Web Hosting World

What Andrew C mentioned just below, I am also facing the same issue. They just closed my account saying its usage is 30% and asked to pay 84$ immediately within a day. I am with this WHW for several years and without any courtesy they sent an email to pay the invoice and the account is closed. I never know that my site is down. I am not receiving emails and they stopped everything.

In their website they promote that they provide unlimited disk space, bandwidth, etc. If that iscase how the CPU usage is more? This is the worst behavior and they cannot treat a customer like that. Its something they need money and close the account and moving all the customers by force from Bronze to Gold immediately. If the 30% hit you move to Gold plan then why do you have Silver plan then?

I have been using webhostingworld.net for several years and was happy with their "bronze" service at $1 per month! But now they accuse me of using 30% of their CPU time (I was uploading data to myy website) and put me on their "gold" plan for $84, effective within 24h. If I don't pay they shut down my website and e-mail server. I cannot transfer my website within 24h and I refuse to pay their blackmail charge. This is a poor way to run a business. Here is their message to me:

"During a routine audit we checked that your account "[website name]" is using more than 30% cpu usage on the server, unfortunately we will not be able to continue you on brone plan.

We have upgraded your invoice to gold, if you wish to continue with us you need to pay the invoice

You can login to your client area to view and pay the invoice at

However if you do not wish to continue, you are requested to move your accounts untill the 28th of July since on 28th of July if the invoice is unpaid we will proceed with suspending and removing your accounts and no longer offer further service."

Been with WHW for 3 years now and the last 6 months all I've had is downtime, problems and bulls*t from them. They don't keep their servers up date date and are insecure, their speed and platform responsiveness is absolutely terrible and their support is just the worst ever. It took them 3 days to get an installation of Prestashop right and when I go to customise and setup the site itself, it falls over as there is simply no resources available. I have an absolute stack of support tickets that prove that they are in breach of the SLA yet they do nothing about it... DONT GO WITH THIS COMPANY AT ALL AS YOULL BE DISAPPOINTED, FRUSTRATED ADN RIPPED OFF...

This website very very bad and them delete my data and not tack backup from data and server ever hour down
And delete ticket wen i make it so them delete my data
And when i complain then suspend my account

I am with WebHostingWorld for 5 years now...
I was looking for a cheap hoster and found it with whw.
The start off was $#*!ty, having problems. They couldnt get my site up and register my domain. I paid with paypal, after claiming money back via paypal, they got rude and upsad. Telling me I should close the disput at paypal or I will loose all, money and hosting. Also they told me paypal will not give refunds on virtual goods.

So I thought $#*! it. Ill roll with it and see whats happened.
They set up my hosting and domain. After 6 month they had some issues and lost all my data without having a backup.

So from now on I am always backing it up myself. Support is over all quick, if you are polite. If you getting upsad and express it, they wont help!:-D

I have different accounts now as its really cheap and giving me all I need...
I wouldnt mind if they are more professional and friendlier. But as long as they are dirt cheap, it works for me.

Its a company you shouldnt invest to much into. And always back urself up:-DD

Ps: watch out. When you pay stuff in advance to get extra 3 month, they never been setted correctly! I always needed to inform them, that I paid in advance and want my extra month. They always adjusted it, but not without asking/telling!

I was with Webhostingworld.net for 2 years. After the first year the hosting continued to go down hill. It was more like 75% uptime. They must have started me off on the good server, then after a time moved my site to a less functional server or something. The customer service had gotten so bad that they would simply paste a link in the chat to direct you elsewhere. General questions like "why is my site down"? Would now require a support ticket. I moved my site to another host, it costs more, but I am getting what I pay for... so-to-speak. I referred WHW hosting to others in the past who either ended up retrieving a refund before the end of 30 days which WHW makes very difficult; or if they missed the 30 day money back, they simply moved their site. I moved my sites, but WARNED others that WHW was a frustration but an inexpensive way to get set-up... THAT'S ALL!. Unfortunately, not many people are as patient as I was.

I am now building a site for a customer who insisted on inexpensive hosting just to get the feel of managing her own website. So I came back to WHW. I knew what to expect, but I am here to enlighten others that after 3 years it has simply gotten worse.

My new experience: It has been 3 days and the site is still not activated. The temporary url does not work either. For the last 3 days I have been told that the site will be up in just a few hours. The home page states "Free Set-up and Instant Activation", that's fine if in your language "instant" means 3 days; regarding the 30 day money back guarantee, on the second day that the site was not up I asked how I go about getting a refund, I have been continually told the site would be up in just a few hours. Going into day 4 I am still being told to wait just a few hours.

MY RECOMMENDATION: $1.00 a month is appealing when you are setting up and designing a site. BUT! You are getting what you pay for. The home page Boast are NO LONGER TRUE! They were when I used this hosting for my sites for about 6 months, 3 years ago, NOT ANYMORE! The customer service is 24/7 HORRIBLE. If you venture in for the appealing $1.00 a month deal, just forget customer service, and put in a support ticket, you will spend less time waiting for an email than you will on a chat with customer service.

Also, I am pretty sure all of those other recent comments about how good the service is were written by the staff or the owners. But if you want to test the comments try it. They OFFER a 30 day money back guarantee? At least that's what it says on the home page. Just remember if you use Paypal to pay for the service, I hear Paypal does a pretty good job of getting you your money back for you.

I am beginning to see a pattern. One of my client's domains was simply erased, all the html/php files, e-mail accounts, ftp accounts, all of it just gone. They got the e-mail and ftp accounts back in a few minutes but not the files. They offered no explanation as to how or why it happened and got defensive when I asked to know how it happened so that I could avoid it in the future.
They apparently have no access (or don't know how to access) the basic server logs that would tell us the who, when and how of the failure.
They seem to just not care. Very bad if you want to give good service to your clients but can't get it from your provider.

I recently made the switch Webhostingworld.net after hearing a lot of good things about them from my friends and colleagues, and I'm glad I listened. The service is great, I've never had issues with my site being down and the fact that they made it easy for me to set up a blog on WordPress has made me a fan. Also billing team is so prompt and sorted my double payment issues within 5 mints. I'd recommend their service to anyone who is looking to set up any kind of website.

Hi Friends

I write here to share my experience with WebHostingWorld.Net

On April 2012 I bought a webhosting and domain (Bronze Plan) with total amount $ 27.00 USD and I paid it with PayPal on that day. Then I tried to write on my webhosting page but when I wanna to publish my website, my domain name is still unregistered then I wrote an email to *******@webhostingworld.net, and they replied that my domain still in processing Please feel free to contact us back in case of any further information. Thank you, Branda Taylor, Technical Support Department, WebHostingWorld Inc

After waiting for long long time but my domain name is still unregistered, I re-wrote an email but till this day February 5,2013 they never reply my email again.

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