WOW!  Can't believe some of the comments I've seen!

I don't know why some of you had such problems, but I haven't experienced them!

I've used WH4L for 6 years with up to 6 domains.  They have set the bar for web hosts....and that bar is exceedingly high.  I truly believe I can't find another host as good with the value added for as low a price.

Name it- they provide it.  I've watched them grow and improve in all aspects of their business over the last 6 years.  I've never waited more than a day to have a problem resolved...and there have been very few problems- unlike other hosts I've used.  They certainly strive to maintain their promise of 99.9% uptime.  They've even willingly, professionally, and efficiently helped me resolve problems that I was the cause of.

I'd recommend no other!

(BTW- I DO NOT work for WH4L, nor have I ever.  I'm just a very satisfied customer!)

So, here is the end of the story:

1/ they solved my problems
2/ they improved my DNN (it was very slow)
3/ they apologize
3/ they gave me a compensation

CONCLUSION: I am happy now...
;-)
Just one regret, they should have better communicate on the topic, they did not answer to my first request and I had to wait one day before having my first answer, which is unusual...

DV FX

Webhost4Life is a very good webhosting I've found for my little network of sites (a central portal, a blog, and various little sub-sites); and it's the one that offers lots and lots of features (MySQL, MS SQL,a lot of web space, a powerful control panel, support of PHP, ASP.Net, ASP, many commercial CMS and blog/forum engines, etc.) at a very cheap price. I think Webhost4life is the perfect choice for medium/big websites, and for network of various little websites. It offers, moreover, free subdomains, and a single hosting can handle more than a single primary domain. I recommend this hoster to anyone.

Are there any posters with more than 1 post who are able to vouch for WH4L? Their deal is compelling. I think I will try them out while we're in development and see how it goes.

I am able to vouch for WH4L. Though be prepared to be nickeled, and dimed.

They Deliver - Great Support, Great Service, Great Price! I am an on-the-side website developer. I have a few customers I've had for year. I was using a service that sounded like all the others. But they did not deliver. In fact, they finally were down for days and I couldn't get ahold of them... and I lost the customer. That was it. I searched and found webhost4life. I signed up for the MS Web 2008 Advanced Hosting Plan and they had me going in one day and after two more days when the changes took affect over the internet, I cancelled my old host service and it felt great. Webhost4life has fast/knowledgeable customer support, great service, and great up-time. And they even saved me money. You can't beat that! I love 'em. Plan: $9.95 MS Web 2008 Advanced Hosting Plan

My church started in 2004 and we looked for a good provider with decent workable aplications that would be consistant for the best price. We were disapointed in what we discovered. In fact we struggled with our hositng company for over a year and finally gave up and started to look around for a better solution. We found webHost4life and have not looked back. They have been consistant and reliable for the duration of our time with them. Outages are extreemly rare and most importantly, they have communicated with us if there were any concerns that they were addressing. We are very satisfied with Webhost's service and the quality of the product.

Hi all,

I just wanted to provide a little update here about WebHost4Life. I've been hosting with them since 2004 and up until recently I've been quite happy with them. For the price, the support and everything else was good. They are making a move to another server infrastructure now and I've been testing the new server they  igned me and the results are not good. Recently I haven't been happy with the page speed on my site (around 3-4 seconds per page) but when testing on the new servers I'm now getting 35-40 seconds per page. Ouch. I emailed their support with both urls so they could see what's going on but no response now for a couple days.

Yesterday I set up an account at PowerDNN and I'm impressed with the speed so far. The same pages that were taking 3-4 seconds are now sub 1 second, most around .6 seconds. I'm going to play around with this account for the trial period and test out a few other things before I commit.

Richard
DNNStuff

Same for me Richard....

I am (was?) hosted with WebHost4Life since many years with MS VPS account...
(http://declic-video-fx.com/language.../DNN.aspx)

Unfortunately, WebHost4Life has been bought by another company, and we have been asked to migrate to a new plateform... The migration is currently pending (for more than 1 month in my case), and so far I was not able to run the DNN website on the new plateform.

Unfortunately, after spending hours with the support to try solving the problem, I am still alone with my problem and unable to migrate to the new plateform. That's a pity, the service was great, but now it is just unusable for DNN.... :-(

So if anyone has a similar experience or idea, I am willing to inform you that I migrate to Power DNN. I am VERY VERY happy !

I was looking for
- semi dedicated hosting (with dedicated app pool)
- same price range (59 $ / month with WH4L and I pay now 20$/month)
- 5 Go storage
- Email functionnality (Smarter Mail or similar) with at least 100 alias and multiple email account
- IMAP
- SMTP Server relay (no limit, or reasonnable limit, like 100 emails/hour)
- 2 DB and 2 domains
- Each DB with a limit of 300 Mb minimum (currently 50 Mb per DB)
- possibility to connect to the database remotely with the web (MyLittle Admin or similar) --> this is problematic, I am using Management Studio 2008
- possibility to manually backup the database and to restore it (option for automatic backup is an advantage, backup to be downloaded manually is perfect)
- possibility to use FTP, 10 accounts (using currently 3 accounts)
- 301 redirect www.domain.com to domain.com
- Fast response time (no slow DNN please...) !!

Kind regards,
DV FX

Has anyone actually gotten a DNN site to run on the new WH4L platform? I know that their automated migration doesn't work, but has anyone tried to do it manually?

I've hosted with them for years and have been pleased. I don't like change any more than anyone else does, but sometimes it happens. I'm wondering if the fussing about WH4L is real or just a desire to not want to change?

I'd really like to know if someone has gotten a DNN site to function on the new platform.

Is this the best or is it what you guys use of endorse. Thanks for your time.

Cheers.

Jordan.

I have not personally used WH4L.

I can recommend PowerDNN, SeekDotNet, and iHost.  I have sites on all of these hosts.

I just took a look at the WH4L site.  They say that they support DotNetNuke on all of their plans, so you should be able to get support from them to get it going.  If not, I'd ask them to honor the 30-day money-back guarantee.

Parenthetically, their basic plan doesn't appear to support a MS SQL database.  I can't see how they can support DotNetNuke without that.  You might want to ask.

I'd love it if someone from WH4L could let us know the details, too!

I had responded earlier that I can vouch for WH4L. I can no longer do that. All my sites have been down for 48 hours, and no response from support. They recently transitioned their control panel, and support model (Pay to escalate a ticket). I made an educated moved to 3Essentials.

http://webhost4lifecustomers.ning.com/

Hi Joseph

yes they (WH4L) say that its hosted on all plans but they forget to say that the basic plan needs an additional purchase of a mssql DB costing $144.00 per year !!! . Just to warn everyone before making the purchase as they just wasted my time.

I wanted to also comment on WH4L, been pretty good up until they transitioned to the new platform since the new owners purchased the company.

My sites are currently running about 50% up-time and dog slow since the move. All I get is scripted answers from support with 24-48 hour response times. Totally unacceptable.

I think there should be warning posted regarding this company. The new owners have pretty much ruined it. Just Google them ans see the thousands of complaints.

Hi All,
As many of you know, I work for PowerDNN so I do feel a bit uneasy talking about a former compet itor of ours (read below and you'll understand why I say "former"), however, I have some information for you that you might find interesting.

Last week was "HostingCon" which is the big industry conference for hosting providers. Unfortunately I was not able to attend (somebody has to run the show here at PowerDNN (-: ), however, other members of our executive team were able to go. The new owners of WHFL were there and we were naturally just as curious as you all are about why they're "burning down the house" so to speak.

Well, here's what I learned:
1) The former owner of WHFL apparently owns about 200 other business and WHFL was taking too much time out of his schedule. That's why he wanted to sell.

2) The new owners specialize in "trimming the fat" on hosting companies and squeezing as much money out of the company as possible.

3) According to the new owners, people using DNN require much, much more support than people not using DNN. They want to trim the fat and get rid of customers that can potentially cost them a lot of money in support costs.

4) The way the purchase deal was structured, the new owners only pay for customers who successfully migrate to the new platform. How many of you DNN users are being successfully migrated?

5) According to the new owners, they do not care at all about loosing the customers that they are because it is not costing them anything and is actually saving them a lot of money.

If any of you remember EasyCGI from a few years ago (they used to be a DNN sponsor), they were bought by the same group who now owns WHFL. From what I remember, EasyCGI out right told DNN users "You've got X days to move your sites". My guess is that caused some legal issues, so now they're just letting the new platform fire customers instead.

Thanks for the update Tony. The phrase "people using DNN require much, much more support than people not using DNN" has me a little concerned though. I for one haven't found this to be the case and hopefully this isn't the case with the majority of DNN users although it is a little troubling. You've been hosting DNN for a while now, what would you like to see as a hoster to make DNN better?

Richard Edwards
www.dnnstuff.com

Hi Richard,
While I agree this isn't the case with many DNN power users, I do understand WHFL's assessment.

How many of the following questions would you expect your hosting provider to answer for you?

How do I configure DNN to send email?
How do I make Module X work?
How do I install a skin?
I fired my webmaster and he changed my host password. Can you reset it for me?
How do I add a page to my website?
Why am I getting a "Max Pool Error" after installing a poorly developed module?
Would you upgrade DNN for me?
When I try to upload a .HTML file, it says it I am not allowed and I should contact my hosting provider. Please fix it!
I have 143 modules installed, 900 portals and 37 scheduled tasks. Why is my website going slow?
Why is it portals don't export/duplicate right in DNN?
etc...

While I think most of the DNN experts on this forum know the answers to the above questions, the fact of the matter is that most DNN users don't and the first person they ask is their hosting provider. That is OK for us though, because we train our guys specifically on DotNetNuke, however, for other companies who are used to questions like "How do I create an FTP account through my control panel so I can upload my HTML website?" it is overwhelming to get application-specific questions like the ones above.

I've heard rumblings of a few other hosting providers in addition to WHFL who are considering dropping DNN, but we'll see how that all pans out. Just keep your eyes and ears open.