Dream Host negative review #4380 by Host Scooter (wrunicla@g...)
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First, Thinkhost and many other companies like them are about as green as a mothball. They aren't powered by any renewable energy source at all, they simply buy Green Tags or REC's to offset their carbon footprint. This whole green thing is just marketing. The offset market is a borderline scam in and of itself, but that's a whole nother story.
There are some clever damage control postings, mostly by affiliates and sites like thinkhost-sucks, but don't be snookered into the comparisons that they provide. Some glaring problems can't be hidden by words.
Before you sign up for a trial, do a little homework. Go to Alexa.com and look at the overview of the site. Thinkhost ranks as "Very Slow" in the Speed rating (load time).
Then go to the site and poke around a bit. Its one of the slowest loading sites you'll ever see.
And that's the fast part. Once you sign up, the hosting panel and webmail interfaces are either really, really slow or just plain pot luck. Many times they won't even load or just time out, and that's when the servers are up.
The downtime claim is a joke. Because I monitor my site frequently, I found that it was offline often. Sometimes for a few minutes and sometimes for hours. You can't run an e-commerce business with spotty reliability.
The hosting plans are way over-priced for the amount of disk space you get, combine that with the poor service and performance and you've got really low value for the money.
Even though it was a pain in the butt, I had to move my site to another host. Bottom line is stay away from these guys. [import from thinkhost.com]
There are some clever damage control postings, mostly by affiliates and sites like thinkhost-sucks, but don't be snookered into the comparisons that they provide. Some glaring problems can't be hidden by words.
Before you sign up for a trial, do a little homework. Go to Alexa.com and look at the overview of the site. Thinkhost ranks as "Very Slow" in the Speed rating (load time).
Then go to the site and poke around a bit. Its one of the slowest loading sites you'll ever see.
And that's the fast part. Once you sign up, the hosting panel and webmail interfaces are either really, really slow or just plain pot luck. Many times they won't even load or just time out, and that's when the servers are up.
The downtime claim is a joke. Because I monitor my site frequently, I found that it was offline often. Sometimes for a few minutes and sometimes for hours. You can't run an e-commerce business with spotty reliability.
The hosting plans are way over-priced for the amount of disk space you get, combine that with the poor service and performance and you've got really low value for the money.
Even though it was a pain in the butt, I had to move my site to another host. Bottom line is stay away from these guys. [import from thinkhost.com]
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