Comments | | Excellent service for the price
It was the
reviews on this web site that led me to sign up with
Webzpro, so it's only fitting that I write my own
review for others to read.
First and foremost,
it works. For $5 and change a month, I'm getting
Web hosting that's always up, fast response time,
files don't get lost, and file backups don't
get lost -- which, based on the reviews here, is more
than I can say for some of the other companies. Every
so often, they'll send me an e-mail about the
server being down for five minutes or something, but I
never would have noticed if they hadn't told
me.
The two companies I was considering were
Host Gator can Webzpro. Both had rave reviews here, and
at Yahoo Answers, and both seemed to offer comparable
features and prices. I started to sign up with Host
Gator, just because there were more people talking
about them, but when it came time to pay, their price
turned out to be NOT comparable. The price they were
advertising ($7 and change?) turned out to be only for
a contract (one year?). I never sign a contract,
because I NEVER assume an Internet company will be
around tomorrow. For month-to-month, Host Gator was $9
a month -- which is $108 a year. I canceled and went to
Webzpro.
For the domain name, I went with
NameCheap, and have had no complaints.
With
Webzpro I use "Latest Visitors" and Awstats
from cPanel to check my traffic (probably too often).
I've used their Web mail while on vacation. My
pages are PHP, with includes and scripts. All work
fine, with no glitches.
I've e-mailed tech
support 3 times, and they've always responded
quickly. Once, I wanted to install Latex, and was a
little miffed when they said they don't allow shell
access (Telnet). But on the other hand, I can see how
that could multiply the headaches for tech support --
fixing customer web sites after some program messed it
up. And for what I'm paying, they wouldn't be
able to afford it. I'd also like to see a forum on
their site, but there again, somebody would have to
monitor it.
Overall, I have no reason to think
of changing companies any time soon. In fact, I was
considering starting a second web site, and keeping
them both on Webzpro. I would wholeheartedly recommend
them to anybody.
P.S. If you're building
your first site: I tried several WYSIWYG HTML editors
to save time. I wasted more time fixing the HTML than I
saved. Do yourself a favor: read through the HTML
section at W3schools, and just write the HTML by hand
using Notepad Plus.
Maybe someday I'll be
willing to fork over hundreds of dollars for
Dreamweaver, but not today. And when I do, I'll
understand the code it creates | | John , Mon Apr 05, 2010 |
| | WebzPro Rocks
Our site has been up for approx
6 months now. After I signed up and registered my site
and domain, there was immediately a billing issue for
the domain name. As this was the first time I had ever
approached a web hosting site, and had not gone with a
recommended site from a computer knowledgeable friend,
my first thought was..'ohhh no, I just committed
and it's already messed up'.
I
followed Webzpro's procedure with a ticket and left
my computer, thinking it would be at least the next day
til I heard a response because it was late in the
evening. After 30 min or so, I wandered back to the
computer and almost fell off my chair. The owner of the
company had responded to my ticket within approx 5
minutes of my submitting it. It was a billing error on
their part, which he acknowledged and fixed
immediately. I was extremely impressed with not only
the speed of the response and the owner replying but
also, he accepted responsibility and corrected it on
the spot.
There has been no server downtime,
no problem with uploads, no other issues in any way.
I'm extremely happy with Webzpro and will continue
to have them host our site. I will also be adding
another domain in the future. I would recommend this
hosting site to anyone, without reservation. | | V. Watson, Sun Apr 04, 2010 |
 | | I've read a lot of good things about WebZpro and
this was the thing which made me chose them to host
some of my sites.
I had the sites hosted on their
server for ~ 3 months when my problems started. My
website got hacked, due to a server problem. I got
proofs for that (other sites hosted on same server as
my, where hacked in the same way as mine). The support
team wasn't able to help. They refused to refund me
and they chosen to ignore me. My advice is to stay away
from this company. | | David Gabriel, Sat Mar 27, 2010 |
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