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Here’s why you should NEVER buy hosting AND a DOMAIN from studentwebhosting.

This is a sad tale about how a small hosting company called studentwebhosting started taking the piss out of one of their customers without realizing the guy they picked on knows exactly how to get several pages appearing in the Google.co.uk top 10 results for the search term studentwebhosting.

If you have read parts 1 and part 2 of this sorry saga you will know that I had thought my site had been hacked but after waiting several days for a reply from studentwebhosting I found out that apparently I hadn’t paid an invoice so they had put their own pages up to make money from my traffic.

I do this for a living and cannot afford to have sites go down without warning for 5 days while waiting for a reply from a none existent support so I arranged another host and the transfer of the domain and here’s where it gets down right dirty.

You need EPP codes to transfer a domain. Studentwebhosting have come up with stall after stall and excuse after excuse not to part with these EPP codes.

First off I had to pay for the domain (no problem) before they would transfer it but they don’t do a seperate invoice for domain and hosting so I had to pay a years hosting which I do not want at $100 plus $20 for the domain.

At least (I thought) paying that meant I could get it moved…..no chance! Another stall job of 24 hours before a reply saying they have just discovered I owe another $310 and they can’t give me the EPP codes until its sorted. They aren’t sure what for but they say its true so it must be.

This has turned into an absolute nightmare and if you have found this post while searching for a  ”studentwebhosting review” I’ll be writing one tomorrow so you should find one on this site somewhere but if you can’t be bothered looking, here’s a short summary:

Do not use studentwebosting, try WebHostingBuzz. Twice the space, 5 times the bandwidth, none of the shit.

Part 1 is here.

As predicted I heard nothing from studentwebhosting.co.uk until Monday afternoon when I finally got a reply to at least 6 messages I had sent since Thursday. The reply said my site hadn’t been hacked as I had at first thought. I hadn’t paid the invoice apparently so rather than try to contact me they decided to put there own pages up in replace of mine and make some decent money from my traffic.

Nothing on the website you understand. No message saying if this is your site please contact billing or anything like that.

This made me even more determined to move the domains to my usual registrar Namecheap. The trouble is studentwebhosting.co.uk won’t give me the EPP codes to carry out the transfer.

I paid the invoice expecting that to be an end to it but other invoices are soon due and they know if they stall me long enough I will have to pay another $120 for a domain I want to move and for hosting I no longer want from them.

This is why the pro’s tell you never to host your sites with the same company your domains are registered with.

It’s grinding to a rather sad end as I had my first couple of sites at studentwebhosting.co.uk and had joined when it was merely a couple of lads trying to earn a few extra quid to get themselves through university. Support has become practically non existent though over the last year or so and you can often wait at least a week for a reply to a ticket marked critical.

Once you get spoilt with a company such as WebHostingBuzz who reply to a query within the hour, have a comprehensive FAQ’s and give you 5 times the bandwidth for the same price, you find it hard to be patient for days.

I’ve asked at least 3 times today if I can have the EPP codes and the question has been point blank ignored, the last time they just opened up another ticket and the speed they reply that should stall it at least another week or two.

I found a few posts while hunting for the owners direct email address (which I found) about other customers having the same problems with studentwebhosting.co.uk as me.

I don’t really know what else I can do but if you have had a similar problem with a host not wanting to part with EPP codes and managed to resolve it please let me know how!

A nice suite of plugins from J.P. Schoefiel of Niches In A Box fame was released last week. The first and best in the suite is Poster Pro. A kind of poor internet marketers Portal Feeder, you simply put as many articles as you wish in a folder and zip it up. The Poster Pro plugin will then upload them ready for posting.

Tell Poster Pro how often you wish to post a new article, anything from 1 a day to once a month and then forget about it.

Now you could do all this yourself by using the post datestamp within WordPress but with Poster Pro I can set up a PLRPro article pack of 40 articles in less than 5 minutes, using the datestamp method would take several hours.

The second part of the suite is Socialize It Pro. It works as a stand alone or with Poster Pro. Just enter your usernames and passwords for up to 30 bookmarking sites and everytime you make a post either manually or with Poster Pro, it will submit the post to a random selection of the social bookmarking sites.

Again, you could do this manually by using a service like OnlyWire but you would have to visit your site after each post and the idea behind this suite is to set it up and forget it.

The 3rd part of the suite is RSS Aggregator. This is a way of bulking up your posts without having to use all of your articles too quickly. Enter as many rss feeds as you like, put in some details like tags to use, which categories to post to, how often to post etc. and the jobs done. It will fetch an article from the rss feeds and post it for you. It works together with Socialize It Pro so your new post gets some immediate back links, spiders and traffic.

Conclusion.

There is nothing new here but I like the way they all work together rather than using different plugins and trying to get them to work in conjunction with each other. I am always looking for ways to make as much of my work as automated as possible, the plan being in the not too distant future to be able to sail away to warmer climates with just a log on every now and then to make sure the money is still coming in.

This suite can go a long way towards helping me achieve that. I have set up 2 so far with no problems and each was done in well under an hour. That’s installing, adding passwords and usernames and finding suitable RSS feeds. I have my PLRPro articles set to drip at 1 a week and 2 posts a week via the RSS Aggregator. The blog will grow nicely for the best part of a year without so much as a visit from me, sweet! I’ve monetized them with Adsense and a few affiliate programs which again are all automated thanks to the WordPress Affiliate Pro plugin.

The WP Traffic Suite is offered at a special launch price of $97 and has got to be worth many times that for anyone serious about setting up an automated business model. Visit the WP Traffic Suite Home Page By Clicking Here.