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AE
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Stay away!
December 2, 2018

I hosted for domains and everything was fine until my account gets suspended for no reason.
No response from helpdesk.
What a waste of time and money...

Stay away!

Date of experience: December 2, 2018
Colorado
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I've been a Customer for about 2 Years, had Numerous Problems, Iit takes about a week or longer to get things resolved, and MOST of the time I am Smarter than their Techs!
My Site has a Security Warning on it, I'm Getting NO Emails and my Emails sent have to go out through another server as to not get flagged as SPAM.
I copied this from another Review, Speaks it Clearly:
DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!
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"Doesn't get any worse than this. Stay away!"

8/3/19

Read below message from Lifetime Hosting...

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Upcoming service interruption, Thursday, July 25 2019 at 10:00 am ET.

Due to upcoming cPanel licensing changes, we will be moving all Lifetime. Hosting plans to the 100% compatible DirectAdmin control panel.

Unfortunately, during this control panel change your hosting account will experience downtime. We anticipate a minimum 4 to 6-hour service interruption for this upgrade although it may take as long as 12 hours depending on restoration speed and factors.

Once the server is prepared, we will immediately start restoring all hosting accounts. We anticipate 80% of all accounts will be restored in under 6 hours.

We will be backing up all hosting accounts starting Monday, July 22. We recommend you do not make any changes to your hosting account on or after this date as these modifications may not be restored on Thursday, July 25.

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It's now the 8th of august 2019 and our sites are still not online. Stay away from this company!

Date of experience: August 8, 2019
Saudi Arabia
32 reviews
44 helpful votes
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Thief
October 11, 2019

Thief. I lost all my websites because of them. They're thieves stealing clients' money.
Beware of them.

Date of experience: October 11, 2019
Nigeria
1 review
5 helpful votes
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The damaged all my sites over 25 sites gone down with all good ranking GONE
Terrible support. They dont answer and bully and aggressive

Date of experience: October 7, 2019
California
2 reviews
31 helpful votes
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I just became familiar with Lifetime Hosting early February 2017, so my experience has been limited. First, I have been developing websites since 1999, and I have worked with a number of fair to good hosting companies. I was attracted to Lifetime's "pay once" hosting plan, and I got a decent price through an online special.

In June I recommended Lifetime to a client who was on a budget, and then proceeded to set up his WordPress site on Lifetime... WHAT A NIGHTMARE. I do not know what IT staff they have running the network infrastrucure, but the database crashes and the network crashes (almost appeared as a DNS crash several times), the repeated EMAILs for tech support... too much loss time!

I lost nearly 30 hours of client development time bceause of the instability of Lifetime Hosting. My personal and professional projects that I setup, again around 40 hours of work, was lost due to their internal issues. I cannot recommend Lifetime Hosting in any capacity, and if you are a professional developer, stay away from them... their database trouble will cost you client and personal time.

Date of experience: July 16, 2017

Overview

The overall reputation of the company is predominantly negative, with numerous customers expressing frustration over prolonged service outages, unresponsive support, and a lack of accountability. Many reviews highlight significant downtime for websites and email accounts, often lasting weeks, accompanied by vague or unhelpful responses from customer service. While a few customers report satisfactory experiences, particularly in the early years of service, these positive sentiments are overshadowed by the prevailing trend of dissatisfaction. The company appears to struggle with reliability and effective communication, leading to a loss of trust among its user base.

This summary is generated by AI, based on text from customer reviews

service
9
value
9
shipping
3
returns
3
quality
8