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Minnesota Attorney
#2. June 8th, 2009, at 10:20 PM.

What a bummer. Glad to see your site is back up. Care to share what host you were with? I’m shopping for a good host right now after other problems with my host.

Business Website Design
#3. June 9th, 2009, at 6:04 AM.

Things like this really happens, and its too bad knowing that it redirected to a gambling site.

Your site reputation will surely get affected. But good to hear that all are back to normal.

Goran
#4. June 9th, 2009, at 6:14 PM.

Another good reference to the value of a proper hosting provider. 99% is just not good enough if you’re trying to run a serious online business / project. Good luck with the new host, and please share your recommendations for effective hosting providers with us.

Paul
#5. June 9th, 2009, at 8:23 PM.

Sorry to hear about your site that is a bummer. I wish I was able to catch it but I haven’t been blogging for a little bit. Side note wondering what you think about bing.com and if it is going to change SEO to decision engine marketing? My site never really ranked well for msn…

Montana
#6. June 9th, 2009, at 9:06 PM.

One bad service you should steer clear of is dreamhost, had lots of problems with them

Paul
#8. June 10th, 2009, at 8:50 PM.

I haven’t thought about it that way. You bring good points and helped ease my mind, thanks!

brnielsen
#9. June 10th, 2009, at 11:47 PM.

I don’t suppose you use 3ix.com for you hosting, do you? I have had major problems with them in the past. As much as I hate to admit it, godaddy is pretty sweet.

Fluena Web Design Serbia
#11. June 11th, 2009, at 5:46 PM.

It feels like Internet is becoming more unsecure place. I also had a problem with one of my websites, and my identity of facebook was stolen, too. Anybody else with this problem?

Keegan
#12. June 12th, 2009, at 7:06 PM.

I don’t like Godaddy.. so hard to get a hold of and always problems with their hosting. I even get blamed for their mistakes sometimes.

Düsecek Domainler – DNMK.com
#13. June 12th, 2009, at 11:42 PM.

One bad service you should steer clear of is dreamhost, had lots of problems with them..

T. Scott Clendaniel
#14. June 13th, 2009, at 5:31 PM.

Can you offer any of us tips on how to investigate new hosting services and identifying their reliability levels? It seems a lot of us have had similar issues, but I”m not sure how to avoid going from one problemprovider to another.

Jeet
#15. June 14th, 2009, at 4:16 AM.

More often than not it’s a hacker who has modified .htaccess files. This was only used by malware distributing guys but increasing it’s being used for traffic and SEO

One of my hosts got hit by this and needless to say all blogs hosted on that machine were probably affected.

Web hosting chennai
#16. June 15th, 2009, at 5:48 AM.

My suggestion will be hostgator. Their service is awesome.We had a reseller account also.

Thanks

Lenny
#17. June 15th, 2009, at 8:19 PM.

If you don’t mind me asking, what host was it that screwed up so badly? I definitely don’t want to accidentally sign up for them when I go searching for a new host!

Philosophy
#18. June 16th, 2009, at 9:01 PM.

Yea hostgator is really good. I have used it before and I never had any problems.

alfon
#19. June 17th, 2009, at 5:45 AM.

i recomended hostgator for your hosting, hostgator service is satisfying thanks

Suzane Winslet
#20. June 17th, 2009, at 8:24 AM.

well this is a common occurence with people havin sites like us i too face this problem i am also planning to switch my hosting to some efficient hands and the suggestion of hastgator is a good bet.

Katie
#21. June 18th, 2009, at 7:10 PM.

Back to Fluena’s comment, security really is important. Hackers can not only add links but steal important information from your hosting company. Before anyone chooses a hosting company, they should check to see if they’ve been black listed.

Hotels in Las Vegas
#22. June 18th, 2009, at 8:00 PM.

We just want to leave up a “working on it” page. The guy who put the site up for us is out of town and we need to take it down ourselves.

Jason
#23. June 21st, 2009, at 9:05 PM.

Who was the host if I might ask – we may want to avoid them. Bummer for your sight but it looks like smooth sailing now – like the blog great info.

Tipsy
#24. June 22nd, 2009, at 11:02 AM.

Good thing you already changed it. I wouldn’t stand for something like this. 3 days is outrageous!

Host waffle
#25. June 22nd, 2009, at 2:42 PM.

This type of incompetence is unacceptable. I think you can try lunarpages hosting.

Jacques Snyman | 3 Quotes
#26. June 22nd, 2009, at 3:20 PM.

Oi! Three days is just totally unacceptable, and the fact that your traffic was being directed at a gambling site just makes it even less so! Good for you on changing hosting service providers. What factors did you take into consideration when making your choice of new host?

Custom RC Helicopter
#27. June 22nd, 2009, at 6:40 PM.

My blog was down for several days as well, so I feel your pain.

I bet the lobster in Maine was spectacular.

Adwido
#28. June 23rd, 2009, at 3:54 AM.

Hosting is very important. You host with the wrong company and your entire operations can go under in one afternoon. I’m fortunate to have a very reliable free hosting provider. Been with them for over a year and haven’t had a problem yet.

boyama oyunlar?
#29. June 23rd, 2009, at 5:21 PM.

One bad service you should steer clear of is dreamhost, had lots of problems with them..

Quadrant Vans
#30. June 24th, 2009, at 11:14 AM.

Wow that’s pretty poor service on the hosting companies part, it should be back up and running within the hour. Thought hosts were supposed to take snap shots of sites so that in the unfortunate event of anything going down they can quickly retried their clients sites. maybe it would be good to do a post at some point about readers hosting companies and their experiences and form a chart of recommendations.

Landscaping
#31. June 29th, 2009, at 3:46 PM.

I find it to be such a minefield finding good hosting. With all the promises that look good on the surface. The 99% uptime promise always makes me laugh, allowing for over 7 hours of downtime every month.

For that reason I always go VPS or dedicated with uptime monitoring these days if possible. It is reassuring to know that your host isn’t going to be taking the server on and offline when they want and that in the rare event anything does go wrong, a reboot request is sent to the datacenter.

Guildford
#32. June 29th, 2009, at 9:22 PM.

That is really, bad we have had some problems with our host, losing connections for hours. But nothing on your scale. Glad its not all sorted.

Minnesota Attorney
#33. July 1st, 2009, at 3:59 PM.

Montana, it’s funny how Dreamhost had a great reputation in the beginning but I haven’t such positive reviews the past couple years.

PS3
#34. July 13th, 2009, at 5:20 PM.

I use a small hosting company who only host about 50 sites. I think its best to go with smaller site becasue the support is faster and friendlier. That’s my personal view!

Sofira
#35. July 21st, 2009, at 7:48 PM.

Yes, this was really scary. And I had similar problems and I solved them in all possible ways. Trouble is that always the one problem pulling the other.

Montana
#36. July 23rd, 2009, at 6:17 AM.

@Minnestoa Attorney: ya, the moment I run a moderatly CPU hungry script (drupal thingies, especially) I get an error 500. Now, I wasn’t expecting a dedicated mainframe for $15, but this is laughable.

Meg Stefani
#37. July 28th, 2009, at 7:33 AM.

well the smaller the hosting company the larger we benefit cause they add a personal touch to our problems.

bride
#38. July 29th, 2009, at 10:35 PM.

what hosting company do you use? i’ve never heard of any hosting company that any one is happy with, either their servers our down, or people can get hold of customer support after their services is done, so it ends up being down for the same amount of time

Dominique Rabeuf
#40. July 31st, 2009, at 2:49 AM.

Avoid 1and1
For instance search for my new main domain rabeuf.fr
I just see Windows2008 running one hour on the machine i rent july 15
Still waiting for reload
Support told me (phone call I paid) that they do not administrate
They just plug cable and AC

TRP Converter
#41. July 31st, 2009, at 9:29 AM.

The down of any site creates many problem, and this irritates too. The server should work properly so that user can work well.

Minnesota Attorney
#42. August 2nd, 2009, at 5:37 AM.

I’ve been using 1and1 for a few years now. Their domain registration prices were the best when I started, but their prices have increased to the point where they are now more expensive than many others. Their tech support has been very frustrating, sometimes waiting on the phone for over 2 hours before speaking with someone.

The 1and1 Transfers department is what sent me over the edge. I asked them to set my domains so they would not automatically renew. First, they failed to do this, seemingly ignoring my request after they emailed me to confirm it, which resulted in $1000 bill for renewal of domain names I didn’t want renewed (I am still waiting to see if they issue a refund). Second, when they did finally act on my request, they canceled the domain names rather than set them to not renew. When I emailed them about the problem, they ignored it. Over 1000 of my websites were down for three weeks despite me sending multiple emails asking for them to fix their error and restore the websites. They didn’t respond for three weeks. Finally they said they were working on the issue, but it still has not been resolved. Needless to say, this type of service cannot be tolerated when I rely on websites for business income.

I am leaving 1and1 and moving to HostGator for hosting and Moniker for domain name registration.

Review Your Hosting
#43. August 10th, 2009, at 7:39 PM.

Good that your site is online now. I know how it irritates. You loose a lot of your visitors/money and you just can’t do nothing but phone hosting support. I belive that good support is most important when you buy hosting (I always advise to check if it is available 24h a day).