Companies Selling Provider Independent IP Address Space? Scam
Jul 29, 2008They seem to sell or help you get Provider Independent IP space and AS numbers, is this a scam or is it something allowed by ARIN?
View 5 RepliesThey seem to sell or help you get Provider Independent IP space and AS numbers, is this a scam or is it something allowed by ARIN?
View 5 RepliesAre there companies out there that we can purchase IP's from? We might be moving data centers in 6 months and I am sick of asking my customers to always change their IP's every year.
Are there companies that we can purchase an IP block from and then carry those over to different data centers?
I am looking for something like a /26.
We currently have (2) /27's with our data center right now, but I would prefer a single /26 to keep all our IP's in the same range.
I've looked at trying to get them from ARIN, but the minimum they want to sell is a /22.
Also, how easy is it for data centers to announce your own IP space?
i want to ask about best companies that provide backups spaces
View 14 Replies View Relateddo any vps providers give over 100gig of space and 20mbs
View 6 Replies View RelatedBEWARE! of this company or operation: "Hosting Space for you" are definately crooks and a scam. After they got my yearly subscription, my account was activated for 3 weeks and then it disappeared. I mean LOST, not able to login, sites down, etc...
4 weeks of writing to their support resulting only in one automated reply that I will be contacted soon.
I'm a linux guy that occasionally has to work on ASP sites.
Maybe I've just been spoiled, but on my linux accounts I can set up fully functional subdomains that are completely independent of the main domain. In other words, a reference to root like "<img src="/images/pic.gif">" points to the root directory of the subdomain, and all my files for the subdomain are located outside of the main domain's directory tree. I realize I can use the whole URL in the reference, but would rather not for ease of portability. Come to think of it, will a windows server recognize a root reference - does it require any special setup?
Can anybody recommend an ASP.net host that can handle subdomains like this? I've been searching around wo/ any luck.
Does anyone sell (lease/rent etc) individual Blades as dedicated servers? I'm planning to branch into more rack dense colo services and wondered what the WHT opinion on this matter is.
The way I see it, blades offer more redundancy, quicker provisioning and replacement in cases of failure, and lower costs, all of which would be passed to the customers.
I would of course fully disclose the fact that they are blades, just wondering if it would matter to any buyers..
If you sell a site with a database, what happens with the hosting? Does the buyer keep the same hosting or do they get their own and transfer the site?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI update the corporate website for my company. Our server is IIS and when I need a 301, I have to send a request to IT to do it, as our pages are static .html and .shtml (SSI) and using javascript redirects is not ideal for SEO.
A redesign we're going to be deploying, will include the shuffling of several pages/directories and redirecting of quite a few URL's. This fact alone seems to provide a good argument convincing IT that this is a good idea. From what I've read here and elsewhere, heliontech's solution seems to be the way to go.
Since this is 3rd party, I'm looking to have further leverage to explain my case on behalf of using this. Are there benchmarks and data that support the reliability of this method versus the straight MS stuff?
Also, I'm not real tech savvy on the server end, but I was told that our corporate site and application sites may reside on the same box and that applying the ISAPI rewrite would affect those as well. This would obviously make it a "no sell" with my IT colleagues.
Would sites residing on the same server be globally affected by the ISAPI? If so, is there a way to circumvent this and just set the ISAPI for the one site?
I am planning to offer vps hosting but im wondering if its a good idea to start offering vps?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am doing some part-time work for a small web design company that is hoping to get some extra revenue by selling hosting to its customers after it designs the sites for them.
They wanted to know what I thought about it, and so far I've said that it seems like getting a dedicated server (from a larger provider) for about $200/month would be a good fit. If they charged $20/month then they'd make it up after only about 10 customers, and they have many more than that. And with a dedicated server they could put a lot more than 10 accounts on the site.
The thing they're worried about is having to actually administer all those accounts. The sense is that their clients are pretty low maintenance, but if you give one malicious user an FTP account into the server, they are (understandably) worried about that person's ability to affect the entire server.
The dedicated server provider I have in mind provides WHM/cPanel for a relatively small fee, and my thought is that this could address that problem.
So (having only used WHM/cPanel in passing myself), what I'm wondering is, is this the sort of thing where they could give users access simply by giving their customers a cPanel account, and not worry too much about security or configuration (keeping in mind that the dedicated host also has security people working)?
I have a somewhat unusual question for a hosting forum, but it seems to fit here reasonably well. I figure that anyone who does colo would know about buying and selling servers.
Right now, I have a very high-end system, basically a Sun V40z:
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It is fully configured with processors, memory, but only has a single hard drive currently. The system comes with a built in management processor and OS; from the console you can boot/restart the server, check which DIMMs or processors are working (or failed), etc. It has been barely used, and is in mint condition.
I'm thinking about selling it, because I'd prefer a smaller, more compact server.
Where do you guys go to sell servers? Based on listings here, the server seems to sell in the range of 20K, with a warranty of sorts (30 days):
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Obviously, I can provide no warranty, but I have pretty much the same configuration.
It's meant to be a pretty high-end database server, and I just don't need this many horsepower.
I am selling e-book on howtolearnmath.com
Currently I am using ebookpro.com
If I use PDF, how can I know others won't just download my e-book for free?
Ipower - blatant over selling, trying to kick me off with fake TOS
I am currently being ignored on live chat with Ipower.
They issued me with possibly the stupidest TOS violation imaginable. They claimed that I am using my web space for storing files which is not allowed - it must be site content. The links to the files are public on the site. They have admitted, actually admitted, that the TOS is fake. Yet they have just suspended my directories.
The real reason is because they are over selling disk space. Our contract gives me 2 Tb and I am daring to use 25% of that space. They have told me - straight out - they want me off their server because I am using too much of what I paid for.
Why do web hosts like Ipower believe that they can just ignore the law like this? It is false advertising, fraud and breach of contract. They have expressed their contempt for the law in plain English. What is it with these people? Why must I sue them to have this blatantly stupid matter resolved?
We are interested to buy different C class IPs so we can host many related sites on the same server. Our hosting provider does not sell different C class IPs. I wanted to know if there is anyway to buy IP addresses from somewhere else, lets say from other hosting companies, or private providers, who would forward the IP to our server. Did you ever hear of such service?
Does any one want to offer us this serivce?
im running out of space on one of my sites but i have more then plenty of data transfer.
Unfortunately my hosting packaged it weird where they provide not enough hd space. Im trying to figure out is there a way where i can use another server or hosting company that can provide space only and use their servers just for space?
i think amazon.com offered this but wasnt sure how exactly this works.
Apache 2.2.25 on windows 32
I have a ProxyPass that looks like
ProxyPass /Share Documents http://partner2/Shared Documents/
But Apache will not start with spaces. I tried
ProxyPass /Shared%20Documents http://partner2/Shared%20Documents/
Apache would start but the passthrough doesn't work. What do I need to do? I have several url's with spaces.
which case is more preferred: a shared web hosting service with unlimited space/bandwidth, or a dedicated one with limited space/bandwidth?
View 4 Replies View RelatedLunar pages is a scam
DO NOT USE Lunarpages
From Me to Support I noticed that my inodes are set abnormally low to 200,000 we just upgraded to VPS plan per lunars request at we are at 160,000 on second day of operation on new vps server. From Sarwan singh Jassi to siteadmin(ME) When you reach 200,000 inodes you will need to upgrade to dedicated plan However and Email from the sales guy states the following. We do not force upgrades do to inodes, we just increase your inodes as you need them. Server crashes occur all the time about 1-3 times a month. Do not use lunar
They also run the old 90's upgrade scam, they claim your script utilize high resources for php, mysql.
Their claim
CPU%: 3.15
MEM%: 1.70
MySQL: 0.9
Top Process %CPU 50.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 48.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 44.0 /usr/bin/php
After fighting with these people telling them that their server is configured incorrectly because we have load tested each and every script and that these scripts are used on 1000's of sites and the traffic we have does NOT warrent the useage they claim we went a head and upgraded per their recommendation.
So we get a brand new vps plan(see complaint above) and on the VPS server our usages look totally normal with proves they don't know what they are doing.
Directly from Pesky Plesk on the second day of getting our upgrade
CPU%: 0.15
MEM%: 0.19
MySQL: 0.2
Top Process %CPU 17.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 19.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 15.0 /usr/bin/php
They are scammer, we sign up with them and they ask us to submit credit card detail which we do.
Guess what , they use our credit card to purchase server for their own use, we contact them and they ask us to charge back if we wish, I think as they are now no longer need for the server
They are a scammer Scammer and poor DC will suffer a lost becasue I will chargeback all the charges for the server
May I Know is there any way to report this company (I am not in US) cause they must be punish for this issue
I'll tell you my story right now. I got the VPS and they charged me $60. The page didn't even look like a paypal page and I didn't know when I went through the order process that I have been charged. They accepted my payment even though they had the radio button that said first month a dollar. They even didn't have cpanel installed at first! They gave me the email and I had to contact them to install cpanel! They have this stupid contrat thing and they will take you to a collection agency for failure of the billing system that they have. It says DO NOT MAKE PAYMENT! but how can you tell? They are a complete total scam! The vps firewall was dropped for no reason during the morning. I asked why and they left the chat. They have good VPS if you got the extra $59 to cover the beginning.
View 14 Replies View RelatedEuroVPS company received the payment for VPS server and does not give me the settings finding different reasons for that and does not want to refund my money.
ORDER #EV20380S
Date 28-Mar-2009
That was 11 April when I last received e-mail from them saying that Accounts department would consider possibility of refunding the money to my paypal account.
Buy a few days ago the first package in jumplaunch.com.
The charge was for $ 75 but I think I charged $ 110. I went to the bank but the transaction does not appear.I have only 110 dollars less.
jumplaunch is fraud?....
I saw an offer from BoxVPS that was too good to be true. And in fact it was. It's been nearly a month since I paid for a VPS and still no service. My client login is disabled and they won't respond to requests for service or for a refund.
Simply stated - BoxVPS is a scam. Do not succumb to their offers, no matter how attractive they might seem. This is apparently just another in a long line of scams appearing with startling frequency on WHT. This phenomenom makes it difficult to give new hosts a try.
I am a very diplomatic person and I believe in doing fair business. This is why I've decided to write this post in your forums as well as my own and a few others. I want to share with the world our horrible experience with Server4you.de in hopes of saving the rest of you from their lies.
I am not one to openly bash people online but I feel the need to spare all of you from falling victim to this company!
In order to offer the most stable listening experience to all of you, we needed to add another European server. Doing a little research in Google, we fell on Server4you.de (a German company).
Here is an example of what they promote (in German):
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3400+,
DualCore 64 Bit,
1.024 MB DDR2-RAM
1x 160 GB SATA-HDD
Betriebssystem: OpenSuSE,
Fedora, Ubuntu und Debian
Plesk 8.2 - 10 Domains
Unbegrenzter Datentransfer (which means unlimited datatransfer)
Kostenloser Support per
E-Mail und 0800-Hotline
Before hand, we verified with them that the unlimited datatransfer package was accessible for streaming. Most companies don't allow this so it is always the first question to ask. They confirmed that there was no problem at all!
Well, after 2 months of service with them, they are telling us that we must limit our datatransfer to 75GB/day or 2TB/month. You might think that this is already a lot but this is standard for most dedicated servers and this suddenly makes them pretty expensive (even for North-American standards). Note that European bandwidth is known to be significantly cheaper than North-American bandwidth.
This was one of the few times I've had to sign a contract for hosting. So for the next year, I'm stuck paying for cheap/mediocre quality bandwidth that's suddenly not even unmetered anymore! I would walk away from them if I could (contract or no contract, I don't care) but since we're outside Germany, they made us pay for 12 month in advance. So if I want to get anything out of that money, I have no choice to use their low grade bandwidth.
Basically, consider yourself warned! Don't do business with Server4you!
They actually disconnected our servers without warning or even messaging us because we had apparently reached this new bandwidth quota which had never been mentioned in the past!
Yesterday I got a call from addr.com (caller id read AFTERGEN INC. tel: 409-938-0691)
The man with the Indian accent of some advised me that my webhosting has been active since 2001 and he said I owe them $750 or so. I told him I haven't hosted with them since 2001. He advised me that they the hosting account has been active since then.
So I tell him that you waited 8 years to call me? He said well "we couldn't get in touch with you at your hotmail account". Yea but still 8 years to call me? He tells me that I didn't cancel hosting with them.
I know for a fact that as soon as you don't renew hosting with addr.com or any other webhosting service, they will give 1 or 2 weeks to pay or they will delete your account. Then I said I won't pay them a dime! He tells me that he can give me a discount. Can you believe this scam? I hang up the phone on them.
SO NOW I OWE $750 to addr.com for past fees and they are claiming that I never cancelled hosting with them and I didn't notify them.
Before I got into web hosting business, I too, searched the whole World Wide Globe for a good web hosting company. And like many fall for some scams and learned from my experiences. Here are some ways you can tell a web host that is not safe.
Sign-up Page isn't secure.
Request a server IP to ping. This way you can figure out if the company is on a VPS, Reseller or a computer in someone's apartment [Reverse IP Check]
Unlimited Everything (well back in the day it was part of it until Yahoo decided to go solo) Company website itself goes down.
Can't find any of their representatives online (e.g. forums, blogs).
Doesn't have a Phone Number to reach.
Private Domain Registration (would you really send your money to a unknown company's PO.BOX address?)
Lies to you (e.g. Gives you 1 TB Bandwidth, but if you use up 50 GB and they close your account)
Asks for SSN/EIN for security purposes (hmm... complete B.S)
Doesn't tell you exactly how they protect your data, how secure the server is and so on.
Asks for your PayPal Username & Password on their website (also known as phishing)
Do a WHOIS Search and check how long they have been on business. (added by maccrazy)
Those are just some of things I found in a scam web host. I am sure there are many, please feel free to share your story and precautions you take.
webhostingpad has terrible service and disconnnects its phones when it has technical issues. Dozens of people have been victimized by this company and lost business thanks to their incompentence. They give all web hosts a bad name--please get the word out!
View 14 Replies View RelatedFor the past 7 months i have a vps.
The first months i had 380mb as i thought that would be enough.
After alot of privvm going sky high and a lack of support i decided to upgrade the ram to 640.
However it is still slow. They say they give 24/7 support but you can wait day's for them to report back.
This is what i get with top if i have disabled almost every service.:
Is this normal?
top - 13:34:06 up 57 min, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.16
Tasks: 26 total, 1 running, 25 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2062764k total, 2045320k used, 17444k free, 59740k buffers
Swap: 4192956k total, 150964k used, 4041992k free, 1071364k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 16 0 1628 596 516 S 0 0.0 0:00.09 init
20246 root 15 0 1456 392 336 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
20248 root 16 0 1804 608 500 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 authdaemond
20259 root 16 0 4016 1128 832 S 0 0.1 0:00.11 sshd
20268 root 16 0 1804 248 140 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 authdaemond
20269 root 16 0 1804 248 140 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 authdaemond
20324 root 16 0 7448 2752 1136 S 0 0.1 0:00.02 chkservd
20336 root 18 0 1460 304 252 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
20337 root 18 0 1568 488 412 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 couriertcpd
20343 root 22 0 1460 304 252 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
20344 root 18 0 1568 488 412 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 couriertcpd
20349 root 18 0 1460 304 252 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
20350 root 18 0 1568 488 412 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 couriertcpd
20356 root 20 0 1460 304 252 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
20357 root 18 0 1568 488 412 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 couriertcpd
21648 root 16 0 7168 1376 1064 S 0 0.1 0:00.05 pure-ftpd
21651 root 15 0 6704 992 796 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pure-authd
21925 root 18 0 12324 6784 476 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 cpdavd
21952 root 35 19 9488 5836 1548 S 0 0.3 0:00.22 cpanellogd
21988 root 18 0 4052 804 576 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 saslauthd
22020 root 18 0 1488 396 324 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 portsentry
22168 root 16 0 16424 7476 912 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 cpsrvd-ssl
3626 root 16 0 7056 2288 1840 S 0 0.1 0:00.13 sshd
3695 root 16 0 5436 1468 1192 S 0 0.1 0:00.07 bash
29799 root 16 0 1456 284 212 S 0 0.0 0:00.18 minilogd
8103 root 16 0 1888 952 776 R 0 0.0 0:00.15 top
TagBridge is by far the worst company to get involved with. I purchased a VPS and they said in a support ticket 5 hours after I bought it that it will be setup in a few minutes. 24 hours later I cancel and request a refund and I went with veritynet.. 12 hours later my VPS was made and I still have a cancellation request in place which they ignored. It has been a week now and I'm still attempting to get a refund. Jamie blocked me on MSN to avoid my conversation. I talked to a friend of his and everytime has asks Jamie for a refund jamie doesn't respond. HORRIBLE SUPPORT. Now I have a VPS I have no use for, that of which I canceled 12+ hours before it was even MADE and they refuse to message me back regarding my refund.
This will be posted EVERYWHERE till I get my refund. This business is a scam and I don't want to be involved with it anymore.
I registered an VPS with internetvps.com , but now cannot login.
(My domain : http://whois.domaintools.com/daugau.net)
See their annoucement:
Dear customers,
Due to recent technical issues, your account information in the client center was corrupted and unrecoverable. Therefore, we need you to re-register. Then immediately notify our technical support team with your server IP address(es) AND last payment receipt so we can update your account with the correct server information.
This incident did not effect your server operation. However, once we received your respond, we will then verify the information and bring your server online. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience caused and we do appreicate your business.
If you have questions, please send us an email http://www.internetvps.com/billing/contact.php
Internet Operation Team.
When I send my contact with the bill & Ip, they answer ...