webhostingpad is a scam

They will cancel your account after the "30 days money back guarantee".
My 2 wordpress site were receiving about 300 hits per day together and they suspended my account after 31 days. Do not host with them if you are receiving any kind of traffic.

Biggest Pro: They will NOT give your money back.
Biggest Con: They will cancel your account after the "30 days money back guarantee".

Webhstingpad.com - Not worth the savings.

just not worth the time and money. If you value your time as $$ DO NOT use this service. Hours ++ ON HOLD WAIT TIME - Thank goodness it was an 800#!!
Only one or two reps were helpful. Most condescending and rude. Even online chat was cold and unconcerned.
Was provided inaccurate verbal information regarding the refund on the domain name. Finally, after several days of emails trying to convince me to stay, I receive another email advising they will refund my money less the $14.95 for domain. Was advised if I did not wish to point domain or keep it I would not be charged. Some sites allow 3 days.

Conflicting, inaccurate, information from this company.

Cheap is not always better. The adage, "you get what you pay for" is accurate for webhostingpad.com. RVsite builder is NOT for novices. I did advise them I was very inexperienced and needed an easy to use DIY site. It did NOT fit my experience level at all.

Webhostingpad.com could have been honest and advised me that their site may not be my best choice. I would have had more respect tor them and not issued this review had they been honest about everything!!! Including refunds.

Biggest Pro: Price. At least one reps was helpful and easy to communicate with.
Biggest Con: Extremely long hold time for support & rvsitebuilder is NOT for a novice

Your website will be hacked!

WHP have refused to upgrade their PHP version leaving their customers websites vulnerable to attacks. My website was hacked several times and support was not interested in investigating the problem, let alone fixing it.

The particular vulnerability allows the attacker to update your index.php page (and possibly other pages), inserting hundreds of invisible links to the end of the page. They can bypass your password and directly edit your php pages. You don't notice apart from perhaps a more sluggish opening of the page - and they don't want you to notice. This is obviously a very poor and unethical method of SEO.

The full details: http://www.esuli.it/index.php/2009/03/24/adsttnmq1sdioyslkjs2-attack/

WHP really do not care. Their attitude is as long as they're legally covered - when signing up you of course have to agree to their terms and conditions (which is obscenely in their favour giving them free licence to do as they please) and they have your money, you're just an irritation they have to put up with - even if your website is being hacked!

Beware of introductory offers

The company had all the signs of being great value and service but then resorted to scum bag tactics to charge you for extra features and services that were advertised as free or introductory. The biggest problem is that once they have your credit card number they just start submitting charges without warning, very alarming once you receive your statement.

Biggest Pro: Price

Avoid Webhosting pad - They simply dont care about their customer

They blocked my site 3 times without any warning. I bought the unlimited package and whenever my site went over the space limit instead of increasing it the just blocked it. I had to contact them to increase it. Also they stated a script of my site was causing problems but they never specified which one was. They just block your site, did not provide any warning and did not help to fix the problem. For whatever issue you have, the only solution they provide is to completely delete your site and have you start from scratch

Biggest Pro: Cheap
Biggest Con: Not worth it if you need your site up 99.9. Just avoid them

WebHostingSCAM!!

I normally don't write reviews but feel compelled to alert the public about this sham of a hosting company. Having hosted with 8 other shared providers I can say WebHostingPad is by far the worst and would urge anyone who values their time and sanity to AVOID them even if they lower their price to $1/Mo. In 6+ months of hosting with them I've witnessed an entire server get hacked numerous times. I monitor with BasicState and can report their uptime of 96% and average response of 2.5 seconds ttlb is much worse than any of my other hosts. The slow load times and frequent outages will kill your search engine rankings. In addition to their lack of security, over-subscribed servers, and lack of competent admins, it turns out their management are a bunch of crooks. Read the fine print in their terms. They use this blurb "“We reserve the right to refuse, cancel or suspend service” to routinely go through and close accounts with sites that get any significant amount of traffic. The kicker is they DON'T PROVIDE A REFUND even if you have prepaid for 5 years in advance.
Don't get trapped by the allure of their low cost & "unlimited" plans. Its all a scam and simply not worth the time or few extra dollars you have to pay to host with a legitimate company.. If you question the authenticity of review sites just check out their horrible rating and huge number of complaints on BBB.org.

Biggest Con: fraudulent business practices

LOUSY, DISHONEST HOSTING PROVIDER

There are thousands of dishonest hosting providers out there. Be aware!

WebHostingPad is no exception.

Lousy hosting provider. What they say 'unlimited bandwidth and disk space' is a total joke. You'll get only 10GB first. After that, they'll review your file. If you have only type of files that are growing over time, you won't be given another disk space.

As for downtime, my web site is down for 10 to 30~45 every day. I used http://host-tracker.com which emails me every down and up time.

Another experience is when your site grows and you have thousands of visitors, they'll remove your site immediately saying that your site was hit by Denial of Service and couldn't be hosted any more. Without any REFUND! No matter how many years you've paid. I paid for 5 years as it's a cheap hosting. Cheap means Cheating your money for 3 years with $1.99 /mo and removing your site in 1 year.

I faced the same with byethosting - http://www.byethost.com/ .

Biggest Pro: NONE
Biggest Con: DISHONEST, LOUSY, UNRELIABLE

AVOID THEM:

The mis-charged me about $200 and then refused to refund it as "its your error that we renewed despite your attempt to cancel the account". Obviously this is a common problem as "support" had a very defensive and dismissive attitude.

Based on the feed back these people are obviously not trustworthy and do not take responsibility for their own mistakes. I also host at BlueHost an they are fantastic, particularly by comparison.

AVOID webhostingpad. , Avoid webhostingpad. Avoid webhostingpad. You've been warned.

Very poor performance - Wordpress kept crashing

Stayed with this company for just over one day. Uploaded Wordpress from existing site (have done this many times witout problems) and in the middle of setup it just crashed. Full reload (very slow) started editing, crashed again. Found file transfers very slow, sometimes cPanel is unresponsive for 5-10 seconds. All suggests overloaded or faulty server. During setup, support told me I could not set up my site without first pointing nameservers to WebHostingPad. %1.95 per month seemed cheap but not worth the hassle.

Biggest Pro: Cheap
Biggest Con: Unstable

Worst customer service ever!

Some time ago, my site had been down for at least two days apparently because of a hardware problem. They restored my site from a backup that was very old, too old. And they told me that I should be the one taking care of getting it to its most up-to-date situation. Well, I would understand it if it actually was my fault. I had an addon domain routed to a document in my site, a joomla installation, some e-mail accounts, etc. that are not longer available. Since all this was caused by a problem in the hard disks and not by some abuse on my side, I don't understand why I should be the one correcting the problem. Anyway, "Webhostingpad" had a failure and apparently it does not have the resources to disentangle its consequences. Their response is basically: we have done what we can do, that's it, and is that enough? More recently, they mixed up with the domains. I had three domains: two with the same name but one ".com" and the other ".org". I decided to cancel the ".org" and they have cancelled the other, the ".com". Outrageous!