Why So Many Companies Are Cheating
Sep 21, 2008
Found some in WHT ads forum, provide 800 GB space and 8000GB bankwitch. Other companies are similar offer. I talked with them, and ask: "Do you really provide 800 GB space?" they replied, yes.
Then I told them I am going to order. I have a 600GB sized website want to move into it and planed finish moving in 3 weeks to 1 month, then they just left me there, never had one word, so frustrating.
Asked a few more, and got similar result.
Are they real companies with real ads? If not, Why WHT allow false ads listed in there and waste us time.
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Mar 3, 2008
i am writing this thread for cheating behavior of this company:
performancehosting.net. We are a dedicated server provider in Singapore. Performancehosting is one of our reseller. And rob (tikvah7777@hotmail.com) is their sale person or CEO. I believed their company is targeting Indonesia customer, thus servers in Singapore is perfect speed to there. Performance Hosting used to be good and reliable customer. Their billing cleared well before November 2007. However everything turned sour recently when we clearing all overdue payments and implement new billing system. Performance Hosting owed us total 1635USD. On 19th February 2008, we filed two money request in paypal ( this is because Rob requested me to send money request in paypal, they do not want us to tell them to pay on msn) for two servers overdue charged. However, until 21st , we still did not get the payment. Thus we sent one email to remind them. On 22nd , their billing department replied requesting further info on these two servers billing. We replied immediately. After that they no response again. On 25th after our massive email requesting, their billing department answered again asking us to bill them month by month. We agreed, noting that we are implementing new billing system which will make this much easier. On 25th our patient wore out, we sent email again ....
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Apr 6, 2008
There is a lot I know about godaddy and I also wrote some on my own website, but it's long so I'll post only one issue here. This company is being very dishonest. They pretend to be the cheapest one in the market, but they charge you extra for so many reasons. For example, it's the only company I know who charges 25 cents more per domain per year than the price advertised. It doesn't matter what's their excuses, ICANN, SHMICANN, they advertise one price and they charge you another. Let’s begin with that. (I think I might saw they changed it to 20 cents, but it doesn’t matter. 5 cents don’t make them honest).
Also with web hosting, they offered me an incredible price of about US$ 3 dollars per month, and even gave me a discount for paying in advance for two years (24 months) and I paid only $2.50 per month (about $60 for 24 months). They had a plan for 5GB and also another plan for 100GB which was something like $6 per month and I didn’t need it. Why pay for 100GB when I need only 5? Actually I could use 10 but I don’t need 100 so I paid about $60 (don’t remember the cents) for 24 month.
Now, I was using their web hosting for backup and I wrote a script which will do it automatically and it happened that I used more disk space, something below 300MB which I calculated to be only 6% of the 5GB I asked. I didn’t even asked them to use extra disk space but when I used more disk space they sent me and email and then after a few days (I think about 5 days) they charged me extra of something like $6.79 per 100MB per month. Actually I was away from home and didn’t have a computer and when they wrote me about it I thought they were charging me extra of $6.79 for 100GB (Gigabytes!) and not Megabytes and when they wrote me they charge it 3 times I thought they meant 3 months. I still didn’t need it and I asked them to cancel it but they asked me to remove files and I was very busy with other things (actually I’m not a full time webmaster) so eventually it took me about one month and I removed the extra files, but they still charged me with extra of $20.37 per month (if I remember the cents… I never forget people who cheat me) and when I wrote them they also asked me to enter their website and remove the extra disk space myself, and when it didn’t work they asked for screen copies and I had to send them so many emails (actually it took me a few months because I was very busy with other things) and eventually I called them from my mobile phone (my Skype didn’t work properly) and after speaking to their representative he agreed to refund me most of the charges except one, he still insisted they have the right to charge me the extra $20.37 for using 6% more of their disk space for less than one month.
Now you can do the calculation yourself! I paid about $2.50 for 5GB per month (about $60 for 24 months) and they charged me extra $20.37 for 300MB which is $339.50 for 5GB or more than 100 times their regular price! Actually they charged me 4 times $20.37 which is more than $80 and the whole deal with them was $60 for 24 months! Actually if you check the prices of their “extended” web hosting it’s something like 100GB for about $6 per month (if I remember correctly) and if I paid $6.79 per 100MB extra then I would probably pay $6,790 which is more than 1000 times of their regular price!
I know a lot more but I don't want to post long posts here so I put some of it on my website. There are also other companies such as Google, they displayed "Action canceled" on my website www.speedywhois.com (currently .net) instead of their ads ("adsense"). I put a copy on my personal homepage with more details and I would like to know where I can discuss google adsense and other companies related to webmasters.
I hope this website is not affiliated with godaddy and this post will not be deleted. I don't want the $20.37 but I want you to know they are ripping you off. charging 100 to 1000 times the regular price is theft, it's like if they offer you a cup of coffee (or actually force you to take it) and then charge you $6,000 for the cup. I never asked to pay $20.37 per month and all I agreed to pay was about $2.50 per month and the extra $20.37 is for 6% extra disk space I used (slightly less) so they are ripping me off!
If you want to see details and proof then please see this post and the following posts: ....
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Jul 29, 2008
I need some real multidomain shared hosting accounts (ie DirectAdmin, Hsphere, or cPanel only with WHM access because no way I am going to use add-on domains), with support for 4 domain names, 1GB disk space, 40gb multihomed bandwith, fast mysql server with at least 6databases.
My budget is less than 30US$/mo/account, and i need both PHP5 and Mysql 5.
Now this would seem pretty regular requirements.
The fact is I would like to get some of these accounts in not-so-popular locations for an application I am developing and some tests I will do, etc.
The California/Chicago/Dallas/NewYork part was quite easy, indeed ...
Now I am looking for some decent webhosting companies co-locating in :
- Upper West USA (any amongst Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, etc)
- Colorado (ie, Denver)
- Kansas
- Vienna,McLeod corner in VA, or at the very least maybe Asburn,VA
- Toronto, Canada
If you are a web hoster and you colocate in some of these places please anwer: I don't think a simple message like "We are amongst the hosting companies located in XYZ" without reference to plans, price or promotions would be considered self-advertising in any way and is far better, useful and more informative than writing a post like "look at the advertising section, I am sure you will find some", because trust me I am searching till hours and I dind't find any:
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Mar 15, 2009
what are the companies using liquidweb's datacenter?
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Apr 20, 2009
First one i tried was Implux.net and after a year or so started getting a lot of skipping/buffering problems with the streams.
I'm now with Serverroom.us but cannot stand the software they use CentovaCast or at least don't like the setup they use.
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May 1, 2008
What are some good monitoring companies that can keep track of downtime. Even more specifically looking for companies that can send an sms alert or possibly reboot the server following ceartin instructions during a downtime.
Though please provide all suggestion (even if they don't do the above).
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Aug 17, 2008
I own a IT/Computer related blog site & community right now. I have plans to contact the top 25-50 hosting companies posing as a potential new client. I plan ask questions similar to the following and publish it on my blog. (This project will be geared towards shared hosting only, on low to mid sized budgets.
1.) What are the exact specs of the shared servers you are using? Smp, Uni processors? What are the manufactures of this hardware?
2.) How many clients are added to a server before it's considered 'Full'? If your company doesn't use this method, then what is the average I/O, CPU, & Memory usage on a full server in the opinion of your company for shared hosting?
3.) What is your mass email policy? Emails per hour?
4.) Where is the physical location of your companies shared servers in regards to country, city, and state?
5.) Are you a Reseller? If so, with whom do you resell for?
6.) Physical location of Technical Support?
7.) What is the average wait time for a Technical Support ticket submission during server peek hours for your company?
8.) Do you currently have a link of client testimonials that includes URL's to the
clients website?
Do you think publishing this information to be public for each host would be illegal, imoral, or disrespectful in anyway? If not, does anyone have any other suggestions as far as questions that are usually not disclosed on hosts website in regards to shared hosting?
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Jul 27, 2008
Anyone know of a listing of hosting companies based on the location of their offices? I don’t care where their servers are but I would like to know that I am dealing with a company that is local. (By the way, I live in the northern part of Virginia and I consider metro DC and all of Virginia to be local.)
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Mar 6, 2008
I'm currently using Bluehost to run some of my clients web sites. Nothing with huge traffic or sophistication, but good uptime is a requirement.
I used to use webfusion, but they were expensive and unreliable, and their support was bad. I migrated all of my sites to Bluehost, at considerable expense in terms of billed time.
At the moment, the server I am running on has been down for 16 hours with a projected further 12 hours to restore. I find this unacceptable.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could sign up to two shared hosting providers, but manage the DNS in such a way I can switch between the two?
Sort of a crude co-location (my clients aren't in the market for high end services). Having been burnt more than twice -I don't want to trust just one company.
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May 20, 2007
I still have some NT 4s and Windows 2000 servers out there. My main issues are these are very very old clients who will not want to move, either their programmers had long disappeared or they just had an attachment to their old servers.
Now what should I do with these? Or rather what do you guys facing similar issues deal with this? Migrate these old contented clients and risk breaking something or just leave it as it is?
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Aug 30, 2007
Could you point me in any direction for VPSs as far as reputable companies? I really don't know where to start looking for a VPS. Managed by the way.
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Oct 12, 2009
I would like to discuss over new companies which have just put there steps towards hosting business.
I know many of the people here and everywhere believe that only established companies with a nice price tag of almost around $5 per month for smallest web hosting plan can give you best support and uptime. No doubt they can give you nice uptime but what about the support... leaving some companies all other big and established once do not offer you what you should actually get.
Companies with a huge customer base receives a large number of hosting support requests from there customers daily which they can not fulfill on time. Thus resulting in delay and some times inconvenience to the customer.
Where as on other hand new companies or mid level companies that just arrived or been in industry for a few couple of months is much better then them.
A solid reason to support this is if they want to be in this industry they will surely provide all the best of support and uptime and industry leading softwares and products to there client for the very low price as compared to other big ones.
Now the point to be noted is the people only don't believe new companies just because they are new... I don't understand the reason why people have a mentality of treating OLD IS GOLD....
When new companies just to establish them selves in this market are offering tons of services for a much lesser price to what other big ones do then why do people think they are going to fall down... They too have there business plans setup or else they won't advertise it different forums and waste there precious time in which they could have done many other jobs....
I know this is a never ending topic but you surely need to broaden your thinking and start thinking about this second phase of hosting industry...
With my article I surely can't mentality of too many people but surely can start a step ahead of others to let people think on this....
Hope I can scratch some great minds with my writting and they can comment some great ideas and pros and cons...
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Jun 18, 2008
Are there companies out there that we can purchase IP's from? We might be moving data centers in 6 months and I am sick of asking my customers to always change their IP's every year.
Are there companies that we can purchase an IP block from and then carry those over to different data centers?
I am looking for something like a /26.
We currently have (2) /27's with our data center right now, but I would prefer a single /26 to keep all our IP's in the same range.
I've looked at trying to get them from ARIN, but the minimum they want to sell is a /22.
Also, how easy is it for data centers to announce your own IP space?
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Mar 8, 2008
I'm not talking about weak sauce companies that treat your server like any other server and apply settings base a file they got saved on their desktop.
platinum server management- been there done that total server solutions - been there done that people who send me PM's - been there done that
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Jan 31, 2008
How do small companies deal with data centers and their equipment being 1000-2000 miles away?
NYC puts the costs of cabinet and power at almost twice as much in comparison to the west coast and south.
For small businesses, is it worth to spend that extra to get a cab in NYC and be able to manage their clients hardware directly or have a cabinet far away and depend on the on site techs to take care of all hardware related issues and save spending that extra that is put on cabinet and power?
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Dec 31, 2007
2 Hosting Companies: One in California and One in NYC..
If they have exactly the same plan ( Same servers ) at the same price and I lived In NYC would it be better ( Faster ) for my site/forum to choose the NYC host?
What I need to know is it beter to pick a host who i live closer to?
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Oct 13, 2008
I just stumbled upon LiquidWeb offering SSD's, are they the first to do so?
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Sep 9, 2007
I've been personally scanning the web and looked through different webhosting sites and attempted to compare their prices and hosting features. I found that m0st sites offer identical packages, same promises at minimal pricing difference. I've found it very confusing and I'm in dilemma deciding which one to go for. Is it the company's reputation that becomes a deciding factor for this? What if the company is new and they boast that there servers are not so populated therefore possibly better performance?
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Jul 16, 2007
suggest me some good UK based linux VPS providers? I need cpanel on the vps?
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Dec 26, 2007
All I want to do is buy the parts and ship them to some company that lives on the Peer1 network and build a single unit. I know this can be done, but does anybody know of a company that offers 1U colo on Peer1's network? (in NY)
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May 24, 2007
We will be soon migrating to a bigger more powerful server and we were wondering if there was any companies that can do a nice job regarding this matter...
We found rack911.com but we were wondering if there were any others and if you had any experience with them.
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Sep 9, 2007
I'm looking for managed VPS providers.
I'd like somewhere around 10GB of space and 100GB of bandwidth.
PHP/MySQL cPanel
I'm only looking for a fully managed provider who will move about 10 websites from a dedicated box to the VPS server.
Which companies have the best reputation?
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Jun 1, 2008
Is there any companies that offer live support online or over the phone for hosting problems.
In other words
Can i hire a company that helps customers out with their problems online or over the phone?
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May 19, 2009
I would like to know there is any.
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May 24, 2009
How can I be a distributor for the domain of foreign companies
I was one of the Arab states and many wish-host of foreign companies
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May 2, 2009
i want to ask about best companies that provide backups spaces
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May 18, 2009
We are a hosting company with about 10000 customer domains. We are looking for a good spamfilter gateway and found Spamtitan.
Do you think SpamTitan would work well with so many customer domains? How many servers do you recommend for this amount?
I realized that in the admin area a lot is done with domain dropdown elements to choose the domainname. This is for sure not the best solution with this amount of domains.
Our plan is, that customers don't have access to ST but only get the quarantine report mail. Will there be a resource problem in creating this report once a day for about 50000 mail addresses?
Are there any other hosting companies which are using ST?
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Feb 10, 2009
I found that adbrite are using 10 name servers .
asia3.akam.net
aus1.akam.net
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eur2.akam.net
ns1-105.akam.net
ns1-232.akam.net
ns2.adbrite.com
ns4.adbrite.com
usc2.akam.net
usw6.akam.net
could any one has for example 3 hosting accounts each one in
a ddifferent hosting company , could it be possible to put all Name Servers
of 3 different hosting sites under one domain name ?
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Jan 28, 2008
How many companies have you come across that offer different dc location? Does it make their offer more attractive for their potential clients?
Marblehost.com offer you to choose between GB and USA location? Or am I misreading their post as it seems unbelievable...
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Apr 7, 2008
Are there any recommendation on good hosting companies which can provide good support, excellent uptime, >50GB space, >1GB mySQL/MSSQL database space and supports ASP.NET 2.0 and AJAX with a resonable price?
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