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MochaHost

MochaHost founders realized that many online service providers lacked the skills and vision needed to provide truly integrated, holistic, and flexible online solutions. In 2002 they launched MochaHost

MochaHost is located in the heart of Silicon Valley specializing in providing professional hosting, web design, e-commerce, and Internet promotion services.

MochaHost believe that a good company consists of well-educated and experienced people. MochaHost have a wide range of experiences gained through consulting and direct positions at various business levels, including but not limited to: Fortune 500's, start-ups, non-profits, and government organizations.

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ALLUM 1 Mar 10

JUST STAY FAR FROM THEM. BAD SERVICE , REALLY BAD SUPPORT. AND THEY ARE CRYING A LOT TO NOT PAY BACK.

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Xanh Designs Admin 27 Feb 10

They have a bait and switch plan. Signed for a two year business plan which included free domain registration for two years. After the first year, the domain stopped working. Contacted them, and they said because I have not used it enough (i’m building the site part time), my domain was on hold and I would have to pay between $100 to $200 to re-activate. They understood I pre-paid for two years which included the domain, but it did not matter. After many many subsequent messages (most with no replies), I was stuck. They would also not provide a phone number or address to their legal department. A year later (two years total), they tried to charge my credit card for renewal. What! they lost my domain name, and I cannot access their system and they want a renewal? Go elsewhere.

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Sergio 2 Feb 10

Pricing is also Poor as you got nothing for your money. Just frustration, bad support and luck of any will to help you. Warning to all. You should fill your cancelation form 1 month before your package is about to expire. Otherwise it will be prolonged automatically! They are suspending sites and offering you Virtual and Decidated hosting options! They want more money for nothing! I repeat to everyone. Do not use this hosting. Do not have any business relationship with those guys. You will be fulled.

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Sergio 27 Jan 10

Regard our suspended site we got fallowing answer on ticket:

Hello,

The website we checked was trainings4it.com, sorry for the misunderstanding here.

Regarding the issue with icodefactory.com:

Please reply to your Violation of Terms ticket.

We're closing this ticket now.

So thay closed ticket, did not enabled our main site and we are out of business for more than 7 hours. We do depend on our mails. Thay disabled wrong site. In the meantime I've reopened ticket and ask them to enable our site. Also we disabled by our self site that caused problem (by their opinion). It is simple Umbraco CMS installation.

I will let community know what is going on further...

I hope they will take care of our mails :-(

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Sergio 27 Jan 10

Our web site was up&running without any issue for years on other hosting provider and on our staging server (that is visible from internet and is currently up & running also).

However, Mochahost administrator stopped our web site (without any warning) so we are unable to view our web site content and (which is more painful) without our mail access!

Ticket with critical status is opened 2 hours ago. We are bagging for enabling only mail accounts and we are ready to set our web site to use simple 'under construction' html page. But we cannot work without our mails. However still no answer from support.

We got mail from support stating that our web site is disabled and that we must reply to mail within 24 hours. We replied but their mail server responds with error!!!

We are business owners and we do have direct damage because of this.

I will let community knows about further development of this case…

We are unable to set our web site running from plesk (no rights!).

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Matt Proper 15 Dec 09

Mochahost is terrible to work with. Their chat with a "Live Person" always says they can't help any further, you must open a new ticket. The ticket system is garbage. You never know how long it is going to take them to respond. If I say my problem is "urgent" vs "critical" does that mean that you don't have to respond for three days instead of two? The 888 number is just for a voicemail and then they call you back in like an hour or two. Okay, not bad, but still, why can't I call them and talk to them when I need to? Hosting-wise, my site was only down shortly twice this past year. Pricing is good and they do have a lot of quality features for the price. That's all.

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Sylvain 17 Nov 09

I don't really get how many angry post there can be against mocha, i've send them way too much tickets i think because everytime i have a problem i write to them. and they always reply soo fast never took more than 24hours. The service so far is great. I one day had lag and told them, they said it was due to spam and everything went fine, all that in like 2hours.. I find it way more than okay. The only thing i really hate from mochahost is the plesk panel.. It is sooo slow it kills me and i want to change it asap.

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pitar 10 Nov 09

worst host available at present!

such a pathetic service,cheap price but most of feature doesn't work,they give lots of advertisement in their site but when u purchase a hosting plan,u will understand,most of the features they disable and anything I ask they ask me upgrade to dedicated server or VPS and pay more money!I have business account and

some of the basic PHP funstions are disabled can you believe!

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Ivan 2 Nov 09

I've been a client for MochaHost for a 5 month now.

I use windows Soho plan.

and bandwidth.

I just moved from another .uk hosters and i don't like there price.

I like this realy unlimeter plans.

I didn't realize that I am getting so many options, space.

Good and fast support.

Good support knowledge.

Their tech support team is really concerned and willing to help.

Wonderful quick efficient professional service.

I plan to hosting there other my sites.

I recommend it.

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Sami Gascón 24 Oct 09

Very cheap server, very slow, with a lot of things you can dream in a server and a really good and fast support service. If you dont look for perfomance, this is your server. I use it for several customers (about 5) and myself... and altought the control panel (not the hosting itself) is not reliable at all and the FTP server perfomance sucks, for the price you have a non limited .NET/SqlServer server.

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William 2 Jul 09

The web hosting is average, kinda slow but ok for personal use.

Their email server is inconsistent. I fail to connect at least once a month. lately the server has been blocked by spamhaus. So my emails get rejected by recipients with BL filtering. A backup mail service is needed if you go with Mochahost

http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=74.55.210.66

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Doug 17 Jun 09

Horrible horrible horrible! I saw them call one person a liar earlier on this thread so I thought I would weigh in with some real stats to prove how bad they are. I signed up a few days ago. Had a tech install my simple website. I notice pages were loading crazy slow speeds like 10 seconds to load a simple page. So I started poking around. Over 1200 websites on one server!!! Load averages are often 25 to 45! Basically about 50% of the time my site is so slow it would be considered down by an internet user. Take a look at this uptime I just did:

21:09:13 up 68 days, 9:25, 6 users, load average: 12.40, 48.12, 33.34

48!!!! Shame on you mochahost.

I am moving on tonight to find a new host.

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MochaHost 's Response

Hello Doug,

Since you have not listed your full name or domain name I am not able to pull your records and provide the site visitors with a more concrete response.

Regarding your comment on uptime and sites hosted. There is no way for you to determine how many sites we host per server since you do not have access to our server administration and I can tell you that the number given is completely false. If we put 1,200 sites on a single server then the server will get overloaded and you will not even get access to it to check its uptime stats. So I am not sure how did you come up with this number but it is absolutely misleading and inaccurate.

In regards to the load average stats you have provided. Yes these are absolutely normal if you are checking the server while the server backup is running (we in fact backup our client sites which not all hosting companies do) – then the system will show higher load average due the I/O associated with the backup process. Furthermore the load average shown does not mean that the server is slow or inaccessible we perform the backups on a different drives and the load average is based of the I/O performed on these drives.

From the uptime you did the only thing you confirm that the server was up 68 days which means by itself that the server is stable and not overloaded. If the server was overloaded and not stable then it would have been restarted frequently and will not be up 68 days.

Jose Ma Sanchez 29 May 09

I have a couple of months using mochahost service. In my opinion the service is very good. To create my portal was very easy (very happy with this facility!!!). I send many support emails and no problem, they answer very fast, some times two minutes after i send the email. No site shut down at this moment. I really appreciate the service.

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JD Villareal 26 Apr 09

How is it that at any issue I've encountered to setup my website has been seems to have been "you must upgrade"???

It's been over a month I've been trying to get the site to be setup properly and it takes an average 2 days for a tech to respond. I'm currently having an issue with the private JVM shutting down all by itself and what I get is "you must optimize your code or upgrade your memory heap" when I know for a fact the application works fine on our development servers under 12mb of memory using the same database connection at Mochahost.

I can see there is a Mochahost rep responding to the reviews. Please, make sure someone is actually going to look into this and stop blowing me off with a "Have a great day!"

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MochaHost 's Response

Hello JD Villareal,

I was able to review your ticket and we never stated that you “must” upgrade – we were just suggesting the best options available based on the given circumstances.

Since your code is not developed by us and you do not have enough logging from your application it is impossible for us to determine why your Tomcat is shutting down – based on our experience the Tomcat shutsdown 99% of the time due to the code exceeding the available max heap memory size which in your case is 32MB. Your Tomcat instances based on our tests runs fine with the default set of demo applications and is only shutting down when you are deploying your application.

We have already offered you a free upgrade to a 64MB heap memory size to determine if the problem is due to low heap memory size limit.

We will be waiting to hear back from you if this would fix the issue. You can update your open ticket if you need further assistance from us.

Dr. M.G. Lazarus 17 Apr 09

I hosted my site www.stmaryswaterford.com with mochahost and was really really impressed with the features and customer support. This made me transfer my existing domain www.proventherapy.com from godaddy to mochahost. Took a while to transfer since my domain was in private registration with godaddy. But I did get enough support from mochahost to get around. The only disappointment is that my second site is not yet listed at the site builder even after repeated requests. Consequently my site www.proventherapy.com is still down. But I think mochahost will sort it out soon.

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Steven Voorhees 8 Apr 09

MochaHost make themselves sound as though they are business hosts. Wrong. My website took an average of 12.8 seconds to load on MochaHost with many times that I would receive a Network Interruption or Network Timeout. When looking at the Server Status I would regularly find 7.91 out of 8 CPUs in use (maxed out) and 89% memory. Many drive partitions were also in critical state. When consulting with technical support they stated that there is no problem with the server.

Don't believe their pricing nor their 30-day money back guarantee. Its a bunch of bull. They will drag things out past the 30 days, and if you encounter issues past the 30 days you are simply out of the money you paid. Do a search with the BBB if you don't believe me. MochaHost gets an F and reports that their business practices are illegal, which I intend to report to the California Attorney General.

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MochaHost 's Response

Mr. Voorhees,

Before we respond to your actual review I have to say that we are shocked that a person who is associated with a Christian church is actually making false statements, lies, and means harm to others. We are sure that this behavior is not what they teach at your church “Colber Church of Christ” and are 100% positive that the Bible does not teach you how to harm other people and how to be a liar!

We should probably contact the teachers at your church and warn them about what person you are actually are?

Below is a quote from your last response to our billing department which we will leave to others to judge:

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“…Just to let you know, and you can pass this on, I have posted over a dozen reviews of MochaHost thus far….My aim is to put MochaHost out of business…”

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We have taken your advice and are passing this on to the community since we are not afraid to tell the truth and expose your evil and cruel intentions.

In regards to the actual review posted to which we have already responded on the other sites on which you are blackmailing us:

The nature of the Linux OS is set that it will utilize the available FREE memory and CPU cycles as much as possible in order to achieve the best possible caching results which ultimately lead to better performance of all sites and email hosted on a given server. I was able to personally verify that there were NO downtime or any significant peak loads on the server on which you have been hosted during the entire duration of your account.

I was also able to review ALL of your support tickets to our tech support department. It looks like we were never able to confirm any problems with the original server - regardless we have offered you to be transferred to a BRAND NEW server on which there were no other clients being hosted - our servers are equipped with:

1) Dual Quad Core Xeon CPUs

2) 8GB of RAM

3) Redundant (RAID) SAS (SCSI) 15K RPM drives

If you are experiencing problems on a brand new server with the above specifications then it is clear that the problem resides either within your ISP connectivity to our data center or with your actual site and database code. I also saw no tickets indicating that you are having hardware problems or network problems after the server transfer - there were other tickets submitted to us but none of them were related to speed or availability of your site.

We did everything within our capabilities and responsibilities to assist you with this issue.

I also have to add that you have been hosting with us for more than 4 months - I am not sure why you kept your package for so long if we were "horrible" and if our servers are that bad and not stable. We do offer 30 days money back guarantee which you should have executed if we were such a terrible host.

We do appreciate clients providing us with concrete feedback and criticism which ultimately help us to improve our service and provide better services to our current and future clients.

One thing which we do not appreciate is people submitting dishonest reviews with the sole purpose of misleading other clients. Good luck with your new hosting company !

In regards to your claims about BBB: The reason why we are NOT responding to the BBB is because we do NOT recognize this false organization and they have no power to decide on what is right and wrong – they do NOT help the customer and they do NOT help the companies, they only care about collecting fees. We are in process of filing a lawsuit due to the actual BBB incompetence and racketeering methods to take money from companies in order for them to list them with positive ratings on their site. We do not need to pay fees to someone in order to get a false rating – our thousands of existing clients are the one who can judge us and the one that we listen to that’s why our approval rating is 98% and have receive client testimonials on daily basis !

The facts matter and they are listed at:

http://www.mochahost.com/survey.php

Elliott 30 Mar 09

I recently signed up with Mocha and two days went by without me getting the "welcome email". I submitted two comments on this, the second one saying that I was disappointed, and got the following reply (no kidding):

"Did you bother to read the directions where it says to check your SPAM Folder if you do not see the MochaHost Welcome e-mail in your regular e-mail; if your SPAMGUARD is set too high on your e-mail account, the MochaHost Welcome e-mail will be sent there to the SPAM folder. After you ordered, we sent an automated 'status pending' update notice with a BOLD lettered sentence in RED letters that asked you to check your SPAM folder, and to please adjust your SPAMGUARD, if needed.

Please do not jump to hasty conclusions about our company, as this is obviously your mistaken oversight."

Can you believe it? The best part is that then the person forwards me a copy of the email that, you know, they already sent but I was too dumb to find, and original's header SAYS IT WAS GENERATED AN HOUR EARLIER.

I'm just blown away by their rudeness. Needless to say, I am still disappointed.

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MochaHost 's Response

Hi Elliot (not sure why you are using an alias instead of your real name),

As we have already explained to you the case which I found really silly - you have provided us with incorrect email address at sign up to which we have been repeatedly sending your "Welcome email".

Your actual email had "the" in front and you have provided us with an email without the "the" in front - not sure how is that our fault that you forgot your email address?

The reason why our billing department got a little edgy with you is because you have been harassing us with numerous insulting emails (I would not copy/paste here due to confidentiality/privacy reasons) which were out of place since there was no fault on our end.

It is a good thing that your issue got resolved after one of our guys caught that you are sending your email tickets to us from an email that looks similar to the one on file (due to security reasons as explained we can only send you your login info to the email on file).

Bottom line is that we have helped you regardless that you have been insulting us.

Orlando 19 Feb 09

It looked like the perfect host, with the perfect features and the perfect price. But once that you sign in with them, you will find that they have the worst support department and customer service. I closed my account a day after I opened it with them, The Plesk system for windows 2008, hangs while you try to create sub domain, add appliction, etc.

The site was supposed to come with a site builder, I submitted the ticket to have this feature added, it never got setup. Do not waist your time, do a research pay extra, but get something better.

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MochaHost 's Response

Dear Orlando,

Before we respond I see that you are posting your reviews on every single review site - which makes no sense especially if you have been hosting your site with us for less than a day (actually you were not even hosting your site because your site never got pointed to our servers)

After all one day of evaluation can not be used for fair judgment of a quality of a given provider. You are right that we did not setup your site builder - that is for the simple reason which is you canceled your account immediately after the creation of it. Why setting up a builder for an account which is being canceled ?

We do receive 98% approval from our existing customers - the stats and survey details are available at: http://www.mochahost.com/survey.php

We did in fact HAD problems with the first release of Plesk 9 which was about 3 months ago which were reported directly to Parallels and have been fixed within couple of days. We are happy to add that the Plesk 9 problems are gone and we are currently offering to our clients Plesk 9.2 which works smoothly and without any major problems !

Good luck and we hope to have you back in the future !

Naseer Ahmad 27 Jan 09

they have very bad support sytem. Never buy their reseller hosting as they provide a very long link to login and difficult to remeber for our customers. like this https://matrix.my-hosting-panel.com:8443/login.php3

No possible for customers to remember. No very helpful in case of any issue like, i have been receiving too many spams in my emails request many times to fix it, No its over 35 days no response and update on that ticket!!!

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MochaHost 's Response

Dear Naseer,

I was able to review all of your tickets submitted to us until this moment and I have to completely disagree that our support disappears after 30 days.

You have a total of 21 tickets opened between November of 2008 till February 2009 - most of which have been opened past your 30 days money back period. I did a quick review all of your tickets and the average initial response to your inquiries was less than 1 hour.

Regarding the "spam" issue to which you are referring to that has been already covered in the multiple tickets opened.. From your ticket replies I am unable to confirm if you have resolved this issue or not since you have never acknowledged that the issue is solved so I assume that is the case. I see also that you had opened other tickets recently which were also answered immediately and with the proper resolution and feedback.

We appreciate having you as a client !

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