A word of advice to those looking for a new web host. Avoid gate.com. I have been using gate.com uneventfully for the last couple years. It was originally hostsave.com then got renamed\/bought as gate.com at some point.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems like they have really changed direction lately.<\/p>\n
The have done a major ‘upgrade’ which in effect was not an upgrade at all. They consolidated their servers and removed features they didn’t feel like supporting anymore. They at least did send a warning email a few days before the switch saying they were doing this. I have to admit part of the problem is that i didn’t read it. Though they didn’t say exactly when the switch was. Truly amateur performance on their part.<\/p>\n
As you might expect my site fell apart on the day of the switch.<\/p>\n
My first gripe is the bullshit\/lie that this was an ‘upgrade’. Since as far as i can tell it was not any sort of upgrade from any customers point of view.<\/p>\n
They forced reconfiguration of all mail accounts and eliminated ‘catch-all’ support. Because i quote “It just increases spam” and all other hosts seem to be dropping support for it. Firstly, I don’t care what other hosts are doing. Secondly its total crap. I have never gotten much spam on any of the unused addresses on my site. That should be my problem anyhow. What the heck do they care?!<\/p>\n
The reason that the catch-all is such a need for me is that i frequently give out unique emails for different sites i subscribe to in order to track who is giving out my address to spammers. I don’t bother to track what addresses i give out. I have literally hundreds of aliases that would have to be tracked down and email forwarders created for.<\/p>\n
gate.com sucks. Sorry, I have to add this to the text since most people doing a search for gripes on something do a search for “XX sucks”. how fun.<\/p>\n
gate.com seems to be run by total amateurs.<\/p>\n
For those interested i have now switched to dreamhost.com. They are faster and support WAY more features than gate.com. Truly no comparison. They have a rep for NOT doing the sort of crap that other hosts do in this department. Its a little hard to get used to their control panel. It has an odd format but provides a lot of power. The nicest feature is that you may host multiple sites on the same account. Very nice.<\/p>\n
Links:<\/p>\n
Affinitys review of Gate.com – http:\/\/www.webhostingstuff.com\/review\/GatecombyAffinity.html<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.hostingsthatsuck.com\/gate-com-sucks\/<\/a><\/p>\n