Pfff... Just Stay away from this chicken chips company. Is now i think 10 time when it comes to brake my screen because of this incompetent people.. but no.. i will just change everything and will keep post this everywhere i can. Websites down, emails not working, response afte 2-3 days and no solution.. . Stay away from Namesco Names.co.uk, namesco.co.uk, cheapdomainnames.co.uk and so on ..

I also had huge problems with Names. They just don't care about their customers anymore. I have had to pay hundreds of pounds to transfer all of my domains away to another reseller provider. But it was worth it to be rid of these idiots.

I'm amazed to see above that others have the same suspicions and issues with Names - I too had 45+ of my customers' websites hacked, and I too was told that it was an issue on my own PC.

I also would avoid Names if I could - unfortunately I'm in too deep as well.

Anyone else here fancy teaming up to threaten legal action? The threat alone should convince Names to make it easier for us to migrate.

All servers down again due to attack - mail has become as reliable as snail mail telephone support unobtainable the whole thing has gone to hell in a hand cart since being bought out - If we were not in so deep with this company I would be migrating elsewhere.

Namesco used to be one of the best hosting providers albeit a bit pricey. However recently their service and support has deteriorated due to an increasing number of attacks on their servers. This has resulted in frequent outages of both websites and email services. The latest issues have been with SQL databases timing out that has disabled the majority of Ecommerce websites.

After having our websites hacked by a malicious javascript we were told it was an issue with the security of our local computers albeit our hosting with other providers had not been affected and we are very conscious about our internal security. Namesco then disabled all ftp access to our clients websites and changed the main control panel login without letting us know. We were then advised to change all our clients logins resulting in a loss of a days work as these new passwords had to be then configured on our clients computers for email access etc.

A couple of weeks later we had the same scenario again and all had to be changed once more.

To top that during all the above problems our bandwidth went over by 2GB and Namesco suspended our account immediately without any notification which resulted in all our clients accounts, websites and emails going down. We had to contact them which is very difficult now and can result in anything up to an hour queuing on the phone to find out what the issue was. Having been told about the bandwidth charge we then paid any monies due immediately and was told our service would be restored straight away. After 20 minutes we called again and was told it would be another 15 minutes. A third call and we were told anything up to an hour.

As you can imagine all of the above can have a detremental affect on any web hosting company therefore I would think twice before considering Namesco as a virtual hosting provider for the following reasons:

Lack of communications

Poor security

Very expensive

Slow support response

Lack of consideration for clients businesses

By the way we are still without services and are in the process of moving to another server. You also get charged £10 for every domain you try and move away from Namesco.

My advise is to shop around as you will find a better service at a more reasonable price.