I’ve never had a problem with Toby or any of their staff’s skillset, and I am a techie myself, so I know when someone is telling me they can do something that they don’t do, even when I don’t know enough to do it myself.

Again, I’m not at all trying to invalidate your experience, I can only think from my perspective, which is that what you went through was the exception and not the rule.

No one I’ve ever referred to them has had a problem with them, as far as I’ve polled them, and asked them individually, but in any business, you’re going to have times when the match isn’t right.

Hope you have better luck in the future.

I personally LOVE Alpha One Tech and I’m a very high maintenance client who is high profile and has hundreds of sites. I have two semi-dedicated server accounts, a reseller account, then a bunch of little accounts for the stuff I can’t be bothered to maintain.

I’m a pain in their behind, and quite a drama queen, and they take me in stride. So for the average client who just wants to put up some sites and have Fantastico, they’re probably a God Send.

I’ve been through some horror stories with hosts that auto-double charge, turn off PHP on your site without telling you, skip town and lave you hanging, or lock you into contracts you can’t terminate unless you give up your site.

I won’t even get into the customer service nightmare I’m having with Host Gator – I can’t even get anyone to listen to my problems unless I let my accounts laspe into suspendeed status, and even then, they remain unresolved. With Alpha One, I enter a ticket, or send an email. I’ve even had them call me personally and spoken to Toby directly for troubleshooting. They’ve even blocked spam and DNS attacks against my site when I was snug in my bed asleep, unaware of the problems.

As a result of years of nightmares, I only trust two hosting companies implicitly. Host4Profit and AlphaOneTech. There are other ones out ther I consider good, but they are Great. I’m a very particular person, and thought it would increase my income greatly, I don’t reccommend services I haven’t used myself or don’t have first hand knowledge of…

I meant to say his “sloppiness”….

I meant to say his “sloppiness”….

Saying that is like calling the doctor and saying “I’m sick, help me.” Wouldn’t you tell the doctor where it hurts, how long it’s been going on, how you’ve tried to treat it yourself?

First thing I can tell you is to go to this page:
http://www.freetraffictip.com/the-free-traffic-methods-series/

Read those tips and use them.

Second thing – you won’t get far with a site hosted by someone else. Too much of a free host is beyond your control.

Third – When you’ve completed the steps, be really specific about what you need help with. The information here is free. Try that information first, or if you can’t be troubled to do it, hire someone to take care of it for you. If you can’t afford someone like me, buy a do-it-yourself guide, take the steps you learn, break them down into mini-projects, and hire college kids or someone off elance to execute the steps for you.

That’s pretty much the best I can do for a really general question like that.

Thanks for coming by. If you can’t access your pages, and your host can’t help you, move them again. This time go with one you’re referred to by a friend. One of my sites is hosted by a really good site for $25, because that one site needs one feature few other hosts have. But I also have two reseller accounts on different servers to host all my smaller sites, one of which is on AlphaOneTech, and all my big sites are on AlphaOneTech as well. They’ve got plans that are as cheap as 6 bucks a month and they used to work with Dell computers. Quality and cheap. Find a new host and switch!]

Hey Tim,

I still don’t know yet. I’m not going anywhere before the end of June if that makes you feel better. And even if I close this site, I’m not leaving the Net entirely, nor will I totally discountinue writing about traffic. We’ll see I guess. It really touches me that you care. Sometimes it feels like I’m talking to myself, you know?

But, like you it’s nice to know that the other websites can still pull in the income.

However, I don’t like the idea of not being able to get my free traffic fill. Can I persuade you otherwise?

Tim