Today, I have issues with ANHosting again. Checked their status blog. I have found the #4 excuse “Network Outage”, since I switched to their shared hosting server from HostingZoom.com.
I have post the summary about ANhosting on my Blogger.com account here.
Here are the blog entries I wrote on this site or on my Blog more blogger site while my site is down.
ANHosting.com was down twice in 5 days
ANHosting is back – Two hours after cooling problem at datacenter
Experience with ANHosting.com – Two Thumbs Up!
ANHosting.com is UP
ANHosting.com down 3 times in 8 days
ANHosting.com – Power Outage for 2+ hours
ANHosting.com down again in 5 days
ANHosing Outage – Over Heating
ANhosting unreachable – No phone, no online support
To shorten your reading, I have made conclusion.
I still recommend to host with ANHosting.com after all these troubles I have. I have dealt with HostingZoom.com, CrystalTech.com, GoDaddy.com, Globat.com and many other small hosting companies for my ex-clients.
- HostingZoom.com is the worst – Their failover server has never fail. It’s just die.
- CrystalTech.com is good for ColdFusion, ASP.NET and MSSQL hosting, but more expensive and less features.
- Godaddy.com known to be the best for domain name, but their shared hosting server is too slow
- Globat.com is cheap with lots of disk space, but not very stable for high traffic site.
If you are interested in ANHosting shared hosting. You can freely use the following discount code.
SAVINGCENTER-93818 – 3 Months off
GOTAPEX-ROX-BIG-DISCOUNT – 3 month off with 10 domain pointer.
Feel free to ask me any question about ANHosting.com. Now I have realized that my site are on Google’s top 3 search page result with the following keywords.
ANHosting sucks, ANhosting down, ANhosting issues, ANhosting problem, ANHosting cooling, ANHosting power outage. People search those keywords should find my blog useful. I have also received some commentw from staff at MidPhase.com, ANHosting’s parent company. This totally make my blog stand out for people looking for answer about ANHosting.
Good luck to you all, if you have read this far. 
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I am at hosting zoom on a fallover account and have to agree the server has a tendency to “fallover and die”. but this is normaly only for burst. I know moving my sites is on my todo list but finding a good home is the issue.
I was with Ifasthosting before hostingzoom, things were great for 5-6 months no down time then they sold the company and in their reorganization my site was unavailable for a collection of reasons the better part of 10 dsy before I collected my information and left.
FINding a good host is a problem for most everyone.
Yes. It was painful to switch hosting, especially I have more than 10 domains and some of them are e-commerce site with SSL. To re-assign the SSL certification is the most painful things, because you will have down time and no one can make purchase because your site is not communicated between your shopping cart and your merchant account such as authorize.net payment gateway or Paypal payment processors.
ANHosting can just upgrade my server to their MidPhase.com dedicated hosting in case I need to. So it’s expendable. Well. Tough lock on HostingZoom.com. I don’t even have option to upgrade my oder shared hosting site to their failover server. I have to cancel it and make my own backup and upload everything to a new server. They don’t have tech support to do that for me.
That really upsets me. I will stick with ANHosting for now. Good luck on your search.
I have been with Bluehost for nearly a year and the experience has been very good. Haven’t experienced any downtime so far. Will definitely recommend bluehost to people.
Thanks Wang:
I was considering BlueHost before choosing ANHosting. I did a short comparison on my blog here.
http://www.terencechang.com/2007/05/16/anhosting-vs-bluehost/
I did made some calls to them, they don’t response as fast as ANHosting does and I could not find their server status blog or report pages.
They don’t have Dedicated and Virtual Private Server(VPS) upgrade option and they host 300 accounts on the same low CPU power server. Currently, you are hosting with other 200 domains. You can check it out here.
http://www.myipneighbors.com/ and type in your domain name.
I am glad that you are happy with them.
You have a nice blog.
I have this problem too. ANHosting is not good service.
@fkux:
I heard that ANHosting is switching to their new datacenter soon. I hope their service is getting better.