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Comment on Bluehost.com made me feel blue… by nikifor

nikifor — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:27:50 +0000

Hi Will,

I am happy it worked well for you, but in my case it wasn’t the rep that made the decision. It was the admins behind the rep that made it. The guy said that the decision wasn’t his and even when I asked to speak with the admins, he refused to let me. So, I think it was BlueHost in total rather than one nasty guy.

Take care
Nick

Comment on Bluehost.com made me feel blue… by Will Turner

Will Turner — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:59:25 +0000

Sorry to hear that. Maybe it was the tech rep you got. I’ve had nothing but great customer service experiences with Blue Host.

One time recently I, in my programming ignorance, changed some PHP code that white screen of deathed me. Couldn’t even go into my WordPress admin! A rep from Blue Host patiently walked me through a reset process that enabled me to switch themes quickly, erase the mistake, and restore my site with no losses. People matter.

Comment on Bluehost.com made me feel blue… by robert

robert — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:29:31 +0000

i did not plan 2go2 bluehost, but funny they have very slick ads running on youtube.
i even saw the whole ad, while i normally skip ads.

but reason i write here: if you are calling international from BE the first thing you do is dump belgacom and just use for example voipcheap. you can do a phone2phone with them. in my opinion sound is better then pc2phone. you just start it from your pc.
initiate the call and they first call you and then the other site (calls for free or very very low costs)

i had in the past very bad experience with Justhost. evrything ok, till they lost all my sites and it took them weeks to sort things out (b4 that i was already up and running elsewhere) it seems all colocated hosting are ok, till problems arise….

Comment on Bluehost.com made me feel blue… by Gala

Gala — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:53:30 +0000

The same thing… I just wanted to change my main domain and had soooo terrible experience with the technical support. Even on the free hosts it is better! The luck is that it all happened in my first days with Bluehost so I have a chance to have my money back… Let´s see if that is true they told me – they need a few days to do that that…

Comment on Bluehost.com made me feel blue… by Michael

Michael — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:13:31 +0000

Bluehost is the worst hosting provider i’ve ever had the misfortune of dealing with.

Oversold servers, slow dns, vendor lock in, a support system that cant’ answer tickets within a week.

Something tells me the company employs sock puppets to counter negative press.

Folks, you get what you pay for. If you’re looking for cheap shared hosting, dreamhost would be a much safer bet.

Comment on Bypassing Chrome’s Anti-XSS filter by Estevão Santos

Estevão Santos — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:57:31 +0000

Thank you for this very interesting article.

Although your latest “hack” still works in the latest version of chrome, it failed on Internet Explorer 9.0.8112. This doesn’t mean IE is more secure than Chrome, but shows XSS can be, at least, mitigated if enough thought is put into it.

Nevertheless, I, like others posted here before, share the belief that it’s not the browser’s but the web developer’s job to prevent XSS attacks.

Comment on Bluehost.com made me feel blue… by nikifor

nikifor — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:31:09 +0000

Hi Sunny,

I had a look in Bluehost’s setup when I was still a client. Each client is a different opearting-system user on the shared machine. Thus, for the hacked WordPress I would expect this to be more of an issue of a web application vulnerability rather than a backend problem. If you installed WordPress from their user-interface, you still need to update it yourself, from the WordPress’ dash-board.

At the same time, all of these large hosters use a lot of custom scripts, so it is definitely not impossible for someone to find a vulnerability in one of them, and then use it to mass-hack all of the users, situated on a given server.

Best regards
Nick

Comment on Bluehost.com made me feel blue… by Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:51:49 +0000

I’ve been having ongoing security problems with Bluehost – sites being hacked. I had problems when my sites were in Joomla, so I started with a completely fresh second bluehost account and implemented my sites in WordPress. Now they are all down. I had my webmaster clean one of the sites and install WordFence and it got infected again. They think the problem is with Bluehost security.
Anyone else had security problems with Bluehost accounts? How did you fix it?

thanks

Comment on Bluehost.com made me feel blue… by nikifor

nikifor — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:46:29 +0000

You are right… It seems that they bought many hosting companies, including hostgator and other big names. Thanks for the tip!

Comment on Bluehost.com made me feel blue… by cheryl winter

cheryl winter — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:07:13 +0000

Il give you one also blue host is also owned by endurance, but is not listed under bbb with the others i you google blue host then wiki you will see it is linked s owner lol they are all together so for now think i will go with yahoo need something up fast,thn when i have more time search some more