Hosting company run off with my money!

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:22 pm

I have to pay $250 for hosting if i want it now. company ran iff with my money. they are twats. Looks like tritons site and PoD and bicostps site and gptheatre and that benheck mirror forum and a load of other stuff are going to go down

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:36 pm

Well, grab every file you can before it does!

Post by **gannon** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:39 pm

Exactly what I'm doing to PoD.
This is why it's a good thing to read and understand the TOS

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:48 pm

i did read. hes breaching my contract. and he is also the new hosting site that lieign bastard

xriverfalconx · Post by **xriverfalconx** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:49 pm

Wow...that's a lot of money. If anyone needs help with the websites, let me know. I still have space that isn't used much.

Post by **bicostp** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:51 pm

sam fisher wrote:i did read. hes breaching my contract. and he is also the new hosting site that lieign bastard

SUE. They're breaching your contract, and if it says they can't in your agreement then you've got groiunds for a lawsuit. Plus, didn't you pay on an annual basis? If so and there's still time left, then you're safe for now I guess

(At least ign the US, check your local laws in the UK)

Well I've got an entire backup of my site on my PC, and I can just go to Blogger for the blog, and my forum is off-site anyways.

(I'll make a backup of the benheck.gptheatre database)

Can you find another web host?
(rat bastard whoever-is-your-host-now)

Post by **gannon** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:52 pm

When I read the TOS last week, there were a few lines saying that there is no guaranteed hosting, and you can't legally take action against them for lack of hosting. Maybe they changed it since you signed up.

Post by **bicostp** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:54 pm

Right but wouldn't the contract he agreed to when he signed up still apply until he has to renew his service?

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:59 pm

i signed a older GlowFactory ToS all you could rad was the the GameFiber one. I will backup everything tomorrow if i can. Then i will try and fidn another host.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:07 pm

If you don't need unlimitedness...

Hostgator gives 10 gb space and 100 gb bandwidth for $14.95/month USD. I actually use them as my host

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:09 pm

i need unlimited and was paying $22 a year

Post by **bicostp** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:36 pm

Some halfway decent inexpensie web hosts:

<a href="http://www.ipowerweb.com/products/webho ... owerWeb</a> (Ben's site hosted here)

http://www.top10webhosting.com/ (a list of some good ones with comparison)

<a href="http://www.globat.com/">300 GB monthly bandwidth @ 7.95/mo is pretty good</a>

<a href="http://freeola.com/unlimited-free-web-space/">Freeola unlimited free.</a> Might be dicey though...

Post by **gannon** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:47 pm

$7.50/month 330GB/monthly, 7.5GB space http://www.servage.net/page/hosting_features/

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 3:39 am

problem is i have about 7 bg on there now
sometimes even 10gb!

Post by **Triton** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:32 pm

problem is that my site, if her was to keep hosting it, uses about 5-10GB of bandwidth A MONTH, sometimes more, its real hog, 30 a month is pretty good