ARG! DOWNTIME!
So yeah we were down for the last couple days. One of the domains I host, Runescapez.com, got DDoSed, so Vexxhost locked my account. They insisted that they will not host DDoSed sites, (Which, I had never heard this policy before, they had it nowhere in their Terms of Service or Acceptable Usage Policy), and wanted me to move all my sites off their host. So of course, that is bullshit, I contacted them, and over the long amount of time it takes to get anything done via their support desk, we came to an agreement that I could continue to host my other sites, if I removed Runescapez.com.
So yeah, now we’re here. Sorry for the downtime.
TIPS For convincing a web host to do what you want, aside from simple support desk tickets.
• Call them on the phone and either act extremely angry or apologetic (Or pull a bipolar thing to really freak them out).
• Post on a Web Hosting Forum about how terrible they are - I suggest Webhostingtalk.com - they usually keep an eye out for stuff like this, and they’ll do anything within reason to make a customer happy and keep down bad talk on them.
Well, that all sucked. I still support Vexxhost, and as long as your site doesn’t get DDoSed, I still recommend them.
I use this place called Web Hosting Pad. They are actually pretty cheap, and great for what I want to do, and probably tons more.
DDoSing is not a site’s fault, and a hosting company should have preventive measures, should they not?
Yeah, Vexxhost said they had…
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| and 24 hour monitoring from our Network Operations Center (NOC) in case of any potentially
| malicious activity (such as a DDoS) can be curbed well before it happens.
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So I didn’t make any protection myself. Obviously, it was a lie.
I actually saw that on he website!
Well, if they can’t live up to their guarantee…:(
Faggots, thats all I have to say. They don’t live up to their guarantee that’s all they are.
That has got to be the most idiotic reason for them to terminate your web hosting, YOU get in trouble because SOMEONE ELSE DDoSed a site on your account!?… Whats next, they see there are an abundant amount of Canadians visiting your site, Therefore they believe its useless and shut it down?
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