Badmovies IXWebhosting Review
Badmovies had a bad experience with IXWebhosting when they decided to block the hosted site because it was too popular.
My experience with IXWebhosting happened one year ago, but it popped up in my memory. I checked their site and it appears that they are overselling to such an extreme level that my situation is a joke. One of their plans is $12.95 a month with 2000 GB of data transfer and unlimited space. If I had seen that back in December 2005, this story would not have occurred.
When I transferred my site to them I spoke with a sales representative, for a good ten or fifteen minutes, about my needs. The site usually served about 800K pages a month and made use of PHP, though not in a CPU-taxing way. I finally settled on a plan which was, if memory serves, their second from the top. Something about $50 a month, perhaps it was even $60 per month.
I moved the site onto their server and it was okay for about ten days. Not great, some lags, but the site was up and responding. Around the tenth day it was crawling. I contacted support and was eventually told that they were blocking the site, because it was too popular. That went back and forth for a few days. One of the main reasons I argued was that, at the very least, there was new data on the server that I had not backed up (due to the slowness). They would not turn the account back on in any form, not even so I could retrieve that data. I went and found a new host….