It must be so bad at MD Web Hosting that other companies* have picked up and offer to help you move your domains away. http://www.crucial.com.au/mdwebhosting-refugees/index.php

• *I have no affiliation with the above hosting company, I am not a customer of theirs, I don’t work for them, the link is not an affiliate link. I am not saying the above hosting company is any better than MD Web Hosting as I have no personal/working knowledge of how they operate. All I am showing you is it must be pretty bad if other companies have picked up on the dissent that is going on at MD Web Hosting.

You might think well it is really only you that have had troubles with MD Web Hosting, you would be wrong what really tipped my hat into building this site was I got frustrated and typed “MD Web Hosting suck” into google and got dozens of results.

http://www.webhostingstuff.com/review/MDWebHosting.html

The link above has 3 reviews and none of them are good.

Quote by “David (australia.coop) on 10 March 2008: Inability and/or unwillingness to communicate with clients about issues – unless you are able to initiative a query,….”

Quote by “Lorcan Tanner of www.loreindustries.com on 08 Mar 2008: Md Webhosting when I first joined was a fantastic web host, however as time went by it started to get worst. Finnaly by the time I have decided to close down my account with them I had come to the conclusion my site had got to of only been only 60-70% of the time, which is not what you expect from a proffesional hosting company.”

Quote by “M (imageidentity.com.au) on 12 February 2008: I used to love MdWebhosting. Used to that is. Over the last couple of months their servers have been hacked to the extent that I’ve moved my site to another host. They have been impossible to contact. I’ve left support tickets, sent emails, sent…”

That is just off of one site. I had never seen that site until 2 days ago when I did the search I should have done before taking an account with MD Web Hosting.

The link below is from the Whirlpool Forums. If you are considering MD Web Hosting then I would suggest you take the time to read it. You will see many a webmaster that has had considerable problems with MD Web Hosting.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/913594.html

Quote by : “Mr Stego Forum Regular

wiseone writes…

Does anybody have a contact phone number for them?

1800 600 934 – Good Luck”

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Forum Regular

Just over a year ago there were (and I experienced) considerable problems with MD Webhosting. So much so that I started looking for another company.
But then things improved and the last twelve months have been relatively trouble free with the exception of the occasional hiccup – but I guess that happens with every hosting company.

The last couple of days things have been really bad. Due to outside attacks MD says.”

You can go on to read much much more from that Whirlpool Thread which was started in February 2008 unfortunately too late for me as I had already been a customer at that stage. That is just from 2 entries I found in google I could go on with the list. But I will leave that for another Post. I hope you can see that I am by no means the only person suffering from MD Web Hostings bad performance.

I have moved the 3 sites off the new Orion Server which was supposed to be more reliable than the old server I was on. But as a pinch of irony I have left this site on their server. You will probably not be able to see this post as the server is highly unreliable and falls over every few hours. I was wondering, seeing that I have paid for a year in advance, if they removed this site. I checked their policy and also checked it with my lawyer and this site contains nothing that could be deemed in breaking their policy for site hosting. So it would be un professional of them to remove it from their server. Time will tell.

As you will see from the logs I have kept from their support system. You can expect that MD Web Hosting will not answer your calls to their support line or answer their live help system. Of all the phones calls I have made to them and the time waiting on their live help I think I have wasted 1 full day of my life. They have answered once in all that time and then I was only waiting for about 25 minutes (and all they told me was to lodge a support ticket).

Welcome to this Blog. Its a simple blog just to warn any unsuspecting website owners that are contemplating hosting their sites with the Australian Company MD WEB HOSTING PTY. LTD. (ACN) 109 613 194 (ABN) 41 109 613 194. The reasons for the warning you will see in the following posts.

My journey with this so called hosting company began on the 25/11/2007 I was looking for an Australian Hosting company that was cheaper than my current hosting company. I took advantage of MD half price sale and grabbed the Dingo Hosting Package (1 yr, free domain offer) it cost me $59.40 AUD/Year which for what I was paying seemed a reasonable amount. The package seemed decent enough 5gig of Website Storage, 10Gig of monthly data, 20 MySQL Databases, 2 Addon Domains. I had 2 fairly large sites a Font Site around 600meg and Games Site around 1.5gig along with another Smaller Website that I wanted to put on an Aussie IP and keep it off my other aussie IP’s.

So I ended using about 3.3 gig of space and 6 MySQL db’s along with using about 2.5gig of bandwidth per month. So you can see there was nothing startling about the website. Not massive traffic magnets only around 20,000 uniques per month between the 3.

I have around 750 websites allup hosted on different accounts, some are on my own dedicated servers and others are on hosting accounts and reseller accounts. I have the servers in Australia/UK/USA/South Africa mainly to do with traffic from google for the individual websites.

My monthly bill for my servers runs up to around 500 usd per month so I am always on the lookout for cheaper packages while obviously I want to have some reliability as well. If my sites are offline or not working then I am not making money.

So on the MD Web Hosting package I put the 3 sites none of them being monetized yet as I like to build a sites user base up first before scaring people off with adverts. While they were larger sites they were heavy workloads as they were being built up.

My first problem with them come in the way the font script was written I could not run the .htaccess file on the server as part of the code for the mod_rewrite was being blocked by the php parser. Ok I thought well the script runs on other servers I will just have to modify it to work on MD’s package. I did this and while I was doing it I made a few modifications to the script to make it more search engine friendly. So while some could say it was the MD’s fault it could also be argued that it was the scripts fault as well (even though it works on other servers) So my time was also not really lost as I made the script much better in the long run.