I am extremely glad that you found this forum helpful when making your decision. This is what it is here for.
I hope that the company you signed up with will live up to your expectations, as well as exceed them. Keep in mind, however, that that company probably broke the forum rules by soliciting you as a forum member looking for advice.

Best,

I'm posting a protest on the message posted by forum admin. Please clarify what you mean by the statement “Keep in mind, however, that that company probably broke the forum rules by soliciting you as a forum member looking for advice”

Mike, if you are still looking at the forum, please clarified to everybody whether we are soliciting you or not. We feel very disappointed on the statement issued by forum admin as it is baseless and try to undermine our creditability as a responsible web hosts and forum member.

We advertise in your forum by putting our banner and paid you US$35 for the advertisement, we have customer sign up and now you issue this type of statement. Please check with Mike, we never send a single marketing email to him, until he send email to our support staff request for test account, he make his own decision and due to our offer is consider good by him, he sign up with us.

Hi everybody,

I don't think we shall discuss this matter on the forum, I feel that forum is the place for members to get the input and not the place to argue who get the business. Just want to clarify here that nobody is soliciting me and nobody sending me marketing email to my private email for signing up a reseller hosting package. I made my own decision after do the searching on the net and listen to the advice from forum members.

Clarifying. Not knowing the circumstances of Mike's sign-up, the "statement" came from the below post made by him:
In it, he did not clarify it much either. Given that one of the biggest problems any forum with similar rules would have is that when a member is silently being solicited by a company (whether by PM or email). Especially that mikehoe2288 said one of those who participated in this discussion. After looking through, there was no public solicitation made, which only raised a flag in mod's mind. Sorry. Usually that is hard to trace and lots of work needs to be done in order to get to the bottom of things. I never made a statement, rather "tested waters" with my post to see the reaction and trigger a more detail explanation, which we got:
No problem there.
And I do agree with Mike on this one:
It shall be that way. However, reality that not many members see, is that sometimes rules are being violated and we have to react appropriately. That is why members have us, the mods, to protect and serve the community.



Oh, by the way, this statement is irrelevant:
Advertising at HostingDiscussion.com does not give special status to ANYONE. Rules are rules and are being enforced fairly all the time. We've had a company before who would donate over $3,000 in sponsorship. For some reason they thought they bought a "no-rules-apply-to-me-ticket", just to find out that their ticket had an expiry date shortly after.


Let's keep this discussion on the topic, gentlemen.

In the meantime, thank you mikehoe, for a review. We would of coruse love to read a review of their services in future! Don't forget to post!

Best,

Now that several posts have been made has your questions been answered?

It has already been determined that his questions were answered and he chose to go with Hosting-Horse.

MOD NOTE: 3.4 Participants may not post or otherwise transmit promotional materials, or any other form of solicitation, except in those forum sections where advertising is expressly permitted.