Reliablesite Is Fake, Liar And Unreliable
Jun 26, 2008
I am very unhappy with Reliablesite. Their servers are down since 48 hours and I feel down. There is no response from the support team. The same happened to the other server as well some days back and they are continously having having hardware issue.
I am just wondering what happened to the marketing blurb that reads:
"Fully Redundant: More uptime starts with multiple backbones of Tier 1 only providers to fail-over servers which kick in instantly."
Where are these fail-over servers and why did they not "kick in instantly" when everything went FUBAR?
The control panel is now just giving the error:
Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
All of my domains have been down for over 48 hours with either a server error message appearing or an IIS7 "Sites currently being restored. Please see bear with us." message. Every database I have now returns the error message "login failed" for each user as well.
This is an unacceptable amount of downtime, I will now have to list every domain I own and create new users for every database. I find this quite disturbing that I now have an extra amount of work put on me for something that should have been handled by the "fail-over" servers which don't seem to have kicked in at all.
I think they are faking their advertisement of "fail-over" and they should change their name to "Unreliablesite.net".
I think this company's English skills are a bit off when they brag about their "Fully Redundant fail-over servers". Judging from their performance, I think what they were actually trying to say is that their servers are "fell over" servers. You know, the kind of servers keep falling over...again and again.
Sad part about it is they actually believe they're helping people with their lame attempts to explain what the problems are. They are so wrapped up in "damage control" they think their customers are complete idiots and will believe anything they post.
Posts like "25% of the sites should now be working. MySQL and MS SQL databases will be coming back up soon as well. We estimate that the entire move will be complete at 12PM EST June 25th."
What does 25 persent of the sites mean or tell me about when my sites will be up. Twenty-five percent of what?!! Well that was 36 hours ago when they made that claim and many others and they still both down.
All I know is I keep getting Emails from support reading, "It should be fixed now".
Simply accessing the URL reveals that the problem is indeed not fixed. Just a little bit of checking and investigation can go a long way. RSNET, this is getting ridiculous. Please DO NOT send me anymore "it is fixed" Emails until it the problem is actually fixed. I have been patient as and as understanding as I can possibly be through the latest string of outages but my patience is wearing thin. PLEASE just get the sites running again and soon.
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Jun 3, 2008
I have been with SmartWaveTech.com for years now i have spent most of my website creating life with them and never received any problems.
The only problems was I chose them as a hosting company called Hugoton hosting this then changed to SmartWaveTech.com, for a while it was okay then they previous owners decided to sell out there company and was perchance by its current owners. This is were all my problems being after the server becoming slow and versions of software not kept up to date I emailed them, this led to nothing no ever a reply I emailed them a further 3 times about this then a further 7 times asking for a account termination. Not once did if get a reply then on email number 8 I received a reply but still they consist to tell me that the hosting package I have its no longer available.
To sum to the have treated me and many other clients very bad I assume, I feel quite cheated with out warring having my hosting taken from me and told its none existent!
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Mar 20, 2009
Unbelievable how bad HostMySite.com has become. At one time they were pretty much at the top but there has been enough mistakes, bad service and lack of support on HostMySite.com's part to warn others. The most recent situation could have come out of a modern day Three Stooges skit. When I asked to have a host set up three were generated instead by billing.
When I contacted support about the web not showing he stated that he could see the files I had upload just fine. I looked in the HostMySite.com control panel and found the duplicate entries for the domain. When I contact support again, another technician said that he could see the HostMySite "under construction" page just fine - two different IPs. After finding the duplicate errors I requested that HostMySite.com remove the other entries so that the domain was using only one IP.
I received an email stating the reason for the conflict was due to duplicate entries and that the support ticket was forwarded to billing to remove the duplicates (no kidding). Long story short was nothing happened so I contacted them again and was informed that the support request was stuck in the billing queue - no one had looked at it. My deadline had already pasted (marketing).
More to that story but I sure would like to hear from others that may have had bad encounters from HostMySite.com.
Being one that has been around the block with internet marketing I can say that the original mistake could have been forgiven. The inability on their part to correct the mistake cause for concern. HostMySite.com's lack of concern for their mistake unforgivable.
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Jun 6, 2008
recently had my site designed and hosted by dotster and some parts are not working the way we expected. I have attempted to contact them over 10 times
I have waited on hold over an hour
there " live 24 hour support" you wait for 15 minutes than apparently a girl named sharon helps you and you get no response.
I have gotten absolutely ZERO response from them.
Just to let everyone know I would NEVER host a site with this company.
at the very least get back to your customers when they have an issue
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Feb 14, 2007
I am not sure is it is realistic to take out insurance against losses caused by downtime. Or perhaps insurance would merely increase the costs to such an extent that it would be better to spend more on the hosting costs, and the improved service that would buy. Has anyone considered this as an issue, because I have read on other forums that people complain of lost income due to their sites being down for a day or two, and it sounds like they just suffer the losses without any recompense?
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Jun 5, 2008
I get like 25 kbps download speeds from my brand new fdcservers server (750+ kbps normally from my other servers) even though I'm the only user downloading from it and my U.S 100 mbit servers get less than 100 kbps too when they try to download from the fdcserver. and quite often there's 100% packet loss for 10 - 30 seconds. Very unreliable network. Also, they first installed the wrong OS in my server. I requested CentOS and they installed FreeBSD. At least they fixed that later on.
They don't have service level agreements and they don't guarantee any amount of bandwidth, they just make empty promises. Now I know why.
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Apr 22, 2008
This thread is mostly for me to keep track of how things go with this host and hopefully to benefit any others that might be thinking of hosting with them in the future.
I'm going to try and keep my interactions with this host updated here over time.
04/22/08
Posted a pre-sales question in their forum, answer received 58 minutes later. (Good sign, but presales/sales generally have fast response times)
3:30pm
Decided to give them a shot, ordered the following package (some upgrades from the default package).
Hosted Domains: Unlimited $0.00
Disk Space (Upgradable): 3,000 MB $0.00
Bandwidth (Upgradable): 30,000 MB $0.00
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Databases (Upgradable): 3 Databases $1.75
MySQL 5 Databases (Upgradable): 5 Databases $2.00
ASP.NET: ASP.NET v1.1, v2.0, v3.0, v3.5 + ASP.NET AJAX $0.00
ASP Classic: ASP Classic Version 3.0 $0.00
PHP: PHP Version 5.2.X $0.00
Sub-Domains (Upgradable): 10 Sub Domains $0.90
Domain Aliases / Pointers (Upgradable): 1 Domain Alias $0.00
E-mail Inboxes/Addresses with POP3 + IMAP4 Support (Upgradable): 5 E-mail Addresses + 5 Free E-mail Aliases $0.00
Mailing Lists (Upgradable): 1 Mailing List $0.00
Mailing List Size (Upgradable): 10 Contacts $0.00
FTP Accounts : Unlimited FTP Accounts $0.00
Statistics: Unlimited Domains Site Statistics using SmarterStats $0.00
Virtual/Application Directories: Unlimited Virtual Directories $0.00
Secure/Password Protected Folders: Unlimited Secure Folders $0.00
Dedicated Application Pool/Process: Yes, For Each Hosted Domain $0.00
Web Data Manager for MS SQL Server 2005: Yes, Includes Backup and Restore Tools $0.00
Remote Connections Enabled for SQL Server: Yes, Using SQL Server Management Studio 2005 $0.00
PhpMyAdmin for MySQL 5: Yes, Includes Backup and Restore Tools $0.00
Additional Components: ASPUpload, ASPJPEG, and ASPE-mail $0.00
Webmail System: Latest Version of SmarterMail $0.00
Automatic Customer Billing: Yes, With Multiple Payment Gateways $0.00
Confirmation page says my site will be setup within 24 hours. Not promising as far as auto provisioning goes.
3:35pm
Checked my email for order confirmation. I'm happy to see my site has already been provisioned! The email states that it might take longer (up to the previously mentioned 24 hours) for some of the upgraded items to take affect, I'm ok with this.
The email also contains all of the information I need to get things going, IPs, URLs, etc.
I'll update again later with any new information.
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Jul 9, 2008
I was a ReliableSite customer for over an year. Infact, due to their decent service initially, I moved some of my client websites (database-driven apps) to their servers. But in the past 2 months, their quality of service has degraded to a level where I've totally lost faith on their service, and finally moved to another host.
Lately, they keep having issues with their server or their network or something else. A 24 hour downtime earlier this week, and no prior notification (atleast I didn't receive any email). Their support forums were down as well. And then when the server went up, I was shocked to notice that the database server had changed, that too without any prior notification. All my websites stopped working, and these website cater to our paid customers, which meant a loss of goodwill and revenue for us.
Even after all this, none of the ReliableSite staff has offered a public apology to their customers for the pathetic service they offer now. I have realized that ReliableSite takes hosting as a 'play business'. They seem to think that their customers will bear any bulls**t. Well, they are so wrong.
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May 9, 2008
Is able here able to send email through reliablesite.net's SMTP?
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Jun 30, 2008
My website -- www.beywiki.com -- has been hosted with reliablesite.net since its opening in October. Originally, things started okay. Bumpy, but okay. There were little glitches and hitches, some related to RS themselves and some with my website. However, the RS staff were always very accommodating and I greatly appreciated that.
However, there have been catastrophic downtimes with them. There has never been a month where there wasn't a significant amount of downtime. I was given three months free as a result of a large amount of downtime, but that's run out and the issues are still persisting ... already in the past week was almost 24 hours downtime.
The support is not as present as it was when I started with them, they are almost never on AIM or MSN anymore and there are times where I don't receive a response to my tickets for many hours.
One look at their forums -- forum.reliablesite.net -- shows that there are many dissatisfied customers right now. They have been deleting messages that have been deemed to critical, often without any warning.
RS.net does not seem to feel the need to contact users about scheduled downtime or about downtimes that may be occurring; in my entire time with them, despite a large amount of downtime, I only ever recieved an e-mail about it once.
That being said, regrettably I think I have no choice but to look for another host. If anyone reading this has any suggestions, I am looking for about $5 a month for roughly 1GB of space and 10GB of bandwidth.
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Jun 29, 2008
my website hosted at reliablesite.net is down!
and I can't access [url]
reliablesite staff please advise when we will get our websites back.
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Aug 6, 2008
Just wanted to put a little warning out there for people thinking about ReliableSite.net for hosting. I am a web host and designer/developer and I was looking for Windows hosting for one of my clients (I only do Linux) to host a shopping cart called ProductCart on and after searching in here I found ReliableSite.net. I researched them, they seemed to have a good rep, their prices were great and they said they had ASPImage and ASPUpload installed (which we needed specificlly for ProductCart, I was even offered the most current invoice or something to prove they had it). I talked with the sales guy (Radic) a few times before I had my client order services and a few time after.
Once we started having some problems with things not working correclty it was VERY hard to get ahold of Radic and support tickets were taking longer and longer to be answered.
I really don't remember to many of the eariler problems, they were not a big deal, but we hit a major road block when the feature in ProductCart wouldn't work (the image upload and resize feature that is dependent on ASPImage and ASPUpload being installed).
I finally determined that it was becuase the ASPImage and ASPUpload were not liscened correctly (even though they stated it was before we purchased services). I emailed support they took their time getting back to me, then told me it was setup correctly and it must be something with the program we were using.
After contacting support for ProductCart I found a little tester script they provide to test for what version of ASPImage and ASPUpload are installed. That failed and gave an error number. I forwarded this onto support, they responded and said they would look in to it. I was then told that they had found the problem and it was a billing or provision issue. A few days later I still have not gotten an update nor are the componets working.
I am emailing and emailing them and they are ignoring me. I finally get a response and they say they are working on an emergency server restore and everyone is busy with that, we will have to wait, they say they will have it fixed by the next day at 7pm EST. I wait until after that time period, see nothing has happened, I email them a few hours later I get a response that says they still have hundreds of clients down and cannot do it.
By this time it has been close to a week and no action has been taken. We decided to move everything to yet another host (this will be our 3rd) and we never did get an update about when it was fixed, if ever. I then had to email them one last time to ask for the SSL Cert to be exported, took them 10 days to get that to me and by then I had reissued it.
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Jul 1, 2008
if anyone knew of anything that maybe could be done to limit this band-width stealing by AVG or are we just going to have to live with this?
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Feb 5, 2008
how is this possible?
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Feb 16, 2009
I am using a shopping cart using php and mysql which was setup long back on my account with Reliablesite.net. Now, it is suddenly down mentioning database not found. I have submitted a ticket 9 hours back but not heard anything. The support as always is non-existent and is only available from 9-5 mon-fri. I am very much frustrated as there is no other means of contacting them. No phone number and no one is there to attend the tickets. Can someone help me how to contact them as I cannot afford to keep website down till they open their offices tomorrow morning.
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Apr 7, 2008
So I've been with ReliableSite for 1 year and 5 months (domain already verified by the_pm) and for the most part it's been a pretty good experience.
Uptime - 9/10
There isn't much to say here, when they say Reliable they mean pretty reliable. I track my site with hyperspin, and outside of the planned downtime (...the wonderful migration...I'll explain below) my site has been up for a reported 99.994% over this period of time, which is pretty amazing for a $7 per month plan.
Support - 8/10
The staff at reliablesite have been pretty good for the most part at giving me support. The response times have varied between 20 minutes - 3 hours (depending on the complexity of the issue). The only time I've ever had a big delay with support was during the datacenter migration. It took them a few days to get back to me, but everything was resolved and I had minimal downtime (a few hours), but that was due to my misunderstanding of the instructions at first.
Site Performance 10/10
This is the one thing that keeps getting better and better about rs. My site no matter what time of day always loads in a flash, especially after they put in the new servers at the new datacenter.
Technology Support - 9/10
I've really liked how rs has constantly been including all of the latest releases of everything .net, php, etc to the line-up. Whenever I shoot over a request for something to be installed I usually get back a "this is already available on your server". They've also installed a few other components for me like JMail. There are a few things that I'd like to see that they won't implement such as RoR, but other than that I have no complaints.
Overall - 9/10
If you're looking for a good host for the price, you may want to give them a try. I'm generally an easy to please kind of guy .
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Jul 17, 2008
I have been around here for a while, but just decided to take the plunge and register for an account simply because I did notice all of the "negative" reviews about my host reliablesite and thought I should balance things out a bit from a customer that's a little more patient and doesn't expect instant response times from a host that's busy handling issues.
Lets get started - I have had an account with reliablesite.net for a few months, not a long time, but enough to write a review. I just have a basic shared hosting plan, nothing major and have been generally pleased.
For what I pay I have gotten:
1. Good uptime for the most part
2. Good support - usually within 1 hour of the support request
3. Good speeds - site loads up speedy
So now with all of the good stuff out of the way I'll talk about my recent experience with the downtime recently, what I know, what I don't know, etc.
Last I heard from Radic there was a worm that took down 4 servers. Now 4 shared servers, that's a lot, I'm no hosting pro but from how profits work I can see them having 100+ customers on a shared server. So lets say 400 customers without service with their own site included.
So their site was down for several hours, I think I counted around 8 hours. My site was down as well, but this happened a bit after their site went down, so I just sent an e-mail to support@reliablesite.net that my site is down. After the site came back up I finally received a "ticket created" e-mail so I know it was in their ticketing system.
There was a bit of communication via their forum about the issue, not a lot of information, but mentioned that ticket response time may be slow because all of the techs were restoring sites, databases, etc and there were customers that had 3 - 4 tickets in the system (whats the point....?). I noticed the databases were available within a few hours and sites came back up eventually (I think 12 hours or so).
A few hours later I received a ticket response with a quick overview of what happened with the server, nothing in detail, but enough so I can get an idea. This included a quick apology for the downtime.
I later noticed that Radic had posted about SLA credits, I took advantage of it and opened a ticket, a couple of hours later I have credit for the entire month!
So all in all, it's a pretty great service for what you pay for. The few customers that were "pissed off" seemed to be the same ones who made endless posts and harassments on their forum wondering why posts were removed and had no patience whatsoever. When you pay $5/mo for a service, you can't be screaming for much of anything, especially making legal threats for your $5 per month fee (lol). That doesn't even cover 1 hour of minimum wage anymore.
Well good luck to the RS team, I'm really glad everything is sorted (well 98%).
Submitting the domain using the report function like others have done. I will continue to recommend you as I have noticed you're making strides to improve.
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Oct 5, 2007
how can i fake the kernel version?
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Feb 9, 2007
I as well as several of our customers have received the following e-mail today. It appears to be a fake e-mail being sent out from security.admin@verisign.com
The e-mail reads:
"Dear FDIC valued Members
Regarding our new security regulations, as a part of our yearly maintenance we have provided a security guard script in the attachment.
So, to secure your websites, please use the attached file and (for UNIX/Linux Based servers) upload the file "guard.php" in: "./public_html" or (for Windows Based servers) in: "./wwwroot" in your site.
If you do not know how to use it, you can use the following instruction:
For Unix/Linux or Windows based websites that use PHP/CGI/PERL/ASP:
1) Download the attachment named "guard.php"
2) Login to your site Control panel.
3) Open "File Manager" window.
4) Go through "Public_html" or "htdocs" (for UNIX/Linux Based servers), but for Windows Based server, please Go through "wwwroot" directory.
5) Choose "Upload Files"
6) Upload the file "guard.php"
7) Check its URL too [url], if it is ok
Thank you for using our services and products. We look forward to providing you with a unique and high quality service.
[url]
There is an attached file called guard.php -- I've attempted to read it, but it appears to be compiled. At this time I am unsure of what the file actually does. Has anyone else received a similar e-mail? Does anyone know what the guard.php file actually does?
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Jan 28, 2008
Anyone know where I can find a list of installed ASP components on both of these hosts? I am specifically looking for items like ASPMail, ASPUpload, ASPImage, etc.
Softsyshosting.com lists the components under their windows 2003 shared hosting plans, but they are not listed under the SQL 2005 plans. Since I am interested in signing up for the SQL Server 2005 plans, I would appreciate it if anyone can confirm the availability of those components under the SQL plans.
Reliablesite.net doesn't have any components listed. Again, I would appreciate it if anyone can provide a list of installed components.
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May 12, 2008
reliablesite has filtered 100% of the spam emails
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Aug 8, 2008
When will that beautiful day come when web hosting companies stop to put up fake storage limits? I am so surprised that all of these actions are legal, and if they aren't legal then I don't understand why there isn't move governance over these things.
I mean, you have a nice and popular company like Media Temple, yet you glance at their usage policy and see this:
Customer may not use hosting account as a remote storage server only. 75% of customer's content files stored on Provider's server must have associated HTML, or PHP files inside the account linking to the content stored on that account.
What is that all about? What kind of legal website would actually use 75GB of storage.
Why doesn't their 100GB limit package have a cheezy star beside it that clearly says "hey, actually you only get 25GB of storage, the rest is just BS and we'll never actually let you use it". What if you buy a can of paint and they say "well, you cannot use this paint for your house, you may only use 25% of it on your house and the rest on your fence". Yea, sounds like a great deal, now I have to buy 4X more paint.
And to counter-act that usage policy, what if I just have an PHP page that is a dynamic directory listing? Isn't that, in essence, a PHP page to which all of the directory content is associated?
Aside from all that, yes I understand the marketing value of big numbers and giving people 100's and 1000's of GB of supposed storage – but how in the hell is that legal?
These companies are charging people for something that is unattainable. Because in 99% of the cases, if you actually use all your disk space, your account will be terminated without notice for some BS reason or because you are using too many processor resources.
Well if you KNOW that using 100GB of disk space will use too many other server resources, why are you selling that quantity of space? Again, it's not actually being sold, it's an illusion, and I absolutely don't understand how it's legal.
Another example would be like, selling a car that can go 500 KM/h but really by the time you reach 400 KM/h you are already out of gas, so you'll never really get to 500 KM/h.
Can they really advertise the car as having a top speed of 500 KM/h? Come on...
Oh and I am not a bitter customer of Media Temple or any other overselling web hosting service, it's just a trend that has been on the rise for some years now and it's really bugging me that somehow all these lies are legal. Next up is "unlimited" web hosting, except you are limited by everything except storage... so yea, not really unlimited. Again... legal?
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Dec 19, 2007
Is the SAS6iR on a Dell R200 under Linux a real hardware RAID solution or is it a fake-raid setup where the CPU ends up doing all the work? We are just looking at some and deciding if we should go with the onboard or put in a 3Ware 9xxxx
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Dec 16, 2008
Ipower - blatant over selling, trying to kick me off with fake TOS
I am currently being ignored on live chat with Ipower.
They issued me with possibly the stupidest TOS violation imaginable. They claimed that I am using my web space for storing files which is not allowed - it must be site content. The links to the files are public on the site. They have admitted, actually admitted, that the TOS is fake. Yet they have just suspended my directories.
The real reason is because they are over selling disk space. Our contract gives me 2 Tb and I am daring to use 25% of that space. They have told me - straight out - they want me off their server because I am using too much of what I paid for.
Why do web hosts like Ipower believe that they can just ignore the law like this? It is false advertising, fraud and breach of contract. They have expressed their contempt for the law in plain English. What is it with these people? Why must I sue them to have this blatantly stupid matter resolved?
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Jun 8, 2008
A week ago i came across a installation of a fake paypal site on a account i am using on cpanel. The site had the latest wordpress installed on it with nothing else.
I would like to know;
How is it possible to access the account to install the paypal site and how can a person prevents this in the future. i came acros the site by accident and cant check on all my clients sites all the time.
Any advice appreciated
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Jul 19, 2008
Its with exim .
my server send alot of fake emails
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30971 titus 18 0 11180 1948 624 D 1 0.0 0:05.58 exim
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31049 titus 18 0 11192 1812 504 D 1 0.0 0:02.16 exim
30946 titus 18 0 11188 1952 628 D 1 0.0 0:05.96 exim
30951 titus 18 0 11176 1804 504 D 1 0.0 0:05.83 exim
30976 titus 18 0 11180 1952 624 D 1 0.0 0:05.40 exim
31027 titus 18 0 11212 1816 504 D 1 0.0 0:03.76 exim
31044 titus 18 0 11188 1812 504 R 1 0.0 0:02.13 exim
31064 titus 18 0 11180 1808 504 D 1 0.0 0:00.50 exim
31096 titus 18 0 11196 1824 504 R 1 0.0 0:00.45 exim
31102 titus 18 0 11188 1824 504 D 1 0.0 0:00.42 exim
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Nov 26, 2007
I was checking my error_log today and found thousands of 404 errors for these 2 files:
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I assume they are file requests made from ads on the site.
Right now I've just added those directories and files to appease the error logs, but can I fake their existence somehow without having to clutter up my file structure?
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