WebHost4Life Review - ASP.NET Web Hosting Review - Blog Hosting

I received a couple more email messages from other developers asking about my experiences with WebHost4Life.  I have already talked about WebHost4Life several times in other posts:

I decided to write a final, final review because I am no longer using WebHost4Life for my blog.

About 2 or 3 months ago I started experiencing some real performance delays with my blog and major outages.  My blog started going down permanently and I would have to contact WebHost4Life to restart the website in order for it to come back up.  Because my blog was basically unusable, they decided to move it to another web server and database server to try and improve the uptime.  In actuality, the blog became even less reliable.

To make a long story short, the blog became so unreliable after they moved it that it kept crashing the web server.  With no warning, they just disconnected my blog from the database server and told me I had to move to another host provider as my .Text blog was causing the web server to crash.  This was the same .Text Blog and website that worked on their web server initially with no problems and I didn't make a change to it.  I won't go into all the details of my conversations with the people at WebHost4Life as the whole experience is something I wish to forget.  Let me just say that customer service is far from their strong point.

As I mentioned before in the other reviews, WebHost4Life is probably fine for websites that don't use a database and for hosting database applications that get very little traffic (very little).  You would expect this for $10 / month.

Personally, I would never put a client's website on WebHost4Life nor any website that is important to me, particularly a database intensive website.  Right now my WebHost4Life account is sitting idle with nothing on it.  At some point I will put something on it for me to use internally.  I am just not sure what that would be right now :)

posted on Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:18 PM

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