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I loved WP Engine when we started hosting with them. This year has absolutely shown a decline in the quality of service. Support used to be

| | | | --- | | My experience with WPEngine (chester.id.au) | | 373 points by lasonrisa on Oct 24, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 240 comments | | | | | --- | --- | | | | | --- | | alexandros on Oct 24, 2012 | next ) For all who are thinking about moving to WPEngine: Your staging server does not us

Finally had enough of WPEngine, ready to move to another managed host - personal experiences? r/ProWordPress - 16 upvotes, 70 comments After 15 years of being with WPEngine (since the beginning basically), I've finally gotten fed up with: The massive drop in quality of support for anyone that's not

Kinsta has no phone support... Chat and email support are usually good enough for support these days. Usually takes about 3 minutes

The support team is great - but wow the billing team is absolutely awful. They don't know I have several accounts paying $$$$. I'll be

Kinsta is, by far, the best managed hosting provider I've tried in this matter. Easy, great quality and good performance. The quality of the hosting (speed and

Kinsta offers excellent performance, great support, and robust features, It was super frustrating, Kinsta is known for speed,

After the Liquid Web acquisition, the service quality gradually went downhill. Switched away from LW over a year ago.

I switched from another provider that was pulling similar tricks, and NixiHost has been a reliable partner ever since. I've been using them

In the last few weeks I'm finding tickets going days unanswered with multiple requests for updates. 7-8 days waiting on a ticket to be updated

They take multiple days to solve basic issues but mostly the problem never really gets solved. They just tire you out until you give up. Such a

Problems with a forced migration (they are shutting down the old server). The old server was running the nameservers. They migrated everything ...

OVHCloud can be slow to address blacklist issues, so you'll want to be proactive. Request a replacement IP right away and keep records of all

When I track my order it says it's completed but I can't see my hosting or domains anywhere in the dashboard. AI support is broken and won't

Please provide urgent assistance and restore my server immediately, as this issue is directly affecting my business operations and services.

OVH blocked the server again. By that point, the server had already experienced a full day of downtime. OVH took the server offline for a third

Unexplained downtime that lasted 3 hours. (Couldn't even reboot ... Incredibly Frustrating Experience with OVHCloud Hosting. 4. 8. What's

So, 4 days server down, technician technical competence is 0, didn't even bother to check server. Now probably another few days before there

InMotion Hosting - CPANEL features missing, be aware! r/Hosting - 0 upvotes, 7 comments I changed a hosting provider for some websites to InMotion Hosting a month ago to check their services, but i'm starting to regret now. Their CPANEL has a LOT of missing features, which can be very important for

Shocked by InMotion (follow up) r/webhosting - 23 upvotes, 22 comments I just wanted to follow up on my recent post where I had asked for help with my AWS bill going out of control. I had a TON of people reach out, both in the thread and privately. One of the redditors who reached out offered to hel

Migrating from Inmotion Hosting - Which Host to choose? r/webhosting - 8 upvotes, 26 comments I have a wordpress blog and I am about to end the 3 year term with Inmotion and their prices raised almost x3 after the term. I've been using shared hosting. I am thinking about veerotech or hostmantis. Hos

Switching from Inmotion reseller with shared hosting to possible WPMU? r/webhosting - 0 upvotes, 11 comments Currently my company offers webhosting / development, we use Inmotions R-2000N Web Hosting plan, and with a few addons and other things our total cost is around $900 a year give or take. We h

Investigating: As of 17:47 UTC, our Engineering team is investigating reports of intermittent 504 errors when making requests to api.digitalocean.com and cloud.

# My account got locked on DigitalOcean. Today I created my account after being referred by a friend, we were in the same coffee spot, on the same network, and my account got instantly locked. I did send them an email to which they replied that upon manual review, they can not do anything about my a

My experience with Cloudways was a nightmare. I dealt with 10s of hosting companies and none of them were so careless towards their customers. Continue reading.

I've had probably a couple of hours downtime total in that time, due to Vultr going offline. I think it's a great service, good balance of

We don't have any issues. managed cloud servers. Way faster and zero downtime since we moved. Fair of you to admit it.

Our production site has been down for several hours. This is a production outage, and the lack of transparency and urgency is concerning. site

First server went offline for no reason, several hours of downtime later they said their log files got too big which caused issues so they have

Bluehost has the history, but Hostinger has built a much better modern product. Their hPanel is way easier for a beginner to navigate than

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.

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