I went ahead and moved the company site to their Mosso account and the nightmare began.  I’ve been on free web hosts from 1999 that ran better.  There was frequent downtime, with the site going down on average once a week, sometimes for several hours or longer.  The Mosso status blog’s favorite words were:  “php degraded.”  Numerous phone calls only gave us the same excuse – that other websites were hogging resources and Mosso just had to wait for them to come along and then they’d try to handle them.

Every phone call also gave us another line:  that Mosso was implementing procedures to handle all sorts of traffic so php degradation didn’t happen again.  I later came across a person who’d been on Mosso and been told the same thing – two years earlier.  Through this of course we learned that we weren’t on anything close to even a semi-private server.

After another half day of lost sales I was given permission to move and I did so with gusto.

I’ve tried out a lot of hosts and No Monthly Fees at their early worst was better than Mosso.  I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone.