House of Torment (HostGator)

BradyH

I figured we all needed a good laugh today.

paco

But they can't hear us laughing because they're too busy counting all that cash from selling $30-as-a-75%-off-limited-discount-openvz-vpses

BradyH

@paco said:
But they can't hear us laughing because they're too busy counting all that cash from selling $30-as-a-75%-off-limited-discount-openvz-vpses

Thats funny. Just went to the site for the first time in years. Guess I need to raise my openvz pricing by 75% LOL

WSS

If HostGator does VPS half as well as their shared hosting, well, I hope there isn't even an implied SLA.

lazyt

Worse much much worse.

dergelbe

iPage is most likely worse.

LosPollosHermanos

They have been in business for a long time so they must be doing something right.

KuJoe

@LosPollosHermanos said:
They have been in business for a long time so they must be doing something right.

Yeah, the owners sold them to a bigger company.

IAlwaysBeCoding

@paco said:
But they can't hear us laughing because they're too busy counting all that cash from selling $30-as-a-75%-off-limited-discount-openvz-vpses

I don't see anywhere that they are openvz, how do you know? Not that I doubt it.

Wasthe 2gb vps 120 a month before their 75% off ? I just can't believe it.

vovler

89.99 for 2gb 2 core.... hmmmmm seems legit, and 159.95 for the 8gb 4 core.

stefeman

@vovler said:
89.99 for 2gb 2 core.... hmmmmm seems legit, and 159.95 for the 8gb 4 core.

You pay for the brand..

jar

@paco said:
But they can't hear us laughing because they're too busy counting all that cash from selling $30-as-a-75%-off-limited-discount-openvz-vpses

After buying every employee health insurance and providing highly managed support for cheap shared hosting, I'm not positive there was a lot of cash left when I was there. This industry as a whole just doesn't support that kind of model anymore, at least at scale.

BecomeWebHost

jarland said: cheap shared hosting

hostgator cheap? hmm

jar

@BecomeWebHost said:

jarland said: cheap shared hosting

hostgator cheap? hmm

Their promos are insanity. At least they were when I was there. Pennies for your first year, etc.

randvegeta

I remember when Hostgator was Freakwebhosting (anyone remember that?). I bough the domain for $500 at the time. What a waste of money.

Brent did well for himself. Just had to sacrifice a few years of his youth. Definitely worth it if you can make $200M out of it.

jar

For entertainment: http://www.hostingdiscussion.com/145605-post13.html

BecomeWebHost

@jarland said:

@BecomeWebHost said:

jarland said: cheap shared hosting

hostgator cheap? hmm

Their promos are insanity. At least they were when I was there. Pennies for your first year, etc.

Thank you for info. I never heard of those plans... cheapest I have come to know is 1 cent/month (for first month and then ..... ).

btw, Nothing against them I am sure they are investing a lot into marketing hence not keeping all $$$... doing business right way.

ricardo

jarland said: Pennies for your first year, etc.

Definitely aiming for the newbies to the market and captive customers. I've took a few of their deals, but indeed the 2nd year price is steep and more than makes up for year 1.

Taoron

Don't you love EIG?

WSS

Someone had to take over when Yahoo closed Geocities.