Comments on: WordPress hosting woes http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/ Middle-aged feminist engineer talks about everything not about BPM Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:54:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Veronika http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-20048 Veronika Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:54:30 +0000 http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/#comment-20048 I so agree about Netfirms. I'm moving to a new host today. It has been a nightmare in the 2 months I've had my site (wordpress). First they claimed to be "upgrading" (which meant my site has been down 4 times for 24 hour segments without warning). The my site crashed and they had to restore it on their end. It behaved normally for exactly 2 days now I have dashboard errors "WP HTTP Error: couldn't connect to host" on all wordpress front page news plug ins and cannot uplooad any plugins thanks to this error: An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request. Now, nothing was done on my site to cause this, as I've been away... all was working normally between their so called upgrades. I am beyond angry...I'm going elsewhere as I cannot edit files from their prehistoric control panel. The control panel itself takes forever to load, and so do my pages with a teensy 2.5MB site. Ridiculous! Search Netfirms...and any of the included errors and you will find you're not alone. I don't bother calling because it just makes me angrier and nothing gets done anyway. Support tickets take a usual 48 hours to answer. Like Shafiq, I am fed up and burned out. I'm posting this in case anyone else has the same problems with them. You can get shared MANAGED hosting for the same price. Bye Netfirms...you suck! I so agree about Netfirms. I’m moving to a new host today. It has been a nightmare in the 2 months I’ve had my site (wordpress). First they claimed to be “upgrading” (which meant my site has been down 4 times for 24 hour segments without warning). The my site crashed and they had to restore it on their end. It behaved normally for exactly 2 days now I have dashboard errors “WP HTTP Error: couldn’t connect to host” on all wordpress front page news plug ins and cannot uplooad any plugins thanks to this error: An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request. Now, nothing was done on my site to cause this, as I’ve been away… all was working normally between their so called upgrades. I am beyond angry…I’m going elsewhere as I cannot edit files from their prehistoric control panel. The control panel itself takes forever to load, and so do my pages with a teensy 2.5MB site. Ridiculous! Search Netfirms…and any of the included errors and you will find you’re not alone. I don’t bother calling because it just makes me angrier and nothing gets done anyway. Support tickets take a usual 48 hours to answer. Like Shafiq, I am fed up and burned out. I’m posting this in case anyone else has the same problems with them. You can get shared MANAGED hosting for the same price. Bye Netfirms…you suck!

]]> By: Shafiq Hamid http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-20013 Shafiq Hamid Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:56:16 +0000 http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/#comment-20013 I am so angry with Netfirms and had to speak out somewhere .... this has to be the worst company EVER!! Our entore business rests on gaining access to email and we are hosted on Netfirms. I have called 20 times today and nobody seems to care .... they will try their best .... but the POP and webmail is down!! How can they get away with this??? I am going to post in as many places as possible ... I will leave them but I dont want other people to get stuck with them ... please feel free to contact me .... I will give you the low down on them ... horrible horrible .... they suck big time .... DONT GO WITH THEM. I am so angry with Netfirms and had to speak out somewhere …. this has to be the worst company EVER!! Our entore business rests on gaining access to email and we are hosted on Netfirms.

I have called 20 times today and nobody seems to care …. they will try their best …. but the POP and webmail is down!!

How can they get away with this???

I am going to post in as many places as possible … I will leave them but I dont want other people to get stuck with them … please feel free to contact me …. I will give you the low down on them … horrible horrible …. they suck big time …. DONT GO WITH THEM.

]]> By: superpinjal http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-19202 superpinjal Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:10:37 +0000 http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/#comment-19202 actually i'm not fully agree with your comments on Yahoo Small Business Hosting in related with Wordpress. From the 1st installation of my wordpress, i used one click install and then i upgrade directly my wordpress to the latest one using Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin and it just took less than 3 minutes for downtime (including Database upgrade) thanks for wordpress for this. But yes, actually Yahoo Small Business is really closed for direct access to the server like using SSH, perhaps it's a matter of security. Anyway .. is there any clue for instaling phpmyadmin for Yahoo Small Business, i've done the installation but when i open the page after successfully logon into it , it just blank. actually i’m not fully agree with your comments on Yahoo Small Business Hosting in related with WordPress.
From the 1st installation of my wordpress, i used one click install and then i upgrade directly my wordpress to the latest one using WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin and it just took less than 3 minutes for downtime (including Database upgrade) thanks for wordpress for this.
But yes, actually Yahoo Small Business is really closed for direct access to the server like using SSH, perhaps it’s a matter of security.

Anyway .. is there any clue for instaling phpmyadmin for Yahoo Small Business, i’ve done the installation but when i open the page after successfully logon into it , it just blank.

]]> By: Nate http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-17212 Nate Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:17:37 +0000 http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/#comment-17212 First rule: DO NOT use Yahoo's one click install. Actually, that was the only rule. You have to do it manually. I have everything working right and have written a detailed but easy guideline for getting wordpress on a yahoo server: http://natespost.com/index.php/install-wordpress-on-yahoo-server/ First rule: DO NOT use Yahoo’s one click install.
Actually, that was the only rule. You have to do it manually. I have everything working right and have written a detailed but easy guideline for getting wordpress on a yahoo server: http://natespost.com/index.php/install-wordpress-on-yahoo-server/

]]> By: Off Topic :: Hosting on GoDaddy http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-1519 Off Topic :: Hosting on GoDaddy Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:11:10 +0000 http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/#comment-1519 [...] I’ve previously documented the problems that I’ve had with Yahoo and WordPress hosting: Yahoo’s MySQL installation, besides being out of date, is somewhat screwed up; this, in turn, seems to be impacting the ability to do a WordPress upgrade or even a separate WordPress install. My advice: avoid Yahoo Small Business hosting if you need anything but the exact WordPress version that they’re offering, which is currently 2.0.2. This likely won’t be a problem until a major WP upgrade occurs and you really want some new feature in the new version. [...] [...] I’ve previously documented the problems that I’ve had with Yahoo and WordPress hosting: Yahoo’s MySQL installation, besides being out of date, is somewhat screwed up; this, in turn, seems to be impacting the ability to do a WordPress upgrade or even a separate WordPress install. My advice: avoid Yahoo Small Business hosting if you need anything but the exact WordPress version that they’re offering, which is currently 2.0.2. This likely won’t be a problem until a major WP upgrade occurs and you really want some new feature in the new version. [...]

]]> By: Off Topic :: More on how Netfirms sucks http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Off Topic :: More on how Netfirms sucks Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:09:13 +0000 http://www.sandyofftopic.com/2006/10/wordpress-hosting-woes/#comment-181 [...] Did I mention that Netfirms sucks? Oh yeah, I wrote about it a two days ago. This morning, I couldn’t get on to my webmail, and pages from WordPress were taking 15-30 seconds each to load. When I tried to go to the WordPress admin pages, I would get part of the main dashboard page, and then a big blank. [...] [...] Did I mention that Netfirms sucks? Oh yeah, I wrote about it a two days ago. This morning, I couldn’t get on to my webmail, and pages from WordPress were taking 15-30 seconds each to load. When I tried to go to the WordPress admin pages, I would get part of the main dashboard page, and then a big blank. [...]

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