WebHostingTop » Providers » Netfirms Review » User Reviews » Rating #180 Netfirms got a positive review from Wooster ( fake@e... ) on Feb 20, 2006
Currently, my experience is with the Netfirms advantage Plan. I have to admit they are out right generous with the bandwith and the amount of space they provide. PHP, CGI, FTP, and MySQL are a ton of nice features.
But... they like to dummy things. phpMyAdmin has been striped of some of the more flexible abilities. Also, Additional FTP accounts are obligated to have username.# afterwards. MySQL User Accounts have Cryptic Usernames, Database names and Passwords attached to them. Granted, that makes hacking into the databases difficult, but retrieving those values if/when forgotten becomes a hassel.
Also, Backing up Large SQL databases is next to impossible. With the 5-3 meg timeout limit users are obligated to send a request e-mail to Netfirms to back the database up. Netfirms support E-mails have historically been very unhelpful.
Also, their automated phpBB install script is running 2.0.6, As of now, phpBB is running 2.0.19; Inbetween there have been many security holes patched up, some according to phpBB.com have been labled critical. Netfirms when asked of such explained that they were unaware of any security holes and refused to upgrade.
Also, on several occasions related to phpBB on Netfirms, on 3 separate occasions durring the past 2 years there has been some outside tinkering with the source code for the forums. Thankfully, no data was lost, but the layout had become unbareable at points to where, on 2 occasions, we using the same SQL tables reloaded the root files for the forums, and on a third occsaion abandoned ship all together and started again with a new root and SQL table, deliberatly not using Netfirms phpBB installer script. So far we have yet to gain any problems, but it is currently too soon to tell.
This may be a tad harsh a review... but I can't complain too much with 20000 Megs of Disk Space and 768000 Megs of Bandwith.
If you want bandwith, Space, and reliable uptime stick around here, if you want good scripting and SQL... I'd say look elsewhere...
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