ScubaLessonsInc Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Our company is growing its websites so fast.. up to 12 new online prestsashop stores.. and I was using HostGator until now. I called looking for a more cost effective solution than the business plans at $179 a year to have a SSL certificate and static IP address for each site... I talked yesterday to 8 people there via chat and telephone who really could not find there way out of a paper bag with the exception of one guy Sean who seemed to know his products and options.. he suggested on business account same price with unlimited domains and a multi-site SSL.. great for the 12 sites I had with them.. after confirming all the costs and reviewing the detailed steps to proceed with this great idea.. I paid the extra $275 to proceed. After they get thier money.. they have the head IT ADMIN LINUX guy Ryan call me to hit me with the bad news.. the sites will be brought down on purpose if I have 5 site hits on any 5 sites at one time.. in other words only allowed 25 pings to the server at one time.. since this plan involved all sites on one server this clearly would have my sites down (all) instantly with the traffic I already have. So basically they sold me a product that could never work and don't want to give me my money back the same day it was ordered now that I want to cancel this option with this information. further they charged me $150 to move the sites on the other servers to this server..not told to me in advance.. and not even done yet but charged without permission. So.. DONT GO TO HOSTGATOR folks.. if you have multiple stores you want to stay online. If your doing one site or two.. go for it.. I had no problems. until today for all of these sites. Instead I reccomend ixwebhosting.com.. I was able to get 15 dedicated IP domains for only $190 for 2 YEARS!! The ssl's were only $50 each but there checking into getting me a multi site ssl to reduce that cost.. they also have better servers and resources so I can have up to 300 -pings at one time..and because they are splitting the servers my sites are on it is a win win for everyone! I called 24 web hosting companies to try and do this same thing and over 70% were clueless about this type of thing.. This company first guy on the phone knew his stuff.. Mel Vidal was his name.. sharp as a tack and delightful to speak to..got me all the info in a simple and concise manner. Good luck.. if you want to ask me more just shoot me an email I will be glad to help you get your prestashop site hosted right.. [email protected] Just piping up! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteAH Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Similarly, clearhost are awful too. Horrible latency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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