To Me, It All Started With A Weird, Non-Planned Scenario, That Went Wrong.
Contradictory to a lot of you folks, I was not planning to get a website and start blogging.
I did not know anything about Hosting, I did not know who the best Hosting service providing companies are.
In Short, I was watching a content creator on YouTube. And this man was talking about the best way to start an affiliate marketing website!
The subject hooked me. Subsequently, I wanted to make money just like he did.
I went in Completely Blind. And before I search on “What is the best hosting service providing companies”, driven by the rush of excitement. I instead; went for a hosting company he was talking about.’ Contabo ‘, this was the name of the company, little did I know, this will be the most embarrassing and frustrating experience I’ll ever have online.
I Went to Their Website, started reading a bit, and I understood that; this company provides some Fast Hosting services on a Virtual Machine (VPS).
In 5 minutes I initiated the purchase, where their support was fast to respond, contrary to when I asked for help, as you’ll see in the pictures below.
The first thing I realized, is that I needed a 3d party Panel to get access to my main server, so I quickly looked it up on google and found one called: “PuTTY”, and finally got access to my server. (After researching on how to use it)
After a few hours, I got frustrated, by the lack of simplicity. Which is essential to a beginner like me. And all the best hosting service companies provide it.
Every step goes through your PuTTY panel, so to gain access to your VPS, you always have to put the credentials they sent you on email. Also, Installing WordPress (my main reason) was way complicated than I taught.
Unnecessarily, you’ll spend a lot of your valuable time, in forums learning how to use Panels, copying codes from unknown sources, pasting them on your PuTTY, to communicate with your server!
Try typing something, suddenly a 404 error pops up on your screen! Meanwhile, when you contact the support, they ignore you. Or even worst, tell you to fix it yourself, or pay extra money to get it fixed!!
You start to wonder! is this one of the best hosting service companies in Europe.
Certainly, I contacted the support more than my Mom.
Therefore, I ended up contacting them, asking to withdraw from the contract I had with their company.
After a few emails, I felt like they are wasting time.
As a result, I started looking for other ways to contact their superiors. Firstly, I took my concerns to LinkedIn.
Secondly, when I did not get responses on LinkedIn, I went to Twitter to look for help.
And somehow, I woke up in the morning and found a message from a guy named ‘Markus’, telling me that he is going to look into it.
Finally, after a few hours, I got my money back minus a small portion of it.
That I deservedly had to pay, because I neglected to type in “What is the best hosting service providing companies” on google.
