To date, I have 3 hosting accounts. One of those accounts is used primarily to host my my proxy network which is hosted at TMZ Hosting. They were awesome, until they decided they wanted to upgrade their servers, which would be a good thing to new subscribers to the service. But to others like myself, who have over 50 sites hosted with them, it can be a huge headache changing out the DNS for the new ones. Now, it is my fault for not changing them all at the allocated time because my traffic is all but gone now. But all in all TMZ is awesome for proxy networks.

Bluehost.com is okay for now. They are horrible in customer relations but great in customer service. I had a couple of sites which were hacked into while I was on vacation and instead of notifying me via email, they just shut my sites down. No phone calls, emails, IM, nothing. But, after calling customer service they easily showed me what occurred and how to proceed in getting the sites running again. On the other hand, they are good for Wordpress blogs, being that you don’t have to manually go into the hosting account and change out the .htaccess file when updating your permalinks, I had issues with other hosting companies with that. Lastly, Bluehost.com only allows 50 sql databases, so if you a fan of wordpress blogs, you will be limited to 50 sites.

And to the worst hosting companies that I have dealt with so far, Cirtex hosting. Not only are they horrible for wordpress blogs, they are horrible for video sites as well. I started with Cirtex because they were recommended as a host that will allow adult material and has great speeds for videos, boy was they wrong! First, let’s talk about using Cirtex for Wordpress blogs, the sites load very slow and you have to manually go into the hosting account to find the .htaccess files to change your permalinks if your into the SEO thing. Next, try setting up your email accounts with their service. They make it so difficult. I usually like to keep the same password for all of my email addresses, just to keep organized and sane at the same time. But, with Cirtex they won’t allow you to have a simple password, it must have one Capital letter and a special character like !@ or a number in order for it to be accepted.

Soon, I will be taking all of my account and merging them with Hostgator.com.  I have heard great reviews and want to give them a try as soon as my cirtex account expires.

Oh,  what is hotlinking you might ask?   Well….. it’s when you have a website and some idiot wants to add audio, video, or image content to their site and instead of dowloading and uploading them, they use an image code such as <img scr="http://www.punkass.com/not-my-image.jpg"> to link it to thier site or another site like porn forums, warez sites, etc.   Just imagine a random dude plugging his joints into your electrical socket, using your electricity without your concent on your dime, bogish huh!!

I digress, well the next day I go to make a post and I can’t see my banner, so I go to another one of my sites, same thing, another site, same thing.  Seems as if all of my headers are messed up, must be easy to fix right, WRONG!!!  I call up the tech dude at Bluehost, and it sounds like he is eating a ham sandwich and watching olympic highlights on youtube on the other end.  He asking me questions about SQL and php and the difference between the longituditanal epolotic amplitude blah, blah, blah.  I was like DUDE!!!  You not speaking to Bill Gates, this me,  Bruh Man from the 5th floor, dumb this sh-t down for me please!!  So, after about 20 min. of this, he finally tells me that he will write a ticket to get this fixed, WELL GOLLY GEE THANKS!!  So now my blog looks like a ghetto mess as I am trying to build my brand name, lol, thought I would sound like one of the Pro internet marketers for once.  Now, If I don’t get this problem fixed by end of business today, all virtual hell will break loose, hehe..

Holla..