SmokyHosts A Scam
Aug 11, 2008
For the past 7 months i have a vps.
The first months i had 380mb as i thought that would be enough.
After alot of privvm going sky high and a lack of support i decided to upgrade the ram to 640.
However it is still slow. They say they give 24/7 support but you can wait day's for them to report back.
This is what i get with top if i have disabled almost every service.:
Is this normal?
top - 13:34:06 up 57 min, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.16
Tasks: 26 total, 1 running, 25 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2062764k total, 2045320k used, 17444k free, 59740k buffers
Swap: 4192956k total, 150964k used, 4041992k free, 1071364k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 16 0 1628 596 516 S 0 0.0 0:00.09 init
20246 root 15 0 1456 392 336 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
20248 root 16 0 1804 608 500 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 authdaemond
20259 root 16 0 4016 1128 832 S 0 0.1 0:00.11 sshd
20268 root 16 0 1804 248 140 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 authdaemond
20269 root 16 0 1804 248 140 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 authdaemond
20324 root 16 0 7448 2752 1136 S 0 0.1 0:00.02 chkservd
20336 root 18 0 1460 304 252 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
20337 root 18 0 1568 488 412 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 couriertcpd
20343 root 22 0 1460 304 252 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
20344 root 18 0 1568 488 412 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 couriertcpd
20349 root 18 0 1460 304 252 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
20350 root 18 0 1568 488 412 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 couriertcpd
20356 root 20 0 1460 304 252 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
20357 root 18 0 1568 488 412 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 couriertcpd
21648 root 16 0 7168 1376 1064 S 0 0.1 0:00.05 pure-ftpd
21651 root 15 0 6704 992 796 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pure-authd
21925 root 18 0 12324 6784 476 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 cpdavd
21952 root 35 19 9488 5836 1548 S 0 0.3 0:00.22 cpanellogd
21988 root 18 0 4052 804 576 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 saslauthd
22020 root 18 0 1488 396 324 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 portsentry
22168 root 16 0 16424 7476 912 S 0 0.4 0:00.01 cpsrvd-ssl
3626 root 16 0 7056 2288 1840 S 0 0.1 0:00.13 sshd
3695 root 16 0 5436 1468 1192 S 0 0.1 0:00.07 bash
29799 root 16 0 1456 284 212 S 0 0.0 0:00.18 minilogd
8103 root 16 0 1888 952 776 R 0 0.0 0:00.15 top
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Feb 14, 2008
Has anyone used their VPS before?, cause i'd really use some info about them =)
And if possible before the 19th hehe, cause they have a promo.
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Sep 16, 2007
I select a vps of Smokyhosts last friday, but I found the clock of it an hour off the correct time,
eg. I set the timezone to UTC, the correct NTP time is 3:00, but the clock of vps is display 2:00, It's an hour before the correct time.
I think this is an error when they first set the clock of host node, I send several tickets to Smokeyhosts support, but they told me I can set to another timezone not in my country, I think this is not reasonable.
and they told me they do not allow any time change requests for the hardware node even if it's error.
Since the clock of VPS is an hour error, even if I can set another timezone not my country. but if I have a forum on this VPS, and user can set their own timezone settings, they would be puzzled to find what they seclectd timezone is always an hour off,
I must be explain this to them? I think this is not acceptable.
I understand the NTP would be impossible to all VPS, but they should ensure the host node's clock is correct relatively, now it's an hour off, I think they can correct this easily if they would like to do.
another small question is when I get the vps, Mysql was installed, but the user "mysql" is not exist in system, So mysql service can't start, I add this myself, and it's ok.
Now all other things looks well except the clock.
their support always response quickly, i'm very satisfied with them.
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Dec 19, 2008
I got a VPS with smokyhosts in summer of 2007, and now is as good a time as any to write a review here on WHT (where I found them in the first place).
Quite honestly, the reason I went with them initially was that they were the only ones meeting my requirements (price!) at the time - with their discount offer.Support
My VPS was setup fairly quickly. I made the payment during the night and had the access details when I checked again in the morning, can't say exactly how many hours but surely fewer than five.
In all, I've called upon their support three times -DNS settings in resolv.conf got cleared (and I obviously didn't know what they were before) - they responded with the nameserver IPs, which I then put in myself.
VZPP backups not working due to some reverse DNS issue - Fixed overnight.
My IP range blacklisted at outblaze (I contacted Outblaze, who obliged by whitelisting my IP) - I also contacted smokyhosts support, so that they'd be able to identify which one of their clients caused this. Not sure of the action taken one this.
I always was ready for the "unmanaged" service I had purchased - so I always asked for support I "deserved" and not what I thought "would have been cool to have".
eg., instead of "I'm unable to send emails" I first found the root cause myself and then did a "my NS settings are messed up - please re-send details" instead.
All in all, although I never really taxed their support with anything large (which in itself might be considered a good thing), I always got satisfaction when I did.Uptime
I have been with two other VPS providers before this and I have to say the uptime here has been the best.
There hasn't been an instance when I wasn't able to reach my site (or someone else reported having problems) when I wasn't aware of the issue beforehand. I was always notified in advance.
I'm not having site monitoring/tracking so no numbers, unfortunately.
Total of three known downtimes. The longest one being due to data center outage.
But if it's any good - my VPS's uptime as of writing this is 154+ days and even the last restart was of my doing.Speed
On my VPS I'm only running three low-to-medium traffic sites for my friends - one SMF forum and two wordpress blogs. That includes HTTP/SQL/MAIL/POP/IMAP/FTP ... the works).
Mainly command line administration assisted by an extremely light control panel (ISPCP - for my friends to manage their own sites).
Each of my friends is happier now with the speed/stability than with previous VPS providers (slower speeds) or shared hosting providers (messed up/badly configured/unstable hosting environments).
Server load as of writing this, with 6 users online on the SMF forum - 0.07 0.06 0.03.
The only times I've seen load figures close to 1 are during the nightly backups that ISPCP does (gzip).
Data transfers are slower than you'd expect with a 10 mbit connection, but still good enough. Various site speed test tools report that my SMF forum loads in about twice the time WHT does.Overall
My hosting requirements are pretty simple (and easily met, imo) - a plain-vanilla, no-frills, unmanaged, low-medium config VPS with an excellent uptime. Constant/recurring nagging issues, no matter how trivial, are a total turn-off - I like my environment to be stable.
So far smokyhosts has met these requirements pretty well.
I understand I'm supposed to report my own post and submit one of the domains hosted ?
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Aug 2, 2008
Lunar pages is a scam
DO NOT USE Lunarpages
From Me to Support I noticed that my inodes are set abnormally low to 200,000 we just upgraded to VPS plan per lunars request at we are at 160,000 on second day of operation on new vps server. From Sarwan singh Jassi to siteadmin(ME) When you reach 200,000 inodes you will need to upgrade to dedicated plan However and Email from the sales guy states the following. We do not force upgrades do to inodes, we just increase your inodes as you need them. Server crashes occur all the time about 1-3 times a month. Do not use lunar
They also run the old 90's upgrade scam, they claim your script utilize high resources for php, mysql.
Their claim
CPU%: 3.15
MEM%: 1.70
MySQL: 0.9
Top Process %CPU 50.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 48.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 44.0 /usr/bin/php
After fighting with these people telling them that their server is configured incorrectly because we have load tested each and every script and that these scripts are used on 1000's of sites and the traffic we have does NOT warrent the useage they claim we went a head and upgraded per their recommendation.
So we get a brand new vps plan(see complaint above) and on the VPS server our usages look totally normal with proves they don't know what they are doing.
Directly from Pesky Plesk on the second day of getting our upgrade
CPU%: 0.15
MEM%: 0.19
MySQL: 0.2
Top Process %CPU 17.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 19.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 15.0 /usr/bin/php
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Oct 18, 2006
They are scammer, we sign up with them and they ask us to submit credit card detail which we do.
Guess what , they use our credit card to purchase server for their own use, we contact them and they ask us to charge back if we wish, I think as they are now no longer need for the server
They are a scammer Scammer and poor DC will suffer a lost becasue I will chargeback all the charges for the server
May I Know is there any way to report this company (I am not in US) cause they must be punish for this issue
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Aug 14, 2007
I'll tell you my story right now. I got the VPS and they charged me $60. The page didn't even look like a paypal page and I didn't know when I went through the order process that I have been charged. They accepted my payment even though they had the radio button that said first month a dollar. They even didn't have cpanel installed at first! They gave me the email and I had to contact them to install cpanel! They have this stupid contrat thing and they will take you to a collection agency for failure of the billing system that they have. It says DO NOT MAKE PAYMENT! but how can you tell? They are a complete total scam! The vps firewall was dropped for no reason during the morning. I asked why and they left the chat. They have good VPS if you got the extra $59 to cover the beginning.
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Apr 16, 2009
EuroVPS company received the payment for VPS server and does not give me the settings finding different reasons for that and does not want to refund my money.
ORDER #EV20380S
Date 28-Mar-2009
That was 11 April when I last received e-mail from them saying that Accounts department would consider possibility of refunding the money to my paypal account.
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Apr 20, 2009
Buy a few days ago the first package in jumplaunch.com.
The charge was for $ 75 but I think I charged $ 110. I went to the bank but the transaction does not appear.I have only 110 dollars less.
jumplaunch is fraud?....
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Oct 4, 2009
I saw an offer from BoxVPS that was too good to be true. And in fact it was. It's been nearly a month since I paid for a VPS and still no service. My client login is disabled and they won't respond to requests for service or for a refund.
Simply stated - BoxVPS is a scam. Do not succumb to their offers, no matter how attractive they might seem. This is apparently just another in a long line of scams appearing with startling frequency on WHT. This phenomenom makes it difficult to give new hosts a try.
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Mar 7, 2008
I am a very diplomatic person and I believe in doing fair business. This is why I've decided to write this post in your forums as well as my own and a few others. I want to share with the world our horrible experience with Server4you.de in hopes of saving the rest of you from their lies.
I am not one to openly bash people online but I feel the need to spare all of you from falling victim to this company!
In order to offer the most stable listening experience to all of you, we needed to add another European server. Doing a little research in Google, we fell on Server4you.de (a German company).
Here is an example of what they promote (in German):
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3400+,
DualCore 64 Bit,
1.024 MB DDR2-RAM
1x 160 GB SATA-HDD
Betriebssystem: OpenSuSE,
Fedora, Ubuntu und Debian
Plesk 8.2 - 10 Domains
Unbegrenzter Datentransfer (which means unlimited datatransfer)
Kostenloser Support per
E-Mail und 0800-Hotline
Before hand, we verified with them that the unlimited datatransfer package was accessible for streaming. Most companies don't allow this so it is always the first question to ask. They confirmed that there was no problem at all!
Well, after 2 months of service with them, they are telling us that we must limit our datatransfer to 75GB/day or 2TB/month. You might think that this is already a lot but this is standard for most dedicated servers and this suddenly makes them pretty expensive (even for North-American standards). Note that European bandwidth is known to be significantly cheaper than North-American bandwidth.
This was one of the few times I've had to sign a contract for hosting. So for the next year, I'm stuck paying for cheap/mediocre quality bandwidth that's suddenly not even unmetered anymore! I would walk away from them if I could (contract or no contract, I don't care) but since we're outside Germany, they made us pay for 12 month in advance. So if I want to get anything out of that money, I have no choice to use their low grade bandwidth.
Basically, consider yourself warned! Don't do business with Server4you!
They actually disconnected our servers without warning or even messaging us because we had apparently reached this new bandwidth quota which had never been mentioned in the past!
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Dec 21, 2008
Yesterday I got a call from addr.com (caller id read AFTERGEN INC. tel: 409-938-0691)
The man with the Indian accent of some advised me that my webhosting has been active since 2001 and he said I owe them $750 or so. I told him I haven't hosted with them since 2001. He advised me that they the hosting account has been active since then.
So I tell him that you waited 8 years to call me? He said well "we couldn't get in touch with you at your hotmail account". Yea but still 8 years to call me? He tells me that I didn't cancel hosting with them.
I know for a fact that as soon as you don't renew hosting with addr.com or any other webhosting service, they will give 1 or 2 weeks to pay or they will delete your account. Then I said I won't pay them a dime! He tells me that he can give me a discount. Can you believe this scam? I hang up the phone on them.
SO NOW I OWE $750 to addr.com for past fees and they are claiming that I never cancelled hosting with them and I didn't notify them.
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Oct 11, 2008
Before I got into web hosting business, I too, searched the whole World Wide Globe for a good web hosting company. And like many fall for some scams and learned from my experiences. Here are some ways you can tell a web host that is not safe.
Sign-up Page isn't secure.
Request a server IP to ping. This way you can figure out if the company is on a VPS, Reseller or a computer in someone's apartment [Reverse IP Check]
Unlimited Everything (well back in the day it was part of it until Yahoo decided to go solo) Company website itself goes down.
Can't find any of their representatives online (e.g. forums, blogs).
Doesn't have a Phone Number to reach.
Private Domain Registration (would you really send your money to a unknown company's PO.BOX address?)
Lies to you (e.g. Gives you 1 TB Bandwidth, but if you use up 50 GB and they close your account)
Asks for SSN/EIN for security purposes (hmm... complete B.S)
Doesn't tell you exactly how they protect your data, how secure the server is and so on.
Asks for your PayPal Username & Password on their website (also known as phishing)
Do a WHOIS Search and check how long they have been on business. (added by maccrazy)
Those are just some of things I found in a scam web host. I am sure there are many, please feel free to share your story and precautions you take.
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Jul 3, 2008
webhostingpad has terrible service and disconnnects its phones when it has technical issues. Dozens of people have been victimized by this company and lost business thanks to their incompentence. They give all web hosts a bad name--please get the word out!
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Jun 19, 2008
TagBridge is by far the worst company to get involved with. I purchased a VPS and they said in a support ticket 5 hours after I bought it that it will be setup in a few minutes. 24 hours later I cancel and request a refund and I went with veritynet.. 12 hours later my VPS was made and I still have a cancellation request in place which they ignored. It has been a week now and I'm still attempting to get a refund. Jamie blocked me on MSN to avoid my conversation. I talked to a friend of his and everytime has asks Jamie for a refund jamie doesn't respond. HORRIBLE SUPPORT. Now I have a VPS I have no use for, that of which I canceled 12+ hours before it was even MADE and they refuse to message me back regarding my refund.
This will be posted EVERYWHERE till I get my refund. This business is a scam and I don't want to be involved with it anymore.
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Jan 15, 2009
I registered an VPS with internetvps.com , but now cannot login.
(My domain : http://whois.domaintools.com/daugau.net)
See their annoucement:
Dear customers,
Due to recent technical issues, your account information in the client center was corrupted and unrecoverable. Therefore, we need you to re-register. Then immediately notify our technical support team with your server IP address(es) AND last payment receipt so we can update your account with the correct server information.
This incident did not effect your server operation. However, once we received your respond, we will then verify the information and bring your server online. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience caused and we do appreicate your business.
If you have questions, please send us an email http://www.internetvps.com/billing/contact.php
Internet Operation Team.
When I send my contact with the bill & Ip, they answer ...
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Apr 16, 2009
has anyone purchased a server from the op and received it yet?
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Oct 10, 2008
DO NOT use TurnkeySites.com or JosephSpencer.com! BOTH are owned by a scammer:
JosephSpencer.com and Turnkeysites.com
1685 H STREET, SUITE 433, 98230
Blaine, Washington
United States
Phone: 360-303-0369
I WARN ANYONE WHO IS ABOUT TO USE EITHER OF THESE SITES THAT THEY ARE RIP OFFS! The owner, Joseph Spencer, has stolen ALL the content he sells, gives credit to himself, and even locks the content with a license to his name!!
If you do buy content from him, it has been stolen, and there is a chance it will be taken down at ANYTIME. Not only that, but Joseph Spencer plays the "nice" game with you so you purchase one little item. Their is always by coincidence a problem with the item leading to you having to purchase another one of his items or services. He is a COMPLETE scammer!
Look.. Two other pissed off customers:
[url]
[url]
My recommendation is to just STAY AWAY from those two websites to avoid legal issues and harassment from Joseph Spencer.
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May 23, 2008
i have hosting at servage.net 2 jrs already and one nice day they decided to delete all data on my account (like 5 gb of data) and 25 websites are gone and 2 developing projects, i didnt had backups for most of them... (80%)..
the most funniest thing is the answer:
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Hello Ivo
We are sorry for the inconvenience caused
There was an storage issue which caused the trouble. We have added <b>one month free hosting</b>.
Please reupload your data.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Nick, Support
Servage Hosting
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"ONE MONTH FREE HOSTING!" OMG
so my question would be , how can i sue motherf****s? or what are my options?
please post your experiences here with this scummy hosting that we can assure that this don't happened to anyone again.
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Dec 19, 2008
I got a email yesterday from a company called clickandbuy.com saying that i signed up for their account and that i authorized AlphaRed to debit the account automatically.
I never gave AlphaRed or this clickandbuy to create or debit any account. Whats their angle on this scam? i don't get it.
I was a customer w/AR back in June for one month. I canceled and got my money refunded because their network was not performing.
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Sep 27, 2008
yet another review, yet another VPS burned through because of incompetent sales staff, incompetent DC staff, and even more incompetent network admins.
Since noon, I have been getting alerts off and on that my vps (monitoring, off site support, a few projects) was down. Not a worry, I open a thread here. Now, maybe it's just me, maybe not, but that's not the point. The point is that for 3.5 hours, my VPS with nynoc was down.
Now, I opened a ticket with them about this, giving them the options which were fair:
credit me with a month (reasonable, given my going rate, or the going rate for ANY tech @ hourly rates) and apologize for downtime, or
Refund my $10 credit (overpayment) and I'll find service elsewhere starting Oct. 7th.
Their response? "There was no downtime".
Ok, so they deny downtime, not a surprise, others like to pull the same thing. I show them proof of downtime, to whit, they respond again "There was no downtime".
So, I show them more proof (this time from their own systems). Their response? We're not going to argue, there was no downtime. Immediately after that, they locked my account in WHMCS like little children, and locked me out of my VPS (thankfully I was still able to restart it).
So, is this wrong? nope, not at all. Not UNLESS you're holding someone else's money for services rendered, and refusing to deliver said services.
A bit of an explanation on the 'overpayment' part:
Somehow, when the system created the email subscription link (via paypal), their system created it @ $5.x more than it should be. So, the subscription continued on paying $5 or so more a month , which WHMCS rightfully put in as 'credit'. My thoughts were that I'd let it build up, catch up to a month, and then cancel the subscription, resuming when it was necessary. not a bad idea really.
Now, for the proof here, the same stuff that was shown to them:
Image 1 - From their network and VPS node - shows downtime from approx. noon to approx 3.30
Image 2&3 - My network - same thing
Image 4 - Total downtime today, again , from my network.
So, is it unreasonable to expect individuals reimburse you properly for downtime? Not at all. Consider that the reasonable tech makes $30-50/hr, and 3 hours of sitting and waiting for someone else to come up and deal with the problem, so the tech can resume work. Yeah, that's a bit of a rip off, and it's unrealistic to expect full reimbursement (which I didn't). A month's credit for their screwups is more than reasonable given the amount of time loss.
Is it unreasonable for individuals to expect 'credit' to be paid appropriately? Not at all. Again, if the business didn't want it to be paid appropriately, they should turn it off immediately. If they let it build up, they are responsible for refunding it, in case the customer DOES decide to leave.
This brings us to this:
Is it reasonable for a company to simply 'terminate' service, and lie to the customer because they don't feel like admitting their wrongdoings? Of course no, that's the childish way out.
Taking people's money, early termination of service = theft, no matter how you slice it (and yes, I DID give them a specific termination date if they chose to go that route).
Now, it's back to the grindstone, yet again, trying to find a VPS that is actually respectable, reasonable and well known, while being reasonably priced!
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Oct 8, 2008
i toke a VPS from that company and once they get the money they cancel it
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May 24, 2008
See thread:
[url]
I know the the threads on FumiNet have been closed, but I wanted to share some information AS an actual customer of FumiNet and after getting a little bit more information.
Dawson actually offered to host a non-profit client of mine for free and about 2 weeks after that I was starting a new project and figured I would get a server with him, as he had good prices.
I paid for the server and 2 days later I bought an SSL certificate. All communication was directly with Dawson. Well come about 3 days ago, my 1 year SSL certificate expired (after 30 days), he actually set me up a 30-day free trial certificate.
So, among all the other odd things, I think that is a pretty good piece of evidence that he did something shady. And he caused some serious damage for a non-profit organization...
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Sep 18, 2008
I want post here about RapidVPS hosting,
they host all scam and phishy sites like Hyip.
What is Hyip? Here-> [url]
My proof:
ablehyip. com/hyip/ (IP:208.84.144.131)
globalmarketsol. org (IP:66.35.79.68)
forexco. us/index.php?a=home (IP:66.35.79.37)
xlinvestment. us (IP:66.35.79.29)
topprofitworld. net (IP:66.35.79.94)
real-onlineforex. com (IP:66.35.79.118)
fx-88. com (IP:208.84.150.149)
marvelpartners. us (IP:66.35.79.68)
and so on too many hyip scams, very big list.
All provided IP addresses are rigistered with
OrgName: Infinitum Technologies Inc. (RapidVPS)
OrgID: INFIN-27
Address: 873 Grand Regency Pte.
Address: Suite 201
City: Altamonte Springs
StateProv: FL
PostalCode: 32714
Country: US
All IP addresses are provided for
network: Organization-Org-Name:NVHSERVER Inc
network: Organization-Name:Ha Nguyen
network: Description-Usage:Internet Service Provider
I have contacted with RapidVPS admin and this guy (name is Rick) never answer my reports,
just ignore me, ban me, I'm sure he is owner of all this scam.
I have created account on the RapidVPS forum,
and Rick ban me for my first post about hyip scam on their servers,
here is proof: [url]
If you wanna ask about this issue, contact Rick directly: rickb@rapidvps.c0m
Guys what you think about this issue or maybe it's normal for all US hosters?
Please your comments.
Thanks for this post reading and your time.
Here is more info about hyip scam:
fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm#ponzi
sec.gov/answers/ponzi.htm
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May 12, 2008
I am posting here as I did not see any place else to post. I do not think they are window based web hosting. so here it is:
Beware! they say anything to get you to sign up and then you are stuck because there is a $30 cancellation fee plus you have to pay $15 "free" domain that I did not even need!
I went on chat (before purchase and during) and must have asked every which way if unlimited domain meant unlimited website. I even said I wanted to work on a few websites that I already owned domain name for and that is what I would be doing 1st.
apparently their term for websites is "add on". Because I did no use that term, I did not know there was a $15 charge /website per year! I told them that was not what i was told before I signed up. It took me 8 time of asking where was the link explaining this before they finally told me it. I looked all over and could not find this charge in all of their packages and prices. I had to ask again where exactly is this information.
She told me to scroll all the way down to where it says "add on" I asked what is add on? Thats website add on! It does not say web site add on but thats what you are suppose to figure out for your self after you do an extensive search of their website and ask the sale representative who lies to you and tell you can have unlimited websites!
Do not be scammed like I was. fortunately this all took place w/in a 12 hour period so I should be able to cancel on my credit card company. I am sure others have been taken by this deception.
I am back in the hunt for a honest vbullettin and joomla friendly web host provider and allows for at least 10 website on one account and not extra charges for website addition. And will be upfront about any additional charges just to get my site up and running. I been at this for over 2 weeks now. Right back where I started.
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Jun 2, 2009
I know Brent from HostGator reads here so thought I share this, If you are an Australian you are more than likely getting phishing emails supposedly from Commonwealth Bank (Australia's largest bank). I get about 20 a day to all my email addresses, here's one I got today:
We recorded a payment request from "HostGator -www.hostgator.com- Reseller Web Hosting"
to enable the charge of $74.95 on your account.
Because the order was made from an African internet address, we put an Exception Payment on
transaction id #POS PAYM7284 motivated by our Geographical Tracking System.
THE PAYMENT IS PENDING FOR THE MOMENT.
If you made this transaction or if you just authorize this payment, please ignore or remove this email
message. The transaction will be shown on your monthly statement as "HostGator - Reseller Web Hosting".
If you didn't make this payment and would like to decline the $74.95 billing to your card, please follow
the link below to cancel the payment :
Cancel this payment (transaction id #POS PAYM7284)
NOTE: Because email is not a secure form of communication, please do not reply to this email.
© Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2009 ABN 48 123 123 124
Of course I'm not a customer of this bank nor am I with HostGator, but these emails are getting more sophisticated by the day.. please also see [url]
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Dec 27, 2008
I upgraded my hosting to DreamHost PS (http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting-vps.html) about 7 days ago, and after 3 days of evaluation i find no interest about it and decided to downgrade. But they rejected my request saying that the resource is too high, then came the long negotiation.
My question now is, would domains parked(not hosted) at dreamhost ate up memory of my PS?
Phase 1: Why didn't anyone warn me before the upgrade?
I wrote:
I found a few unreasonable facts about your statement of rejecting my downgrading request:
1. Dreamhost tempted me to upgrade when I was doing fine with share hosting;
2. Dreamhost didn't warn me with any condition or term of any kind, including downgrading would be rejected if memory reach a certain degree;
3. from the facts stated above, this upgrading thing is a total scam.
##comment: The upgrade took only a click of the button.
And their answer:
I'm sorry to hear you feel this way Ruiz. However, your accounts resource usage is above what will work on shared hosting. If we were to move you back, one of two things would begin to happen:
1 - your domains would affect the stability of the web server, slowing down other customers sites, or taking them down completely
2 - your own sites would begin to fail due to the high resource usage.
As such, we can not move you back until you've brought that usage down. However, I can understand why you would feel the way you do. As such, I'm willing to add a $15/mo subsidy to your PS service. What this means, is that the basic 150MB/MHz you have to pay for will be free, all you will need to pay for would be any resources you allocate beyond the first 150MB. If this is alright, let me know and I'll go ahead and add the subsidy to your account.Phase 2: Why my hosting suddenly ate up so much memory?
I said:
I haven't recieved any email mentioning that my domains are using too much resource BEFORE THE UPGRADE for almost ONE WHOLE YEAR, how come suddenly they are? Is it some kind of malfunction or misconfiguration of your PS that causes the problem? If it is, why should I pay for it?
They answered:
It isn't a "sudden" issue. Your sites have been using whatever resources they need for as long as you've been on the PS. It appears you've had spikes as high as 600MB of memory in your usage, and if you look at your graph over the last month: ...
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Oct 24, 2008
servage.net is Broke down?... NO Dummy! They just changed their business to be SCAM
I am writing this to just let other friends here to be aware of this scam, they used to be host providers and now they've just become SCAM.
So my experience story goes like this:
Some days ago I ordered a 6month plan and paid by VCC, And got an email from them saying that my order is declined due to VCC not charged so I checked the balance of VCC and just knew that my poor little VCC is charged 45$ by this Green Giant named servage, So I let them know asap, I emailed back and told them to re-check and now it is days (5 days actually) that I am sending daily mails to Mr.Servage Scam and All I've gotten to now is nothing (actualy they don't respond anymore) wish they be alive at least (is it war or something running in their country? )
I really got disappointed at them I thought that since they have been in business for some time they can be reliable (at least at selling), However I just wrote back in here to let others know that servage.net is actually broke down or at least changed his hosting business to become a fast reliable scam (perhaps more profitable, who knows?)
All I wanted was a simple sweat hosting plan for my friend.
BTW If any of servage.net staff is here: Hey man that's not necessary to do illegal actions! Let's face it you need money? right? OK just put a donation button in the homepage and take my word on this always some good people exist out there to donate some bucks to you ( I will donate you too ), just don't be like this, this is shame.
I'm thinking over filling a dispute against them right now. Who know perhaps some days they respond back (At least I can re-check my email every day till next 50 years)
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Apr 21, 2009
SameerHosting has been the biggest mistake I have ever made as far as purchasing a service online is concerned. This fake company and more importantly their Owner/Employee/[Insert Job Title Here] Jordan has been the most nasty, hard to work with, and distasteful person I have ever dealt with in my life. I recommend anyone to stay as far away from this company and child as possible. Below are parts of an initial post of mine at DP Forums. There are so many posts, threads, reviews and this kid and his fake company out there that you shouldn't have any trouble finding out everything that has occurred in the past 1-2 months. Thanks for your time:
I had purchased a dedicated server with this guy not realizing he was a 14 year old kid with a bad temper and poor spelling. I paid for the server and he managed to get into an argument with my tech about something (its in that thread). He then got mad at me and took out his anger on me even though I had no idea anything had happened until after the fact. He involved me in something I had no part in.
I have discussed this guy so many times that I am tired of talking about it but will give you a summary of what recently happened. Jordan pmed me through this forum through one of his other (now banned) accounts. This kid knows he will be banned from most forums and makes a handful of accounts to fall back on. He offered to give me a refund if I tell my tech to stop posting about him. Of course I did what he had asked me to do.
I have been honest and given him far to many chances to make right. Well, he ended up telling me I am no longer getting a refund from him because my tech keeps messing with his servers (which I doubt is actually happening). I am being punished again for something that does not have anything to do with my actions. He has now block me from yahoo messenger,msn messenger, his live chat.
Since I posted this on DP I have been in contact with his legal guardians and they have been no help.
Jordan has messaged my Personal Billing details to many of his customers and others along with edited defamatory pictures of someone that is supposed to be myself. That is totally illegal and childish. He did this because I spoke against his scam company and illegal wrongdoings.
If anyone has had bad dealings with this company please post everything that has happened in this thread and also PM me and I can give you the e-mail of the people who take care of him and you can tell them what he has done. He needs to be stopped.
Again, it is very important to post in this thread with information about what he has done to you, the more info the better as these people will possibly listen to me and others.
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Jul 29, 2008
They seem to sell or help you get Provider Independent IP space and AS numbers, is this a scam or is it something allowed by ARIN?
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Oct 5, 2008
I joined Hostnine.com affiliates program and within the first two months of pushing their services I had made over 2800 dollars in commissions. Whats the problem you might ask. They don’t pay. They don’t answer their phones and when I went to their forum to ask a question about the affiliate program I was banned in 1 min after asking. I tried online help but the guy who works for online help has alot of excuses. I will make sure everyone knows about this rip off scam so people like me can avoid this company altogether. I’m not the only one who was taken. After I couldn’t get him to answer me in repeated emails i googled hostnine scam and many other ways to see if their we others.
Of course their are, someone he owes 6500 dollars and even employees of his company begging to get paid so they can pay their bills. Their were also customers saying how hostning had canceled their accounts after three months for no reason. Even customers who had canceled and were still being charged via credit card. at the last ticket Ben gabler the owner of the company said that the check has been sent out to my country..
But i didn't send any address for my country. So, how did he get it?
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