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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✓ GoodWed, 1 Jul 2026

I am looking for the cheapest reliable option. Does anyone here recommend Ionos, or if there are better alternatives that have cheap hosting similar to Ionos,

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Other✓ GoodWed, 1 Jul 2026

IONOS: Best for simple, low-cost small business sites. Often includes business email. Easy setup, but designs and builder are more basic.

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Other✗ BadWed, 1 Jul 2026

html text saying "chat support is unavailable now" Having awful customer support - their only option is through overseas call

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Other• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

If you want to ask support - only one way is calling via phone. Phone-only support is a real constraint, If the site is simple and rarely needs

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Other• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

We are typically able to find the cause of most performance issues, and more often than not, assist you directly with correcting them.

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Other✗ BadWed, 1 Jul 2026

GreenGeeks shared hosting. They seem to be having a massive outage right now. According to their support ticket updates, they were hit with a DDoS.

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Other• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

GreenGeeks has always been a controversial host, Trouble getting emails on my site to work, been troubleshooting for days now. Problems with

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X• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

Keith Douglas (@KDHDouglas). Anyone else having problems with GreenGeeks hosting? Internal server errors all over the place :(

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Other✗ BadWed, 1 Jul 2026

They give you the run around OVER AND OVER when you try to cancel or get a refund for unauthorized charges. They are totally predatory.

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X• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

Build, host & grow anything online. Websites, WordPress, stores, AI-powered tools, VPS & more. ## @goGreenGeeks hasn’t posted. When they do, their posts will show up here. Don't miss what's happening. People on X are the first to know.

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Instagram• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

You will experience our unrivaled reputation for quality green energy web hosting with outstanding 24x7x365 support services at an affordable

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Other✗ BadWed, 1 Jul 2026

I receive on average about one notification from DigitalOcean each month that there's a problem with the host for one of my VMs and there may be some downtime.

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Other• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

Paid my bill on time every month. Got distracted with work and hadn't updated it in a while. One day I go to check on it and the site is down.

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Other✗ BadWed, 1 Jul 2026

It seems that my app deployed on the App Platform is triggering many alerts using DO's monitoring service and that the HTTPS latency and downtime is really

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Other✗ BadWed, 1 Jul 2026

In this case, the area in question is what Vultr calls "New Jersey" and Digital Ocean calls "NYC3". Total downtime was about 3 minutes.

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Other✗ BadWed, 1 Jul 2026

Now the db connection seems to be back up, but their site still wouldn't load. Definitely looks like some outage.

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Other• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

The process was remarkably smooth. From the moment I clicked "PAY," I received multiple support emails from staff setting up the account. I

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Other• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

| | | | --- | | We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner (prosopo.io) | | 261 points by arbol 7 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 205 comments | | | | | --- | --- | | | | | --- | | 0xbadcafebee 7 months ago | next ) > Here's how we managed to cut our costs by 90% You could cut your

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Other• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

Does anyone know how Hetzner pricing is half of DO yet is profitable, while DO is loss making with 6% operating margin?

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Other• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

I helped some smaller companies move from AWS EC2 to Hetzner dedicated servers. One example: Biggest cost saving was in the bandwidth bills. They also

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Other• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

I moved all my stuff from AWS to a Hetzner VPS recently. I don't have much, and AWS was actually cheaper, but I'm so much happier having everything in one,

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Other• MixedWed, 1 Jul 2026

We moved to Hetzner few months back, lowered our costs significantly. Still workable. Entering into unproven space carries a risk ,may go

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Other✓ GoodWed, 1 Jul 2026

For years, Hetzner has been one of the go-to hosting providers because it offered a great price-to-performance ratio. The service was good enough, and the

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Other✓ GoodWed, 1 Jul 2026

Your partner for system-wide hosting, from cloud to dedicated servers. We deploy the latest tech at the best price in minutes. Overview. Reviews10.

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WP EngineReddit✗ BadMon, 29 Jun 2026

So a little background here…. We're an agency that's been building on Genesis for years now, mostly because we got burned by Thesis back when DIY Themes basically stopped developing it. We've still got a few old Thesis sites limping along that we can't move to modern PHP without a full rebuild, so …

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WP EngineReddit• MixedMon, 29 Jun 2026

So a little background here…. We're an agency that's been building on Genesis for years now, mostly because we got burned by Thesis back when DIY Themes basically stopped developing it. We've still got a few old Thesis sites limping along that we can't move to modern PHP without a full rebuild, so …

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Other• MixedMon, 29 Jun 2026

| | | | --- | | Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues (cloudflarestatus.com) | | 2432 points by imdsm 6 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1650 comments | | | | | --- | --- | | | | | --- | | abelanger 6 months ago | next ) If anyone needs commands for turning off the CF proxy for their do

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Other✗ BadMon, 29 Jun 2026

Cloudflare is down for 100% of the world right now. If your services depend on it, expect outages, failed logins and broken dashboards. You can

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Instagram• MixedMon, 29 Jun 2026

Photo by Mint on November 18, 2025. A lot of users on popular apps and websites like X, Gemini, Perplexity and others have shared error messages related to Cloudflare and the company has also confirmed that it is facing a technical issue. Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. U

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Other✓ GoodMon, 29 Jun 2026

In a nutshell, if you're buying the domain for resale, CloudFlare isn't probably the best option. If it's for your own company or individual use

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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.