Hell in cyberspace - Manashosting

Dear All, 

Run away from Manashosting. They are just petty online crooks out to get easy money from the web. Looking out to cheat poor victims... 

Their support is non existent... their phone support is stupid and their service is the shittiest I have had the misfortune to experience. After raising a million tickets my website is still not up after i month. 

Bought the site from manashosting in December 15th and today the 14th January, they tell me that the site is being redirected to google and have sent me an email to correct the problem asap!!! MY FOOT!!! 

Such is the management of Manashosting. Run for your life and your money .. far away from Manashosting  

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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

Full Review: http://www.indiabroadband.net/web-hosting/4137-manas-hosting.html

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. 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!

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/

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 !

Full Review - http://fallofsupercomputer.blogspot.com/2008/12/it-sucks.html

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

Manas Hosting review

The following is my personal comments on the service of Manas hosting based on my personal experience with them and request you to reply your review comments to the service provider.

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 

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