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VistaPages review

Permalink February 5, 2008 • Category: Reviews

General

VistaPages is a privately owned hosting company. Created in 2004, they are based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

User experience

Our Vista Pages test site showed good response and uptimes.

Follow up:

VistaPages is using the industry standard cPanel 11 admin interface.

We were able to perform 10 simultaneous FTP transfers, which is outstanding and makes site maintenance extremely fast.

Customer satisfaction

Technical specs are good.

Platform security is very good.

Customer support is poor. You will likely get little to no support in case of problems.

Customers will typically choose VistaPages for their good price to features ratio. VistaPages is more appropriate for those looking for a good hosting deal than for those who need extensive assistance.

After further investigation of some feedback and customer reports, we no longer recommend not to use VistaPages for hosting your websites.

Technical specs

  • MySQL 4.1.22
  • PHP 4.4.7
  • UTF-8 and mbstring: supported

Security

VistaPages is running suPHP and there is strong isolation between user accounts.

Secure FTP (SFTP) is available which is excellent!

Overall security is very good.

Hosting Plans

VistaDeal
Monthly fee (× 6 mo) $8.95
Monthly fee (× 12 mo) $7.95
Monthly fee (× 24 mo) $5.95
Monthly fee (× 36 mo) $4.95
Disk space Unlimited
Transfer (monthly) Unlimited
Included domain name 1
Domains per account Unlimited
MySQL databases Unlimited
b2evo auto install yes

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5 comments

Comment from: julien [Visitor]
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I prefer to pay a lot of money to receive a decent service than using this junk service of VISTAPAGES. I was shopping around and called the sale department. Somebody pick up the phone and say they cannot understand my concern. When I tried to provide possible alternative the man hanged up on me. Sure I decided to call back. 4 time I was rejected. Also to receive a support you cannot talk to a person. You must leave a message for someone to call you back or use a live chat online. GODADDY, when they say 24/7 they really mean it.
07/05/08 @ 23:43
Comment from: rm [Visitor] · http://virtualdatespace.com
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I think thier up time is terrible. I just switched hosting because i am tired of the site being down everyday for hours horrible experisnce and they overchargey you too.
08/26/08 @ 13:20
Comment from: Jonas Joseph [Visitor] · http://www.setluv.com
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Stay away from vispagepages they are bunch of scammers, will take your money, and will never answer the phone, the site run by 2 people, boyfriend and girlfriend.
09/03/08 @ 05:19
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I wrote about the extremely awful experience we had with VistaPages at the Coccinella open source instant messenger project. Click the website URL to read the review.

Our recommendation: stay away from VistaPages at any cost. Their service is the worst service you can imagine; your b2evolution blog will be down often and the support people are extremely harsh in their communication! VistaPages is definitely the worst Canadian company (and not only in the hosting industry!).
09/03/08 @ 18:04
Comment from: ?? [Visitor]
where are the user comments
10/11/08 @ 19:04

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