I just had a strange experience with a hosting company. I purchased a "Pro Hosting" account for a new website with a company I knew from a couple years ago. Before signing up, I read all the specs, seemed the same as before.
However, when I got the the links to my new account, it turned out to be just a subdomain of the hosting's domain. The link went www. xxxxxhosting.com/cpanel/myusername.
I was so surprised not to see my new domain url, I didn't believe it at first. I checked to see that my websites url would be username.xxxhosting.com.

I went back and checked the webhosting plan. It read just like all the plans out there.

It seems there are webhosting companies selling you hosting plans and then giving you just a subdomain, no domain url at all.

I immediately asked for a refund of course. Now I'm looking for hosting serivces and wondering if this is a common happening.

Anybody else had such an experience? Any comments?

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Cordially,
Kandoo