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- Scammers - Prolimehost.com
Anyone knows about this company? I have taken hosting from them yesterday everything was fine. When i woke up today the server was unreachable. Then i waited for 6hours waiting to upload my 1000$ project custom script made for my site. Its unconnectable still.Then i got a funny email from prolimehost ceo(kid)'HelloHope you are fine therewe apologize for our site down issueas you have heard that there is terrorist attack in Indiaand we are also affected by it,that is the reason why our site is down and all our service are too downwe will be back in next 48 hourewe hope that you will cooperate with us In This bad timeRegardsRounak jainCeo-prolimehost.com"WTH terrorists taking down servers ? (He himself looks a terrorist to me)He tries to act like a ceo in real he looks like a jerk scamming peoples money on the net. I lost my precious 2 days due to this jerk.From his name he looks like an Indian illiterate scammed my 3$ eventhough its less amount i was about to pay him 1 year hosting. Beware of this scammer never go for such lame hosts. Thank god i dint have any data loss.They say they have 24/7 people staffed, where were those kiddies during the server down?, I'd just say STAY AWAY from these kids.although, if you'd like to loose your data you may happily order your account from them. Good LuckI have reported them to various anti-fraud companies and i hope they wont come back. - What is the best type of website building software ?
What is the best type of website building software ?Would it be best to go with a Web based type of software e.g.. an SBI one (which is a yearly subscription purchase). OR or a software/disk one e.g. XSitePro (which is a one time purchase) ???OR a regular Web host, such as (Bluehost Hostgator or go daddy) .I would like some flexibility / creativity in, what ever I do finally purchase.[/ - Windows versus Linux host: any PRACTICAL difference?
I'm just curious. I (and my clients) have a few very small, simple-minded websites...a few php programs for simple forms fetch-and-forward. Is there much PRACTICAL difference between a Windows-based host and a Linux-based host?P.S. Apologies if this has been covered beyond the 2002 thread I found! - Major DNS Problems
I have a major problem. I have a reseller account with a (for the time being non-specified) provider.They advised that they would be implementing IP migration over 2 days and would advise of new nameserver IP's for updating of our and our client domains with relevant registrars.They duly changed the IP addresses for the nameservers and instead of giving us enough time to perform the updates with the relevant registrars, they deleted the old DNS IP addresses.So now we sit with the problem of having all our sites not working nor the e-mails to which the registrar sends the confirmation e-mails.So we cannot confirm that we would like the DNS to be changed so the request is duly cancelled after 24 hours.WTF are we supposed to do now? I have clients breathing fire and brimstone because their sites and their e-mail is not working. - How To Benchmark PHP & MySQL
I'm looking for a way to benchmark PHP & MySQL performance on a shared hosting account (no shell).Any suggestion?Thanks for your help! - what is the best hosting offer under $4 and ... ?
*Hi.. what is the best offer you know with:. Low budget (at most $4). No Long-Term Contract Required (monthly payments). At least 10 MYSQL DB. At least 10 GB space. At least 100 GB monthly transfer. No serious problems at intodns.com test* - is godevs.com a reliable host ?
I'm not professional but here are some links that would help:Into DNSAlexa rank 10,190,846 :confused: ???Web Archivedetailed Who.isI really wanna know if I can trust this serviceThanks in advance - Infomation ?
Hi,Why use IonCube loader and CRE loader.also know howto disable it through .htaccess file and how to install CRE loader.Thanks. - list of free emails
I am collecting a list of free emails to ban them from a software (not a hosting software though.)Please help enriching my list by free emails you are aware. you can also add emails with international TLD (i.e .ru, .in, tr, .nl etc.) you know in your country.Here is my list. please add to it whataver free email you know. I appreciate it.msn.commail.comemail.comhotmail.comyahoo.comgmail.comaol.commail.ruarcor.derediff.com - Streaming or Direct download ?? Which causes more server load ?
Hi AllI have a website, where i provide streaming videos. Recently i read somewhere that, streaming video or audio files increases server load a loot. Is providing direct download to files is a better option than streaming videos ?? Please let me know.Thanks in advance. - Where can i buy access to UK http/socks proxy?
Hi, I have been searching for a non web UK proxy. I need to view UK search results and adsAny suggestions on finding one? Should I just use ssh tunneling? If so any suggestions on a cheap UK shell account? - The gall of spammers these days...
We've just had a nearly ridiculous situation here that I just had to share.There is a customer we've had for a couple months now. We know he sends newsletters out on a regular basis, as he had told us when he started he that he had some double opt-in mailings when he started. There haven't been any complaints, until about a week ago, where we started getting a trickle of SpamCop reports. The customer responds to them promptly, indicates they were opt-in subscribers that forgot, etc. It was only a small number of complaints, so we didn't think that much of it. As the reports kept coming in we started taking a harder look at it, but then we got the straw that broke the camels back. WE started receiving spam from his servers! We received spam at 5-6 different email addresses, including abuse@, probably about a dozen emails to each over a period of a day and a half.We of course knew that these emails were not opted in and gave him roughly 24 hours to present us a resolution to the issue, as we allow in our terms of service. The full explanation we got was that it was an "accident", that he was sending it to all the emails in a certain email account of his, but he would blacklist our domain. I honestly can't believe he told us this, that was, right there, saying he did not require opt-in for his email lists. He sends spam to his host and then admits the lists are not opt-in. Oh, and after he said he had removed our emails, we still were getting spam from his server!Guess what happens next. He complains that we shut him down and sees no reason we were so hasty! He says he's been a customer for months and that he's said good things about us to many people. I guess he doesn't understand that that doesn't make him not a spammer. Wow, I can't believe it...Sorry, I just needed to vent. And my thought, if anything, was that we may have been too lenient, considering the evidence... - How to edit FTP User Permissions on a cPanel account?
My Pink Floyd website has a photo section of rare concert pictures that our members upload. We have about 3,000 of these pictures, that our members upload via an FTP server that is hosted on a simple cPanel web hosting account. Someone logged into the account and not only deleted all the pictures, but uploaded obscene pictures and index.html files to some really nasty stuff.We delete all the obscene stuff, but before we re-upload all the pictures I need to know...On a cPanel account is there a way to have the FTP User only able to upload files and not edit/delete/change? Somehow we can edit their permission?I asked HostGator about this and the ChatTech said this cannot be done, and I was a bit surprised. I could easily do this on my own server, but i'm not sure where to start at the user level.Any help is always *much appreciated!* - Anyone have trouble with downtown host's blog package?
So I signed up for their $5.95 blog package this week. And since then, my site http://www.exaltedwisdom.com has been down 3 times because of 500 server error. It takes them about an hour to fix it each time. What gives?Anyone else having trouble with them?I'm testing them to see if I may want to host bigger sites with them in the future, this is not going well - hosting for photo site
Hello all, looking for a little shove in the proper direction. We have a decent photo site, 10-15,000 visits per day. We've been around for 6 years and survive (barely) on adsense. We are retooling from the ground up with entirely new code and relaunching with a goal of 50,000 per day to break adsense dependancy. We have some really good ideas so its full steam ahead.We have 4 servers, 1 is a 1 TB raid, 1 is DB and 2 are http. Its all LAMP. We pay 1500 per month.-1/4 Rack-Pentium 4 2.4-Pentium 4 2.4- Pentium P4 - 2.4Ghz-TP Generic Dual Xeon 3.2Here are some current usage stats...http://screencast.com/t/9d8mB5wZ8http://screencast.com/t/Gu4yBal84http://screencast.com/t/NktYTZM77When the site reached 16,000 per day the whole system chocked. Now we want to prepare for at least 5 times as much.How much should we budget? We really don't have much more then 1500 per month.Are there place that will admin a complex config as well as host it, the guy from ohio doing our admin completely flaked out and cost us dearly.I heard the best bet is a virtual network and do horizontal scaling with a storage area network. Replicate the DB select servers and 1 DB server for writes/ updates.I keep thinking I should just spend 7 grand on 1 mac daddy server and host it in my closet with fios- why not? (besides cooling and noise)thanks for reading, any help is greatly appreciated. I'll try to post to this thread any info we come up with during this process.
