Hostmonster Deleted 900 Websites- Join CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT
Sep 30, 2008
I had two websites on hostmonster for over a year and last weekend they migrated my site without a proper back up and completed DELETED both of my entire websites along with 900 other websites. If you have had problems with hostmonster in the last three years, please get in contact with me to join a class action law suit against them. They are claiming zero responsibility for the horrific act. Not only do they expect us to rebuild our websites at our expense they are expecting us to be o.k. with the loss of revenue this has also created. Hostmonster generates millions of dollars each month in revenue. Corporate america - enough of your passing the buck. It's time for us to stick together and make they pay for their mistakes. Please contact me to join the class action lawsuit.
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Jun 8, 2008
The worst hosting you can get is Hostdepartment.com followed by Webhostasp.com and then Vortechhosting.com. All these have major complaints online. Hostdepartment servers are down about 50/50. 50% of the time the server will have problems and downtime throughout the day. Maybe not down for hours, but the servers will drop from time to time maybe 10 minutes here and there. Also Ixwebhosting.com surprisingly has downtime. The server is actually currently down as this is being written. For those who wish to gather a class action lawsuit against hostdepartment, webhostasp or vortechhosting, you may contact me at cashzzz at hotmail. Alertra is a good tool for monitoring your site.
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Is there any device that allows me to connect two energy outlets in order to get the sum of theirs intensity (A)?
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I would prefer to have a single 230V / 20A connection than 2x 230V/10A, however the NOC is unable to provide me that service. Is there anything I can do to bypass this problem?
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Jul 2, 2008
i frequently read these forums for offers/to stay up to date with web hosting in general.
I never felt the need to register until now.
I have experienced what i believe to be sub-standard service from my paid hosting.
Here's what happened:
I got up, as usual to check my emails and i was hit with the following email
Your web hosting account for xxxxxxxx has been deactivated (reason: terms of service violation).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for
up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
If you feel this deactivation is in error, please contact customer support as
soon as possible.
Thank you,
HostMonster.Com Support
xxxxxx (couldn't have url's in this post)
For support go to xxxxxx
Toll-Free: (866) 573-4678
I checked my domain, it returned nothing.
I don't believe that i have committed any terms of service violation and i am quite peeved off with the results.
My account was just suddenly deactivated with no warning, my domain (also registered via them) no longer works (i have no way of telling current visitors whats happened, the domain just wont work) and i have 15 days to contact them (via email) as phone is not an option as i live out of the US.
Not to mention after all that, i wouldn't review host-monster very greatly at all for speed, at first it was great but it just kept degrading from there until it was just extremely poor.
One thing they did do right was refund me (but i bet it doesn't include the domain) so ill be taking that money and my business else ware.
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a company named [url] was with us for almost 4, months and they are using the server which are custom ordered high end server, we didn't took setup fee just because they promise us to stay at list for an year
and from past 2 months they just ranned away somewhere, didn't paid any invoice
i guess we did a big mistake by believing in them
i know these 2 servers wont make a big difference but still just for my info
can anyone suggest if we can take any legal action on them ?
i know there site is still up and running
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May 24, 2008
i would like to present to you a scenario im sure everybody has thought of and has come up against.
1. If you are hosting with a web host and your files and website has been compromised due to the lack of security on the server what actions can you take against the host for this loss?
2. The host has a backup dating back to a week, but of course the data you have accumulated for the week that was lost is very valuable but you cant get it back now because of a flaw with the hosts server, is there anything you can do in a situation like this?
3. What if you are a reseller and have setup several sites for customers. One customer uses a CMS which means he/she will be updaitng their website every now and then and not always you are able to make backups of all the websites hosted by you as the reseller.
Now a weeks or a few days of data have been lost. The client complains and wants to take legal action against the reseller (you) and of course the reseller knows its the problem with the main host you are hosting with. What does the reseller do now with the client and the host whos made the mistake?
4. Clients livelihood depends on his/her Ecommerce website, they make an average turnover. Whether you are hosting on a dedicated or VPS nevertheless data loss has occured because the box was compromised. The blame is put on the host. In a scenario like this what can the customer do? He/She has lost some client details/orders information and products as a whole...? Remember this is a business... and money has been lost. A recovery backup a week old will never be sufficient enough for the loss.
Think about it... what will you do if any of the above four scenarios were to happen to you?
Yes i am aware of the terms. Some hosts will say they are not responsible forData loss in their small prints,
Some will say it is soley up to the customer to make backups,
When it comes to court they will point this out, and you'll be kicking yourself for being so foolish to go with a host in the first place which dosent gurantee the safety of your data.
Customers dont always read the small fine prints. Now realistically speaking what can the customer/client do in a situation like this? Im guessing nothing if the host outlines the terms ive pointed out above?
Is there really a host out there which takes whole responsibility for the loss and damage they create to your websites and businesses online?
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Hostmonster VS Bluehost
Whats different about the two. are they the same company. it looks like it. if so which would you chose?
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HostMonster or Hostgator whichone is better?
And they are offering unlimited domains...what does this mean actually?
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Oct 1, 2007
In general I have been happy with hostmonster. Mostly because their support staff is polite and are willing to help. However, I do question the server reliability at times.
Lately when a customer registers at my forum or gallery, the customer does not get the activation email 4 or 5 hours later. Today, I tested it and sure enough, the activation email took 4 or 5 hours before it came.
I talked to tech support and they acknowledged they had over 250,000 emails backed up. That there are too many connections with hotmail accounts and that was causing a problem as well.
A customer having to wait 4 or 5 hours before they receive an activation email seems a bit long.
I'm not sure if hostmonster is going to do anything to prevent this from happening in the future, but for now they seem to be satisfied with the emails backing up on the server and the time it takes for them to be sent. They indicated this does not happen often, but I really don't know since I don't send myself emails on a daily basis.
I would rate email as one of the most important functions there is for a webmaster. Otherwise, hostmonster staff has been responsive and my hope is this will not be a constant problem.
If there are any other hostmonster webmasters out there, I would appreciate your feedback. You may have to send yourself a registration or a email to test it.
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Well with activated apache-badbots jails I have in a short time a hugh amount of banned IPs. Usualy action for this is to use iptables-ipset-proto and save all this baned IPs in the ipset insteed as normal in the iptables list - thats also a suggestion which was discussed in the fail2ban forum for better performance. And yes I had this running (ipset package installed) with my manual installation of fail2ban before I switched over to the plesk integrated.
action = iptables-ipset-proto6[name=BadBots, port="http,https,7080,7081"] insteed of action = iptables-multiport[name=BadBots, port="http,https,7080,7081"]
So how can I add iptables-ipset-proto4.conf, iptables-ipset-proto6-allports.conf, iptables-ipset-proto6.conf to the plesk version of fail2ban??
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May 23, 2009
I'm come here to complain the hosting company hostmonster which is the very bad hosing provide company. Until now,
I have contact with them for 36 hours, and my website is still down.
the first 12 hours, the server is down. after that, they are installing sever packages on it. after that, they did
not do any work on it. they not recover my data, my website's content is gone!
I contact them many times, some time they reply me, and tell me server will be back up momentarily.
I'm very tired on this problem. I'm charge an comerece site, now some customers is going to refund from me, they
thought me as a cheater.
If you see my post, I suggest you to choose the other web hosting. Stay away from hostmonster, do not harm
yourself. Bluthost.com is also the same hosting company. so, please be clever.
here is our email I contact with Hostmonster:
Take care, this mail is replied from bluehost.
dateFri, May 22, 2009 at 9:53 AM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
Dear Customer,
Currently the admin of your server is swapping new drives in to better improve system performance. Your site will
be back up momentarily.
Thank You,
Jonathan L. S.
Support Level 1
BlueHost.com
888.401.4678
dateFri, May 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
Dear Customer,
We apologize for the trouble you've been having. Our administrators are working as fast as they can to get the
server back up on line.
Again I apologize for the wait.
Thank You,
EricJ
L1 Support
Hostmonster.com
866-573-4678
dateSat, May 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
hide details 2:10 PM (12 hours ago)
Dear Customer,
There is no eta on the server at this time but please bear with us as we get it back on line.
Thanks for contacting us.
We apologize for the trouble you've been having,
Thanks
JChristensen
Level 1 Support Engineer
Hostmonster.com
(866) 573-HOST
dateSat, May 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we have encountered some unexpected problems with the server. We currently
have no ETA, but I would expect that it won't be for maybe another 12 hours. Our SysAdmins have been working on
the server round the clock to get it back up as soon as possible. When it is back up, your files should be back as
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Memory Used 42.6 %
Swap Used 0.01 %
Disk /dev/sdc1 (/home) 91 %
Disk /dev/sdd1 (/backup) 90 %
Disk /dev/sde1 (/backup/cpbackup/weekly) 43 %
Disk /dev/ram0 (/ramdisk) 24 %
Disk /dev/sdb1 (/) 22 %
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How can I find out how they got the files uploaded to the account and what action can I take? I checked the whois for the domain and have their contact information, however it's a large site so I'm doubtful that the owner did it. I don't want my servers IPs being blacklisted for spam :|
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Wanted to share a bit (read vent a bit if you're cynical ).
Just got the following e-mail from hostmonster.
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Dear Dale:
Your web hosting account for ibycus.com has been deactivated (reason: site causing performance problems).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
If you feel this deactivation is in error, please contact customer support as soon as possible.
Thank you,
Support
For support go to
Toll-Free: (866) 573-4678
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Apparently, there are two files on my website that are being hit quite a bit, and causing the server to slow down. (I admit, its a busy site, and the files are very big).
The files aren't new there, and neither is the traffic, but the plug was pulled with no warning what so ever, and no offer of remediation on their part beyond refunding the remaining portion of my contract (I would hope so too!).
I can understand that they may not be able to continue to host my site due to the volume of traffic it generates, but they really could have handled this much better.
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I take to them they tell me can’t do any thing I please them make backup but they say we can’t do any thing for you and I’m sure they can log by root and do it with ssh on less than 1 minute
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2 day ago and I can’t move to the new server
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