FastHosts lay claim to the title of ‘The UK’s number one webhost’ based on data that shows they host more sites in the UK than any other web hosting provider.
How they achieved this when they are quite frankly, Rubbish (that’s right, with a capital ‘R’) is beyond me, and so I’m sharing some of my recent FastHosts frustrations (or FastHostrations) with you in the hope that it will at least save someone from deciding to use this most appalling of web hosts.
Until now, my major gripes with FastHosts have been:
They do not offer PHPMyAdmin or any alternative database management interface as standard - you have to install it yourself. What the point of this is, when they provide you with databases, I do not know. It’s kind of like selling someone a house, but making them knock a hole in the wall and install a door so that they can actually get in to it!
You have to wait 10 minutes for an FTP password change to take effect! I kind of get the impression that changing your FTP password in the Control Panel sends an email to a little FastHosts minion, who then has to walk down to the server room, log on and change the password to what you asked for…
However, today they have topped these quite heroically by proving that they are completely useless when it comes to business hosting needs.
