Ever deal with a fake webhost?

[Grant]

Have you ever dealt with a fake webhost? Maybe it was someone random you met online who said they were a webhost or web master. Did they ever try to trick you into buying their services? I'm sure there are people out there who scam as a webhost in the hopes of stealing unsuspecting people's money. Are there fake webhosts out there? If so, what should we watch out for?

 

[Nomad]

Not a fake webhost but I once bought a web hosting from a buy who was running a reseller hosting program. I hosted my test sites for after some time I found that the hosting company was vanished and my site was not accessible. Bythe way, I did not lose anything because I was just hosting a test sute and I had received hosfor posting on a forum.

 

[Grant]

Not a fake webhost but I once bought a web hosting from a buy who was running a reseller hosting program. I hosted my test sites for after some time I found that the hosting company was vanished and my site was not accessible. Bythe way, I did not lose anything because I was just hosting a test sute and I had received hosfor posting on a forum.

That's good it wasn't a major site. Because then you would have been out of luck. How much money did you end up paying them for it?

 

[Nomad]

Well, I did not pay with real money. I used to post on a certain forums where I earned forum credits, I used my forum credits to buy hosting, I think it was about 50 cents in fiat value. BY the way, every site I create, I back up them manually on cloud so even if I was hosting major site, I would not have lost it.