Gearhost truly does try its best to be a top of the line, bleeding edge technology cloud based web hosting provider however there are some issues.
While support is quick, the employee turnover in the support department results in a general lack of knowledge that actually increases the time it takes to resolve many technical issues.
Also, gearhost runs out of one data center and has some old technology in its backbone that is easily targetable and vulnerable to DDOS attacks. Thus resulting in the older account types that have not been updated going down from time to time. Because the switch often gets overwhelmed, this results in every service going down at once including email and even sometimes the ability to contact gearhost.
Still a great option for larger companies who need dedicated servers and knowledgeable IT team, however not recommended for the smaller guys who need a cheap shared hosting solution. read more