Hostingzoom Is Changing
Jun 5, 2009
Hostingzoom Is changing!
we are Hostingzoom's customer from 2005! we had a payment due on a service and hostingzoom suspended all of our services! how come it's possible? to all users I want to let you know to take care about this changes .. hostingzoom was the best but it looks like that it's no more like before! maybe the company is sold!
Take Care About your accounts, have a daily backup of your accounts and do not trust to buy more from them! we lost lots of our clients "about 500", and we face critical problem with what they did to us for $80! and we had problem with our credit card issuer right now! ... HostingZoom is changing take care ..
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Mar 19, 2009
Hosting zoom offer is quiet cool and cheap
see link :[url]
I need it for electronic newspaper single website
any reviews with it? any body experience it?
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Jan 20, 2009
We have a client that installed phpLD on their HostingZoom account, and they are experiencing intermittent slow times where pages can take 4+ seconds to load. We've checked over everything, and find no reason why pages would load slowly. Sometimes they load fast and sometimes they load slow. I was able to check the server load, and I am seeing 4.81, 5.73, 6.04.
So first question is...
Does HostingZoom tend to get reports about slow or overloaded servers?
Next, our client also has an account with HostNine. They were saying it was slow there also, but when I tested it there, it seemed okay (though maybe it was slow when our client tried it).
So my second question is ...
Would you consider HostNine a step up from HostingZoom?
Normally, we recommend hostgator to our clients, though we also find godaddy, site5, bluehost (used to be bad), hostdime, and many others have been just fine for our clients.
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Mar 11, 2008
[WARNING: This may be a long review, reader discretion is advised.]
If some of you have followed my other reviews on HostingZoom(HZ) posted on here, you might be wondering why are the # of months are not correct... it's actually do to my poor math skills haha.. but here it is, calculated correctly(I hope).
I've been an HZ customer for 36 months now. That must say quite a lot about HZ in itself and the fact that I come back here periodically to tell others about my experience at HZ. A little backgrounder for starters.
I've been with HZ since April 2005. I came to this very forum to read up on reviews and get recommendations. I narrowed down my search to HZ and Site5. At the time, 2 very formiddible hosts in the industry. Both touting blazing fast response time to tickets, superior-high quality support, excellent servers managed by the best. After getting feedback and contacting both hosts I made my decision to go with HZ. Their sales staff was particularly helpful and friendly. Quite prominentely I remember getting blazing fast replies from Kiet Duong(CEO of HZ) with detailed explanations to the questions I had as a n00b in the hosting industry(I feel quite dumb looking back at the questions I've asked). It was this personal helpfulness that I experienced that gave me the extra push to go with HZ added with the fact that they had live chat technical support.
Fast forward a year and a half. I totally patted myself on the back telling myself what a great choice I've made. It was this time I've seen the "Site5 Fiasco" unfold here on WHT. To such amazement I didn't understand how such a highly touted host could run into so many problems and just be bombarded with a barge of negativity. It was also at this point where the overselling went mad with Site5. I was just glad I wasn't any part of it.
I was happy over here at HZ. Stable server with little to no problems. The support I received through tickets were always blazing fast and amazingly helpful and personal.
Such notable technicians as Alex and Vlad who are still with HZ today made my stay at HZ a perfect one. Any problems I had were always delt with in the most professional manner. The server was very stable and I had little to no reason to complain about anything since all my websites were working beautifully. The times where I've used live chat was pleasantely helpful. No trouble getting a hold of a technician and having a personal 1-on-1 support session to get a quick problem resolved.
On a few occassions as well, I had special urgent requests and they were fulfilled greatfully. One was to get a new VPS plan purchased at their sister company ModVPS and get it setup during the weekend, which they don't normally do. Kiet took it upon himself to get my VPS up and running over the weekend. Absolutely wonderful gesture.
A second request was to have my site moved back to the original server I was on, when I moved to their 'failover service' simply because my experience with the 'failover service' was quite bluntly put, horrible. Kiet again took it upon himself to personally make sure my sites made it over safely. He worked over the wee hours of the night and had a technician, Alex I believe, follow up with me the next morning. Again, a very wonderful gesture on Kiet's part. This is what made me really tout HZ so much simply because of this service I received that was above and beyond what I felt I should have gotten.
Fast forward yet again in time. Now I start to experience minor hiccups here and there. 500 internal server error reports from my users. No biggie in my mind but then also at this time I seemed to have observed a pattern happening on the forums. The problems of other customers have began to become very vocal. Day after day, all I observe in the forum is posts about problems problems problems and support not being helpful. For me personally, support quality and response time definately took a hit.
Not a big one, it was still good by my standards, just not as good as it was before. I don't take much out of this, simply take it as growing pains.
Fast forward a little more to now. Nothing has changed. Customers are more and more vocal about problems. Some network outages occur with more frequency and in my honest opinion, were handled horribly. Horrible customer communication and notification about the status of the major event.
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Customers are more and more vocal about the horrible support service as well. Canned liked responses, unhelpful support, very slow responses and the increasing difficulty to get on live chat.
This is the point that began to worry me. My server was still more or less fine so I haven't had an excuse to use tech support so I could not put these claims to truth.
Customers also begin to now point out the increasing problem of load ont he servers.
This past month. I too have begun to feel the effects of this. Load has been an issue daily. My sites are inaccessible during the morning hours as the load hovers around 15+. Either that or my sites are just so incredibly slow that it doesn't even matter that they eventually load because more than likely the visitor would have left. ALL my sites have been taken a hit due to this inaccessiblilty. I loose some traffic becuase this vital part of the day, none of my sites are close to being function due to the speed.
I have contacted support and have gotten nothing that has been remotely useful. Also mentioning that the respones time has turned to hours for my tickets(6-9 hours if memory serves me correct, instead of 5-35 minutes like before). I've also had little luck connecting to a tech on live chat on the first attempt. The responses I've gotten from support seem more like excuses than anything. Alex did take it upon himself to reopen my ticket to check up on me(which I really appreciate) but it still doesn't change the fact that the problems have still been occuring. It has come to a point where I no longer think it's beneficial to stay any longer with HZ. So I may call it quits with them after 36 months unfortunately.
Nonetheless, I am greatful for the times where HZ has been helpful and had taken it upon itself to provide me with service above and beyond what I expect. But like the saying, all good things come to an end.
Hope you found this review intriguing and sorry for the lengthyness of it. I hope it's a great read!
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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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Sep 25, 2007
Everytime I deleted an Ip set up by WHM, this one nameserver always comes back and deletes one that I already set up.
69.50.221.151 NS19.NSHOSTER.NET
No matter what I change it to, that NS19.NSHOSTER.net keeps overwriting an NS that i set. What's wrong? When i try to delete with WHM
Quote:
Removing Nameserver Ip 69.50.221.151
Sorry, the nameserver ip 69.50.221.151 cannot be removing since it is still registered with an ICANN register.
I can only go through ssh.
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May 26, 2007
My Linux box has a set IP address that never changes. However, I am switching my server from one collocation to another so in the process my IP address will be different.
The last time I switched my box, I had my ISP admin change the IP address within my linux box, but now that might not be an option.
So in linux, CentOS 4.1, how do I change the IP address on the box?
As much as I can remember, I had to change it in:
/etc/netstart
But I also remember there is another file that needs to be edited within the server to change the IP.
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Jul 23, 2008
I have been with this hosting company for almost five years now and until today the service has been excellent. I am having massive ftp issues. I have 41 different domains that I run for a variety of projects. Needless to say I keep each website in a different folder. I just tried to switch one of my blogs from blogger to wordpress. Blogger won't let me have my domain back and keeps blocking it with a 404 error. But that is a separate issue. I tried using one of my extra domains and pointing it at my new blog folder. But it keeps bouncing back to my root directory. I contacted 1and1 and they reset the server, but now they are blaming me for the issue. I can access the blog through it's subdirectory but I can't post the blog there.
Anyways, I am not ready to move over all of my websites, but I do want to move my blog to a new host. I am mainly hoping that I can escape 1and1 and blogger in one move if I change the host of this one website. It's funny I have been happy for years and recommended them to friends, but now I am very disappointed. Can someone recomend a reliable host? I am looking for one with a cheap lowend package to start off. If I end up staying I will need a lot of bandwidth as I have a podcast that had a lot of traffic. Basically, there are so many companies that I just can't tell which ones are reliable. That's my main concern. Also I use SQL a lot. Thanks!
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Jun 26, 2009
I'm setting up my dns records for a backup mailserver and setting up another ns record in case of server / datacentre problems.
My question is, do I need to specify the ip address of the external hostname and the external namserver in the local dns record?
e.g mail.mydomaim.com in A **.***.**.**
then add mail.outside-domain.com in A **.***.**.**.
I dont think its necessary but want to double check.
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Oct 25, 2009
I'm changing my webhost after getting screwed around with countless downtimes and now their own site is completely down.
I'm looking for a new host, and had been looking at alot of review sites. After looking at a few of them, found that they were obviously fakes with almost 100% good reviews for some hosts, completely dissing some other hosts, and the complete opposite on some other sites.
Looking for recommendations for your own host, do state your site too so I can try out the response.
Criteria
excellent uptime
responsive support + live support chat
h-sphere preferred, but not a must have (I like having subdomains in directories at the same level as domains)
does not ridiculously overload their servers (well, who can tell?)
good site response time
budget at 10usd per month
allows many domains/sites, no need for super high bandwidth as I just host many small sites
PHP with .htaccess access + imagemagick/gd
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Jan 29, 2009
I currently work for a small company that has a website hosted by a local hosting company. We have not been happy with them and are planning on switching hosts. Now I know that you are suppose to update your name servers for your domain name to point to your web host's name servers. Problem is I don't know how to get access to do this (all of this stuff was setup many years ago way before I got here).
Using whois I see our domain registrar is DomainBank.com but I have no account information to log in and change our name servers. How do I go about doing this? Is it possible our existing host did all of this originally and they have an account with DomainBank instead?
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Sep 30, 2008
I currently have my account with streamline.net (utter crap never use that company). I want to move 2 of my domains off this company and on to another one.
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Jan 29, 2008
I have IIS on my computer and I want to start using a php driven forum (SMF) on my web site. Before I upload the files I need to check the following settings are on:
the engine directive must be On.
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the session.save_path directive must be set to a valid directory, or empty.
the file_uploads directive must be On.
the upload_tmp_dir must be set to a valid directory, or empty.
I cant find anywhere within IIS where these directions maybe found. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Jul 30, 2008
I have a domain registered with Dotster and my NameServers point to Verio who is my webhost. My MX Records at Verio point to Appriver who handles my email. I'd like to get Verio totally out of the picture and just host my site at Dotster and still keep the email at Appriver. However, I'm not quite sure the order in which to change the various settings.
Do I just change the Name Servers at Doster to point to Dotster instead of Verio and then use Dotster's DNS to point the MX Records to Appriver? Would I then disable the MX Records at Verio? What about propagation of these changes...would I lose email traffic?
Do I need to change the TTL? I'm really not sure about the order of the steps.
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Jul 19, 2007
ive been a member of these forums for a few months now, mainly scouring for CSS tips and solutions. However, i've recently purchased Kevin Yanks book; Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using MYSQL and PHP, to work through. Annoyingly i'm having a problem with the initial MySQL setup which i cant seem to find a solution to on these forums or even Google. The book instructs the user to edit the my.ini file by adding the 'old-passwords' command, but no matter what i try i cannot save any additional content to this file. i just get the error... "Cannot create C:/programfiles/mysql/mysql server 5.0/my.ini". I fear im overlooking something very simple here. Has anyone else experienced this? The only thing that comes to mind is that im running Vista, which the book predates.
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Aug 27, 2007
to change system date back and forth.
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Some systems can enable something like defying "Time Drift" as on some Xen versions (as shown below), but unfortunately my provider apparently doesn't support it.
# set independent_wallclock
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/xen/independent_wallclock
Is there any other way to change date on a VPS?
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May 16, 2007
I'm trying to change the ssh port on one of my servers, I have edited the sshd_config file and ssh_config. Changed the port, then enabled the port on APF. Restarted both APF and SSH.
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May 29, 2007
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Mar 29, 2007
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
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</IfModule>
Hi,
This is my current .htaccess
As you see, it redirect all pages to index.php except index.php itsel
How do I modify it so that the exception is not just index.php but also channel.php or index3.php?
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Feb 25, 2009
i've set all folders,sub folder and files under this folder to be 777 since it is a folder for my users to upload attachments~
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if u take a look at the pic attached , you know what i meant. does anyone have any idea of how i can change the permission for this whole foder to be 777 even with folder created by apache?
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Sep 4, 2009
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Oct 22, 2009
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May 17, 2009
How can i preview my homepage without changing my nameserver?
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Jul 25, 2009
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Sep 19, 2008
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I know I can go in and change the name servers for each domain to the new server (NS) but just wanted to know if theres a quicker way such as changing the Ip Adresses in the SOA records to point to the IP address of the new server.
Then if they're already loading off the new servers ip address, I can then change the domains name servers afterwards.
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how can i change the server's time?
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