Mediatemple.eu = FAKE
Feb 5, 2008how is this possible?
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AVG Fake Traffic
Jul 1, 2008if anyone knew of anything that maybe could be done to limit this band-width stealing by AVG or are we just going to have to live with this?
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How To Fake Kernel Version
Oct 5, 2007how can i fake the kernel version?
View 5 Replies View RelatedFake Verisign E-mail Going Around
Feb 9, 2007I as well as several of our customers have received the following e-mail today. It appears to be a fake e-mail being sent out from security.admin@verisign.com
The e-mail reads:
"Dear FDIC valued Members
Regarding our new security regulations, as a part of our yearly maintenance we have provided a security guard script in the attachment.
So, to secure your websites, please use the attached file and (for UNIX/Linux Based servers) upload the file "guard.php" in: "./public_html" or (for Windows Based servers) in: "./wwwroot" in your site.
If you do not know how to use it, you can use the following instruction:
For Unix/Linux or Windows based websites that use PHP/CGI/PERL/ASP:
1) Download the attachment named "guard.php"
2) Login to your site Control panel.
3) Open "File Manager" window.
4) Go through "Public_html" or "htdocs" (for UNIX/Linux Based servers), but for Windows Based server, please Go through "wwwroot" directory.
5) Choose "Upload Files"
6) Upload the file "guard.php"
7) Check its URL too [url], if it is ok
Thank you for using our services and products. We look forward to providing you with a unique and high quality service.
[url]
There is an attached file called guard.php -- I've attempted to read it, but it appears to be compiled. At this time I am unsure of what the file actually does. Has anyone else received a similar e-mail? Does anyone know what the guard.php file actually does?
Tired Of Fake Storage Limits
Aug 8, 2008When will that beautiful day come when web hosting companies stop to put up fake storage limits? I am so surprised that all of these actions are legal, and if they aren't legal then I don't understand why there isn't move governance over these things.
I mean, you have a nice and popular company like Media Temple, yet you glance at their usage policy and see this:
Customer may not use hosting account as a remote storage server only. 75% of customer's content files stored on Provider's server must have associated HTML, or PHP files inside the account linking to the content stored on that account.
What is that all about? What kind of legal website would actually use 75GB of storage.
Why doesn't their 100GB limit package have a cheezy star beside it that clearly says "hey, actually you only get 25GB of storage, the rest is just BS and we'll never actually let you use it". What if you buy a can of paint and they say "well, you cannot use this paint for your house, you may only use 25% of it on your house and the rest on your fence". Yea, sounds like a great deal, now I have to buy 4X more paint.
And to counter-act that usage policy, what if I just have an PHP page that is a dynamic directory listing? Isn't that, in essence, a PHP page to which all of the directory content is associated?
Aside from all that, yes I understand the marketing value of big numbers and giving people 100's and 1000's of GB of supposed storage – but how in the hell is that legal?
These companies are charging people for something that is unattainable. Because in 99% of the cases, if you actually use all your disk space, your account will be terminated without notice for some BS reason or because you are using too many processor resources.
Well if you KNOW that using 100GB of disk space will use too many other server resources, why are you selling that quantity of space? Again, it's not actually being sold, it's an illusion, and I absolutely don't understand how it's legal.
Another example would be like, selling a car that can go 500 KM/h but really by the time you reach 400 KM/h you are already out of gas, so you'll never really get to 500 KM/h.
Can they really advertise the car as having a top speed of 500 KM/h? Come on...
Oh and I am not a bitter customer of Media Temple or any other overselling web hosting service, it's just a trend that has been on the rise for some years now and it's really bugging me that somehow all these lies are legal. Next up is "unlimited" web hosting, except you are limited by everything except storage... so yea, not really unlimited. Again... legal?
Reliablesite Is Fake, Liar And Unreliable
Jun 26, 2008I am very unhappy with Reliablesite. Their servers are down since 48 hours and I feel down. There is no response from the support team. The same happened to the other server as well some days back and they are continously having having hardware issue.
I am just wondering what happened to the marketing blurb that reads:
"Fully Redundant: More uptime starts with multiple backbones of Tier 1 only providers to fail-over servers which kick in instantly."
Where are these fail-over servers and why did they not "kick in instantly" when everything went FUBAR?
The control panel is now just giving the error:
Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
All of my domains have been down for over 48 hours with either a server error message appearing or an IIS7 "Sites currently being restored. Please see bear with us." message. Every database I have now returns the error message "login failed" for each user as well.
This is an unacceptable amount of downtime, I will now have to list every domain I own and create new users for every database. I find this quite disturbing that I now have an extra amount of work put on me for something that should have been handled by the "fail-over" servers which don't seem to have kicked in at all.
I think they are faking their advertisement of "fail-over" and they should change their name to "Unreliablesite.net".
I think this company's English skills are a bit off when they brag about their "Fully Redundant fail-over servers". Judging from their performance, I think what they were actually trying to say is that their servers are "fell over" servers. You know, the kind of servers keep falling over...again and again.
Sad part about it is they actually believe they're helping people with their lame attempts to explain what the problems are. They are so wrapped up in "damage control" they think their customers are complete idiots and will believe anything they post.
Posts like "25% of the sites should now be working. MySQL and MS SQL databases will be coming back up soon as well. We estimate that the entire move will be complete at 12PM EST June 25th."
What does 25 persent of the sites mean or tell me about when my sites will be up. Twenty-five percent of what?!! Well that was 36 hours ago when they made that claim and many others and they still both down.
All I know is I keep getting Emails from support reading, "It should be fixed now".
Simply accessing the URL reveals that the problem is indeed not fixed. Just a little bit of checking and investigation can go a long way. RSNET, this is getting ridiculous. Please DO NOT send me anymore "it is fixed" Emails until it the problem is actually fixed. I have been patient as and as understanding as I can possibly be through the latest string of outages but my patience is wearing thin. PLEASE just get the sites running again and soon.
SAS6iR - Real Or Fake RAID
Dec 19, 2007Is the SAS6iR on a Dell R200 under Linux a real hardware RAID solution or is it a fake-raid setup where the CPU ends up doing all the work? We are just looking at some and deciding if we should go with the onboard or put in a 3Ware 9xxxx
View 5 Replies View RelatedIpower - Blatant Over Selling, Trying To Kick Me Off With Fake TOS
Dec 16, 2008Ipower - blatant over selling, trying to kick me off with fake TOS
I am currently being ignored on live chat with Ipower.
They issued me with possibly the stupidest TOS violation imaginable. They claimed that I am using my web space for storing files which is not allowed - it must be site content. The links to the files are public on the site. They have admitted, actually admitted, that the TOS is fake. Yet they have just suspended my directories.
The real reason is because they are over selling disk space. Our contract gives me 2 Tb and I am daring to use 25% of that space. They have told me - straight out - they want me off their server because I am using too much of what I paid for.
Why do web hosts like Ipower believe that they can just ignore the law like this? It is false advertising, fraud and breach of contract. They have expressed their contempt for the law in plain English. What is it with these people? Why must I sue them to have this blatantly stupid matter resolved?
Fake Paypal Site On A Cpanel Account
Jun 8, 2008A week ago i came across a installation of a fake paypal site on a account i am using on cpanel. The site had the latest wordpress installed on it with nothing else.
I would like to know;
How is it possible to access the account to install the paypal site and how can a person prevents this in the future. i came acros the site by accident and cant check on all my clients sites all the time.
Any advice appreciated
My Server Send Alot Of Fake Emails
Jul 19, 2008Its with exim .
my server send alot of fake emails
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31049 titus 18 0 11192 1812 504 D 1 0.0 0:02.16 exim
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31044 titus 18 0 11188 1812 504 R 1 0.0 0:02.13 exim
31064 titus 18 0 11180 1808 504 D 1 0.0 0:00.50 exim
31096 titus 18 0 11196 1824 504 R 1 0.0 0:00.45 exim
31102 titus 18 0 11188 1824 504 D 1 0.0 0:00.42 exim
30942 titus 18 0 11184 1952 624 D 1 0.0 0:06.05 exim
31036 titus 18 0 11188 1964 624 D 1 0.0 0:02.22 exim
How Can I Fake A Directory/file For Error Logs
Nov 26, 2007I was checking my error_log today and found thousands of 404 errors for these 2 files:
/flashtalking/ftlocal.html
/doubleclick/DARTIframe.html
I assume they are file requests made from ads on the site.
Right now I've just added those directories and files to appease the error logs, but can I fake their existence somehow without having to clutter up my file structure?
Mediatemple
Apr 1, 2009My shared hosting solution is no longer enough for my needs. I need to move to something better, probably semi ded. I'm looking at mediatemple, then I realized how many sites use it, especially the large ones.
What's so good about it? The lack of cpanel is already discouraging but the prices seem very good. Almost suspect them of overselling...
Mediatemple Or VPS
Feb 13, 2009I want to host my own domains/resell hosting space, but not so sure what I should use.
Should I use Mediatemple's (mediatemple.net) Gridserver service, or a VPS service?
What do you think:
I can't really afford a cPanel subscription on top of the VPS's feeds.
What VPS system do you think is good on CentOS?
Is Mediatemple Really That Bad
Jan 14, 2008After almost 6 months of bad experience with our previous web hosting provider, we have decided to move to another one. One of our website's administrators have ended up ordering the ( gs )package from mediatemple which he finds affordable and suitable for our website (500-1000 uniques a day, powered by wordpress & SMF forums) .
Personally, this name (mediatemple) has been buzzing in my head long time ago (yep, they have created a lot of buzz in the internet. great marketers), that's why I didn't reject the idea of choosing them as our hosting provider.
But now, and after searching about them in WHT & google, I've found from your reviews that their gs package is horribly slow, unstable and totally a joke.
Are they really that bad? Have they improved their services since the date of the most bad reviews (few months ago) ? Will the website be damn slow/down again? I'm lost :-)
Bluehost Or MediaTemple
Mar 27, 2009I want to run couple of sites which are ajax and GWT based. I can spend upto 120 bucks for at least 6 months great service.
So far I have googled, I think I may have to choose between mediatemple or bluehost(unless someone comes out with real and better offer).
I was wondering why I will choose MediaTeple with double the price than other one. What are the advantages do they provide over others?Do they provide exactly what they say? Like 1TB bandwidth, GPU unit usage , 100GB space, fast MySQL ?
I found a lot of people moving from bluehost to mediatemple and vice varsa talking about their issues. But what is the recent performance status of those 2 hosting sites?
My (must to have) requirements are -
1. Is not too much bandwidth sensitive (expected grow in 3 months to consume upto 1TB/month )
2. Is not too much sensitive on resource usage (must not block users)
3. Is fast in response. (Ajax site)
4. Has fast MySQL server.
Please suggest me best possible web hosting suitable for my requirements.
Mediatemple Or ThePlanet?
Jul 15, 2008I am going to begin a social network and for the beginning I just need 100 gb hard disk, 2 ram, 200 TB monthly. I need a web hosting with potential for big traffic and scalability in the near future.
I have read what people from big social networks have said about both companies and they can handle big traffic, though mediatemple has better ranked costumers than the plannet according to Alexa (I checked one by one of their big clients in Alexa.)
My website is going to be about video streaming, webcam streaming and other common things in social networks.
What do you recommend? Do you have a better company in mind that can handle big traffic and scalability?
My budget is between 500 up to 800 monthly?
Mediatemple Review?
Apr 4, 2009Im starting a little web business making websites for small business, nothing crazy, simple stuff. I have been poking around and found MT's (gs) service which is cheap, but i heard quality issues. I don't mind geting a dedicated server for 50 for better quality whatever....
Just, have any of you guys had any experience with them or do you know a good host that has cost effective dedicated servers? Media temple seems pretty good for dedicated servers, anyone familiar with it? (with higher amount of domain name acceptance preferred)
MediaTemple Or Geekstorage
Feb 5, 2009I am hosted with Media Temple, but looking to get out from under their slow grid system. I am on their (dv) service but was looking around on Geek Storage's reseller web hosting.
Few Questions:
How is their support response time?
Knowledgeable Support Staff?
Kind friendly service?
Fast Setup?
Things I like that I don't like about MT
GS, utilizes cPanel which I love, plesk I hate, and mt for some reason uses plesk.
So what are your thoughts on GS?
Now That Mediatemple Is Canceling Their Mac Vps
Oct 4, 2009Does anyone know of any other VPS providers that support xserve? Or will i need to purchase a dedicated server?
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Apr 26, 2009Which Shared hosting is better MediaTemple.net or HostGator.com.
View 14 Replies View RelatedMediatemple Grid
May 28, 2009i have a mt site and it is being moved. when the dns propogates, how will i be able to access my mt site? i have the ip address and it doesnt load anything. i want an address to give others until the new site is working.
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May 13, 2008Im currently at site5. Big mistake on my part!
I need to move to somewhere else, i really like mediatemple.net and was wondering if anyone had any feed back on there Dedicated Virtual??
Here is what i need 20GB of space
around 1TB of bandwidth
willing to spend $50 a month
My main reason for this is mainly for my own personal site. AZDirt.com. We host videos and pictures. We have about 500 avg unique hits.
Experience On The New Vps (dv) From (mt) Mediatemple
Oct 19, 2008Now that (mt) mediatemple has changed their website, upgraded their packages, and i think that above all that they have anew datacenter located in Virginia.
So now i have a (dv) 3.0 plan from mediatemple, but they are too slow for Europe (im in Portugal), so im looking for anyone that have already experience hosting in the new mediatemple datacenter and if it will be faster to Europe.
Details on the new datacenter: [url]
Location: Ashburn, Virginia
So any experiences? A
Any more info on the new datacenter?
And from Europe, as already anyone test their speed from their new datacenter?
EpicVPS Vs. MediaTemple
Aug 8, 2008I've been on shared and reseller hosting for the past five years, its now time to rank up.
I am currently deciding between:
MediaTemple's DV service ($50.00 m/o)
EpicVPS (29.99 m/o before promo)
Rackspace(?)
I'm not really hung up on the control panel that is used for the server / site admin but I would prefer a cPanel / WHM, although I am flexible with that. I know cPanel takes more RAM... around 200 mb?
I am going to be running my personal website(s), client websites and then hosting a SVN repository for some projects and using Django and Ruby on Rails too. The bulk of the coding will be PHP applications, Wordpress, Wordpress MU, Invision Power Board, VBulletin, Status2K,and Trellis Desk.
I am not really concerned about the bandwidth because none of the sites are really massive traffic, very moderate to light traffic at all. I just like over 20gigs of disk space for projects, media, and storage.
I am on a tight budget and don't want to spend more than $50.00 a month because thats out of my needs, although if its quality I am paying for I don't mind. I would like support via IM or tickets, I never use phone support anyways. I would like a host with a good reputation for support too so anything you can suggest or help me take into consideration please do post!
As for ram enough for Cpanel to run, and the server not to be expensive.
MediaTemple (mt) Vs Mosso: NOV 07
Nov 26, 2007I’ve gone through a few monster threads about these hosts but for people like me who really like to research projects before making an investment in time/money this site is perfect! Most of the articles about these two hosts and their “grid cluster” type services are a bit outdated and so I thought a new thread was in order to give updated feedback and experiences of these platforms.
The deal is I'm based in SE Asia now, and I have clients mainly in BKK & Singapore.
There are lots of fly by night hosts and resold resellers of reseller hosting providers so there's no real consensus, from what I can gather, as to which would be the best most viable option if your anything bigger than a SOHO. Ok, well that could probably be said of the US market as well since these things tend to fluctuate and a great host one month is being shat on the next but there is no market domination in Asia everything's scattered.
In terms of uptime promises I've seen 98%, 99%, 100% and even the infamous 200% or your 4.95 back guarantees, you get my drift, but probably THE hottest names on the market right now if you're a designer or blogger based on my month of research in October-November of 2007 are:
MediaTemple . com
&
Mosso . com
For reference I'm a web developer so most these offers are designer centric (hosting multiple sites, separate reseller panels, gobs of space, oodles of bandwidth, and ability to handle major spikes in traffic.) Mediatemple even has some spiffy iPhone integration into their CP so you can sched ur chron jobs while getting ur drink on at the local starbucks in ur best apple fanboi attire if one so desires...
At the moment (MT) logos are propagating throughout the blog-o-sphere at an astronomical rate. Almost every trendy designer or blog has either been on, is currently on, or knows someone sister’s uncle’s cousin on Media Temple. I half suspect there are people affixing the (MT) logo just to get in on the cool factor while enjoying the 200% uptime guarantee from 4.95 hosts. But all that aside their offerings are quite impressive for the Grid Server and Dedicated Virtual.
The GridServer concept sounds amazing, exactly what I needed a service to handle the massive influx of visitors my ego imagines I get all the time from DIGG (aka the digg effect) and the ability to host multiple domains with enough space/bandwidth at a reasonable price. So I read the reviews, yes there were growing pains from 2006, a few more in 2007 but people were generally saying things improved as well they should.
So I gave it a shot! I decided to test their GS service out using my resource intensive JOOMLA (mySQL/PHP) a luck-foad of extensions and modules installed to drive up my sql queries, and a server side image processing suite that dynamically scales images for slideshows on demand (slideshowpro). With a 30 day money back guarantee it was worth a test why not.
Now to be fair, I'm in BKK (Thailand) atm so perhaps my results would be different but on the GS running my CMS and image resizing progs (also sql driven) holy crap pictures were taking minutes to resize and send... MINUTES! It was as though every pixel was being pulled from one part of the grid, processed at another, sql query goes to the sql side of the grid and if you jumped twice and pat yourself on the head twice while bouncing a quarter off your foot without letting it drop maybe a picture would come through.
That was pretty disconcerting considering the company that develops my slideshow software is... HOSTED ON (MT), but he's on the (DV) servers I do believe.
Responsiveness of the site was horrendous, and maybe if I was running a very lean mean blog only CMS this would be ok but I have calendaring, site wide translation into 14 languages, Dynamic image processing, Forums, HD videos, my porn collection, and a host of other things my clients don't know about...
Anyway, I'm still testing MediaTemple out and have for the time being bit the bullet and decided to upgrade to the DV line of servers which I've heard good things about for $50/mo that also has a 30 day money backer. Online research shows people who've been having issues with the GS seem to find happiness on the DV servers. I'm still transitioning my databases to this platform but it must be the transpacific journey because it's still seemingly slow! Faster than GS but still 2-4x slower than my bargain basement (Singapore based) shared hosting test servers in every way.
The problem is people who are currently on DV are saying it's not digg-proof, whereas the GS tends to be more so if you can live with the performance although I've been hearing some evidence to the contrary as of late. With regard to the DV solution buckling here's one example of a very popular blogger/designer who was making the jump:
"I’m looking for a better hosting company to host my sites. Do you have any good ones to recommend? This site and Best Web Gallery are hosting at Media Temple, 512mb dedicated-virtual server. Lately, my sites have been down almost every day. I’m getting very frustrated with Media Temple and I want to move out. I’m tired of restarting my server (VPS) everyday.
Their tech supports told me that my WordPress sites use too much SQL and CPU resources and I should upgrade to higher hosting plan. But I already upgraded three times since hosting with them: from SS (shared hosting) to GS (Grid-Service), then GS to 256mb DV, and now 512mb DV plan. My site has proved that they can’t handle the Digg Effect.
Recently I got dugg twice and my site was down immediately as soon it made popular to Digg front page. So, I don’t think upgrading will make any difference. I think it is time to move and find a better host."
via ndesign-studio . com
Well that just won't do, clients of my caliber like asiandogwhistles . com are constantly under bombardment from sites like Digg and Fark. So to hear this from a 3rd generation (MT)er doesn't look good and I'm over in Asia so add another 150 ping on a good day but if a whale farts near the optical cable in the pacific it can spike to +250 ping. My whale ping theory is currently being circulated in various academic circles if you must know…
That brings us to now, and right now we are trying to figure out how viable Mosso's solution could be but most of the posts here are from last year. I have written this essay in hopes of being able to get UP-TO-DATE reviews of the Mosso system from users who have spent some time on it. If you are in my boat, your situation will be similar to this:
1. looking to step up from Shared Hosting
2. looking for reliability to handle digg/fark/slashdot
3. looking for a service that just works with little management
4. Ability to add multiple sites with custom user panels
5. Ability to focus on more web development and less on server management
So while I know I'm merely postponing the inevitable move to dedicated right now I'd like to just do what it is I do best, writing long articles... but after that is web development.
I've heard great things about rackspace of course, and while Mosso is using their systems to a degree they have a fully customized their "hosting system" similar to (MT)'s grid concept so it’s not exactly Rackspace.
The question is where do they stand now? Is anyone running production sites on there?
Or better yet is there anyone outside of the US running their sites on there or is that just not a viable option anymore? I’ve done enough searching to understand Mosso’s clustered solution is supposedly better than (MT)’s but is it production stable at this point?
I don't mind giving up ping and throughput slightly if the reliability and service is higher so let's hear it!
Im Interested In MediaTemple
Jul 14, 2008I've been hearing alot of good things about MediaTemple hosting recently. They seem very cutting edge (in terms of hosting) and they seem to offer good prices too.
Has anyone here been using them for a while? What is they're down times like? Would it be possible for me to move my client sites (from UnitedHosting) to them and give all my clients the same features - the webmail, the stats? ...
MediaTemple VPS & Security
Aug 23, 2007Does anyone out there have experience of securing a MediaTemple VPS? One of my clients seems to have his heart set upon one of their virtual servers but I have my doubts about the usefulness of a software firewall (iptables), running on the same machine with 256MB of RAM.
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Feb 18, 2009After weeks of research on WHT i am still undecided who to choose for my next webhost.
I have narrowed it down to three:
- MediaLayer - 1gb/20gb/6 domains at $19.95
- LiquidWeb - 1.5gb/100gb/3 dmoains at $19.95
- MediaTemple - 100gb/1TB/100 domains at $20
Which one would you recommend and why ?
Also does MediaTemple grid service offer any advanctages over the other two.
My requirement is that i want my website to run very fast and server to have very good uptime. I am currently on HostGator & using over 10gb of monthly transfer. I am getting oround 5000 hits but hope to increase it around 10,000 with a new wordpress blog. They reason to move from HostGator is that any MySQL/PHP based apps run extremely slow.
Do MediaTemple Allow Adult Content
Mar 2, 2009Does anyone know? I can't find the words 'sex', 'porn' or 'adult' anywhere in their knowledgebase, so I'm not too sure!
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