If you have the time to go on the website and post the relevant information, surely you have thoroughly read the features list. :

So, in the end, there wasn't any false advertising.

There was absolutely no false advertising. And setting up a website shouldnt be a rush because you will stuff it up. If you need a rush you wont also get the best quality hosting.

the site he's talking about is one of the better free site but if they don't even let you use the sendmail feature, i wouldn't touch 'm. it may not be false advertising(i haven't gone to see the hosting page) but i do know some ads are very misleading and when you combine the free stuff with the stuff you have to pay for, that is INTENTIONALLY misleading for a reason because there shouldn't be a problem with just listing what you do get with you free hosting all by itself, listed out in plain english and no astricks. so this guy did have a valid point. he just misused his wording a little bit because he was disappointed. this website wasted his time. if it can happen to him, it can happen to others so this company should change the way they display what you are actually getting. that would be fair to all.

This hosting IS the best free hosting that isnt cpanel I have EVER come acrross.. no posting.. no nothing... been open 4 years, fast, always online... nffn rong with them.

EVERYBODY uses "*blah" so just because 1 person got mislead by these doesnt mean that the company should get bad review. NOBODY does it in plain english. Some even say its free then charge u

English is not my native language, for one. So, when some website advertises something in a really, how do u say, "obscure" language, it IS misleading. Now, when some other website says (trap17 for example) "if you post this much in our forum, we'll give you all these features" and they do, that's quite clear enough for me. Now that I've hosted here, I've got all the features I want without having to pay a dime. That's the type of advertising that really holds credit, the type that doesn't give you something for free and charges you to make that something work. For example, I'm hosting a PHP forum. Yes, 110mb does give you free PHP but charges you for the database, without which you can't run the website. hope you got my point.

polter explained it in plain english and if he's not a native speaker then could have fooled me. i AM a native speaker and i can say that anyone could have been mislead. and this SHOULD get a partial bad review because of it. also, from my own experience with companies and my own extensive research through a variety of companies, if they have to hide paid services within their free services intentionally, then i wont trust them and i wont pay for their paid service PERIOD because they are trying to hide something.

yes, this particular web host is one of the better ones but is not on my top 10. not because of the misleading adverts, but for other reasons that were already mentioned. they offer less free services than other companies. trap is good for the hosting alone(forget about the community environment) because they offer more free services than even the paid hosting accounts at other places. also, their paid service is cheap and affordable and still the quality i would look for. they are relatively new and need improvements, but quick to respond to any help needed and the staff is VERY VERY friendly. i look highly upon good customer relations and computinghost has it. trap has it....and i'm sure all the other co's affiliated with xisto has it. trap is honest and up front and these are some of the reasons why you are here, polter is here and i am here.

in my strong opinion, i wouldn't recomend ANY site that would hide paid services and waste my time. my time is valuable and the paid services should be seperated so i know EXACTLY what's i'm getting. any good and reputable co. would do that and be smart enough to know this. why i believe this inparticular hosting co. has something to hide wether you go with the free service or the paid.

Same thing happened to me, I signed up without really paying attention :/
Next thing you know, UPGRADE FREE PLAN!
These websites can be a little misleading and I hope its a waste of their space and stuff. haha..

That's exactly the point I was trying to stress. Good hosting sites would list free and paid plans separately, without "hiding" paid features in the so-called free plan. If they offer free PHP that's great but if they want you to pay for the database, they should mention that too. That way we won't need to sign up, only to find out that you have to pay for the most essential features when you logged in to your Cpanel.



I hope so too. Staff response is so quick. The other day I had problems creating emails and I posted it in the forum. I wake up this morning to find everything fixed. Long live trap17!

This post has been edited by polter: Dec 22 2007, 05:57 AM