I have been with NS for many years but I can't imagine why. I guess the only reason I stick to them is because it's too much hassle to change. Their service often is unbelievably slow and incredibly frustrating when it takes almost a minute to load a simple email.

We just got locked with a one year contract with Network Solutions and then since about 2 weeks ago, our website has been very slow and no help at all from Network Solutions. Stay away from them. As soon as we are able to find another hosting company, we are out of this crappy hosting company!

I do mostly blogs, and when a client comes to me with a host already picked out, I work with it.

I just put a blog up on NS and I am astonished how poor the response time is!! I'm talking 40sec to a minute to return a page. We've only had the service a week, and I can see by these comments that contacting support is a waste of time. Just horrific!

Very poor hosting service they shut down our message board with over a 100,000 members since they said they did bit like the traffic we were getting.

So you get too much traffic so they suspend your account.

If you do business with them you will be left in the cold.

STAY AWAY FROM THEIR HOSTING

Network Solutions does not play nice with WordPress and possibly any database driven website. I'm not sure why this is the case but I ran a test to prove it wasn't WordPress or the quality of my custom theme creation as they suggested. I made an exact copy of the WordPress site I built including it's database as well as all related files and placed it on another host. As you can see, network solutions speed is unacceptable.

Here are the results:

Test for load time of a page request of the same WordPress webpage on two different Hosts:

- Browser cache is emptied before test

- Load time is prior to other page assets loading (ie. images, stylesheets, javascript)

NETWORK SOLUTIONS HOSTING

TEST 1

Duration: (13.63 sec)

TEST 2

Duration: (14.12 sec)

TEST 3

Duration: (12.40 sec)

GREEN GEEKS HOSTING

TEST 1

Duration: (988 ms)

TEST 2

Duration: (649 ms)

TEST 3

Duration: (823 ms)

Avoid.

There are better services out there ... most have far superior support and are easier to deal with.

I can't think of any reason to go to NS. I can think of a dozen reasons to leave them.

Very very slow. I have a simple WordPress site and editing pages takes 30-60 minutes. Moved site to a different server and suddenly everything is smooth as can be. But NS does not see that as a reason to speed up their own servers. NEVER EVER use this host!

Network Solutions simply grabbed our $$ and we are yet to be granted access/permission to the services we purchased. Contacted them by phone & email, nothing working. Cannot get any response to our attempted cancellation of services so we may work with another hosting service. our domain remains hostage. In pursuit of a legal remedy (aka, damages) at this time.

I had never had previous experience with Network Solutions, but they were recommended to me by a fellow designer, so I wanted to give them a shot in the dark. At first everything seemed quite nice, their speeds were pretty quick and their back end systems were very well structured.

Now about three months into post project launch I have decided to move the site for my client to a new host since there are major speed issues when loading the site in the browser. FTP uploads and downloads, however, are fine.

I would not recommend Network Solutions to anyone now after experiencing this very important issue.

Network Solutions hosting is very slow, do not install a wordpress blog and expect timely page loads... Customer Service will try to upgrade your shared hosting package if you ask them to resolve the problem. FIND A REAL HOSTING PROVIDER.

If you interested in hosting a WordPress blog on Network Solutions, forget about it. It is extremely slow and no matter what you do they are just not capable of resolving this issue. I have hosted several WP blogs with NetSol and every single one has been a major issue in regards to speed. I moved few of these blogs over to Media Temple and they run 1000 times faster. The sad part is that NetSol does not even see this is an issue - although their customer service acknowledges it, the management certainly does not do anything to fix it.

Admittedly, their servers are very slow, and MySQL variables show it's not tuned. Oversold servers.

And yet, I am okay at NS. They have all the features one may need, that many average shared hosts don't, like automatic backups, handy interface for multiple domains and subdomains, that I wouldn't find easy to give up.

Never needed their support, which was a very welcome change comparing to my previous host. Though slow, so slow, their hosting works. So does their administration interface.

I cannot recommend them, because they [i]have[/i] oversold servers. But admittedly my peace of mind is quite assured with them. Only, soon enough, I will need more than a very low traffic little forum and a few experimental subdomains. And then, slowness will matter, and I will look to low-end VPS (at other companies, I want to be able to count on sharing the server with only that many, or try to count on that). Funnily enough, NS spoiled me enough that I wouldn't really search for a shared solution (anyway the lowest end VPS is not far from their price, heh), because of being so used now with handy tools. I cannot take the risk to go to a nice little shared host that needs me to contact support for a silly little task like adding a domain or whatnot. I'd say NS allows you to manage your web needs very well.

Not very pleased with our Network Solutions server. Our site goes down for an entire day usually once or twice a month on average. We will be switching ASAP.