Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Help, my web site has been hijacked!
From: "Gerry Walden" <gwpics@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:50:39 +0000
References: <014401c3f20c$983d7640$dfe54d51@desktop>

I am almost scared to recommend anything to you Graham, but I have found 
Fresservers.com to be very responsive and reliable.

Gerry

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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.
 > 
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 >
 > -------------------------------------
 >
 > 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
 >
 >
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Replies: Reply from "Sonny Carter" <sonc@www.sonc.com> (Re: [Leica] OT: Help, my web site has been hijacked!)
In reply to: Message from "GeeBeePhoto" <graham@geebeephoto.com> (Re: [Leica] OT: Help, my web site has been hijacked!)