How Long Does It Take To Be Activated?

[Matt]

Activation can take up to 24 hours in extreme case, but typically only takes a few hours, and if you are an existing customer, usually just a few minutes.

The reason for the delay in setup time is because we like to keep the riff-raff OFF of our hosting platform and one of the ways that we do this is by screening each and every new customer that signs up for GlowHost Web Hosting services.

There are several checks that we perform, including calling the telephone number left with the order to verify that it is accurate and working.

This policy has helped us reduce our fraudulent sign-up rate significantly and has prevented thousands of spammers, phishers, fraudsters, and other unscrupulous characters from making their way onto our hosting platform. Did you know that over 75% of all orders made on the GlowHost site are fraudulent?

What this means to you as a GlowHost customer is a higher quality of service and better reliability than most of your other web hosting options available from our competitors.

The simple reason for this is when a spammer, phisher, scammer, etc makes their way onto a shared server, they generally consume 100% of the resources on the server until they have been discovered. This ALWAYS results in SLOW servers and unreliable performance for anyone who shares the server with the "bad guys."

Eventually, this can end up in the entire shared server being blacklisted at major ISPs which means that your legitimate emails can be rejected / returned to sender just because of one spammer that made it onto your server and ruined it for everybody. Those ISP's think that punishing everyone for the action of one bad person is a good solution, and they reject email from anyone and everyone that shared the server with the spammer. It can take days, weeks, or months to be removed from some blacklists. We prefer to never be on those blacklists, because reliability in our service is very important to us.

As they say:

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

We firmly believe this to be the case and while it might be a minor inconvenience to wait a couple hours after sign-up to be approved, we think you will find that after we have you up and running, you will be enjoying one of the fastest, most reliable, and best supported hosting experiences available anywhere today.

As another wise man once said:

"The best things come to those that wait."

While this is not our support motto, this is our "new client" setup policy.
Go ahead and order from us. We have a 60 day money-back refund policy if you are not happy.

[BootyButter]

How long does it take to be activated?

It all really depends on the day and time your order is processed. It happens pretty swiftly unless there is a lot going on, say for instance major promotions, or other stuff like holidays.