According to a site with the rather unlikely and cumbersome name of “dating-webhosting.com”, as many as 60% of all webhosting sites do not deliver what they promise. Indeed, according to dating-webhosting.com, they may take your money and not deliver at all.

Says a note from the company, dating-webhosting.com “signed up at 619 hosting companies. But only 288 webhosting accounts were created.

The most took the money, provided no service and answered no e-mails. Many of those companies do not exist anymore, but they did not remove their sign-up page and their payment processor still processed the money transfer.

They also tested 437 free webhosting providers. Surprisingly…

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