Monday, December 22, 2008

Dont go with Manashosting

Though (because) I am one of the user of Manashosting services, I DONT recommend this hosting service. I too was drawn away by its cheap package. But since I had not taken reviews from others, I bought their package. Also my website project was a bit experimental and so I didnt mind slow speed.

There are various reasons for my comments.
First and foremost, they are very slow in hearing you. Whatever means you use, online chatting, email tickets, etc your querry doesnt get prompt response.
Secondly their control panel is Doome panel. It takes ages to make changes. Also the HELM control panel itself is not fool-proof. Many a times it show me various packages which are not included in my package deal.
Also the server remains down for for a long time and even the ftp takes ages for uploading/downloadin on 1MB broadband connection.
Third, they dont provide any SEO tools and from control panel. It simply remains inactive icon. They provided me with 5000 web templates but even these templates are only about 100 or so. They gets repeated as you scroll deeper.
Fourth their own website is not completely developed. A lot of pages are still underconstruction or "comming soon".
So what can you expect from such hosting provider who cannot manage their own sites.

The moral of this is only in one line.
Dont go with Manashosting

Website owners - BEWARE!

A client recently got an email, apparently coming in from Manas Hosting asking for “…. all ur domain names, controlpanel url, login ID paswd of ur domains + secret key / authentication code ….“.

The client is in the process of transferring his domain name and hosting to my Website Solutions firm viz. CREAIMA (formerly mailnspace) and therefore called me up to inquire about this mail. Fortunately, he isn’t naive to fall for this trick. But this is just to warn all those who own domain names and/or websites. BEWARE! Do not fall for such tricks.

Here’s the full text of the mail - VERBATIM. Check out the spellings and grammer. :grin: I wanted to preserve the formatting (and colour combination) of the mail as well. But it was would spoil the decency of my blog. I therefore resisted the temptation. :)

From: Transfer [mailto:transfer@manashosting.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:30 AM
To: xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx
Cc: xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: Vinay: for Domain Transfer : easiest & correct steps…thanx :xxxxxx.xxx
Importance: High

Dear Client,

this is about ur domain transfer which is in other server

we need such co-operation from ur side, please kindly do the need ful

very fast: these status should b OK

Domain Status: pendingTransfer in whois look up

Please provide us all ur domain names, controlpanel url, login ID paswd of ur domains + secret key / authentication code for ur domain trasnfer to our server fast. thanx

& Please put ur email id in w[] hois look up

Thanx a lot for ur best support & more co-operation

Awaiting ur quick & positive response.

Thanx
Best Regards
Vinay
Manashosting

Buck up guys! People are getting more net-savvy! Such tricks no longer work.

There is one very objectionable thing that I noticed at a few forums. Whenever there is a thread with negative reviews of this hosting company, there is always some posts by newly registered users that praise their services! Do they think most people are idiots? I will not be surprised if I find such comments on this post as well! :roll:

While on the subject, here are some of the negative reviews/opinions on Manas Hosting that I could find in 15 minutes of googling.

Full Review: http://www.ashishmehta.com/blog/2008/12/website-owners-beware/

Thursday, December 11, 2008

It sucks !

A month back we had launched our site: http://donateyourpc.in, which was doing awesome. More than 12 volunteers and more than 10 donation in 15 days. And suddenly the site was done. It is still down because of the hosting company called manashosting. Initially we thought its a good place to host the site. Then after we got lot many problem with these guys, now site is down from last 10 days. And no action taken after 16 phone calls and from past 10 days. Bloody Money eaters !


Monday, November 10, 2008

THE WORST HOST """"EVER""" PERIOD

OK. First off, all the reviews below this one might have some good opinion. But, I have been in the hosting and web development business for several years and let me just tell you this, trusting Manas Hosting on your web hosting needs is the BIGGEST mistake you can make.

I was with them through their initial seed stages and everything seemed fine for a while. But, they just couldn't handle the servers. They claim to have a very reliable system but that is all trash talk. In its initial stages, if you had a problem (which would be almost every 3-7 days), you could call up someone and talk to them personally to get it fixed. However, that is not the case now. You have to go through their support team who are incapable of comprehending even the "smallest" of issues. They do not have any knowledge of web hosting and speak like robots that are pre-programmed to answer only specific questions. Ask them anything a little more advanced and somehow the phone gets disconnected or you receive a simple reply "I will redirect the issue and it will be solved tonight". And tonight never arrives for them. Even a week later.

I also had a reseller account with them and hosted my clients' websites there (I am a web developer). My clients frequently complained of their emails not working and the surprisingly long downtimes. Their website claims to have 99.99% up time. This is not true.

They will lure you with LOW prices and HIGH specifications such as unlimited space and bandwidth. My sincere suggestion is to leave this behind and host your site with someone like Media Temple (my current host) or Aplus or 1and1. Go for someone with an international footprint and a NAME. Even if that means that you won't get 1TB of space. Trust me, for an average business website, 50-200 MB would suffice.

Choose your poison. I will change this review to a positive one if I notice SIGNIFICANT changes at Manas. Until then, even I am disappointed. I usually hate putting up bad reviews. I just can't help it this time (imagine how much I would have gone through).

Biggest Pro: Price
Biggest Con:
TOO MANY

Review URL - http://www.webhostingreviews.com/manas-hosting-reviews.htm

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Manas Hosting review

When I first heard of it, I was simply amazed by the price they were offering 1GB hosting package for and the best part was that the 1 domain registration was also free with the hosting package. I wondered how come they could give so much of space n blah blah in such a meager amount that I am still unaware of ...

Full Review - http://blog.nitinkumarjain.in/?p=88 

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Manas Hosting Spammer

Manashosting is a spammer. On 17th September i received 40 emails from this spam company. The email contents with FULL header are shown below. I have removed my email ID for safety...

Full Review: http://indian-web-hosting.blogspot.com/2008/09/manas-hosting-spammer.html

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Beware if you get this email

Just want to warn others in case they get a similar email to the one I got from manashosting.net.in. I've never registered a domain with them and never would judging by their reputation online, when I asked them which domain they came back to me with one of mine which contrary to what they stated is not due for renewal. They are engaging in domain phishing, beware.

~~~~~~ Email Message ~~~~~~~
Dear sir,As per our record from renew department its showing your domain innovation.inhas to be renewed.so i want to know weather you made the payment for renew or going to pay. If u already made payment then please provide me your invoice no & ticket no, so i can verify with billing department and update your data in our database. If still not made the payment for renew so when ur going to make payment please mention that and forward a mail for me for same mail ID. If you have already made payment please go to this URL and update the payment details manashosting.co.in/shop/cart.php?a=add&pid=0000000022In the mail mention ur direct phone and mail communication. Waiting for ur quick and detailed mail.

Thanks & Regards,
sandeep
Renewal Department,
ManasHosting,
Address: #28, 2nd floor,
3rd block, 3rd stage, 1st main, Basaveshwar Nagar, Bangalore-560079.
Landline : 080-65761798 (you can us call from 5-00pm to 1-00am)
Email id: renew @ manashosting.net.in
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Read here full post -http://www.inforum.in/general-indian-domain-name-discussion/1393-beware-if-you-get-email.html

Monday, August 18, 2008

Manashosting Linux Hosting Review by Paul

attractive offers.. cheap prices.. very good high end promises.. but nothing kept.. bad service.. took a week to activate the account.. solutions for problems and queries takes minimum of 10 to 15 days.. nobody picks the customer support tech numbers during office hours.. technically they never understand what you explain.. servers are always down.. you will rarely connect to ftp.. website uptime is always poor..

believe me.. who ever is giving positive feedback about manashosting is working for them and are their own staff..

Review URL - http://www.customerhostingreviews.com/manashosting/reviews/664

Friday, June 13, 2008

Very poor service from ManasHosting

I had registered for the manashosting 5 domain linux plan . Still after making the payment and called them more than 30 times ,my account is not active. Manashosting is one of the worst service provider. Finally i was able to have chat with the Manashosting techincal team . They had no idea how to activate my account . Even one of the manashosting executive was asking me about my password . I dont know what kind of service they provide and when I asked them why they need my password. They told me ther e mail server is not working for week and they want to login into my account. Manashosting service really sucks. I have saved the two chat conversation with manashosting executive. I am posting the chat on this forum .So that no one can get trapped into such a situation.There plan may look attractive but there service is pathetic . I would say no service thats because I have not got my account activated. I have asked them to terminate the plan and to revert back my money. Lets see how these manashosting people provide service to this request

Full Review - http://manashostingsucks.blogspot.com/2008/05/pathetic-service-from-manashosting.html

Monday, May 12, 2008

Bad experience from Manashosting

i am hosting my dishnews forum and some blogs in the indian webhosting provider manashosting.My domain name is medianetwork.co.in.My forum attracts less traffic around 500 pageviews per day.Also, i use some of subdomains for my blogs, which attracts no traffic.

My hosting package details are Linux 2gb webspace, 10gb monthly bandwidth.For past 10 months, my site only consumes 15%bandwidth/month.

i am experiencing several frequent site down problems (particularly 4th time in last six days).Because of frequent site downs, i am facing several problems to improve my site position in google search.Two days back(7th may 2008) i got an email from manashosting with a recommendation to use dedicated server since my site uses more bandwidth resources.

Since that my site redirected to a page which shows the following message " This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible".

Then i contacted their support department via chat option given manashosting site.Their CC officer did not aware this problem.

He informed me to contact billing department through raising support tickets option via their site.Then i raised 4 tickets with emergency status and send several emails to them. So far 36 hours passed, no response for my support tickets,still they are open status.No response for my emails too.

Yesterday morning (8th may 2008), i contacted their support department.This time they told me to provide cpanel id, password, my email id and gave assurance to solve my problem.No action till evening.

Then again i contacted their support department on evening.This time also they told me to provide cpanel id, password, my email id and gave assurance to solve my problem.What pathetic service from manashosting?I am running my forums in this account with very little traffic.How can it consume more resources?My site url http://www.dishnews.medianetwork.co.in/

Without my knowledge they have changed me to new plesk server and informed me to upload backuped files and provided new cpanel login id and password.

God!!!!The new cpanel (login id and password given by them) is not mine which is for Free online computer books.so, now i can able to login and modify cpanel of some other's Free online computer books site.

Now i am seriously thinking to move other hosting providers.

Review URL - http://broadbandforum.in/seo-discussion-forum/27718-bad-experience-manashosting/

Monday, May 5, 2008

Truth of manashosting :web service provider

Truly English!

South Indians are well versed in English and technically very sound but Manashostingwalas are exception. Have a look at their written English, “Dear sir, YOu haven't paid the parking charge which amount you paid that is domain renewal pricefor domain parking you need to pay rs 100 if you are using limited offer or rs 300 ifyou are using unlimited offer.rajivmanashosting”

Well Behaved!

They are very well behaved and courteous. They treat all the callers as their neighborhood friends. Yes they don’t mind whether you are making STD calls or ISD calls. They will respond in same relaxed manner as if they are talking with someone face to face!

Technologically Advanced!

Yes they are so advanced technically that they themselves are unable to match with their head! If you have some issue with them u need to raise a ticket. But you might ask what is their advantage as other service providers too follow the same system. But here is a catch! Others are stupid as they have to track the problem taking all pains. But http://www.manashosting.com/ professionals are free from those pains as they never follow the tickets!

Review URL - http://truthofmanashosting.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Complaints on "Manashosting banglore"

Stay away from it

I registerd two domains with manashosting sspmj.co.in and wavehealing.co.in. since registration i face contineous down time and very bad customer care support. the suddenly stop there service of plesk control panel. so i suggest u never register with manashosting.

Review URL - http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/manashosting-banglore-c38232.html

Friday, February 29, 2008

Manashosting hosting own site at GoDaddy!

Well, manashosting is telling , they are the top3 hosting provider in India. They will be having at least 5 servers.

I said the same thing also, that you guys are telling (against me). manashosting is hosting their main site on GoDaddy because their own dedicated server go down frequently , ( telling from my own experience, I have had a 2GB shared windows hosting(because I dont have windows servers) with them before 2 years). So, their dedicated servers are going down frequently, thats why they moved their main site to godaddy.

The most funny part I saw was that, They put the host-tracker and siteuptime logo, with 99.9% uptime report on their main site!! Actually the uptime report was for their main site, which is hosted on godaddy server.

Also, the support staffs are not professionals , when we ask some serious questions, they will give some numbers and are tell us to call for an answer.

Before many months, they offered unlimited package for Rs2000 per year, I asked the server configuration.The sales/support guy dont even know the server configuration. I asked about the hard disk .After 1 hr, he answered me it is 100GB hard disk. I still dont know who make 100gb hard disk for manashosting.

Another thing, I purchased a windows hosting before 2 year. I paid only for a year, but the package and all the files are still there, I can access control panel still now. They dont even have a record of their customers and packages.

Review URL - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=6538021

I am frustrated by this hosting company

I don't know whether this is the appropriate forum for this. If not, I will move this to a suggested place. Thank you.

I am being frustrated by this company. See the link here http://www.manashosting.com/. I have a hosting account with them and I host my India based community and discussion board there. The community URL is http://indiaontop.carbargain.biz/

But it has only one problem that it either does not open at all or takes too long a time.No amount of complaint with them has worked, I am being frustrated by these people. If anyone of you are planning to host with them, please avoid them. They are number one bas....s. The company URL is here again. http://www.manashosting.com/

If you can suggest me some advice I will be a very happy person.

Thank you very much in advance.

Review URL - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=667433

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Manashosting again...

Manish, July 31st, 2007 at 11:27 pm

Just came accross this blog and thought of saying that I too had extremely bad experience with manashosting. I had my large business site hosted here and I lost so many dollars due to downtimes at manashosting. I too moved to a different host now.

Rajeev, January 12th, 2008 at 3:34 am

hey guys even i tried manashosting.Well i didnt have any problem with them.I have my domain and space registered with them and its working fine.I feel manashosting is a reliable company.

Vishwaas, January 12th, 2008 at 11:55 am

Clearly you are either a paid employee at Manashosting or are totally unaware of what a server downtime is.. Believe me, when I say that manashosting is the crappiest hosting service I’ve ever seen. You’re better hosting your site on your own PC rather than having it at manashosting.

Review URL - http://blog.xvzx.net/2007/04/22/new-hosting

ManasHosting Review at webhostingstuff.com

poor manahosting -
by sara sara of manahosting.com on 04 Sep 2007:

"very very poor hosting very bad service...very very bad pls do go for hosting they have poor response and the service is very poor .if u go to hosting to manahosting u will have a b.p and all othr health problem "

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Subject: 70-80% uptime ! Extremely bad support -
by Rahul Jain of www.rentafreelance.com on 09 Jul 2007:

" Manashosting is one of the most horrible webhosting company I have ever seen. Please please avoid this hosting company. The website would be down once in a week and for upto 72 hours no one would be there to bring services up.

No support during evening or night or till afternoon and support would mostly would be offline during day time. Lowest quality support personnel.

Also when I asked why I am not getting support then I got response from support that from this cheap amount how much can you expect? This is last thing one can expect from a hosting comapny. I am moving my site to another hosting company now. "

Review URL - http://www.webhostingstuff.com/review/ManaHosting.html

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Manashosting - The worst decision

Hi folks specially to those who are thinking to have webspace or domain (web services) from manashosting. I recommend you all guys please don’t go for it. It is just use-less. I have lot to say about their continuing bad services...

Review URL - http://sachinkraj.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/manashosting-the-worst-decision/

is Manashosting OK for our website???

Dont buy from manashosing. They are big over seller.Your site can go down anytime..and U will not get any support. I have read many bad review abt manashosting.

Review URL - http://www.hostingsindia.com/topic1280.html