CreativeVPS - Blocked Countries
Jul 1, 2008
my vps blocked countries I don't know why?
I have 2 vps on same server and I don't have Firewall on my vps?
When I checked the status for my vps:
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216.245.213.133
and 216.245.213.151
you will find alot of country not working my vps:
Montreal, QC, Canada
Zagreb, Croatia
London, UK
Canyon Country, CA, US
Pomona, CA, US
Frankfurt, Germany
Houston, TX, US
Kiev, Ukraine
Http error:Http_client.Bad_message("Unknown reason (e.g. unexpected eof, timeout)")
not working from some countries?
When I talked to the Support for my vps the said:
Abdulla,
We cannot really control if some countries can load the VPS or not, it is indeed up. We can try a reboot though, give me just a moment.
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Jan 3, 2009
Been with these guys for almost a month and a half now. I saw their black friday deal and it was too good not to take up on. It's been a pleasant experience. I put in tickets in the middle of the night and those guys must not sleep because they answer in less than 20 minutes.
Anyways, to the performance..
Overall, the power of their VPS's are pretty good. My sites havnt had any downtime from what I can recall and any CPU intensive applications run well. The network doesn't seem to bad- fairly low pings all around. One complaint is that the port speed (of at least the package I got) is pretty low. Seems that the max upload speed is capped around ~500kBytes/sec. Parallels tells me I'm using almost 200% of my bandwidth at that speed.
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Oct 7, 2008
which company would be better. GeekLayer.net or CreativeVPS.com?
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Sep 7, 2008
Just wanted to review my host, CreativeVPS that I've had for the past month or so.
Specs
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz
# CPUs: 8
Speed: 2333.489MHz
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Review
Being new to the whole VPS scene they helped educate me on what I need, the process, and some of the basic administration of a VPS, such as SSH access, ect. I am very thankful because of that, it was helpful being a new guy to a VPS, up from Reseller and Shared hosting.
The account was setup within a day, would have been sooner although I screwed up on my Gmail account, so don't order a VPS at 1:00 AM Anyways, process was quick, payment was accepted, logins e-mailed, I was all setup.
Whenever I have had to submit a ticket to support the wait hasn't been long at all, same with IM support great too. Might add its fully managed, although I like to handle this stuff myself so the guidance they provided was great.
Pretty far I have had a positive experience with them, no major complaints. Although its been a month and a half its been a positive one, the only complaint is the high price tag, which is the reason I am forced to leave, because its out of my budget. I am sure they will improve there business more over the years, and look to see it grow.
If anybody is considering them I would recommend them, very helpful, IM support almost at anytime of the day, if your on the East Coast. Fast setup, maintain communication via tickets and IM, I haven't called in yet though.
Only downside...
Recently as of the end of August I get a daily e-mail from IDF (firewall) saying someone tried to login to SSH and they were banned. Within the last week or so I have had 1 DDoS attack they warded off by nulling the IP addresses of my box, and making it unavailable for quite some time. Electrical maintenance they said was preformed a few days ago, server was offline for the morning and late afternoon. Still random DDoS attempts and China trying to break into my SSH.
They said they were going to implement a hardware prevention thing, although no clue on the status of that.
I mean its not a big issue, not saying its going to happen elsewhere, nor should you completely rule them out because of this just want to post a fair review.
Conclusion
Personalized support
Fast Setup
Issues resolved quickly
Great hardware
Random SSH brute attempts
Attempted DDoS attack
Recent maintenance issues
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Dec 17, 2008
Let me first start off by saying I had been with my previous host for over a year and half and switching hosts was something I was reluctant to do.
I came across CreativeVPS.com and everything on the outside was all I needed to switch.
Their plans and pricing are very competitive and their specials are insane.
Once I saw they were running a special it was enough to get the switch started.
SLM RAM: 768 MB
RAID-10 Storage: 40 GB
Premium Bandwidth: 600 GB
IP Addresses: 2
Full Management
cPanel/WHM
All of this for 29.95/month. My previous host could not even touch this offer.
While everything was great on the outside, I hoped everything internally would be great as well, such as service, support and the overall network.
Once my account was set up, (which was fairly quick) I asked them to migrate my files over to my new server. This was done quickly and I could not have been more pleased.
This definitely eased my initial fears of switching hosting companies.
Since then I have sent numerous support tickets in the wee hours and during the day and have dealt with Zach and Todd. They are quick and efficient, that is about all I can say. I have never had a problem that they could not deal with in a timely manner. Most of my tickets have been replied to in under 5 minutes and on more than one occasion I have had a reply in 1 minute!
I have also dealt with one of the owners; Joseph Fasone. He is very knowledgeable and was a major reason for my switch to CreativeVPS.
To my knowledge I have not encountered any downtime and the speed of the server is very satisfying.
All in all I am completely satisfied with my experience thus far and look forward to building a sound business relationship with CreativeVPS for many years to come.
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Apr 2, 2009
I would like share my experience with CreativeVPS/CreativeRACK, I've been around this forum for a while now but rarely post and I never shared my bad experiences but sometimes it is necessary to do so that others would know and maybe improve the service people get. Forgive me if I misspell and the bad grammar English is not my first language.
I currently have a a VPS with Servint which is Great
but lately I felt it wasn't enough and was thinking moving up to a small dedi and yesterday (March 31 2009) I found "[CreativeRACK] Closeouts! DUAL CORE / 2GB RAM / 250GB SATA - $59 (Managed!)" under "Dedicated Hosting Offers"
the offer looked good and Joseph r00ter been around the forum for a while now and has a nice posts counts so I decided to go for it so yesterday March 31 2009 I talked to Joseph on the messenger, he was nice and near midnight(thumbs up to Joseph for working late) I ordered the "last" Intel Pentium D 925 for $59.95+$20 cpanel, he emailed me the invoice I paid it right a way.
I woke up in the morning <--thats how I actually look in the mornings , and saw that Servint had upgraded all the packages, which changed things to me and I decided not to move to a dedi and stay some more with servint. so I opened a high priority ticket to cancel the order, before my morning coffee . the response I got was "Payments made to CreativeVPS are non-refundable as it says in our Terms of Service, which you were bound to when you placed the order..." later that day I messeged Joseph but he said the same thing and that they already bought the hardware *reminder* it was closeout clearance sale server* and that I'm obligated to their TOS that stated that there no refunds.
he quoted "Q: Do you have a moneyback guarantee?
A: Due to the amount of fraud orders we get, we do not offer a moneyback guarantee."
from the offer page.
the worst thing in my opinion is that when I stated that there is no visible link to the TOS on their "Legal Information" page which contained AUP and SLA which did not say anything about refunds Joseph just changed the page.
I can post the entire conversation if needed.
Unfortunately I had to open a dispute with Paypal, I hate doing it and before this incident I only charged-back only once (when RegisterFly charged my credit card and closed their business)
aside the legal part there is a right way to run a business and handle clients, this is not it. you need to be fair and honest. and not just profitable.
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Mar 12, 2009
2/23 ticket, no response. i emailed like 5 times now, i realize the payment wasn't made for 2 months but the service wasnt used because i complained about lag 2 months before, either way.. then i sent payment and then you never responded.
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Dec 9, 2007
Hey All! After my first venture with CreativeVPS, and posting about it after only 12 hours of use or so, I decided to signup with them to give them a 100% truthful review. (Not saying last time wasn’t )
Signup process this time was kinda slow, because they were adding another machine, and I was going to be provisioned on the new box *yay me* I think I got setup 24hours later, because the account provision didn’t go as planned, or something like that. I IM’d Joe and he gave me a BIG time apology!
After the IM, Joe got my account provisioned right away, and he kept right on apologizing (It’s understandable, things go wrong sometimes!) He got cPanel installed and the VPS secured upon provision.
Since creation, I haven’t had to submit a support ticket, the only one that I submitted to them was when I asked when my VPS would be setup. All responses were quick (we’re talkin under 5 minutes) and those tickets were towards the nighttime
If I ever need anything, I can ask Joe on AIM. He gives a personal view to the hosting industry IMHO. All responses are personalized, and aren’t just some dumb canned response. The servers are fast, I run 3 proxies and host a couple friend’s sites on the VPS (x1 Plan, the basic one, with no upgrades) and it handle’s it just fine.
Backing up the first review, I still give a thumb’s up to creativeVPS, and they still know their stuff! I’d recommend them to even the newest of people to a VPS, they’ll be there to help you along the way (I sure don’t know EVERYTHING, and everything’s a learning experience (another reason why I got a vps).
I would have to break thing’s down into the following groups:
Support: 10/10
Pricing: 10/10
Speed: 9/10 (Can sometime’s be a lil laggy, but quickly resolves *might be my internet, not sure*)
Setup: 7/10 (Because of the 24 hour setup time)
To the Mods: The main server domain is stylecp.net
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Apr 29, 2009
On approximately March 28th, 2009 I signed up with CreativeVPS for a dedicated server. The Specs were a Core2Quad Q9400 w/ 4GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB HD, 2000GB Harddrive.
I spoke with Joseph(r00ter) for over two hours and he was very helpful with every question I had regarding service and support. He even worked out a special deal for me that eased the wallet for the first month of service.
Pre-Sales I give an A++ it was excellent
Upon having my server setup, I made custom nameservers and then had to submit a ticket in order for rDNS to be setup. I submitted a ticket and it was taken care of within 30mins by a Tech named Todd Abrell who responded by confirming that they were pointing correctly.
I then submitted another ticket to have my site migrated from GeekStorage onto the new server again the ticket was answered and completed within 30mins. HOWEVER the tech Todd Abrel did not bother to put in the website in the browser to make sure everything was correct and my site would not load.
I issued another ticket at 3:01AM and did not recieve a response until 7:41AM the issue was completed at 8:00AM. My site was down for 5 Hours.
Once the site was finally up I proceeded to email the community members and had all AOL, GOOGLE, and YAHOO emails bounced back to me due to them not finding a reverseDNS which was supposed to have been setup previously. The owner Joe(r00ter) and I worked through this issue and he got the rDNS setup correctly, but Yahoo had blacklisted my IP's due to the original issue so now im having to create a privacy policy, and TOS among other things to show them that I am not a bulk email soliciter. Sure they may be smart things to have but they were originally unnecessary for my little community of drunken gamers.
This is all in the matter of two days. So im finally all worked out except Yahoo when I recieve a server message that my harddrive may possibly be failing soon. WOW! Great! Talk about putting a cherry on top. Issued a ticket at 7:44AM and did not recieve a response until 4:30PM. Almost 9 hours. During the business day.
The other day I went to pay my invoice and I notice that my 4GB server is actually a 2GB server. I ask Joseph about this and he tells me to run a command in Linux shell to make sure its not just a typo on the website. No it is infact only 2GB. Joseph responds that he will check into it, "when he has a chance"
24/7/365 Fully Managed Support: D I give a D because there was support, however if it was after midnight I was forced to wait until atleast 7:00am for a response, and on the quick responses neither of the issues were handled correctly. Another issue sent in during the day again waited 9 hours. So there was support but it was horrid.
So I contact Joseph today after paying my bill for the coming month and wanted to tell him that if unless these issues could be resolved this would be my last month with the company. I relayed him the above information and was basically told that im the only one having these kinds of support issues(Really?) the last 25 Tickets and some were overnight were answered in a timely manner. (of course they were)
And upon further talking he disappeared on the phone for 2 hours evidently with a Level 3 Admin about a new bandwidth contract.
I was offered a $20.00 credit for the time my server was without the other 2gb of ram. Nothing in the terms of my issues with support. Which I was not looking for monetary credit. I was looking for assurances that these things would not happen again. I got none.
I hear that CreativeVPS is a great VPS provider, and I cannot comment on that service. however my stay with them as a Dedicated Customer has been horrible. They claim to be 24/7/365 Fully Managed Support and it is anything but that.
I will say that my site(only thing on the server with less than 100 visitors a day) is blazing fast lol.
Just my .02 if you are going to go with CreativeVPS/CreativeRACK I suggest making sure you can do your own managing at all times.
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Sep 22, 2008
I keep on hearing people say that they won't use hosting from a particular country.
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Jun 1, 2007
I was wondering we use ConfigServer Security & Firewall for our firewall and was wondering how we can go about blocking certain countries from being able to access our servers, mainly Korea, China and Russia?
I found this site: ....
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Jul 23, 2009
I have come across an issue where traffic from India is hurting my business. What I have is a number of job boards. Realistically, the only issue I am having is with IT and Engineering positions being applied for heavily by people in India. Since my customer base is all in the USA, I would like to just block India.
While I know this is easy with Apache using a .htaccess file, I am using IIS on server 2007. Does anyone have any idea on how to do this easily with the large number of IPs that India uses?
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Feb 1, 2009
Recently I have been putting thought into creating an online storefront for my web hosting business. I stopped advertising online and even having a website for a good 8 months and built my business on local companies in my area.
I just read a thread regarding an Indonesian who says he can't get hosting because his country is black listed. I need information on other countries that web hosts block and don't allow orders from. I want to provide to the middle east, I am writing a great T.O.S. and A.U.P. but I am also looking for some advice on how to prevent fraud from happening to me.
My ideas are a phone call to the potential customer, and a faxed copy of there photo ID.
So could you please list some countries I should be weary about dealing with and some ways to prevent fraud.
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Aug 7, 2008
This is sort of the opposite of "how can I ban _____ country".
I think it would be easier to ALLOW countries selectively, and deny any contact from anywhere else.
Is something like this feasible without using an offsite script?
I realize this would not have any effect on those using proxies or offshore ISPs.
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May 23, 2007
I have a webpage and currently hosted in the Philippines
It can be accessed by countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines
However Singapore is having a problem accessing it. We tried different accounts, different ISPs, even on Cafes, Laptops, wi-fi but cannot access it
It says:
Standard message:
The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings
Should this be a webhosting problem?
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Apr 27, 2008
what CCtlds/GenTLDs do you know of that offer Zonefiles? I know com/net/org/info/biz, and I know that f.ex Germany/UK/Sweden doesnt offer any - but what else? Perhaps there is a list/directory somewhere?
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Sep 17, 2008
Is web hosting in other countries a good choice if you need more bandwidth?
My german is not very good but for 23 euros a YEAR you get 12 GB space and unlimited traffic. Is that what it really says? Good deal?
www(dot)all-inclusive-webspace(dot)de
Would hosting in japan or korea or some really well connected country make your web hosting dollars go further if you need bandwidth?
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Oct 13, 2007
I am using vps
I am receving calls from some countries or areas when they say they can not access my site ( site can not be found)
I called my provider and they say every thing is alright from their site
and from my side too but some areas in other countries like right now I received a call from canada they can not access my site my provider wants me to send Tracert
I can ask my friends to send that but not every user why this happanes and what tools are available to check and see if my site is alright from all areas or counties?
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Jul 5, 2007
I'm tired of india people hitting our website (because it is a top hit on google and the others) then calling the next day to bug me to use them for outsourcing.
I am going to block some IP blocks in my .htaccess file to prevent this.
I can see from my statcounter logs that the hits from india so far have come from 59.* 102.* and 203.* (as in 59.###.###.###).
Is there a place I can lookup to find out if I block those, will I will also be blocking some north america IPs (since I'm using such a broad wildcard)?
All our paying business comes from north america.
my htaccess file will look like this:
Code:
# prevents a directory listing when typing in the directory path in the browser
Options -Indexes
#
# My effort to keep india sites from seeing our website
order allow,deny
deny from 203.
deny from 59.
allow from all
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Jun 4, 2009
This is not strictly a technical issue with our server as such, but this subforum still seemed most relevant. If not, please move the thread to a better suited one.
Bizarre problem: in the last 2-3 days, visitors from certain countries (France, Holland, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro) are having difficulties in reaching our website hosted on cari.net. However, other countries (USA, UK, Germany, Russia) don't seem to have this problem at all. The server itself is a-OK.
The website hosts an IPB forum. The problem is that every so often (very often), upon clicking on a link, the browser hangs on "connecting", and often times out and returns a Bad Request message. Sometimes, when a clicked link that's waiting is refreshed, it immediately loads the page up quickly, as if nothing is wrong.
We cannot call our hosting company, as it's really nothing to do with them, the server works perfectly, it's just that traffic from certain countries has difficulties to get through a certain level3.net node in the USA (that is where tracert usually breaks down, or gets through after several attemtps).
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Nov 18, 2007
Which one do you prefer? For Asean countries only
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May 14, 2009
i have vbulletin forum with 250,000 member
i tried to send a message to them so i used this blugin
[url]
and send 200 message every 10 minute
after 4 days my ip address are blocked from yahoo server
every mail i want to send i get this message
[TS03] All messages from xx.xx.xx.xx will be permanently deferred; Retrying will NOT succeed. See [url]
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Jan 20, 2008
All of a sudden my sites are not visible to me hosted in the same cirtex hosting account. I have verified that it wasn't spyware messing with my local computer and can view the site via a proxy. They use cpanel and there is no block visible, but there has to be something somehwere. I told them to restart and that did make the site visible until I checked in the morning, Where would a block be if this is it and is there a chance this was done by a hacker?
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Dec 30, 2007
how willing your ISP/carrier is to block one or multiple IP addresses that have may have been causing issues for you such as DDoS attacks, hackings etc.
What has been your experience? Please provide as much detail on your experience as possible.
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Jul 19, 2007
I am blocked by MSN. All email messages directed to any @hotmail.com address is rejected, here a typical message:
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
name@hotmail.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<user@mydomain.com> SIZE=1802:
host mx3.hotmail.com [65.54.244.200]: 550 Your e-mail was rejected for policy reasons on this gateway. Reasons for rejection may be related to content such as obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics (or) other reputation problems.
I have never spammed nor sent similar content as that listed above.
My host provider says they are contacting MSN for an explantion, but time is running and I need to find a solution to this, because I have some customers (hosted in my server) which need to answer to @hotmailers prospects on their product/services.
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Jun 28, 2009
I need to block a specific IP:
93.6.224.242
It adds fine when I do:
iptables -A INPUT -s 93.6.224.242 -j DROP
However, the IP is still accessing files and pages on the site according to Apache:
When I ban other IP's they are blocked from accessing anything on the server (e.g. it wouldn't even reach Apache level because of firewall), but this IP just isn't banning properly.
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Nov 5, 2009
am using APF firewall and am getting ddos from these range ips
4.68.25.*
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8.0.5.*
how could i delete all the range from these ip's?
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Oct 13, 2009
I have recently switched to GreenGeeks, great company and great support, but I am having a huge problem that all my clients and I are having problems with. No one can send emails to ATT, Verizon, Earthlink, Comcast, Etc. because they bounce back as being blocked. I have contacted them to unblock the IP and they do, but then a few days pass and it's blocked again. WTH? I've contacted GreenGeeks and they are aware of the problem but I really need to move on with this problem, does anyone know of any solution to do?
Example: ....
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