Well, I’ve finally started to recover from what I lost when BizGoldHosting went bust. It really was an unfortunate situation, a lot of important tracking and research data I had is simply gone forever. I’d read several times not to trust ‘Lifetime Hosting’ packages because it just doesn’t make sense, but when the email offer landed in my inbox I just thought I’d give it a try.

I put up a few relatively unimportant websites on the BizGoldHosting server just to test it and I was quite impressed with the reliability and uptime. So impressed in fact, that I went out and ordered a second Lifetime account. This time I made the mistake of hosting some very important scripts on it, a tracking script and a survey script, I even put this blog on it.

A few months down the line, and I still had no real problems to speak of, this hosting seemed like a real good deal. Then I receive an email from BizGoldHosting offering me the chance to become a Lifetime Hosting reseller for a one off fee. Considering my good experience with them, I bit the bullet and slapped down a healthy chunk of money to become a reseller. Unknown to me at the time, this was a big mistake.

Everything would probably still have been alright had they not started selling those reseller licenses, as I noticed the servers reliability suffered. Though from what I understand, the owners of BizGoldHosting were late on paying their bill to the company they were renting servers from, so they just got cut off, along with all their customers, and their customers customers. There was a discussion about the entire situation over at the WarriorForum:

http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=162918

If you are a customer of mine who ordered a LifetimeHosting account through me, use the contact link above and get in touch through my HelpDesk. Mention that you got a hosting account through me, and include your PayPal email address so I can verify. I am going to make it up to all of you in whatever way I can, unfortunately, I’m not able to offer you all refunds, as that would make me go bust too. Though I do have a few things in mind that should be of value to you.

Its an unfortunate situation for all, I’m sure the owners of BizGoldHosting are being swamped by angry customers looking refunds. Thats why I haven’t even bothered to contact them about it, I’m sure they didn’t mean for it to happen, and they don’t need me piling on the stress.

I can say one thing for sure, I think my days of dabbling with Lifetime Hosting offers are finished. Lesson learned, time to move on.

Incidentally, if you are looking for affordable web hosting with great customer service, I can recommend BlueHost, they’ve been around for years and always get good reviews. Do a google search for ‘bluehost reviews’ and you’ll see they always come recommended.

That’s all I have to say on this matter, as I said, if you did order the hosting from me, get in touch using the contact link above, don’t forget to mention your PayPal email as I need to verify you did in fact order through me as there were a lot of BizGold resellers. I can’t just give this bonus away to anyone as its very valuable.

To online success!