I am using paid web hosting, I have got a top ten web hosts review website. Today I came to know that my web host would not allow hosting any website which advertise web hosting since this harms their web hosting business. I am just thinking, if all web hosts take such stand, where would people host their web hosting review or any web site which shows web hosting advertisements?
I guess they have no right to prohibit you advertising your hosting company if you buy hosting services from them. You pay them for hosting services and all they need to do is to provide you with the necessary service.
I guess they can specify their terms and conditions but this would be called "anti-competitive" by most. I'd vote with my feet! I have a client who is non profit industry body which posts news articles about the industry. Consider the risk of them somehow, somewhere, in the hundreds of news articles that get posted mentioning a hosting company because it somehow related back to the industry (shared ownership etc). Would that be considered advertising? Would there be penalties? Too hot for me to consider, I'd take the business elsewhere.
This sounds almost like some kind of a joke to me, and its the first time i have ever heard of this sort of issue. The host you are with now, are they in the top 10 on your site with a good review associated with them? any negative reviews? I would understand if there was a negative review, or a site you personally created to be negative towards your host. While hosts need to make sure sites dont breach TOS, IMHO, hosts really have no right to interfere with users websites, and I would be inclined to write back and tell him to mind his own business. Maybe contact a host in your top 10, see if they will accept the site or not.
That's weird !. I wouldn't tell my clients that!. All hosting clients with my company are free to host anything they like, what they've done a stupid act which will cause them to lose clients.
I have already paid full year's web hosting fees. I am hosting 10+ websites with them, moving the websites will take good amount of effort. The web host was not in the list of top 10 web hosts, I was ready to put a banner of them in my web site, but they did not listen and removed the domain immediately. I am thinking of moving out all of my websites from them and then put this experience in the web host review website. My website was definitely not harming their business as I was ready to put a banner of their web hosts for free.
Even you are using paid hosting they don't allow to host a web hosting review site. wow. What a crappy web host that is. Get the refund and move to another web host. Don't just move the hosts. Also put a negative review on your web hosting review site about them stating this case.