Catastrophe Avoided… BlueHost.com Is Officially The Worst Hosting Company
So I have had problems with my hosting company, BlueHost last weekend and yet again this weekend especially on Saturday nights. Last weekend their server was down for a few hours for who knows what but either way… no isp should be DOWN. So this past Saturday I had troubles yet again and caused panic. While my web guru called them up to deal with them, things were eventually resolved because said guru keeps awesome backups and my site was screwed due to BlueHost’s lack of managing their servers and whatever they were doing Saturday night.
So early Sunday morning I am informed that my site is SUSPENDED due to a conflict of their terms of service because of my content. Go look for their terms of service on their site and you will never find it. I was never sent one and my site has been hosted with them for almost a year since I moved things over to my own domain. Now that I had been calling to request some actual customer service, they took a look at my site and deemed it unacceptable. Come to find out they are located in Utah and have some sort of religious morals they are trying to preach. Any site on their servers may not contain photos causing sexual arousal (not even listed as pornography) nor any written content may cause sexual arousal. Not even words are good for them. Wow.. what a bunch of assholes. No warning.. took my money gladly for a year and poof.. gone.
I want to thank my web tech for pulling his hair out for almost 24 hrs trying to move my site and put it on one that doesn’t mind adult content. So may this be a lesson…. go with the guys who allow any content because I don’t support people who don’t even respect the 1st Amendment. BlueHost go move to China because that’s where you belong. In a close mouthed, communist society.
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Now back to the naked stuff!
Tags: suspension, websites
Yeah what he said!
I was worried, im glad your back online!
August 25th, 2008 at 11:09 pmfuck censorship…
August 25th, 2008 at 11:57 pmWith a name like BlueHost? How odd.
August 26th, 2008 at 3:50 amI had a “WTF” moment yesterday… glad to see you’re back up and running.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:46 amtalk about a panic attack-I thought you may have been lost forever!!! Glad to see you back!!
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August 26th, 2008 at 11:46 amYup – almost ran into that issue with them myself. Was going to sign up a site with them and went to read the Terms of Service and noticed a “no profanity” clause.
I jumped on a chat session with a customer support person and essentially asked “ok, so if I say “shit” on MY site that’s hosted by you, even though I’ve paid you, you can pull my site?”
Response? Well, I don’t work in the…get this….enforcement….section but, well, yes. We can.
Ummm….no. Fuck Bluehost.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:38 pmTry Hostgator, they’ve been great for me!
August 26th, 2008 at 5:41 pmThanks for all of the feedback and glad to see I was missed! Sorry to cause any panic attacks… I forget the name of who I went with now but they advertise to specifically include adult sites. At least SOMEONE still respects that little thing called the Constitution
EF: Yea… I wanted to go drive into Utah and slap the first person I saw. Why don’t they go back to where they came from.. oh wait that’s New York. doh!
August 26th, 2008 at 6:15 pmI’m sympathetic and dislike the way it was handled by your hosting service, but I do not believe this is a “censorship” or “Constitutional” issue.
It’s a free market – BlueHost.com owns their servers and has a right to make any policy they want in regards to their usage. And you are free to go elsewhere if you disagree.
It’s not “censorship” because there is no government force behind what they did, and you can still say what you want, just not using their servers, which they own.
To me, what would be “unconstitutional”, “un-American”, or anti-free market would be if BlueHost.com or whoever was required by government to provide you with a web site.
If I have a product or service, I should have the right to determine who I choose to sell to or refuse to sell to. Do you not want that right in your line of business also?
I’m against the government telling you what you can and can’t have on your web site (that would be censorship), but on the flip side I am also against the government telling a hosting service that they HAVE to let you put anything you want on their privately owned servers.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:52 pmFirst time poster, long time lurker. I’ve got two things to say:
1. This is just silly: “Any site on their servers may not contain photos causing sexual arousal (not even listed as pornography) nor any written content may cause sexual arousal.” In that case, I hope that none of their sites have pictures of Ewan MacGregor on it because his pictures certainly cause sexual arousal for me! But as you pointed out BlueHost is based in a state, Utah, that is so chock full of conservative Mormons it makes the conservative Catholics in the state look flaming liberal by comparison. And yet, Salt Lake City has a thriving BDSM community…hmm…
2. Lovely taste in lingerie. I have the same pair.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:19 pmin response to JJ
i agree that its a free market and its their servers… but it is still censoring… yes it isnt the govt doing so.
the free market allows me to say “fuck them for their censorship”
September 1st, 2008 at 11:33 pmJJ: Yes they have the right to do what they want with their own servers but the point was how they have no terms of service on their site nor was it made apparent to me while setting this service up and didn’t get any agreement to really look over. They gladly took my $ for a year and then when I needed help from them for fixing their crappy server’s mistake of something going wrong on the back end? My service is canceled. They had to do some work and decided this would be a good time to enforce their power. I think thats crap and yes my opinion lets me say “go screw yourself bluehost.com” 🙂
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September 27th, 2008 at 8:10 amNo. This is a common misunderstanding. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The operative word is the first one: Congress. The Government’s ability to restrict speech is very limited. If these forums were being run by an agency of the U.S. Government, participants would have certain rights to speak their minds. A private company, on the other hand, can do whatever it likes. There are alot of reasons I do not allow people to put porn on my servers though. ( I have a privet one for about 60 friends) I just dont like dealing with all the stuff that comes with it. IE Bad scripts, Cookies snipers, Etc etc.
I live here it is nice to not have to have sex in my face all day. I hope you have a great day though 🙂
October 19th, 2008 at 1:10 pm“I’m sympathetic and dislike the way it was handled by your hosting service, but I do not believe this is a “censorship” or “Constitutional” issue.
It’s a free market – BlueHost.com owns their servers and has a right to make any policy they want in regards to their usage. And you are free to go elsewhere if you disagree.”
Also worth noting that distributing adult material on servers located in Utah violates state law. . .
June 24th, 2009 at 6:40 pmWhoever this “JJ” tool is obviously supports the right of right wing businesses who operate in the public sector and provide a utility service to said public to censor their customers usage for their own religious goals.
If you own an electric power company you can’t refuse to deliver power to a strip club or even a brothel because it violates your “right” to sell that “product” to a business you disagree with on some Mormon moral ground.
If you own a water company you can not refuse to provide your “product” to a pornography studio at their place of business because you disagree with them on some “moral” ground…
If you own a phone company you can not refuse to provide services to phone sex operators because of your dogmatic insistence that it is an immoral business and therefor you have the “right” to not sell your “product” to them under the guise of it being *your* personal liberty and freedom to do so.
They are public services and public utilities for the public use and common benefit. They have to be somewhat regulated to keep the lunatic right wing religious fringe like Blue Host from using the law to impose their backwards religious ideals on the rest of us. Right now, you are correct in saying that ISPs are being allowed to hide behind the same laws that apply to a Mom-and-Pop bakery in, say, Monroe, Louisiana, who can sell it’s donuts and tea cakes exclusively to the Southern Baptist Convention members if it so chooses, but those laws are being clarified all the time. An ISP – *in particular an ISP like shady, Mormon-owned, super conservative Blue Host * – that has a national – even global advertising and marketing reach – will not be able to hide behind the Utah Mormon-controlled state laws that protect businesses attempting to impose their religious views on others. Not when it is a service for businesses that are doing interstate and international telecommunications, which is exactly what Blue Host is doing.
Put that in your fancy, magical Mormon underwear and wiggle it around for a minute, JJ! Your personal “American” liberties end when they start encroaching on mine, you fucking tool. I’d almost bet you work for Blue Host trying to do damage control for their increasingly tarnished image. Good luck with that. A quick search for Blue Host and censorship or Mormon, et cetera, turns up tons of stories like this one exposing them for who they really are and what they are really doing to their customers, which is the other benefit of living in a free market society – free speech has the power to right all wrongs, including exposing Blue Host as censors of their customers’ rights to free speech in a society like the United States. People like you make me sick. Don’t tell me about “un-American.” I’ve been a member of the Libertarian party since 1994. I know a thing or two about “American” and “liberty.”
June 26th, 2009 at 9:03 amJJ and Jacob K. are couple of trolls sent from Bluehost. How unprofessional!!!
October 9th, 2009 at 8:22 am