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7/8/2012 4:06 AM
 
They are crazy i have 3 hosting with that and how they treat the customer bulshit they said why you are wasting my time when i asked him why you did not put the Default pool memory size 100MB in plan

Our site is down down and down many time because of memory issue and they charge hidden cost for it man that's sucks

Before that i recomend DNN4less but now there support is highly sucks

First website
http://sjahi.org.ultrafastdnn.com/alumni/en-us/home.aspx

Second website
www.arabiangateway.com

third
http://www.gulf-depot.com/

Don't go with these guys then you must pay again and again if you are running the good visitor website

Rashid Bilgrami
 
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7/8/2012 11:48 AM
 

Anybody had problems with their websites failing because of rampant Malware on thier server(s)?

I just had 5 websites get clobbered over the last few days and I'm still trying to recover.  Most of the sites had .JS files missing from the /js folder and others.  I'm assuming that thier virus/malware scanner did this.  Would have been nice to get a heads up.

And after spending hours replacing missing .JS files, they have gotten deleted again in some cases.  I'm having to stay on top of all of these sites to make sure they still work. 

They also don't appear to be highly avaialble over the weekend.  Several times I've come in early on Saturday, found a problem, and then waited 4 or more hours for a response.  Live Chat is usually down or doesnt respond on the weekend .

 
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7/8/2012 12:19 PM
 

I can say without a doubt that DNN4Less has been the worst hosting experience I have ever had. I am on my second time around with them, to give a second chance. Many of the issues that were plaguing them in 2010, still plague them today. 

They are experiencing an outage as we speak and of course live chat is not available, and there phone goes unanswered as usual. 

I have a reseller account with them, and since before 7am PST, all of my clients emails are down, as well as the parralells control panel. I've submitted a trouble ticket and have still yet to hear back from them. There is no notice on there website about this downtime or any word on when things will be back to normal.

From a day to day operational note, there system never works as it's supposed to and they blame the issue on plesk. Each time a hosting account is created for a domain the first time, i have to contact support and wait for them to fix permission issues. Any time a change is made to the hosting account or ftp account is created, you have to contact them as well again. They will claim they have fixed it and it wont happen again each time... but it will happen again. You will also have to contact them to fix the webmail pointing each time a site is created since by default the webmail sub-domain will not function without a change made by dnn4less support.

You can sometimes wait many hours without any kind of response for when your site goes down and can expect snoody responses when you question why you have not heard back. 

For example, on august 10th at 9am I submitted a urgent level ticket because even after speaking with live help, I was unable to do database backups do to permission denied errors. At 10:40am I wrote them again because i noticed the tickets priorirty had been downgraded to low, with no response or eta on resolution.  I stated the following "This is critical to the success of our website and business. If we are not going to be able to backup the database, then refund the hosting cost and we will find another provider.

If you guys have the time to change the priority level of the ticket, then you have the time to respond back with an ETA."

and the response I got back at 5pm that day was. "NO need to be rough here, sometimes things takes time to be resolved, You should be partience." 

Is it really to much to ask to give customers an ETA?

But here is the truth of the matter in the end. If you need a low cost hosting provider for your budget customers and you're not overly worried about getting support in a reasonable amount of time, not worried about reliable uptime, don't care if you can speak to a real person or not and don't mind plaguing issues that never get fixed. Than they are the hosting partner for you.  I do have to say there  billing team is fantastic though 

I personally  will be moving my low budget customers to a new provider in the coming weeks. I keep all my high priority customers hosted with Rackspace.

I do find it interesting that  there is names familiar in this thread who are support agents at DNN4less, who are posing as customers writing a good review.

 
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7/19/2012 10:54 PM
 

We  have 1 VPS with DNN4LESS & I agree that their support ain't that good (still better than the experience we had with PowerDNN though).

My server admin guy has just forwarded me some emails from dnn4less - this is the first one (there are plenty more but this will give you an idea):

Greetings

We are contacting you to inform you that we are having some hardware issues with your Virtual Private Server cluster (VIC1019) in USA Data Center, your VPS must have to be migrated to the new VPS cluster.

Sometimes next week your account executive will contact you to discuss this migration.

We are sorry for this inconvenience and highly appreciate your co-operation. If you have any question please get in touch with your account executive.

Basically dnn4less are moving hosts (their original host was fasthost & their new host is singlehop).

My issue is that they are excepting us to move all our sites on their VPS to their new host for them. I really think that this is unfair. They are moving host which means that they should be moving either our entire VPS (just copy the entire VPS & restore it on their new provider) or every site on it one by one (like they are wanting us to do).

If we move hosts (like we might being about to do) we do not make our customers move their sites into our new hosting infrastructure (it is our decision to move hosts so it is our problem all our sites not our customers).

Anyone recommend a good host (not powerdnn)?

 
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7/19/2012 11:01 PM
 

I should also mention that dnn4less has not really be honest about them moving hosts. First they said there was hardware issues & then they pointed out the plesk vulnerability (which we are all patched & password changed - so this doesn't affect us anymore).

I also don't see the point of wasting money now migrating to a new server now when Windows Server 2008 is out in just over a month (we are planning to upgrade to this anyway).

 
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