I am now in the second day of my IIS disaster with Purehost.
After reading some very frightening reports on the damage an improper 302 can create with googlebots and all search agents, I’m really quite upset.
Purehost techs are supposed to open a support ticket for you when they are not able to fix the issue while they have you on the phone. However, 2 support techs failed to do this and when I got up this morning and checked the site it was still redirecting in a way that will never complete. So I had to call back and explain for the 3rd time what the problem was. Not only that, but the last tech support guy I talked to said I would get a call back from Purehost this morning…no such luck.
Do not ever use Purehost for hosting.
I repeat,do not ever use Purehost to host your website.
They charge as much as other, far more excellent host providers, (mt) comes immediately to mind at this same price point, but give you nothing for this high price.
Basically if you want anything more than static html pages, ie a database or anything served up dynamically, you must pay extra for it.Their god awful site builder program is as old as the hills and churns out crap tables sites. But they seem to be proud of it.
Black marks against Purehost:
No forum. I will say it again: there is NO support forum.You are on your own.
Ancient knowledgebase.This knowledge base is written for it’s Unix platform customers and is really misleading to Windows customers not to mention packed full of links that lead to tutorials that haven’t been updated since 2000.
If you are on Windows you have to pay for databases. Unix customers get them free with their hosting package.
They don’t actually have tech support;the same folks who answer tech questions also answer billing and sales questions. Hit them with any kind of problem and the 1st thing they do is start whiffling about your scripts being wrong. As if.
Reasons to pick Purehost:
You fell in love with Microsoft’s Frontpage back in 1995 and never bothered to learn any other way to build a website.
You love tables based layouts so you will love their Shopsite doodad and Sitebuilder doohickey.
You enjoy having to fight uphill in order to get the simplest thing to work.You love frustration and challenges.
You don’t mind it if they let your website go down for 3 days.