I just signed up for a 3-yr account less than 10 days ago and have had constant connection/downtime problems. In fact, it's been down all day today and I'm trying to get my website online. I cannot get ftp access or even access my control panel online.
View 14 RepliesI have had the worst experience...
I was impressed by their prices and server specs so i decided to buy one monthly. At 49.99 what could go wrong. Set-up within 2 days was stated. To this day i have not had it set up. 30 days later... They haven't set it up. Instead of refunding me like i asked.
First let me say I cringe whenever the thought of changing dedicated providers enters my mind. Sorting through the resellers and all of the broken promises is a tedious process and I like many others have been screwed over too frequently.
I came across HiVelocity yesterday and their offer for a quad core, 8gb 500 drive for $199. Sounded great, plus they offer free KVM over IP which was a bonus.
Yesterday about 4:45pm eastern I went on live chat with sales at HiVelocity and spoke with Kevin B. I asked if he could get this server online quickly and he said all servers are built after 5pm for the day and are usually online that night. We went over the details of my order and I quickly sent a paypal payment. I was undecided on Windows 2003 or 2008 but I went with 2003. At about 8pm Kevin leaves me a voice mail on my cell and tells me they ran out of Heat Sinks and that the server would be delayed until Wednesday. "Ran out of heat sinks" sounded a little odd like I was being BS'ed but I figured it was fine because I did want 2008 installed on it and decided the $50/month extra was worth it. I went back to on to Live Chat about 10pm and Kevin said he would have a day tech get to the server for me in the morning (Wednesday) and I also upgraded the O/S to Server 2008 DataCenter and increased the bandwidth to 100Mbps. I sent over ANOTHER paypal payment to upgrade. Grand total $248 + $55 (for 2008 upgrade and dedicated kvm). $303 later and...
This morning (Wednesday) I make contact again and Kevin says he has a day tech working on it. 3pm rolls around, contact again and he says its built and ready. HiVelocity provides a link to a supposedly "live" server build page that shows you the status of the build. Status never said built but I took his word for it and waited for the welcome email so I could finally get my sites online and meet my deadline.
Well 9:30pm rolls around and NO SERVER YET!
I go to live chat again and talk to Andrew. He says sorry for the delay, you can check your status at the status page. I lost it at that point and pretty much told him I lost 31 hours so far "waiting" for a server to be built when I could have gone with another company and had the thing online at least within 14-18 hours and spent the remainder with configuring and migrating data. Told him 10:30pm the server better be ready or I'm canceling and disputing the charge with Paypal.
It is now 11:17 and I've been writing this whole time. I kept checking my email and even gave andrew my cell phone number to give to anyone there who cared and wanted to keep me as a customer. Still no email, no server, out $303, lost over 33 hours as of right now and its looking like the hosting hunt will begin again *^*(o.o)*^*
So anyway I wanted to share this horror story. This is why I HATE shopping for a dedicated server.
I read a lot of mixed reviews for HiVelocity and I really don't want to give them more bad press but the way I've been promised everything and NOTHING was done justifies me posting this for everyone to read.
If you're looking for a dedicated server, I would advise to pass this MAJOR HASSLE of a company. "Impressive Support" my @!#.
AND YES, everyone I spoke with BEFORE THE PURCHASE was well aware that I needed this pronto and I was assured it would get done! Now they are silent and ignoring me.
And if the guy that mods for HiVelocity on these boards reads this, the damage has been done. Instead of handling AFTER CARE for people on the boards, how difficult is it to communicate. I don't care if it wasn't going to get done at least I would have known and gotten another box somewhere else and used this as a backup. Making sure your account managers don't talk #$@#%$ and not deliver should be of more concern.
Please don't even consider Dh2. The price seems good doesn't it? If holding data, and domain names hostage is what you want to pay $90. a year for then by all means go for it. They take money, and suspend any access to your servers. They reply with form letters, that in no way address billing errors, or trouble you may be having. I am now locked out of my servers, almmost a dozen e mails later, nothing! All my data GONE! NONE of there contact info is real. All fake numbers, and no current addresses. If you have the same experiences with Dh2.net. File a complaint with the BBB. Challenge any credit card activity, and please post your experiences here. I would like to put together a class action suit against this scummy company. They are good at one thing, and that's theft. Theft of data, theft of domain names, etc. etc. Taking your credit card payment and ending all communications. Let everyone know DH2.NET IS A SCAM!
View 4 Replies View Related11 days ago I signed up for a dedicated server with Hivelocity.
Hivelocity sent me an email requiring few more details in order to authorize my account to which I replied with all the details within few hours.
After that there was no communication for days. I couldn't get anybody on their online support; I've emailed sales, billing, support, even HivelocityGM asking them about the status of my request and had no responses. Not even one.
After few days I finally managed to contact somebody on their online support. They apologized, said that my server is being built and that it will be online in few hours.
After yet another day of no communication and no server details, I managed to contact another person on online support. This time he said that my authorization is not complete. Strange considering that one day before they were "building" my server.
I've decided to cancel my account and asked for the refund. Apparently nobody can't issue refunds except the GM, but I was assured that it would be handled on Mon morning. No surprises there, but nobody contacted me on Mon morning. I had to contact support again. I finally exchanged few emails with the GM and he apologized for the mix up and promised to handle my refund "right away".
That was on 27th Apr. Since then I haven't received any other communication and no refund. I've raised the dispute with PayPal.
If I want to write the infinite problems with the worst hosting service I ever seen (MyWebsHost) I could write 1000 page, this is a brief description about their service:
Note: I have a reseller account ($740/year)
1- First downtime (7 hours), no one replied to my emails, and after they fix the problem they apologized and they promised that this will not happen again.
2- Second downtime (+10 hours) no one replied to my emails, and after they fix the problem they apologized and they promised that this will not happen again.
3- 4 times server slow performance, they fixed the problem, no one replied to my emails, and after they fix the problem they apologized and they promised that this will not happen again.
4- They transfer my account with all websites to another server without notifying me, and another 10 hours downtime.
5- My customers loosed their databases and no backup found!
6- The latest downtime is still until the moment of writing this post, THREE DAYS until now, after 20 email they replied and they told me that it is a Hardware failure, I requested to refund the remaining amount after deducting the used period and the refused.
I don't know what to do with them, I also can't access the contents of my customer's websites, is there any way to find a solution and to force them to refund my money?
I am an established web developer and a project manager in one of the TOP e-commerce company. Just giving you these details so that you can ACCOUNT and RELY on my review.
I have signed up with Hostforweb.com on 26th April 2008
On weekends I work for my business (my own not the company's for which I work full time).
Uploaded the few websites that were lying there for quite some time.
On 29 th April the websites went down, for which I opened a ticket with hostforweb.com support and got a reply from them saying that
"there was some mis configuration in the nodes which is rectified."
Today all of the sudden they suspended the account and sent a message saying they got a message from "Bank of America" (because of phising activity)
One of my business staff phoned me to my work place and informed about this and for which I was like "WHaTTTT"
I am being in the online business since 1998 and never had a complaint from any of my previous hosting or present hosting providers other than this silly service.
After reaching home from office (which is an 1hr 15minutes ago), I opened a ticket in their support section and the ticket was forwarded to account & billing department by level2 support person.
Later I got a reply from their accounts & Billing department which had a reply saying ...
i am thinking to signup for an account on webhostingpad for 3 years but i need comments and suggestions from webhostingtalk members what do you all think of [url]
View 14 Replies View RelatedAnyone heard anything about this hosting site? Its dirt cheap and I'm thinking about signing up. What do you guys think?
Its 3.96/month + 6 months free + coupon code: promo25 = $2.80/month!
It offers unlimited hosting space and bandwidth.
It sounds good; does anyone have any feedback?
I can't post links yet because I just joined. but its webhostingpad.com
btw: ripped from slickdeals.net
Their server goes down frequently, I canceled my account due to their bad service. In one month my website worked for 5 days. They even didn't give me my money back although it was all their fault.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've been with webohtingpad for 2 weeks now and things are not going to well, I don't know if its me not going to the right place or they don't actually offer what they say they do. I have registered in there support section on ther site and opened tickets and been a week now with no reply to ANY of my questions, any one using webhostingpad please help me with the following if you may....
1. the help desk, do they actually have one for only registered users, and if so where do I go for that?
2. the vouchers for yahoo and google, I did'nt recieve them and can't find a link for them in my cPanel, does anyone know where I can access them from?
I'm only posting this here because the staff they're are not helping so I hoped their users can, and please let me know if you are a user, as if it stays like this I won't even be able to cancel my account before the 30 day period as I can't get hold of any of they're staff
the help desk is more important than the vouchers as from they're I can get answers to all my questions, but if its only the one they offer at theyre site (support centre) which anyoone can register to, users and non users then this really is a pain in the neck as I hav'nt recieved any replies from them for any of my tickets in the past week.
anyone using wehostingpad as the host
check this out,
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Thats some massive disk space and bandwidth!
I ask you this, what's the catch for under 5 a month
They advertise heavily and have great offer on paper. I am wondering if anyone tried them out?
webhostingpad.com
I've been with webhostingpad for over a year now. I signed up for a 2 year package.
they are fast at responding to queries. But their servers are massively over-used. Even simple tasks such as loading Horde (webmail) takes a long time, by long I mean 5-10 minutes. This is just not good enough, I use my emails a lot, I rely on them.
Their pricing is very low, which is what made me take the risk. I didn't spend much and I wanted to learn more about web hosting. Once I got my first website running, which I admit, took me a while. I was very happy, the connection speed to the website was good, but anything in cPanel was very slow (PHPMyAdmin, Webmail). After a few weeks I noticed a lot of downtime, my site just randomly stopped working, I'd wait an hour and it would come back on. During this time I wouldn't receive an explanation, I'd simply have to wait for it to come back online.
Overall, I'm pretty disappointed, they should work harder to give a better service, after all, we're the ones paying them.
I'm currently looking to move hosts when my account is over, I'm really interested in hearing more about FsckVPS. I've only heard good things about them.
I want to share a bout webhostingpad. My website was down for two days ago (as a time of writing) .They did not tell me what happen and did not tell me before it's happen. So take a careful to choose this webhost. Anyone share with me.
View 5 Replies View Relatedtell me some review about this hosting?
View 3 Replies View Relatedwebhostingpad has terrible service and disconnnects its phones when it has technical issues. Dozens of people have been victimized by this company and lost business thanks to their incompentence. They give all web hosts a bad name--please get the word out!
View 14 Replies View RelatedI started my own hosting business from July, and placed my first three orders to softlayer.com.
I have to cost down now, and place my first order to 10tb.com last friday.
Because I live in Asia, and my english is not good enough.
So...I have to use email or ticket system to ask some questions,
I just want to give you some difference message here.
All the some steps to setup my server when I place my order to softlayer, they just spend 2 hrs.
And about the tickets I have sent to softlayer, They have no more than 15~20 minutes to reply me.
But when I have placed my order at Sep/10/2009 to 10tb.com, the server was ready for 3 days later.....
I think my next billing cycle should be extended three days, right?
And the ticket I have created on the control panel of 10tb.com, they usually reply me about 12~24 hrs later, sometimes more than 24 hrs.
When everything was ready with my server, it's Sep/14/2009.
And two day pass...I found that you are offering a 50% discount(first month) at 10TB.com.
Just one day, I wasted more than $170 USD...
I only complain about it, I hope that you could have best service in the future.
Because I plan to place all my servers with 10tb.com in the future.
And I will appreciate that if you have a great service in the future too.
I have to purchase another server recently, I hope I will get a better experience.
TO Dear eming :
I think 10tb.com provide a good service, but maybe I hope you will be better.
About my experience, you could check the ticket ID#24130306.
And I want to place another order to 10tb, you could see the email I have sent to Tom and you yesterday.
I buyed vps two weeks ago,
but my vps down two days ago and delete my account whmcs system on
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and again register support system, and open help ticket, but not fix my problems, and not answered my tickets and still down vps
I have read a few of the threads here bashing 1&1, and have just had my own problems with them culminating to today. If you are thinking of purchasing from 1&1 don't do it!
In the fall of 2007, a friend and I where going to start a small local website. We found 1&1 which offered cheap hosting with all of the server specs that we needed. I purchased 6 months of hosting from them using my CC. Unfortunately our website did not last any longer than a few months, and by the time those 6 months where up I no longer needed the hosting. Thinking that the host would simply expire (unless I authorized another payment) I just let it go, only to see a charge for another $29.95 on my bank statement.
I called them, and was sent to cancel.1and1.com (a URL that is suspiciously absent from their website) and followed the instructions to cancel the account. I requested that the site be canceled at the next billing date (figured I could use it as a development server or something since I had already paid for it).
In January of 2008 (1/22/2008 to be exact) I received yet another charge from them! I called again explaining my situation, and said I had tried to use the online cancellation form but apparently the account was not canceled. The customer support representative requested information from me, and verified that he had personally canceled the account and that I would be receiving a full refund. I was satisfied (at the time) and rather naively forgot about the whole ordeal.
Today (July 22, 2008) I received ANOTHER charge for another 6 months of hosting. Keep in mind I haven't used this account since January . . . I requested a refund for January - July (as I didn't want, nor did I use this account). I was told my name wasn't on file and therefore I couldn't cancel it. Despite the fact that I was told the account was canceled twice, and I had the credit card information, billing address, and security questions (among other things) to prove I was the owner of the account.
One representative in particular even yelled at me, and basically told me I was incompetent. So I asked to speak to her supervisor. Her supervisor wasn't any more helpful and he told me: "I will not be canceling your account and I will not be giving you a refund. I'm not continuing this conversation" and hung up on me.
I have filed a credit dispute with my bank, and had to change my credit card number to prevent them from charging me again. I also filed a complaint with the BBB (not surprisingly they have an 'unsatisfactory' rating there), The Federal Trades Commission, and sent a letter to the Attorney General.
Now i'm waiting for my collections letter . . . as so many of you have received before. Absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable. No other hosting company has ever come close to being this much of a hassle!
I have submitted my story to Digg if anyone is interested:
digg.com/tech_news/1_1_Internet_Inc_Something_must_be_done
I paid for 6 months because it was a very good deal. During that time, it was down more than 10 times for extended periods... I was on the scratchy server, which sucked.
I never used it for any of my important sites, but still.
So, it was set to renew on December 16th. I didn't want to continue the service, because, uh, it sucked. I sent in a ticket asking to cancel, but that I didn't want my service shut off until the my pre paid time was up. They told me to use the cancellation form.
I did this, and I got an email asking why I was quitting. I said my site was down all the time, they couldn't really argue with that.
Fast forward to the next day, and there we have it. The sites are down. The account is deleted. What a bunch of sleazeballs... I specifically said not to close my account.
I can't in good conscience recommend Cirtex. Steer clear.
i decided to move back into sites after a half a year gap and thought rather than shelling out on the full price of a dedicated server id give a vps a go. Now i understand the risks of shared usage but this takes the monkeys!
Here is an email ive sent to them which will detail my issues
I have been asked to use this email to express my issues because your normal support staff are unable to deal with this request.
I began hosting with you with you about 5 days ago with the account below512MB RAM
100GB Disk Space
100Mbit Burstable Unmetered.
30 IP Address (max allowed. Not assigned at setup)
IRC Allowed
In the days ive hosted with you not only has there been the issue of not recieving what i actually paid for but there have been actual issues with the underlaying service.
Firstly you never sent me the account password meaning i had to send a support message through this email just to get access to my account.
Secondly you installed a faulty copy of WHM cpanel meaning that on account creation there wasnt actually a folder for the site files to sit in.
Ive had to send 3 support issues in regards to Cpanel licence issues.
Now the problem i am having is with the Quota's.
On the issue of RAM i was told im sharing with 4 people on my node sharing a total of just under 1GB of ram
these are the results of a *top* command in shell
Mem: 966368k total, 903952k used
Currently on my account is a completly blank installation of whm with absoloutly nothing on it or setup. based on that its presumed my ram quota is 50mb! - One of your assistants told me that ram is delagated as needed on each server but aswell as being plain insufficient to carry out what you claim to be giving me as a customer. Not to forget there is no mention whatsoever of ram being *bursted* between users on the account sign up page. For you to now say its bursted is infact a breach of the trade descriptions act.
Another issue is the bandwidth now here i take a quote from your site
Q: What kind of transfer speeds and how much data transfer can I expect on the 100Mbit shared bandwidth plan ?
A: You can expect 15-30Mbit/s transfer speeds and 5TB-9TB monthly data transfer.
The average download speed when i manually installed cpanel yesterday was 11kb/s - It doesnt take a genius at all to realise that 11kb/s is clearly a speed you could expect from a 1m/bit connection not a 100m/bit connection. I understand it is shared but the claim above is not what im recieving.
Most replys that i have had from your staff end in - If the recources you recieve at the moment arnt sufficient then get a dedicated server. But the recources i am told i should have are far more sufficient than i need. You just dont provide them, if this is the best vps package then what could i expect on the lowest. What you are actually telling me was if you want to run 1, 1 paged website then the vps is not sufficient for your uses!
All i ask is that either i am given my full quota with an acceptable connection speed as promised or a full refund.
This message is send in confidence of Nick carswell, the views expressed in this communication may not be those of Nick carswell, if you recieve this copy in error please notify me immediatly and delete any copies you may have.
I will post any replies that they send me in relation to this issue, but i appear to not be the first person who has found issues with their service and delivery of service
I sign up iPower Hosting package since 5th march 2009, and trying to migrate my database from my current cpanel over their control panel but thing does not works, and I have submit the ticket over there. but the respond from them very slow, and each reply does not help much.
the question has asking repeat again and again, the information I provide also again and again.
see how their respond time for my ticket ...
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On Feb 21 I ordered a dedicated server with geekrack.com So when i got my server, i had asked them to have it portioned a specific way, but it was not set up like that So, when i asked them to have it reportioned and reimaged to the way I asked to have it set up, they tried to charge me $30.00. I told them that it was a unfair charge, so they did the good thing and dropped the charge for it. I submited that ticket on Feb 24, and the owner told me that this will be taken care of by the next morning. So, i gave it 24 hours, more time than they said, and it still was not done. I called them and they assured me that they were working on this issue. I gave it another 48 Hours, and still nothing was done. I found out that they were a reseller through burst.net, so i called burst.net to see if they had a ticket for this to be done, and the support tech I talked to told me that a ticket had not even been submitted! So when i spoke with the owner of geekrack.net, she got all grumpy with me and said she was going to yell at burst.net because they were not supposed to release any information. I told her that i would want my money back because their service says that it comes with 24/7 support. Now i was not even getting support, unless you call support saying, "ok we will do this" and not doing nothing. The owner is still refusing to give me a refund, so I have filed a chargeback with paypal, as much as I hate to do that, i beleive it is the only way i will get my money back. So in closing, DO NOT BUY FROM GEEKRACK.NET UNLESS YOU WANT TO GET SCREWED!
View 7 Replies View RelatedOne of my domain names will expire in a day and a half. I've already paid to OnSmart for the domain renewal about a month ago, however they still haven't renewed it. Their ticket support system hasn't been working for the past couple of days (when I go to the support system it says "ERROR: Invalid License Key (Time Period Expired)"), I also can not access my Account Billing Manager (same problem, the message I get is "ERROR: Invalid License Key (Time Period Expired)"). Their live chat support also isn't working any more, instead, you can only send them an email, which I have done 4 times and received no reply.
They already had this "Invalid license key" problem about a month ago, it lasted for about 7-10 days, and then was resolved.
So, I have no way of contacting them at the momen and my domain will expire in a day and a half.
I have contacted the domain registrar whose reseller OnSmart is - that's Enom, in hope they will be able to help me renew my domain. I talked to some guy over the phone, and he said he will forward my issue to the customer support people who deal with this type of issues (resellers that can not be contacted or are out of business). Hopefully they can help me, but if not, I have 2 questions:
1) Since I can not get in touch with Onsmart, and my domain name will expire in 2 days, is there any way for me to reserve it somehow, so that when it expires, I would get a notification and immeadiately register it again through someone else? And how do I in the process avoid having any downtime?
2) What is the procedure for switching to another web host? I have 2 web sites I would like to move away from OnSmart. How do I do it so that I diminish/avoid any web site downtime?
Just signed up with PC-Core net yesterday.
Everything was smooth, untill I found out just now that my website is down: finchmall.com
This website is also down.. all because I was generous of giving smaller companies a chance..
I rent a dedicate from wixed two months ago.
At first the speed is okay and sometimes need reboot.
Since last week my server down again and I submit ticket to request a reboot,no one responsed.Four days ago,final the support sent a mail to me which it said:
Please forward a reboot request with your CL number to reboots@wixed.co.uk
All right,I do that.Then I wait another two day.The server also down.I request again,this time they said:"We are waiting on the NOC."
So far the server down over seven days.
I can't image how many loss I have.I suggest the guys who want to rent their server have a careful consideration before pay it.
I have been with valuserver for a couple of years now
For the past 5 months i have had nothing but problems
I had no access to my server for 6 weeks despite me sending over 15 support tickets.
Now it takes 2 weeks for them to answer tickets and when they do, they do not fix the problem or they delete the ticket completely.
So much for their loyalty to long time customers
I have waited 3 weeks for them to re install the operating system and now it has made it worse. my server keeps shutting down due to a fatal error
I have sent 4 support tickets the past 7 days and all of them have been ignored
2 weeks ago i was told by one of the employees Sven Weiss that i would get a credit of 1 month for loss of service, i am still waiting for this to happen and my server is due to be paid today
I expect my server to be shut down as i am not paying 80 euros until the credit is applied to my account, which i think is fair
I have even sent a copy of the convo regarding the credits to thier accounts and they still ignore it
If you are looking for a cheap server DO NOT go with this company as they do not care about customers and only want the money
I am appauled at the customer service from them as they have conned me out of my money
I will now be looking for another company as i have no way of getting my money back from them for the crap service i have had for the past 2 months
" Worst service ever experienced.
1. tech support is ill equipped
2. no one answers questions
3. they loose data in transfers
4. rude support persons
5. down time is extremely high
6. server goes down atleast once a day.
Please please dont go for apthost you will regret if you signup with apthost
I opened an account as a reseller with DSI hosting. Moved all my accounts over to them.
Within a week of the final move I started getting down times Every night for about half an hour or so. So I dropped them an email kindof hey guys is this some kind of reboot time nightly or what this downtime is making me look bad. After 450 minutes of downtime in the first week of November I get this email from them.
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Due to recent employee changes and continuous server attacks we regretfully have to discontinue service.
We can no longer provide reliable customer service and server uptime. All servers will remain up for a period of 10 days from this notice for clients to generate backups and remove their accounts. You should due this ASAP.
Server port 80 is under constant attack and will be kept up as much as possible, all other ports including whm, cpanel, ftp and webmail have been going all along with no interruption (as of today).
There is no easy way to resolve these issues without destroying customer data and assigning new ips or just blocking all server access.
With this being said this is the best solution for our current clients. Please backup and remove all data ASAP.
Regards,
Ryan Gadmin@dsihosting.net
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Now the website says nothing about them closing. In fact everything looks Business as Usual.
I have been doing this a couple of years now mostly just for friends but can only imagine how devestating something like this would be to someone who has quite a few accounts.
Just beware that if you are wanting a host this is not the one to choose.