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Vodahost General Information |
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Vodahost is providing Linux web hosting services, has been founded in 2001 and now it's seven years in business.
vodahost.com average uptime is 99.998% (rank #175 on our directory) with total 80560 successful and 2 failed checks,
monitored since 2006-03-18. Similar companies with 99.998% uptime are and zonerhosting.com.
Search for "vodahost.com" on 3 biggest search engines returns average of 16366 results so company name popularity rank is #234.
There have been 27 positive votes for Vodahost and 7 negative.
And overall company rank on our directory is #597 (similar companies are sitehost4u.com and nevidia.com)
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Web Hosting Packages |
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Hosting Plan 1 (Type: Linux) - 600 GB space, 6000 GB bandwidth for $7.95/mo
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Some technical data about vodahost.com |
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IP Location: Texas - Dallas - Theplanet.com Internet Services Inc
Blacklist Status: Clear
Nameserver: DNS1.VODAHOST.COM DNS2.VODAHOST.COM
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Website Title: Web Hosting and Domain Names from VodaHost
Description: VodaHost is one of the most trusted and reputable web hosting providers on the internet. VodaHost web hosting is offering 12000 Mb disk space & 300 Gb Bandwidth. Also included is a free domain name and unlimited email accounts. CGI, PHP, MySQL with
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Web Hosting Reviews and Ratings |
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| dOUG aDOLPH, 04th 2008f March, 2008 |
subscribed and paid for bluevoda and wish I hadn't. Here is what Mr: Costello does:
--Steals domains--I paid for two domains, one called 'Spirit of the Big.com'- he sold it to an airline company. I didn't know that he registers HIS CUSTOMERS domain in his name and will not transfer it back. He will not unlock and authorize my other domain called 'Outdoor Watchdog.com'
-He responds to all reference to his behaviour by posting lies and signing phony names. He uses his own numerous domains to fill up the reviews with his own lies.
--Everything he says positive about bluevoda is non-sense. He and his company are scammers. He gives no service, is devious in his dealings and his vodahost (bluevoda) simply does not work.
I invite anyone who has been burned by him to contact me at 'dkwatchdog@gmail.com' to discuss what action we can take. It's time the guy was jailed--
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| Shannon, 09th 2008f January, 2008 |
| I agree!!!!!! This was the worst experience I've ever had with ANY company. They send back immature and rude emails and have NO live support anywhere within the company. I can't even begin to tell my story. It is way too long and I hope someone has the time and patience to sue this company for every penny. They don't deserve to be up and running. Taking innocent people for their money. If you go online and call the support # they give you, IT'S A JOKE and I've called 30 times and each time, they tell me that the operators are busy and to send an email.....anyway, I'm exhausted thinking about it but wanted to join the bashing team. I'm actually going to find every blog site I can to destroy their name!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| pandora, 03rd 2008f January, 2008 |
have just submitted 3 "tickets" to get info from them prior to signing up. IN 2 WEEKS HAVE HAD NO RESPONSE.
i try and call their phone number and get message saying "all operators are busy with other customers - PLEASE EMAIL US"!! no o[pportunity to wait!!! i think this is a scam. their affiliate program even offers $70 per |NeW SIGN UP - very attractiv e- and i signed up for that program BUT i am now scared that they have just taken my bank details .... am trying to obliterate all traces of ME on their website ... I HAVE emailed several times too - and had NO REP:LY at all. VERY DISAPPOINTED |
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| Unhappy, 08th 2007f December, 2007 |
I got vodahost back when their servers were fresh, support was a little less feisty, and the TOS did not require you to pay a yearly subscription even if you did not ask them to.
Since then alot has changed, Customer Service has gone down the drain, linking me to sites with profanities such as "a-hole" and "bitch" and "fucking," which are all aimed at the reader. These sites also contain very concerning phrases such as "break your legs" and "piece of shit." I am sorry to have to share such words with you.
Their support also takes several days to reply to questions in their independantly run (meaning that no externalities are involved) support database. It is very well to run your own database for support, providing you do not abuse it. Please reply to customers questions! And if you do so, do so APPROPRIATELY.
Their "TOS" or Terms of Service are very vague, offer the breaking of the contract with 7-days notice (or that was how short it was when I last looked,) and the inability to break the contract yourself without requesting "permission" to do so.
Their features are offered, yay fantastico, yay mysql, yay PHPBB, and yay CPanel. Why won't these run at suitable speeds? Oh the processor is red-lining 24/7 - that explains my customers distress. Sure they have good software, but the hardware is over used - Vodahost over-host. I also have not yet received my 300gb data transfer rate or my ever changing storage limit, which was said to be 200GB when I arrived, and has gradually fluctuated down to 50GB, while my account has never allowed consumption of more than 15GB despite several requests at the Help Desk.
If one posts a slightly concerning post in their forum, eg. the fact that their server CPU status is critical and PHP won't run, the person involved in the posting gets a minimum of a 20-year ban, plus a free phone call, thats right, one that they would not give you prior to now, even on request. The phone call may contain some fowl language, be sure to listen to it without children in the house.
I have been charged for a further years hosting much to my disgression, Please, PLEASE if you do want to use them, sign up for a month, then if you don't notice any problems sign up for a year, but when signing up, PAY BY CASH! They WILL use your credit card details if your request is not "within a suitable time" of your next billing period. For me this was 23 days, which I would concider enough days warning for any annual cancellation.
So of you go to them, watch out. Stay agile, and Read the TOS for any changes, keep a hard copy of it from when you sign up, and DON'T LOSE IT.
If you leave with anything from this review, leave with my information. You are free to sign up to vodahost and try them out, but their 100% guarantee comes with not refund, and their 30 day trial "was never available" even though it said all over their website for several months after my sign up. BE CAREFUL |
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| Dr Web, 14th 2007f August, 2007 |
| They have suspended my account without notice claimiming a script that I purchased from Interlogy ( A HIGHLY RATED PROFILE SCRIPT ) was spiking my CPU usage. Their support sucks they don't let you know what is going on until it suits them. Be aware be very aware. |
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| Paul Kraly, 28th 2007f June, 2007 |
You people should probably know about this, because I'm personally very vexed.
My girlfriend in Singapore signed up with a web-hosting company called Clever, local to her area. Seems once she signed up for web-hosting, wouldn't you know it, BlueVoda Website Builder is offered to download off the Clever Web hosting website to use for website creations.
Unfortunately, as we ALL know, you again have to sign up to BlueVoda's Website Hosting services, to publish any pages created.
So, ahem, what kind of stunt is this, BlueVoda, and is this going on someplace else? Why does my girlfriend have to pay twice?
This deserves an explanation immediately. How many other web hosting services have you got running this racket?
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Amazingly enough, when I posted this to their forums, my IP was immediately banned.
Yeah, that's why they stay so "good". Delete all the bad. How right-wing of them. |
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| Fed Up, 25th 2007f June, 2007 |
Do NOT go with Vodahost! The website builder that they claim helps you build sites is nothing more than a pile of free opensource ware that they took from somewhere else, grouped together, and called 'bluevoda/soholaunch'. I had more bugs and ridiculous problems than I could believe! Even text wouldn't align properly - and the people on the forums act like they know what they are doing, but they don't!
I also had joined, because there was an option NOT to auto-renew billing after one year, because I ALWAYS want to try out a plan first, before allowing any autorenew.
So according to their TOS, I checked that option NOT to autorenew, when I signed up. However, OH BEWARE because sure enough, one year later, they charged my credit card anyway! The major danger is that they make you communicate to them through use of 'support tickets' - using a form on their website (that THEY control!) - so although I had submitted a 'support ticket' to cancel my service, it was never canceled because they chose not to answer it.
They will scam you every chance they get - have no scruples, please anyone reading these saccharin posts about how great it is, DON'T FALL FOR IT!!! :( |
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| Anonimous, 15th 2006f October, 2006 |
Avoid this web host its just a scam. The prices and the amount of disk space and bandwidth they offer are too good to be true and if you have a complaint they ban you from the forums and point you to their TOS! The forums are a joke and every forum post regarding negativity gets deleted and they ban you from using the forums. In my opinion these people hide behind their TOS when really they are a bunch of crooks that take your money, and they don't give refunds.
And their "super duper" Bluevoda is a load of crap anyway (and they claim that is was bought to them from heaven!), you're better off doing hand coding. |
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| Scott Lundergan, 21st 2006f September, 2006 |
| I searched for 3 days online to find something that has everything I need. I didn\'t want to sit and use frontpage or dreamweaver because I would still have to integrate it with hosting, ftp, email POP, etc etc. I was looking for an all-in-one-solution and I didn\'t want to use the templates that OTHER hosting companies use because they weren\'t SEO friendly and adding links and navigation weren\'t up to today\'s web standards of simplicity and professionalism. When I found bluevoda, I knew you guys knew what you are doing because of your site layout. Everything I need is included with bluevoda and vodahost. I had an eight page site up within 24 hours with forms, scripts, opt-ins, my own templates to copy from page to page with easy navigation links for the end user. Educating prospects and ease of navigation without the clutter is very important to me and with bluevoda, it was effortless to create it. |
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| Robyn, 18th 2006f August, 2006 |
| I am finding it hard to believe, that there are some unpleasant reviews about VodaHost. What they offer is true, they have a wonderful, easy web building program, they have lots of extra bells & whistles to help make your website nice and professional. They do offer help, to build a site it is just cut and paste. I tired frontpage, now that was confusing. With VodaHost, I had my first page up in a day, and that was because I was deciding on colors, writing, clipart etc. Some things were a little more involved where I had to do some reading to get things working properlly, and when I needed help I received it. Those people that say the opposite probably have nothing good to say about anything or anybody. I would not listen to the slander or foul language, they have nothing better to do with their time. I recommend VodaHost. The best program there is for the money and it is very easy. |
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| Fiona, 31st 2006f July, 2006 |
I found the sales speel did not match reality - "easy to use" and "no programming knowledge needed" is simply not true. When I pointed this out to them, they took pains to point out to me that their Terms of Service contradicted their sales speel. This was the fastest reply I'd had from Customer Service, by the way.
The support documentation is contradictory and ambiguous. Once can only try the software once signed up - which is when one finds the flaws. Many support docs are incorrect, and I spent days trying to configure the basics. I did not find it easy to use at all. Frustrating, was my experience. Customer support was slow. You only find this out once you've paid.
In my opinion, avoid. |
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| Miriam Grech, 08th 2006f May, 2006 |
Stay away - that is my advice. It is just a scam. I was tempted to join because I wanted to use a simple website builder, (for I had no idea how to design a website) and they offered one - but you can only use it if you have an account with them, so I got one. It seems that this vodahost is run by one guy who calls himself many different names so that he appears like a big company. The phone number they have is just an answering machine that directs you back to the website. It is impossible to actually speak to anyone. After a while he started suspending my site for no apparent reason, and came up with all sorts of crap explanations. He said I was spamming and sent me emails that were supposedly attached to my site, then he sent me a file that he said was attached to my site - a file to chase credit card details of others. He accused me and threatened me. I asked him for a phone number to be able to talk to someone to sort this out becuase I hadn't done it, but instead asked me to fax a copy of my passport, and started abusing me. So most likely this guy is using people's websites for internet fraud, and then putting the blame on his clients. This is one of the emails he sent me - just to see his professionalism -
"cut the fucking crap, your a criminal, we caught you and your shitting yourself, what you did can get you 10 years in a very nice victorian prison cell. Do you think you are being clever or something??? You are a fraudster, we traced it all back to your IP address. So send me your ID so I may forward it to the authorties and let them sort you out".
I have since reported vodahost to the authorities, and I don't think he will be around much longer
And as an additional note: It is quite possible that the good reviews are posted by the owner himself
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