Great Deal For Node 7 August 10, 2009
Posted by ismywebsite in general.Tags: abusing, allotment, august 5th, bandwidth, canadian, capacity, client, disable, highlayer, hosting, layer 0, node 7, overselling, plan, rapid, space, steven
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So, around August 5th, I get the following:
Due to several clients abusing our overselling option, we have decided to disable it. Your current plan (Layer 10), which has 5GB Space/50GB Bandwidth will be increased to 10GB Space/100GB Bandwidth.
Therefore, we request that you limit your clients allocated space/bandwidth so that it does not surpass the 10GB Space/100GB Bandwidth that you have been allocated. Once you have completed this task, please contact us. We will then disable the overselling option for your account. We hope that you will cooperate with us during this process.
As expected, we were one of the clients exceeding our allotment and ‘abusing’ their service, in fact using twice what we were allowed. Most of it, however, developed from the rapid growth of one website within our service.
Steven, on their support channel, was very helpful to resolve this issue, and we finally cracked a deal whereby we now have access to double the storage and bandwidth, and overselling, with an upgrade to get yet another doubling of the storage and bandwidth.
So our capacity has quadrupled for a small cost of $10.00, and we have kept our relations with this excellent Canadian hosting company HighLayer through an exclusive deal. Just another way to make the most of what we have.
Bringing Our Hosting Back To Earth May 23, 2009
Posted by ismywebsite in general.Tags: addon, ads, application, backup, domains, downtime, earth, features, galaxy, galaxy-hosts, galaxyhost, galaxyhosts, hosting, hosts, nameservers, node 4, node 7, node4, parked, regular, reliability, security, support, tutorials, uptime, volunteers
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Hey everyone,
Well, I hate to not have much notice for something this major, and this has been in the works for quite some time, but just now it has been finalized. We will be dropping Galaxy Hosts as our service provider for Node 4.
I understand that many of you will probably want to know the reasons, and there are many. Here’s just a quick tour of the service we experienced from this company from various angles:
Reliability
One thing could always be counted on. There would never be a consecutive string of 3 days without downtime. We did achieve a couple, and at least we haven’t dipped below 90% in average overall uptime. This was largely due to server crashes from a large server load, yet we offered many practical solutions that would help solve the problem. None were accepted.Security
How’s a major security hole, enabling anyone to gain the equivalent of root access? Well, in due fairness, they did fix it, eventually, after we pointed it out to them and gave them some guidance as well. For a company that’s been at this 2 years, they overall did not appear very competent in the area of server security and handling, and also refused to accept any help or suggestions, which would have really been mutually beneficial.Features
Unlimited bandwidth, quota, and features were mandatory, due to a cPanel glitch. Despite our being well within our limit of space used, they would not enable overselling to fix the glitch, despite our repeated requests to upgrade to an account with it enabled. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the Addon and Parked Domains did not default to zero, but alas they did so we had to move many users off for that very reason. Not impressed at all.Support
For the first week or so we were using them, support was excellent. They welcomed us to their hosting, and warmly greeted us. Finally, they realized we actually wanted to use the full extent of what they offered, and problems started to creep up. Before long, there wasn’t even a working support panel to communicate with them, and you couldn’t always be sure they even got your message.
Many of you will have personally experienced many of these problems, and many of them build on one another. We find this service is simply not of sufficient quality, and you as our clients deserve better. Lucky for you, it’s really not all that difficult to find a higher quality service. I could look just about anywhere.
What this means for every user on this node currently, is the following:
1) You should already be taking regular backups of your account, especially on an unreliable node such as this one. If you don’t know how to make backups, there is a tutorial in the ‘Tutorials’ section of your account. Be taking backups daily throughout this period. We can restore your account, and have plenty of hosting space, but we may not be able to restore any lost data.
2) For all users who have valid ads placed, we will be (hopefully) relocating your accounts to another node. I will be assembling a team of volunteers to assist with this. If you are interested, and you’ve submitted a volunteer application, then just reply to this blog post.
3) If all goes well, we will start transfering the accounts to our newest Node 7, which should be set up shortly. The transfer will happen through May 25th and 26th, and will only happen to accounts with valid ads placed. Nameservers will need to be updated if you have a domain. The new nameservers are as follows:
ns1.ismyws.com
ns2.ismyws.com
4) All remaining accounts on this server will be permanently gone on May 27th, or within a short period of time thereafter. If your account does not have valid ads placed, we offer no guarantees of any kind. All clients should have ads placed, and if you have difficulties with this, just ask and we will be glad to assist.
Reserve Your Seat Today July 7, 2008
Posted by ismywebsite in features, innovation, insane, uptime.Tags: 2.5 Ghz, 3323, addition, antony, bad, bandwidth, cgi, clients, company, continue, core2quad, cpanel, crissic, cron jobs, dedicated, delivery, dell, discount, enterprise, fantastico, features, finished\building, future, good, highest, hosting, improving, income, incredible, instructions, intel, ismywebs, long-term, mysql, news, node 8, offerings, perl, php, powerful, private, profits, quadcore, rails, relationship, reputable, review, ruby, ruby on rails, rv site builder, server, servers, skylar, solid, solutions, storage, top-notch, upgrade, virtual, vps, xeon
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I’ve just talked to Skylar from Crissic Solutions, and I’ve got some good news and some bad news. First, the bad news:
“We cannot get your Core2Quad from Dell.”
Now, the good news:
“That means we upgrade you free to a Quadcore Xeon.”
Quadcore Xeons are exactly the same high-end servers originally promised to us by Antony. Of course, we only have one of them instead of 5, but this one is offered to us by a reputable company, with a solid delivery date of 2 weeks.
Here are all the features our server comes with:
Intel Xeon Quadcore 3323 (2.5Ghz)
4GB DDR2 RAM
500GB SATA II Hard Drive
2000GB Bandwidth on a 100MBPS full duplex line
4 IP addresses
If you look at the dedicated server offerings for Crissic Solutions, you’ll see the highest server as ‘Intel Enterprise’. This is a server not even typically offered by them. Just to give an impression of how powerful this server is, Skylar typically runs 20 VPSs (Virtual Private Servers) with just one of these servers. Skylar has mentioned that this server could run all, or nearly all, of our current accounts.
Because of our long-term relationship with their company, we are being offered an incredible discount for the server, however this is still a greater cost than our income. As most of you know, since I’m sure I’ve said this so many times, our earnings could be an estimated 9 times as high if everyone placed valid ads on their site. (We could afford 3 of these servers with that.) I think it’s only fair to provide our top-notch server to those clients who are doing their part to make sure we can continue hosting long into the future.
The conditions are not at all tough:
- Have finished building your website.
- Have placed proper valid ads on your website.
- Have submitted your website for review on our forums.
In addition, if you do the above, your account will be on the Improving stage with lots of extra features, 5 times the storage and bandwidth, Ruby on Rails*, and even more on top of what you already have.
Check your account’s ‘Hosting’ section for a new ‘Upgrade’ page. Websites on the Improving stage or higher will be moved ot the new server when it comes online.
What is happening to Node 8?
Node 8 will be moved to be hosted on the server, however it will still use the domain ismywebs.com. No new accounts will be allowed onto Node 8 in the future.
What do I do to upgrade?
You can just go to the ‘Hosting’ section of your account and click the ‘Upgrade’ button. Follow the instructions there.
How do I transfer to the new server?
Transfer will happen automatically once the new server is online. You earned it.
What happens to people not on the server?
Nothing at all. Your account will still have the same relative reliabiliy, and be subject to whatever company manages your node. With the server from Crissic, we will have more control over how it is set up and your accounts.
What will my domain of the new server be?
This server will use the domain ismywebsite.com. For those who use their node’s domain when advertising their site, it is good to get back into the practice of using yoursite.ismywebsite.com. This domain will almost always work to access the site.
What happens to new accounts registered now?
New accounts will still be created on one of the nodes. Once they meet the above requirements, they will move onto the big server. Empty accounts will be removed after 30 days, and accounts with content after 150. (I should think 5 months is more than enough time to complete the above.) Once you are on the new server, there will be no account removal unless requested by the client.
Does the new server have cPanel, Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, Fantastico, RV Site Builder, CGI, Perl, Cron Jobs, or any other feature?
It should have all of those except for RV Site Builder, which will be available once we are making a profit exceeding $30/mo again.
Should I still back up my site files on the new server?
We have a back up system in place, but the answer is still yes. Always have a backup, even if you’re hosted with a reliable company like Crissic Solutions in a datacenter guaranteeing 99.999% uptime.
How many accounts will the server fit?
More than enough for everyone who wants to meet the above requirements.
*Ruby on Rails is not available on all nodes. If you require it, you can request to be transfered to another node.
We Exist Again! June 24, 2008
Posted by ismywebsite in marketting, volunteer.Tags: clients, empty, establish, free, free-webhosts, freewebspace, hosting, ismywebsite, nodes, officially, ourselves, rate, resources, sites, space, spread, web
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Finally, I have received word that we are officially back on the listing of free web hosting sites at Free-WebHosts!
If you feel inclined, you can drop by and rate us 10/10 here:
http://www.free-webhosts.com/reviews/IsMyWebsite.php
I am also looking at other resources where we can establish ourselves. As always, there are tons of potential clients looking for free hosting at FreeWebSpace. Maybe someone can help us answer all the topics there.
Be sure to help spread the word in as many ways as possible at this time. We have 3 nodes which are almost completely empty so there is lots of room to fit your friends.
Node 7 Suspension June 18, 2008
Posted by ismywebsite in conflict, downtime, insane.Tags: 703, accounts, company, decision, free, hosted, hosting, involving, iwhic, mess, node, prohibited, service, seventh, suspended, terms, visitors
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It’s a mess involving 703 of our websites, all of who are hosted on the seventh node. The company behind the node, Iwhic, which originally promised us they would allow free hosting, has reconsidered. Our access to manage the accounts hosted there has effectively been removed, with the suspension of our account.
They have now given us 2 weeks to move all data over to another node. On a positive note, this means all of our node domains will now be more consistent. There is sufficient storage on nodes 10 and 11 to fit all of these accounts with still extra room.
Stuck With Unlimited On DeiseHost June 5, 2008
Posted by ismywebsite in conflict, features.Tags: curse, deise, deisehost, delayed, email, enabled, forums, freewebspace, hosting, overselling, requested, strict, thread, unlimited
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I’d like to apologize on behalf of DeiseHost’s strict ‘no overselling’ policy. As you will see here, hosting with Overselling Enabled was not only initially requested, but at the top of our list. Dan from DeiseHost has replied offering their services.
http://freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2208334
Unfortunately I received a recent email. (Delayed I may add.)
I am sorry but we do not allow Overselling.
Regards,
Dan
Now we’re stuck with unlimited hosting (the default) for all our clients and there’s no way to change that since no matter what move we take, we’ve still exceeded our allotment by infinity. Here’s a follow-up:
May i firstly like to quote what dan actually said to you in this post.
“Hello,
DeiseHost.Com can offer you the following:
5 GB Disc Space
50 GB Data Transfer
cPanel/WHM 11
Fantastico De Luxe
Unlimited Features
Host Unlimited Accounts
24/7 Dedicated and Friendly SupportMonthly Price: $8.99”
no where in that did Dan offer you overselling. Therefore you chose to select this offer on the basis of what Dan offered you here.
Kind Regards,
Neil Hickman.
Speaking of which, no other company does mention that they offer overselling or even PHP URL access. Isn’t it odd how all the others just had these features or else checked my requirements before replying. But, I guess, you are right. No where did you actually say you offered overselling.
The Node 4 No Overselling curse lives on. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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$190 Donation (Not Kidding) June 7, 2008
Posted by ismywebsite in features, insane, volunteer.Tags: $100, $190, accepted, addressed, average, backup, balance, bartlett, blog, bryan, clerical, comment, community, company, crash, customer, databases, deleted, designer, domain, donate, donated, earth, efficiency, email, environment, error, exchange, files, folded, foundation, free, hosting, ismywall, ismywebsite, large, months, node, nodes, paid, payments, paypal, permanently, problem, professional, professionalism, purpose, queue, responding, satisfaction, scripts, service, sql, supported, test, unobtrusive, valareos, vanished, website, year
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I didn’t actually believe this would go through. (In fact, I was recently promised another $100 donation that has yet to be paid.) But here it is, actually sitting in my PayPal balance. $190.
It started yesterday with a tiny comment on the blog:
Bryan Bartlett, username Valareos, issued the following statement about why he donated:
This is the first donation to ring through in months, and I really hopes it stirs up more. Donate like Valareos here.