I'm thinking of getting hosting from www.darkfiles.net. Has anyone had any experience with them or know anything about thier system.

Would you say they're a nay or yay on purchasing from them?

thx,
S

I don't like what I see and would suggest looking elsewhere.

Reasons are:

* No where on the site is there any real contact info except for one webmaster email link. A email form just doesn't cut it.
* Unsecured order process until you get forwarded to Paypal.
* No TOS/AUP
* Hosting plans which may be over selling

Also a simple whois lookup shows their domain is hosted by ANONCITIES.COM which in turn get's bounced to RackShack.net

Not an out fit I'd give my credit card number to. :eek:

Not to mention the price.

$3.00 for 500 megs of space and 8 gigs of bandwidth?

Here today, gone tomorrow.....

There is no contact details at all except for a formmail script. :eek:

This is why there is no such thing as a stupid question. WHOIS info alone says that these guys are to be avoided:


whois -h whois.crsnic.net darkfiles.net ...
Redirecting to GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.


Registrant:
Webmaster Darkfiles.Net
Darkfiles.Net
Webmaster
Webmaster, Washington 98100
United States

Registered through: Domain Names Express (http://www.domainnamesexpress.com/about.html)
Domain Name: DARKFILES.NET
Created on: 23-Mar-02
Expires on: 23-Mar-03
Last Updated on: 19-Oct-02

Administrative Contact:
Darkfiles.Net, Webmaster webmaster@darkfiles.net
Webmaster
Washington, Washington 98109
United States
(206) 555-5555 Fax --

Technical Contact:
Darkfiles.Net, Webmaster webmaster@darkfiles.net
Darkfiles.Net
1239 Bigelow Ave North
Seattle, Washington 98109
United States
(206) 999-9999 Fax --

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ANONCITIES.COM
NS2.ANONCITIES.COM

Not even on there own DNS :/

Originally posted by Watcher_TVI
Not to mention the price.
$3.00 for 500 megs of space and 8 gigs of bandwidth?
Here today, gone tomorrow.....

i can offer unlimited space and 8gb transfer for $4 a month. i don't see how i'll go out of business either. i can get a fairly big profit margin with that price

Originally posted by blueoasis


i can offer unlimited space and 8gb transfer for $4 a month. i don't see how i'll go out of business either. i can get a fairly big profit margin with that price


hahahahhahahahah nice joke!

.. that was a joke right ?

What I would do to get Chickens superpowers just for one day to match a couple ip's. :cool:

hahahaha...no :stickout: i really can offer it this cheap because i'm not here to make thousands of dollars! i really only want to make enough money to buy myself a few dvd's every week :D

I was hoping this was a joke but since it isn't.....

i can offer unlimited space and 8gb transfer for $4 a month. i don't see how i'll go out of business either. i can get a fairly big profit margin with that price

You're full of it!

I've never seen an "unlimited" harddrive so you are lying through your teeth telling me you can give me "unlimited" space.

I'd avoid you as well...

What size are your server hard drives?

Originally posted by Watcher_TVI
I was hoping this was a joke but since it isn't.....

You're full of it!

I've never seen an "unlimited" harddrive so you are lying through your teeth telling me you can give me "unlimited" space.

I'd avoid you as well...

well i'm sorry you don't like us, watcher_tv1. if the hard-drive gets full, we get more. at least i'm not saying i'm giving away "unlimited bandwidth".

thanks for asking phpcoder, our hard-drives are 60GB

i will answer any more questions!

You can only fit so many hard drives in a server but I guess you don't know that yet.

Actually, unlimited bandwidth on a server is possible if you could finance it. Unlimited space is not possible so yet again you prove your foolishness which suits us all down to the ground.

Ok I got 100 TeraBit's worth of data ....Want to give that to me for $4.00 a month?

Give me a break. It's not you I don't like it's deception. There is a limit to how many harddrives you'll buy for someone at 4.00 a month and saying otherwise is completely untrue....

Originally posted by NexDog
Actually, unlimited bandwidth on a server is possible if you could finance it. Unlimited space is not possible so yet again you prove your foolishness which suits us all down to the ground.

you seriously need to refer to a dictionary before you try to be smart again

bandwidth: a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel (yes i'm sure you can get infinite mbps)
transfer: the total amount of data transfered from one computer to another over a span of time

there's a big difference there buddy

Oh, go away. You won't see bandwidth used a term for transfer on our site. I was just using it as a generalisation - and your ethics still suck. :mad:

(yes i'm sure you can get infinite mbps)


Sure you can, it's right on the shelf next to those unlimited harddrives.......

Originally posted by Watcher_TVI
Ok I got 100 TeraBit's worth of data ....Want to give that to me for $4.00 a month?

Give me a break. It's not you I don't like it's deception. There is a limit to how many harddrives you'll buy for someone at 4.00 a month and saying otherwise is completely untrue....

bah, try uploading that and see what your ISP does to you :D.
anyway, i don't own the servers. i pay for accounts on a server, each with 10 gb of transfer and i can offer as much space as i want.
yes i can understand why you are not very happy and i'm sorry.
maybe i should rephrase it as unmetered webspace?

Josh, what's the link to your great hosting site? Is it related to Darkfiles.net? I'm lost.

maybe i should rephrase it as unmetered webspace?

Here is a radical thought.

Why don't you just try telling people the truth?

truth :eek:

Loser left just as I was ready to have fun. Damn.