Theprimehost Does Not Respond To My Pre-sales Questions
Dec 18, 2007
I recently contacted 'theprimehost' with some pre-sales questions about their service.
However I received no replies, so posted on their forums in hope to get a reply from Darrell. However I found that the thread was removed. The questions I asked were as below:
1. Can I host MODx/Textpattern on Primehost space?
2. Do I get access to mod_rewrite / SSH with your account? (As an individual and as reseller)
3. How much do you charge for a dedicated IP?
4. Do you oversell or allow overselling with reseller accounts? How is the bandwidth calculated?
5. How can I monitor the uptime of your servers?
6. Is domain alias enabled?
7. Does mail enable me to set vacation auto-replies?
8. How frequently do you backup data?
9. Do you accept payments for 2 years at a time?
10. I didn't find information about your datacenter on the site. Can you please tell me more about it?
11. Can I avail of the 20% discount in addition to the 2 for 1 offer? Till when are these two offers valid?
I wonder why nobody at 'theprimehost' bothered to reply to my queries and deleted the thread so promptly. Anybody knows whats up with the guys? I have seen great reviews about them on the forum so this was unexpected.
I know Darrell is active on this forum - maybe he can clarify...
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Jun 17, 2008
my sys admin is currently in vacation and ovh staff cant help me much so i really appreciate if someone could help me tackle down this issue. I cant create ftp account at all heres what ovh said
Good morning,
Thank you to trust us, there is not my point of view or that of my colleague problem of the kernel compilation on your server or a file corrupted, and your Apache web server is functional, Status of the launch; after this command, via ssh:
/ etc / init.d / httpd start
Starting httpd: [OK]
We see that the port is open 80:
netstat-tanpu | grep 80
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:7080 0.0.0.0: * LISTEN 3071/lshttpd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0: * LISTEN 14349/httpd
From the outside, at this precise moment, we are able to establish a connection on port 80:
Telnet ks357687.kimsufi.com 80
Trying 91.121.148.X ...
Connected to ks357687.kimsufi.com.
Escape character is'^]'.
Get
<! DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "- / / IETF / / DTD HTML 2.0 / / EN">
<html> <head>
<title> 501 Method Not Implemented </ title>
</ head> <body>
<h1> Method Not Implemented </ h1>
<p> get to / not supported. <br />
</ p>
<hr>
<address> Apache/2.2.8 (EL) Server at ks357687.kimsufi.com Port 80 </ address>
</ body> </ html>
Connection closed by foreign host.
If I stop the Apache server:
/ etc / init.d / httpd stop
Stopping httpd: [OK]
More than 80 active port or connection possible from the outside:
In this case the connection of the exterior evidemment is not possible:
Telnet ks357687.kimsufi.com 80
Trying 91.121.148.X ...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
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