Anyone who has ever run a website that wasn’t hosted on Geocities or Angelfire knows that you get what you pay for most of the time. This is understandable, but the problem comes in when you “pay” for having chosen the wrong web hosting service. It’s easy enough to do and we all make mistakes, so don’t punish yourself too heavily if you discover your web host isn’t quite the outstanding business they claim to be.
The listings below are the most common aspects that should be taken note of, and which may serve evidences that your current web host provider is trying to hide something that is not really legal. Why only six? Because, from the moment you learn that your host is not really that credible enough, or not legally existing, you may burse into rage like you’re in the middle of digital hell, hence, 6 is the number of the devil.
6) Sharing Rental Costs – Some web hosting companies offer the shared renting of a particular server which is one of the possible cost measures available to you upon signing up for their services. Such alternative can be proven beneficial especially when you just starting out with a relatively new site where bandwidth is not yet an issue. The sharing of two or more accounts in a given server is the main idea behind shared hosting. Different websites may run on different servers but nonetheless, their general appearance when published over the internet is basically the same manner as that of the other.
Shared hosting does not mean that you “share” the time your website is up with other accounts on the shared server. When your host tries to tell you that each account on the shared server gets equal time being live on the web, it’s time to move on. This is not a round robin system of web hosting and you shouldn’t have to “take your turn” having your site be accessible from the internet.
5) Outsourcing: Extreme English – In today’s global economy, many companies choose to outsource labor to areas of the world where the cost of living is far lower than that of developing nations. This means that they get to pay their employees less and still get that bubbly, tingly, and happy feeling that they are still “helping” the less fortunate.
When requesting replies from the company’s support personnel, we can probably get answers that are not well written grammatically, even for the most experts in speaking English could at times hard a hard time expressing his thoughts through the use of words. In our best interest to capture the idea of the answers that we get, we just read along and find for some possible clues.
However, if you are getting e-mails from customer service, billing or tech support wherein you are addressed as, “prized glittering gem of customer with extensive loyalty to this of our business”, perhaps things are not quite as they should be. Your tech support responses should not read as if they have been run through Google Translate. You deserve better than, “time of the assistance in nature of MySQL database remain temporary in custody of computer server to be not available when called upon by computer the user”, when you request help installing a blog.
Definitely, even your lengthiest patience could be challenged physically by any of those crap materials that are sent by your web hosting company. In this case, you should be totally considering the idea of searching for a new host company.
4) Your host tends to go GREEN for the environment – The recent trends of most companies now is to be more mother earth friendly, trying to conserve on their usage of energy, reduce carbon dioxide emissions and other activities that give similar benefits to the environment. This kind of advocacy among companies did not only limit itself to certain industries because now, even a number of website hosting companies are adhering to this ideal. But sometimes, there will still be the presence of those who try to take advantage of this good initiative.
At any point in time that you receive a notice from the website hosting company that they are eventually lowering the number of hours that your website can go live let’s say from 99% down to just 60%, then you should definitely be concerned of it. Energy conservation is a good objective but is should always be played fairly. Whatever the explanation the company would give you, don’t submit to it. Theirs is not even a single connection of their adherence to the 24 hour functioning of your website and totally you are not obliged to do so.
Stay away from this level of extremism or your profits are going to end up dipping into the red, despite how “green” you may feel.
3) You Have Seen the Picture of Your Hosting Company’s President on the Wanted List – Concerning the need of gathering information regarding your current web hosting provider, you might as well want to search his profile over the internet. It’s free to check on the character of your host president over the internet especially on Google. It’s free to browse unto this site and would prove to be very much beneficial especially to take note of that person whom you’re going to be dealing with. A lot of people now are relying on personal checks on Google.
When you put the president of your hosting company’s name into Google and the top result is an entry on The Smoking Gun, you may have a problem on your hands. Don’t be fooled, money laundering is not about sanitizing cash. Pyramid schemes are not rare, historic, architectural blueprints. Racketeering is not a sport. Extortion has nothing to do with being able to twist your body into unique shapes. Pay attention to who you do business with because a lower price is not always the best way to go, especially if you’re paying into the pockets of the same guy you saw as an “artist’s rendering” on a flier at the Post Office.
2) Out of Business Requests – Contracting and dealing with a web hosting company might require you to treat the persons whom you deal with on a nicer way and there are quite some occasions where it cannot be avoided to be more intimate with them. We understand pretty well that you wanted to establish a very much friendly relationship with your website host but you should always have a benchmark for every action. Thus, the host feeling that he was already that close to you personally might start requesting favors beyond the hosting contract that you two have agreed upon.
You should be skeptical in certain cases like your host already sends out e-mails and communications urging you to meddle with his private life or family life. In a certain situation, if the host asks for your assistance in transferring out funds from one account to another with the promise of a large sum to be paid to you, might already be a suspicious one. Although it is very much quite enticing on your part, it is better not to entrust business affairs or money matters to people whom is relevantly not very much close to you personally.
1) Control over your web host has been passed on to the “Family” – Almost like any other business organizations, web hosting companies also have the tendencies of being sold out to another and would definitely have relative changes on the management style. In these cases there is nothing to be worried of unless there will also some drastic changes in the terms of service of the company or the way it conducts its operations. You may feel the need of changing providers at this instant.
One possible process change that would arise as a result of the change is on sending of payments. You may be asked to send your payments to another person in this case. But in the event you see some inconsistencies with regard to the name, the address and the details of the new payee, then it may suggest that they are just making a fool out of you. In these financially hard times, watching over those business transactions of yours is very much necessary.
Be careful who you deal with out there. Most web hosting providers are on the up and up, but guys like Joey operate differently. Make sure you exit gracefully and are totally paid in full on your account if you find yourself in a tricky situation like this.
You wouldn’t want a pair of his complimentary concrete shoes.
And surely you don’t want to have headaches caused by things that could have been prevented.
Laurence Flynn is the CEO of HostNexus, a top Reseller Hosting provider. Thousands of webmasters switch to HostNexus every year, lured in by incredible uptime and excellent uptime. Check out HostNexus today!
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