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:



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.



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.

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

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

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

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 .

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.

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

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.

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.

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...