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I've had nothing but great experience with them, for over 3 years now. They have responded quickly and well the few times I needed, and they've kept me up and running nicely. That said, I have seen a few complaints from others, but in my experience (I tried several other hosters before them) there is no one that is always perfect (even some of the far more expensive and well-known hosts have issues). So for what you pay (and more), I highly recommend them.

Been using them for my site for last 2 years, and got second IP for friends site and I haven't noticed any downtime in that time frame.

Plus the unlimited bandwidth is always a good thing.

I used to say the same things as Paul and Justin, but I have changed my mind about WebHosting4Life. As long as you do not have a popular site, they are great. But once you start to pull in some visitors, things change. I have about 2000 unique visitors a day and do about 4GB in bandwidth a month (mostly compressed RSS) and they just shut down my site without any warning stating that my site was using 100% of the Machine it was on. After I explained that I was only using .Text, they brought my site back up, and then said they would move the site to a new box (the one I was on was an old one, since I have been with them almost 3 years now). Then, the guys at CodeBetter.com had the same problem, but were told to find another provider (WH4L just shut them down, with no warning). So, unlimited bandwidth is very misleading, because they do not let you stream any media (mp3, wmv, etc), and don't want you using much CPU time, so that is how they limit your bandwidth. My contract is up with them in Sept. and I'm looking for another host. WH4L was great for a while, but like all good things, it doesn't last.

You should check out the Webhostingtalk forums for information as well.

www.webhostingtalk.com

I've also heard experiences like Don's above.

I have sites that uses Tons of bandwidth, they never shut me down. I am able to do WMV and mp3 streaming as well. I think you are getting the wrong information. Webhost4life is definately great!

The two times when I ran into performance/downtime problems, I submitted a trouble ticket and they moved me to a new server, and everything was fine. Also gave me a free month of hosting. Tech support has always been very quick.
HOWEVER, my one compaint is that they sneak in a $10 "renewal fee" on top of hosting charges when you renew. Maybe this was mentioned somewhere when I signed up (but I don't remember seeing it), but I cannot find any mention of a renewal fee in any of their online materials or terms & conditions.

I paid the $10 and get my 600MB bump up to 3GIG, I have no complaints =)

WH4L is the best hosting company out there.

I switched to WH4L in January because I wanted a Windows-based site and WH4L was recommended. Well, their own web site it terrible. For example, they refer to a "Control Panel", yet you never get to any page by that name. The software they have for uploading files would not run on my machine. I have 4 domain names for different hobbies. Not until after I paid and got set up did I find out that I could not aim my 4 domain names at different folders without paying more. (My prior host did not charge.) Then I tried to transfer a domain name to WH4L. They charged my credit card over 2 weeks ago, but still have not transferred it. On their Help page, they list an 800# to call for Help, but when I call that number, they say they can only provide help for hosting, not for domain names, yet the 800# is shown on the domain name help page. When I call the 480#, I can never get through to anyone. When I emailed them, they did not respond.

I saw where someone else warned about getting blindsided with a $10 "renewal" fee. At least I won't have to worry about that. I won't renew.

Do NOT go near this provider - despite stating that email is included as are multiple domains the truth is that only the first domain is free for email and all other domains can only be attached at root level. If you want to attach at subdirectory then a charge of $15yr is made. They are completely unwilling to state what else will be charged for.
DO NOT TOUCH WITH A BARGEPOLE

I have very good experience so far with webhost4life. The reason I went with them was their customer testimonials at http://webhost4life.com/testimonial.asp

I havn't see any other host with these kind of testimonial on a daily basis.

Lucky enough, I did got the same excellent service from them.

As far as the $15 fee, I got the info upfront from their sales, so that didn't bother me much.

I have benn VERY happy with them, specially the repsonsiveness of their support.
The control panel IS clear and easy to use. It had some bugs but if you submit a ticket, you usually get answers in the next 2-4 hours.
I had such TERRIBLE experiences but other providers before, I am quite happy with these.
Plus, I had the feeling to get more than I thought, because I realized I could also setup a Sharepoint without additional fee.

Before I was with SeekDotNet, and I had to wait 48 hours (+ angry emails) before getting any answers.

Their customer service is one of the worst in the industry. If they owe you money on commissions, good luck collecting.

Real bad problems are ignored and all the decision makers are always travelling abroad.

Everyone with problems should submit complaints to the California Attorney General's office.

I work with webhost4life and I dream to leave somewhat.
Worse I did not see service. Daily failures and falling and nobody pays to it attention.

Having problems at the moment! they advertise you can have multiple DNN installations but don't tell you you have to pay $15 per year per domain pointed at that installations

I've used these guys for about 5 years nows with about 6 different accounts. Can't say I have ever had any real problems. In fact, they dealt with requests for the install of specialist com objects on my basic account very well.

I think for what you pay, you get an awful lot. But if u are going to have a site that will get alot of bandwidth.... you NEED to get dedicated hosting.

Webhost4life ruined my business.
They took my site down without prior notice and got it up only after 23 hours.

In the meanwhile all my adwords campaign went into garbage and I lost huge sums of money.

Don't ever ever ever put your money at webhost4life. They are the most horrible people I'ev ever met.

Webhost4life is working great for me and so far so good. Havn't have any downtime, but I am on the Premium plan. I figure that's more suitable to my business then a $5 plan. I love their support service, they are always fast and knowledgeable. I would recommand webhost4life to anyone.

I have had nothing but issues with them. Their technical staff does not understand how to respond to direct questions.

I upgraded to their Advanced plan with a Dual P4 3.0GHz Xeon with 6GB RAM and they put me on an AMD 3200 with 1/2 GB RAM without telling me, yet charging me the same money.

My server has been down at least 6 hours today as well, and is not back up yet. Adwords? Yup, lost a lot of money there too!

Stay as far away from them as you can...utterly useless.

The support is asleep at the wheel. If you have any real problems they go into hiding. If you escalate an issue, they ignore you. My advice is to stay away. There has to be someone better out there.

You can't even host anything on a 1/2gig of ram and I don't see anywhere on webhost4life advertising 6gig of ram.

Yes I am a big fan of Webhost4life and I have many sites with them and I am very satisfy.
I just want to point out that it wouldn't make any sense for webhost4life to put up a 1/2 gig machine when they can put 4 to 6 gig and host much much more sites.

Webhost4life is there everytime I needed support. I would definately recommand them.

I've been reading all the ugly experiences you guys had with WH4L... Can someone please recommend a different hosting company for a Windows-based site? Thanks in advance.

I've been with WH4L for about three years and have been very impressed with their service. These bad comments are making me jittery though and I think I'll look for a backup site to be ready to switch to if there's a problem.

I have used 1&1 shared hosting (UK) and they are absolutely horrendous - do not use them under any circumstances.

I have read very good things about crystaltech.com but am yet to try them myself.

I have been on WH4L for about 2 years, and while the started out OK, they are now horrible.

If you need a database to back end your site DO NOT use these guys. I was running the content management system Joomla which back ended on to a MySQL DB and this would frequently time out due to simple queries taking in excess of 30 seconds to execute, and this was off a vanilla install. After spending over 2 weeks going back and forth between support, being shifted between different app-pools and still getting no where I had had enough..

They might be fine for a plain html site, but anything more complex than that, run away.

Other pet peeves.
+Hidden fees everywhere
+Support do not know what they are talking about, in particular if you are using a linux based service.

I was with a different host for 4 years and they suddenly went belly up on me. I had to scramble to find a new host fast and WH4L was recommended. I have used them for 10 months and have been very happy, until I went to renew today and found out about that $10 a year renewal fee adder. That really stinks to me. It is not the money so much as it is an unetical way to add money to the price. You will note they do not even mention it when showing you the $5.95 a month rate. Poor business pratice. But, I will stay with them as I doubt I can do any better elsewhere. What liffle tech support I have needed was fast, accurate, and courteous. I am a very basic user with nothing fancy on my web site.

Hey, been hearing alot of stuff about discountasp.net

any feedback. I find it strange that they don't have a 800 number to call for support...

By far the worst hosting company I used. Try calling and good luck talking to someone. Get away from them like it's fire!

WE are using WH4L for a year and we had nothing but problem. The downtime is too much and slow.

I cannot imagine service being worse than the one webhost4life provides: they don't monitor the websites - they don't know whether your website is up or down, as they have no software to monitor it; they don't know whether their server is up to the capacity or not - they have no way to monitor it. So you can imagine how "smoothly" you website runs on their server....

I've been with webhost4life for 3 years, there are small problems a few times but everything was fixed by their support quickly. I would definitely recommend them. They are easy to use and their staffs are very friendly.

I also have over 3 years experience with WH4L, and I must agree with Ashley. It does appear that their level of service has degraded over the past year or so. After some not-so-scientific testing, I believe that the problem lies on their database servers (which I guess can be expected when they offer 2 free SQL, mySQL & SQL express database to each customer). They recently (2/19/08) sent a message that they would no longer be supporting SQL Express after March 19th, so maybe service will improve in the near future. Here's the text of the message they sent:

"After extensive research and monitoring, it has been determined that the resource used by SQL express engine causes a dramatic performance decrease for the server. Futhermore, it creates security issues for the server. Unfortunately, we are forced to discontinue support for SQL Express database engine on
March 19, 2008. For all customers using SQL Express engine, please move your database to a SQL 2005 environment. The easiest way is to use "attach" function through the "control panel -> database -> mssql admin" section to attach your .mdf and .ldf file. If you need further assistance, please feel free to contact our help desk support staff. Thank you."

I'll be sticking around a little longer to see if things improve (fingers crossed), but if they do not, I guess I too will be in the market for a new hosting provider...

I am very disappointed with Web Host 4 Life. They used to be good and now they are not. There support is awful. They have no idea what I'm talking about and when I ask them a question they do not answer the question I ask. I have even e-mailed the ceo and did not get a response back. I am going to have to find a new host.

Anyway,Just don't touch their linux hosting plan.

I have had horrible experience with webhost4life. Actually no one at the staff that reads the support tickets actually understands what I say. After hosting for 3 years there, the service quality has deteriorated (very slow loading speed) and I waste lots of time re-submitting information on tickets that i had already thoroughly explained. Our company is moving all sites for clients out of webhost4life and I am actively telling all my tech contacts to stay away from that company. It is inefficient, low quality, and in the end we end up paying more with our time and nerves than we save by cheaper hosting. Cheap is expensive!

I have to say that when I first started with them (webhost4life) they were good, but they are really going downhill fast. Today my site is down for 5 hours (and counting) with a SQL problem. Their "live" help is useless and the ticket has not been responded to in 3 hours. Do NOT go with this company, I'm looking around for another hosting company.

Dudes, this service is so bad. They have morons for technical support. I can't count the number of times my site went down. It's a huge hassle change servers but they're driving me there. They don't seem to understand plain english. They put you on a server with the client from hell who must stream porno movies because the server keeps falling over. Bad move, find someone else.

I wish we would have read more reviews. After numerous sql, support, and downtime issues we moved to Server Intellect. We have never been happier and am so glad we left wh4l when we did. Just read the reviews!

We have hosted our site with webhost4life for several years, and just recently added a second one. Their support and fast response time are the best we have ever found. We highly recommend their services!

If you want to signup hosting account from webhost4life please don't forget to use my account as the referral ID so I can earn commission and you can also use your account as referral to recommand others to sign up account from webhost4life and earn commission.My account ID is microsoft
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What joke - a whole day of server issues... I haven't been able to receive or send e-mails and their phone support disconnects me after 20 minutes. Do not *repeat* DO NOT use this company. It's simply not worth the headache and downtime.

I've been with webhost4life several years, it gave me a great impression with its Live chat service, anytime when i drop into trouble, easily to fix and i always introduce webhost4life to my friends;
This is their hosting packages:
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And i know they're provided a special Linux package $2.99 per month, very valuable
This is the url:
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I think you'll like the guys if you give it a try. Thank you

My experience with webhost4life has been good. Speed and uptime has been good. Good for DNN installations. For a quick overview of hosting providers visit http://www.windowsunixwebsitehosting.com

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We have been using Webhost4Life for a while. Initially their service has been fine but as of late our website has slowed down substantially. I asked their customer representative they replied that their server has been pretty stressed lately.

Our website keeps on getting offline which translates to huge volume of confused visitors.
We are currently looking for alternatives. Does anyone have a suggestion?

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They were great until recently, now the way they sahre IIS is really awful, and I get all sorts of errors. Recently, you cant run applications in a folder, because it uses the Web.config file in the root.

the way they sahre the IIS for the cheap accounts is really messed up somehow.

I hosted with them for 5 years. Their supports are great. It open happened 1 down time in these 5 years. They are definitely great!!!!!

They where OK for a while, but now... HORRIBLE. they wasted days out of my life. Please avoid these guys. The support is non existent and they reward you by charging you a RENEWAL FEE!!!! in addition to the overpriced plane. Also be aware 100GB = 2GB. They limit every account to 2GB. Almost impossible to deal with FTP clients because newly created accounts time out after 80KB. This is a known bug in their control panel. They refuse to do anything about it.

I have done a fair amount of research on hosting providers since I run about a dozen sites for my family and numerous small businesses that I provide consulting services for. Currently the host that I use across the board is Webhost4Life.com and I have found them to provide the best value for the money with excellent technical support.

I use and recommend their intermediate plan which is only $10 per month and it includes full email hosting for up to 100 accounts, web-based email, advanced anti-spam services, and lots of control panel features for the admin to determine how the email will be used. You probably won't use their other services based on your question but they also include a ton of other features for free with this account including 2 GB of web hosting space, Microsoft SharePoint tool for creating dynamic professional websites, FTP, database support, etc.

For technical support they have several options which I have used frequently and they all work great. The primary method is an online help desk where you can read KB articles, post questions in a forum, and log tickets for the technical support staff. I have logged close to a hundred tickets over the past 2 years and their average response time is about 6 hours to first response with most tickets being fully resolved and closed within 24-48 hours. In cases where you need immediate support you can flag your ticket as Priority 1, or you can use a special "Live Sales Support" link on their home page which opens a live chat window with their tech support reps.

I am not sure if they provide live technical support via phone since I never needed to use anything other than their help desk system. They do count on you to understand the basic technical issues so they may not be the best choice for someone that only has an end user perspective with no knowledge of how to setup new email accounts and set the initial account options.

If you want more detail just let me know. If you do decide to signup with them then I would appreciate you using this referral link:

http://www.WebHost4Life.com/default.asp?refid=raymondlimw

Once you have an account with them they give you a small credit for each referral you make and since I recommend them often this eventually adds up. You can do the same once you are setup with their service.

Also, if spam has been an irritation for your users then I would highly recommend using the service below in conjunction with Webhost4life.com. I am pasting in the content of an email that I just sent to my family, friends, and business contacts about it. Hope this helps.

I'm a customer of WHFL for yuears. Basic plan. I read about all complains, when I started search about trustabillity in general. I never had serious problems with them. From time to time they loose my statistics (a very important tool for me), and as an excuse I had "you have a basic plan, you can't expect high plans' performance", which is unexpectable. Apart of that, they are mostly kind and helpful. Downtime is not too long, but in IT issues we can't have perfection. At least there is not such thing, anyway. In many cases they solved problems on time, but just for a few of them, I had to wait for a week (!).
I would recommend them highly, appart one very important thing: I don't even use email very often, and definitely I'm not a spammer. But from time to time, mail servers consider my mail as spam (mail server issue), which is something realy dangerous for business sites. Plus, I noticed today that Google doesn't rank them.
My opinion is yes, trust them, but have on mind that you should checked every aspect will come up, and of course to be ready for an alternative. (The last thing will make them better, for our mutual interestes.) So, once more, YES but with wide open eyes!

I really have a good experience with webhost4life.My personal blog site and a few others sites are being hosted with them now.

I hosted my sites in wh4l for 5 freakin' years. I dont recommend them, their CP contain bugs, my isp can access the sites but can't access my own CP it forced me to have 2 isps, what a waste..

and today.. yes today in this very second, I can't access all my sites "DNS error occurred. Server cannot be found. The link may be broken." I can't even access wh4l.com - Can anyone tell me what I should do, I'm not in US

Hi
Recommend Webhost4life

Check more reviews on
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I have done a fair amount of research on hosting providers since I run about a dozen sites for my family and numerous small businesses that I provide consulting services for. Currently the host that I use across the board is Webhost4Life.com and I have found them to provide the best value for the money with excellent technical support.

I use and recommend their intermediate plan which is only $10 per month and it includes full email hosting for up to 100 accounts, web-based email, advanced anti-spam services, and lots of control panel features for the admin to determine how the email will be used. You probably won't use their other services based on your question but they also include a ton of other features for free with this account including 2 GB of web hosting space, Microsoft SharePoint tool for creating dynamic professional websites, FTP, database support, etc.

For technical support they have several options which I have used frequently and they all work great. The primary method is an online help desk where you can read KB articles, post questions in a forum, and log tickets for the technical support staff. I have logged close to a hundred tickets over the past 2 years and their average response time is about 6 hours to first response with most tickets being fully resolved and closed within 24-48 hours. In cases where you need immediate support you can flag your ticket as Priority 1, or you can use a special "Live Sales Support" link on their home page which opens a live chat window with their tech support reps.

I am not sure if they provide live technical support via phone since I never needed to use anything other than their help desk system. They do count on you to understand the basic technical issues so they may not be the best choice for someone that only has an end user perspective with no knowledge of how to setup new email accounts and set the initial account options.

If you want more detail just let me know. If you do decide to signup with them then I would appreciate you using this referral link:

http://www.WebHost4Life.com/default.asp?refid=leekawai

Once you have an account with them they give you a small credit for each referral you make and since I recommend them often this eventually adds up. You can do the same once you are setup with their service.

Also, if spam has been an irritation for your users then I would highly recommend using the service below in conjunction with Webhost4life.com. I am pasting in the content of an email that I just sent to my family, friends, and business contacts about it. Hope this helps.