DSI HOSTING THE WORST Beware

Nov 24, 2008

I opened an account as a reseller with DSI hosting. Moved all my accounts over to them.

Within a week of the final move I started getting down times Every night for about half an hour or so. So I dropped them an email kindof hey guys is this some kind of reboot time nightly or what this downtime is making me look bad. After 450 minutes of downtime in the first week of November I get this email from them.

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Due to recent employee changes and continuous server attacks we regretfully have to discontinue service.

We can no longer provide reliable customer service and server uptime. All servers will remain up for a period of 10 days from this notice for clients to generate backups and remove their accounts. You should due this ASAP.

Server port 80 is under constant attack and will be kept up as much as possible, all other ports including whm, cpanel, ftp and webmail have been going all along with no interruption (as of today).

There is no easy way to resolve these issues without destroying customer data and assigning new ips or just blocking all server access.

With this being said this is the best solution for our current clients. Please backup and remove all data ASAP.
Regards,
Ryan Gadmin@dsihosting.net

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Now the website says nothing about them closing. In fact everything looks Business as Usual.

I have been doing this a couple of years now mostly just for friends but can only imagine how devestating something like this would be to someone who has quite a few accounts.

Just beware that if you are wanting a host this is not the one to choose.

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Beware Of SITE5 Hosting

Aug 12, 2008

I don't know who the heck is running the show over at SITE5.COM But....

I've tried for a few days now to contact their support Dept and have gotten ZERO response from them.

I'm getting free hosting from a friend, who's got a reseller package from these guys. Servers are nice and fast, BUT, my stats are broken. I don't have a flippin' clue how much bandwidth I'm using.

I've contacted support. My host has, zero, zip, nada response.

anyone else noticed this?

Someone needs to tell Site5 to get their act together.

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Beware Of RDosti Hosting

Oct 24, 2008

I bought 2 shared services from RDosti Hosting.

I send one email to my 670 friends regarding starting of a new yahoo group.

That group was a adult group and email does not contain anything adult content.

R Dosti blocked my both 2 shared services complaining that because i send SPAM thats why they blocked my services.

May i ask sending one email to 670 friends is SPAM enough to block your hosting?

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1&1 Hosting, The Worst There Is

Jul 23, 2008

I have read a few of the threads here bashing 1&1, and have just had my own problems with them culminating to today. If you are thinking of purchasing from 1&1 don't do it!

In the fall of 2007, a friend and I where going to start a small local website. We found 1&1 which offered cheap hosting with all of the server specs that we needed. I purchased 6 months of hosting from them using my CC. Unfortunately our website did not last any longer than a few months, and by the time those 6 months where up I no longer needed the hosting. Thinking that the host would simply expire (unless I authorized another payment) I just let it go, only to see a charge for another $29.95 on my bank statement.

I called them, and was sent to cancel.1and1.com (a URL that is suspiciously absent from their website) and followed the instructions to cancel the account. I requested that the site be canceled at the next billing date (figured I could use it as a development server or something since I had already paid for it).

In January of 2008 (1/22/2008 to be exact) I received yet another charge from them! I called again explaining my situation, and said I had tried to use the online cancellation form but apparently the account was not canceled. The customer support representative requested information from me, and verified that he had personally canceled the account and that I would be receiving a full refund. I was satisfied (at the time) and rather naively forgot about the whole ordeal.

Today (July 22, 2008) I received ANOTHER charge for another 6 months of hosting. Keep in mind I haven't used this account since January . . . I requested a refund for January - July (as I didn't want, nor did I use this account). I was told my name wasn't on file and therefore I couldn't cancel it. Despite the fact that I was told the account was canceled twice, and I had the credit card information, billing address, and security questions (among other things) to prove I was the owner of the account.

One representative in particular even yelled at me, and basically told me I was incompetent. So I asked to speak to her supervisor. Her supervisor wasn't any more helpful and he told me: "I will not be canceling your account and I will not be giving you a refund. I'm not continuing this conversation" and hung up on me.

I have filed a credit dispute with my bank, and had to change my credit card number to prevent them from charging me again. I also filed a complaint with the BBB (not surprisingly they have an 'unsatisfactory' rating there), The Federal Trades Commission, and sent a letter to the Attorney General.

Now i'm waiting for my collections letter . . . as so many of you have received before. Absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable. No other hosting company has ever come close to being this much of a hassle!

I have submitted my story to Digg if anyone is interested:
digg.com/tech_news/1_1_Internet_Inc_Something_must_be_done

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Mar 11, 2009

I sign up iPower Hosting package since 5th march 2009, and trying to migrate my database from my current cpanel over their control panel but thing does not works, and I have submit the ticket over there. but the respond from them very slow, and each reply does not help much.

the question has asking repeat again and again, the information I provide also again and again.
see how their respond time for my ticket ...

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Yahoo Web Hosting - Big Name Worst Services

Jul 15, 2008

I bought a hosting package from Yahoo Small Business India.

Initially i was happy because the package was cheap and had good features. Database was easily set up I installed php admin tool also with one click install. No other packages are available. One has to manually upload and install.

I tried to upload phpbb but i wasn't able to upload some files. I emailed them and asked why the server gives an error while uploading .htaccess files, the reply was we don't support it. I uploaded it without .htaccess and installed it. I installed wordpess and wanted to have clean URLs but yahoo does not support mod rewrite. I don’t know much about php and databases.

9th July 2008: While I was learning I modified some tables due to which my database administrator permissions were lost. I was able to login using phpadmin but unable to create new databases and modify previously created databases and tables. I emailed customer care regarding the problem and got a useless reply on 10th July that I should change the password of the database administrator.

I changed the password but the problem was not resolved. On 11th I again emailed the problem in detail with screenshots to the customer care. On 12th, I got a reply “we have forwarded this issue to the technical team and we will inform you once this issue is resolved.”

On 12th I emailed to ask when the problem will be resolved but got no reply from them. Till date (15th July) the problem is not resolved. No one even wants to reply to emails.

See below my emails and replies given by yahoo customer care:

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My email to yahoo customer care on 9th July:

I have some problem with database. By mistake i modified my original user name which i created while setting up the database. Now i can't access the tables that were created with previous user name. When i log in using phpadmin and try to see any tables i get the message. Access denied. Moreover, I also cannot create any new tables. I have NOT modified the yroot user;. Can it be recovered.
Please help.

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Reply to the above query from Yahoo India on 10th July

From: Yahoo! India Small Business <in-cs-ysb@cc.yahoo-inc.com>
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting (KMM90534089V76144L0KM)
To: "Vinay Chhabra"
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 1:19 PM
Hello,
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! India Customer Care.
With regards to your query, follow the below steps to assign a new user
name and password to access your database:
1.Logon to your "web hosting control panel".
2.Go to "create and update" tab.
3.Select "MySql databases".
4.Select "database administrator" and assign your user name and
password and click "submit".
For further assistance please write to us.
Thank you again for writing to Yahoo! India Customer Care.
Regards,
Pruthvi
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Customer Care

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My email to yahoo customer care on 10th July:

Dear Sir,
Thanks for your reply. I have already done that from database administrator link but the problem is not resolved. This problem has started since yesterday because of my mistake. I modified the original database administrator "user name" from the database "mysql". After modification all my permissions have lost. I have not modified the yroot user. So can you grant the administrator permissions to new user The problem is that after logging in using phpadmin i don't have permission to create a new database. The databases and tables that I created earlier are also not available to me. I am also attaching the screenshot (.gif) of what error i am getting. When i click any database in phpadmin i get the following message:

SQL query:
SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM `wpress` ;
MySQL said:#1044 - Access denied for user to database 'wpress'

If there is no solution then please reset the database, so that MySQL database can be set up again.
Regards,
(Vinay Chhabra)


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Reply to the above query from Yahoo India on 11th July

From: Yahoo! India Small Business <in-cs-ysb@cc.yahoo-inc.com>
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting (KMM90547155V54693L0KM)
To: "Vinay Chhabra" < >
Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 11:09 AM
Hello Vinay Chhabra,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! India Customer Care. With regards to your mail, we have forwarded this issue to the technical team and we will inform you once this issue is resolved. Thank you again for writing to Yahoo! India Customer Care.

Regards,
Pruthvi
Senior Customer Care Specialist
Yahoo! Customer Care

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My email to yahoo customer care on 12th July:

Dear Sir,
When can i expect the problem to be resolved. I reported the problem on 9th. Today is 12th. If there is problem in resolving then please reset the database. I think it will be much more faster.
Regards,
Vinay Chhabra

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I have emailed them several times but no replies……………………

If you want good customer support then do not buy any package from Yahoo.

Technical service: 0 out of 5

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Hostforweb Worst Hosting Service

May 20, 2008

I am an established web developer and a project manager in one of the TOP e-commerce company. Just giving you these details so that you can ACCOUNT and RELY on my review.

I have signed up with Hostforweb.com on 26th April 2008
On weekends I work for my business (my own not the company's for which I work full time).

Uploaded the few websites that were lying there for quite some time.
On 29 th April the websites went down, for which I opened a ticket with hostforweb.com support and got a reply from them saying that
"there was some mis configuration in the nodes which is rectified."

Today all of the sudden they suspended the account and sent a message saying they got a message from "Bank of America" (because of phising activity)

One of my business staff phoned me to my work place and informed about this and for which I was like "WHaTTTT"

I am being in the online business since 1998 and never had a complaint from any of my previous hosting or present hosting providers other than this silly service.

After reaching home from office (which is an 1hr 15minutes ago), I opened a ticket in their support section and the ticket was forwarded to account & billing department by level2 support person.

Later I got a reply from their accounts & Billing department which had a reply saying ...

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Who Do You Think Is The Worst REAL Hosting Company On The Internet

Mar 25, 2009

So far 1and1.com seems to be the worst I've ever dealt with. I think they should fire the call centers they're hiring and actually find people to represent their company who actually care about their customers. All the people they are currently using sound so ignorant that I feel like I'm speaking to a robot. Through your personal experience, who do you think is the worst?

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Worst Web Hosting Site Award Goes To SerVage

Apr 6, 2008

Well friends I was just ruunning an blog facing 60% of downtime daily over months , but this was an small part of disaster waiting for me ahead as i tried to use some of the fake bandwidth they pretend to give , and i uploaded few files next day I find my sites suspended ,Reason being

"It is not allowed to host filesharing services on our servers. Reason beeing that such sites are often used to share copyrighted material."

Well thats what writen in there TOS itself.

Without file sharing how can one imagine to use 5000 GB/month + with the limit of 4lacks click also there.
Servage is my worst Nightmare come true.

Why one should not host on Servage.net ??
1. Fake stats they overcount the bandwidth and space.

2. 4 lacks hit limit after that your site gets suspended in real its only 4000 thanks to there fake stats once again.

3. Sql errors ,thats became part of daily life once you host on servage.

4.servage 404 not found page everywhere ,well they would not miss an single opertunity to advertize from your site , whenever they like they would put there own 404 not found page and wait for you to complain. This is the way this cheap hosting gorws.

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DMEHosting.com - > Worst VPS Hosting - They Dont Know How To Manage Servers

Oct 14, 2009

Ticket ID : #919385

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We have serveral vps servers from dmehosting.com. I would say never choose dmehosting.com for your sites. A vps server is down for more than 14 hours and still down. They do not reply to my tickets. They do not inform about the issues.

I had have many issues with them like 1 - 2 hours downtime but that's not really matter.

Now the server is down for more than 14 hours and still not up. I have even asked them to transfer this vps server to another working node but they are not responding.

DON'T CHOOSE DME HOSTING .COM FOR VPS SERVERS........IF YOU NEED HIGH UPTIME AND SECURE DATA.

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IX Web Hosting - Possible Worst Host Ever? Deny Access To Your Files!

Nov 6, 2008

I signed up for hosting with IX Web Hosting in April of 2007. There have been two occasions that they provided the perfect example of Terrible Customer Service. So much so, my last pony ride with IX Web Hosting was my last. I decided to call it quits and move my account to Host Gator.

I keep my most important sites on a dedicated server at Servint.net. If you are interested in a dedicated server or VPS, I highly recommend Servint. You will not beat the level of service and professionalism this company offers. But that’s another post in itself.

The point is, I had some SEO tests I wanted to perform and I was looking for a hosting company that would allow me to host 10 different domains in the same account on different ip addresses. IX Web Hosting had the plan I was looking for. So in April of 2007, I signed up for a hosting account.

Overall, I was pretty satisfied with the server performance at IX Hosting. I experienced very little if any downtime from server issues. They don’t offer a standard cpanel interface like most web hosts. It appears to be a proprietary / in house control panel.

It was pretty straight forward and with a little time I was up to speed.

Then on June 5, 2008, I got the following email from a System Administrator at IX Web Hosting.
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Hello,
My name is Anthony, and I am a system administrator at IXWebhosting. I’m here to ensure a reliable and fast hosting / e-mail environment. This is the reason why I ask you to get in touch with us.

We have received numerous complaints from third-parties about spam originating from your website. As you may know, spam is an on-going problem for all internet users, hence all companies have very strict rules against spam. I am here to ensure that neither you nor any other customer is facing any downsides which could be the result of these spam regulations.

We ask you to immediately cease and desist any such activities. If you are unaware of this activity, please contact me or any of my colleagues via this ticket, phone or live-chat so that we can find the reason for the spam activity together and fix the issue instead of the symptom. Viruses and things of that nature may be installed on your computer and will cause the spamming. We recommend that you run an anti-virus program. If you currently do not possess an anti-virus program, you may download a free version. Please just follow the link below to find Google’s best links for free anti-virus software:

google.com/search?q=free+anti-virus+software [url]

In order to ensure your hosting and mail environment is working flawlessly, we ask you to get in touch with us within the next 72 hours. I highly appreciate your time.
Best Regards,
Anthony Washington
System Administrator
IXWebhosting
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They identified the domain as bestadtracking.com. This is a domain I own but have never promoted. Not only had I not sent spam through IX Web Hosting, I averaged less than 200 sent email a month on all the domains on my account. So on June 6, 2008 I responded to IX Web Hosting with the following two messages.
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Hi Anthony,
I can assure you I am not sending spam from this domain or any others. I’m a little surprised that this domain is in question? I set it up over a year ago and haven’t ever promoted it. I don’t send any type of email over this domain. I have no reason to. It gets no traffic or inquiries.

Are you sure there isn’t some type of mistake? Otherwise, there are a couple of php style contact forms on that site. Could a hacker use that sort of thing to send spam? How can we track this down?
Thanks,
Brent Crouch
615-389-XXXX
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Here is the second email I sent on the same day.
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Hi Anthony,

I am using AVG on my computer and the scan completed finding no viruses. Besides that, I am using Outlook to manage the mail on several of my domains. I don’t even have a send account setup for bestadtracking.com on my computer. As I stated in the previous reply, I have no reason to since this domain is not promoted.
Can you give me the IP address of where the spam originates? I’d like to compare that to my IP address here at home and office.
Thanks,
Brent Crouch
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I had no information to track the issue any further. The lack of response from IX Web Hosting left me to believe the issue had been resolved or there had been a mistake. Then 4 days later on June 10, 2008 I got this message.
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Brent
We tried to reach you today in order to resolve this issue, but unfortunately it has been well over 72 hours since this ticket was placed. We must sadly suspend your services, please do not hesitate to call us at 1-800-385-0450 any time, day or night.
Best Regards
Ian
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Amazing! They give me no information to solve this problem. On top of that, they don’t respond to my ticket in 4 days and because I didn’t answer the phone when they called they suspended not only the domain in question but every domain listed in my account.

I called in and spoke to a tech support guy who allowed me to remove the domain in question and in return, he restored my other domains. He also left a message to have the tech support manager call me the following day.

The manager I spoke to apologized for the way the ticket was handled and the lack of information that was given. He said he would follow up with the employees that were responsible for the ticket and make sure it never happened again. He was helpful in looking at the server logs and determining how someone had loaded a spam bot onto my site.

Apology accepted. Stuff happens. I considered it water under the bridge and not a big deal. Not so much…..

After my first run in with IX Web Hosting, I wrote the whole incident off as a fluke. The manager I spoke to seemed very sincere and assured me that wasn’t proper protocol and wouldn’t happen again. I was trucking right along until I got this email from them on October 26, 2008.
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Dear Brent Crouch,
We have received notification of phishing material in your account. Phishing files are usually placed through some type of exploit of out dated code, weak file and folder permissions. Packaged shopping carts and photo galleries are usual sources as hackers find exploits and developers fix them almost daily, so unless you constantly update the software or completely secure it things like this can happen.

You must agree to remove this content and update any software that has resulted in security holes. To protect your account from further action you must agree to our request for compliance. Please respond to this message stating your intent to do so. You may either log into your control panel with us, and access this ticket via the 24/7 help desk, or provide this ticket number to our Live Chat or phone representatives. Failure to respond to this message within 72 hours will result in the suspension of the affected domain with us until such a time as this matter is resolved.
Michael
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The email gave me no indication of which domain had been hacked. When I wrote to live help and gave them the ticket number, I spent 10 minutes waiting only to be told they didn’t know which of my domains had been effected. They recommended I reply to the online support ticket.

Here is the email I sent them in response on October 27, 2008.
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I replied to live help and they could not find any information. So far you haven’t told me which domain is a problem.
Please give me the info I need to correct this problem and I’ll take care of it.
Brent Crouch
615-389-XXXX
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Eight hours later, I was able to find the problem by viewing all the files on my domains and looking for the files that had been recently changed. It turned out my brentcrouch.com domain had been hacked and setup with all sorts of eBay and bank phising pages. The site operates on a Wordpress platform which is widely used and is a big target for hackers.
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I wrote back to IX Web Hosting for a second time on October 27, 2008.
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I found the problem on my brentcrouch.com domain. I updated the wordpress software to the latest and cleaned up the problem. The only exception is the brentcrouch.com/forum directory. I am unable to delete this directory as the hacker has removed my access. Please delete the directory.
Thanks,
Brent Crouch
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The following day, here is the email I got back from IX Web Hosting.
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Brent:
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Per your request we have removed:
/brentcrouch.com/forum - deleted
We will be closing this ticket at this time. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us. We will be happy to assist.

Please note that this is the second time this problem occurred. Unfortunately, I have to bring to your attention that as per our terms of service a third instance will result in immediate account termination without notice. No backups will be provided. If you have any questions about how to avoid this from happening again our support team will be glad to advise.

Respectfully
Frankie
Support Tech Representative
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When I seen that response, I was pissed! I run my own server at Servint.net. I’ve hosting accounts at several other hosting companies. I’ve never had a site hacked except from IX Web Hosting.

In 4 months, I’ve had two sites hacked. In both instances, IX Hosting was zero help in locating the source of the problem. In the first incident, they didn’t even reply to my ticket for 4 days. In the latest incident, they couldn’t even tell me what domain was hacked.

Then they send me an email telling me if it happens again not only will they suspend my account, they’ll deny me access to my files! Huh?

That’s not a risk I’m willing to take. With the high costs of obtaining customer’s in this business, I’m a little surprised they don’t do a better job of trying to retain them. In my opinion, this policy is unacceptable and makes IX Web Hosting one of the worst hosts I’ve ever dealt with.

I just signed up for a hosting account with Host Gator and have already moved all my domains over. So far, so good.
What’s your experience with IX Web Hosting?

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OK, I had my site back up in several hours, and thought I was done with them for good, but they have continued to bill my credit card $29.95 per month since the incedent. I have called support and they said I needed to log into CPanel and cancel my account from there, however, they locked me out of Cpanel. I told them I was going to do a chargeback on the fraudulent billing and their representative stated they would file a judgment against me with the credit bureaus if I reversed the charges.

Here we are, now in April 2007 and they are still continuing to bill me for an account they cancelled and I have no recourse at this point but to do a chargeback through Bank of America for the 5 months they have billed me since I have not been on their service.

I have an impeccable credit rating and it is the absolute most dispicable act I've ever seen from an internet company since AOL pulled the same trick on me back in 1995.

I urge anybody reading this to never have any dealings with HostGator or you will seriously regret it.

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It's a nightmare. So far Softlayer is as good or even better than The Planet used to be.

When you cancel with The Planet, make sure to change your credit card number so they can't charge you. If you are contemplating hosting with them, don't. Everything good you heard about them was true, but only because of the people who left for Softlayer.

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Because I had a few VPSs with them I decided to cancel some as I wasn't using them anymore. I opened a support ticket and next thing I know; they have managed to DELETE MY VPS AND ALL THE BACKUP FILES accidentally and I have lost all my work and web sites stored on that server for good.

I am lost for words now, seriously. How can you misread something this important and CRUCIAL!

Just thought I'd let you all know as you may be tempted for their offers: DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH THEM, THEY WILL LOSE YOUR FILES!

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3 days later and no account information email. I contact support with my problem and get no reply (on the website they brag about having 3 hour response time). 2 days later I decide I had enough- I send another email with a request to cancel the account and refund my money (there's a 30 money back guarantee).

Still no reply. I send the request again with a different email provider. Still no reply. 8 days after I initially signed up I finally get an email from something that is not a machine. All the emails I sent were finally answered!! Only not, because it's a one line reply asking me what's my domain name (this after I already gave them my username and email).

I send them my domain name. No reply. I send them another cancellation request, this time complete with my domain name. No reply. It's been 16 days since I requested to cancel this account and it's still hasn't been done yet. Looking at their TOS I see that "It is the Clients Responsibility to secure email confirmation from ANRHost. that account has been cancelled. If the client has not yet received email confirmation of account cancellation, then the account remains active, and you will continue to be invoiced."

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I signed up with Hawkhost and I'm very pleased so far!

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Nov 4, 2008

a friend of mine recommended me this Titahost dedicated server.

Fisrt month: i had like 6 or 7 days of downtime, and whenever i asked about it through the Support Tickets they rarely responded, and when they did, it took like 4 days or so.

Second month: right after i paid for my second month, the server went down again. And this time it went down for good, never came back up. I didnt used one single day of the second month, so i asked for a refund through the Support Ticket, and what they did?

They simply closed the ticket.

In the end, Titahost "took" $120 from me

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Beware Of Vonetwork

Jan 26, 2007

I've been with them for 3 year or so (I don't even remember, it's been that long). They were OK in the beginning, responded within a reasonable time to open tickets, had a user forum, etc. And, of course, the price was pretty good.

But... either they grew too big or it's their last year of school so they're busy with school projects or whatever.

1. We have email outages almost daily in the past month. They have been sporadic in the past 6 months or so. For 10 days in a row, email had a 1.5-2 hour delay. Vonetwork (VON) standard response: "There was a long queue. It should be normal soon." In the meantime, my customers rely very much on their email and are mad at me for these issues.

Their support ticket is a joke (PerlDesk), it always gives you an error after one submit tickets and one never knows whether they've gone through. VON either responds hours (and I do mean hours) later, or don't respond at all. Most of the time, when one ads a note to their response, they don't follow up at all. I always have to open new tickets just to remind them about my tickets which are still open!

Their forum doesn't exist anymore.

Of course I know you'll tell me "move on, what are you waiting for" - that's exactly what I'm going to do (although it's so damn painful to move all my client's sites) but wanted to warn anyone else who gets lured by vonetwork's low prices. It's very true what they say, you get what you pay for.

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VPSLAND - Beware.

Sep 24, 2007

It could happen to you too!

Quote:

Posted On: Sep 22 2007 04:52 AM
Our sever is not responding to any connections (SSH, http) and .....

Quote:

Posted On: Sep 24 2007 12:10 AM
Hello,

You should now see this issue resolved.

I undertand weekend understaffing but this MINOR issue took about 48 hours to resolve.

So if you needd some toy remote linux machine VPSLAND is a bargain but if you do some business stick to reputable hostings.

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Colo4Jax/Aeori Beware

Oct 7, 2009

I had a server with Ray from colo4jax for several months. The response time were extremely slow (Up to several weeks in some cases). I just want everyone to steer clear of this guy.

I worked for a very reputable company, JWMedia running bored.com and many other websites. We had one server and a backup server with Ray. I also had my personal server which just hosted a few of my websites and development projects.

I parted ways with JWMedia last month, Deciding to do my own thing running my websites. I received an email from Ray stating that JWMedia had a back due balance of $1,000. I directed Ray to the owner, and told him I was no longer working with JWMedia. After a week or so, I noticed my websites were offline on my personal server. Taking my live websites down, and leaving my development projects stranded. I had lost thousands of dollars worth of time.

Ray took my server offline, and notified me that unless I paid the $1,000 back due balance for my employer my server would be wiped clean.

Ofcourse, Not wanting to lose my clients work, My websites and email I paid the bill. I was blackmailed into paying someone elses bill. I'm guessing this is illegal, I'm going to be taking this to small claims now that I have attained all my data off the server.

I just wanted to post this to people who are either with Ray (Be careful, Don't keep live sites here!, Or potential clients)

I noticed he had changed his company name from Colo4Jax to Aeori, I'm guessing there has been some issues in the past, Dealing with Ray is very shady and his business ethics are very disturbing.

Since this epidemic I have moved to TailorMadeServers, Who have been nothing short of excelent. It has been around a month with them and they have very fast response times. They are very very helpful and come highly recommended from me.

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BEWARE Of SARORAHOSTING COMPANY

Mar 28, 2009

our contract is suppose to end by APril 10 but they terminate their services without any notice and on my first week with them our database was corrupted for at least 3 times so i had to back up and upload and at exactly 12AM ph down, we experienced downtime services for so many times.

i am very much disappointed with the way this hosting provider has treated me. I am very patient with them eventhough they gave me very poor service, i still stay with them but despite of it, they terminated the services without any prior notice. I hope that none of our collegues shall experience the same and that is the very reason i am sending this message to serve as a warning to all of us.

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Beware Ndchost Bite

Aug 13, 2008

Just want to make sure you dont get burnt by ndchost. Not happy with the service I decided to move away from nchost. Before pointing my domain away I sent one of many emails to support and asked them to cancel my services and that I was moving on.

I did this 14 days before the end of the month cycle.. anyway..

The next three months were still billed and I was forced to mention this right here.
I repeatedly sent them a email for a refund because of the cancellation. They have not responded to my emails.

Each time I sent a email a auto ticket did respond.

So there you see, beware of this "company".

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Beware Of Retaliation From SiteGround.com

Jun 11, 2008

When, after months of efforts, I couldn't get my SiteGround.com account to work my last recourse was to contact my credit card company. With the chargeback complete, SiteGround.com cancelled my account and shut down my website in order to retaliate against me. SiteGround.com is a very mean-spirited company who will pursue you with a sick vigor if they don't get their way (something for nothing.)

You're best bet is to not use SiteGround.com services at all.

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Thenynoc.com = Scam - BEWARE

Sep 27, 2008

yet another review, yet another VPS burned through because of incompetent sales staff, incompetent DC staff, and even more incompetent network admins.

Since noon, I have been getting alerts off and on that my vps (monitoring, off site support, a few projects) was down. Not a worry, I open a thread here. Now, maybe it's just me, maybe not, but that's not the point. The point is that for 3.5 hours, my VPS with nynoc was down.

Now, I opened a ticket with them about this, giving them the options which were fair:
credit me with a month (reasonable, given my going rate, or the going rate for ANY tech @ hourly rates) and apologize for downtime, or

Refund my $10 credit (overpayment) and I'll find service elsewhere starting Oct. 7th.

Their response? "There was no downtime".

Ok, so they deny downtime, not a surprise, others like to pull the same thing. I show them proof of downtime, to whit, they respond again "There was no downtime".

So, I show them more proof (this time from their own systems). Their response? We're not going to argue, there was no downtime. Immediately after that, they locked my account in WHMCS like little children, and locked me out of my VPS (thankfully I was still able to restart it).

So, is this wrong? nope, not at all. Not UNLESS you're holding someone else's money for services rendered, and refusing to deliver said services.

A bit of an explanation on the 'overpayment' part:
Somehow, when the system created the email subscription link (via paypal), their system created it @ $5.x more than it should be. So, the subscription continued on paying $5 or so more a month , which WHMCS rightfully put in as 'credit'. My thoughts were that I'd let it build up, catch up to a month, and then cancel the subscription, resuming when it was necessary. not a bad idea really.

Now, for the proof here, the same stuff that was shown to them:
Image 1 - From their network and VPS node - shows downtime from approx. noon to approx 3.30

Image 2&3 - My network - same thing
Image 4 - Total downtime today, again , from my network.

So, is it unreasonable to expect individuals reimburse you properly for downtime? Not at all. Consider that the reasonable tech makes $30-50/hr, and 3 hours of sitting and waiting for someone else to come up and deal with the problem, so the tech can resume work. Yeah, that's a bit of a rip off, and it's unrealistic to expect full reimbursement (which I didn't). A month's credit for their screwups is more than reasonable given the amount of time loss.

Is it unreasonable for individuals to expect 'credit' to be paid appropriately? Not at all. Again, if the business didn't want it to be paid appropriately, they should turn it off immediately. If they let it build up, they are responsible for refunding it, in case the customer DOES decide to leave.

This brings us to this:
Is it reasonable for a company to simply 'terminate' service, and lie to the customer because they don't feel like admitting their wrongdoings? Of course no, that's the childish way out.

Taking people's money, early termination of service = theft, no matter how you slice it (and yes, I DID give them a specific termination date if they chose to go that route).

Now, it's back to the grindstone, yet again, trying to find a VPS that is actually respectable, reasonable and well known, while being reasonably priced!

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Beware Of Vectoral.info

Dec 20, 2008

I've used them before and haven't had issues, but recently purchased a $30 server. I paid through paypal and 3 days later still hadn't heard from them. I e-mailed support and billing several times with no response. On the 4th day I put a claim in on paypal. Vectoral responded within 50mins:

* 12/19/2008 11:38 PST - Buyer: I still have not received my server and I've contacted you numerous times about my server and you've failed to respond. If someone e-mails your customer support you respond back. I will take my money elsewhere.

* 12/19/2008 12:29 PST - Seller: The payment is for a service, a dedicated server lease which is also an intangible item and not covered under PP policies, the user was provided with the server but then requested a refund, our TOS states no refunds are possible. This transaction is not covered under the PP buyer protection policy as its a server lease/service/intangible item. Please close case according with the PP policy. Thank you - kind regards, Vectoral Servers - Evrim SAYINKUL

* 12/19/2008 12:29 PST - PayPal: Seller escalated this dispute to a Claim.
" the user was provided with the server but then requested a refund" that line makes me the angriest. They never provided me with my server and haven't responded to ONE support ticket. On top of that they deleted my vectoral login info completely off their site, my e-mail cannot be found.

Their number on [url]is disconnected; also, directory services cannot find them either.

I could careless about $30, but it's ridiculous they won't answer one e-mail, then respond to paypal with details about their TOS.

I'd be VERY careful if you plan on getting a new server through them. It almost feels like they've gone bust or something.

If you have a server through them and wanna cancel because you love me, I'll give the e-mail I used and you can tell them they lost your service because of this. Them losing just one client is worth it to me.

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Beware Of Doing Business With X1Services

Dec 1, 2007

Just to sum it up, they cancelled by account exactly 46 days after I opened up the account. 45 days is the limit to open a ticket with paypal regarding scams.

So I confronted them here after getting nowhere with their non-existant support.

I got my account enabled.

Now they have throttled my account to 20kb/s. I had a few friends and colleagues test it as well to make sure it was indeed throttled and not just my internet. This was an account that was going at 800kb/s earlier before this incident.

Any ticket I open up now is closed without reply.

These guys are scam artists. They are probably going out of business and I urge others to consider them carefully before giving them your money.

They are also known as circavps.

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EukVps *Consumer Beware* Do Not Use Them

Dec 7, 2007

I had recently purchased a VPS server from eukvps.com in october and everything seemed fine for the first couple months, then around end of november i did not get a Invoice for my bill, i tried to contact them email and chat no response then around the 4th of december my website was just OFF. So then i played some phone tag and found out from the datacenter in dallas (it was not a technical issue) and thats all they could tell me since i was not a direct customer so to speak.

So then i did some more research reguarding eukvps.com and seen some things here reguarding primaryvps.com and the people who worked for them actually took customers and so fourth.

Then i called 2checkout.com (merchant services) and asked them in reguards to eukvps and ratings they have been in good standings since they were established earlier this year and have racked in over 20K in sales. Well i could not just sit without my website being up so i got a new hosting provider here locally in chicago (where i live) so i know its not going no place. also as well contacted 2checkout.com again and they are issueing me a refund tommarow for 2 charges.

I have lost all of my data on my site due to them i am very displeased and aggitated in that aspect. Just letting you know if you get anything from INDIA and the guys name is Arun K , or harshad or Alex do not do business with them.

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BEWARE Www.lookserv.info / Softlayer

Oct 3, 2009

How pathetic can you be to steal my website , and advertise another hosts servers www.lookserv.info

I hope Softlayer deals with this infringement immediately.

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Beware Zenex5ive Or PixelFX Solutions

Jul 19, 2008

Well here is our 1 month review of Zenex5ive.

We ordered one of there 1st month free servers origionally to begin selling VPS's quickly realised it was no good for this as it was too small and located in the Atlanta facility. (GNAX) Anyway we went ahead and ordered a big system at the price of $360/per month.

Our origional small order being free we couldnt grumble too much however when we asked for information such as an ETA all we ever got was arrogance, along the lines of "It will be done when its done" and this such attitude. When we ordered the larger one we run into an issue with PayPal freezing our account due to an incoming fraudulent transaction, 2 Days later i paid for the server again out of my pocket and all was setup. (6 Days after Order was made).

We then asked for additional IP Space and RAM for the system provided them with ARIN justification etc as requested and followed the rules all the way along.

When we realised we could buy for much less at FDC Servers direct we then began buying from them, by now we were ordering 2x Large systems per week! This seemed to make the attitude of the rep of Zenex5ive get even worse still. After the downtime at FDC the other day we decided enough was enough after investing alot of money ourselves to move into our Own Facility it would seem a Jeliously fued would start as Zenex5ive Decided that he would terminate our server (1 Day after Payment due date) we had every intention of paying the final invoice and sticking to the terms of service at Zenex. This sparked an MSN Convosation, he terminated the server THEN sent me a message on MSN which read exactly "When will your invoice be paid".

At this point i invited the owner of Zenex5ive into a convosation with my business partner (As with all legitimate business you would have both partners present at the time of any major changes or discussions) He didnt seem to like this and began with personal insults. Below quoted from an MSN Chat Log:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zenex

i am not a kid like you. i got better things to do.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zenex

sure, i will make sure to post this in WHT about you guys running scam

Not sure where this come from?

I have no idea why the insults suddenly arrised, My business partner put it strait to the owner of Zenex5ive that there attitude stinks. This is nothing to hide at the end of the day if he wants to run a successful business then he will have to keep up with it and not let his personal attitude reflect onto his customers.

Due to this we have now declined to pay the invoice and are seeking legal advise. Luckily we was planning on leaving and had backed everything up just this morning so a small setback but nothing major to us.

If you would like Zenex5ive Services visit FDC Servers or GNAX Direct. You get it cheaper and the service is MUCH better.

Also when FDC Lost the routers this week Zenex5ive replied to my message on MSN Asking if he knew of the downtime "Yeh theres a router down there isnt an ETA" and didnt answer any further questions i asked.

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