I saw alphared banner and ordered one VPS
But it is bad.
After 4 days I still cannot use. I contact suportors but they dont fix problem. I reboot VPS but wait 2 hours, still "is starting" Maybe wait 24 hours
I think webhostingtalk remove their banner, if not I think there is lot of victims like me.
Never use alphared.com VPS, it is #1 in bad.
Is there anyone with a bad experience with Iweb support or I am the only one?
I can't believe it %4#:-(
Hosting over 100 sites with VIP clients.
We have 2 servers with Iweb Technologies in Montreal and our main server is down since 2 days.
We had 2 disks in RAID and they tell us both disk broked. How can it be in same time? and it take so long to get a short job done
I am so upset.
Never go with a datacenter who is your provider/competitor in same time. We suspect them to try to ruin our business, I cannot see any other raison why.
Who wants our business I am ready to rent a dedicated server now
with Plesk ? You better have a strong and quick support.
I recently bought a hosting plan from Brinkster (by the fact that they had provided very good services in the past) and when now I am to release a site for my client, oh God, the MySQL server is down most of the times. When contacted their Live Support team, they say that they are monitoring that particular server and asking me to hold patience.
They really don't understand the meaning of 99.99% uptime.
Now all I have to do is postpone the release date of the site and sit back, hearing comments from my client.
I am the one who gave good comments about Brinkster few days back.
My site: www[dot]ews-store[dot]com
If you are able to get into the homepage, it worked out for you.
I had an annual VPS server contract with adiungo, that wasn't the best service, but it was cheap, so it was correct. Then they moved my account to EMC (emcvps.com), and after 3 weeks, my VPS stopped working.
I talked with them on the online "support" chat, by phone, by mail, by ticket, like 30 times.... and I got *NOTHING* more than excuses, ... "the admin will look for it and we will inform you by mail...." etc etc... I'm still waiting (that was 1.5 months ago.)
I have like 6 months remaining in my contract, but I don't want to know anything more about them.
I moved to a dedicated server, and rescued my backup.
Never go for these people if you want to do serious business....
I have been with many hosts from shared hosting to dedicated until i fled to ThePlanet...
I'll go straight to the point...
Their so called "Alpha Monitoring and Security bundle" is like there isn't really any. 24/7/365? LOL..
I started with ThePlanet on May 1 until now and my sites have been down for about 70+ hours total because of Dos attacks.
Their support gives passes me back an forth to different department and they can't even fix my server!!!
So much for their security bundle which sucks!!! like there isn't really any.
Too bad i can't post all the responses I got from them in TP Orbit.
Ive tried emailing regarding about the servers which was down for quite sometime. Worststill, there isnt any piece of reply from them.
Couldnt log in and made some request of assistance... Till now, What I get is nothing!
To make a matter worst, they reset up the whole website of mine and left the Entire page empty (With their cr@p intro page)
Fortunately i took the damn cheap yearly plan, dont know whats going to happen to my website if i pay for some higher monthly price plans (as i was once considering of paying a higher price plan).
Ive decided to move to another RELIABLE SERVER which offer a relatively cheap price but far much more RELIABLE.
Its just to much cr@p ive got to face for such an UNRELIABLE Hosting company
First of all just would like to say that i've left the service now, but im making this quick review because i forgot to take out the server from the 2 monitoring services that i use and after more than a month after i left the server is still having almost daily downtimes, so i thought hummm good enough reason to make this review, that and i thought from the start that they did a very poor job, also i do have 2 vps on jaguarpc and unlike the SDX, they work just fine, with very little if any downtime.
Shortly after christmas Jaguarpc was doing another especial on their SDX shared accounts, the SDX (or semi-dedicated) basically they say is a shared account with loads of space and bandwidth with very little people on the server, and so i had some free time to launch a site i was working on and i thought it was a good idea, why not... especially at the time i was considering the "clustered" stuff from mediatemple/mosso and such, but since jaguarpc had always given a good service, it sounded like a good idea, the setup was quick enough and i transfered the site (wordpress based), after less than a week the downtimes started, you know the kind... 15min here 10min there and this was 2 or 3 times a day, so after a week i contacted support and they said it was a user that was doing that and they took care of it... fine
The problem is that this kept on going, sometimes 30min or more, sometimes specific services went down (ftp and such) and i noticed it... mostly because of the monitoring services and because i was working on the site and it kept giving errors like not connecting to the database or the ftp getting cut out... so i contacted support again and they said the obvious "everything was fine", great... i'm imagining things... a couple of weeks went by and i get a mail from support saying that my site has been suspended and it was the cause of all the downtime... my wordpress site that barely has visits and is barely working... well that was the last straw, i disagree but its hard to prove i'm right, so the only action i could take is i closing that account and moved elsewhere (actually to imountain.com were i have that exact same site and 2 more and paying basically half of what i was paying jaguarpc and all of them work without a problem, load pretty fast compared with the SDX... pretty happy with it)
So to finish up, more than a month after i left the server, it still has almost daily downtimes (cause i get the alerts on my mail), and both monitoring services say about the same, this last week that server has a around a 98% uptime with about 20 downtimes, comparing with all the servers i use from 4 other providers, it has by far the worst record, but i guess it was my site to blame for this.
any comments on Alphared VPS package?
their price is very competitive.
Does anyone used the alphared VPS?
I want to buy a vps which is better alphared or Godaddy.
I thought they were phony like the BlowOutHost person who scammed $140 out of me.
Their deal looked too good to be true, and just what I wanted and at my price. So after a week later, unable to find similar deal I decided to finally take the chance and purchase a server.
I got my server on 6/9 and it has been just awesome so far.
My specs: ....
I saw an alphared banner the other day here on WHT, and checked out their prices, and WOW (Yes, I know the old adage...I don't need to hear it...)
I did some searching and read all about the drama that happened around them several years ago. I'm not interested in that. I want to know how they are now. Has the level of service gone up or is it still in the crapper?
Wow, I never knew I could waste so much time and effort on one company.
So as you can see this is not good.
I ordered their $20 VPS, and about 24 hours later I recieved the information regarding login. I logged in, and every button I clicked said Service not available. So I figured it was just because it got set up, so I submit a ticket and get a response that there is no problem.
2 Weeks later, I am submitting the same ticket. Same Response.
3 Weeks later I am on chat with them 5 straight nights, and different people keep telling me my server is overloaded and will get moved by morning. And guess what happens in the morning... "Service not available" for everything in Plesk. 20 Ticket reply's later, no support. Nothing works, so basically I got to the point I just demanded a refund and cancellation of anything service they tried to provide me.
I haven't even been able to successfully see my index.html....
They completely lied about every thing they did. It is the worst company I have ever dealt with regarding anything. Please dont make the mistake I have made.
I will keep you guys up to date on how long it takes them to cancel my service, and if they refund my money... If not they should be expecting a full inbox.
I am currently deciding between these 3 companies for a vps solution. They all seem to be solid and provide good deals. I would just like to know everyone's experience in terms of speed, uptime, support handling and stablility.
Uptime & support matters the most to me.
I'm thinking of getting a 40GB/2500GB VPS with Alphared. It'd be serving static files (~10MB each), and no dynamic content or files.
Support is not the most important thing (Yes, I read the older topics ) since it would be a secondary mirror for download only. However for it to be effective I'll need to be sure about performance & bandwidth allocation.
Has anybody ever used them for this kind of thing? Are you able to really use all 2500GB for the (relatively low) fee of $49/mo? And if yes, how is the speed per connection? 200K/sec possible during peak times?
I don`t know what will be with AlphaRed but for me current situation don`t look good and look like every day they can shutdown all servers without warning....in this moment cPanel licenses stop to work, alphared site is down, uberbox is down...somebody know more info?
I thinking to move all my sites to other host and still I don`t know where to move all...
I need 400-500Mbit dedicated BW, 6000GB on hard drives and few servers....also, I need stable network, true 24/7/365 support, good prices
In this moment I thinking about choopa.com but I don`t know much about them...to move all data and setup all I need few days and before I do that I must find good host...
Most of our traffic is from europe ( Netherlands) and at the moment we have a host in Netherlands but Bandwith is expensive and service is poor.
So we are looking to move to Alphared or FDC, does anybody now how good the connection is of those to europe?
If there are some people from Europe or the Netherlands can you do some tests? Thanks
Alphared:
FDC:
FXW (netherlands)
We can send you the files :-)
If you know better host with better connections and cheap prices for unmetered 100MB line
Just a warning to everyone.
I ordered 5 servers from alphared.com, I spent an entire evening explaining to their sales person what I required.
In the end I decided on 4 Duo's and one P4. All to be connected with a Gigabit private Lan and to share 10Mbit premium bandwidth. I was promised it would take approx three days for this to be setup.
One week later I was met with an apology that the price quoted would unfortunately have to be tripled due to a mistake.
I paid $3,500 setup. Its now three weeks later and I have NO service.
I follow up every few days and am promised the service will be up soon.
STILL NO SERVICE!
Today I'm met with ANOTHER email saying it will be 10 days to allocate me 32 IP's. Not to mention the mess that every few days I'm asking how I want the servers setup.
I have missed my deadlines, my current provider is still billing me, my clients are moaning that I"m doing nothing about our current providers issues.
Are there any decent providers out there? or is finding someone who is competent and does what they say a pipedream?
And I guess I've lost $3,500 ... haven't I?
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.
I am considering getting high bandwidth hosting from either alphared, choopa, or leaseweb, but before I do I would like to ask you which one would give me the best speeds, globally. Any other info that you can provide would be useful too. Thanks!
Also, if you can suggest another host for high bandwidth that is very reliable and has great ping results for the us, europe, and asia, i'd be interested.
A friend and I ordered a dedicated AlphaRed server, drawn in by the excellent pricing.
We were problem-free for a few days, until I noticed my irssi (IRC chat client) screen detach. I assumed I accidentally pressed something, and continued chatting. Then it happened again, and a few more times. I looked at the last people to login to my shell, and it showed that an AlphaRed employee had logged into both 'root' and my personal shell. The employee was reading my chat logs in real-time.
The AlphaRed employ did not only read my chats, but participated as well. You may find logs that here: pastebin.ca/raw/1057127
Some excerpts:
05:05:40 <@infid3l[eMo]> hm..
05:05:48 <@infid3l[eMo]> =D i love finding hacked shells
05:05:52 <@infid3l[eMo]> especially when they're on my network
05:06:01 <@infid3l[eMo]> and then snatching control of them =D =D
05:06:44 <@lifelike> = d
05:06:53 <@infid3l[eMo]> so whats up ppl
05:06:58 <@infid3l[eMo]> sorry to break into your conversation =D
and:
05:08:00 <@infid3l[eMo]> lol=D
05:08:30 <@infid3l[eMo]> I guess infid3l wants the screen back
05:08:35 <@infid3l[eMo]> eh, i'll give it back.
05:08:41 <@lifelike> lol who u
05:08:42 <@infid3l[eMo]> I'm watching you =D
05:08:55 <@infid3l[eMo]> I'm Alpha Red's network admin
05:08:59 <@lifelike> looool
05:09:01 <@infid3l[eMo]> I run the network this box is on
I then realized that this AlphaRed employee thought that I had somehow hacked the machine and gained root access. This box was unmanaged, yet the employee did not consult the owner to verify that I was a legitimate user. When the employee discovered I had not hacked the box, he claimed that IRC daemons were against the AUP. Below is the only mention of IRC in the AUP:
``11. Clients running IRC daemon are required to take immediate action on notification of any botnet or suspected
DMCA activity on the server. Such action shall include immediately closing any channels related to such activity.
Clients refusing to take such action or provide access to Alpha Red to take such action will have all access to the IRC
daemon ports blocked and may be terminated without further notice.'
When I made the employee aware of this, he claimed there were complaints made about the IRC server. When I asked what the nature of the complaints were, he said he was not at liberty to discuss it. I personally doubt there were any complaints, as the IRCd was completely legitimate and exclusive.
I talked to the employee via ``wall'' messages via the root shell for a while. When I mentioned how unprofessional his way of dealing with the situation was, he told me he had control over the network and he didn't have to be professional.
While talking on the phone the employee told me I should have notified AlphaRed about running an IRCd. Nowhere in the AUP did it say anything about notifying AlphaRed. The employee acted like it was common sense -- which to me, it wasnt.
With no evidence of illegitimate activity, AlphaRed still refuses to allow an IRCd to run on our box. Even though it was their mistake, we are the ones paying for it.
AlphaRed offered no apology, and only left us inconvenienced.
how many companies are exploiting the alphared fallout.
In a thread in the outage forums where alphared customers are trying to figure out what is going on, you have competition posting in there with there flashy signatures and telling them to go look at the OFFER forums where the top 5 posts have 'alphared refugees'.
It is an abomination to this community and completely irresponsible.
A company has gone down the drain, peoples DATA and possibly livelihoods has been lost and it seems the vultures have come to play, competition take over outtage threads acting as if they are giving some sort of advice but in reality are only trying to advertise there SIGNATURES which is a an advertisement. Can you say exploitation?
Is this what the world has come too? I am disgusted
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lphared Refugee - Unmetered Specials Q9300 $169, 99% Uptime, Premium Network
Northstorm | Kevin
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Alphared refugee - bandwidth special
bummer6666 Yesterday 11:22 PM
by bummer6666
^^^^^^FDC ?
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AlphaRed Specials Rodney-E2
How many other companies are going to participate in the fallout and exploitation of people who have maybe lost everything?
The ANNOUNCEMENT thread in outtage forums is this
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Got posts like this
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Like this
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POSTS LIKE THIS
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Complete exploitation of one company's failure and members on this forum are completely taking advantage of the situation.
Reminds me of the shark/bankers of wall street taking advantage of every weakness they see specifically for financial gain. With the current economic crisis it makes me ashamed to be associated with the likes of these.
In what appears as an even bigger mistake by alphared and I would expect some legal action against them even more. Alphared apparently will be trying trying to charge for service while the billing system and everything else was down.
How were we supposed to cancel, pay or do anything if we didn't want the service? How can they expect to have people pay for service when some of us have already moved and paid for service elsewhere?
I had confidence in them coming back, but I will for sure continue to move away. They couldn't manage the company and expect us to pay for service when we had no option to cancel.
Directly from the chat:Me: This is in a general sense, are you going to be charging everyone?Jay Merritt: It would only make sense. They have been receiving a service and support.
What are the thoughts on that, you may have moved. But you may have some bills coming your way.
namely, budget prices on servers. in particular unmetered bandwidth.
steadfast and hivelocity are the two I know of, but I'm wondering if I'm missing any.
Its a video and picture sharing website for India.
In the first 1-2 months, I will need around 250GB storage and 2TB bandwidth per month. After that, I will need much more. I have no idea how much I bandwidth may need. So I may go to a 50Mbps unmetered bandwidth; to limit my bandwidth cost.
My budget is around $400 per month. I want to have server(s) in west coast as it will be closer to India.
I have narrowed down to FDCServers and AlphaRed; as they both offer unmetered bandwidth for cheap. I will start with metered bandwidth and then go to unmetered bandwidth when my bandwidth demands exceeds.
CWIE just walked out about 30 minutes ago. Cogent is off, and all the techs are laid off apparently.
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make sure you have data backups!
