Stealing My Files
Aug 31, 2008
I was hosted by this guy who did not tell me he was being hosted by someone else. I paid him about 10$ less than his current host, but still I paid him. As it turned out he had only paid his hosting bill once and that was the very first day he had hosting. Since then they suspended him and me also.
Now I have found out the host that hosted him and they will not give me my files unless I pay them what he owes them. I have read their TOS and in no where does it say anything about this. This is really stupid in my opinion. How can they make me pay for their mistakes. They are the ones who let him go 4 and a half months without paying and never suspended him.
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Aug 26, 2007
I have just removed my servers and switch from a data centre in london only to find that for the last 6 months since I last visited the data centre some one has had one of there switches plugged into my power strip. When I approached the provider about this they claimed it would have not affected my charges for power consumption because they were monitoring the power of each server.
Is this possible for a provider to monitor the power for each single server on a power strip that I own? or are they just trying to get them selves out of trouble for the fact they have been over charging me for power for the last 6 months?
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Jul 23, 2008
If you are hosted at Gl0bat.com, you should be aware that Gl0bat is poaching traffic away from your site. Gl0bat has added new 404 file not found pages. The domain name of the account holder is displayed right above a search box that advises it will search this site, but returns sponsored ad results. Below is a listing of the favorites of the domain name that also returns a bunch of advertising. These error pages use the domain name repeatedly, but do not offer any link to get back to the domain. So Gl0bat is hijacking domain names away from their customers and associating questionable links with customer domain names.
It even has a search box that says "Search" which implies you're searching the site but it goes straight to information.com to which Gl0bat gets a kickback from.
This is wrong. They are stealing your visitors, your CUSTOMERS away from you and redirecting them to another site.
Protect yourself and setup a custom 404 page right now. I'm working on doing this and I hope this solves the problem.
Gl0bat's one-click install is also very outdated. The software they install is not the current version but very old version with security flaws in them. They also have PHP register_globals set to ON which is another security hole. This hole and the old software allows for sites to be hacked more easily.
BUYER BEWARE!
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Apr 6, 2008
There is a lot I know about godaddy and I also wrote some on my own website, but it's long so I'll post only one issue here. This company is being very dishonest. They pretend to be the cheapest one in the market, but they charge you extra for so many reasons. For example, it's the only company I know who charges 25 cents more per domain per year than the price advertised. It doesn't matter what's their excuses, ICANN, SHMICANN, they advertise one price and they charge you another. Let’s begin with that. (I think I might saw they changed it to 20 cents, but it doesn’t matter. 5 cents don’t make them honest).
Also with web hosting, they offered me an incredible price of about US$ 3 dollars per month, and even gave me a discount for paying in advance for two years (24 months) and I paid only $2.50 per month (about $60 for 24 months). They had a plan for 5GB and also another plan for 100GB which was something like $6 per month and I didn’t need it. Why pay for 100GB when I need only 5? Actually I could use 10 but I don’t need 100 so I paid about $60 (don’t remember the cents) for 24 month.
Now, I was using their web hosting for backup and I wrote a script which will do it automatically and it happened that I used more disk space, something below 300MB which I calculated to be only 6% of the 5GB I asked. I didn’t even asked them to use extra disk space but when I used more disk space they sent me and email and then after a few days (I think about 5 days) they charged me extra of something like $6.79 per 100MB per month. Actually I was away from home and didn’t have a computer and when they wrote me about it I thought they were charging me extra of $6.79 for 100GB (Gigabytes!) and not Megabytes and when they wrote me they charge it 3 times I thought they meant 3 months. I still didn’t need it and I asked them to cancel it but they asked me to remove files and I was very busy with other things (actually I’m not a full time webmaster) so eventually it took me about one month and I removed the extra files, but they still charged me with extra of $20.37 per month (if I remember the cents… I never forget people who cheat me) and when I wrote them they also asked me to enter their website and remove the extra disk space myself, and when it didn’t work they asked for screen copies and I had to send them so many emails (actually it took me a few months because I was very busy with other things) and eventually I called them from my mobile phone (my Skype didn’t work properly) and after speaking to their representative he agreed to refund me most of the charges except one, he still insisted they have the right to charge me the extra $20.37 for using 6% more of their disk space for less than one month.
Now you can do the calculation yourself! I paid about $2.50 for 5GB per month (about $60 for 24 months) and they charged me extra $20.37 for 300MB which is $339.50 for 5GB or more than 100 times their regular price! Actually they charged me 4 times $20.37 which is more than $80 and the whole deal with them was $60 for 24 months! Actually if you check the prices of their “extended” web hosting it’s something like 100GB for about $6 per month (if I remember correctly) and if I paid $6.79 per 100MB extra then I would probably pay $6,790 which is more than 1000 times of their regular price!
I know a lot more but I don't want to post long posts here so I put some of it on my website. There are also other companies such as Google, they displayed "Action canceled" on my website www.speedywhois.com (currently .net) instead of their ads ("adsense"). I put a copy on my personal homepage with more details and I would like to know where I can discuss google adsense and other companies related to webmasters.
I hope this website is not affiliated with godaddy and this post will not be deleted. I don't want the $20.37 but I want you to know they are ripping you off. charging 100 to 1000 times the regular price is theft, it's like if they offer you a cup of coffee (or actually force you to take it) and then charge you $6,000 for the cup. I never asked to pay $20.37 per month and all I agreed to pay was about $2.50 per month and the extra $20.37 is for 6% extra disk space I used (slightly less) so they are ripping me off!
If you want to see details and proof then please see this post and the following posts: ....
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Feb 6, 2007
I have a question regarding people who are stealing content off my site (using the same URL of my site). I would like to make a rule (in .htaccess, I imagine) that does the following:
If the graphic is placed on the desired domain, put the correct graphic in place.
If the graphic is placed on another domain (stolen), put a 'substitute' graphic in place that says that the content was stolen.
I know you can do something along these lines (I used to have an .htaccess that prevented people from linking to pages outside of designated domains) but I'm not sure if you can narrow it down much more. However, it would rock if it was possible.
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Jan 2, 2008
I couldn't keep my mouth shut (technically fingers). A customer wanted to upgrade servers and he needed a way to move the data across. Since I don't allow hard drives to be swapped, they have to do it manually all by themselves. I generally allow up-to 4 days for them to transfer data and make DNS changes, etc. But this time, I offered help! I agreed to move the data (darn me) and it just came out of me, involuntarily.
God knows what just happened... but in a positive way, customer is extremely happy!
So...
Both servers are on cPanel - with root access (duh)
200 odd files which total to 25 GB
1 database about 100 MB in size (no biggie)
I was planning on using one of my Windows 2003 servers (via remote desktop) to download the 25 GB and upload the 25 GB, but that sounds like a waste of resources and time.
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Dec 21, 2008
i had a problem with one of my servers
due to changes in the firewall couldn't i login anymore.
Someone had to go over and undo that modification.
Now i am checking the log files like secure and
messages logs, but logs of the day he logged in are simply not
there (along with some days more).
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Jul 20, 2008
When I upload a file in FTP I can not see the file, When I upload the file again asked me to file any replaced it exists, When using Cpanel can upload any file, And working well.
When watching the size of folders I find little in the FTP but sized Cpanel see him very different.
I have done this:
1-Restart FTP Server.
2-permit folders to 644.
3-permit files to 744.
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Jun 3, 2007
Is there a way to see your os files in ftp software like cute ftp n edit them?
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Mar 26, 2007
i received this message for my host
"The proxy sites hosted on your server are being used to send spam comments on blogs"
How can i view the log files in order to find that info and block the domains or IP?
I am on Centos.
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Jan 28, 2007
In the last couple of days my server/website has been acting a little strange and I can't recall doing anything to it in this time.
1) Now and again a normal PHP page will pop-up in the Firefox download manager. Usually the page is simply compiled and shown to the browser.
2) Images that really are present on the server sometimes randomly don't show in IE.
PHP 5.1.4
MYSQL 5.0.27
Apache 1.3.37
APC 3.0.12p2 (latest)
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Jul 26, 2006
I found that recently a lot of nobody files appear in my /tmp.
I delete and delete.. by still same. I don't know how to trace where they from. I suspect is from my hosting users, but I don't know how to check and trace. Anybody can give me some guide?
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Jun 2, 2009
my site cannot run php files
move from server 1 to server 2
another site no ploblem move from server 1 to server 2 too
What ploblem i need fix this
here my site
[url]
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Mar 20, 2009
Can anyone recommend the best cost-effective solution for serving up video files to websites on other servers?
Basically looking for a central storage location to hold video files (flv, swf) that will be hotlinked from websites on other servers.
I'm currently using about 200GB bandwidth monthly, and need to increase that to about 500GB without violating any TOS or getting cut-off/suspended.
Not sure if the best option will be a hosting account, file storage site, etc.
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Jan 28, 2009
I've just uploaded my website files onto the server, the website is working fine, but I'm not sure my files are 'arranged' right. I uploaded my images in a folder, but all the rest of the files are 'loose' along with the index file. If I go to either of my domain names, the website appears, which is ok for now, but I only really intended it to under one domain name, so there may be problems if I want another site up there. I think my files should be in a folder. Is this right? Should the index file be in the same folder, or should it be outside the folder with the links changed accordingly. I've been emailing my hosting service, and they 've been trying to help, but I feel a bit thick because I don't really understand what they're saying. Could someone tell me in very plain english how the files should be arranged?
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Jun 23, 2009
i just bought php file management script, its running smoothly, the only problem was i cant upload big file ( > 1 Gigs ) using that script, then i ask the developer and he said it shouldnt be a problem since he sold that software before people and he never got a problem like that.
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apache 2.2.10
php 5.2.8
i tried to changed
post_max_size = 1900M
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Jun 15, 2009
I run a fairly popular file hosting service and in the process of moving servers.
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I find this system a bit "outdated" and belive there is a smarter way to do this.
My new fileservers contain ~10TB of available diskspace (each).
Average filesize is around 10MB.
I was told not to put all the files into one folder, still the case?
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Jul 12, 2009
im try to delete some file from cpanel but everytime i delete nad refresh they come back
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Apr 28, 2009
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Dec 8, 2008
how would i search for any files modified between such and such date using SSH
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Aug 18, 2008
I have a problem with a .dat file on my webserver. It seems to download correctly (I have added the mime type), but my application refuses to use/read the file correctly.
This is moving from an Apache server, where it worked perfectly, to IIS6. Apache reported the mime as text/plain, whereas I've tried both this and application/octet-stream on IIS.
The dat-file is actually a ZIP password protected file containing an XML-file.
Could there perhaps be some issues with dato format? I'm most greatful for any insigth into the matter.
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im in the midst of doing my school final year project and i done some codings of asp pages but when i tried to upload to a linux server, i can only view the webpage with codes instead of the gui interface....i tried to upload my files to free asp host but same thing i cant view my webpages...
to upload this files online and present it to my teachers for grading...
the files are here [url]I hope i can find a free host dun need domain name with free ftp to upload these files and work properly...
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Jul 8, 2008
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Feb 27, 2008
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Mar 28, 2008
I just execute a command to tar a directory
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#ll folder.tar.gz
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When I try to FTP from another sevrer, I cannot see the files at all.
Why is my tar files becoming invisible, and how to solve this problem?
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I want only certain parts to be secure - e.g. the last stage of the checkout procedure.
At the moment, I can only achieve this by having two copies of the CMS/shopping cart, one in public_html and one in public_ssl.
Whilst this approach works (at least from the shopper's point of view), there are lots of problems from a content management point of view.
My host is of the opinion that "this is the only way it can be done".
Is it possible to enable ssl on public_html, have a single copy of the cms there, and then switch between secure and non-secure mode as needed?
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