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SOCIAL NOISE

What real users are saying about hosting companies across X, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok and other public channels. Unfiltered. Unsponsored. Updated daily.

Every mention is auto-classified by sentiment and linked to the host's profile in our directory. No cherry-picking, we surface the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Other✗ BadTue, 11 Aug 2026

The pages are thin and not well positioned. Plus, there are some basics missing. Thus, even if you get traffic, it doesn’t convert, or rank well. Your checklist-style approach is helpful as it’s actionable. Repair design. Improve Clarity Correct will alignment. Afterward, stress on connections. That

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Other✗ BadTue, 11 Aug 2026

Linode is stable and reliable, if antiquated, but they don't have your back when there are problems. Akamai has made it more bureaucratic and worse. If you need Linode customer service and staff to assist or accommodate, they throw you under the bus. 10+ year loyal, reliable customer and all they ha

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Other• MixedTue, 11 Aug 2026

The UI works well, and the documentation is good. They work well for some web hosting, and other less resource intensive stuff. If you plan to run a Gitlab instance, for example, you'll find it may struggle more than hosting it elsewhere. That's just been my experience. There are other cheaper optio

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Other✗ BadTue, 11 Aug 2026

My experience with Linode at withfriends.co today, so I would recomment not using them. - They performed an emergency maintenance action without notification to us - They did not backup our server before performing this action, so our only snapshot is the one we set up and a couple days stale - Thei

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Other✓ GoodTue, 11 Aug 2026

| | | | | --- | | | pjungwir on Feb 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes Linode is my top choice for hosting, but lately I've been tinkering on a project that needs a lot of disk, and it's hard to find good options there. On AWS every dimension scales ind

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Other✗ BadTue, 11 Aug 2026

Cons: Things I don't like about Linode:-It's exorbitant in terms of pricing-poor client service ( they take anywhere from 1-2 business days to respond to an open ticket)-Poor or almost none reasonable pricing model.-WordPress hosting is slow-High speed servers are available in the dedcated hosting p

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Other✗ BadTue, 11 Aug 2026

Things I don't like about Linode:-It's exorbitant in terms of pricing-poor client service ( they take anywhere from 1-2 business days to respond to an open ticket)-Poor or almost none reasonable pricing model.-WordPress hosting is slow-High

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Other✗ BadTue, 11 Aug 2026

April 28, 2011 - Urgent help needed: Fixing "critical error" on hosted WP site following admin death ... By way of preface I should say I have Googled several search terms and looked on Dreamhost's own help pages - there may be a fix for this I have overlooked and if so apologies.

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Other• MixedTue, 11 Aug 2026

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Other✓ GoodTue, 11 Aug 2026

| root | parent | prev | next (javascript:void(0)) They don’t. But I’ve explored launching a EU-based business that focuses on large businesses and Hetzner was one of the logical players. Good managed services without US exposure are really rare. I run some smaller stuff on Hetzner. Have for the las

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Other✓ GoodTue, 11 Aug 2026

| | | | --- | | | ipieter on Sept 1, 2024 | prev | next (javascript:void(0)) I have both DO and Hetzner VMs and I find them comparable, with Hetzner being a bit cheaper. If I look at the logs and fail2ban, it looks like DO does a bit more abusive traffic filtering, but that is basically the only dif

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Other• MixedTue, 11 Aug 2026

EDIT: I want to clarify that I unfortunately do know some companies use the big 3 as simple VPS providers but it seems that everybody agree here that it's a waste of money and that's one of my main points, which is also why the comparison of the big ones vs Hetzner or any other standalone VPS/dedica

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Other• MixedTue, 11 Aug 2026

There are other differences as well. Hetzner has a separate charge for load balancers and IP addresses, whereas with Azure they're included in the price of the VM. The biggest cost difference is that the public clouds charge eyewatering amounts for Internet egress traffic. Azure is about 100x as exp

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Other• MixedTue, 11 Aug 2026

January 17, 2025 - Post reviews of your current and past hosts, post questions to the community regarding your needs, or simply offer help to your fellow redditors. ... Ich bin auf Hetzner gestoßen, als ich nach Webhosting inkl. E-Mail gesucht habe. Ich war etwas überrascht, denn trotz des niedrigen

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Other✗ BadTue, 11 Aug 2026

The lack of a viable solution or meaningful support from Hostinger has prompted me to question the value of their premium support and hosting services. In summary, my... A place to share, discuss, discover, assist with, gain assistance for, and critique self-hosted alternatives to our favorite web a

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Other✓ GoodTue, 11 Aug 2026

November 12, 2024 - Overall, I'd say Hostinger's shared hosting is a good deal at a very affordable price. The only thing they could improve is chat support, but then other similar hosts have mediocre chat support and they exploit noobs with costly add-ons and

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B SitesOther✓ GoodTue, 11 Aug 2026

I've been with hostinger for one month and till now I haven't had any issues. I don't normaly build heavy websites, but some bussiness ones.

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Instagram• MixedTue, 11 Aug 2026

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Other• MixedTue, 11 Aug 2026

Welcome to r/webhosting . If you're looking for webhosting please click this link to take a look at the hosting companies we recommend or look at the providers listed on the sidebar . We also ask that you update your post to include our questionnaire which will help us answer some common questions i

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Other• MixedTue, 11 Aug 2026

I'm not a server admin so I need managed hosting. I've looked at a lot of plans and narrowed my search (so far) to Cl*udways, KnownHost, Chemicloud, and Scala. (although Chemicloud's uber-low price gives me pause.) I've scoured this sub and other forums reading reviews. So I'm just looking to hear f

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Other✗ BadTue, 11 Aug 2026

Chemicloud is Truly Awful I made the mistake of migrating to Chemicloud. I moved a small site with not much traffic first. Thank god I did. About 90% of the links were broken. Two techs gave two entirely different answers as to why and how to fix it (I'd already fixed it, they didn't listen to that)

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Other✗ BadMon, 27 Jul 2026

What happened to Liquid Web's support? Suddenly terrible after 10 years. r/webhosting - 23 upvotes, 61 comments I've been a fanatical client of LiquidWeb for 10 years, primarily because of how incredibly skilled and helpful their support was. I'm fairly skilled at UNIX administration myself, but I c

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Other✗ BadMon, 27 Jul 2026

Liquid Web. It's a hedge fund with a router. r/webhosting - 13 upvotes, 17 comments We have been using Nexcess SIP server hosting (10K SKUs Catalog.) for about 12 years. Superb service, excellent, knowledgeable staff. Liquid Web took over 12-24 months ago, and it hasn't gone well for us. They starte

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Other• MixedMon, 27 Jul 2026

August 12, 2025 - While it is true that LW isn't the reputable host that it once was, you're going to need to be able to better articulate the problem than "Lowered cost of server and lost 50% of sales." Whether or not they're a good company, they're right that they can't jump into your terminal and

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Other✗ BadMon, 27 Jul 2026

September 13, 2024 - I had two tickets that were still unresolved after more than month when I finally decided to move all 5 of my sites to another host. LiquidWeb appear to have fired their experts and replaced them with overseas copy-pasters who have no clue what they are doing. Read their one-sta

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Other✓ GoodMon, 27 Jul 2026

I've been hosting with A2Hosting (now Hosting.com) for over a decade. My annual rate has been $85.97 all of that time.

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Other✗ BadMon, 27 Jul 2026

- No , very bad experience , nothing to do with A2 - I'm 48 hours into a migration to a new hosting.com plan from an A2 plan and my website has yet to come back online. First they didn't properly populate my DNS info and they still haven't even attempted to migrate my email. If I'm not online by tom

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Other• MixedMon, 27 Jul 2026

BlueHost keeps popping up. Not sure if they're paying more to have their company promoted or if BlueHost is legitimately the best option. I'm going

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Other✗ BadMon, 27 Jul 2026

What hosting solutions are you considering/ have you moved to post the A2 Hosting acquisition? We still rent a shared hosting server with them with some WordPress and Laravel instances and need to move as well. The packages have become a bit too expensive. We would prefer another reliable host with

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Other• MixedMon, 27 Jul 2026

I'm putting together a fairly basic website (nothing too involved: no e-commerce, just pics and text). I need to choose a hosting service. The two priorities

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Review Platforms

VERIFIED PLATFORM RATINGS

Real star ratings and review counts from Trustpilot and G2, not a language guess on a scraped post. Separate from the social feed above.

GoDaddy
4.4★ Trustpilot (139,968)3.9★ G2 (962)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
Hostinger
4.7★ Trustpilot (69,710)4.4★ G2 (821)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
IONOS
4.6★ Trustpilot (43,253)
Trustpilot ↗
Bluehost
4.5★ Trustpilot (31,470)3.4★ G2 (280)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
SiteGround
4.9★ Trustpilot (29,497)4.2★ G2 (295)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
BisectHosting
4.8★ Trustpilot (26,178)
Trustpilot ↗
One.com
4.3★ Trustpilot (24,511)4.6★ G2 (601)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
Namecheap
4.2★ Trustpilot (21,237)4.3★ G2
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
Fasthosts
4.8★ Trustpilot (19,503)
Trustpilot ↗
Ataraxie
1.3★ Trustpilot (18,392)
Trustpilot ↗
HostGator
4.6★ Trustpilot (17,412)3.6★ G2 (258)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
Tsohost
3.2★ Trustpilot (15,544)
Trustpilot ↗
Aruba SpA
4.6★ Trustpilot (10,588)3.7★ G2 (14)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
Strato AG
4.2★ Trustpilot (10,257)
Trustpilot ↗
Shockbyte
3.8★ Trustpilot (10,225)
Trustpilot ↗
Host-Unlimited
4.9★ Trustpilot (9,986)
Trustpilot ↗
Simply.com
4.7★ Trustpilot (9,921)5.0★ G2 (1)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
Contabo
4.5★ Trustpilot (9,801)2.2★ G2 (24)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
DreamHost
4.6★ Trustpilot (8,108)4.0★ G2 (152)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
Apex Hosting
4.7★ Trustpilot (8,093)
Trustpilot ↗
OVHcloud
3.9★ Trustpilot (7,700)3.2★ G2
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
Server Plan
4.9★ Trustpilot (6,768)
Trustpilot ↗
ForexVPS.net
4.9★ Trustpilot (6,617)4.0★ G2 (1)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
Hosting.com
4.7★ Trustpilot (5,933)4.4★ G2 (206)
Trustpilot ↗G2 ↗
How It Works

UNFILTERED SOCIAL PROOF

Most hosting review sites only show curated testimonials. We do the opposite, we scan public social media daily for real, unfiltered opinions about hosting companies. Every mention gets classified and added to the feed.

When you see a host mentioned, click their name to visit their full profile on Hostlist, including HRI, plans, and verified reviews.

Scan

We search X, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok and forums daily for hosting mentions

Classify

Each mention is tagged as Good, Bad, or Mixed based on language analysis

Link

Mentions are matched to host profiles in our 30,000+ company directory

Track

See sentiment trends over time for any hosting provider

FAQ

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is Social Noise?

Social Noise is our real-time feed of what people are publicly saying about web hosting companies across X (Twitter), Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, and other social platforms. We surface genuine user opinions, the good, the bad, and the ugly, so you can see unfiltered feedback before choosing a host.

How do you collect these mentions?

We use automated search tools to monitor social media platforms for posts mentioning hosting companies in our directory. Each mention is classified by sentiment (good, bad, or mixed) and linked back to the original post and the host's profile on Hostlist.

How is sentiment determined?

Each mention is read for its overall meaning, not just for negative or positive keywords, and classified as Good (a positive experience or recommendation, even one that mentions a past problem but concludes satisfied), Bad (a genuine complaint or negative experience), or Mixed/Ugly (a nuanced take with real pros and cons). Posts from a host's own account, and promotional or affiliate copy, are excluded entirely rather than scored.

How often is Social Noise updated?

Social Noise is refreshed daily. We scan for new mentions across all monitored platforms every 24 hours and add them to the feed. The page itself revalidates every 2 minutes to show the latest data.

Can I filter by platform or sentiment?

Yes. Use the filter pills at the top to narrow by platform (X, Instagram, TikTok, Other) or sentiment (Good, Bad, Mixed). Filters can be combined to see, for example, only negative mentions on X.