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Valuable coupons from JustHost

It’s hard to find an afford­able, reli­able host that has a great sup­port team these days. Believe it or not, I finally found one after search­ing for years.

JustHost offers un-metered plans for $3.45 a month, if you pre-pay for more than a year, you get a decent break in pric­ing. When you have the chance to take advan­tage of extra sav­ings on a plan like that, it can’t get any better.

50OFF — Does what it says, get 50% off your entire order.

FREEDOMAIN — Get a free domain for life.

SPECIAL20OFF — Get 20% off.

Click here to go to JustHost and start sav­ing!

As far as I know, these coupon codes do work, if any are bro­ken, please com­ment this post and let me know.

Hosting Review: LunarPages

I began my pro­fes­sional web host­ing expe­ri­ence with LunarPages some years ago, over­all, I was pretty happy with the ser­vices that they pro­vided for me. Before I pur­chased host­ing with LP, I read quite a few reviews on the com­pany. They were all mixed reviews, some say­ing that LunarPages is excel­lent, some say­ing it is terrible.

I learned that those who were say­ing it is ter­ri­ble were doing things they were not sup­posed to with their account. Over the few years I used the ser­vice, there was hardly any down­time, if there was, they would let you know ahead of time. The only time my site was down was for planned maintenance.

The thing that really caught my eye with LunarPages is the sales they are always hav­ing. When I signed up,  I believe that I got host­ing for under $4/month for a year. The thing that frus­trated me with LunarPages though, is the fact that after your “year of pro­mo­tion”, they hike the prices on you, some­thing that is not stated before you pur­chase your host­ing. I assumed that I would always pay this price, but I was wrong.

After I was hap­pily hosted for a year, they ordered me to pay:
$7.95 per month for host­ing and $20 to renew my domain.

Now I see why they offered host­ing for so cheap. Over­all, I can say that I sug­gest using LunarPages host­ing if you do not plan to be there for longer than a year.

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Hosting Review: HostAle

This isn’t a full review, but if you are a per­son who relies on a web host­ing company’s sup­port, this should help with your deci­sion. A while back, while on a search for a good reseller account, I came across HostAle. By their website’s appear­ance, they seemed legit and well man­aged. I read some reviews, checked out their server’s uptime and all that fun stuff. Seemed good to go.

I found a coupon which was basi­cally a free trial. I would pay $1 for unlim­ited reseller host­ing. Once I cre­ated my billing account, I got into the sup­port area and started ask­ing questions.

The first thing that I noticed was that the sup­port rep. typed very care­lessly and unpro­fes­sional. I asked them what the specs are on their servers. They replied with “We havbe 2 of them. wat else do u want to kno?”  Come on man!

Why would you talk to a poten­tial new cus­tomer like that? They would not answer any of my ques­tions about the server, which made me think that they are just using a mas­ter reseller them­selves and over­selling it. What is sad, is that just from that con­ver­sa­tion, I no longer was inter­ested in pay­ing a dol­lar to try out their ser­vices. Instead, I received 3 emails a day from these peo­ple remind­ing me to pay my invoice. I requested that the billing account be terminated.

Though for weeks, my inbox was still flooded by the garbage. I finally went back to the sup­port page and requested that the billing account be ter­mi­nated, because I am not inter­ested in pur­chas­ing the ser­vice any­more and I’m tired of the emails. I got a reply of “I’m not sure if ur still sleepign, but you don’t have an account with us, you never had. drink some coffe dum dum.” If you’re going to insult me, shouldn’t you at least be sure that you are right? The last remark made me laugh. After I explained what account I wanted ter­mi­nated again, I didn’t hear another word from them.

Over­all, the sup­port is ter­ri­ble. I was never able to actu­ally try the ser­vice and give those idiots one of my hard earned dol­lars, but I think this says enough. Any­one who is going to argue with me about how I don’t have an account with them, but I’m logged into their site talk­ing to them on their sup­port script. I under­stand that they may have thought I was talk­ing about an actual host­ing account, but I spec­i­fied billing account and men­tioned tones of times that I was sick of receiv­ing invoices for a ser­vice that I don’t want. I told them that the rea­son I didn’t want the ser­vice was because the sup­port was ter­ri­ble. If there’s an issue with my account, why would I want to talk to some­one who can­not take the time to cor­rect their typos and is rude to me?

If they were truly a good host­ing com­pany, when I asked to ter­mi­nate my billing account, they should have been try­ing to give me a rea­son to keep the account and give me an excel­lent deal for host­ing. An excel­lent exam­ple of a qual­ity host is JustHost.com. When I was check­ing out their ser­vices, I went through the steps of reg­is­tra­tion to see what the final costs would be for a 5 year plan. Once I fig­ured it out, I closed the web­site so I could com­pare prices with other sites. When I clicked that X, I was imme­di­ately greeted by a sup­port win­dow that was ready to con­nect me to a real per­son and answer my ques­tion. I know that those win­dows can be annoy­ing, but the rea­son they put it there is to show that they care. If you were con­fused or had ques­tions, they give you an oppor­tu­nity to ask them. After I set up the billing account and closed it, I quickly received an email which was obvi­ously not a real per­son, but sounded like a real per­son. This email told me how they wanted me as a cus­tomer, and to get me, they would give me 50% off if I bought it within the day. That is what you call cus­tomer care.

If some­one has or does use this ser­vice, you are wel­come to post a service-related review in the com­ments below.

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