CI Host is the best!

[Frosty]

J/K.

Here`s a stewpid question: I`ve heard ALOT of people say that CI Host is real bad. Is it becuase their servers were slow, or was it because they have alot of down- time?

[JTY]

I almost had heart failure when I read the topic......

I think the reason most people don't like them is the large amounts of down time....

[akashik]

Hey you almost forgot the non existant level of support they offer.

Greg Moore

[Tommy]

I just thought they had pointless advertising at ISPCon

[Jaiem]

They've been around so long and seem to have a big advertising budget they must have at least some happy customers (or someone with very deep pockets backing them).

[Tommy]

I'm sure they do have some happy customers but they've had a bad rep ever since that fiasco.

[Chuck Roy]

The amazing thing is that I've been involved with the Internet and hosting for many years and as far back as I can remember, CI Host has had a bad reputation.

How do they stay in business?

[Martie]

Thats the biggest shame of it all....Ive known some pretty bad companies as well....AND, you guessed it there are many still in business.
I just dont understand it

[JTY]

Yeah, it seems like the bad ones, have it easy. Take, Microsoft for instance, they sell insecure and very buggy software, yet they still stay around.

[akashik]

market penetration probably has a lot to do with it. High churn is fairly easy to combat if your sign-ups outnumber those people actively leaving. It's all still growth... Just imagine how big they'd be in they managed to hold onto all those extra customers though.

Greg Moore

[Tommy]

To combat high churn I've seen companies making it difficult for people to leave.

[James]

Originally posted by frosty
J/K.

Here`s a stewpid question: I`ve heard ALOT of people say that CI Host is real bad. Is it becuase their servers were slow, or was it because they have alot of down- time?

You might want to check out:

http://www.badwebhost.com

[JTY]

I've seen more than one complaint on another forum. Every time they went to cancel their account, CI Host 's website was down.

[James]

Basically their hosting SUCKS! Unfortunately their marketing doesn't

Currently they've got around 90,000 sites hosted, which is about double what they had a year ago.

You've got to spend some serious cash to grow that fast, especially given that, word of mouth recommendations are going to help your cause

[Frosty]

i was just reading the stuff written about CIHOST at www.badwebhost.com. How the hell can CIHOST screw up this bad and so often.
I just read the article where they charged over a thousand dollars on someone`s credit card for bandwidth usage. CIHOST wanted to charge $20 dollars per GB! That`s insane, it should be less than $3.00 per extra GB at that volume.
On CIHost`s website, does it say that they charge you $20 dollars per GB if you go over 10 GB?