Recently, I have had nothing but trouble with this, so called Web Host'. Their servers have turned into Spam Farms without any action from the server managers. Their forums are moderated by a bunch of brainless freaks who are given full authority to delete any complaint provided by a member. Their aim is to display compliments only so they do not loose a dollar. They are useless and not worth the money. Their customer support is run by one person who is rude and arrogant. Many users will say the same thing. Their phones never answer and if you dare crticise their service, they will delete your post and ban you.. this is offcourse after they have taken your money. If you are considering a web hosting service, stay clear from Voda Host. Their service is lousy and you can get much more server space and traffic allowances from other providers for less money.

I am new to the Webworld and never in my life would have thought I could build a website. I consider myself a technically challeged person and artistically not even close to drawing credible stick men but the Blue Voda webuilder has made me feel like a genius and the help and kindness of the member ans staff of the Voda Host Forum has raised my level of knowledge.

The Forum is one of the greatest assets of Voda Host, which by itself is already an incredible bargain. Upon searching the web I had tried a few other free webbuilders but BV was the only one that I found that really was created with the novice in mind. Kudos to them for a job well done. THey have a lively forum and a great support team that makes it easy to go about making a great site in very little time.

To those seeking a free webuilder and a great hosting service I recommend BV & VH as the best of the best. Try it yourself...it's worth the time.

Spent a few days reviewing hosts on the web for pricing/features/site builder software, etc.

Signed up for Voda Host. Downloaded Blue Voda.

Spend a couple of days playing with it: GREAT PRODUCT.

I have spent a year with Soholaunch with another hosting company: its OK, but clumsy and confining. Frontpage is good but not much pizzaz. Dreamweaver too complicated for me.

But BV has been great! Congratulations! I can recommend VodaHost (quick responses to trouble tickets so far) and Blue Voda.

I found the sales speel did not match reality -

"easy to use" and "no programming knowledge needed"

- not true. When I pointed this out to them, they

pointed out their Terms of Service which stated that

such knowledge WAS needed. This was the fastest

reply I'd had from Vodahost 'support', by the way.

The support documentation is contradictory and

ambiguous. One can only try the software once

signed up - which is when one finds the flaws. Many

support docs are incorrect, and I spent days trying

to configure the basics. I did not find it easy to

use at all. Frustrating, was my experience.

Customer support was slow. You only find this out

once you've paid.

I've found the tutorials to be all over the place,

largely inaccurate, out of date and misleading. How

the various 'easy to use' tools are supposed to

interact, is a mystery to me. The inability to

modify forms in Form Maker Pro is a design

nightmare. Form Maker Pro was one of the 'products'

that sold me on this hosting system, but which I

could only test after forking out the fees.

All of the above has led to days of hair-tearing

frustration. How Vodahost can claim that one can

have a web site up and running without any prior

experience is beyond me.

I tried to contact Vodahost's UK contacts to ask for

a refund their contact details given as:

In the U.K.
VodaHost Ltd.
7 Petworth Road
Haslemere, Surrey
GU27 2JB
Tel: 020 8816 8319 / United Kingdom

However, the above UK telephone number belonged to

someone who knew nothing about Vodahost, and who was

answering the call from Hong Kong, via Skype!

In my opinion, avoid, or report them to the Office

of Fair Trading:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/ExternalLink?EXTERNAL_LINK=

http%3A//www.ripofftipoff.net/+

I have some very bad issues with Vodahost, they customer support is suppose to be fanatical its really not very good at all, as most of the people there have been brainwashed into thinking that everything is fine there, so if there is a problem you have caused it... To give you an idea if you look into there forums All negitive feedback is removed, which tells me that they cannot accept critisisum in any form. Even when it is warranted... My advice is stay away.... I had 4 sites with them and I was an affiliate... But no more....

To answer the below response, this is a bunch of lies and if anyone wants to trust this guy, go ahead but it's at your own risk. My phone number is not fake at all, although I have since moved house. It is vodahost who has a pretend phone number with an answering machine at the other end. I recommend anyone who thinks of using vodahost, try to contact them before, and see if you can manage to speak to a person. My mistake is that I did not do any research before. If I had I would have seen that many others had a bad experience before, and I even found one website that raised the question of whether this guy was a criminal. So please do your research. Do not fall into the same trap that I did. And do not be drawn in by the few good reviews you might find. I suspect some of these were done by the owner himself. If you need further information on vodahost please do contact me on my email mirgrec@gmail.com

Stay away - that is my advice. It is just a scam. I was tempted to join because I wanted to use a simple website builder, (for I had no idea how to design a website) and they offered one - but you can only use it if you have an account with them, so I got one. It seems that this vodahost is run by one guy who calls himself many different names so that hsue appears like a big company. After a while he started suspending my site for no apparent reason, and came up with all sorts of crap explanations. He said I was spamming and sent me emails that were supposedly attached to my site, then he sent me a file that he said was attached to my site - a file to chase credit card details of others. He accused me and threatened me. I asked him for a phone number to be able to talk to someone to sort this out becuase I hadn't done it, but instead asked me to fax a copy of my passport, and started abusing me. So most likely this guy is using people's websites for internet fraud, and then putting the blame on his clients. This is one of the emails he sent me - just to see his professionalism -

"cut the fucking crap, your a criminal, we caught you and your shitting yourself, what you did can get you 10 years in a very nice victorian prison cell. Do you think you are being clever or something??? You are a fraudster, we traced it all back to your IP address. So send me your ID so I may forward it to the authorties and let them sort you out".

I have since reposrted vodahost to the authorities, and I don't think he will be around much longer

Stay far away from this company

I just lost 120$ to them on Sunday. They did not turn on my account and they surreptiously charged me 20 dollars on my credit card for what they said was a free domain name.

In the meantime, I had a chance to research them (duh, after I paid). Threads like this
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=405796

I asked them since they hadnt turned on my account and overcharged for what was to be free I am not satisfied (Remember Big Bold Letters 100% guaranteed satisfaction). Figured it was only a few hours they would reverse the transaction.
They break out the terms of service with a lecture about morality.
Crazy to do business like that. Read that thread and the way they talk to people. The owner asked if one poster had been breastfed as a child?? That attitude was seen in some of my exchanges. I am just going to chalk it up to a loss. Dont make the same mistake as me.
Email me at Sydney_stryker@hotmail.com if you have more questions about my experience with them.
No joke, I am really out the money and just happen I found out about them in advance before building a site there. Research them, believe me, its completely unprofessional people and weird too. Oh yeah, I still have a year of hosting paid for there, anyone wants it can have it.

Seriously, every thing that every says about them is true when you research them. I cant believe I was such an idiot to get sucked with out a proper research of this company.

Vodahost was the first webhost that I have tried. Yes, their deals seem too good to be true and they are fast on their forums, but that is as far as it goes. If you do a search here in these forums, you will see posts by Voda1 that show just what kind of professionalism they have. I had problems with them and they deleted my username on the forums before I even thought of posting anything. They claim their TOS is for them to run a tight ship, but they have written it only to cover their butt, and that is the only reason.



I was using a php opensource script on their webserver (Joomla) and of course I has some CHOWN issues because php has a flaw when using autoinstallers in these type of php scripts. I asked these guys if they could CHOWN my files for me so I could have ownership of my files again, so I could edit them and etc...



For those who don't know, to CHOWN a directory takes a webhost about 20 seconds with a shot SSH script. These guys didn't even know what I was talking about. So I spelled it out for them, sent them links in reference to it, and they had the nerve to tell me that it was my fault that I lost ownership to my files and that I should install Joomla using Fantastico. How is that suppose to help? I had about 100mb of files already installed and ready to go; I was just waiting on that 20 second script to get the final touches done. Then they told me that it is their policy that they won't touch any of their customers account. What? I am asking them to give a little support here and they can't touch accounts?



The truth is these guys don't know what they are doing. On top of all this, it took them a week and a half to come up with this conclusion. I had a clients website I was designing on hold waiting for these guys to help me out. So I finally said screw this. I need a host that supports php scripts. These guys obviously don't. Not only does Joomla do this, but so does SMF, and many others. All of them are bundled together in Fantastico which is on their servers, but they won't even support the use of them.



So I decided to look for another host. My PayPal account had just been charged for my second month of hosting and I cancelled the subscription. This is before I read the TOS (which you live and learn I guess), and these guys had my account deleted within an hour. I had been working on three different sites for over two weeks (A Zen-Cart website, SMF, and Joomla), and by this time I had about 200MB of files and 144MB of MySQL files on my hosting account. My second mistake was that I hadn't backed-up my files for that last two weeks. Yeah, that was my fault, but like I said, I was a newbie to webhosting and I figured I had another 28 days of webhosting paid for. Come to find out, in the TOS, it says they can delete your account as soon as a subscription is cancelled. Great for me. I lost about 80 to 100 hours of design and coding because of that. No refund, no nothing. I asked them, still trying to keep my cool, if they kept a back-up of their servers and if they could just let me get my files. They 'kindly' linked me to their TOS that basically said that they don't back-up anything and that they are not responsible for any files lost and that you user Vodahost at your own risk. Great!



By this time I was angry. Two weeks of horrible support and this is what I get. I finally told them I was mad. Then some guy who said his name was Jeff (which was a lie) called my house and left a crappy message on my answering machine yelling, "Pick up the phone Charles," and so on. It was the most unprofessional thing I have ever heard. I finally opened a support ticket and told them to just leave me alone, they done their damage.



I went to their forum and noticed a thread titled, "What do you think of Vodahost?" I went to reply and my forum username had already been cancelled (talk about thinking a head of time). So I registered again with a new name, posted my peace, and I swear to God that it hadn't been five minutes and my post was deleted. Why wasn't my support tickets answered that fast?! I left a email with Affililys (?) who supposivily owns Vodahost and they answered me telling me they had no control over what Vodahost did. I told them find, I will just register the domain, vodahostsucks.com. I checked it out right afterwards, it hadn't been registered yet, so I bought it. I checked on it the next day and found out through my domain registar that it had been registered after me by Vodahost, and they got the domain, along with vodahost-sucks.com, and some others. All these guys. I checked out the date of registration through Whois and they registered right after I did and yet still got the domain over me (someone pulled some strings).



All these guys want to do is cover their own butts. They don't over any support that is worth a damn, and their BlueVoda software is the cheapest pile of crap I have ever seen. They don't answer support tickets for days unless they are pre-sales related and they don't care about their customers unless they are silent. Vodahost was a huge mistake. My webhost now will bend over backwards for me, answers my support tickets in no less than 6 seconds and offer just as much as Vodahost for a great price. I lost valuable time, work, and a lot more in less than a month by using Vodahost. I made some newbie mistakes, but these guys gave me the worst support ever and took well advantage of me being naive.




And trust me, vodahostsucks.com is not the only domain out there that can be registered to get my point accross. :) Beware of Vodahost!!