Hostgator.com - Great Review
Aug 1, 2008
I'm been with HostGator for about 2 years now and I love their service! Its really easy to get in contact with HostGator staff either by Phone, Live Chat, or Ticket they always resolve whatever issue i'm having in a timely manner. I also like calling HostGator and not talking with someone in India who has no knowledge of what I'm trying to get help with and doesn't even know much about that company, I get that enough when I call Dell lol. Anyways, I just wanted to let everyone know that if you are looking for Shared, Reseller, or Dedicated web hosting then choose HostGator.com .
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Sep 11, 2008
I need to remind you before you read any of this, I have only been with them (racksrv.com) for half of a month, but within that half of month, I have tested them (racksrv.com) in many, many ways.
I couldn't see many reviews of them (racksrv.com), so thought I would give one. I will keep updating this review as time pass's.
Alright, where to start. Some time ago, I came to them in need of a dedicated server. I would like to first point out their support / sales. To be honest, test them. Send a ticket in, and see how long it takes them to reply. Even on weekends, go for it.
My point is, somehow, they seem to answer all of my tickets, whether they be sales or support, super fast. I literally have not seen them reply later than around 30 minutes, ever. Most times, it was way, way under that.
They must have it synced with their PDA's or something. Well, either way its amazing. I ask questions, regarding anything, and they always come up with an answer for me.
Now onto when my services was setup. I was sort of a special customer. I needed a special deal, something they did not really have listed on their site. I contacted them on the weekend, and got reply's to all my questions.
They told me what they could do for me, when they could set it up, and everything was done correctly. They setup the server when they were supposed to, they installed the right operating system, and on top of that they updated the server for me (only a simple "yum update", but still, never saw that from any host).
Onto the network. It is quite amazing. From North America, the pings are still low. There are no slow downs, and the port you get is dedicated. Yes, dedicated. I know that as a fact, as I have tested it at many different times of the day, and getting 100mbit full was possible every time.
They are a bit expensive yes, but to be honest, its worth it. All in all, so far, they are great.
I know you are IMMEDIATELY thinking, "bah, it's only been half a month, how can you review over that short of a period?!". Simply because I have been with over 30 providers over the years. And I have seen nothing as good as this.
Like I previously said, I will post another review later on or update this one. That is about it.
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Sep 30, 2009
I wanted to take a minute to throw out a review of a good host I found a few months back. I remember while I was looking for them that I found a ton of "Avoid XYZ host" or "ABC host is terrible," but very few reports of a host that people would suggest TO use.
In any case, I transferred my business domain (www.thecliplady.com) over to MDDHosting (www.mddhosting.com) a few months back and everything has been fantastic. As I recall, my account was setup quickly, and they helped me to transfer from my old server and setup my SSL cert right away. Since then, I have had almost 0 downtime, was always notified of maintenance or issues that might affect my account, and generally everything was quite snappy (pages loaded quickly, etc).
But, the one thing that really blows me away and is truly fantastic about MDDHosting is the support. In my time with them, I have filled 5 support tickets. In the worst case, I waited about 25 minutes for a response. Yesterday, my ticket was responded to in 2 minutes, and completely resolved in 3 minutes (It was a simple issue, but it was nice to not wait to finish deploying my new site).
Here is a screenshot of that last ticket: [url]
To sum it up, I feel very confident in suggesting MDDHosting to anyone who values great support and a stable server. Plus, the prices aren't bad either. Make sure you at least check them out, seriously!
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May 25, 2008
I signed up with siteground yesterday and everything has been perfect. Uptime has been great, and server speeds are alright. Except the only thing I don't like is that it's fairly hard to find the place to submit a ticket, and their interface is a bit confusing.
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Sep 28, 2008
We have used them on numerous occasions and found them very reliable. not if anyone else has ..
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Oct 24, 2009
I've had a few sites with HostGator. I build sites and sell them sometimes. Anyway, the one I have with them now is a adult tube site, so I do not want to post a link to it here. If a mod posts here I will pm them the site URL. I'm eight days into this website, but I have used them a lot the past year.
Off to the review....
- setup was quick as usual. I signed up, paid and had my details in my email within five minutes.
- speed is quick both HTTP and FTP. I will do around 100k unique visitors this billing period as I purchased some advertising and it never slows down
- support is excellent via live chat and ticket support. They can usually solve your problems. I have never used the phone support. tickets get a reply within a half hour
- i had acted on around nine dmca complaints notices they had forward to me and heard back from them within a minute or two when I told them I was removing the content...so fast
- you cannot beat the prices for what you get
This is about the only unlimited hosting provider I can trust
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Nov 7, 2009
Im a Hostgator Customer for over 6 months now. I purchased the Business Shared plan. Im running a vbulletin forum with a few members that post on my website. Im also running dedicated servers which use the MySQL database remotely. I was satisfied with Hostgator for about 3 months. After that period the problems began. Somebody DDOSed my Site and of course Hostgator suspended me immediately saying that my index would use too much resources. I was on vacation and got phoned by one of my moderators that we got suspended. So I called the Hostgator support. They told me the same thing, they e-mailed me. So I asked him to activate my page again since its nearly impossible that I can jump from maybe 100 visitors a day to over 1000 visitors in a second. Well the connection broke up since I was walking in the woods but they activated it. About 2 weeks later the same thing happened, they suspended me again. I went into the chat this time and they told me that they dont think that it's an DDOS attack. I told him the same thing again, like I did to the guy on the phone. They activated it again. Everything was fine until 1 month ago. The Site was unavailable for me and many others. I went into the Hostgator chat and they told me that somebody is using a script that is overusing resources making everyone's content on the server unavailable. He said he will look into it and open a new ticket for me. After 1 hour I got suspended. They said that my Shoutbox is using too many resources and that I need to remove it. So I renamed my Shoutbox folder to deactivate it temporarily. I have been running this Shoutbox since the beginning and I/they never had problems with it. So recently the server where my webhosting account is on keeps restarting or crashing for some reason. They told me that Apache keeps crashing and that they are working on it to get it resolved. I was fine with it, but it kept happening. So to get to the end, I have been in the Hostgator chat 6 times today already since they still didnt fix it. Im really starting to think that there will be more and more problems, so Im already looking for another webhost where I can host my Website. I barely use 100GB of Bandwith and I really dont think that Im using much resources running a simple forum.
I also talked to the support many times about their maintenance frames. I think they really should inform the customers by e-mail if they shutdown the server for maintenance or warn before they start working on the server if it will affect the availability of Websites.
Overall Im not happy Customer of Hostgator anymore. Im really impressed how they are forcing me to leave. I was always nice to the customer support since I already worked in the same branch so I know how you feel when a customer is yelling at you.
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Dec 17, 2008
Review - Hostgator.com
Hola again WHT folks...another review here for one of my many hosts I have used in the past (I am writing a review for each). This time I am talking hostgator.com
I started up with hostgator in early 2007 (feb?) and was with them up until august this year. I had a easy setup and was pleased with the speed I had everything running. At that time I needed to wget a large file (like 14 gigs) from my old dedicated host layeredtech. I requested ssh access and wget which I had enabled in a hour or 2. I moved the large file in a few hours and was very pleased at the backbone speed of that transfer. They have a ticketing system which is very standard in the marketplace today and worked well. I really am partial to whmcs over modernbill recently, a few years ago I would never have said that! And of course Cpanel rocks over plesk (that pest). Anyrate on with the review!
So I had some oddball perms that I could not change which I had to open up a ticket for, ya hate to hit the ticket system hard and heavy at first but sometimes thats life. A bit later I got the file untard and was up and running. I was using alot of resources for a low price (think I was on baby...) and was happy with the transfer speed for the most part. Sometimes it was a bit laggy, but I was shared so I cant really complain and I had pretty high transfers also.
I cannot be sure as to why some files seemed to disappear which I mentioned earlier in a different post. I had several people with access, sometimes I had timeouts while uploading large multi gig datasets, so I am unsure what the issues may have been. It was not important enough for me to open up a ticket over as I was tired of supporting other peoples works by this time and needed to cut that cord. Let me sum it up...
--Hostgator is pretty reasonable on transfer speeds in my estimation.
--They are alive on the ticketing system so you will not wait for days.
--I did not have downtime I did not cause.
--I did have some files that turned up missing that should not have been accessible by other people, however it was not important enough for me to open up a ticket.
--I had somehow setup double payments in their system with both paypal and a mastercard (seems like something should have caught that) and ended up with a 40 some dollar credit. I had to open tickets and call a few times to get that straight but no big shakes. In the end they saw what I was pointing out and I received credit.
I would recommend them based on my experiences except for one thing I do not like at all (which is a common theme among many hosts)
You get a discount if you purchase hosting the entire year in advance. I totally get it you can estimate the future resources you will need to allocate and purchase and the discount is a thank you. I however have been burned in the past and am not alone in my reluctance to fork out ubber bucks for a year of service which I am unsure about the quality of. My main gripe is thats the advertised price, but its not the price you will get when you sign up.
That is a psychological trump which makes you as the buyer say "well I am not going to get that good of a deal because I wont blindly trust them" Which means like me I will check around and see if I can beat that (hey we eventually become smarter hosting shoppers)
I would however like to point out that I received a very nicely worded private message from the president of hostgator over the missing files issue I had experienced and I really think this is a SIGN OF OWNERSHIP! I commend that you own the good/bad/unknown and wanted to help me get to the bottom of it. I now wish I would have opened a ticket on it so we could backtrack it. It is not often you get that level of commitment from a hosting provider and this company is moving in the right direction on several fronts.
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Apr 12, 2008
I have been customer with HostGator for almost two weeks and my experience has been TERRIBLE, AWFUL etc.
The server I am being hosted on is overloaded daily to the point when my SSH times out and my website is unaccessible. I have been told that the customers who overuse their resources have been removed and that it should work fine - surprisingly, it does not.
Days ago I have been also assured, by the live support rep, that load averages will stay around 2s or 3s after the server will be filled as the accounts were still being added. That is not happening even though there are no accounts being added anymore to the server (as I was told few days later).
As I am writing this, the load averages are: 121.74, 66.47, 49.90
The overload has been causing problems DAILY.
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Mar 24, 2009
I had posted the review a week back but for some reason everything went bazook with WHT.
I lost all my posts but am making an attempt to write the review again of my exp with HG.
Well, I had been with these guys for close to 14 months. I never knew there was bright world beyond HG for dedicated server untill I came to WHT. I had taken a xeon 2.4 with 2 gb ram for $219 everything was fine untill the server started giving me problems off late. It was supposed to be a managed server but these guys had just no clue whatso ever on any kinda problem. The took like close to 12 hours just to figure out the problem which was an issue with fan.
Imagine they were putting the blame game on me till they figured out it was a problem with the hardware(fan). When I went to claim refund for meeting the SLA, they told me that it was my fault and the onus was on me to ensure the server is up and running. WTF? How do you expect me find and why do you think I took managed service if the onus was on me to make sure the server is up and running.
That wasn't the end of my horror story. I don't remember the number of times I had to suffer with restarting the Apache / Mysql and downtime and when I did goto them, they said my RAM usage is too much. Hmmm when I further digged out and I felt cheated when I found out that they gave me a cheap DDR-200 MHZ RAM which is way outdated technology. I was like WTF? All those problems were because of that Cheap DDR-200 MHZ RAM for which they were charging me a bomb.
Imagine they gave me a trash Hardware and charging me a bomb for that crap and they kept blaming me for it.
I scrapped my Xeon 2.8 to Q9550 for a bit more but it was worth it.
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Dec 1, 2008
Hostgator.com Dedicated Server Review
Can you review hostgator dedicated server...?
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Mar 16, 2009
HostGator is offering unlimited disk space, bandwidth and domains in shared hosting BABY Package.
Does it mean i can host 10 domains in baby plan and each site is eating + 200gb per month.
Does 10 Domains hosting in this account mean that they will host using addon technology?
What role dedicate IP will play for my websites?
If my domain registrar is different but my host is hostgator then will this plan will work for me or do i need to transfer all the 10 domains to hostgator?
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Dec 27, 2007
I thought I would do a review of some of the web hosts that I have used or am using over the last year or so.
I'll start off by talking about the 3 webhosts i currently am using.
1. Lunarpages (regular shared hosting account).
2. HostingZoom (regular shared hosing account)
3. Hostgator (Reseller Account)
Lunarpages:
I have had a shared account with Lunarpages since early July.
Positives: Of the different webhosts I have used, they seem to keep php, and other software the most up to date (on the elara server). A webhost that uses older versions of software that have security issues makes me nervous. Another positive of Lunarpages was the free "Coffeecup" software.
Negatives: I really wanted to like Lunarpages when i signed up with them. Of all the hosts I have used in the last few years, the Lunarpages server I'm currently on is down the most. In fact, I currently use my space there just for testing out software (like Joomla) and setting up demos for my current web design clients to learn on (they can learn on the demos as opposed to messing up their live sites!). The server generally has some issue at least ever couple of days were the site is unreachable (either a hight server load and everything times out) or some other issues....
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May 26, 2009
Just thought I would share some the experiences I've had with hosts that I've been with over the last 6 years:
Bluehost/Hostmonster:
Decent host and cheap. If you're looking for a single page site or a site that doesn't have much traffic, this is for you. I moved my sites off their servers (they are sister companies and I was with both) because I wanted a reseller account which they didn't offer. I also thought they slightly oversold the servers.
HostNine:
This was a great host for me. Their support was great and hosting was perfect for what I needed. I was with them for 3 years. Highly recommend if you're looking for a reseller host.
HostGator:
After I realized that I didn't need a reseller host anymore I tried HostGator. I got suckered into the unlimited features and signed up. After figuring out that I had unlimited space but not unlimited inodes(files) I went back to hostnine shared account.
thePeakHost.net:
So I was cruising around some forums and came across a cheap offer for the Peak Host.net. I signed up for their offshore server and haven't had problems since. I'm not going to say how much I paid for a years worth of hosting, but it was less then a big mac meal. Always been up and support has been quick. Great Host.
HostLatch:
Stay away. Far away. They had serious downtime because they combined VPS and shared accounts on the same server. After having a VPS that was effected by this I requested a refund (was only 2 days into service) and was denied.
Underhost.us:
Great host. Great for offshore and onshore. I had them for a few months and purchased a years worth of reseller service. Great service and never noticed downtime.
Pluthost:
Great new host. I had a VPS from them(offshore) and it seemed ok. Dropped service because I realized I didn't need offshore VPS when I had already purchased offshore from peakhost.
Enoch.com:
Just started a VPS from this host. Great uptime, fast servers and support seems to be quick.
bluewaveservers.com:
Bought this off a special I found on DP. Good shared hosting, although a little slow. Could just be my side though.
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Jun 3, 2009
I would like something similar to the business package located here:
http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml
But I do NOT want HG, too many bad experiences.
My only requirements are...
-No more than $15/mo
-Unlimited domains
-At least 100GB of bandwidth a month
-Supports PHP
-Some type of control panel (preferably cpanel)
Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated.
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May 27, 2009
Because i have couple site hosted by both hosting company (DTH=downtownhost and TCH=totalchoicehosting) and have positive experience with them i needed to make decision who will be hoster for my new project.
The problem was by both company and by 99% others that traceroute command is not enabled by default and it is essential for my new project.
After exchanging a couple emails with both companies DTH was winner again because DTH allow on shared hosting traceroute command (in situation that you need it).
Answer from TCH was that only on VPS (semi-dedicated) is traceroute command possible and not on shared envirovment.
I must again praise DTH for the way how they handle with their customers and that they are ready to do everything for their customers. Not wonder that they are one of the greatest hosting company.
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Jul 14, 2008
I'll keep it short and sweet. I signed up for medialayer on December 23, 2007. Its been more than 6 months and there has been not one unscheduled downtime, the support is phenomenal on the rare occasion I need to use it and its the fastest host I've ever used, dedicated or shared. My sites have been on the front page of Digg, Osnews, Stumbleupon and I've yet to see my hosting so much as shudder. Unbelievably powerful servers. They are accommodating, friendly and brilliant.
No, they don't have terabytes of bandwidth and it doesn't cost $1 per month; but it doesn't get much better than this otherwise.
Hosted sites ticketed to mod team. Keep up the great work, Medialayer.
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Aug 9, 2008
I hvae been with them for little over a month now, and as long as you be a bit snappy on the chat you can always et your way, there great
you get given a manager for your account, which is a really nice thing to do.
iweb.com
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Nov 22, 2008
After getting completely fed up with bluehost (my site was so slow!), I recently switched to mddhosting. I had considered other hosts, but luckily, I found this forum before switching -- and I discovered mddhosting here!
I'd highly recommend mddhosting. They took the time to talk to me and answer all my questions before I switched (and I asked a lot of questions!). After I took the plunge, they basically did all the work for me migrating my website. I was shocked! There was one small glitch in the migration as some software wasn't installed on their server that I needed, but they cleared this up in less than an hour after I submitted my support ticket. Since then, its been smooth sailing. My site is really fast -- I've never had to wait for a page to load. I host some videos, so I was a little worried about these, but they are just as fast as the rest of my content. The only other time I've needed support was when I changed SSL certificates, and again, they pretty much handled everything for me.
Great service! I'd highly recommend them.
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Sep 28, 2009
I've been hosted on Hawkhost since last year (exactly as it will be expiring on October) and they have been great. I don't regularly check my own website but everytime I do, it's up and running. They were so good I never even had to contact them (only in the beginning because of site transfer). I even forgot what I was hosted on because the whole year just went by so smoothly.
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Jan 10, 2009
i would like to tell everybody ,that how much i was satisfied with infrenion.com ,Yesterday i signed up with them as i already they have best support ,i have asked at least 100+ questions and they answered each and every one clearly and helped me in setup of my site in every aspect. I didn't see this much in any of my previous hosts.
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May 27, 2008
What are some of the companies that have good, proven DDoS protection? Regardless of price.
I have done some searching, but wanted some outside opinions.
I know of:
www.gigenet.com
www.blacklotus.com
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Jun 3, 2008
I found vps media through WHT about a month ago, I saw they allowed several gaming servers on their vpses, and it was interesting to give a CS 1.6 and CS Source a try on a vps.
I signed up using a 20% off special, which is pretty cheap, compared to other xen providers.
I've been really happy with their service, as they are very easy to communicate with, and I love their notifications whenever a scheduled maintenance is due.
Their community is still small, but they're growing little by little, I saw a big spike of people registered in their forums right after a new WHT offer post. Their blog is current, well written and specially good content, mostly just news about their service, but always interesting in reading them.
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Aug 21, 2008
i'd like to get a vps with the requirements:
vps
hardware:whatever
bandwidth: >2000Go
location: Sweden highly preferred, Russia possible
100Mbps up and down (10Mbps is not possible for instance)
good uptime (99,9%)
price: depends on the hardware, but i'll go up to ~150$ max for a really good hardware
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Sep 25, 2008
Just wanted to state that Pronethosting.net has done a great job hosting my daughter's Web site and our municipal site: marcellusny.com.
Their service is very dependable and affordable!
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Nov 24, 2008
So earlier this month I decided to buy hosting from Hostamina.com - I called them on their toll free number and they seemed like they would be very helpful and they said they were willing to help me from the ground up because I'm kind of new to websites.
It kills me to say this (because everyone says it's so easy), but I barely even know HTML. Anyway, I signed up with them and didn't even know where to begin. They showed me where I could choose from thousands of free website templates, and then they even helped me customize it! They explained to me what was wrong with my HTML code and how to fix it, and even fixed some of it themselves!
So, after reading so many hosting horror stories all over the internet this made me feel kind of lucky that I picked a good one for my first host.
Also, my pages always seem to load really fast - I think this has something to do with them not overselling like a lot of the supposedly unlimited space/bandwidth companies, but I'm not quite sure.
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Aug 13, 2008
I'm coming upto the end of my third month with Sentris.com
Their prices are good, support has had good response times and resolution on problems I have had. They seem to sort out nearly anything despite only being on basic management.
I haven't had any downtime, on a good network and machine. When I first ordered my server they didn't have the said processor in stock, said they would get it the next day or that I could upgrade to a better processor; which I did and my server was up within a few hours .
I've seen a few negative reviews about Sentris from the past but not many new positive reviews so I though I'd right one for them.
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Oct 30, 2008
thoughts were on u2-web... They have a semi-dedicated web hosting service for only 49.99 a month.. They also have a ton of awesome reviews...
I'm having a very hard time finding unbiased reviews without an agenda on the web. This forum appears to be the best source out of everything that is out there...
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Sep 21, 2008
I was searching a few days ago for a good vps hosting. When I found out VPSLAND.COM, I was very surprised. Their prices are the cheapest on the net and, I thinked it was an hoax. So I did a bit of search on the net, and I found many negatives comments on them. But, I decided I try them anyway and buy a Windows VPS... and I think it was the good option !
The "supposed" downtimes and "non-replying support team" are totaly fictive. You want service, then, you get it with VPSLAND.COM. They offer great VPS plans at a price you will never see at other webhosters. And, since 3 days, no downtime.
I would like to hear people's stories about VPSLAND.COM if anyone haves.
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Sep 11, 2007
We spent days and days looking at all the available options for a VPS account. We decided on Galaxyvisions.com after reading some reviews on other sites.
We've been in the Internet business since 1996 and have used literally dozens of hosts. Galaxy Visions ROCKS! The level of support they have provided is seldom matched - quick, efficient, and knowledgeable. Great prices also - what else could you ask for?
I usually don't take the time to review products or services that I pay for - but after Galaxy quickly helped us out of a major jam with the VPS account - I felt compelled to do so.
They completely rebuilt the account for us within a couple hours of the request - we usually wait longer than that for any kind of response at all from other host.
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Apr 20, 2007
Has anybody colocated servers in Great Lakes Comnet?
Corenetworks Servers are located at this DC, and they are offering 17.95$ 1U Colo,
Corenetworks seems has not started offering COLO yet, and they dont answer emails now, i have a dedicated with them and their networks seems good.
I want to know if anybody has hosted his server in that DC,
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