I would like to know about cirtexhosting company from its clients. I found this company attarctive by the offered deals, and currently I am looking for somebody to tell me if this company is really worth of getting an account from. I mean how's their shared hosting quality? The pre sales support looks to be fast and informative, but how about customer support?
View 2 RepliesHow do you finā cirtexhosting shared account offers?
What about the overall quality and reputation of this host? Do you know anything that could be useful for the person who is interested in the account purchase?
Any recommendation or experience with them?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI bought hosting from cirtexhosting 4 days ago after I read his post in the advertising forum. Paid for a year up front thinking that they should be an ok company. But, I was wrong. Over the pass 4 days their milky server is totally unusable. In the cpanel server status page, cpsrvd, mysql (4.1.22-standard-log), clamd, ftpd, antirelayd, httpd (1.3.41 (Unix)) are all in red color, I guess that means they are down? Cronjob also doesnt work. I sent them tickets the pass few days. Tickets regarding billing is answered within an hour which means they are very good at collecting money. But support ticket answered with "this ticket requires the managament, and are being left unanswered for over 24 hours. Their live support is completely useless , been waiting for 15 to 20 min no one answers. So what, should I be asking for refund? I read some reviews about them on this forum, and they are not suppose to be this bad?
View 13 Replies View Relatedso i've used cirtexhosting's economy package for 7 months.
it was running ffmpeg, using bandwiths in terabytes....of course this shared server, it will have problems. got suspended several times.
compared to Asmallorange (1~2 year):
- sftp, SSH, always disconnects and very unstable. asmallorange never did this.
- frequent downtimes. (tickets submitted number in couple hundreds) the longest downtime was 2 days. they gave 1 month credit for this tho.
bottom-line: if your just starting out, dont wanna pay a lot, they were great, other than the problem with SSH and sftp but dont expect too much, because its a shared host after all.
Satisfaction out of
now i hope they give money back now that i moved to new host.
Frustrastion w. CirtexHosting [negative review]
G'day everybody!
I actually stumbled onto this site in the search for a new hosting option...
My current site dare2go.com is hosted with cirtexhosting for nearly 3 years. During this time I had occasional problems with downtime and slow responses from support, but nothing like now. Since the hosting is cheap and my site a small (non-profit) travelogue I never really bothered too much...
Now I am battling for almost a week a problem with them which should actually be a simple one. I want to install a forum, and after some research decided on SMF from simplemachines. So on Monday I downloaded it, unpacked it and uploaded it via FTP. Upon first tests all actions (like admin changes, registration of new user, etc.) in the new program crashed - 403 error forbidden. For that day I gave up.
Next morning I went back, checking all permissions (Chmod, etc.) with no change of the problem; finally I posted a question about my problem on the simplemachines forum - nobody could help me...
The rest of this day I couldn't do much due to power outages.
Wednesday I went back to check everything but no changes - still every action resulted in a 403 error.
So I decided to try another forum software, MyBB, downloaded this, unpacked and installed it, and already upon log-in had exactly the same 403 error.
So I finally decided to contact the support explaining the problem and pointing to my suspicion that it was some kind of php permission error. Even the header of my support request read "permission problems at 'dare2go.com'" (Years ago I used to earn some money from websites, had my own dedicated server with better access to php features. Back then I had to install other scripts - so I know a little - not much - GRIN. But I don't like to bother support for issues which turn out to be my own stupidity, hence my late cry for help...)
A reply to this enquiry arrived after nearly 90 minutes and didn't reach me until the next morning. Support had decided to alter my .htaccess file resulting in my entire website being down (only a directory listing being displayed) - great
So this day I tried first to look into this problem, and then decided to poke a little more through CPanel (where I had looked several times before in an effort to solve my problem - never really used it before) - in Fantastico I discovered an auto-install of exactly the same version of SMF which I had installed on Monday - I decided to run this (into a third directory for a forum), and upon starting this install I soon received exactly the same 403 error.
In the meantime more emails went back and forth between support and me - the time span between them getting longer and longer.
Finally today I received this answer:
Quote:
Sorry for the inconvenience, mod_security found some session attack from your script. Please upgrade your script with latest and then check it, otherwise upgrade your cirtex plan to VPS or Dedicated server. For more information hostv.com
This is not a solution!
Virtual or dedicated hosting are way beyond my means and my needs! After all: the last install from Fantastico is exactly the version they are offering as a free option for my account, and cirtexhosting's front page states in bright orange "We Host Forums".
My last email from around 5 hours ago (cc to sales-at-cirtex.com) remains unanswered. 24/7 support doesn't mean I should have to wait a day for a reply...
An ANGRY Juergen
I am traveling and have only limited internet access - hence this issue is even more pressing. Next week I have to move on because my visa in Paraguay is expiring soon - and all time seems to be wasted...
The first month was bad!
Uptime: 97,1%
Server and Network Speed: 2/10
So I asked to move to another server! They moved all promptly (with my data). My reviews on the new server:
Support: 9/10 always.Got answer also after 5min.
Uptime: 99.99%
Server and Network Speed: Great speed from Italy Now. You can test it.
Now my site is about 400 visitors/day using video script. It's ok for now.
Overall? Ok.
I will soon be meeting a few people who plan on selling their clients to me that are currently hosting with them.
I have never bought/sold clients before and would like some guidance from the community here on WHT.
Correct me if im wrong.
I should consider purchasing those clients who's contracts are going to expire soon, preferably within the next 6 months atleast?
Should i or should i not purchase clients who they have recently taken a renewal fee from that will last for atleast another 6 months?
How will calculate on what prices they should be selling their clients to me for? Are they going to add up a years worth of hosting before they set a final sale price?
At the end of the day i dont want to take on clients who have already paid for their hosting and wont be expiring anytime soon. I think, if i take them on board now they will be using up my hosting resources at my expense which i will have to wait until their next renewal is due.
The guys i will be buying the clients from have their current hosting plans as follows:
Monthly prices range from £1.90 £5.00 £9.50 £15.50,
Yearly prices range from £19.00 £50.00 £95.00 £155.00
Depending on what packages their clients are on now, how much do you think on average 5 clients would be worth roughly?
Before i purchase what else do i need to look into?
What other questions do i need to ask other than the likelihood of how long they expect their clients to stay with them/(me).
i have issue with my vps, but i cant fix it.
in error log of apache2 it show
server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting
my apache config
KeepAliveTimeout 5
MaxKeepAliveRequests 200
<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
StartServers 3
MinSpareServers 3
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 50
MaxRequestsPerChild 2000
</IfModule>
<IfModule mpm_worker_module>
StartServers 2
MaxClients 150
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>
I did an FTP of a high res photo to a client. They got it fine.
Today I tried to FTP several of my various files to another client. However, it would not go through. Both times I uploaded them to my web hosting service. But when I tried to send several files at one time it did not work. I even tried zipping them.
is there any other good ftp clients beside lftp and ncftp to transfer a whole directory for CentOS4?
I can't get lftp passive mode behind firewall working, it's stuck at [Making data connection...] and there is some problems with ncftp as well, and centos4 is no longer supported too..
How do you deal with your clients in reguards to hosting. Its just I have a couple of jobs coming up. Do you host them yourself or just point them into the right direction of a good host and use them?
View 6 Replies View RelatedJust stopped at the site of photonvps.com and got to know the company offers attractive VPS being narrowly specialized.
Nut really this is the very first time I hear of the host, and I need to know If anybody has experience or knows someting if this provider, to help me making a decision.
I've been developing websites for clients on and off for about 5 years. I've recently gotten more serious about developing as my client base is growing. So, as I get more clients I develop sites for I need to figure out where to host the sites.
So, the question is VPS, Dedicated, or Shared. How do I compete with companies that charge $6.99 for so much data transfer and storage?
Are you also getting a complete lack of service and customer support?
I have not heard a darn thing from them since they got hacked and now I have only about 25% uptime! But yet, I am still paying for the 99% uptime they promise!
Am I alone here?
How can I monitory what ever the server managment company does so that i can be sure they do not do harm to my clients?
Is there any log recording software that they can not delete the record and I get full information of every thing they do?
somthing like email seding all logs so that it does not remain in the server.
We're having a small problem with one of our Ventrilo boxes (Linux) that seems to be blocking users from connecting. The DC (The Planet) is reporting that the issue is likely with the user and my tech is also saying the same thing. I have reason to believe they're both wrong but wanted to see if anyone had any ideas.
Here are 3 tracert's that show normal activity until the user reaches the DC network and then they can't reach our server.
All 3 of these are from different users experiencing the exact same problem.
Tracing route to ca.13.1343.static.theplanet.com [67.19.19.202] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 70 ms 72 ms 24 ms 68.86.105.193
4 127 ms * 13 ms 10g-9-3-ur02.longmont.co.denver.comcast.net [68. 86.103.157]
5 103 ms 87 ms 66 ms 10g-9-1-ur01.longmont.co.denver.comcast.net [68. 86.103.161]
6 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms 10g-3-1-ar01.denver.co.denver.comcast.net [68.86 .103.154]
7 9 ms 9 ms 23 ms 68.86.103.150
8 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms 12.125.159.89
9 45 ms 42 ms 33 ms tbr2-p013702.dvmco.ip.att.net [12.123.207.150]
10 31 ms 34 ms 126 ms tbr2-cl33.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.12.125]
11 145 ms 32 ms 31 ms gar1-p3100.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.165]
12 38 ms 32 ms 31 ms 12.119.136.14
13 30 ms 34 ms 32 ms te7-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.18]
14 34 ms 32 ms 30 ms vl41.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.83]
15 59 ms 142 ms 48 ms gi1-0-2.car02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.19.255.1 34]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Tracing route to ca.13.1343.static.theplanet.com [67.19.19.202] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 10 ms 73.96.20.1
3 9 ms * 7 ms GE-2-37-ur01.aberdeen.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68 .86.98.9]
4 9 ms 13 ms * te-5-2-ur01.olympia.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.8 6.96.6]
5 11 ms * 12 ms te-8-4-ar01.burien.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.86 .96.10]
6 14 ms 19 ms 14 ms 12.116.25.13
7 69 ms 69 ms 70 ms tbr1011401.st6wa.ip.att.net [12.122.111.6]
8 72 ms 76 ms 74 ms tbr2-cl10.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.12.113]
9 73 ms 66 ms 67 ms tbr1-cl30.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.9.137]
10 67 ms 68 ms 69 ms tbr1-cl3.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.10.26]
11 70 ms 67 ms 67 ms tbr1-cl20.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.49]
12 67 ms 68 ms 67 ms gar1-p340.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.161]
13 65 ms 66 ms 65 ms 12.119.136.14
14 66 ms 66 ms 65 ms te9-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.22]
15 68 ms 67 ms 68 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91]
16 67 ms 66 ms 66 ms gi1-0-1.car02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.19.255.6 ]
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
1 9 ms 5 ms 7 ms 73.101.80.1
2 7 ms 7 ms * GE-2-37-ur01.gigharbor.wa.seattle.comcast.net [6 86.99.9]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 13 ms 9 ms 11 ms 12.117.243.13
5 64 ms 66 ms 64 ms 12.127.6.50
6 67 ms 67 ms 273 ms tbr2-cl10.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.12.113]
7 67 ms 73 ms 69 ms tbr1-cl30.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.9.137]
8 66 ms 66 ms 65 ms tbr1-cl3.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.10.26]
9 68 ms 64 ms 63 ms tbr1-cl20.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.49]
0 67 ms 70 ms 66 ms gar1-p340.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.161]
1 70 ms 68 ms 67 ms 12.119.136.14
2 72 ms 69 ms 66 ms te9-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.22]
3 63 ms 65 ms 65 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91]
4 69 ms 75 ms 69 ms gi1-0-1.car02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.19.255.6
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
0 * * * Request timed out.
I am trying to find a good solution for email. I use a Linux based server running CestOS, WHM and cpanel. I absolutely hate the webmail clients that come with cpanel (horde, squirrel mail, neomail) so I use outlook instead. Problem is, I use the same email between different computers and end up getting the same messages twice. This does not seem to matter if I use pop3 or IMAP; I still get the same emails in both places.
What I would like to see is a possibility of a mail client that is either web based, or something I can add to my server that allows me to take advantage on IMAP - and have it work like it is supposed to. I like the functionality of pop3 in outlook because it allows you to easily delete and maintain a clean inbox.
I have a client who had me redesign his bands website which is currently hosted at 1and1.com. I've never dealt with them before, so I was wondering what everyone's thoughts are on them. So far the technical support has been giving us a hard time retrieving the cpanel password which is different from the ftp. Other then that, is this a reliable host for a band selling there music, or would I be better off switching to another host such as jaguarpc.com?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have 20 clients who are on different networks and countries but all of the sudden their IP's are keep getting black list in spamhause, CBL, dsbl etc and they can not send email i am so very tired of this,
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have been researching i3d.net as a dedicated provider.
I have searched the archives and in order to take a final decision I would like to kindly ask some current clients and even past clients of i3d.net to share some insight on the quality of this provider and it's network.
I have been using Vista 32-bit with FileZilla for 2-years on this computer. I haven't made any recent changes to my system, but suddently NO FTP clients work.
I tried FileZilla and FireFTP (firefox extension). Neither can connect. FileZilla just gives a timeout error. FireFTP has been "connecting" for 5-minutes. No success.
I tried to bypass my Linksys router and go directly through my cable model. They still do not work.
I *CAN* connect to an FTP site using telnet command.
One of my clients is under a bandwidth attack in the past few days. He went from 6000 "hits" (file requests, not users) on his site Monday to over 11,400,000 for the day yesterday (Friday). Today's just further escalation.
His site usually does about 2-6 GB traffic a month, and he's now over 450 GB for the month of December as of earlier today (being Dec 6th - 6 days into the month).
The traffic is from (or if using proxies, appears to be from) multiple residential IPs - with over 90 simultaneous users on the site at any given time.
First they were hitting a particular image, and when access to that image was removed, they've just been hitting the home page since.
Besides taking his site offline, any thoughts here on how to keep him online?
I discussed with him moving to his own dedicated 10mbps/unmetered system - but with the escalation here, I'd imagine they'd use up all that bandwidth in short order as well.
Any experience on how long these attacks generally continue? All I can think is that he's hurting a competitor who is now using this as a tactic to cripple the online business/success/etc. This business (for the types of products they sell) for the most part is pretty small though, and I can't imagine one of the competitors really has the knowledge on how to do this themselves - or even coordinate it themselves (or they'd be in another business making more $$$). If they're not coordinating it themselves, any idea on how much it might be costing the competitor to have someone else coordinate such an attack?
I was just wondering how fast does it take for a VPS business to reach a certain number of clients.
I'm sure there are lots of variables, like how long the company is in business, what sort of product the company is providing, the market it is targeting, and more, but just elaborate as much as you want, or just ball park it.
I am about to host a ton of client sites, and need a good host to support them all at a good rate.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm going to be hosting my clients websites and I was wondering how to calculate how much bandwidth / space I should make available to clients and also how much to charge for hosting / maintenance.
View 11 Replies View RelatedIm a webhoster...im getting many support tickets that clients r not able to add user to the database in cpanel...
View 7 Replies View RelatedI need a server dedicated just to emailing prospected clients.
Can anyone turn me onto a decent provider who does not mind excessive mail?
I am a host reseller and the parent company is upgrading their servers to PHP5. This may break some of my clients' sites (OSCommerce, Zen). Should we fix those sites for free or should my clients pay for the upgrade?
View 24 Replies View RelatedIm currently running cent0S 5. I recently just installed Squid Version 2.6.STABLE6 for a client to enable him to use as proxy. However it seems that sites like whatismyip.com and ipchicken.com are resolving back to my clients IP address and not the servers.
There is only one IP on my server and I think the problem may deal with X-Headers? (correct me if I am wrong)
Is there any way to use the server IP address for when my customer is using the proxy server.
My squid.conf looks like the following:
Code:
Code:
http_port 8080
forwarded_for off
icp_port 0
cache_mem 64 MB
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 128
maximum_object_size 4096 KB
cache_store_log none
cache_access_log /var/log/squid/access.log
hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin ?
no_cache deny QUERY
visible_hostname proxyserver
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src xxx.xx.xxx.xxx
acl SSL_ports port 443 563 10000
acl Safe_ports port 80
acl Safe_ports port 21
acl Safe_ports port 443 563
acl Safe_ports port 70
acl Safe_ports port 210
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535
acl Safe_ports port 280
acl Safe_ports port 488
acl Safe_ports port 591
acl Safe_ports port 777
acl Safe_ports port 901
acl purge method PURGE
acl CONNECT method CONNECT
acl LocalNet src xxx.xx.xxx.xx
http_access allow manager localhost
http_access deny manager
http_access allow purge localhost
http_access deny purge
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access allow localhost
http_access allow LocalNet
http_access deny all
icp_access allow all
log_fqdn on
##### This side is to make the proxy tranparency
#httpd_accel_with_proxy on
#httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
#httpd_accel_host virtual
#httpd_accel_port 80
######------------------------------
error_directory /usr/share/squid/errors/English
#httpd_accel_uses_host_header off
#anonymize_headers deny From Referer Server
forwarded_for on
http_port ServerIP:8080 transparent
# no forwarded quite useless for an anonymizer
forwarded_for off
# no client stat
client_db off
# Paranoid anonymize
header_access Allow allow all
header_access Authorization allow all
header_access Cache-Control allow all
header_access Content-Encoding allow all
header_access Content-Length allow all
header_access Content-Type allow all
header_access Date allow all
header_access Expires allow all
header_access Host allow all
header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
header_access Last-Modified allow all
header_access Location allow all
header_access Pragma allow all
header_access Accept allow all
header_access Charset allow all
header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
header_access Accept-Language allow all
header_access Content-Language allow all
header_access Mime-Version allow all
header_access Retry-After allow all
header_access Title allow all
header_access Connection allow all
header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
header_access All deny all
header_access Cookie allow all
header_access Set-Cookie allow all
header_replace User-Agent Anonymous Proxy at example.com
client can't access my site via the PW and ID that I give her for the FTP.
I've tried creating two different accts and they both don't work for her.
But when I give her my own private FTP info (which I don't recommend!), it works for her?
Does anybody know where the disparity in her FTP settings might be coming into play that causes this?