Don’t Use 2MHost

Monday, March 28, 2005

I had been checking out different hosting companies because I needed to use Apache for a project.  I gave Dreamhost a try for about 3 hours and then cancelled.  The control panel was painfully slow and not user friendly.  I didn’t get a chance to actually use them to test the site because I ended the relationship there.

I then gave 2MHost a shot.  They looked alright and were cheap enough to play with. 

Day 1:
They had me set up quickly with a dedicated IP.  I uploaded my scripts and tried to connect to the database.  First issue was needing to know the IP to mySQL.  I asked support and the answer was, “localhost”.  Hmmm.  That just isn’t going to work from my machine.  So after some back and forth on live support I gave up.  I finally figured it out myself after about an hour.

Day 2:
I was supposed to be on a PHP 5 server, I check the server and see I am on PHP 4.  Shortly after asking about it the server was down.  After several hours of down time it was back up with PHP5 installed.  I guess they only install it when you notice.  Later that day they were down again.

Several days go by and my testing is alright, decent server response etc.  Haven?t had much time to work on things or check on the server.

Day 11:
8am I check the site and its down.  I ask about it and am told they are rebooting.  Okay, that takes 5 minutes.  4 hours later still down, I asked and am told they are working with the Data Center on it and they would get back to me.  12 hours later and still down, asked about it and have not heard back.  Final question is about a refund.

In 11 days I have been down 3 times that I have noticed.  So much for 99.9% up time. The search will continue.

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