HiVelocity - The *WORST* Experience EVER

Apr 16, 2009

First let me say I cringe whenever the thought of changing dedicated providers enters my mind. Sorting through the resellers and all of the broken promises is a tedious process and I like many others have been screwed over too frequently.

I came across HiVelocity yesterday and their offer for a quad core, 8gb 500 drive for $199. Sounded great, plus they offer free KVM over IP which was a bonus.

Yesterday about 4:45pm eastern I went on live chat with sales at HiVelocity and spoke with Kevin B. I asked if he could get this server online quickly and he said all servers are built after 5pm for the day and are usually online that night. We went over the details of my order and I quickly sent a paypal payment. I was undecided on Windows 2003 or 2008 but I went with 2003. At about 8pm Kevin leaves me a voice mail on my cell and tells me they ran out of Heat Sinks and that the server would be delayed until Wednesday. "Ran out of heat sinks" sounded a little odd like I was being BS'ed but I figured it was fine because I did want 2008 installed on it and decided the $50/month extra was worth it. I went back to on to Live Chat about 10pm and Kevin said he would have a day tech get to the server for me in the morning (Wednesday) and I also upgraded the O/S to Server 2008 DataCenter and increased the bandwidth to 100Mbps. I sent over ANOTHER paypal payment to upgrade. Grand total $248 + $55 (for 2008 upgrade and dedicated kvm). $303 later and...

This morning (Wednesday) I make contact again and Kevin says he has a day tech working on it. 3pm rolls around, contact again and he says its built and ready. HiVelocity provides a link to a supposedly "live" server build page that shows you the status of the build. Status never said built but I took his word for it and waited for the welcome email so I could finally get my sites online and meet my deadline.

Well 9:30pm rolls around and NO SERVER YET!

I go to live chat again and talk to Andrew. He says sorry for the delay, you can check your status at the status page. I lost it at that point and pretty much told him I lost 31 hours so far "waiting" for a server to be built when I could have gone with another company and had the thing online at least within 14-18 hours and spent the remainder with configuring and migrating data. Told him 10:30pm the server better be ready or I'm canceling and disputing the charge with Paypal.

It is now 11:17 and I've been writing this whole time. I kept checking my email and even gave andrew my cell phone number to give to anyone there who cared and wanted to keep me as a customer. Still no email, no server, out $303, lost over 33 hours as of right now and its looking like the hosting hunt will begin again *^*(o.o)*^*

So anyway I wanted to share this horror story. This is why I HATE shopping for a dedicated server.

I read a lot of mixed reviews for HiVelocity and I really don't want to give them more bad press but the way I've been promised everything and NOTHING was done justifies me posting this for everyone to read.

If you're looking for a dedicated server, I would advise to pass this MAJOR HASSLE of a company. "Impressive Support" my @!#.

AND YES, everyone I spoke with BEFORE THE PURCHASE was well aware that I needed this pronto and I was assured it would get done! Now they are silent and ignoring me.

And if the guy that mods for HiVelocity on these boards reads this, the damage has been done. Instead of handling AFTER CARE for people on the boards, how difficult is it to communicate. I don't care if it wasn't going to get done at least I would have known and gotten another box somewhere else and used this as a backup. Making sure your account managers don't talk #$@#%$ and not deliver should be of more concern.

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Hivelocity - Worst Signup Experience

May 2, 2009

11 days ago I signed up for a dedicated server with Hivelocity.

Hivelocity sent me an email requiring few more details in order to authorize my account to which I replied with all the details within few hours.

After that there was no communication for days. I couldn't get anybody on their online support; I've emailed sales, billing, support, even HivelocityGM asking them about the status of my request and had no responses. Not even one.

After few days I finally managed to contact somebody on their online support. They apologized, said that my server is being built and that it will be online in few hours.

After yet another day of no communication and no server details, I managed to contact another person on online support. This time he said that my authorization is not complete. Strange considering that one day before they were "building" my server.

I've decided to cancel my account and asked for the refund. Apparently nobody can't issue refunds except the GM, but I was assured that it would be handled on Mon morning. No surprises there, but nobody contacted me on Mon morning. I had to contact support again. I finally exchanged few emails with the GM and he apologized for the mix up and promised to handle my refund "right away".

That was on 27th Apr. Since then I haven't received any other communication and no refund. I've raised the dispute with PayPal.

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Jul 12, 2008

I have 3 servers with hivelocity, moved from LT. There where some problems at the setup, no problem, everyone has some problems, we got over them.

Everything was great until this morning.... I check my outlook I see a abuse mail from yahoo for a domain hosted on my shared hosting server(this was at 2:15 AM). Ok, I want to delete it but HOW (this was at 9AM)? The server is down ....

Sent a reboot tiket to highvelocity, after ~20 minutes a guy responses that the server was rebooted and tell him if I have problems later. I try the server... still down, the guy didn't even ping the server to see if it's online after the reboot.
Ok... I reply to the tiket, the server still down, please see what's the problem, I get a response from them to send the server info (user pass) so he can check. Ok, I send the info, I wait... I wait, after 20 minutes I check the tiket.... what tiket ? The tiket was deleted...

I open a new tiket and explain the problem and after ~1.5 hours I get a reply that my server was nulled due to abuse.
Every company that I worked with sent a notice and gived me 24 h to take action... ok, I get over the shok and I tell them to connect my server back so I can delete that account. Of course it would have been to easy to do that, he asked me another ip from the server so he can unull that ip. Ok, after another hour the secondary ip is unulled and I delete the account from the abuse mail and I reply to the tiket.
He replyes that they will verify asap and reconnect my server. 1 hour passed and no reply and the server still down. I open a live chat, tell him my problem after witch he sayd he told tech and they will activate my server asap.
One more hour passed and still nothing. Again open a live chat, same guy, and I ask for a logical explanation why is this taking so long but he just kept telling me that the tech support is "looking into it".

And just to make me even madder every chat session is starting with : "Hello, welcome to HiVelocity's Impressive Support TM. How may I assist you today?"

Now it's 11 hours after the server disconnection and the server is still down just becouse a abuse department guy didn't send me a notification to delete the abusing account.

Hope Steve or any Tech supervisor will see this and take some action. It's not normal to take 2 hours+ to unull an ip adress.

Oh, one more thing. After not geting any logical response from the online chat guy I asked for a email address from a tech superior so I can send a complaint but he just refused to give me one, telling me to post a reply to the support tiket.

I'm asking you WHT users... is this situation normal for a big company like hivelocity ?

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May 17, 2009

I was on WHT when i saw the banner ad of highvelocity and landed on the specials page and saw Core2Quad server. I opened live chat as it said in the banner ad for free stuff and upgrades.

Dave from hivelocity came on chat and we started negotiating and after a while i was offered Core2Quad, 8GB, 750 GB, 500 GB, 1500 GB with 100 mbps etc. for $184. I said okay and asked him to send me the quote so i can buy it in evening or the next day as I had to get approval for the funds from the boss.

To my surprise I got the approval etc. for 3 months pre-pay but I did'nt get the quote from Dave which was prmoised to me by Dave in 1 hour after live chat session. I in evening went agaion on live chat and no response. After waiting alot on livechat i opened a support ticket and it has not been answered till now.

Today i again went on live chat and after 15-20 mins of waiting Ron came up with the following chat we had:

Quote:

Please wait for a site operator to respond.
All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
You are now chatting with 'Ron'
Tapan: where is Dave ?
Ron: Hello. How may I assist you?
Ron: Our sales representatives are unavailable at this hour. However, if you could provide me your requirements, along with your email address, your full name and phone number, I can have one of our sales representatives get in touch with you as soon as possible.
Tapan: i already had detailed talk with dave yesterday and he was going to send me a quote in 1 hour
Tapan: there's no quote
Tapan: no email
Tapan: i even opened a support ticket
Tapan: there has been no reply to it
Tapan: is this the top notch service dave was refering to ?
Ron: dave is away at the moment
Ron: May I know your full name please
Ron: also let me know if this email is good for you tapan@avissoftware.com
Ron: I will have dave to get back to you on this
Tapan: Tapan Bhanot
Tapan: tapan@avissoftware.com
Tapan: i am trying to contact him since yesterday
Ron: Thank you tapan
Ron: and we are sorry for the delay
Ron: do you know his email ?
Tapan: no
Ron: dave@hivelocity.net
Ron: you can send him an email
Tapan: ok
Tapan: are you sales also ?
Ron: I will also have him to get back to you on this
Ron: nah
Tapan: ok
Ron: I am from tech support
Tapan: ok
Tapan: ok thanks bye
Ron: Bye

By the looks of this you can imagine the High Level of Support Dave was telling me about. I opened the livechat for a sales staff and a tech support guy is answering the live chat. This is really good!

I've had server with LT, Sago etc. and nowhere I have seen such crap at pre-sale level. How would they expect customer to return to them when they are behaving like this at the first step ?

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Oct 4, 2009

I had decided to transfer 1 server into Hivelocity. It was a low $200s server with Hivelocities Platinum magagement plan. I was attracted to the pricing and the options available to configure my server how I wanted. I also liked the fact that they are somewhat local to where I live.

I had placed the server order with Drew. The server was delivered to me in 4 days, I was not in any rush so I did not mind. We started the migration process and went with out a problem until we went live. According to the tech the hard drive cable was bad and was replaced within 2 hours. These things happen and I still was not upset.

I was thinking to take advantage of the annual pricing offered and bring over the other servers until one morning I get flooded with phone calls chats and emails. I immediately try to log in the server to no avail so I contact Hivelocity. I was then told to contact the abuse department, well the abuse department does not take phone calls so then I was to told to log in a ticket.

What had happened was 1 of the hundreds of accounts hosted on the server recieved a copywright complaint and the server would not go back online until deleted and a ticket respond. I always comply with any complaint however I would appreciate at least a few hours to resolve, rather them an immediate disconnection. When you sell shared hosting you will always have a few accounts that are bad. No hosting company is immune to this. The server went back online 2 hours later.

Similar scenarios happened 2 more times with excessive down time in the first month that I was with them. Needless to say after talking several times with the GM Steve, I learned that he promises you one thing and either does another thing or does nothing as promised. For ex: will call you or will give a few hours to resolve any future complaints.

To compile further worries I learned that Hivelocity was terminating servers with out allowing transfer, including one host that was in business over 10 years. I do not know the non-bias details of those scenarios but I do know those things do not happent at the Planet, Softlayer or any other major datacenter, otherwise it would have been posted all over the net as was with Hivelocity.

In closing, my impression of the place was that their servers are ok, the bandwith is a bit spotty, the techs are ok, albeit one being a smart ass, the GM is a great speaker and the abuse guy is trigger happy. I do love the Hivelocity banners though.

It's too bad as I thought I had found a company that can save me alot of money however it ended costing me much more with loosing good clients.

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I want to share my bad experience with hivelocity.

I need a backup server for my remote backups so I need a dedicated server form a reliable provider.

I ordered Xeon Quad-Core X3220 2.4GHz: server on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 and paid with my Credit card. I done my all verification process and on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 I got my server.

I just ssh on said date to check server is online and then I logout because I was very busy in those days.

On dated 03 Jul 2009 08:00 I want setup my new server for backup and I try to ssh but I can't. I contact Live chat and they told me your server is offline please open a reboot ticket.

This is my first downtime I got after 1-2 days of server setup even I was not touch any thing in server.

I open a reboot ticket and then with 30 minutes my server was online and hivelocity can't give me a reason why my server was down even I have not hosted anything.

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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.

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I have submitted my story to Digg if anyone is interested:
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I have been asked to use this email to express my issues because your normal support staff are unable to deal with this request.

I began hosting with you with you about 5 days ago with the account below512MB RAM
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A: You can expect 15-30Mbit/s transfer speeds and 5TB-9TB monthly data transfer.

The average download speed when i manually installed cpanel yesterday was 11kb/s - It doesnt take a genius at all to realise that 11kb/s is clearly a speed you could expect from a 1m/bit connection not a 100m/bit connection. I understand it is shared but the claim above is not what im recieving.

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This message is send in confidence of Nick carswell, the views expressed in this communication may not be those of Nick carswell, if you recieve this copy in error please notify me immediatly and delete any copies you may have.

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If you are looking for a cheap server DO NOT go with this company as they do not care about customers and only want the money

I am appauled at the customer service from them as they have conned me out of my money

I will now be looking for another company as i have no way of getting my money back from them for the crap service i have had for the past 2 months

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APTHOST: Worst Host Ever

May 5, 2008

" Worst service ever experienced.

1. tech support is ill equipped
2. no one answers questions
3. they loose data in transfers
4. rude support persons
5. down time is extremely high
6. server goes down atleast once a day.

Please please dont go for apthost you will regret if you signup with apthost

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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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Valueserver.de Worst Provider Ever

Jun 18, 2007

I've had a lot of bad experiences with colocation and leasing, but none that are as bad as what I've experienced with Valueserver.de. I was going to colocate my servers at this location, but I'm glad this happened so I know that is a poor decision. I've had a server that's been down for almost 4 days now. It took them a day to even respond in an email about the server. They only respond about once a day to my emails, with something that's not helpful. It appears that a server I lease with them has a bad network card and is not allowing it to get online. They have not even looked at the server that I know of to confirm what I believe to be the problem and have not made any attempt to fix it. I can not reach them at all. They do not appear to have a valid phone number listed on their website and they do not respond to emails often. It baffles me how a business can be run so poorly. Before this ever happened I had multiple network problems with them where all of my servers would go down for an hour or so about once or twice a week. How can I run a business with a server that's been down 4 days? How does Valueserver.de expect to keep customers this way?

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Shinjiru.com Vps - Worst Company Ever

Oct 8, 2007

I usually don't post much, but I'm having the worst hosting experience of my life, and I wanted to let everyone know.

I ordered a VPS solution from Shinjiru.com about 2 weeks ago. I was looking for an offshore solution (I send double optin newsletters, but I get a spam complaint once a week. This was a problem for slhost, so I decided to go offshore).

From day 1, the server didn't work. I didn't put any data on it at all, 0 Megabytes. I also have no traffic going to the server. I thought this was a managed solution, but apparently it wasn't .

From day 1, I started getting errors sent to my email. This has now increased to hundreds of varied messages a day.

Tech support tells me that I need a more powerful solution (i.e. more expensive), that this server doesn't fit my needs. I'M NOT EVEN HOSTING ANYTHING ON IT YET! They keep telling me that I'm using to much RAM. BUT I'M NOT EVEN USING ANY RESOURCES ON THE SERVER!

I've contacted tech. support over 10 times, billing, and sales. No ones been of any help and I'm now going to have to dispute the charge with my CC company.

My projects are all delayed now as all. It's been a really big headache, and I advise others to stay away. If anyone needs proof, I can show the emails.

NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, STAY AWAY FROM SHINJIRU!

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Jaguarpc Worst Webhosting

Oct 22, 2007

Like I said jaguarpc.com worst web hosting, I got an email yesterday, that my fully managed vps server "Dear C C, We are contacting you to inform you about a critical issue regarding the hosting of your VPS hosted on the server Andromeda.nocdirect.com. I'm sure you are aware of the recent hardware issue on the server which we believed to be resolved. Today the server went down and despite our efforts the data on the server is unrecoverable. Compounding the issue we were at the same time addressing an issue with our enterprise backup system which had stored corrupted backups for this very node leaving us empty handed. "

they lost all my website, I have an old backup, but it takes me days to restore, and they make me loose more than 5000 dollars. They gave me 2 monthes free.

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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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Your Worst Routes Or Network Messups

Nov 7, 2009

I really wanna know if you've seen any other trace routes similar to this?

Wanna know the catch? Look what I put into CMD...

tracert core2.te5-2-bbnet2.wdc002.pnap.net

Code:
Tracing route to core2.te5-2-bbnet2.wdc002.pnap.net.changeme.com [216.34.131.135]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms tr3.tpa-rt1.hivelocity.net [69.46.31.105]
3 3 ms <1 ms <1 ms xe-8-0-0.bar1.Tampa1.Level3.net [4.53.172.1]
4 18 ms 31 ms 18 ms ae-6-6.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.137.114]
5 22 ms 19 ms 19 ms ae-73-70.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.138.20]
6 37 ms 35 ms 35 ms ae-2.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.86]
7 41 ms 35 ms 35 ms ae-71-71.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.134]
8 33 ms 34 ms 33 ms ae-2-79.edge2.Washington4.Level3.net [4.68.17.83]
9 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms savvis-level3-te.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.110.102]
10 34 ms 34 ms 34 ms cr1-tengig0-7-2-0.washington.savvis.net [204.70.197.242]
11 85 ms 85 ms 85 ms cr2-pos0-0-0-0.sanfrancisco.savvis.net [204.70.192.90]
12 90 ms 90 ms 90 ms kar1-ge-1-0-0.SanFranciscosfo.savvis.net [206.24.211.22]
13 90 ms 91 ms 91 ms 204.70.200.142
14 86 ms 86 ms 86 ms cr1-gigabitethernet-0-7-1-0.SanFrancisco.savvis.net [206.24.211.9]
15 86 ms 86 ms 85 ms er1-7-0-0.SanJoseEquinix.savvis.net [204.70.200.197]
16 86 ms 86 ms 86 ms hr1-te-1-0-0.santaclarasc8.savvis.net [204.70.200.214]
17 86 ms 86 ms 86 ms hr1-te-2-0-1.santaclarasc9.savvis.net [204.70.200.18]
18 * 325 ms 322 ms csr11-ve242.santaclarasc8.savvis.net [66.35.194.98]
19 832 ms 86 ms 87 ms 216.34.131.135

Trace complete.

if you know any carrier that doesn't peer with Level3, Cogent, and Global Crossing...

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Review: EasyCGI - Worst Webhost Ever

Dec 16, 2008

Review: EasyCGI - Worst Webhost Ever

I've been web designing for quite awhile now and been through a variety of webhosts, but never, ever, have I seen such a lack of caring or complete ineptitude that EasyCGI showed.

I was with them for quiet a few months, preparing the launch of my website. Mid October, I noticed how slow the website was... but since EasyCGI was announcing a server change, I stayed by them and hoped for the best. I launched my website November 1st.

Basically, since it's launch.. every few days, my website would go down.. I'd file a support ticket and magically it'd be fixed. This went on for the first few tries, until I figured out that the culprit was the MySQL database behind my website (using Joomla).

What was happening was every few days my database was getting overwritten with someone else's data... and in turn, I could go and browse their entire database (yes with credit card tables, usernames, ability to change passwords, the whole nine). I pointed this out to EasyCGI, where they admitted this was what was going on... and did not seem to care too much that someone else's database was compromised.

This overwriting of my database went on so long... that even my backups (backed up 3 days) were backed up with the wrong database... leaving any regular backups I downloaded from them, useless. Finally, my only hope? That they could retrieve a decent back up, an older backup, from the older server before they began to overwrite mine.

Their answer... they'd closed that server down and it was not possible.
They lost my entire website database, the core of the website.. meaning I had no functioning website, at all, on their server.

Their responses seem as though I'm not the only one, nor do they care that I'm the only one as well.

Posting this (along with attachments as proof below) so people can avoid them.

Attached Files

easycgi - CHAT - compromised database.txt (4.2 KB, 67 views)

bad review support ticket - EasyCGI.pdf (23.0 KB, 57 views)

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BustNET Technical Support Is The Worst

Nov 9, 2008

I have been in internet business since 1996 and I never have such a bad hosting provider as BurstNet, I am really amazed of the quality of the technical support.
Since friday 19:00 till today I have no web services because an error causing high CPU load averages of almost 270%.

The restarted my server twice that day (see it on my logs), I really dont know why, and they dont want to tell me, and since then the server has this problems.

Looking to my logs I found errors provoking high I/O waits, I explain all this and send this and other logs:

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Nov 8 09:53:16 ***** kernel: [47129.296313] sd 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002
Nov 8 09:53:40 ***** smartd[6316]: Device: /dev/sda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov 8 10:03:54 ***** kernel: [47129.296316] sda: Current [descriptor]: sense key: Medium Error
Nov 8 10:07:27 ***** kernel: [47129.296319] Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
Nov 8 10:11:47 ***** kernel: [47129.296326] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
Nov 8 10:15:22 ***** kernel: [47129.296329] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
Nov 8 10:18:09 ***** kernel: [47129.296340] 00 33 1a b2
Nov 8 10:18:21 ***** kernel: [47129.296345] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 3349170
Nov 8 10:18:21 ***** kernel: [47129.296373] ata3: EH complete
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Right now the load averages are 0 because I stopped Mysql that seems that is causing the high cpu load (because of the hard drive error).
After 14 hours waiting for the URGENT TICKET they say:
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Brian S.11-09-2008 - 12:04AM
I am seeing no unusual load on your server at this time:
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login as: root
root@66.197.157.149's password:
Last login: Sat Nov 8 13:00:44 2008 from 189.143.246.156
[root@**** ~]# uptime
22:54:03 up 1 day, 2:34, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[root@**** ~]#
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Again, I explain it again, now I receive this answer:
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Kevin B.11-09-2008 - 11:28AM
Hello,
This server seems fine.
[root@***** ~]# w
10:18:50 up 1 day, 13:59, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
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Why If I explain there is an error, with log files proving it, they don't read my messages! the simply don't read the messages or what is going on? I really don't get,

I explain the problem!
Maybe the only way they can put attention is driving the server again to that high load averages right?

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