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Fix issues pertaining to GMAIL,WebHost4Life and BlogEngine

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posted by wisemx(8074) 4 years, 3 months ago 0

WebHost4Life stanks big time. ;-)
I just spent at least 7 hours on their servers helping a College in Canada do something that should have taken less than an hour. Ugh!
Go Discountasp.net, please.

posted by bsp.eric.bewley(0) 3 years, 6 months ago 0

Although webhost4life has a great many features that they boast, most importantly the lack of bandwidth throttling and limiting, there are serious issues with their service which you should consider before committing to an agreement with them:
1) Their servers do not respond as quickly as they would have you believe. They make it sound as if you get a dedicated virtual server, but other comments made by their people indicate that is not true. I have found that the site might even time out the first time you access it after a period of no use. I've been told that because I'm using DNN, then after a period of inactivity, the web server must recompile the DNN application before responding. This is bull, as the DNN application is a compiled application which is not changing. If the problem persists, you might try asking them to move you to a less crowded application pool. This was their fix for my delays, which then made me aware that I actually am NOT being given a server (virtual or otherwise) of my own, because the application pool is managed by IIS and should have no one in it but my sites if I have a dedicated virtual server.
2) You CANNOT have your mail server(s) at webhost4life forward mail to a Gmail account!!! Rather than entering into an agreement with Google to be whitelisted or leaving it up to Google to blacklist sites according to email address domain name, they have completely blocked the ability to forward mail to Gmail addresses. They will tell you that you can have Gmail pull the mail from your server, but I've been chatting with them for over an hour now to figure out why that doesn't work.
3) Webhost4life will make changes to their systems and accounts, such as registration records and not post those changes down to each of your domain records. If you encounter problems with one of your servers (web, mail, etc.) not responding, you may want to chat with them and ask them to double-check all of your domain records for the proper values.
4) Not all of their chat agents are up to par. If you get "james", you might want to disconnect and try again. On the other hand, "lawson" seems to be a much better person to talk to.
5) DO NOT set up your account with a different domain name than you REALLY want to use! I did this, using the .org name in order to test out the service before moving the .com domain (same site) to their servers. Once set up with a primary domain name, it is a MAJOR ordeal to get them to change it!

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