Incompetence From PC-Core.net/Peerless Machines
Jul 25, 2008
In recent weeks Peerless Machines was sold by a competent owner to PC-Core.net. Since that time, the server performance has been HORRIBLE, responses have been UNACCEPTABLY delayed, and none of their systems work.
They moved all shared and reseller clients over to a PC-Core sever. They had MySQL settings so tight that their own Kayako support desk didn't even function. Each time I tried to submit a ticket, their SQL server had "gone away."
When I contacted support (finally...manually through e-mail), the support responses were incoherent and ignorant.
I decided to cancel... but apparently that was too difficult of a task for them to complete.
I cancelled my account on July 14th. I received multiple e-mails from them saying that my invoice (due on the 20th) was overdue. When I replied to the bill, they said that the had no record of my account and that no invoice had been generated. Hmm.
So, I got two other e-mails informing me that my bill STILL had not been paid.
Please beware. Peerless Machines is no longer peerless..... It's now owned by PC-Crap . net!
Stay away....
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Apr 6, 2008
Could anyone tell me if they heard of this hosting company is OK? I checked they speed and it's ok, the prices are great as well,but i haven't seen much reviews
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Mar 15, 2008
I've been trying to get hold of Nick at Peerless Machines for some weeks regarding a service I have purchased being significantly different than what was advertised. I have received some replies, each after several days, but they have been unsatisfactory in my opinion and nothing has picked up.
About a week ago I was asked for my Live Messenger address so that we could discuss the matter there, but after forwarding it to Nick and waiting several days I have received nothing. Their website also does not publish any significant contact details, and their billing system is disfunctional.
Does anyone have functional, direct contact details for Nick at Peerless Machines? A telephone number or Live Messenger address would be great.
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In your environment, have you ever used diskless machines (e.g. booted with BOOTP/DHCP/TFTP) for any reason? Where in your environment are you making use of them (e.g. what types of servers - web, application, database, DNS, etc...), and how has it turned out for you?
Has it actually yielded any of the promised benefits that the literature on them says, or was it a pain to set up and maintain?
Any interesting use cases on what you use them for and, as importantly, what are your criteria for determining whether a particular type of server should be diskless or not?
As this forum is filled with people with lots of experience running hosting businesses or their own web applications and therefore have managed thousands of machines between yourselves, I figured this is an appropriate and interesting question to ask. I'm hoping to get insights from here that I can't get from reading any old web article.
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DNS are on public ip, but to simplify, we are going to say that:
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Here are iptables rules(sliders) which I have at present:
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iptables -t nat -F
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iptables -X
iptables -t nat -X
iptables -t mangle -X
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iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
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iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
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iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
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I found these rules on a forum, that seems to be interesting but as I do not know there not iptable, I ignore if it is what I miss or not.
For information here is all the same what I found (not tested):
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#iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.0.10/255.255.255.255 --sport 53:65535 -d 192.168.0.20 -dport 1024:65535 -m state state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
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PHP Code:
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we are going to be pushing some into the gaming server market
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Jul 5, 2008
Just wanted to post a quick note for those looking to get a server from pc-core.net.
In pre sales talks they told me that they could have a server available to me within 48 hours of receiving payment.
On their website at [url] it says "Your server will be provisioned, secured, and delivered within 72 hours of purchase."
This was important to me as I at that time only had 1 week left on my contract with my current provider.
2 days after I paid for the server, and 3 days before deadline, I contacted the support and asked for the server as I needed to migrate.
They said they'd set it up "ASAP" and that they would do the migration for me as I wouldn't be available the following days.
Today is deadline and my current provider is billing me for another month. And I still, 5 days after payment, have no server available from pc-core.net.
I don't know if this was just a glitch in their services or if it's the way they normally conduct their business.
I asked about the server yesterday and they have had all of friday to produce a response. It has now been 18 hours and not a word.
I have asked for my money back as they offer a Money Back Guarantee on their website.
I don't know if that is a promise they take as lightly as the promise to deliver but will keep you posted.
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