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I am sick and tired of downtimes. I have been experiencing them for the last week. I spent tens of hours working on some sites to increase traffic and tune up the themes and instead of being able to work on them I have to look on ‘not found’ errors.

First I thoght I have some problems with my ISP. But no, I look at some site that monitors if a site is up and of course my result is: DOWNTIME.

Why did I chose QualityHostOnline.com in the first place? Because the price was OK .. 10 USD a month. And yeah, I was cheap. I just bought the reseller account months ago and then started seeing the problems. Here are they all. I won’t say this host is the worst you can see, but I will make sure I move my sites from there in the following hours .. let’s hope the server won’t die on me AGAIN:

• the reseller account is weird: you have a domain that “represents” your hosting (dojodesign.ro in my case, my portfolio). And then resellable space. Oh wait: the “name” site gets 50% of the resources and you can sell ONLY half of the total. And no, there’s nothing you can do. So .. from all your nice hosting account don’t think you’ll sell more than 50%. Imagine how nice it was for me to have my small portfolio (2MB the most) relax on a 1GB space, 10GB bandwidth account. Don’t bother ask them to change: it’s gonna stay like this.
• this means a lot of issues with the LIMITED resources you have: I am quite a master in getting all kinds of “changes” so that I won’t have my sites fail on me on the 20th or some, when the server says my sites are getting close to the bandwidth limit. Can you host some big sites on a 10 GB bandwidth account? Well, as crazy as it might seem you can .. I was able to.
• support .. I cannot say they didn’t respond. But in some cases it took some hours. I want instant messaging possibilities and not the OFFLINE message they always have on the site
• downtimes unannounced. Let’s set some stuff clear: I don’t have a hi5 like page with glitter and other stupidities. I run a network of sites. I am paid for links and advertising. I can lose my publisher accounts because of the downtimes. Not to mention I want to build up some traffic. The downtime for the last days was caused by I don’t know what changes on the server. HELLO: write to me. Put some backups plans. Don’t mess with my sites like this.

I am trying now resellerzoom.com .. a bit more expensive, but with way more resources. We move there .. today.