Bad Web Hosts

I've got a question that I'd like to ask:
What's the WORST web host you've ever used?
Please give the URL (If you can), and explain why.
Honestly, I'm not sure of the worst...I did use AngelFire for file storage, then they disabled direct linking, so that is one of the worsts for me... It's more of a tie with me. Between AngelFire and GeoCities. I don't like GeoCities (which I've said this before) because it offers so little bandwith, and other reasons.

The worst I'VE used is freewebs.com.

It sucks, plain and simple, the edit pages part sucks, and no php or anything like that.

I still have one but its only to upload sigs and other pics so I don't have to use space on my sub.

The WORST host.......lycos.

This post has been edited by Triple X: Oct 15 2004, 05:41 AM

I have a freewebs site...it's not as bad as you make it sound..sure it has nothing to offer like this wonderful site, but its a free site hostinger thing nonetheless.

Me too. Its really bad though because i havn't edited it or even been on it in over a few years. But please feel free to check it out. My El Sito

Well it is not quite right to condemn any webhost only
because one personally has bad experiences with the host.
Whats even worse is if one relies purely on someone else's
claimed negative experiences, for lack of knowing whether
they were really true. The simple point is that every webhost
has and will experience troubles now and again. Even many
paid hosts face problems sometimes more often than some
free hosts. Therefore, there is no perfect host.

Having said all that, the worst one that I have personally
come across is one free host called Advantage Host which offers
the world in its package (like 500mb / 20G bandwidth) but
which makes you subscibe to a lot of Ad sites to get your
hosting account. Needless to say you will be bombarded with
all kinds of offers in your mailbox. But what sickens me is
that they actually never give you your hosting account after
you have jumped through all the hoops - a real SCAM !

That is why I am here at Trap17 and really looking forward
to a real dependable free webhost.

Really guys, check out my awsomely bad site. You'll be bored within a few seconds of pleasure.

Oh yea Geocities, Angelfire and others like them, really suck because they give so little free stuff and still put ads all over your site. Its bad enuf that you can't have enough space/bandwitdh for your stuff, and they have to put ads all over so that visitors won't come back? Ohhh maann.. Maybe they do that so that visitors won't come back and then they can save some bandwitdh That's just a thought...

The ONLY good thing about GeoCities, is that the ad on the page can be closed. (At least it could the last time I checked). It still has pop-ups on it, though...which I hate. Oh, and that was a pretty good thought...even though it's probably not why they'd want to do it. I'd say it's because they don't want to spend money on free accounts.

i have applied for several acounts at aboho.com and websume.com which offer u free host web,but they are not very good in feature i think.lucky i find the trap17 heard from my friend,owing to the good site, i set up my website and forum,by the way i could practise my english and improve my knowledge in all kinds of fields...

It is really stupid to say "Oh Host X only offers 10 MB so they suck" or other similar remarks.

The specs alone cannot make a host suck. In this example, 10 MB may be just fine for some people. Not everyone needs a website that is over-burdened with fancy-dancy things *cough cough*.

If the webhost only offers 10 MB and 1 GB of bandwidth, it doesn't suck. It just simply doesn't meet the demands of most the members HERE.

Now, what WOULD make a webhost suck is if they claimed to offer the 10 MB but only gave 2. A host that is honest and delivers exactly what they say they will doesn't suck. I would rather do business with the 10 MB host than one that claims to offer 10 GB but doesn't. Do you see what I mean? It's hard to explain.