A valuable lesson I’ve learnt from a mishap late last year with one of my domains. It is a common “bonus offer” for many web hosting companies to provide a “free” domain name either for the first year or for the lifetime of your account with the hosting company. But what would happen if things go sour?
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January 16th, 20082mhost Sucked my .com out, now I’m going .Net
November 14th, 2007Screw this, I’m going .Net!!! … As in http://www.rvdavid.net that is. Due to a mishap which resulted in my domain name being held hostage by my old host 2mhost, I’ve decided to forget about the .com domain and shift to .net!
It’s been a dark couple of weeks, but now that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and the dust has settled, what emerges from the ashes is the my new domain rvdavid.net. It’s a long story but I’ll tell the tale for those who want to read. Continue on to quickly review the way that 2mhost, the cheap web hosting company, services with customers.
update: I noticed that they have added a “why am I seeing this website?” link which is a mailto link to enom’s whois-help.info. Just so it’s known, my gripe is not because my domain has expired. What makes this thing sour for me is that 2mhost had/is deliberately ignoring my attempts to contact them to achieve the resolution that I as a once paying customer deserve. – At the time, I coudln’t access the rvdavid.com domain through enom since 2mhost is the registered reseller – no other routes to take aside from dealing with 2mhost directly – who don’t answer my emails – am I asking them to bend over backwards? no way! but ffs guys, respond to emails.
You had no problems replying to emails when I was a brand new sale! anyway… the story goes…
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Sporadic Server Down Times with 2M Host
December 11th, 2006“Quality Cheap Hosting” is slowly becoming one of those marketing buzzwords that no one will eventually believe. Last night was an extremely frustrating, “kill an innocent looking animal” moment for me. I had time to do some things on my Web Site, did some changes messed around with copy and when the time came to view it live, guess what? My site was down. I thought well this is probably the .01% of the time when it’s down. I decided to leave it for a few hours. Tried again, it was still down.
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