Any webhosting trends which are annoying you?

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JamesCWilson

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As we all are well aware, various trends have come and gone over the years with webhosting, some of which were for the better, and others not so much.

What web hosting trends have been annoying you lately, and if so why?

I personally am just annoyed by all the poorly put together upstarts who try to present themselves as a big deal.
 
JamesCWilson said:
I personally am just annoyed by all the poorly put together upstarts who try to present themselves as a big deal.
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I'll second that. Overselling is a big annoyance for me, the numbers seem to just keep rising, but lets not turn this into another overselling discussion!

Another one for me would be all these Top 10 affiliate sites & fake reviews
 
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I personally am just annoyed by all the poorly put together upstarts who try to present themselves as a big deal.
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It's, for better or for worse, the best way, if one wants to grow fast. Perception is everything. Looking important, stable, well funded, is a way to instill trust. It's smart marketing, and as long as the service quality is there, I'm not entirely against it.

It's when the image is just a shell that covers a very muddy interior, that things are truly bad, and hurt the industry as a whole.
 
I would have to say that I hate it when people steal content, as in on "About Us" page. Usually it is done by immature kids who venture in web hosting who have no ability to actually present themselves in their own intelligent way. So they think by stealing other companies' presentation, somehow people would order from them. It is funny and pathetic. I ran a thread about these companies a while back exposing each of them. It was rather entertaining to point these suckers out: :D

http://www.hostingdiscussion.com/we...g-companies-sound-like-10-year-old-firms.html
 
I can say I'm mostly annoyed by the time-limited offers, and by all sorts of guarantees.
 
1. Unlimited/Unmetered Hosting - I don't think anything more need be said. We've now reached the point where many of the major hosts can no longer offer any more space and bandwidth wise.

2. The continued influx of terrible businessmen(businesskids and businesswomen) that "start" a hosting business and charge $2.95/month plans to compete with the big boys soley on price. They last for a month or three and then collapse leaving us to clean up the mess as an industry.

3. The continued lack of customer education on the subject.
 
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We've now reached the point where many of the major hosts can no longer offer any more space and bandwidth wise.
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We've gone through GB and TB, its true, but there is still room for growth: petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte and yottabyte offers are yet to come - in fact I bet you $1 that its going to happen this year. :D

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3. The continued lack of customer education on the subject.
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:thumbup: That is probably the most important of all. I am quite surprised a lot of people don't do even remotely as good research about web hosting (subject way more complicated) than telecommunication. The experience is not that far off from getting a cell phone.
 
We've gone through GB and TB, its true, but there is still room for growth: petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte and yottabyte offers are yet to come - in fact I bet you $1 that its going to happen this year.
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Unfortunately too true, but at the same time even a petabyte isn't comparable to unlimited. I think you'll see more of a trend towards SAS and companies offloading various services such as DreamHost going Gmail. I think it will be a period of introducing more goodies - ie: the useless $25 adwords credit and so on - and attempts to cut costs to compete solely on price, which will ultimately turn into a disaster.

On a further note of sarcasm, won't it be amazing that our little industry invents the petabyte drive before the hardware industry!?

That is probably the most important of all. I am quite surprised a lot of people don't do even remotely as good research about web hosting (subject way more complicated) than telecommunication. The experience is not that far off from getting a cell phone
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Agreed, sir! Given the increasingly refined and up-to-date searches one would think it would not be that difficult to do even a little research. However, I think someone needs to work on a real educational website about the nature of the hosting industry and folks need to work together to collaborate so that it rivals some of these "review sites" listed so high in Google and the other two of the big three.
 
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I think someone needs to work on a real educational website about the nature of the hosting industry and folks need to work together to collaborate so that it rivals some of these "review sites" listed so high in Google and the other two of the big three.
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The site itself is the easy part. The complex part is having these "rivals" support it and link to it, having the industry as a whole come together and point at this educational resource like many do with the BBB. I am personally clueless as to who will be in charge of that, and the benefit(s) these "rivals" will retain by promoting such resource, when good chunk of them involve in price/offer wars themselves.

So in a way there is a very thin line between what someone like iPowerWeb might say and what they offer. Personally I don't see a difference between a "600 GB space and 6,000 GB monthly traffic for $4.95/mo" and "unlimited hosting" offers.
 
Personally I don't see a difference between a "600 GB space and 6,000 GB monthly traffic for $4.95/mo" and "unlimited hosting" offers.
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The difference is indeed negligible, and the hosts' attitude towards usage is similar. Among the big, budget hosts, the disk and data transfer usage have been of relatively little consequence. What they care for is to put their average X00 accounts per server that keeps them out of the red.

Which least to another annoyance. Small new hosts trying to play the same game, while renting 2TB data transfer servers.
 
I think that both are oversold and web mastr decuide which overselling is more comfortable for him. ;)
Anyway that is not really good tendency for web hosting market.
 
The site itself is the easy part. The complex part is having these "rivals" support it and link to it, having the industry as a whole come together and point at this educational resource like many do with the BBB. I am personally clueless as to who will be in charge of that, and the benefit(s) these "rivals" will retain by promoting such resource, when good chunk of them involve in price/offer wars themselves.
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Agreed. That's why I've never really acted on my aforementioned impulse because if you really start looking at it, no one is going to support such an endeavor. Most profit from outright lying to be blunt about it. I'm not a person typically for government intervention in any industry, but there just isn't really another industry where promising something virtually unlimited when only truly being able to offer a fraction of that would not get a company into trouble.

I believe this has, in turn, lead to the influx of the get rich quick folks and that label on our industry.
 
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