Quoted from the 'Web Host Industry Review' ( thewhir.com/marketwatch/sws012303.cfm ) May 9, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In a rare instance of what appears to be one man walking away from a million dollar payday, FeaturePrice appears to have disintegrated amidst strange behavior and customer outcry. From FeaturePrice's website: All sites and servers will be left online while we are closing down. All clients are requested to download all files and here is a list of Companies that have been to visit Featureprice and have not been able to reach any deal that would allow a smooth migration to their services." The sites: #1 http://GlobalHost.com : 7 months free and no sign-up fee for Featureprice customers #2 http://Atlantic.net : 2 months free and $19.95 sign-up fee #3 http://Ipowerweb.com: no sign-up fee, no free months #4 http://Server4you.com : Free sign-up and 3 months free for Featureprice customers, but you can't sign up yet (their site is collecting email addresses of people who want to sign up eventually) #5 http://Affinity.com : No clear offer. They seem to be a group of hosts, rather than a single web host.
(((BEGINNING OF FEATUREPRICE PAGE CONTENT))) Featureprice.com / Hosting-Network, Inc. Is Closing Business April 2003. Featureprice's Closing is NOT BY ITS DECISION. It is due to Nova Information Systems (merchantconnect.com) "holding" the revenues from featureprice. Featureprice has not seen a penny since the "hold" and FP must shutdown since it has no money, no realized revenues. FP cannot pay employees or anything due to Nova's position. FP tried to work with many companies, none of which where willing to "assume liabilities" and that placed all the deals in the trash can. FP tried to work with many creative ideas. So this is NOT FP's wishes to shutdown, the decision is not ours to make. All clients are recommended to move within the next 14days. All sites and servers will be left online while we are closing down. All clients are requested to download all files and here is a list of Companies that have been to visit Featureprice and have not been able to reach any deal that would allow a smooth migration to their services. 1. http://GlobalHost.com - Nice People, Great Support, Will Give Incentives For FP Clients to Join. Personalized Service and A former VP of Time Warner joined their company, these guys are going places. Understand They will be loaded when you go there, FP is very large, please work with them while this post will tap their resources. 2. http://Atlantic.net - atlantic.net (800-521-5881) - Atlantic.Net is offering TWO months of free service for Feature Price clients. Founded in 1994, Atlantic.Net was honored as Host Indexs Top Web Host in 2002 and has been named by Inc magazine as one of the nation's fastest-growing private companies for the last three years. All services feature 24/7 phone and email support, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and redundant connections to the Internet backbone. 3. http://Ipowerweb.com - Value Hosting Provider. Don't Expect Personalized Service, Another Large Company. 4. http://Ipowerweb.com - (BEST OFFER) Great Hosting Deals For Unbelievable Prices with the same great technology that Featureprice used. Just sign up for information on their page and they will contact you extremely soon. Best of that, all Featureprice customers wont have to pay for setup and get 3 months for free. 5. http://Affinity.com - Has Built A Large Business Based From Acquisition. Don't expect peronalized service!!. Another Large Company. Ecommerce.com is under control by Fathi Said (stolen), SiteandSites and a host of other domain names are owned exclusively by Fathi Said. Stay away from any site or business that has Austrian Ownership or Fathi Said or any other affiliation with Fathi Said. The problem with this is that Fathi will setup anywhere at anytime, you may or may not know who is actually behind that company, Fathi will use other names, and etc to fool you, be warned and becareful. Fathi while in office ran several businesses "on the side" and sold services that looked like the respective names but were indeed FP services, no one at FP approved this but Fathi, Fathi also registered Dotregister domains for the clients and did not title them in the right names or addresses but with 100% owned by featureprice client, these domains were held hostage, with numerous other domains like Featureprice.com unless the officers of FP were to give him over a half million dollars, the officers called the FBI for Ext NEVER TRUST DIRECTORIES, NEVER TRUST FORUMS These directories are paid for and profit by the amount of sales that the links generate and the reviews that are made within those directories are paid and forums that people like to post their hate and problems are fueled by someone whom is hosting that site or etc. Reviews and Directories / Bulletin Boards Forums are not reliable or trust worthy sources. They in some way and some form are getting paid to talk trash on one provider and then promote another, they ALL are getting paid, they say they are not, but somehow and someway they are getting paid by someone, you may not see it upfront and may not see it at all, but take it from one of the Largest and experienced companies that worked this business for years that they get paid somehow. NOTHING IS FREE and EVERYTHING COSTS including the site, bandwidth, time and upkeep of these sites. TRUST WORD OF MOUTH!! TRUST YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND NEVER TRUST FORUMS AND DIRECTORIES / REVIEWS Perfect Example of MISUSE of information is bulletin boards that release information that is private and confidential, family, children, mothers and fathers and innocent contract employees have been hurt by a lot of clients and former employees (any employee dismissed from FP was for cause, drugs, etc.) that misuse their sources of information, they signed agreements with Equifax and Online Record Searches to not MISUSE this information, they have violated the agreements and have resulted in hurt and anguish for these people. Bulletin Boards, Hate Sites, Etc. have been formed and state very wrong things and distort the truth of FP and don't state that Officers and Supervisors and Staff worked 12-16hrs a day 7 days a week to keep services stable as much as humanly possible and as much as can be done with shared hosting servers and those whom abuse them, spam from them. This site will be updated ongoing and will tell the story of FP and all that has led to this, you will know about everything, you will know even to the potential deals that did not work with companies and why FP was not purchased (and NO! it is not because of anything bad) but the dealings in corporate business. And finally but not least, FP was never about just money, FP was about the dream and goals of a few people that made it happen and gave their all, not of the false and untrue statements of upset people. We will write parts and publish in parts, visit back often and don't miss a line. Thank you for those clients that have called FP home for years and thank you to all those whom have supported FP since they came to know the truth and spirit of the company. (((END OF FEATUREPRICE PAGE CONTENT))) The page above : www.feature-price.info/closing.html Other sites about Featureprice's recent developments : yourhostsucks.com Again, the current offerings of the hosts mentioned are summarized below : #1 http://GlobalHost.com : 7 months free and no sign-up fee for Featureprice customers #2 http://Atlantic.net : 2 months free and $19.95 sign-up fee #3 http://iPowerweb : no sign-up fee #4 http://Server4you.com : Free sign-up and 3 months free for Featureprice customers, but you can't sign up yet (their site is collecting email addresses of people who want to sign up eventually) #5 http://Affinity.com : No clear offer. They seem to be a group of hosts, rather than a single web host.
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