Top 5 Reasons to Change Web Host
5 - You try to visit your web site but pages take 30 seconds to load. Upon informing your web host about the problem they promptly assure you that the problem is a Wordpress issue or that your ISP is blocking the site…
4 - You setup your domain for automatic renewal but notice it’s status has not been changed in your account. To avoid problems, you contact your web host a month ahead of time to ensure that automatic renewal is indeed setup properly. After being assured that all is well, your website goes down a month later and your web host informs you that it is your fault and you should use automatic renewal in the future to avoid this problem.
3 - Your host advertises tons of bandwidth and storage space, but limits concurrent connections to their MySQL database to 10 so that your website goes down way before you could even get anywhere remotely close to using your bandwidth limit. If you complain you are told to upgrade your account!
2 - You contact support and try to explain that there is an on-going problem that causes all your pages using MySQL to take forever to load. You explain that this problem is affecting all customers and has been for a long time. They respond asking for the exact URL where the problem is occurring… You humor them and give one example URL, re-iterating that it affects ALL pages that make any access calls to MySQL. They reply asking you to do a trace route, even though you’ve tried to explain the problem is server-side! You humor them and send the trace route results just to have them reply asking for the exact URL where the problem is occurring.
1 - And the number one reason to change web host is if your web host is Ipower, because you will inevitably have to deal with all of the above and more! I haven’t even mentioned the fact that your email will usually not work since I gave up on even trying to use that service long long ago..!
For more information about Ipower please read More Reasons to Avoid Ipower at all Costs and Ipower Hosting Slow PHP and MySQL.
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