Web Hosting Provider: Easy CGI
Company Info: Since its inception in 1998, Easy CGI has become a globally competitive Web Hosting Provider, hosting over 20,000 Web sites. Consistently ranked among the top 10 Web Hosting providers worldwide. Company offers 24/7 customer support and claims to have 99.9% uptime.
Serving Area: Worldwide
Basic Web Hosting Plan: Advanced
Included: 350 GB disk space | 3,500 GB Transfer | PHP, ASP, .NET 2.0 | Windows 2003 Hosting Environment | ASP.NET 2.0 | Script Library | Full Featured Control Panel
Price: $7.96/month
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Although I have given my review regarding EASY CGI – I wanted to reach out to all those who have posted here and was wondering if their sites have been hacked since they moved to other hosts? Mine has been hacked twice and the index page shows my old username and the easycgi extension when I look at the index page.
I get the feeling “Mr. Ray Akers” above actually WORKS for EasyCGI
I get the feeling EasyCGi is about to go under – which is probably the best thing for everyone concerned.
i had 57 sites hosed by easycgi. those idiots don’t give a rats if your site is down andyour clients are losing money screaming at you. i was part of the webstrike aquisition. those clowns hacked my asp code without informing me.
i am planning to file a class action lawsuit. and am interested in hearing from anyone who wants to join in. these bozos need to be horse whipped in court.
anyone want a piece of this? smapua at comcast dot net
DO NOT USE CGI….they have cost me a huge amount of money and my clients are starting to leave us! Support is shocking, they even charged my credit card for website renewel on a site that had been down for 2 years!
WORST HOST EVER!
What a useless host provider – I have been hosting with the same webhost for 10 years – never a problem – everything always fixed, cheap prices, excellent service, good product.
And then they sell the company to EasyCGI – great for the business owners and good on them but bad for the customers. I have never seen such a poor migration of websites from one server to another – not one of my clients websites have had up to date copies of their websites moved across – with sites being updated regularly, some of the changes I made 3 months ago to some websites are nowhere to be seen. And downtime – its ridiculous – one client has so far lost 6 full days of business and their website is their business – if it stays down any longer, they will be out of business more than likely and so will I.
The Help Desk – most useless bunch of people ever – I ask them a simple question any normal person with some computer knowledge has they tell me to hold for 2-4 minutes so they can look into it – in other words they have no idea. And then you get passed around and 2 days later still nothing has been done.
And I bet they wont’ reimburse my clients for lost business – no chance. Anyway, find someone that has positive reviews about a webhost and do your homework – we had NO choice when told our current host had sold to EasyCGI – if we did, I wouldn’t be with them now.
EasyCGI was always overpriced even for Windows shared hosting, but up until the Fall of 2008 they were competent enough and fixed problems with their platform. No shared hosting company is perfect but EasyCGI became a really bad company in late 2008.
What happened is that they were acquired by Endurance International Group, a one size fits all, lowest common denominator hosting group. Shades of The Matrix.
I had the same type of problems described here, but when they weren’t resolved I moved my site to another host. It helped that I had my domain registered with a major ICANN registrar (GoDaddy- not a good host but a good registrar) so it was not held hostage by these idiots.
You always have to be prepared to leave, i.e., have your own backups and domains not registered thru your hosting company. If you have many sites apply the same procedure to all. Don’t take more than 3 months at a time of hosting so you don’t get burned if things go south.
I had my site, a little money-making e-commerce site built with ASP.NET 2.0 ported quickly to a small hosting company with colocation at The Planet. Everything is fine, for the nonce…very solid and very fast http server response.
Hosting companies are low margin businesses, and in this economy any one of them could go under at any time.
Agree with the others. Went from good to WORST! During the horrible and still not completed transition EasyCGI destroyed our site – a non-profit charity FirstScholarshipFund.
They lost all email addresses and past emails. They lost the database. The lost our SSL. They changed the script support and we couldn’t receive customer feedback or error messages. The email was down for days, the DB for weeks and the SSL for months. We could not process any transactions and lost significant donations.
TERRIBLE!
EasyCgi gone from good to worst this summer. Since they moved to new platform nothing is working. Stay away from them if you are not ASP/database/windows script guru. Your site might be down most of the time and their tech support will just open tickets for you…
Ray, Russ, Dug
Thank you so much for your input and comments. It is however not my intention to turn the comments here into a discussion place. I will however move your comments in to forums (not ready for release yet) where you can pick up your discussion if you wish so.
Thanks for understanding,
Vlad.