your site". I am not sure why that other girl is
blaming GoDaddy for something she read and agreed to. She is not paying
them to monitor her site, she is paying them to host her site. SHE has to monitor it!This is another example of why people need to READ the terms of any
agreement they make, and when they are trying to keep costs down they also
need to remember to make sure they are staying within the boundries of the
lower cost plans. " OK. CAVEAT EMPTOR and maybe you'll be OK!<-------BACK TO THE WEBINDEX ARCHIVE