Vodahost Web Hosting
- 14 Positive User Ratings
- 6 Negative User Ratings- : 6.7
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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.
Basic Plan Includes: 24,000 MB Disk Space | 600 GB Monthly Data Transfer | Free Domain Name Registration & Transfers | Unlimited Matching Email Accounts |Unlimited Domain Names and Websites Per Account |FrontPage Extensions & Dreamweaver Compatible | Free Affiliate Program Software | CGI, PHP, MySQL with Unlimited Databases
Price: $7.95/month
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Better thing is that dont go with vodahost its useless, its used for only personal r testing purposes bcoz u cant use more than 3gb monthly bandwidth, its waste , if u used more than that your account will be suspended. My suggestion is dont go for that
My account was today suspended without announce.
The only answer of the support,after my question, I have sent spam and I have to read the tos.
I have a contract for 36 month and used it for 7 month, but now is absolutely silence.
I am photographer and have a newsletter about photography with no commercial content and only confirmed opt-in adresses.
Hands up, the only what I can say, this is without announce a hot affair.
My site is offline and I run a lot of joint ventures, which need immediately responds.
My account was suspended today without any notice. First they told me becouse i dont pay. When i show the payment receipt they said i am spraiding viruses. My company have been customer to them for the past 3 years. Our company never scam , or do any illegal activity , we have virus check on our computers, they dont show any virus. We are running classified sites. People are uploading pictures files, etc. I cannot check they computers?!!! Also i cannot install on they servers any virus check/protection as it is not my server. It is their company responsibility to have a good firewall, that can prevent from virus, like other companies
Now i lost all my email communications, my script,my datas, my customer datas, and thousands of hours of work day and night for many years.
Please put yourself into my situation.
They answer is no communication, any ticket i send to them they dont reply. So this is customer service? PLEASE BEWARE FROM THIS COMPANY .
I am the owner of a tech-forum and while forums deal in text and seem to be easy to run, in fact managing a forum is a tough and time-consuming job. A forum-based website usually needs good and active moderators and a reliable web hosting company as its backbone. We can fairly easily hire professionals for forum moderation but I made mistakes in selecting a web hosting company. I took the selection of web hosting company very lightly in the beginning, giving more attention to the moderators and site content, which I paid for later in form of user complaints.
I was finally was forced to change my web hosting company due to the lack of any helpful support when faced with some of the complaints I’d received from my clients.
After discussing the matter with some of my tech-buddies I selected VodaHost. Being new to it I hoped that it would be better than the previous service I hadn’t received but with my friends, along with the review sites customers rating and comments, I felt reassured and I was pretty sure that it would be a step in the right direction. So I shifted the whole thing to VodaHost. The features of Voda Host includes pre-defined PhpBB, PHP support, unlimited SQL database and the availability of blog made me feel as if VodaHost was especially designed for me and my forum. Loads of tools to get the job done!
In the beginning I did loads of tweaking in the VodaHost control panel and found it pretty straightforward. I did a bunch of e-mailing to the support staff as well and got a swift and helpful reply within moments unlike my previous web host. Also, I visited the Support forum that is one-of-a-kind and contains almost all the information that one can ever think of about web hosting.
In the time I have been using the VodaHost web hosting it has proved itself to be a trustworthy and reliable. Signing up with them was a big help to my business
Hi, I am a freelance web designer by profession and used to take on projects regarding web designing. I use VodaHost as the web hosting provider for my clients. And until now I haven’t got any complaints from them. Being with VodaHost for almost six months and hosting a number of sites with them I can say that VodaHost is providing me with a great professional support and is really one of the most cost efficient web hosting services available on net.
I have never had any problems with the uptime of the VodaHost or responses from site support.
The control panel access of VodaHost is designed really resourcefully;It’s really easy to work in it. The straightforwardness of it all makes a perfect web hosting control panel.
The extra blog and forum support of VodaHost and the support of web designing tools like Dreamweaver has brought a great ease for me in working and designing a web page.
The advertised uptime is almost 100 percent, although it practically seems impossible for a web hosting company to provide that but Voda host do provide us with that at very low cost. None of the sites that I ve hosted with Vodahost has ever noticeably been down since the day I started using VodaHost and a big advantage of VodaHost is the possibility of hosting various add-on domains on one account which is a source of great savings for me.
The price that I pay for VodaHost is peanuts compared to the features and services that I am getting. I’ve chosen VodaHost over many others on net because of the reliability and friendly services that VodaHost provides.
I will strongly recommend Voda host if you are looking for a Cost efficient and professional web hosting company.
I want to give out a shout of ‘GREAT’, for my new web hosting company, VodaHost! I have a small but really great business dealing in everything retro from the 1960’s, 1970’s, and 1980’s.
I had been using a web hosting company for a couple of years, and had found them to be good. Well that is up until a few months ago when everything just went totally downhill; I had problems with communication, images, and a lot more. So I decided to have a look around for a new web host to create a website. A friend recommended VodaHost, and I decided to give them a try – I’m pleased I did!
I was impressed with VodaHost from the outset; they offered a great web hosting package which offered real value for money, and more importantly had some great web designing features that were great for my business.
I started designing my new site and it was turning out to be a lot more hip and cool then it was before – I was overjoyed!
I was a little ‘peeved’ that it sometimes took the support staff a number of hours to get back to me, but it is an email support method so I suppose they have to go through a lot of requests; other then that I think VodaHost is brilliant. I have everything I want in a host, my website looks fabulous and is getting heaps more hits then it did for. I will be using VodaHost for a long time to come.
Excellent for non-tech savvy persons too.
I’m not very tech savvy! I know how to get a bunch of stuff done. I know how to switch my system on and off, how to word process, how to browse the internet and sell products through it. It works and I work. It’s precisely because I’m not very tech savvy that I’m very happy I chose these guys as my web hosting company. The FAQ section of is self-explanatory and there are loads of tutorials and videos which show you what things are and what they do; if you have any doubts, you can always drop technical support a line for assistance. They are really helpful and knowledgeable and give step by step advice on how to get the job done. At the beginning I was stuck because I couldn’t understand the difference between domain and the files I host with my webhosting and someone from the staff explained in simple English that they were different and that is why I was making mistakes and sent me to the right tutorial on their website to get it all sorted.
They stand apart from other web hosting companies because you keep getting the web hosting that you paid for, the help to keep it going and other little add-ons which you find in the control panel which keeps me inspired about my website and keeps me adding little things to it. I’m thinking about using BlueVoda too because it looks even simpler to get websites up on the internet.
I’d already been using a bunch of free web hosting when I decided to start a professional site. I was deciding which web hosting company to select; I had already heard of horrible stories from many people regarding the web hosts of the internet; That they are very expensive and also you will have to face downed servers from your web host quiet often and so on. After doing some research into web hosts I selected VodaHost on my friend’s advice; According to him this web hosting company was exactly what I was looking for. And later I accepted that he was right in suggesting VodaHost to me as the right web hosting company for my site.
I started making my site from scratch using their free BlueVoda website builder – making a site from scratch is a real headache – but using the BlueVoda builder it seemed like a piece of cake. Also, I learned that VodaHost comes with support of FrontPage, DreamWeaver and PHP and that really has made it too easy for me to customize my site even more easily.
VodaHost is providing me with unlimited space and has given me an open choice to add as much as data to my site as I want and the unlimited bandwidth has also removed the restrictions from downloading stuff a number of times. All the horrible stories that I ve heard about web hosting companies were proved to be wrong in my use of the VodaHost web hosting company. It’s a really good service and I recommend it.
You cannot go wrong with VodaHost. I had been searching for quality web hosting to create a website for a week when I came across the VodaHost people. I had a “baby” hosting package with HostGator before but I was not satisfied with their performances and my site was not up all the time. They were also charging me more a month for 2 year plan. With VodaHost I get $7.95 a month for 1 year plan! That with free domain registration too! They also allow you to have unlimited domains, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited FTP accounts, unlimited Email accounts – that is five unlimited items! You won’t find this anywhere else at this price. Tech support has always been good to me and very helpful and knowledgeable about hosting matters. My sites been up for the past year with VodaHost web hosting as far as I can tell. The only downside is that there is no VPS option to upgrade to, should you need one in the future. But otherwise, small businesses on a limited budget would do well by sticking with VodaHost for their web hosting needs. That is my opinion. Their hosting control panel allows you one-click setup to Drupal, Joomla, WordPress etc, through fantastico. You also get free merchant account and third party shopping carts are allowed. You can have OSCommerce or Cube Cart / Zen Cart at no extra charges. This is great if you have signed up for affiliate programs to sell products through the Internet so you can make money from home. Reccomended.
I can recommend VodaHost web hosting to everyone that wants to upload their own website to the world wide web. I will be honest and say that I have never been with another web hosting company but I have had no need as VodaHost has provided me with reliable professional web hosting that I would be a fool to walk away from.
I have heard stories from my counter-parts of their web hosting companies. Moans of hidden fees, bad uptime and up to a week of waiting for an answer to their urgent customer support ticket are frequent. None of this has happened to me with my web hosting account and I have been with Vodahost for over a year now.
Uploading my website to VodaHost was pretty easy. I wouldn’t say that I was an internet Guru however the on-site guidelines to web hosting and the help I received from VodaHost customer support department was spot on and the web hosting turned into an easy thing to do.
VodaHost obviously take time out to make sure that their staff are the best as every member of staff that I have dealt with about web hosting has been calm, polite, knowledgeable and very responsive. I can update my site regularly, gain access to my web stats daily through the Cpanel and read my emails within minutes. My bounce rate is low indicating that my pages upload at a fast speed and I have never noticed VodaHost lacking on their promise of 99.9% uptime.
All I can say is thank you to VodaHost for making web hosting easy. They have delivered on what they promised all at reasonable prices. It appears from my counter-parts stories that other web hosting companies ( no names mentioned ) need to take a learn a trick or two from VodaHost. If they don’t then I know they will be losing some customers to VodaHost very soon.
Now in my retirement years I managed to get online with VodaHost because I’ve purchased several blocks of duplexes and apartment units. I did this a while ago. I figured this’d make a good investment and would keep me busy in these golden years. I ran into a problem advertising my units (it was really expensive) and lost hope a little. Later I started searching online for a web hosting provider who could walk me through the steps necessary to make my new venture a success i.e. putting up a website with information, pictures and prices. I was thrilled to find that it really was not as difficult as I had feared. My son told that he was with VodaHost and I signed up as well because there were way too many web hosting companies online to decide between them. He helped me make a simple website and he and the web hosting company explained everything to me and showed me how to get it all up-and-running… There are some very useful tutorial videos on the VodaHost site which helped too.
With so many units and so many variables in each of them, I am grateful for the VodaHost unlimited disk space which helped in putting up pictures and videos and the efficient web hosting customer service provided by VodaHost. For just a few dollars, I found that web hosting with VodaHost let me to do some email marketing and this has helped me find a few more tenants. For as little as the cost is, the web hosting provider certainly was a worthy investment. Now, with web hosting from VodaHost, I am able to display my units in a way that is organized and explanatory fashion.
The importance of the layout was absolutely imperative with so many units to advertise. I was able to seek the help I needed through the friendly customer service professionals provided by the web hosting company. At night, I glanced over the tutorials and found I could do this very easily and market my rentals in a way that was swift and problem-free. I cannot say enough about VodaHost web hosting provider for the set of features they provide and for the wonderful layout that I was able to accomplish with my rental photos.
I also found it very easy, thanks to VodaHost web hosting, to have available reference forms and sign-up forms for would-be renters. I am looking forward to a lasting web hosting relationship with VodaHost just as I am looking forward to having a lasting relationship with my renters. It has not been very long since I signed up with my web hosting provider and my rentals have already doubled in occupancy!
I have been in this online business for quiet some time and have been using my website as an online marketing tool. Some of the biggest hassles in my online business have been the web hosting companies with which I have been associated all these years. I was not at all satisfied with the services of my previous web hosting companies. These un-satisfactory services led me to search for a more efficient and professional web hosting company and that’s how I came across VodaHost.
The low cost services, though, raised doubts in my mind regarding the quality of services, I still decided to give this web hosting company a try. Initially I was not sure that some of the features provided by VodaHost would actually work but after I became its customer, I found I could use the flash players, plug-ins and the other methods that are required to stay ahead of the curve. The important thing was that everything offered by VodaHost did work and with no hidden costs.
The uptime and better tech-support are an added advantage with web hosting company VodaHost. These parameters have accounted for my rise in sales and business. The biggest advantage for me of using VodaHost’s service is use of unlimited disk space and the transfer of as much data as you can. These features make VodaHost the best in the business of web hosting for me and relative to my previous experience they do stand apart from the rest. VodaHost has also helped me design one of the websites for my business in a way with their web builder, the BlueVoda.
I am now a regular user of VodaHost’s services and all through my subscription with VodaHost I have gained loads of experience. Other customers may not be sure of comparing the services of VodaHost with other web hosting companies but I am quite happy in saying that VodaHost is better than all those which I have used till now. For the time being I don’t need to look beyond VodaHost.
Obtaining opportunities by choosing the right web hosting company:
I’m a graphics artist student and I was looking for a place for hosting on the web, where I could place my work for others to see as well as gain experience in all the popular web trends that could help me in my developing career. I stumbled upon this great feature rich web hosting company that offered everything I would need to not just start my site but to really build my career on. The unlimited number of domain names, e-mails and bandwidth means I can use the same account for all my future customers. The PHP, Perl and MySQL support meant that I could begin straight away in learning how to program back-end websites.
The cPanel is full of features that’ll suit my future clients every need! It offers Joomla, Drupal and WordPress installation services, a perfect combination for me to get to grips with the latest trends in building websites and understanding how to manage them. There are also lighter web hosting features that can assist any budding web developer such as guestbook, forums and web form makers. Out of all the web hosting companies I looked at, none offered such rich features.
I was a little nervous at the beginning due to the large amount of web hosting features so I sent customer support a message (these guys have an email ticket system), there wasn’t much of a wait time and I was answered by a friendly member of staff who had described each web hosting feature in a professional manner. This surprised me as I was use to getting placed on hold as they got in touch with the tech support, a refreshing change for a web hosting company. When I first began designing sites I was clueless about some of the confusing terminology, fortunately the tech support team were very responsive, friendly and professional. They understood the ins and outs of web hosting and thanks to their help now I do to!
I was impressed by the affiliates program as it offers you a lot of money for just advertising the web hosting company and has a great commissions and sub-affiliates scheme. This is an excellent scheme to advertise for a great web hosting company and also makes me a little money for my beer!
I FOUND MY NITCH
When I was shopping around for web hosting suppliers, I found what I needed at fewer than eight dollars a month; Which isn’t bad. There are a vast number of web hosting suppliers available online and when you stumble upon the right one for you, it’s a happy feeling to know the search is over. The services I’ve received so far will make me a repeat customer. It’s not often you can find unlimited disk space and unlimited data transfer services for a reasonable price. Combine this with the professionalism that is not just helpful, but thorough in every way, and you’re onto a winner!
If you are looking for a web hosting company, I recommend these guys. I was able to get my feet on the ground in a fast and effective way with my website. As an online merchant, I appreciate the SSL certificate and the easy-to-use software that this web hosting company provides.
As far as customer support goes, the tutorial videos and the support forum have turned out to be a big help. I have gotten my questions answered pretty quickly each time. Web hosting does not have to be complicated or a headache; in fact, it can be really straightforward! Something that I really found consumer-friendly is the many different services provided. Web hosting has been made really simple and affordable through cost-effectiveness and a wide range of services.
I have found a one-stop shop in my web hosting search and am grateful that all of my online merchant needs have been met. I’ll take this web hosting company any day over one that leaves out the support forums and customer-friendly software! At last, I have found my nitch and can get on with focusing on my orders through my website and not have to worry about if the web hosting company will be one that is supportive of me as a consumer.
I think the service I’ve gotten from these guys has been top-notch. I didn’t need much convincing when I decided to find a web hosting company to host my transcription site. All of my online friends were using their services of so I figured I was going to use them too. Besides I had never heard anything bad about them or their web hosting services. All my friends seemed happy with what they were paying for.
At $7.95 a month, their web hosting features are really neat. No other web hosting company that I’ve looked at comes close although in truth I haven’t needed to use them. Starting with the big website building help from the downloadable BlueVoda site builder to the 99.9 percent reported site up-time (I haven’t noticed my site being down), I’m really happy they give you as big an advantage as possible with their unlimited disk space, unlimited email accounts and add-on domain names, unlimited data transfers, and shopping cart features. I’ve used the support ticket system, online knowledge base, and a flash learning tutorial and all were really helpful.
No one’s had a problem accessing my entries and contacting me as my email features are good and were pretty simple to set up. I have spam assassins, auto responders, and mail forward features, so everything is taken cared of when I’m getting in touch with my clients.
I give ‘em two thumbs-up! Haven’t had any of the problems above. I reckon made the right choice in choosing them as my web hosting company.
I am a teacher. In 2007, I spent three months developing a comperhensive Website for use in teaching and contacting students. I contracted with VodaHost to carry the site on their servers. At some point in 2008 (believed to be sometime around June 2008), VodaHost took my site down and destroyed all the information carried on my Webpages. The reason give for removing my Website was: “non-payment of monthly subscription.” The monthly subscription was paid through PayPal; the account shows that not one payment was missed from the time the subscription was initiated and December 2008. VodaHost’s support personnel in sales and billing refuse to give an accounting of my VodaHost account to show when, if any, payments were missed, and refuse to tell me what has happened to the data on my Website. The only responses I get from VodaHost are flippant and provide virtually no answers to the questions I have asked (copies of their recent e-mails can be made available). I believe VodaHost is headquartered in the US Wilmington DE or Baltimore, MD. However I can get no information about the company and its officers from any source on the Web to pursue and/or resolve this matter. I want to recover 1) the development costs for the Website and 2) the subscription fees VodaHost accepted from PayPal after the Websit was taken off the Internet. Total value of VodaHost mismanagement is approximately $9,000.00
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!
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
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.
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,
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