Anyone else here host their directories with Site5 ?

Site5 is HANDS DOWN the worst host I've ever been with. I quit them 6 months ago and haven't looked back. Try dreamhost.com or hostmysite.com

 

Site5 is one the worst hosting site I have ever known ...
And their excuse is just Pathetic

If I remember correctly, phpLD is not with Site5. Its on VPS with some other host.... (Not remembering the name atm)

 

I am very sorry to hear this. Site 5 although i only tried it once when David gave me the backup account once my site was hacked. I didn't have any problems but recently have been hearing people having issues with them.


and Even phpLD <David moved it from Site5 due to issues>

As mikey said, it could be server load of your site, but this is absolutely ridiculous of them to just remove your site saying it is spam because i have seen the site and it is no where close to spam.

I think this can make a very good class law suit where they are just discriminating against you or your site, and very well you would win if it goes in legal hands.

 

I can offer you with C Class based Web hosting services but only for quality paid directories
Some hosting companies suspend their clients just for some unrelated reasons
Tell them to send you all the files via email and change the host asap.

 

Really sorry to hear about this.

 

You probably were using up too much bandwidth and they had to find a reason to get rid of you . But i agree they should at least give you a means to get your data back...

 

I think its aso, btw, my reference is more towards the context under which Site5 has terminated the account... and the excuse they have given is:

Seems that David was with site5 at some point of time, see here:

http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=16523
http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=17335

 

Really sad story, not first with Site5.
Had problems with my directory on HostGator but it was not concerning quality or spam.
Also HostGator stuff was very kind to me, helped a lot, offered much more I could expect.

 

May be that was one of the reason he moved to Servint

(Their VPS is hosted with Servint, one of the BEST hosting for VPS)

 

Time to move on.. Don't bother with bad web hosts. I hope you find a good host soon.

 

I really think the above quotes are bang-on, I only use around 80% of the resources alloted but I bet they like having folks using 50% or less, it allows them to oversell more. Anyways I am very disappointed with www.site5.com and with crappy service like that I hope they go out of business.

 

well, guess you are making the right first step mentioning it here. More will avoid them until they wake-up and get their act together!

my condolences to you and hope you find a good alternative. I'm using HG and am ok with them. Think their strongest point is their 24/7 chat which had helped me through a few tough patches.....

 

I had some major problems in the past with HG, I have been in contact with one of the new owners or a representative from HG on this forum and am told things are different now. I can't really say from personal experience but I hope so.

IMO www.site5.com is really shooting itself in the foot.

I think it is scary to see a hosting company policing SEO this way and I am not sure to what end you are doing it? I mean if you would be willing to terminate a hosting account because of www.wrdir.com then I would guess not many webmasters are safe from your reach. Many websites have built in directories and link pages so they might be in violation of site5's policies too. Even if they aren't now, or are border-line I would think it would be a wise decision to change hosts and not take the chance.

 

They have already done that and going forward one should think twice before taking site5 services..

Adding to your advice, IMO any webmaster with Site5 should immediately move away from them.. god knows what they can term as SEO spam..

 

Apparently someone posted that they state in the terms somewhere they do not allow directories, period? I mean so many sites have directories built into them and would that also not cover 'links' pages? I guess 80% of the web is spam in their opinion.

And using ambiguous spam terms when describing my directory www.wrdir.com is laughable and I am sure I could find 100's (if not 1000's) of MFA blogs using grey-hat SEO hosted by www.site5.com right now.

 

So if they don't approve any directory, then why have they got themeselves listed in PHPLD based directory:

http://www.cascandra.com/detailed/listing1949.html
http://www.boobdoc.com/phpld/detail.php?id=1519
http://www.plentylinks.com/detail/link-371.html

What a double standard company..

 

Maybe those listings were done by the directory owners....anyways I really believe the basis for whatever they are doing is that they are just huge oversellers and the fact that I was actually using resources was not good for them. The put together a big fancy ToS and other policies that basically cover everything so they can terminate accounts as they please.

It just would have been nice if they did it in a profesional way instead of so strong-handed.

 

I doubt it from looking at the identical titles and descriptions.

Sorry to hear about what happened; hope you get it sorted soon.