In whm, I set a reseller's account with limit by resource usage set at 3GB disk / 150GB bandwidth with overselling NOT allowed on each (unticked).
Somehow, the reseller was able to apply 250GB bandwidth to one account, 145GB to another, 15GB to another, so forth - by far passing the 150GB limit. How is that so?
I've been an Uplinkearth customer for over 5 years. Recently, after battling many months of intrusion attacks that left customer websites hacked, Uplinkearth seemed to finally get the upper hand and things were settling down. Then they suddenly started sending out emails about upcoming "Platform Upgrades". I figured it was a result of what they went through, and they were building a better service for their customers. I started thinking otherwise when my client sites started actually getting upgraded.
Uplinkearth's claim to fame has always been their tech support. Aside from the time during the hacker attacks, I would almost always have tickets resolved within an hour, and phone support was equally great. However, strange things began to happen when I recently contacted support about platform upgrade issues. The first strange thing is that you have to contact a different tech support group, and you have to contact them via phone or a different tech support email address. For clients who have been upgraded, the new control panel doesn't even include an online ticket system.
This is where it really started going downhill, responses from the new tech support group were in such broken English that I couldn't even decipher what they were saying at times. Also, I will get multiple response on the same ticket, with one response explaining the problem to me, and another response telling me that they are now investigating the problem. Not at all like Uplinkearth tech support.
The biggest indicator that something was going very wrong was a tech support response that told me the reason I couldn't get to a client's website was because an .htaccess file was coded incorrectly and that I should change the coding or delete the file. I'm on a Windows hosting plan. IIS is the webserver, and it doesn't use .htaccess files.
So at this point it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put 2 and 2 together and figure out what's going on. So I submitted a ticket to tech support (the original support group) to ask them what is going on. I explained the responses I was receiving and point blank asked them "does platform upgrade = sold?", and they were considerate enough to tell me the truth.
Apparently Uplinkearth has been sold to Hostopia. The "platform upgrades" that are being peddled as a wonderful upgrade for the client is simply a migration from one data center to another.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying anything at all negative about one company being sold to another. It's a common business practice and there's nothing inherently wrong with it. The problem I have with it is the way they are presenting it to their customers. For me, the one golden rule for a hosting company is never lie to your customer. And no, they didn't specifically lie about anything in their emails, but in my book this is definitely lying by omission. Just tell us the truth, we're going to find out anyway, and if we like the service we'll stay. If we don't, we're going to leave whether you told us about it or not.
It's even posted on the hostopia.com website, so it's already public knowledge.
It may very well turn out that these new people do a good job with it, but that will be for each customer to decide individually. As for me, tech support was the #1 reason I stayed with ULE so this weekend I'll be migrating my 5 websites and all my client sites onto my new reseller account.
I currently have my website hosted with JWeb2, and roughly 15 hours ago I started getting a Page Cannot be Displayed when trying to visit my website. I tried to connect via FTP and get an error message that says, "Failed resolve ftp.mydomain.com..."
I did a quick search for "JWeb2" on this forum, and found the following thread:
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I need help with this and I don't know what to do. There is no mention in the above thread, which is now closed, of who bought JWeb2 or who the new contact is. I received NO communication from JWeb2 to tell me they were selling themselves and who the new host was
I am sitting here now PRAYING that I did not lose all my data in the mean time.
How do I find out who the new host is and if my website is okay?
I got around 15 k members on my forums which is hosted on servage , out of 15k email ids 21 were mine , today i checked my emails and was shocked to see I got two same type of mails in all my email ids!
The only link between my 21 mail ids was my forum only!
So I am 100% sure its the servage or any servage team members who did this to me.
what should i do next so this wont happen again in future also how can I report this to cops.
I recently purchased a dedicated server from a company I found on these forums. I have been very happy with the company, but the 2 IP's I have with the server are blacklisted in many places. I have been systematically trying to clean the address, but am starting to think that it may be a losing battle.
My ISP has offered
I have assigned to your account the following ip:
ip:216.144.227.125
sm:255.255.255.240
You can bind Exim to a secondary IP using the steps below:
a. Login to the server as root using SSH and open the file /etc/exim.conf in
your favorite Unix text editor.
b. Locate the section of the file that contains the following:
remote_smtp:
driver = smtp
c. Replace this section with the following modified version:
remote_smtp:
driver = smtp
interface = 216.144.227.125
d. Restart Exim
I don't know anything about this. Can someone please tell me if this is the best route. I don't want this to create any other issues for my email, like causing reverse DNS issues. If this will totally solve my problem, fine. If not, shouldn't I demand to have clean IP's assigned to my server, especially since the service is advertised as such?
my IP's 72.11.145.112 72.11.145.113
I am initiating this poll to see how many number of Windows VPS plans are sold every month by an average windows vps hosting company?
Only serious members, already selling windows vps hosting should participate in this poll.
I have a Sonicwall NSA 3500. Does anyone know if you can use it to create bandwidth charts of Network Objects (e.g. IPs or Groups of IPs)?
I am thinking something like Cacti, but I don't know the code to pull that info or if it's even technically possible.
which case is more preferred: a shared web hosting service with unlimited space/bandwidth, or a dedicated one with limited space/bandwidth?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHey can anyone tell me How the whole bandwidth thing works? like lets say..if i get 100k views a month, how much bandwidth would that take?
View 7 Replies View RelatedHow will I assign the bandwidth for a VE in virtuozzo power panel. I could not find any fileds that corresponds to bandwidth in the steps during creation. I could find how to restrict memory(vmguarpages) and disk space. But where will I assign the bandwidth that a VE can use.
Also what is this bandwidth rate 8kb/s or so?
Now I keep very close tabs on my site stats. Just tonight one of my sites suddenly showed 167gb for "traffic not viewed".
That was a jump from 5gb over the course of a day.
That was done in 604877 pages and 607138 hits.
Can someone explain to me what "traffic not viewed" actually is within AWSTATS.
Next I located where most of the bw went and it appears to be http code 206 showing 159gb. My latest visitor report for the addon domain only showed one ip with an odd couple direct requests. The referring site was my own cpanel but registered to a ip in India.
How can i locate where the leak is, latest visitors isn't being much help, I have since denied the india ip which i suspect was the problem maker. How can I prevent instances such as this in the future? Being a streaming video site I have the bw to spare but it is still a bit un-nerving.
Now on top of everything Virtuozzo isn't showing anything of the sort, what do i believe?
I like the LSN server company and have a server there that I plan to keep forever, they do a great job just that I am confused about their bandwidth. Also the prices aren’t exact!
Just wondering what everyone else here thinks about this:
So... LSN are doing a Q9300 server at the moment for $130 “ish” with 2TB of bandwidth. Now let’s say someone wants an extra 0.5TB of bandwidth they pay around $50 for it and if they want 1TB they pay about $95.
So you buy a server for $130 and get 2TB of bandwidth and also the costs of the hardware, space, power is covered for the hardware. Yet they charge nearly the same price for 1TB extra to a single server, which uses no extra space, hardware or power. Another thing is they charge $25 server to pool the bandwidth between your servers.
So what I see:
2 Servers 4TB B/W @ $260 + $50 (pooling charge) = $310
1 Server 3TB B/W @ $230
1 Server 4TB B/W @ $300
So as you can see from the above you can get twice the space, RAM, CPU and Power for only $10 more? Surely it costs them more than the $10?
Also my final point is LSN have a private network, that is not bandwidth monitored and your servers can use, I asked LSN if you could tunnel the traffic from one server to another, their answer was “yes if you have the technical knowledge to do so”... Well that would get rid of the $50 pooling costs... making it actually alot cheaper to get two servers.
I'm looking to get a VPS offshore (please look at my other threads/posts to learn why) primarily for email for 4 or 5 domain names (most of which I'd download to my desktop but would also backup on the server) as well as perhaps to run a virtual desktop through and/or store some data.
For ease of use (for ME at least), I'd install (or have installed) a CP and probably run Centos 5 or Debian as the OS on the VPS. I won't be running websites from the VPS and I'll be the only user.
I've seen offers of all types related to bandwidth but, in some countries, bandwidth is expensive and they offer little as a result. How do I determine how much bandwidth I need for what I want to do and how do I know what's too little?
I have a server with a 10Mbps connection. Is there a way to limit the connection of my VPSs?
Lets say I have 10 VPS on that server, is there a way to limit them to 1Mbps each? Or do something like:
VPS_01 = 0.5Mbps
VPS_02 = 0.5Mbps
VPS_03 = 0.5Mbps
VPS_04 = 0.5Mbps
VPS_05 = 1Mbps
VPS_06 = 1Mbps
VPS_07 = 1Mbps
VPS_08 = 1Mbps
VPS_09 = 2Mbps
VPS_10 = 2Mbps
And/Or is there a way to monitor the data transfer of each VPS (how many GB/month)?
I've found a colocation company that gives me as the default 1.544Mbps as the initial bandwidth. I think this is OK for me most of the time, the problem is their bandwidth isn't really 'burstable', and If I want to expand to more bandwidth, my options are something like buying another T1's worth muxed in for $250.
Is this strange? Old-fashioned? Should I be worried about this?
i'm not familiar with colo. help this noob out.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a dedicated server and I would like to know how much bandwidth I use each month, this information is not provided in the control panel, is there any way to find out?
View 6 Replies View Relatedmy plesk control panel for my dedicated server and with all 3 of my domains FTP and HTTP transfers I'm getting below 500MB this month. However, GoDaddy's control panel says that I'm using 486GB. So where could the other 499.5 GB of bandwidth be coming from? I don't have that much email going on. No file attachments or anything.
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what is tis error?:
my monthly bandwidth ussage and Partial Content 206 erros is same. what does it mean?
Is it better to pay for 95th percentile or (what ever that is) is it better to pay per GB used.
I pay per 100GB used and I can upgrade it at anytime during the month which makes it very easy to manage but I would like to more about the differences here.
My issue is and not really that big of one but when I have paid for 400GB and then on the last day of the month I go to 410GB and have to buy 100GB more so I do not get charged overages. I end up with 90GB left unused which someone is banking my cash on.
Besides that I think this really works well for me.
Which way do most co-lo users pay?
Hello all, I run a popular Canadian site called CKA at www.canadaka.net
I am trying to improve the performance of the site and I am looking at getter another server to offload many of the other smaller sites I also host on my main Dual Xeon rackserver. At the same time I am looking for a new Colocation host, because I feel im paying way too much at my current host.
But something I am confused about is how much bandwidth I need. I am not talking about bandwidth in the data transfer sense, but in the connection speed.
Many hosts have options/packages ranging from 1Mbps to 100Mbps. Many packages with 1,3,5,10Mbps are "unmetered" where are 100Mbps is usualy metered. I'm not sure what speed I need for my site so that there is no bottleneck at peak times. Because the price difference changes a lot between these options, so if a 10Mbps won't have any noticable difference over a 3Mbps, why pay more?
I'm not really that imformed on all this, but i have MRTG setup on my server here: [url]
so someone more knoledable than me might be able to better acess what I need?
As far as data transfer, the server uses between 300GB - 500GB a month.
I am interested in colocating somewhere in the US. I'm looking for cheap bandwidth, like cogent, but tons of it, like 100-1000mbits. Let me know where I can find the best deal for 100 and 1000mbits.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've always wondered this. Where does bandwidth ACTUALLY come from, and how do they get it? Why is some more expensive than others?
I've looked on Google and Wikipedia but I couldn't really find anything explaining it.
I have a question that's been bugging me for a few months now (which has gotten worse as traffic increases). I run a site that gets some decent traffic (about 9-10M pageviews per month), and is mostly made up of HTML pages with a lot of images (some pages have about 200k of images, others have maybe 1.5-2MB of them). I have a dedicated server that has 2TB of bandwidth per month, and I'm quickly approaching the 2TB point... what should I do?
Normally, I'd buy more bandwidth... but the host I have charges $400/month for 10mbps unmetered bandwidth -- more than the cost of the server each month! What other options do I have?
I'm just wondering how much bandwidth a month you guys use. I use about 500 to 1gig as month.
What about you?
I was looking at a VPS plan that offered unmetered bandwidth on a shared 100mbit/s port. I thought it was a bit suspicious because it was at a very low price--but would this be what it means?
100mbit/s converts to 0.125 megabytes per second
= 7.5mb/min
= 450mb/hour
= 10,800mb/day
~ 334,800mb/month
= 334.8gb/month
Would that mean that I would be getting less than 334.8gb of bandwidth a month, but it's just filtered through to make sure I don't go over?
For people buying there own circuits what are the going rates for bandwidth for different ethernet connections?
View 14 Replies View RelatedPlz show me some software which monitor bandwidth for each website used.
OS : Windows 2003 ENterprise
I was wondering if there is any good but not pricey colo in Toronto that I could use a ATX tower for server.
Also, includes 1000 in 1000 out and CPanel....
Colocation and the pricing for bandwidth is so confusing. Just when I think I understand it I get even more confused.
Here is what I have learned. 1MBPS is equal to 324GB a month.
How can a company charge $159 for 2500GB of bandwidth and then charge $350 for 1MBPS? This does not make sense.
Is like say teh following
324GB cost $350
2500GB cost $159
Hmm, am I missing something here?
So I run a small music forum site. We used to have the ability for our users to download music track sets. We had over 100 files that are generally around 80MB and the users could add more so our space requirements would increase over time.
We initially set this up with dreamhost.com (unlimited bandwidth/space) but they eventually asked us to stop using the space as a data repository and wanted to charge $1 per GB transferred (which at that time was about $100-120/month).
The Problem:
This is something our users want and would probably pay for. I'm sort of asking for advice on how to approach this problem. Need to figure out how we could set this up and what to charge the users for downloading the music files (price per file, monthly plans, etc). Considering we want to keep it cheap enough that users will pay and the hosting costs would probably rise with the demand and exposure of the program. What sort of hosts should I be looking for?