Comments on: Why not to use UK2.net

By: Richard Eaton

Richard Eaton — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:36:44 +0000

DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY…….Occasional I can say companies have some good points, but not UK2.NET.
I’m currently in a battle with them for the miss-sale of a domain name,knowhere do they mention you get a huge ugly banner unless you either host with them $$$$ or by the software to remove it $$$$, so I aksed for a refund, they don’t refund on domain purchases, I asked for a transfer…Yes they can do it, that will be £12 please $$$$$$$. All this company want is your money. The battle is well under way and I’m not giving in….APPAULING APPAULING APPAULING.

By: UK2 Hater

UK2 Hater — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:20:07 +0000

I have just (stupidly) purchased several domain names from UK2 and my god how I regret it. They seemed good value as I (again stupidly) thought that as I had purchased them I owned them, no if I want to do ANYTHING with them I have to pay some sort of ransom money for the privilege. I ended up buying web space as it was cheaper than transferring them but once again anything out of just looking at the sites costs. If you have got as far as my comment then please take notice and buy the domains elsewhere. Incidentally I last used UK2 about 11 years ago and they were excellent then, I don’t know what has happened in the meantime…….

By: Russell Fleming

Russell Fleming — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:44:32 +0000

UK2 what a bunch of c**’*s.

Completely agree with you Andy and everyone else. Any idea where I can get a decent FREE server side web form script ?.

By: Ben Ellis

Ben Ellis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:30:49 +0000

Hi all,

We just registered for the business hosting with UK2.net as we were impressed with the website and the configuration for the price. Unfortunately I must say that uk2.net have one of the most control panels I have used in my 10 years experience of building websites.

FTP doesn’t work, remotely connecting to a MySQL DB doesn’t work, only 1 of the 3 bundled domain names points to the hosting account, with the other 2 just pointing to bog standard uk2.net holding pages. The addon domain function doesn’t redirect the domain names to the main account.

And to top it off, 50p/min for technical support. Haven’t even bothered to call them, as I am assuming they will know nothing about solving any of the simple issues above.

In short, we are going to get a refund for the hosting and go elsewhere.

Can anyone recommend a decent UK-based hosting company with half-decent, non-premium rate support? All we need is PHP/MySQL, the usual LAMP set up really for hosting a WordPress-driven backend.

Thanks all

Ben

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:24:08 +0000

Uk2.net – what a joke!
I’ve been a steady client of Uk2 for ten years or so now, but I have never been so dissappointed with the service as I have been this year.
for months I’ve had issues sending emails from my pda, which sporadically worked but not reliably up until that is august when all hell broke out and it appears from the other blogs and review websites, their system has gone into meltdown.
I am now trying to set up with a new provider. Being not in the slightest bit a techy type, I have a man looking at it for me.
What a mess they’ve got themselves into. support is non-existent, they’re hyper expensive ‘general support’ line is not ever answered and I’m still waiting for a tech support ticket from two weeks ago just to be acknowelged!

useless.

best of luck to all those still using them.