1&1 vs. HostDime 2021

ke Hostinger, Godaddy and Domainracer to make a best choice.

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3. Excellent Support Team ( they all are very good)
but sometimes there's downserver problem. But i recommend to all Hostdime services
Good Luck :)

to help you and make sure their clients were happy. Servers worked great and the prices were reasonable.
When HostDime took over, things became tolerable. The service often had a lot of downtime, support would take hours or days to get back to you and often issues were left completely unresolved.
I fell on hard time before HostDime came into the picture. At which time, I was often late on payments. So an agreement was worked out where my bill would be due later in the month (at that time I think it was around the 7th). After that my account would be suspended. I could get up to 2 months behind at times and it was worked out that as long as I didn’t expect to get beyond that, I didn’t have to worry about termination. Just suspension and possible late fees after the first month. Okay. More then reasonable and fair and it was a huge help.
It was RARE that I’d go more then 2 months and on the few times I did, I contacted them and while I’d have to pay late fees they were happy to work with me.
After HostDime took over, as I said previously, things changed. In September 2018 I started being charged a $10 late fee EVERY MONTH. This was done without warning or notice. I was going through some issues in my personal life and decided to let it go and not bothering arguing it. It was $10. It was one of those “pick your battles” moments and I didn’t feel that $10 extra dollars a month was worth the hassle. So I let it go.
In October 2019, my VPS was canceled without notice or warning. They claim to have sent one but I never received it. I even went through every email ever associated with the account to see if I had just missed it. I had never received one.
The last email I received from them on one email was in September 2019. On the other email it was March 2018. The last email I received (from Sep) was the typical warning that my account would be suspended. I read it, same old, same old. I never received another email after that from them.
In October 2019, my account was canceled/terminated. 8 years of my life and hard work was gone. I’d lost my computer in a fire and so I had no back ups. I didn’t get an email that it would be terminated or that it even was terminated!
I went into my account at the end of October/beginning of November and my typical bill was there. But when I went to pay, I saw it said “canceled” next to the name of my VPS. I immediately contacted them. At which point (several days later) I was told there was a back up and it could be restored for a $50 fee. I didn’t have it at the time. They informed me that this back up could be over written at any time the longer I waited.
On December 2nd, 2019 our home caught fire and we were forced to leave it. We now live in our truck. I contacted them again to verify the backup was still there, as I had been doing frequently throughout the last month. At this point I was told the backup they had wasn’t a backup at all and wasn’t valid and that it never would have been $50 to restore my server anyway. It would have been $500 dollars. I make $771 a month. $500 isn’t a reasonable amount and it most certainly isn’t what I had been told for the last month.
I eventually was able to get a call from them where their philosophy was basically “Too bad. That’s not our problem.”
I had an agreement for 8 years. I had never paid a late fee till suddenly last year. And the the last email I got was about a suspension. NEVER was I even INFORMED that my VPS would be suspended or was even suspended period after it happened! I have no doubt they would have taken more monthly payments from me if I hadn’t contacted them asking what was going on. I don’t think they were would have told me. They have a history of not informing me of issues or changes going on to my account or billing. Especially when it involves money I’ve now noticed.
And I mean, after 8 years they don’t have a single back up? I chose them originally because they did nightly backups and apparently none have been done or kept in 8 years.
I will be contacting both a lawyer and the Better Business Bureau about this.