After I posted about insaneGB’s great offer it turned out to be not all that. They made a lot of promises and at the end they didn’t deliver. And I got a lot of interesting FACTS from a cool guy named Wogan May on his post My InsaneGB Experience
Let’s get this going,
their first promise was [...]
After I posted about insaneGB’s great offer it turned out to be not all that. They made a lot of promises and at the end they didn’t deliver. And I got a lot of interesting FACTS from a cool guy named Wogan May on his post My InsaneGB Experience
Let’s get this going,
their first promise was and still is:
“We are a Free Web Host without forced ads! That means that we will not force any ads directly onto your website like most other free hosting companies. Instead we do offer advertisements placed directly onto our main website, forums and main cPanel pages.”
Why?
Indeed a lot of free hosts go off line and just disappear, but we are different, we are actually here to stay for a long term. We have the funds and the skills to set up a company like this, and we plan on keeping it like it for a long time.
So what do we call this on all their client’s websites?
I call it a link to a forum and an affiliate link to Hostgator, inserted right into the HTML pages of their clients. That means they went on the server, opened their clients’ HTML pages and inserted the links.I think thats a bit of a privacy breach in my opinion.
Later on the the admin (seth) went missing and did not return to the forums much. Issues that was there from the start weren’t getting resolved etc.
insaneGB for Sale?
Wogan May found him on MSN one night and he wanted to auction insaneGB off. The server costs were getting to the point where they couldn’t pay for them, and he claimed he wanted to move on to other things. Weird thing to do when you claim you have the financial backing and this post by the admin:
nope, if the server is full we just add a new one, simple aint it?
I guess it’s not that simple?
Confronting insaneGB
According to Wogan he got hold of Seth and the admin, confronted them about the ads on his website. The admin gave him a hard time about him not knowing what was going on and the costs he had to pay.
They actually also asked Wogan to moderate the forums for them?
Another weird statement in their Privacy Policy:
“From time to time, we make the e-mail addresses of those who access our site available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting.”
Finally
They decided to post a very interesting message on their homepage:
Dear Customers, We are in the process of rebuilding insaneGB, we already enabled forced ads and downgraded the packages. The reason for this is because some of you did not appreciate what we offered to you and used it to host illegal content breaching our ToS daily. The forced ads are up because we want to get a new server to balance the server loads that have been abused heavily lately. Forced ads are temporarily until further notice. Thank you for understanding.
Wow! On their homepage, what an unprofessional message to convey to your clients and new prospects as clients.
Just proves that not all the free things in life is so Good!
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Waiting for insaneGB to explain themselves? Keep waiting.
Take my advice on this one – if you have anything hosted there, remove it before they decide to cancel their server subscription, and insaneGB disappears forever. I really feel that it’s going to go that far, at this rate.
You know, I think it might be a good thing that I don’t have those MSN logs anymore (PC Crash). The admin doesn’t need any more bad press at this point
But yes, they did want me to moderate for them – in fact, there’s this forum post (if it hasn’t been removed yet) where he enthusiastically welcomes me to the team.
insaneGB is just an example of some really bad planning. We can all learn from their mistakes here
~ Wogan
True Wagon,
I luckily don’t have any sites with them.
From the start I could see in the way they talk and manage things, just a couple of kids trying to do something big. With no research or planning in place.
OMG – you just made the classic typo! Hahahahaha!
It’s WOGAN not WAGON … Lol…
And the insaneGB forums are starting to find these posts. Won’t be too long before the admin will have to explain himself
~ W O G A N
Lol, sorry. Everytime I type your name I make that mistake and have to backspace. Cool, if you’ve got his email send him a note of this article…
And that also excludes accounts being terminated and loads of issues on some accounts that is still not completed.
I read lots about insaneGB, and most people flamed them saying they wouldn’t work. Tyler Cruz reviewed them and I think there were comments on his blog from the people at insaneGB saying that they WOULD last. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens now, but one thing for sure.. the public will not be impressed!
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