I've now spent a considerable amount of time transferring a Wordpress site from one of these hosting providers. It's ironic frankly, just how bad the web-design and hosting of a 'web-design and hosting' platform is.
Clearly, there is no maintenance of this provider's site anymore, and it's just a front for EIG. The performance is abysmal as well. The provider I'm migrating from advertised 2 vCPUs and 2GB of RAM, but the site is profoundly quicker on 1 vCPU and 512Mb RAM from AWS Lightsail. And we're saving money with Lightsail.
Never heard of EIG, but this appears to be the crux of the issue:
> In very short, the main reason is that EIG has a very bad reputation of ruining the hosts it acquires. HostGator, Arvixe, A Small Orange, Site5 and so on – we all have heard a huge mass of horrible stories from former clients of these hosts which sharply deteriorated their services after being bought by EIG. EIG “optimizes” cost structure of the hosts it buys out, fires great (expensive) support staff and migrate clients to a worse hardware infrastructure.
> Another reason is a strategic one – EIG’s core strategy is to expand as much as possible and profit for the needs of its shareholders. So, this is not about making hosting better for clients, or find a compromise between high quality and profit. This is a pure target of pleasing shareholders.
> Being on a client side, I definitely oppose this approach of doing business in hosting. When a big company like EIG seizes a bigger share on the market by aggressive marketing and offering bad services, it ruins the web hosting ecosystem. As a result, great hosts become less noticeable by ordinary people who have less and less chances to get a good hosting services after next EIG acquisition.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 18.2 ms ] threadClearly, there is no maintenance of this provider's site anymore, and it's just a front for EIG. The performance is abysmal as well. The provider I'm migrating from advertised 2 vCPUs and 2GB of RAM, but the site is profoundly quicker on 1 vCPU and 512Mb RAM from AWS Lightsail. And we're saving money with Lightsail.
> In very short, the main reason is that EIG has a very bad reputation of ruining the hosts it acquires. HostGator, Arvixe, A Small Orange, Site5 and so on – we all have heard a huge mass of horrible stories from former clients of these hosts which sharply deteriorated their services after being bought by EIG. EIG “optimizes” cost structure of the hosts it buys out, fires great (expensive) support staff and migrate clients to a worse hardware infrastructure.
> Another reason is a strategic one – EIG’s core strategy is to expand as much as possible and profit for the needs of its shareholders. So, this is not about making hosting better for clients, or find a compromise between high quality and profit. This is a pure target of pleasing shareholders.
> Being on a client side, I definitely oppose this approach of doing business in hosting. When a big company like EIG seizes a bigger share on the market by aggressive marketing and offering bad services, it ruins the web hosting ecosystem. As a result, great hosts become less noticeable by ordinary people who have less and less chances to get a good hosting services after next EIG acquisition.