holy dot5hosting is shit

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hitzatak

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www.leftofme.com
Check out www.leftofme.com right now.
I don't know what has happened, but it's done it twice now.
The first time I was like, fine, i'll reupload everything and set it up again. Lucky i only had a few posts. Now it's too much. And their support is majorly incompetent.
Now they are saying it's my fault and that there's nothing on their databases, not a single post. I didn't even touch my database. It's been 2 hours now.

I'm moving to hostgator, or bluehost. any votes? I need back up though, and i think bluehost does not provide this?

btw. has anyone got that error before? before the error screen that u see on leftofme.com now, it just said, that i should run the install.php or something. Grrrr. Any ways around this?!
 
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It's really the users responsability to do the backups. Although most hosts will tell you that they do backups nightly, they also have a disclaimer saying more or less that they cannot make any promises....so I read that as just something to cover their ass because they probably don't do regular full backups.
 
You're preaching to the choir there deronsizemore. I basically just started that site and posted only about 4 posts. Didn't think I really had to back up just quite yet. Boy that sucked. I was raking in a few 100 uniques just on those posts.
 
I have been with hostgator for about a year now and their tech support is brilliant. Always someone there 24/7, problems resolved quickly etc.
 
Just to followup: I'm on hostgator now. It's amazing. And changing of the nameservers took literally 10 minutes. I was so surprised. So far, no downtime, no slowdowns. A lot of wonderful things are happening now. And the visitors are rising. So's the adsense stats :) Ka-ching!
 
IX is also pretty good. I had the same problem with IX, I came home from work one day and one of my sites was gone, contacted support and it was back up within hours. I was pretty pissed, but any hosting company you go with will eventually have problems its what they do about them that counts
 
*moved to appropriate section:smilie_weihn_winki:

And since I'm here...be wary of Dreamhost - they're nice and all, but man, are they having some performance/downtime issues...
 
MisterX said:
*moved to appropriate section:smilie_weihn_winki:

And since I'm here...be wary of Dreamhost - they're nice and all, but man, are they having some performance/downtime issues...
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Has this always been the case with Dreamhost? I have been noticing downtime/performance issues lately as well. Hopefully they will get it resolved shortly because I still love their services. Great customer support and excellent incentive to stick with 'em (Upgraded bandwidth/storage by the week)
 
I've been with Dreamhost for a little under a year and while there were some annoying downtimes, it was awesome compared to what's happening now.

I really, really hope they'll deal with it soon, since I'm almost on the verge of registering nightmarehost.com in their honor...
 
hostgator is the shit... until my forums grew to large for shared hosting and I woke up with a teminated account and no forum

their support is good.. but they are also ruthless.. my forum isnt even that big.

site5.com is the money.
 
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