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    Business ProfileforHostmetro.com LLC

    Web Hosting

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    5/5stars

    Average of 1 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    1 complaints closed in last 3 years

    0 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Reasons for BBB Rating

    Overview

    Hostmetro.com LLC is a web hosting company which provides website hosting, domain names and secure email hosting for individuals and businesses. Services available from this company include web hosting, domain name sales, and secure email hosting.

    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    415 W Golf Rd STE 5, Arlington Heights, IL 60005-3923
    BBB File Opened:
    12/28/2012
    Years in Business:
    11
    Business Started:
    7/19/2012
    Business Started Locally:
    7/19/2012
    Business Incorporated:
    7/19/2012
    Type of Entity:
    Limited Liability Company (LLC)
    Alternate Business Name
    • Host Metro LLC
    Business Management
    • Jesse Woods, Review Manager
    • Mr. Ahn Choi, Owner
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Jesse Woods, Review Manager

    Customer Contact

    • Jesse Woods, Review Manager

    Customer Complaints

    1 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    10/28/2022

    Complaint Type:
    Product Issues
    Status:
    Unanswered
    On 9/28/2021, I paid $88.20 for 3 years of website and email hosting at Host Metro, using Paypal. They offered CPanel services (a software interface needed for my website to work, due to error logging on PHP errors), and claimed they had 99% uptime.In July, they had a server failure, leading to site downtime for several days. Several permissions and settings were not set correctly by their technicians on the new server, resulting in a long back-and-forth with support, as I had to have them keep fixing their mistakes.In October, they performed another server migration, again leading to site downtime for several days. Again, several permissions and settings were not set correctly by their technicians. As of two weeks later, not all the permissions had been fully restored on their end.Also, incoming e-mail was down silently for a week; customers e-mailing me would not be getting their messages through, and I would have no indication that my e-mail wasn't receiving incoming e-mail or that they were trying to reach me. This was due to an error on Host Metro's part.With more than a week of downtime, this falls far short of the 99% uptime guarantee, and doesn't include the numerous other downtimes throughout the year (due to unscheduled HostMetro maintenance, or SSL failures on their end, documented in my support tickets).Finally, Host Metro indicated that they would no longer be offering the CPanel software that my website needs (with error logging critical to my website operation and development). Instead of refunding me the money I paid for a service they are no longer offering, they offered only to transition my account to another company they are partnered with - a company with whom I do not have a relationship with and do not wish to use. They are insisting on keeping my money - despite no longer providing the services I paid for, and failing their own uptime promises.Managers won't talk on the phone or reply to my issues, and I'm hung up on when I call.

    Customer Reviews

    1 Customer Reviews

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    Most Recent Customer Review

    Kamran S

    5 stars

    10/09/2022

    I understand that every business it's not perfect and every customer not going to have the same experience, but I am here to talk about my personal experience. After 6 years + planning to stay for 3 more years, I have to admit any time I encounter problems the HostMetro support was there to help me and they always did as much as they could! I had a lot of problems during the past 6 years and some of it was very complicated, but HostMetro solved them in a matter of hours or even minutes. I saw the negative reviews here and I thought, that's not fair if I don't tell my side of the story. I just hope they keep it up and give the same great service they always did for me to every single one of you!

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