Been with APlus.net and predecessors since the 1990's
I see mostly very negative reviews for APlus. They seem to be mostly from novice users who want wordpress like sites to geeks who want bleeding edge t...
ech. We have been using APlus and the predecessors for some 20 years. We have had maybe 5 hours downtime and no major issues. APlus may not be great, but for us it has proven to be 99.9% reliable and extremely cheap ($9.00 month legacy plan for 8 active websites). The only issue is that they offer premium Comodo SSL certificates, which makes it more expensive for https (typically $90 a year). The good part to the Comodo certs is that they include lots of extras not available with plain vanilla ssl.
This hosting company is awful. Been with them for years but I've had enough. The last straw was removing imagemagick without any notice or explanati...
on. Good luck resizing or thumbnailing images if you are on a shared plan. I checked usr/local/bin to see what shared libraries were still left and they pretty much wiped out everything. When I contacted tech support they arrogantly responded that there is no guarantees regarding any software support. Heck, why not just remove php and perl while you're at it guys! Run don't walk from these clowns.
When it comes supporting business needs Fastcomet totally failed. Especially their email services facing downtime for some kind of reason.
Not reco...
mmend them for business needs. If you have some amateur website with recipes maybe works or you.
I am already looking for alternative hosting company and for sure alternative email services.
HostAdvice.com provides professional web hosting reviews fully independent of any other entity. Our reviews are unbiased, honest, and apply the same evaluation standards to all those reviewed.While monetary compensation is received from a few of the companies listed on this site, compensation of services and products have no influence on the direction or conclusions of our reviews. Nor does the compensation influence our rankings for certain host companies.This compensation covers account purchasing costs, testing costs and royalties paid to reviewers.
