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matthewmadison
October 16th, 2009, 11:21
About over a year ago, we tried this company out. They were very nice on their online chat. Unfortunately, they have extremely bad servers. We posted comments about them on website blogs and even today we still receive emails from people who tell us about their server problems and how the servers at hostdepartment has been down for many days which is what we had experienced as well. Don't be fooled by their nice talk on their chat and focus on getting better servers and services. We had a similar problem with Cartikahosting.com as well that they also were nice to us at the start but then later, they nickled and dimed us for bandwidth that was caused by viruses on their servers. Hostdepartment clients in general have all left. You can check out their trend at http://www.webhosting.info/webhosts/reports/total_domains/hostdepartment.com

When we were with them before they had maybe 1000 domains hosted on them, which still doesn't compare to companies like hostgator.com. Now there less than 10 clients. We see the same trend with Cartikahosting that clients are leaving them. It's usually because of bad management or bad servers or services.

TSO
October 18th, 2009, 19:05
What site did you host with them?

~ServerPoint~
October 20th, 2009, 05:17
I'm not sure that is reight place for the reviews at all
In any case I'm sad to here about your experience

SiberForum
October 26th, 2009, 04:26
Have you thought about the posibility to restore the files and move to another web host?

mau_fdez
November 3rd, 2009, 20:03
I had the same problem I want to move out my hosting to other provider, but I can't transfer domain now.

Eric_HE
November 6th, 2009, 02:20
You sure?

About over a year ago, we tried this company out.
It is a review for one year ago?

revolve3
November 12th, 2009, 17:51
I had the same problem I want to move out my hosting to other provider, but I can't transfer domain now.

Your domain is registered through your web provider?

I've always been told that is a bad idea. Keep your providers separate so that way you're never "locked" in with them. Like if things go bad with your web host, they can't hold you hostage. You can just cut your losses and move to another provider.