Terrahost - A Real Rip-off Hosting starting at $155 per year!

	Terrahost - A Real Rip-off - Hosting starting at $155 per year!
	Discussion by pyost with 18 Replies. Last Update: August 26, 2006, 9:31 pm (View Latest)	Page 1 of 2 pages.

pyost

I was surfing the web, checking out some good host, when I bumped into Terrahost. I know there are many hosts that ask for a lot of money for their services, but this one has really shocked me. The plans this host offers are pathetic, whereas the prices are extremelly high.

Here's what I mean:

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* 5Mb Web space
* 2,000Mb transfer per month
* Domain name or sub domain name
* FTP Access
* 1 mail account @yourdomain.com

$12.95/Month - $30 Setup
$155/Year - $30 Setup

Source: http://terrahost.com/hosting.html

That's the worst package: only 5MB of space and 2GB of bandwidth (who would need that much?). No PHP or any other advance options. The price? Only $155 a year?!?!? If that's not a rip-off, I don't know what is!

For the same amount of money you can get hell of a lot better hosting at Computing Host. For $9.99 a month you get 5.4GB space and 99GB bandwidth. Hm, which host would I choose..?

Things become even worse when you look at the "best" package.

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* 50Mb Web space
* 10,000Mb transfer per month
* Domain name or sub domain name
* SSI support
* PHP3 support
* Java servlet support
* Telnet access
* FTP access
* mSQL support
* MySQL support
* URL spelling corrector
* 1 mailing list
* 2 password protected directories

$39.95/Month - $60 Setup
$480/Year - $60 Setup

50MB? Still not enough. 10GB bandwidth? The only good things here, as far as I am concerned. PHP3??? Oh my, isn't that a bit.. OLD!?! And with all those "advantages" you pay only $480 a year. Sounds like a good offer, doesn't it? Well, it doesn't.

My advice is, stay away from this host. I would be suprised if I found out they have any users at all. The offer is awful and the sky is the limit to the prices. Why use this host? I have no idea.

Fri Jul 28, 2006 Reply New Discussion

vhortex

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Note: All plans may include Secure Socket Layer Support for an
additional $45/month ($100 setup fee)
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Note: Your account will be charged $50 for every email spamming complaint we receive in relation to your website that we are hosting. This will be used to defray any cost we incur due to handling complaints. Your site will also be taken down following any complaint.

make much sense to me.. LOL
at the price they ask.. i think i can arrange a two account shared hosting.. =)

Fri Jul 28, 2006 Reply New Discussion

luizzeross

It sholdn't be called "web host", but "crazy host". Too much expensive for nothing!! LOL

Mon Jul 31, 2006 Reply New Discussion

jerms

Urgh. Gets me thinking what their customer base is like! Can't be a profitable business at all

Thu Aug 3, 2006 Reply New Discussion

abhiram

You've got to be kidding. I can't believe there is someone who charges so much for webhosting, basic webhosting at that! Maybe these guys are still in the stoneage when webhosting used to cost a bundle

Thu Aug 3, 2006 Reply New Discussion

ginginca

Some companies have a very specialized clientelle.

We for example, I have seen $60 Cdn for one company, in a marketplace where the going rate is $20.

Thu Aug 3, 2006 Reply New Discussion

aflm

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As part of Terrahost upgrade plans, our Web Hosting services are now powered by Microsoft Windows 2000 Server.

It should be the website of an old webhost that no longer is updated.

Tue Aug 22, 2006 Reply New Discussion

Pharoah

Wow! I wouldn't be surprised if you could get a good VPS account for that price! 5 megs!!! I think that's about what I used to have when I had an MSN group 7 years ago! You can tell that this is just designed to rip off n00bs who want a "cool" site to show their friends and automatically assume they need to pay for hosting! Very, very sad.

Tue Aug 22, 2006 Reply New Discussion

webintern

Ooh, they are now offering a WHOPPING 15 MB! That's right, folks, they just improved their hosting service by 300% for the same unbelievable price of ... drum rolls ... $155/year + $30 setup.

Of course, I'm being sarcastic. I also noticed that the website's bottom menu does not work. I suspect the site was created by an amateur or someone who is trying to break into the hosting business, but who does not have good insight into the current market. I wonder how many customers it has. On the other hand, it would a shame if this was one of those pre-built websites + hosting combos that was sold to some unsuspecting newbie on eBay hoping to start a web business. In any case, there are scam artists everywhere.

Tue Aug 22, 2006 Reply New Discussion

KDEWolf

I guess the owner must be using a 10Gb Hard Drive to host these sites... and he's hoping to buy a new system soon and provide his costumers tons of storage space and new features. It's one of the few possible explanations for this 'joke'. Ok, it's a stupid one, but still...

Tue Aug 22, 2006 Reply New Discussion

nightfox

QUOTE (aflm)

It should be the website of an old webhost that no longer is updated.

Link: view Post: 85579

their domain was created 8, July 1998 and doesn't expire until 9, July 2007... they are pretty old. But most web hosts from then have upgraded to modern day prices and packages... I'm sure in 98, 10 gigs of bandwidth was like today's 1000. Maybe less.

It's possible they've ordered 9 years for their domain. Probably was expensive back then too... of course, I wouldn't know.

Edit: oh yeah, in today's terms, their name could actually give them a bad reputation of being a terrable host! lol.. lame I know.

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Wed Aug 23, 2006 Reply New Discussion

vhortex

hmm..

the site is still in plain html and not all links are working..

i have visited the site a few days ago and still no improvement.
windows hosting is expensive but not as expensive as this..

for the price given you should have SSL, SSH, at least 50 email accounts to create..
an FTP, support for SSI and ASP with PHP or a frontpage full support..

Tel: 301.258.9599
Fax: 301.330.2217
Toll Free: 888.389.6822

where on earth was the company.. they dont even provide the contact location just in case they change number and you need a method to contact them..

all my host have email address and a real live address to contact them with even the free ones..

Thu Aug 24, 2006 Reply New Discussion

yordan

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5Mb Web space

It was probably a mistyping. If you have a look now at http://terrahost.com/hosting.html , you will see that "plan 1" is 15MB now.
I hope it's still a mistyping, and they will add a trailing "0" soon.

Thu Aug 24, 2006 Reply New Discussion

nightfox

QUOTE (yordan)

I don't think so.. it's VERY old.

As for the SSL support, you can get it for $45/month plus a $100 setup fee

that really proves how out of date they are!

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Thu Aug 24, 2006 Reply New Discussion

Pharoah

Well the main reason people require so much space today on their hard drives and webspace is that they want to do stuff like share mp3s. Also, people have come to expect higher quality graphics. You just didn't see that in 1998, so that kind of bandwidth was perfectly okay (also for my site it would still be because even when it was up on another host it had no hits)

Fri Aug 25, 2006 Reply New Discussion