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Average Rating of Host Department


Overall rating

4.08/10

Customer support

4.72/10

Technical quality/Reliability

4.46/10

Cost/Value

5.45/10


Based on 136 user reviews and votes

Host Department average Uptime 99.722%

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Dec 01, 2011 Bad service ( 10 / 10 ) review by Knight
Bad service! If you want to buy it here you will get down time from 3 to 6 hours...
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Apr 07, 2011 Positive ( 10 / 10 ) review by ALEX
I have been hosting my site for the past 2 years and its a happy going with them...
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Dec 27, 2010 Hosted website with hostdepartment.com ( 10 / 10 ) review by mytech Inspiration
I have hosted my website with host department.com. It is one of the best web hos...
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May 22, 2010 Hostdepartment Rocks?? ( 1 / 10 ) review by Manohar
Hostdepartment Rocks!! Yes, It rocks!! I mean my servers has just crushed by ton...
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May 18, 2010 Best reseller hosting ( 10 / 10 ) review by Alpesh
I must thanks all your hard work and support that you provide, It has been excel...
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Mar 26, 2010 Best Host ( 9 / 10 ) review by msetuke
Am grateful for the assistance I got from your agent. He helped me to solve the...
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Mar 10, 2010 APLUS.NET Kings of Crap - Puts All the Rest Down for the Count! ( 1 / 10 ) review by MacKenzie Brown
APLUS.NET Kings of Crap - Puts All the Rest Down for the Count! I simply regi...
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Jan 20, 2010 The worst hosting provider I know ( 1 / 10 ) review by Vlad
Just a couple days ago my site was down for 10+ hours. Today it is down again. I...
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Dec 26, 2009 Avoid Host Department like the plague ( 2 / 10 ) review by Bob
Host Department is the worst run business in the world. I could write a book ab...
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Nov 17, 2009 A big fraud company! ( 1 / 10 ) review by Murtaza Zoaib
I am customer since 2007, company was good for 1st year but then when i added 40...
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Nov 05, 2009 Worst than the worst ( 1 / 10 ) review by Donna
I currently have 5 domains parked at host department. Not hosted, I left that a...
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Nov 04, 2009 Host Dept is Crashing and Burning ( 1 / 10 ) review by BT
The last few weeks they have been attacked and they are crashing. They don't ans...
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Nov 02, 2009 Fraud ( 1 / 10 ) review by James
I have been down two times in the past 2 months which initially appeared to be a...
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Nov 01, 2009 Worst of the Crap ( 1 / 10 ) review by Me
This is the worst service ever being given by a webhost!! I have a reseller acc...
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Oct 31, 2009 STAY AWAY!!! ( 1 / 10 ) review by David
I have been with Host Department for almost a year. I have their "Unlimited" pla...
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Oct 29, 2009 Hostdepartment one month down ( 1 / 10 ) review by Tati
At moment was one month and the service continuous down, up for 2 or 3 ours by d...
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Oct 29, 2009 PLEASE DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND RUN ( 1 / 10 ) review by Run as fast as you can away from Host Department
I have been trying to get in touch with them for 4 days now and they won't answe...
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Oct 29, 2009 CLASS ACTION ??? ( 1 / 10 ) review by camille barkho
Dear all affected businesses by Host Department. If you really are hurt and need...
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Oct 27, 2009 Not sure where Host Department went... ( 3 / 10 ) review by cheryl o
I don't use my site on their server for my main site any longer but I do store t...
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Oct 27, 2009 STAY AWAY - DOWNTIME 80% IN THE LAST 2 WEEKS ( 1 / 10 ) review by Khanh vu
I have been with hostdepartment for years with a personal site and then added a...
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Oct 26, 2009 Awful service - terrible results ( 4 / 10 ) review by Piero Scarato
I have been with them for quite a long time now - at first they were very profes...
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Oct 22, 2009 STAY AWAY, dont let price fool you ( 1 / 10 ) review by Camille Barkho
I have been with them for around 2.5 years now. I have around 40 clients (90 dom...
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Oct 22, 2009 Don't use Host Department. Please. If you know what's good for you. ( 1 / 10 ) review by Kat B
I can attest to the validity of the other review written today (10/21/2009): my...
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Oct 21, 2009 Unreliable service -10-19-09 all sites down for 11+ hrs - support vanished ( 2 / 10 ) review by 00000
At first, they were a good value and reliable. Each year has gotten worse. E...
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Oct 19, 2009 WebHosting Company to lose clients ( 1 / 10 ) review by Fernando
We have about 4 years with hostdepartment, and we lose about 50% of our clients....
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Sep 24, 2009 Worst Ever to say the Least ( 3 / 10 ) review by Muneer
Worst ever experience hosting with Host Department. chat service --- you are lu...
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Sep 08, 2009 They are the worst ( 1 / 10 ) review by Stephane
They are the worst company ever, there uptime is more 40% up and 60% down, SQL s...
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May 11, 2009 Services go down every now and then ( 2 / 10 ) review by Anand
Poor support. You need to wait atleast 15 minutes to get a live help person....
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Apr 20, 2009 hostdepartment is BEST in cheating ( 1 / 10 ) review by VENUGOPALAN
stay away from these people as they are not the best technical people who can he...
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Apr 16, 2009 Good Enough ( 8 / 10 ) review by Haris Fadillah
Value for Money, i have been with them for almost a year and never had serious i...
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Apr 13, 2009 I am tired from hostdepartment ( 2 / 10 ) review by Nov
I have asp.net + sql server website. Slow & unreliable allways....
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Jun 26, 2008 Don't host with them .. ( 2 / 10 ) review by Anonymous
If you are running a business with customers, hostdepartment will cause you to l...
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Jun 11, 2008 people are complaining with no reason ( 10 / 10 ) review by Alex
First i have to say that i have no expirience with other hosting. i am with host...
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Apr 14, 2008 Constant Intermittent Downtime ( 4 / 10 ) review by Les B.
Since signing up we have at least 5 outages a day and cannot even log into the c...
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Feb 28, 2008 Websites offline nearly everyday ( 1 / 10 ) review by Anonymous
I signed up on Feb 4/08. They have terrible problems with servers being offline....
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Jan 30, 2008 n/a ( 1 / 10 ) review by khurram
If you are a reseller and wants to loose your clients then join hostdepartment r...
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Jan 04, 2008 Host department web hosting 85% down time ( 3 / 10 ) review by Alain Comtois
I'm experiencing many problem with them they always on daily basis having proble...
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May 21, 2007 Hostdepartment Suck! ( 10 / 10 ) review by Nicholas
They started out great but have become an absolute nightmare! Two of our most...
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Apr 22, 2007 Very Bad ( 1 / 10 ) review by proxyunion
I hosted my website (proxyunion.com and proxyunion.org) last month. All of my vi...
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Mar 06, 2007 Premium Plan... Poor Hosting ( 0 / 10 ) review by Terry (owner of KylGrafX)
I have been using their hosting services for four years now and the quality has...
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Mar 06, 2007 Horrible ( 1 / 10 ) review by Dmitry
just look here (.swf clip) http://rapidshare.com/files/19648963/hd_scum.rar.html...
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Jan 15, 2007 It's simply the best Host! ( 10 / 10 ) review by Alberto Bedoya
I really don't see what the fuss is. I've been with Host Department for several...
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Dec 20, 2006 The Host That you need. ( 10 / 10 ) review by alex gould
After being fed up with a Hosting Company, thought I'd give Host Department a sh...
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Nov 07, 2006 Worst tech support! ( 3 / 10 ) review by modtang
I've repeatedly used their support ticket system and emailed them only to receiv...
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Nov 04, 2006 Winner of Worst web hosting possible Award ( 1 / 10 ) review by Charles Pollard
I thought I had finally found a reliable webhost...wrong. They will not address...
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Oct 25, 2006 Poor Customer Service ( 3 / 10 ) review by Dave Tripodi
Even though they claim a 6-12 hour response window, I’ve received no response...
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Oct 19, 2006 poor email ( 4 / 10 ) review by brad
email delivery is constantly delayed. will be switching soon...
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Oct 04, 2006 #1 ( 10 / 10 ) review by Arun
I have no problem in recommending Host Department. Their service and support has...
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Sep 06, 2006 Do not choose them ( 1 / 10 ) review by Ryo
I have had problems since day one. The browser times out when trying to connect...
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Aug 28, 2006 Nothing But Horse Poop ( 0 / 10 ) review by will lean
My letter to Host Department ---------------------------------- I want to canc...
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Aug 21, 2006 Poor Support And service for the email ( 4 / 10 ) review by Peter Schueller
Email issues not addressed, technical support does not respond the folks on chat...
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Aug 18, 2006 bad service ( 4 / 10 ) review by Anonymous
the email server is horrible. You lost your emails for no reason and you never k...
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Aug 08, 2006 Having to Move Hosts, Bad Service ( 3 / 10 ) review by Steven Thomas
I am now looking into finding a new host. I hate moving hosts, but in the end I...
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Aug 07, 2006 Hosting Department plus review ( 0 / 10 ) review by TR Brown
I find that I have only just started to host with this company and they seem to...
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Jul 20, 2006 YOU WONT BE DISSAPOINTED ( 10 / 10 ) review by Do
Website Source is the BOMB. No other can fade this awesome Hosting Compay. I was...
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Jun 01, 2006 Nice ( 10 / 10 ) review by Claus Knudsen
Host Department has been hosting 2 of my websites for over 4 years now, and I am...
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May 18, 2006 HD is the worst ever ( 10 / 10 ) review by Robby
I have been browsing reviews, and it's funny. Most of the positive reviews of H...
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May 16, 2006 superb ( 9 / 10 ) review by David Kilmer
I have owned two single domain accounts with two different places and never have...
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May 14, 2006 Worst of the worst! ( 1 / 10 ) review by Chris
I was on this service for a little over a month and had nothing but problems. Th...
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Apr 29, 2006 Reliable ( 10 / 10 ) review by Sean
I have placed 3 domains with Host department so far and have had no problems. Re...
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Apr 26, 2006 The worst ( 1 / 10 ) review by 3-bPhoto.com
I'm hosted through HD until August 2006 so feel free to swing by my website and...
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Apr 26, 2006 Still the worst... ( 1 / 10 ) review by 3-bPhoto.com
...I forgot to mention, they have been caught by IP address of being the only pe...
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Apr 03, 2006 Satisfying ( 9 / 10 ) review by gerald
Satisfying is the perfect word to describe host department. Host Department is...
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Mar 15, 2006 excellent support ( 7 / 10 ) review by Pawan
I can't say anything bad about this company. Excellent product, excellent suppor...
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Mar 11, 2006 Fantastic!! ( 10 / 10 ) review by JC
I have tried 3 other web host providers, none of which even came close to what h...
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Oct 27, 2005 Worst Nightmare ( 1 / 10 ) review by pavan
Worst hosting ever, their SQL server was down all the time, i was with them for...
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Oct 25, 2005 They're ok ( 10 / 10 ) review by joyo
I think a good host is equivalent to their responsive support, and Host Departme...
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