...FeaturePrice.com?

Just hoping to hear some positive opinions about this particular hosting service. It got rated #1 in some 10-Best thing (Google: "10 best hosting"), but I don't see anything in epinions about it. The 10-Best article says some really great stuff about it, including their customer service, so I'm giving it a try.

I almost went with Infinology.com before I found some totally horrible reviews on epinions.com. 9GB STORAGE for $8/mo, I knew it was too good to be true! FeaturePrice offers 5GB at $16/mo which is still AMAZING; it is so far and above every other web hosting service I've seen.

 

Try the newsgroups on Google:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=FeatureP...G=Google+Search

 

Steve,

Let us know if....this is good deal or not..i would be interested in getting 5gb for 16/month

 

Thanks for the tip... went and read some stuff, apparently in July of this year FeaturePrice had some major problems resulting in some pretty pissed off customers. I'm hoping they've learned from their mistakes at this point.

I simply cannot accept most of the other hosting services simply because they don't over over 2GB of storage (for a decent price), which is a priority for me.

I'll post first-hand impressions later on.

 

Well my first-hand impressions aren't good so far. I just tried downloading a 30k jpg from my featureprice host and it acted as if I was on dialup.

PLUS, I found this:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/thickey/FP/fpp/www.html

Looks like FeaturePrice is in deep doo doo for shady stuff. Sigh. I'm really going to be pissed if increasing size of disk storage offered = decreasing quality of service.

 

Man, a lot of crap talking about FeaturePrice (and other bad hosting services FYI!) on this forum here:

http://www.yourhostsucks.com/forums/showth...=8&pagenumber=1

Especially interesting is how a FeaturePrice employee likes to jump in and pretend like a satisfied customer. Also rumors that FeaturePrice listed the 10-Best listing that I looked at to begin with!

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I just knew I should have done even more research than I have -- I was so happy to find something other than Infinology (a bad apple too, that offers 9GB of storage!), that I just assumed the 10-Best list so prominently displayed at the top of Google's search results was all true.

Unfortunately, their 30-day guarantee says something to the effect that I can only get a refund if there's a serious technical problem or that the website claims to offer a service that they do not -- which seems to rule out "I want to cancel because of crappy download rates" because they don't specifically state that they are fast (but the 10-Best list does!).

Fortunately, there's a hefty customer testimonial page on their website, many of which state that the download speeds are the fastest ever, etc.

Unfortunately, from what I see from rumors/threads/discussions, I probably won't get my money back except from some kind of legal settlement.

BAH.