Freehostia Hosting Problems
I apologise for the speed and reliability of this site recently as thanks to my host, Freehostia, this site has been going up and down regularly.
I have complained to Freehostia and am seriously considering moving hosts to an on going paid service.
Here is a copy of my complaint:
"I have this account (paranormal-marketing.com) and am a joint webmaster for http://www.birminghamiu.com which is also hosted with yourselves (this is a club site). I know your hosting is free, but lately it's been extremely unreliable and our websites have been up and down regularly. One site is SQL driven and has been down even more, once for ages. Even when on-line, I've noticed a slow down in your speed. I suspect your servers are overloaded due to taking on too many new sign ups as this is a common problem with low cost services? Unless the service is reasonably reliable, then it's not worth using it even if it is free as it makes us look bad when our website is down – not yourselves. This is taking away the hard work we have done to produce these sites and has caused us to loose search engine rankings.
You keep closing these tickets saying it's fixed, then it's down yet again shortly later. It's up at the time of writing, but for how long this time?
I now ask you again what's happening and can you assure me that the service going to improve very soon as entirely because of poor reliability, I'm now seriously considering hosting elsewhere to an ongoing paid service."
I will update with any replies, future news and developments…..

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Time October 17, 2008 at 9:51 pm
[...] this is after months of unreliable service, see http://www.paranormal-marketing.com/2008/08/27/freehostia for a post about a previous complaint I made about the [...]
Comment from admin
Time October 17, 2008 at 10:32 pm
See http://www.paranormal-marketing.com/2008/10/17/freehostiaservertransfer/ for details on a recent Freehostia server upgrade which left this site down for days without notice. Freehostia buried their head in the sand and refused to respond to any Emails and the support ticketing system was also down.
Comment from admin
Time November 23, 2008 at 6:58 am
We are please to announce that we now moved our site to a stunning reliable hosting service called Hosting24 as Freehostia were far too unreliable.
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Comment from admin
Time August 27, 2008 at 2:32 am
Here is Freehostia’s reply – at least they reply quickly to support tickets.
“Hello,
Thank you for contacting our Technical Support Department.
Everything is up and running. Your sites too. You can change your hosting company whenever you want to. If you are not satisfied with our sevrices please feel free to do so.
Best Regards,
Peter”
I intend to give Freehostia one last chance, if this site goes down again soon, I’ll move host. Again, I apologise to my readers for any inconvenience.