Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am almost scared to recommend anything to you Graham, but I have found Fresservers.com to be very responsive and reliable. Gerry - -- Gerry Walden LRPS www.gwpics.com +44 23 8046 3076 GeeBeePhoto wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nathan Wajsman" <n.wajsman@chello.nl> > To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: 13 February 2004 05:12 > Subject: [Leica] OT: Help, my web site has been hijacked! > > My > > hosting service (Dot5Hosting in the UK) is being quite useless about it > > and claims that they see nothing. But since I am able to replicate the > > problem on two different computers, I can only conclude that the > problem > > is on their end. > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------- > > Hi Nathan, > > I am also hosted by Dot5 but I have not encountered the problem that you > have (yet). In more general terms they are turning out to be a disastrous > host. Downtime is almost a daily occurrence (several hours yesterday), > site > stats are a thing of the past and support is of the 'auto pilot' > variety. My > site got wiped entirely last December when their servers were > "compromised". > > Last year I was with Feature Price when they went belly up and Dot5 > seem to > be in terminal decline. My growing reputation as a host jinxer makes me > wonder whether I should email a big name web host to tell that unless I > receive a substantial payment from them I will sign up with them and > trigger > the inevitable shut down :-) > > Whatever happens I will not be staying with Dot5 and I strongly recommend > anyone considering them to look elsewhere. > > --Graham > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html