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Idiosyncratic

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Hi folks! Just thought I'd get some of your, well, thoughts on this.
So I have a friend whose website I'm building and he wants to host with hostking... I'm still singing the praises of Web Crew (mainly due to their great service) but he needs more space than what they're offering so he has suggested hostking. Now he wants my advice about a company I've never done business with :wtf: I personally think that they look fairly good... I'm quite impressed. Anyway, maybe the impression is false... I don't know, that is why I'm asking here :)
Please share any good or bad experiences.

Thanks in advance!
 
Strange, never heard of Web Crew? Strange they only offer up to 5gb packages. Social icons on their site seem to be broken. So many web hosts on the market :eek:
 
chopsky said:
Strange, never heard of Web Crew? Strange they only offer up to 5gb packages. Social icons on their site seem to be broken. So many web hosts on the market :eek:
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So true, it's difficult to know who to go with. Price isn't always the biggest factor. I've hosted with a lot of hosts, many cheap, many expensive, it's hard to know what you're gonna get when you press "buy now".
Web Crew, if I understand correctly, is a fairly new venture - naturally I've been skeptical, but I know one of the developers there so I decided to give them a shot - bit of a risk, but you never know till you know. Now I know, and I haven't looked back - no downtime, great service, and pretty good value for money (no, I'm not paid by them to say this, I feel a company that goes the extra mile deserves my support).
I see you host with Smartweb, a bit expensive for my taste... Are they any good?
But that's beside the point... Hostking? Anyone?
 
I send a lot of people to Hostking and have never had any complaints. I've never hosted with them personally though.
 
I host 10 Wordpress sites with them for the past year and don't have reason to complain

My only gripe is no direct contact
No Tel No. and the physical address they supply, is bogus - it is a China Town Shop in Goodwood, Cape Town
Chinese lady told me she directed plenty people to their website

All communication is via email, Chat on their Website or lodge a ticket
That said, they are fairly responsive on those and I normally get sorted within the hour
 
aktiv said:
I host 10 Wordpress sites with them for the past year and don't have reason to complain

My only gripe is no direct contact
No Tel No. and the physical address they supply, is bogus - it is a China Town Shop in Goodwood, Cape Town
Chinese lady told me she directed plenty people to their website

All communication is via email, Chat on their Website or lodge a ticket
That said, they are fairly responsive on those and I normally get sorted within the hour
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What sort of speeds are you getting?

Wow, that's weird... So the address on the invoices is the bogus address? I wonder how legal that is.
 
Sorry, your friend wants to host with HostKing, but wants you to provide information about them?

To answer your question, I haven't hosted with them, but haven't heard anyone complain about them either. If you were to ask me who I'd go for, it would be either EliteHost or Hetzner. They're both excellent companies, in my opinion.
 
_neo said:
Sorry, your friend wants to host with HostKing, but wants you to provide information about them?

To answer your question, I haven't hosted with them, but haven't heard anyone complain about them either. If you were to ask me who I'd go for, it would be either EliteHost or Hetzner. They're both excellent companies, in my opinion.
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That's a good way to put it, yes. :erm: That's why I'm asking for help.
Elitehost has excellent support, just not a lot of value as far as allocated resources per site go. Hetzner is great too, I still have some sites hosted with them, BUT I hate KonsoleH.
 
Idiosyncratic said:
That's a good way to put it, yes. :erm: That's why I'm asking for help.
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It's just really silly. If he wants HostKing, he should know all about them. Or should at least do some of his own research.
 
That's really strange, to not have a telephone or proper address for your business...

Do you know what versions of PHP and mysql is running on their servers?


aktiv said:
I host 10 Wordpress sites with them for the past year and don't have reason to complain

My only gripe is no direct contact
No Tel No. and the physical address they supply, is bogus - it is a China Town Shop in Goodwood, Cape Town
Chinese lady told me she directed plenty people to their website

All communication is via email, Chat on their Website or lodge a ticket
That said, they are fairly responsive on those and I normally get sorted within the hour
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srdcl said:
That's really strange, to not have a telephone or proper address for your business...

Do you know what versions of PHP and mysql is running on their servers?
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They've got all the details about their company on their About Us page these days: https://www.hostking.co.za/about-us

As for PHP and MySQL, you can ask them on their live chat and test out their support.

I said earlier in the thread that I've sent lots of people to them and that nobody complained, well now I can add that I've had quite a lot of positive feedback. So I can definitely recommend them.
 
Just seen this post.
I moved my online business to Hostking a few months ago.
I then needed to upgrade to https.
The assisted beautifully!
I have no hesitation in recommending them to anyone.
Never had downtime and they are always there to help.
And so pleasant too!
A pure pleasure to subscribe with them!

CHECK THIS OUT......https://my.hostking.co.za/aff.php?aff=119
 
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How are y'all feeling abount Hostking lately? Considering getting Windows hosting there as Domains.co.za does not support it anymore
 
Pakka said:
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How are y'all feeling abount Hostking lately? Considering getting Windows hosting there as Domains.co.za does not support it anymore
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Dunno whether their DNS stuff was sorted out as I eventually moved everything that was hosted elsewhere to Web Crew and my clients have followed suit.

@philaniH were you hosting on windows or linux? I host exclusively on linux so I don't know what their Windows packages are like. All I can say is that their support is good, it's just that some of the guys "on the ground" aren't really sure about things and have to keep referring stuff to their seniors. But then that happens at other companies (Web Crew included) also.
 
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Hey guys. I was going to go with HostKing but I'm not going to trust a company with bogus contact details with hosting my website. I'm going to go with WebCrew. Is there any difference in the CPU/RAM available between the plans? They do have a cPanel with 1 click installs for popular CMSes, right?

Thanks
 
Charly said:
Hey guys. I was going to go with HostKing but I'm not going to trust a company with bogus contact details with hosting my website. I'm going to go with WebCrew. Is there any difference in the CPU/RAM available between the plans? They do have a cPanel with 1 click installs for popular CMSes, right?

Thanks
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Yep, they utilize cpanel with softaculous for 1 click installs. And no, I haven't noticed a difference in CPU/RAM available between their different packages.
 
Charly said:
Hey guys. I was going to go with HostKing but I'm not going to trust a company with bogus contact details with hosting my website. I'm going to go with WebCrew. Is there any difference in the CPU/RAM available between the plans? They do have a cPanel with 1 click installs for popular CMSes, right?

Thanks
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Out of interest, how are Web Crew's contact details less bogus than HostKing's?
 
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