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Comment on Top Free Web Hosting No Ads – Updated For 2022 by justme

justme — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:16:58 +0000

Why such terrible (weird/dumb/dorky) site names? Just because it’s free, do the names have to be so clunky and goofy? And so long! Too tiring to type long urls! 🙁

Comment on EIG Owned Web Hosting Companies – 70+ Hosting Brands by David G

David G — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 18:33:26 +0000

For what it’s worth, I have been an email administrator for a local government in the USA (about 5,000 mailboxes), and the only real problem I have with non-delivery comes from EIG customers. Someone signs up with an EIG subsidiary, tries to send us email, and then we don’t get their email because our anti-spam solution sees the email as coming from known spammers. It isn’t the new customer that’s the known spammer; it’s just that their email is coming from an email server that is shared amongst EIG customers and that email server is blacklisted because EIG (apparently) has no problem selling their services to spammers.

Comment on Top Free Web Hosting No Ads – Updated For 2022 by Gin

Gin — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 20:02:51 +0000

I’ve been with Freewebhosting dot net for near 14 years and never had problems. I eventually switched to their paid services and still don’t have any problems. I’ve learned my non-techy skills with their sub-domain over the years but most important to me was the ‘NO ADS’ offer they gave. Their prices are reasonable and they do have down times but usually at wee hours of the morning (for N America) and not for long.

Comment on Do I Need Domain Privacy Protection by Cari

Cari — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:17:15 +0000

My renewal on GoDaddy is about to happen and the protection is $59.98 for 2 years. I would be happy if it was under $10 a year, but I’m looking at $30.

Comment on Traditional Marketing Methods That Still Work Just As Well Today by Rachel Frampton

Rachel Frampton — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 02:10:11 +0000

If I were to run a business, I would make sure to invest in a billboard marketing service so my company will obtain more exposure. Thank you for sharing the importance of finding the right target market. I also agree with you that it will be wiser to invest in a newspaper.

Comment on Is Sitelock Worth It? – A Closer Look! by Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:00:12 +0000

We were using SiteLock Essentials – came as part of the Hostgator package for $70 odd a year.
Then suddenly recently it would not load in Hostgator Dashboard. I got in touch with HG support, end they told me it was no longer “compatible” and actually refunded us the yearly fee which we had just been charged.

HostGator still provide it as an option – which you’d think they wouldn’t if it wasn’t compatible!

We are using Jetpack in WordPress – so hopefully that will be sufficient for now, but I wonder…

Comment on Do I Need Domain Privacy Protection by Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 01:37:33 +0000

Here a part of one discussion I found regarding:
“The reason for this is because according to ICANN, whoever is listed as the Whois registrant becomes the rightful owner. When Whois Privacy is enabled, your registrar uses their own business information as Whois info.”

Comment on Is Sitelock Worth It? – A Closer Look! by Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 03:43:29 +0000

I know someone who worked at SiteLock briefly. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the “technicians” as they call themselves are paid a commission when a customer is referred back to the hosting company and signs up for whatever service they’re offered. From the description I heard about how this place operates, it sounds like a typical tech support scam, i.e., pay for services you don’t need and receive support that does nothing. It’s definitely an interesting “partnership” that SiteLock and EIG have.

The insider I knew summed up SiteLock very well. It’s like one of those add-ons you see when installing a program on your computer that is selected by default and is usually just some adware trash. SiteLock is the website equivalent of this.

Comment on Is Sitelock Worth It? – A Closer Look! by Seth

Seth — Thu, 06 May 2021 21:32:09 +0000

These other experiences are sounding similar to my own. They hooked me when I was with Powweb. My low traffic site that only friends and family know exists was somehow mysteriously the target of a malware attack. I identified the infected files, removed them, and they were back the next day like whack-a-mole. As long as these infected files appeared on my site, it was blacklisted and inaccessible, and to get it up and running again I had to pay for Sitelock to “fix” it and then monitor it for $9.99/mo indefinitely To this day, I’m not convinced they didn’t plant the malware there to force me to use their product. I switched my hosting services over to Bluehost only to find out they were also owned by EIG and pushing Sitelock, but at least they only charged my $3.99/mo so I did save some money making the switch. Total scam though. I’m sure of it.

Comment on Is Sitelock Worth It? – A Closer Look! by Goya

Goya — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:48:15 +0000

Thank you very much for your great article about SiteLock!
Honestly, I got scammed by them through HostGator hosting plan even though I had NOT signed up with them, somehow they pretended as if SiteLock is included to my hosting plan (I thought it was at first due to the way hostgator shows you on your hosting plan).

Here’s what happened to me.
About 8,9 months after hosting at HostGator, I got an email from SiteLock saying “Your website got malware but do not worry! we scanned and removed it for you”. (strange…. did I sign up for their service? oh maybe hostgator is cool that they included it to my plan. thanks!)

Then I went to cPanel file manager to check all files are fine.
I found a strange file called “Kill” something, so I deleted it from my site. then Bam!! that kicks in!
Now my site is “really” hacked and got another email from SiteLock saying you got malware and need to remove from your site blah blah blah for $249 or $399 or something for repair.
then I went to talk with HostGator customer service asking “What is this junk?”
HostGator said “Ok, we will investigate blah blah..” I asked “Can I get the website backup?”
Long story short, they did give me the clean back up files before “the hack” (or setup), but they also claimed a lot of money like SiteLock did to repair my site completely, I did not go for it since I smelled some setup is going on.
After some time without any action by HG that I got an email from “a senior manager” from HG saying “. Sorry for taking a long time to respond, for that reason, we cleaned and fixed your site and you do not need to pay for it”
then in the same email, “but instead Give us feedback how the manager is doing great job”

I found other hosting company and canceled altogether which does unethical practice for money.
So I suggest to even not use HG and Bluehost which I hear, does the similar stuff.
Stay away.