Posted by David on 08/08/06 19:27

softwarelabus@yahoo.com wrote:

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>
> I wouldn't put it past vistapages given their horrible customer review
> record. One day their system admin deleted all my perl scripts just to
> see who was bombarding the server. Well, it wasn't my scripts, but he
> didn't even bother to put my scripts back, lol.

First of all I wouldn't call him a sysadmin. Second if any sysadmin went
into my site and removed anything without first telling/asking I would
find another web provider. FAST There is *NO* excuse for that type of
action. PEROID

>
> Also I've told the SA many times about their security risks, but he
> doesn't bother fixing them.

That should of been a clue to move your stuff somewhere else.

Not that long ago my entire account was
> wiped. He simply told me to make sure I periodically change my cPanel
> password. Well, it turned out the hacker even deleted all _their_ site
> back ups, so they couldn't restore my site. You can't just log into
> cPanel and start deleting the entire server files because you don't
> have access. It was obviously a site hack. Oh well. I guess we can
> look back at such things and laugh.

Personally I don't see much to laugh about. That is really sad to know
there are businesses out there like that.

>
> Just beware of web hosts that promise huge amounts of bandwidth, like
> 100GB, for practically nothing, like $5/month.

Anyone with 2 brain cells would know that bandwidth is NOT cheap. Just
how do you think that they are able to do this? Perhaps over
subscribing. Perhaps if one *reads* the companies TOS they might find
that it is not "unlimited" or "unmetered"

If web host want, and
> they lack a little common compassion, they have countless methods of
> getting rid of you and even destroying your traffic while blaming it
> all on you, lol.
>
> Paul
>

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