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About HostMDS
HostMDS.com is a subsidiary of Millennium Data Systems, Inc. which is a privately-owned organization located in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada established in 1992, providing IT business solutions. At HostMDS, we understand that our customers web sites are important and they require reliable services to ensure that service is not interrupted. We have established a solid foundation to offer a reliable, easy to use and low cost web hosting solution for small-to-medium sized businesses.

HostMDS is a leader in providing its customers with a reliable solution to individuals and small- to large-sized businesses, helping thousands of customers get their web sites online, with ease.

Our goal is to provide a low-cost web hosting service that is easy-to-use and is customer service oriented. At HostMDS, we value our customers business and recognize their need for quality service and outstanding customer service.

With HostMDS, you can be sure to receive:

# Highest level of Customer Service
# A solid and reputable business
# Fast, Secure, Reliable Network & Servers
# Guaranteed Uptime
# Tons of leading software & tools

Why Choose HostMDS?
1. Trust
Our top asset is our ever-growing customers. Small to medium sized businesses rely on HostMDS to provide them with reliable, affordable, secure and value-added services.

2. Dedicated to Customer Satisfaction
Customer service sets us apart from the rest of the fly-by-night web hosting companies. We have built this company on offering the best service, along with great customer service that you need, whenever you need it, 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

3. State-of-the-Art Infrastructure
Unlike the many other web hosting companies out there, we pride ourselves in having one of the most powerful infrastructures for shared web hosting today. Our servers are located inside of our owned & operated state-of-the-art data center. We're able to provide our customers with the comfort that their site will not suffer downtime due to power-failure, fire and other security hazards. We utilize a BGP4 routed network connecting to multiple Gigabit IP networks.

4. Easy-to-use Service
We understand that not everyone is a master at web hosting. This is why we include a web-based control panel to allow you to administrate your web hosting account with an easy-to-use interface using cPanel technology. We also include a Drag n' Drop site builder to help those without the skills to build and publish a web site on the Internet, effortlessly.

5. Award Winning Service
HostMDS over the years has won numerous awards and has received recognitions for providing an exceptional service to our customers. As we continue to grow, we continue to receive awards and we continue to make our customers happy.

6. Profitable and Stable Organization
Since 1992, we have been a profitable IT solutions and managed services business.

7. The Price is Right
Our pricing and offering is competitive in today's market. We give our customers a service that can allow them to grow into as well as make it affordable for them to start creating an online presence.

8. We're scalable -- We'll grow with you!
Is your web site growing? Worried that you won't be able to grow because of web hosting limitations? Don't! HostMDS was built on being scalable to the customers needs, we will do everything we can to accomodate your web hosting requirements.

9. 24x7x365 Technical Support
Afternoon or midnight, rain or shine, power-failure or not, it doesn't matter! We take our customers seriously, and that is why our technical support team is always available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, working around the clock to ensure that our customers are attended to when you call, ring our live chat or submit a trouble ticket.

10. Because we're customers too
Our founders have based the entire company on the fact that they were once web hosting customers too. We know how it is when you're a customer and the services you require, that is why we focus on doing whatever we can to quickly and efficiently service the customer.
Website research for HostMDS on January 8, 2009 by WebHostingTop

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Last update: 2009-01-08 17:38:16 GMT
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Web Site TitleHostMDS
Website DescriptionAn independant data center facility in Toronto, ON
Statistics
Links to the site169
Alexa Popularity Rank416793 (1 best)
Details for www.hostmds.com website
Website Name Servers (DNS)MX::hostmds.com:208.83.212.227
dns1.hostmds.com:208.83.210.16
dns2.hostmds.com:208.83.210.17
Server SoftwareApache|PHP/5.2.17
Website IP208.83.212.227
IP Location:Country/State/CityCanada / Ontario / Woodbridge [See Hosting in Canada ]

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Customer testimonials

"I had many servers with Softlayer over the years, and when I needed a server to be in Canada, I chose HostMDS. Since then, I have slowly transitioned all my servers to HostMDS and now am even concidering colocation with them. They are very realiable and have excellent support.

Thanks everyone @ HostMDS.com"
Susan Doran <susandoran1[at]gmail[dot]com> / notapplicable.com

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Domains trend

DateTotal Domains [Estimated only]Situation [Gain domains or Loss domains]
January 30, 20121093-2
January 23, 20121095+9
January 16, 20121086-3
January 9, 20121089+5
January 2, 20121084-4
Brief overview of few months from previous years
December 26, 20111088+1
December 19, 20111087+1
December 27, 20101086+1
December 20, 20101085+57
December 28, 20091028-14
December 21, 20091042 

Customer Ratings

The quick stats of HostMDS ranks shows a note average of 0.8 out of 43 opinions
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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
HostMDS Features★★½☆☆
HostMDS Cost★★½☆☆
HostMDS Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
HostMDS Control Panel★★½☆☆

January 10, 2012
Steven ( srhtechnology@g... )
Do not host with these people. They have terrible service with constant interruption. There customer service is also terrible. AVOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
82 out of 83 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
HostMDS Rating★★★★☆
Features★★★½☆
Cost★★★★½
Customer Relation★★★½☆
Control Panel★★★½☆

April 8, 2011
JasonRegalWebDesign ( -no email- )
I have been with hostmds for a while. They had some issues back in 09, but had a management change in 10 and service has been excellent ever since. I have over a dozen domains running with them. Can't beat their dedi deals !
64 out of 71 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 6 mo. to 1 year
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

December 14, 2010
Dan ( sendmeallyouwant@g... )
They deleted my website, then refused to restore it. They have constant problems with accessibility and terrible support. Then they tried to bill me after I had already canceled. They're a bunch of lying incompetent idiots. I moved to host gator and haven't had a problem since.
58 out of 61 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 2 to 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

November 17, 2010
teo ( teo141263@y... )
Outages in the key moments - Murphy's law.
No answer to tickets. No phone answer. NOTHING !
For a small business is a nightmare .

88 out of 98 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★☆☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

May 26, 2010
Scot Meyer ( scotchy32000@y... )
We have just terminated our contract with HostMDS. Originally it was VistaPages but then a couple of years ago it switched to HostMDS. Their billing department has been unable to process invoices in a timely manner leaving our site down for days. Their technical support staff took our website down without notice because they said we were hacked into. Then when I asked them for a backup (isn't that what they should be doing anyway) they said they didn't have a recent one and restored a [...]
87 out of 97 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

April 27, 2010
Daniel ( dcaldwel@d... )
I'm leaving this host. I started with hostingplex who then were bought by hostmds. They deleted my entire website and then said it was too difficult to restore it from their backups. Then they got angry with me. You never want a host that will delete your site "accidentally" and then not restore it from backups. They're the worst hosting company that I've ever had.

Also, their spam assassin settings weren't available. They sent me screen shots that were inaccurate. Their tech support is the [...]

54 out of 64 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★★☆☆
Cost★★★½☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

April 5, 2010
Lager Monster ( lager_monster@h... )
I started off with hostingplex which was very good all the way up to the end where they sold out to hostmds without informing customers. I only found out about the sellout when services stopped and support would not get back to me.
I had 3 domains with different accounts, of these one server was down for 2 months, all data was lost. I had to quickly sign up with another provider and restore from backups. Forget about reimbursements from the 1 year of services left..
The second account I [...]

70 out of 77 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost★☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★☆☆☆

March 15, 2010
Josh ( -no email- )
These guys are the biggest scam out there. I signed up with vistapages back in the beginning and they were really good. Then this garbage company bought them, and hosting went south really really fast. I had a monitor running for 3 months and it said i had 82% uptime. Absolutely terrible. I was emailing and calling them every night to try to get them to fix it. Most phone calls were ignored and emails were always pre-written messages. My contract is finally up soon and I'm getting out [...]
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Time Hosted: 2 to 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

March 8, 2010
-anonymous- ( -no email- )
I'm giving this one star because that's the lowest one could. I opened my hosting account with VistaPages, which then became HostMDS. Since then, the service has been nothing but terrible. They wrote up whatever they felt like in TOS and changed it as they pleased. They would suspend my account now and then without any warning or explanation. Finally, they suspended my account saying I was doing too much processing. I agreed to take down my processes even though they failed to give me a more [...]
68 out of 74 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: under 1 month.
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

March 6, 2010
ALEX ( -no email- )
hahaha pathetic. This company used to be called VistaPages but because of bad reputation they changed it to HOSTMDS. Same shit different name.
58 out of 67 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

March 3, 2010
Scot Rosenberg ( rosenbs@g... )
The worst company I've ever dealt with, I have 3 servers with them on 2 accounts, 1 server has crashed twice for no reason and it took them hours to reboot it, the other server has crashed once but because the senior administrator was out for the weekend I had to wait from Friday to Monday morning until it was rebooted.
78 out of 88 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

February 4, 2010
Muriel ( muriela@r... )
HostMDS is a fraudulent company. Their former company Hostvector charged us fraudulently for accounts that were not ours. We discontinued our account twice and even still we continue to be automatically deducted through our account. The assistance is subversive, evasive and criminal. She refuses to pass along to a manager and avoids reimbursing fraudulent charges by insisting that they have no record of payments made even though bank charges to our account show that they have. DON'T GO NEAR [...]
78 out of 79 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: under 1 month.
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost★☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

January 6, 2010
Ihab ( moibed@y... )
this is the same web hosting as VISTAPAGES, it had to change its name after its VERY BAD reputation, the proof is: http://vistapages.com will redirect you to HostMDS, check the earlier reviews of vistapages
74 out of 77 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 2 to 3 years
HostMDS Rating★☆☆☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation★☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

December 27, 2009
Peter ( ebcs@c... )
Over the last couple of years my site has been down more often than I would like, but it has usually been up again within a couple of hours.

Support is a bit hit and miss. Sometimes I'll get a response from them very quickly, sometimes it's even helpful, but over the last few weeks in particular, my site has been going down more and more frequently, and as I write it has been down for almost 36 hours. Response from support has been very quick, but it's just the "We apologise for the [...]

58 out of 67 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★★★☆

December 8, 2009
Liam ( stsetho@y... )
Don't ever host with this company. My website is down at least twice a month. Tech support lies to you and respond time is generally over 24 hours. According to awatch, the uptime for my website last week was 87.25%. Socialengine's website recommended this company without first checking them out. What a mess. Don't say I didn't warn you!
66 out of 76 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating★★½☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation★★½☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

November 12, 2009
Janice ( janicemsmith@g... )
I was hosted by Hostingplex, but then they sold to HostMds. Ever since the take over my hosting is hit or miss. Sometimes my sites are up, sometimes they're not. As I write this, my sites have been down every night for the past week! It's absolutely ridiculous!
66 out of 69 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating★★★★☆
Features★★★★½
Cost★★★★★
Customer Relation★★★★☆
Control Panel★★★★½

October 30, 2009
Fred Carlson ( -no email- )
I read many of these reviews before renewing with Host MDS. My uptime has been pretty good. I'm sure it's not five 9's or anything, but for most people it's fine. Their Support is actually quite good. Each time I open a ticket with them they are very quick in replying and typically have a solution in place.

This is a pretty inexpensive host and you do get what you pay for. But for the price, they're not as bad as these reviews make them out to be.

101 out of 109 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

August 31, 2009
Eben Yep ( -no email- )
This is the WORST hosting company known to man hands down garbage in a stick. Back when it was Hostingplex before the total meltdown it was a pretty decent company with a substantial uptime and friendly helpful customer service. When Milienium Data took over in November 2008, almost a full year of hot steaming garbage occurred. I mean server hacks, server transfer issues, DNS configs, you name it, it happened to me. Recently today after 3 months of trying to call I was blessed with someone [...]
55 out of 63 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆

August 21, 2009
jackie ( setzlerdoryan@y... )
All I can say ,you just run fast as you can from this hostmds hosting company.
they are the most terrible & horrible host I have ever seen in my life.
it is almost more than two weeks the server is down .
do not even think about it to do business with them.
Ohhh

88 out of 92 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 6 mo. to 1 year
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

August 7, 2009
AG ( atlnmn@g... )
I used vistapages, and it worked great (except that they lost all my data once!)

Now, HostMDS has been down for over 3 weeks, and all I get from them is "sorry, we're working on it."

I'm definitely not reneweing.

84 out of 92 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 6 mo. to 1 year
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation★★½☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

August 6, 2009
setzan ( sarzen@y... )
terrible and sucks.
I never choose this company either to recommend.just runaway from it.
all the database and files has gone and they have no clue how to get it back to server.

59 out of 69 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 3 to 6 months
HostMDS Rating★★½☆☆
Features★★★★★
Cost★★★★☆
Customer Relation★½☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

July 3, 2009
James ( hoadn@a... )
In compare between HostMDS and the HostUpon, the hostmds is much more better.
I've been using them about 6 month, they had suspend me once, but the server load seem good.
The best thing i know and that the thing i need in hostmds is the streaming ability.
Using hostmds, you can use video sharing script, the sever is ready to use for video script like clip share, php motion, Social Engzine...
I quite like them, i know the fact that sometime the customer service is lower than others.

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Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★☆☆☆☆
Cost★☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★☆☆☆☆

March 28, 2009
peter ( -no email- )
Please stay away from HostMDS. They are HORRIBLE!...

I was with vistapages for over two years, which was bought out by HostMDS. They have ZERO support. They somehow tried charging me $1199 (instead of $94), and made it incredibly difficult to get things straightened out (many phone calls, left messages, etc). They claim to have 24/7 support, but calling after 5pm leaves you on hold for ~25 minutes, after which you get a notice that you need to enter a "priority support agreement number', [...]

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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★½☆☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation★½☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

March 27, 2009
Johnjon99 ( arregorn@g... )
I gave HostMDS an overview rating of 1, because they are absolutely HORRIBLE when it comes to up-time reliability. It seems that at least 5 days out of the week, you're undoubtedly going to sit there WAITING and WAITING and WAITING and WAITING for your site to come up. It is absolutely HORRIBLE. I just wrote them for the 12th time in the past 2 weeks letting them know that my site is just CRAWLING (and it's hardly doing that).

I really should press matters in regards to a refund as it has [...]

71 out of 81 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 6 mo. to 1 year
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★☆☆☆
Cost★½☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

March 11, 2009
Chiro Kiopiz ( cheero00@g... )
HostMDS is simply terrible. As you can see from all the reviews, the support is absolutely non-existent. They never respond back to emails and sites are often down.

HostMDS buying HostVector is quite possible the worst thing that has happened in the hosting industry. Don't blame anyone but yourself if this host screws you over, which they will.

You have been warned!

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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation★☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

February 7, 2009
-anonymous- ( -no email- )
Technically inept, poor customer relations, at time they hardly communicate in proper English, and they robbed my prepayment too.
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Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

February 2, 2009
Henry Walters ( -no email- )
This is the worst hosting I have ever seen. They deleted all of my files. Years of work deleted by them. My advice: pay a little more and save time.
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Time Hosted: 2 to 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★½☆☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★½☆☆☆

January 30, 2009
Geoff Jones ( gjburningideas@g... )
Hostingplex to hostmds = bad to worse. I have transfered all my domains but two from this company and cancelled all my clients hosting accounts.
The remaining two are only there only because the wont bother to return my calls, answer any of my support tickets or return my email in order for me to cancel.

The worst Customer service and the technical support in non existing.

One my accounts is up for renewal shortly and they say that "Payment will be taken automatically" from my visa they [...]

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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

January 29, 2009
Leave HostMDS ( tbone7948@y... )
Truly horrible! I rarely write reviews but this really goes over the top. Constant down time for the past 3 months. Server14 crashed and they didn't bother to tell anyone. It's been down for 8 days with no estimate of its return to service.

The technical supprt may respond in a few days or they may not. It's really hit or miss.

I think I'm stuck because they will not refund my money.

STAY AWAY FROM HOSTMDS or Millenium Data or Vistapages Holdings 2009 Inc.

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Time Hosted: 6 mo. to 1 year
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

January 23, 2009
Robert ( admin1@b... )
I tried to get a refund after multiple outages and they refuse. This company is the worst ever. They will not be in business for long, don't waste your time (I switched to Telus) but my HostMDS account is still "active" because they refuse to refund my money. This morning I got this emai from theml:

From: support@hostmds.com
Subject: Regarding your hosting account
Date: January 23, 2009 8:24:52 AM PST (CA)
To: my-email-address-removed

Dear valued customer,

Your service that [...]

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Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★½☆☆☆
Cost★★★☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

January 7, 2009
Ryan ( contact@f... )
Talk about a crappy hoster. Don’t even think about paying for hosting with them. My websites have been down 70% of the time. I always put in support tickets asking them whats wrong and they say “Hardware trouble, should be fixed soon”. Now i can’t even access my server! Sure there prices are good, but that’s all you’ll get out of them. DO NOT PAY THEM! FIND A DIFFERENT HOST!
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Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

December 18, 2008
Robert ( admin1@b... )
HostMDS aquired our provider, hostingplex right in the middle of us trying to get a refund for services (the cluster) that hostingplex did not provide. We did get a refund for the unprovided services. Then we suffered an outage with HostMDS that took a day to fix. Then a few weeks later we suffered a second outage that rather than fixing the HostMDS tech reported to us that we were using a backup server (of course we already knew that).

So we asked HostMDS to cancel our service and refund [...]

85 out of 90 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆

December 15, 2008
Glenn ( arstart2000@y... )
My church bought hosting with VistaPages. Everything was fine. After Host MDS bought VistaPages, everything has gone south. Our e-mail started showing that the certificate was bad and we couldn't get the mail. I contacted HostMDS and after several attempts the mail worked for a few days. Now they tell me I need to just tell Internet Explorer to accept the certificate that is there and all will be fine. I replied that I would have to go to several workstations to do that. I asked them to [...]
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Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★★★½
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation★☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★★★½

December 14, 2008
John Fox ( jfox@s... )
I have had different two websites with hostingplex, which was bought by hostmds. Under hostingplex is went down too frequently. But now it is down once or twice a month. Email interruptions, down time and very hard to reach customer support to fix their problem.
They have gone down so far. Today was the last blow. After taking my main business site to another provider, I was hoping to wait until the the contract for second site was close to ending. But it went down againvtoday, again. Too [...]

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Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

December 11, 2008
Radu Gulie ( radu@g... )
The worst web hosting service I've ever used. All this from a former client of Vistapages.
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Time Hosted: 2 to 3 years
HostMDS Rating★☆☆☆☆
Features★☆☆☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation★½☆☆☆
Control Panel★★★½☆

December 10, 2008
B29 ( info@b... )
My site and about 12 of my clients were with Hostingplex, which had some issues, but generally was the best for the price... HOSTINGPLEX got bought by Hostmds
now, you can tell when they are having rain in Canada... My sites are up, the emails are down.. My emails are up, my site is Down, Repeatedly!
I have switched to Netfirms.com

58 out of 69 users found this review to be helpful!
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Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

December 9, 2008
Glenn ( arstart2000@y... )
I was an affiliate for Vistapages which was bought by Hostmds. I received a note from the previous owner that he was going to be working with Hostmds. Vistapages owed me $210 for previous referrals. I have sent several requests that payment be made but no answers and no money. I guess the Better Business Bureau is the next step.
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Time Hosted: 6 mo. to 1 year
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★☆☆☆

December 8, 2008
Leslei ( lesleinogueira@h... )
Do not make the mistake signing up hostmds. It sucks. I had my website via vistapages and they worked fine, then when hostmds takeover vistapages the services is so bad, as well as the support, my websites were down for a long time, one of this websites was a project of college, at the day of the apresentation the website of course was down, I got screwed up by them. Please guys, do not sign up that hosting provider. You'll really regret, trust me. I'm looking so forward to my one year account [...]
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Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features½☆☆☆☆
Cost½☆☆☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel½☆☆☆☆

December 5, 2008
Mike R ( microberts@c... )
i was a hostingplex satisfied customer for 5 years. suddenly i get this e-mail from hostmds without warning im a bout to be migrated. i then find out this is not spam, but hostmds apparantly purchased hosting plex. since november 5th my sites were down. very bad support. they give an answer to your support tickets. then close them even if the problem is not fixed. the more you yell. the worse it gets.

I finally had to move to a new more reliable host because i was loosing money FAST. [...]

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Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost★★★½☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

November 25, 2008
jk ( sat01@s... )
I was client Vistapages. But they was buyed by hostMDS. Ind after that I have continous problems.

Horrible provider

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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★½☆☆

November 17, 2008
Jennifer ( -no email- )
As the other two reviews before me; I am also dissatisfied with HostMDS and was a previous Hostingplex user.

I was informed that they had merged and a few days later was informed that the server transfer would take place...then things hit the fan. I noticed major downtime for my websites. They I couldn't load the cPanel. Now my pages have an error saying the server has been reset...I cannot even log into my cPanel now because my username and password don't work (and haven't changed).

I [...]

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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★★☆☆
Cost★★★★☆
Customer Relation★½☆☆☆
Control Panel★★★½☆

November 16, 2008
kelsey wynns ( kelseywynns@y... )
I had hostingplex and just recently it got combined into hostmds...

My website has literally been down for a FULL WEEK.

INSANE! What's even the point?

I just asked for a refund and I will switch hosting...hopefully they give me a refund as I JUST paid to stay on for an extra 2 years...

hostingplex wasn't that bad though...

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Time Hosted: over 3 years
HostMDS Rating½☆☆☆☆
Features★★½☆☆
Cost★★½☆☆
Customer Relation½☆☆☆☆
Control Panel★★★½☆

November 8, 2008
GarDog ( GaryDZ@G... )
I have had nothing but problems since HostMDS took over my prior company.

My e-mail is down several times a week and most of the weekends. My web site is no longer being uploaded correctly (even though it use to work fine). I made all their recommended changes... with out luck.

Now I am back to the Phone/Chat/Submit Ticket circle again.

The phones go unanswered and after 10 min on hold, you have no choice but leave a message. Today, the live Chat does not even work.

I have [...]

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