I do believe so.

Apparently :rolleyes:

More info can be found at http://66.78.9.101/.

So last week the World Zone Pro servers crashed and everything was recovered in a reasonably short period of time - everything except CGI and PHP. For some of us it was down for four days.Thats pretty bad. And today? Well it looks like all my CGI scripts are down agian. What the F&%k! Im really starting to dislike this host.

Anyone else out having issues with World Zone Pro?

a service you should never go for.......
below quoted from their forums what clients have to say
"Much has been said about the dismal ways of wz - to sum up I will say that
1) It is unacceptable that a host should have problem so frequently - there is no guarantee now after what have happened that it wont be repeated ( all hosts have problem BUT NOT to this extreme level
2) Nonworking scripts,non-working mails( aol,domain), daily downtimes recorded by both internetseer and qwkmon, poor connectivity, and incorrect bandwidth measurements forcing people to leave in the recent past,most searchspidersnot recognizing wzpro-sites( what else I am leaving out ?)
3)if vdi is the one to blame then be sure that you guys were repeatedly warned in the old forums not to go with vdi - the member/s who forbidden you to go to vdi were blasted off by the kiddish mods - when wht boards were reporting hosts signing out of vdi ,you joined there - who is responsible then ?
4)Support forums - may be forums - where is the support - it is more of chit chat - real support comes in the form of fast and specific email response from knowledgable or tech staff
5) And why the heck one month delay ??? amazing ! you cannot do that to us ! are you going to pay us back for one month ? please also change the terms 97% or 99% uptimes - better write you are not sure of the % of uptimes - be honest !

Those who are thinking of alternate host please let us email each other - it appears not only the wz site has an unreliable unstandardized site design with inadequate info( you know what I mean when you visit other sites) their service also speak of the same . Hosts who are supposedly good from reports of wht and other forums, friends and known companies are ( just a shortlist)

http://www.westhost.com
http://www.valuablehost.com
http://www.hosttoday.co.uk

Friends and webmasters here - if you have any idea or make any assessment by visiting these sites please let know for everyone's benefit."

Originally posted by safu

3)if vdi is the one to blame then be sure that you guys were repeatedly warned in the old forums not to go with vdi - the member/s who forbidden you to go to vdi were blasted off by the kiddish mods - when wht boards were reporting hosts signing out of vdi ,you joined there - who is responsible then ?
4)Support forums - may be forums - where is the support - it is more of chit chat - real support comes in the form of fast and specific email response from knowledgable or tech staff


Hmm.. The support mods are indeed kids. I posted a few inquiries in their support forum, but I couldn't get a sound answer for some of my server/programming related questions, which shows that the admins are not technically competent with their systems.

But they do offer quite a bit of features for a cheap price, too bad the issues have been going on for so long.

The recent amount of downtime at Worldzone is unacceptable by anyone’s standards, but Safu choose to quote from a post on Worldzone’s support forums that was not factual. I’ve been a Worldzone Pro customer since February and read the support forums several times a day, so let me set a few of these issues straight:

1. Worldzone Pro does not quote any uptime percentage in their account terms or in their advertising.

2. The search spider problem was a result of code inserted in the FREE accounts to help curb spam. Pro accounts never impacted by this issue unless an account was transferred from free to pro with the offending code intact.

3. The incorrect bandwidth measurements result from a well-known and documented Cpanel issue.

4. The quote about WZ being warned not to go with VDI in the old forums is total BS. Worldzone made a business decision, then announced it. There were no negative postings about VDI until after the move.

Originally posted by JustLurkin77
4. The quote about WZ being warned not to go with VDI in the old forums is total BS. Worldzone made a business decision, then announced it. There were no negative postings about VDI until after the move.

I knew it! I just finished arguing with a guy on WZPro's support forums who used this as one of the major parts of his arguments... his argument is now flawed hehe.

I've been with them since February aswell, and the problems have only been happening since they moved to VDI... It was a wicked host once, it'll be a wicked host again.

-Josh

1. Worldzone Pro does not quote any uptime percentage in their account terms or in their advertising.

Thanks Justlurkin for pointing out that. I made a quote only. But as far as I remember there were some assurances about the uptime in their forums , also move to vdi may have been a decision first and then announcement - there WERE posts in the previous forum requesting not to go with vdi quoting from wht that many hosts were leaving vdi.If that business decision can have been changed now ( mind you this is the fastest record of changing nocs) that could have been changed then also paying heed to the experience and advice of others , and not going by one's own whimsies. The old forums are not yet available - as soon as they are I will try to give you the exact urls where they were advised against vdi becoz vdi was a hot issue everywhere at that time.

Now to come to your post :

>>Worldzone Pro does not quote any uptime percentage in their account terms or in their advertising.

If that is so - thanks. at least clients can think twice before putting uop their business with a host who has no idea or guarantee about the uptime.


>>The search spider problem was a result of code inserted in the FREE accounts to help curb spam. Pro accounts never impacted by this issue unless an account was transferred from free to pro with the offending code intact.

please go to http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/sim_spider.cgi
and enter any wzpro site - you will find
404 Not Found
Spider meta desc No description available
its a known issue - wz never bothered to correct this


>>The incorrect bandwidth measurements result from a well-known and documented Cpanel issue.

as said payment is made to wz , notto cpanel company - wz needs to use good software - not buggy ones and then cry
see Hostexp ( a poster here ) 's valuablehost.com forum - they charge what is shown on the panel - nothing less., nothing more

>>There were no negative postings about VDI until after the move.

You then admit that THERE WERE postings after the move ? fine ! so why it took so long to slam the doors on vdi ? it could have been done much much earlier. The whole issue is that - right actions at the right time and not to land up customers in trouble.
"From FEB " by another guy here - from feb is a long time if you have business or any client-service - feb mar apr may jun jul .... sure any guy in right mind will like to think twice before going to such a host.

Thanks to just, and the othet guy for the clarifications and confiriming that this host is certainly not the host for those who want to sign up now and get going.If they mend their ways then rethink, not now !!

VDI has had very few problems with their network since they completed all their upgrades. I can almost certainly say a connectivity problem would not be because VDI.

Safu,

I think we are slowly making some progress here. I have no inclination to debate matters of opinion, but I would ask that you take the time to insure that your posts are based on fact and clear to other readers:

“please also change the terms 97% or 99% uptimes - better write you are not sure of the % of uptimes - be honest.”
- Do not call on the host to change something that they have never stated.

“and incorrect bandwidth measurements forcing people to leave in the recent past,”
- Just wanted to let readers know that it was the Cpanel issue that we have read so much about, and not unique to Worldzone.

“most searchspidersnot recognizing wzpro-sites( what else I am leaving out ?)”
- The search engine spider SIMULATOR linked in your second post did in fact return the 404 Not Found Error. This particular simulator looks like a great tool, but I was able to access my site with several other simulators that provide similar information. On a more important note, I can assure you that real search engines have no trouble spidering Worldzone Pro sites. I do monitor my site’s position with the major search engines on a weekly basis, and it has been successfully spidered and indexed by all.

“if vdi is the one to blame then be sure that you guys were repeatedly warned in the old forums not to go with vdi - “
- No warnings took place prior to the move. Perhaps there is some kind of language barrier here?

I wish you the best of luck in your search for a new host!

ALmost sounds like what happened at Hostyard for the month of July. At least WZP has more than one person to do tech, however their level of competency.