Suspicious Web Hosts: 6 Signs Of An Illegal Web Host
Anyone who has ever run a website that wasn’t hosted on Geocities or Angelfire knows that you get what you pay for most of the time. This is understandable, but the problem comes in when you “pay” for having chosen the wrong web hosting service. It’s easy enough to do and we all make mistakes, so don’t punish yourself too heavily if you discover your web host isn’t quite the outstanding business they claim to be.
The listings below are the most common aspects that should be taken note of, and which may serve evidences that your current web host provider is trying to hide something that is not really legal. Why only six? Because, from the moment you learn that your host is not really that credible enough, or not legally existing, you may burse into rage like you’re in the middle of digital hell, hence, 6 is the number of the devil.
6) Sharing Rental Costs – Some web hosting companies offer the shared renting of a particular server which is one of the possible cost measures available to you upon signing up for their services. Such alternative can be proven beneficial especially when you just starting out with a relatively new site where bandwidth is not yet an issue. The sharing of two or more accounts in a given server is the main idea behind shared hosting. Different websites may run on different servers but nonetheless, their general appearance when published over the internet is basically the same manner as that of the other.
Shared hosting does that necessarily mean that you share your time exposure or up-time with the rest of the accounts on that server, its concern is on cost not the broadcast time. So when your web host tells you that all the accounts on the server shall have a proportionately equal time that shall be allotted, then you should always be on the go. Basically, when you are in a shared hosting type of service, you should never experience a round robin type of broadcasting your site. Your site should be always available on the internet every time.
5) Outsourcing: Poor English Grammar – Today, businesses are now inclined to getting the services of laborers outside of their country mainly, from the developing countries who has a bit lower prices in terms of labor costs. Thus, they are able to get the job done with the results expected and gained at a cheaper cost. Also they claim of providing jobs for the less fortunate.
When requesting replies from the company’s support personnel, we can probably get answers that are not well written grammatically, even for the most experts in speaking English could at times hard a hard time expressing his thoughts through the use of words. In our best interest to capture the idea of the answers that we get, we just read along and find for some possible clues.
However, if you are getting e-mails from customer service, billing or tech support wherein you are addressed as, “prized glittering gem of customer with extensive loyalty to this of our business”, perhaps things are not quite as they should be. Your tech support responses should not read as if they have been run through Google Translate. You deserve better than, “time of the assistance in nature of MySQL database remain temporary in custody of computer server to be not available when called upon by computer the user”, when you request help installing a blog.
Surely, you would feel dismayed whenever you are receiving such poor communication material from the web host company that you are dealing with. It might also suggest that you may already consider the thought of leaving or having a new provider.
4) The idea of going GREEN – From the onset of social and environmental awareness, more and more companies now are geared toward running their businesses in a more environment friendly way. Thus, some industries would cut on its fuel combustion, carbon emissions and use relatively lower amounts of energy and other steps. With the recent environmental awareness, website hosting companies are now also slowly taking up measures to help in the preservation of the mother earth, including the top host providers in the industry. Although a very good observation, there are still hosting companies that would try to unjustly profit from this current trend.
With the above stated facts, you may start worrying when eventually your host provider would be announcing a time limit on your up-time because they are trying to save on energy. For example, the company announces just a 70% uptime for a certain number of days perhaps. Their intentions may be good but it should not be done at the expense of their services to their clients. Your website has nothing to do with their advocacy, so they should keep it running the whole time.
Stay away from this level of extremism or your profits are going to end up dipping into the red, despite how “green” you may feel.
3) You Have Seen the Picture of Your Hosting Company’s President on the Wanted List – Concerning the need of gathering information regarding your current web hosting provider, you might as well want to search his profile over the internet. It’s free to check on the character of your host president over the internet especially on Google. It’s free to browse unto this site and would prove to be very much beneficial especially to take note of that person whom you’re going to be dealing with. A lot of people now are relying on personal checks on Google.
When you put the president of your hosting company’s name into Google and the top result is an entry on The Smoking Gun, you may have a problem on your hands. Don’t be fooled, money laundering is not about sanitizing cash. Pyramid schemes are not rare, historic, architectural blueprints. Racketeering is not a sport. Extortion has nothing to do with being able to twist your body into unique shapes. Pay attention to who you do business with because a lower price is not always the best way to go, especially if you’re paying into the pockets of the same guy you saw as an “artist’s rendering” on a flier at the Post Office.
2) Common Requests – In any kind of business endeavor, the relationship between the provider or seller and the customer or client can be pretty much intimate. This might be attributed to the fact that we would like to communicate with the company in much nicer way. Notwithstanding this objective, we should always keep our business relationship with the hosting company at a purely professional level. The reviews that the company might get from the customers might be a relevant reason enough; it should not escalate to the point where the host already asks for special or out of the business favors from the client.
In the event that your web hosting providers e-mails you a lengthy, ornate letter requesting you intervene in family matters, stay skeptical. Just because their terminally ill uncle who happens to be a wealthy political official in Nigeria has told them he will give you a cut of the several million dollars he needs wired to your bank account, does not mean this is true. In fact, obliging this particular request may result in federal interest in your financial activities. Even though you may have the best of intentions, it’s better not to bail out individuals in little known countries whom you don’t have a personal relationship. After all, oil tycoons rarely ask for the assistance of unknown parties when they need to convert their local currency into dollars.
1) Management of Your Web Host Has Been Bought by “Family” – Like any business, web hosting firms are sometimes bought out by competitors or simply change hands for any number of reasons. This is nothing to be unduly alarmed by, but stay alert to potential changes in your terms of service and in the performance of your hosting itself. You may find that the new management isn’t quite the type of people you want to continue doing business with.
Definitely certain changes on the business procedures could be expected in such cases like requests of the company for you to send out checks in a new name and address. Thus, when you are billed by a certain Uncle Sam but the host insists of putting Joe Black on the check, then there’s really a suspicious problem somewhere else. You should always watch out for those anomalous business dealings as much as possible.
Always be careful as to whom you are dealing with. Most of the web host providers are on the positive side, but there are still rotten ones that are present. Please make sure that you are financially cleared of your obligations with that company before running away.
You don’t probably want to have problems especially with an illegitimate company.
And finally be free from hunting of those illegitimate ones.
Laurence Flynn is the CEO and Chief Coffee Maker at leading web hosting firm, HostNexus. If you are frustrated with inferior Shared Hosting then HostNexus can help.
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