Ive been ripped off.

what's worse, is i'm pretty sure the guy that recommended
them to you was the guy running it.

I have to pop my head up and say that's not entirely true.. my company has been supplying hosting for 3 years now and our customers pay by pay pal via their credit card (we have a business subcription with paypal) or they can direct deposit into our company bank account, pay by cheque etc etc.

I think the key thing to remember in this case is to find out the company's history and ask them questions, who do you host? Go to their website and call them or email - ask how their hosting is with the company you are interested in. Search Google for their name and see if there have been any bad reports.

Everything these days is a risk, but there are a lot of good hosting companies out there who will not rip you off - even if they do accept payments via PayPal.

I think its great that you offer a good service and do not take advantage of the fact that your customers pay via paypal - Im a fan of any honest host - as the good ones have all taken a kick in the @$$ from the not so reputable providers out there.



My point is - its all about minimizing risk - As far as making payment for a service - Paypal is the worse thing you can use - because - you, as the consumer absorb all the risk... Whereas if you pay by a credit card, the risk is passed almost entirely to the merchant...

BTW - if youre processing anywhere over $500-700/month - you really should move to a gateway/merchant solution for processing your orders - a simple cost analysis should reveal that... Additionally, cart abandonement studies show that you will increase sales by processing credit cards directly vs through a 3rd party processor like Paypal. Im always confused when I hear that established, reputable hosting providers solely accept payment through 3rd parties... Why make it harder on yourself? - Just my thoughts and I apologize, my intention was not to attack hosting providers that accept Paypal...

Yep no problems I would never take it personally after all this place is about sharing points of view, which is great. We will be moving to World Pay to do our transactions through in the new year, but I have to say Pay Pay has been great to us - we've never had a problem

Hi Musik - Thanks for not taking it personally - it most certainly was not meant to be

Dont get me wrong - I know Paypal is an effective solution - but, Im pleased to hear you;re making the move to a merchant acount - I think you will be happy with the results

Benat,

Their contact page does work, it's just the link in their flash navigation and text link at the bottom of the page doesn't work. Here is their contact page:

http://stuckforhosting.net/contact.php (I didn't try it in Firefox but I know that works in I

If that fails you could try the administrative contact:

Administrative Contact:
lees, noel noellees1@hotmail.com (Not a very good sign when the administrative contact uses a hotmail address *sighs.)

And for those who will read this later, I will add this as advice to those who are seeking advice on hosts. Frequently this request is going to be responded to by the owners of the site or affiliates of the site. In many cases it's obvious, and in other cases it's not.


For anyone seeking hosting the very first thing you should do is a whois search and find out how long this hosting service has been around.

For example, stuckforhosting.net was only just registered as a domain name 2 months ago:

Registered through: The Tomsyer Network
Domain Name: STUCKFORHOSTING.NET
Created on: 08-Sep-04
Expires on: 08-Sep-05
Last Updated on: 09-Sep-04

That speaks worlds about them. Brand new and no track record and itching for money and business (probably mostly the money)

Unfortunately for benat, the advice she got was probably from somebody associated with them in some way.

//This is a primary example of why OZZU is so adamant about not permitting spam and the mods are very conscientious about removing it immediately as we see it.

ahh yes, hotmail addresses are not a good sign