New host sought...

> > Ahhh that server is run by vagusnet and is nothing /really/ to do with
us.
> > Move to server 1, 2 or 4 and I can guarantee uptime
>
>
> If you're putting your customers on server #3, then it has everything to
do
> with you. Your customers don't choose which server you put them on, you
do.

No, customers have the choice about which server they signup to.

Hi,

I'm the owner of the server this guy is hosted on.

Our terms and conditions are very easy to abide by.

You must have a website, not a coming soon page for more than a few days,
and you must have one text link.

In return you get:
200mb space, 2 gig bandwidth and 5x Mysql database and cpanel. loads of
other sutff.

Stuffmongers.com on more than one occasion failed ot abide by terms and
conditions.

They were warned on two occasions and given notice of acount deletion if no
changes were made within a week.

Our server has had 100% uptime for the last month.

Regards,

Gareth Williams,

Staghosting Staff
"Les &/or Claire" <les.clairefrontallobes@virgin.net> wrote in message
news:2k8qpsF18p5m6U1@uni-berlin.de...
> Hi All,
> currently with Staghosting but it's turning out to be pants!
I
> keep their banner ads up, compulsory links live, and they keep having
these
> long outages. Anyone know of a better one? I'm happy to abide by the
rules,
> I just want my page up!
>
> Les
>
> --
> http://www.stuffmongers.com
>
> "Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission
> natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep
within
> ourselves and decide what we wish to become."
> Edward O. Wilson
> Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge
>
> Remove frontal lobes to reply from a NG
>
>
>
>

> Sven wrote:
> >
> > Can you confirm what server you're on please?
>
> Sven, I just tried to read the replies to my parting post in your forum
for
> server 3 but can't reach your site. Is the whole kaboodle down now?
>
> les

Les, following the comments posted in our forums:
We're offering a free service here.

As implied in the terms it comes with no guarantees or warranties. However
it has good uptime. We run this service in our own time, mostly our spare
time.

If it's down then that's normally because someone is abusing our service,
it's not down for very long.

I've spent many a night working until the early hours fixing problems and
ensuring our clients sites are up. Don't forget this service is free, we
literally get no money from this.

It costs us hundreds of pounds per month, that's no exaggeration, lie or
boast.

So it upsets me when someone is malicious or rude to us. Especially after
(from what I'm told) they didn't abide by the rules.

We don't ask for much. And I feel we've been just in the action we've taken.

I'm sorry you feel the way you do but I take exception to your comments.
Which I feel are unjust and undeserved.

You have two options,

You can give us another chance (obviously if you adhere to the rules)
You can find another free host that offers more than we do

Sven wrote:
>> Sven wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you confirm what server you're on please?
>>
>> Sven, I just tried to read the replies to my parting post in your
>> forum for server 3 but can't reach your site. Is the whole kaboodle
>> down now?
>>
>> les
>
> Les, following the comments posted in our forums:
> We're offering a free service here.
>
> As implied in the terms it comes with no guarantees or warranties.
> However it has good uptime. We run this service in our own time,
> mostly our spare time.
>
> If it's down then that's normally because someone is abusing our
> service, it's not down for very long.
>
> I've spent many a night working until the early hours fixing problems
> and ensuring our clients sites are up. Don't forget this service is
> free, we literally get no money from this.
>
> It costs us hundreds of pounds per month, that's no exaggeration, lie
> or boast.
>
> So it upsets me when someone is malicious or rude to us. Especially
> after (from what I'm told) they didn't abide by the rules.
>
> We don't ask for much. And I feel we've been just in the action we've
> taken.
>
> I'm sorry you feel the way you do but I take exception to your
> comments. Which I feel are unjust and undeserved.
>
> You have two options,
>
> You can give us another chance (obviously if you adhere to the rules)
> You can find another free host that offers more than we do


Nice of you to reply, shame you didn't take the time to write when you
pulled our site. but then email was a hassle too far for you lots wasn't
it? I just thought it was another outage caused by you guys being hacked
again.
Look, if i'd wanted to do the online version of disneyworld i'd have paid
for my hosting. But i'm just a normal chap who wants a page up with a few
links and a few things that interest me and some others. There was links to
our ebay stuff, a lightning detector that showed, in realtime, lightning
strikes over the whole UK in graphical form updated every 5 mins. ( that
has to be worth a page by itself, or perhaps i'm just a sad weather geek!
always a possibility! ) a page of information and links about current virus
threats and hoaxes courtesy of Sophos, also very current and updated daily.
There was a mailto link to ourselves and a counter... just a bog standard
page really.

I had the compulory link to vagusnet ( vagus? isn't that the name of the
nerve in the human body that controls vomiting? worth a google i think... )
on there, plus the optional "earn more brownie points" banner ad.... didn't
help though did it? Plus, i couldn't bring myself to join in the chorus of
sycophants who were ever so thankful, and i mean creepily thankful, for
their sites being hacked, wiped, let back in again, down again... it went
on and on.

Look, this sounds awful typed out, but we're just a couple who wanted a
little page up so we could add a link to our email sig and people could find
our stuff, or check out the storms accross the uk, or mail us or look at a
picture we wanted to show them, or play a sound file we wanted to share.....
i'm sure this is just normal bread and butter stuff. When we got our first
domain name we were pretty damn exited, but now i'm just glad to be done
with staghosting.

Perhaps we wanted too much? that's for others to say... but there you
go... that's the way it was, and now i'm looking for a friendly home for a
provincial little page...

Les and Claire







" Edward O. Wilson
Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge

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Sven wrote:
> You have two options,
>
> You can give us another chance (obviously if you adhere to the rules)
> You can find another free host that offers more than we do


Sven, i'm not the only one... I received this yesterday from another client
of yours...

"I just read your topic from StagHosting saying you were leaving. I totally
agree with you but I can't fine another ****in host.
It's stupid really."

Les







--
http://www.stuffmongers.com

"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission
natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep
within ourselves and decide what we wish to become." Edward O. Wilson
Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge

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On 3 Jul 2004 in alt.freewebhosting, "Les &/or Claire" wrote:

> Perhaps we wanted too much? that's for others to say...

so being nosey, what was the reason your site was pulled ?

I read but might not have spotted the problem content, if there was
something clearly at odds with the T+C. Servers do get trashed and
that's something which outsiders do and users need to be tolerant
of (and you do keep your own backup, right ?!?!) so it should be
just some downtime and the ability to put files back online in a
matter of hours/days.

On 04 Jul 2004 in alt.freewebhosting, I wrote:

>so being nosey, what was the reason your site was pulled ?

sorry, just seen the posting from vagusnet but none the wiser as
to what actual condition was broken... academic really but as I
indicated, I was just being nosey :-) Peter M.

PS Happy Holiday to anyone celebrating, today :-)

poster wrote:
> On 3 Jul 2004 in alt.freewebhosting, "Les &/or Claire" wrote:
>
>> Perhaps we wanted too much? that's for others to say...
>
> so being nosey, what was the reason your site was pulled ?
>
> I read but might not have spotted the problem content, if there was
> something clearly at odds with the T+C. Servers do get trashed and
> that's something which outsiders do and users need to be tolerant
> of (and you do keep your own backup, right ?!?!) so it should be
> just some downtime and the ability to put files back online in a
> matter of hours/days.

It seems there wasn't enough content for them. No content and not updated...
but we were happy with it as it was. No need to update, it did all we
wanted.........

yes, we have it backed up...... ready to go.....

Les and Claire



--
http://www.stuffmongers.com

"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission
natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep
within ourselves and decide what we wish to become." Edward O. Wilson
Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge

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Sven wrote:
>
> Les, following the comments posted in our forums:

I just went to your forums, your site appears to be working again, and it
seems not only have you edited the title of my leaving post away from "I am
Leaving this Ship of Fools" but you have also removed my posting rights. Are
you afraid of healthy debate?

Les

--
http://www.stuffmongers.com

"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission
natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep
within ourselves and decide what we wish to become." Edward O. Wilson
Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge

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On 03 Jul 2004 in alt.freewebhosting, "Sven" wrote:

>Ahhh that server is run by vagusnet and is nothing /really/ to do with us.

If it is nothing much to do with you, why link to that server ?