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A Webmaster's experience with Xoasis's "service": |
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Don't waste your time with this turkey of a free hosting company, Xoasis, their servers are constantly down, and when they're up, they are slow, and unpredictable. I have never had such a time updating a single page, as I have had with Xoasis, I had a client who used them, and to update just ONE page, it took 25 minutes to upload because of server problems. They claim to give you 20 mbs of space, yet their server cannot calculate that my clients site is only taking up about 3 mbs, and when i try to upload, it deletes the file, and tells me that there is no more space. What they do seem to have no trouble keeping operational is their ad server... although at this time, there are no advertisers onboard with them, and the more you know about Xoasis, the clearer the reasons for that should become. That is just typical of the server hell you'll have to deal with when involved with this company, go elswhere, or pay for hosting, which is so inexpensive now you really can't afford not to. If you have tons of time to waste, and don't really want anyone to see your website, then Xoasis is certainly for you. I am pretty sure Xoasis' attitude about their free service is pretty much identical to their pay services, if they can't operate a free host service, how do you think they might approach more complicated matters, such as selling you server hardware or hosting your e-commerce website? In Xoasis' own words: "We provide stable service and reliable access
without the bill and without annoying screen ads." "Xoasis.com is committed to expanding the Internet
community by providing FREE, CUTTING-EDGE, USEFUL, and USER-FRIENDLY Internet
services." "Xoasis.com is a free site hosting service. You
get what you paid for, which is zero." (the last quote is from a reply sent to me by the company's president, I have the original, with all of the headers in place and is available upon request) Do yourself a favor, and steer clear of this company. Interesting reviews: http://www.complaints.com/april2002/complaintoftheday.april28.9.htm Jeffery Wright |