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And 2 more times at night my site was down... it's just horrible.
Hostwinds are becoming a nightmare
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Since it's alternating down/up/down/up/down/up precisely I'm guessing Hostwinds is blocking/unblocking the IP doing the testing.
Connection timeout often indicates a firewall rule kicked in.
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Had a situation in the past where they charged me twice a month for no reason so I left but never experienced down time with them.
JinxerCraft
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What's the tool you're using to track downtime?
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Always look for DDoS Protected Hosting, never go with one without ddos protection.
Switch to one of this, you will be fine.
javapipe.com (Know-how about DDoS, they deal great with it, they have reverse proxy to protect it).
fastpipe.io
Blazingfast.io
BuyVM (Nice support, good network, know-how and Cloudflare Magic IP Transit against DDoS, wonderful)
OVH (Bad support, good for large attacks)
If you want support to fight against DDoS, Javapipe is a good choice.
Always read their TOS and AUP.
Also it isn't only for DDoS Attacks, but for normal hosting projects. Should be good for those who have plenty websites. Buy dedicated server and host them on these Hostings.
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I hope, you're right here.
But that over 3 hour downtime, the site was actually down as I personally tried.
I actually have a number of notices in gsc about downtime as well (from before).
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What is that and is there a way to track the downtime ?
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There are much better options out there which are probably way cheaper and better since you have a simple website which doesn't utilize a lot of bandwidth.
So, there's no reason to stick with them if you don't like their service.
So, there's no reason to stick with them if you don't like their service.
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yes, it tracks server downtime.
Totally agree... that's why I'm switching shortly.
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Your firewall might be kicking in for some reason.
There's lots of possibilities.
Talk to other hostwinds customers, on stackoverflow or something, ask if they're seeing the same thing.
If your case was generalized, there's likely a lot of noise about it online. Twitter, etc.
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If someone are looking for new home, you should take a look in this usefuk thread
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/list-of-real-offshore-hostings.1028412/
You will find something that fits for you, cheap prices VPS etc. Always read Terms of service and AUP.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/list-of-real-offshore-hostings.1028412/
You will find something that fits for you, cheap prices VPS etc. Always read Terms of service and AUP.
in June I get an email stating my website is down from a customer. I go and check and ALL OF MY DOMAINS databases and content had been wiped off the Hostwind servers. I contact support and they said they didnt have any backups to restore. I didnt have local backups either. I had just renewed the month prior.
I went to support asking for a refund and I got prorated refund within a week. This would have been a good customer service story if it ended here..
it doesn't. .
Well, this morning, now a month after I canceled my account Hostwind charged my credit card $200. The invoice says its for hosting even though my account has a status of canceled. I submitted a ticket to billing immediately and haven't heard a response or received a refund. I tried calling support and it requests you submit a ticket.
I called my bank to dispute the charge.
Hostwind has gone to shit.
I went to support asking for a refund and I got prorated refund within a week. This would have been a good customer service story if it ended here..
it doesn't. .
Well, this morning, now a month after I canceled my account Hostwind charged my credit card $200. The invoice says its for hosting even though my account has a status of canceled. I submitted a ticket to billing immediately and haven't heard a response or received a refund. I tried calling support and it requests you submit a ticket.
I called my bank to dispute the charge.
Hostwind has gone to shit.
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same here!
Been with them for 10 years now, since last year they migrate their service to something else and charged me more for nothing much extra.
Its where shit hit the fan. I host around 10 domains there and sometimes email not sent successfully, which costing me some misunderstanding with my client or something else is broken ugh!!
It a hassle to move everything elsewhere.
Been with them for 10 years now, since last year they migrate their service to something else and charged me more for nothing much extra.
Its where shit hit the fan. I host around 10 domains there and sometimes email not sent successfully, which costing me some misunderstanding with my client or something else is broken ugh!!
It a hassle to move everything elsewhere.
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Normal sites dude
Why does anybody still use them?
- They are NOT the cheapest
- They are not the best
Now with that in mind, their prices are at best mediocre and performance is total BS...
- Log into Cpanel check your limits, see a bunch of orange and red? Welcome to Hostwinds
- I had a promo froM BF years ago, with autopay by PayPal. These fools managed to remove that many times, resulting in suspended hosting for non-payment because now the monthly charge was higher than the billing agreement. I mean how fucking hard is it to apply the recurring discount?
Anyway, left, as once again without super discount their prices suck and you can get VPS or other providers at much better prices.
And lol as someone posted above, last year when they migrated to new servers, no more discount at all so just left as their service is not worth much at all, let alone if you have important sites just use Google Cloud/AWS or the many other ones that may still not be the best, but surely they are all better than hostwinds...
Only thing missing is they get bought by EIG lol
- They are NOT the cheapest
- They are not the best
Now with that in mind, their prices are at best mediocre and performance is total BS...
- Log into Cpanel check your limits, see a bunch of orange and red? Welcome to Hostwinds
- I had a promo froM BF years ago, with autopay by PayPal. These fools managed to remove that many times, resulting in suspended hosting for non-payment because now the monthly charge was higher than the billing agreement. I mean how fucking hard is it to apply the recurring discount?
Anyway, left, as once again without super discount their prices suck and you can get VPS or other providers at much better prices.
And lol as someone posted above, last year when they migrated to new servers, no more discount at all so just left as their service is not worth much at all, let alone if you have important sites just use Google Cloud/AWS or the many other ones that may still not be the best, but surely they are all better than hostwinds...
Only thing missing is they get bought by EIG lol