Do you have a website? Do you shop for web hosting companies for the best deal? Now let me tell you when you can find the best web hosting deals — when another popular web hosting company is having extended outage!

MD WebHosting was having hardware issues with their racks, resulting many hours of downtime for their customers. Depending on how important a website is to you, but for me I will become anxious if OzBargain is offline for 5 minutes, frustrated if down for more than half an hour, and angry if last for more than 2 hours! OzBargain was in fact having availability issue a couple of times before. Half of them were due to my own stupidity, but if your provider is not helpful and communicating during down time, the first thing that comes up in my mind is usually — “Enough!! I want to ditch you guys!! I want my sites to come back as soon as possible!”

Exactly the mentality other hosting companies are looking for.

There were at least 4 different web hosting companies offering “special price” on OzBargain for refugees from MD WebHosting.

• Unlimited-Space.com — 50% off first invoice
• Jumba.com.au — 50% off first invoice
• GDWebHosting.com.au — 50% off first invoice
• HightekHosting.com.au — 60% off first invoice

All are Australian companies offering Australian server space. Not sure whether you need to prove whether you are indeed a MD Web Hosting company.

On an unrelated note, you have probably find the theme of this blog is now in sync with OzBargain. Finally my last year’s new year resolution has been completed. I will also use this place to test out some new theme ideas before I push them out to the main OzBargain site.