Downtime: Dec. 31, 2006

[3dGameMan]

My host (http://www.midphase.com) was down once again today. This has been 3 times of downtime this month (Dec 2006). Unacceptable service that's for sure.

We are hoping to move the site to a dedicated server next month (Jan 2007). More details on this later.

[efernandez_98]

First!

Bow chika bow wow! :lmao

[JesterX]

robodude mentioned that you can get credit for the month:
* If midPhase fails to provide 99.9% uptime, you will receive a credit of one month. For full guarantee details please see our Terms of Service agreement.

Operation restored at 2006-12-31 14:13:55.

Url was down as a resultat of:

Http error:Unix.Unix_error(_, "check_connect", "www.3dgameman.com:80:No route to host")

Error was detected at 2006-12-31 13:26:38

Downtime total 47 min(s) 17 sec(s).

Edit: Thats 1 hour and 7 minutes today

[Tivon]

My host (http://www.midphase.com) was down once again today. This has been 3 times of downtime this month (Dec 2006). Unacceptable service that's for sure.

We are hoping to move the site to a dedicated server next month (Jan 2007). More details on this later.

What a Joke they have become. :negative

[Tivon]

robodude mentioned that you can get credit for the month:


Operation restored at 2006-12-31 14:13:55.

Url was down as a resultat of:

Http error:Unix.Unix_error(_, "check_connect", "www.3dgameman.com:80:No route to host")

Error was detected at 2006-12-31 13:26:38

Downtime total 47 min(s) 17 sec(s).

Edit: Thats 1 hour and 7 minutes today

What good is credit on a down server?:bootyshak

[3dGameMan]

What good is credit on a down server?:bootyshak
Exactly, credit is BS!

[robodude666]

What good is credit on a down server?:bootyshak

Good point. Maybe Rodney can get a refund for this month? He could use it for setup fees for dedicated box.

[3dGameMan]

BTW: For 3-4 days downtime in the month of Dec (2006) they offered me 1/2 month CREDIT. Credit is next to useless if I'm leaving them!

[robodude666]

wow.. they are gay...

4 days of downtime is actually 98.9% ( ((365-4)/365) * 100)
Post a testimonial on their forums (again) and mention that you had 98.9% uptime and you were offered only 1/2month credit.
Oh, out of this month you only had 87% uptime.

[JesterX]

BTW: For 3-4 days downtime in the month of Dec (2006) they offered me 1/2 month CREDIT. Credit is next to useless if I'm leaving them!

I understand your frustration, I had shared hosting for almost 3 years and I got sick and tired of the excuses (hd died 3 times, though they have raid, PSU died, Ethernet cable failed, etc).

[3dGameMan]

wow.. they are gay...

4 days of downtime is actually 98.9% ( ((365-4)/365) * 100)
Post a testimonial on their forums (again) and mention that you had 98.9% uptime and you were offered only 1/2month credit.
Oh, out of this month you only had 87% uptime.
Useless to post anything like that on their site. The mods will just remove it. I started a thread over there and many people posted things midphase didn't like, so they removed them. That post is now closed over there. So nothing you can really do except leave them.

[JesterX]

wow.. they are gay...

4 days of downtime is actually 98.9% ( ((365-4)/365) * 100)
Post a testimonial on their forums (again) and mention that you had 98.9% uptime and you were offered only 1/2month credit.
Oh, out of this month you only had 87% uptime.

Right now, uptime is 89.58% for the month, not including today's downtime.

[robodude666]

Useless to post anything like that on their site. The mods will just remove it. I started a thread over there and many people posted things midphase didn't like, so they removed them. That post is now closed over there. So nothing you can really do except leave them.

Wow! We are still in the USSR?
Post a topic and then take a screenshot of it. Then post that screenshot everywhere. Or spam them :food If you need a spam-bot, I got a few scripts :P

[JesterX]

A lot of these hosts have ***** systems administrators
They don't even know how to secure their systems. Often times, they run their servers with well little or no security (SSH v1 enabled, cPanel and WHM not up2date, no firewall!)

So if some little kid runs bomb.sh or perl, they go down and its fairly easy since they don't really monitor their systems that much.

[robodude666]

Yea I know. A lot of hosting companies I seen are ran by little 13 year old kids who know nothing about security, networking, servers, or anything at all so they don't bother.

Whats bomb.sh btw? I never heard of it.

[borschtBomber[SS]]

wow, that is just rediculous, no way should you have all that downtime. And they only offered a 1/2 month credit? Give me a break, thats horrible customer service to go along with the horrible hosting service.

[JesterX]

Yea I know. A lot of hosting companies I seen are ran by little 13 year old kids who know nothing about security, networking, servers, or anything at all so they don't bother.

Whats bomb.sh btw? I never heard of it.

Forkbombs.....

Basically a program that keeps spawning (running itself) over and over, create more and more processes until the server dies.
Most web hosts don't have resource limits enabled on users, so users can used 100% of resources. The ideal is to limit how many processes a user can run, so that even if they run a forkbomb, its essentially useless.

[JesterX]

']wow, that is just rediculous, no way should you have all that downtime. And they only offered a 1/2 month credit? Give me a break, thats horrible customer service to go along with the horrible hosting service.

You should checkout their reviews :lmao

http://www.webhostingjury.com/reviews/midPhase

[StylesCD]

What good is credit on a down server?:bootyshak
its free ?

[StylesCD]

Wow! We are still in the USSR?
Post a topic and then take a screenshot of it. Then post that screenshot everywhere. Or spam them :food If you need a spam-bot, I got a few scripts :P
hey don't be insulting my contry,

BTW censorism is patriotic and good for buisness :P

[robodude666]

Well, they got like 2 or so 5/5s :P

hey don't be insulting my contry,

BTW censorism is patriotic and good for buisness :P


I ain't insulting no ones country :) Its my country too so *blows raspberry*
*pets country*

[3dGameMan]

You should checkout their reviews :lmao

http://www.webhostingjury.com/reviews/midPhase
There are reviews like this all over the net. I wish I had know this. I trusted my last hosting company to move me to a reliable but affordable host. www.Midphase.com is anything but reliable.

[altgamer]

Yeah, the downtime is ridiculous.
After what I've read about midPhase, it seems the only thing that is reliable about them, is the fact the sites they host are reliably down alot.

As Tivon said, what good is credit on a down server?

And JesterX, thanks for the link. I only knew of a couple of sites like that for reviews, including webhostingtalk. I bookmarked webhostingjury incase I ever need it. :)

[JesterX]

Webhostingtalk is excellent, you should also post there before considering a host.

[Kindom934]

crazy reviews....

The reviews tell otherwise what the site promises.

[Ultimate Gamer]

Wow! We are still in the USSR?
Post a topic and then take a screenshot of it. Then post that screenshot everywhere. Or spam them :food If you need a spam-bot, I got a few scripts :P

i got a spam bot too

[JesterX]

crazy reviews....

The reviews tell otherwise what the site promises.

You can promise anything and break that promise. A promise is only a promise, not a contract.

[robodude666]

You can promise anything and break that promise. A promise is only a promise, not a contract.

Correct, and when rodney signed up he signed a contract with midphase. In this contract (TOS) it says that if he doesnt get 99.9% uptime he gets a free month ;)

[Tivon]

There are reviews like this all over the net. I wish I had know this. I trusted my last hosting company to move me to a reliable but affordable host. www.Midphase.com is anything but reliable.

I had a feeling that most of that was true after posting in their forums for a while. I wish there was away to bring them down after we get setup someplace else.

[Tivon]

i got a spam bot too

I'm always watching these spam bots.. some day I'll figure out who is sending these into our forums and I'll do nasty things to them in the dark that makes them wish life was over.

[robodude666]

I'm always watching these spam bots.. some day I'll figure out who is sending these into our forums and I'll do nasty things to them in the dark that makes them wish life was over.

Oh dear, oh my! UG, watch out :P