Vodahost Web Hosting

August 19, 2006

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- 1 Positive User Ratings
- 3 Negative User Ratings

Features: 3.3
Support: 3.3
Value: 3.3
Overall Rating: 3.3
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Web Hosting Provider: VodaHost

Company info: VodaHost is a Willmintong, DE based web hosting provider. VodaHost is owned by AffiliSys LLC in the USA. Their UK division is a wholly owned independent subsidiary.

Service area: Worldwide

Basic Plan: N/A-this provider offers one all-inclusive plan.

Price: $7.95/month

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6 Responses to “Vodahost Web Hosting”

Dan said:

December 8th, 2007 at 2:06 am

I got vodahost back when their servers were fresh, support was a little less feisty, and the TOS did not require you to pay a yearly subscription even if you did not ask them to.

Since then alot has changed, Customer Service has gone down the drain, linking me to sites with profanities such as “a-hole” and “bitch” and “fucking,” which are all aimed at the reader. These sites also contain very concerning phrases such as “break your legs” and “piece of shit.” I am sorry to have to share such words with you.

Their support also takes several days to reply to questions in their independantly run (meaning that no externalities are involved) support database. It is very well to run your own database for support, providing you do not abuse it. Please reply to customers questions! And if you do so, do so APPROPRIATELY.

Their “TOS” or Terms of Service are very vague, offer the breaking of the contract with 7-days notice (or that was how short it was when I last looked,) and the inability to break the contract yourself without requesting “permission” to do so.

Their features are offered, yay fantastico, yay mysql, yay PHPBB, and yay CPanel. Why won’t these run at suitable speeds? Oh the processor is red-lining 24/7 - that explains my customers distress. Sure they have good software, but the hardware is over used - Vodahost over-host. I also have not yet received my 300gb data transfer rate or my ever changing storage limit, which was said to be 200GB when I arrived, and has gradually fluctuated down to 50GB, while my account has never allowed consumption of more than 15GB despite several requests at the Help Desk.

If one posts a slightly concerning post in their forum, eg. the fact that their server CPU status is critical and PHP won’t run, the person involved in the posting gets a minimum of a 20-year ban, plus a free phone call, thats right, one that they would not give you prior to now, even on request. The phone call may contain some fowl language, be sure to listen to it without children in the house.

I have been charged for a further years hosting much to my disgression, Please, PLEASE if you do want to use them, sign up for a month, then if you don’t notice any problems sign up for a year, but when signing up, PAY BY CASH! They WILL use your credit card details if your request is not “within a suitable time” of your next billing period. For me this was 23 days, which I would concider enough days warning for any annual cancellation.

So of you go to them, watch out. Stay agile, and Read the TOS for any changes, keep a hard copy of it from when you sign up, and DON’T LOSE IT.

If you leave with anything from this review, leave with my information. You are free to sign up to vodahost and try them out, but their 100% guarantee comes with not refund, and their 30 day trial “was never available” even though it said all over their website for several months after my sign up. BE CAREFUL
Juli said:

August 29th, 2008 at 12:44 am

I agree with the above 100%, the worst, nastiest. rude, profane group of customer service people ever. They seem to have the power to mess you up if they piss you off.

I have a question if anyone can answer. I am nearly up to my year with Voda Host, I probably have more than 60 days, but not much. How and what do I need to copy in order to keep BlueVoda builder? How will I use my CPanel? since you have to go through their log in to access. How do I switch to another Host?

Oh, NOOOO, I did not number my questions, they hate it when you don’t number you questions. And to notify you they respond without answering the question, and speak in a very condescending manor.
Thanks,
John said:

August 29th, 2008 at 12:54 am

Juli,

Maybe you should consider using a different site authoring software. With many open source content management systems, there is surely one that can satisfy your needs. How about Joomla?

Just make sure your back up your current pages. I have never used VodaHost but it is strange when a hosting company uses “special” authoring tools that make it difficult to switch to another provider.

From what I understand BlueVoda publishes pages as HTML files so it should not be difficult to save a back up.
Juli said:

August 29th, 2008 at 1:12 am

Thanks John.

I am not saying that it is not possible, I just don’t know how. I also remember reading a blog saying they lost things. I have gone in to my blue voda, and all my photos are missing from my pages, though not on the web site. Also, my Blue Voda files couldn’t be opened in Blue Voda for a while. I am not all that savvy, as if I needed to tell you.

I appreciate your help. If you can elaborate that would be great. I should down load to a disk or to external hard drive. When you change hosts you just place an order and they set you up? Is there down time? Would you recommend any particular host?

I can’t remember how it worked with my domain name. I hope there will be no problem with that. I like the Blue Voda, it is just the customer service stinks.

Thanks again.
Juli
teresa said:

January 28th, 2009 at 11:47 am

We purchased a domain and web hosting service in 2007. When the new invoice came due it stated for web hosting and domain. We paid this invoice in full September of 2008. We have the credit card statements to prove this. This company then took our money and within 30 days canceled our site and then sold our domain to another person. They said we could find out who bought it and buy it from them. I believe they have it and are using this as extortion. They say it is not their fault that the invoice gives the impression that the domain is paid by the wording. We have copies of all invoices. We never received a separate billing for the domain name. This is deceptive to anyone purchasing from them and intentional. They hold domain names hostage basically. To late I checked the BBB and found they have an ‘F’ rating. They don’t give a damn about you as a customer.

After several back and forth e-mails they tell us they will give a another one (different than the one we had) for free. We paid for this service so how is it free? The one they can give us won’t do any good because our advertisement is for the previous one. They say to bad.

Don’t do business with these people…they are thieves. They will bill your credit card, take the money, cancel your site then tell you to bad so sad…no refunds sucker!