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foxmen
09-29-2004, 07:13 PM
Hi people !!!



Does any one have any news (good/bad) about whthost.com???

The price is good!!!!


Thanks alot!!!

radv
09-29-2004, 07:24 PM
Looks like a little bit of overselling going on there.

InSite
09-30-2004, 09:30 AM
I checked yesterday, but didn't want to post as it may have looked petty - but after checking again today I think it's worth mentioning. The hosting account their forum is on has been 'suspended' all this time. If this is an indication of how often they check and maintain their accounts, it's probably not a good sign...

UnifiedNet
09-30-2004, 09:37 AM
Nice Find Insite! That is not a good thing at all!

foxmen
09-30-2004, 11:48 AM
Thanks alot!!!!! for your time !!!! :-)

Rochen
09-30-2004, 12:00 PM
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=299875

- Chris

James K
09-30-2004, 01:23 PM
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=2489811#post2489811

Of course, you'll notice that everyone here is pretty much assuming what kind of host whthost is.

InSite
09-30-2004, 01:59 PM
James K, who are you referring to?

James K
09-30-2004, 02:33 PM
Does "everyone here" not tell you who I'm referring to?

InSite
09-30-2004, 02:39 PM
No it doesn't - I'm not sure if you are referring to the thread you linked to (in which case fair enough), or the people in this thread. If the latter, then you are mistaken, as not everyone is making assumptions, just stating facts.

James K
09-30-2004, 02:58 PM
So what you're saying is that...

FACT: WhtHost oversells.

FACT: It's not a good sign if the host cannot check and maintain their accounts. (Although, as you can see from their site, the forum url only comes up on the front page but disappears on the all the other pages.)

FACT: WhtHost may have derived its name from WebHostingTalk.

That's brilliant.

InSite
09-30-2004, 03:05 PM
Hi James,

No - that isn't what I have said at all. I stated the fact that their forum is down, and also that if this is a sign of how they check and maintain their accounts, it's not a good sign.

As you can see, I've made no assumptions :)

James K
09-30-2004, 03:10 PM
(Although, as you can see from their site, the forum url only comes up on the front page but disappears on the all the other pages.)

foxmen
10-05-2004, 12:11 PM
Hi !!!

My exp:

I singup to WHTHOST 26-sep to 04-oct

UPTIME: 100%
SUPPORT: GOOD ( more less fast )
RVSKIN: INSTALL
WHM/CPANEL: INSTALL
ADULT HOST: YES
INMEDIATLY ACCOUNT ACTIVATION after signUP: YES
PROBLEMS AFTER SINGUP: NONE
FAST SERVER/connection: YES ( P4 NO HT )
PING: FAST

but

WHTHOST use perldesk ( costumer support ):
a)the operator NOT CLOSE THE TICKETs
b)and Some BUGS ( bad config, bad custom, 404 ) in the perldesk !!!!
NOTE: Perldesk is fantastic.... ( GOOD INSTALL ;-) )

c) The homepage have broken LINKs ( forum )


I think when problems arrived to WHTHOST !!!! ( problems webhosting ) they delay in solving them :-(

If you search in this forums can you see this.... "WHTHOST" SEARCH PEOPLE TO RESOLVE ISSUES


I cancel my account with them and REFOUND my money without any problems !!!


Thanks !!!!



Foxmen
















I cancel my account and WHTHOST refound without any question

foxmen
10-05-2004, 12:14 PM
I have account with gazzin and turnkey!!!

at this moment gazzin have problem with the new server
( cheetah ) DOWN :-(

turnkey 100% UP :-)


bye

whthost
10-05-2004, 06:30 PM
Just to let everyone know we do NOT have or do we say we have any connection with Webhostingtalk.com
WHTHOST comes from the name Whitefield where I live.
I do notice that a few of the posters are also resellers and have had no experience with our hosting
The question asked was... has anyone had any experience good or bad with WHTHOST

NexDog
10-06-2004, 06:53 AM
And foxmen answered. :)

relajo
03-10-2005, 01:00 AM
Have you guys had any problems with WHTHOST.com lately? I understand that they "changed owners" and their support responding time is ridiculous. I have submitted a couple of tickets and they haven't even responded. I even e-mailed the new
"owner" and I got no response. Their live help logo is gone....I don't know...maybe it's an indication that I have to find another provider...:angry:

foxmen
03-10-2005, 04:05 PM
Hi Relajo,

in the past when i singUP them, i don`t have any problems, but i say i this tread " i think in the future = problems " recentely WHTHOST.com change OWNER Michael Old owner his bussines is create hosting company, obtain clients and sell !!!


My experience ( after singup this forums) :

First = WHTHOST ( leave, personal/staff bad ) = cheap

2 = Gazzin ( leave, server down, high load..... ) = cheap

3= Turnkey ( leave, server down, high load..... ) = cheap

4= Hostgator and bliksem <<< at this moment very good both


Relajo,
Recomendation BACKUP YOUR FILES !!!

See you

nickn
03-20-2005, 06:14 AM
Originally posted by James K

FACT: WhtHost may have derived its name from WebHostingTalk.


Now now, in all fairness, it's also a fact that i may be the president of the USA.

Shaw Networks
03-20-2005, 05:23 PM
Originally posted by James K
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=2489811#post2489811

Of course, you'll notice that everyone here is pretty much assuming what kind of host whthost is.

Agreed, I don't think many people have tried WHTHost here.

Shaw Networks
03-20-2005, 05:25 PM
Originally posted by whthost
Just to let everyone know we do NOT have or do we say we have any connection with Webhostingtalk.com
WHTHOST comes from the name Whitefield where I live.
I do notice that a few of the posters are also resellers and have had no experience with our hosting
The question asked was... has anyone had any experience good or bad with WHTHOST

A WHT user who put a WHT prefix to their web hosting company, coincidence... I think not ;)

relajo
04-04-2005, 12:02 AM
whthost.com support is dead...no answers to tickets, no replies from the "owner". I also noticed that 495hosting.net is opened for business. By looking at their site, I assume it is the same owner/company. So watch out. Same template.

hostwolf123
04-10-2005, 01:44 PM
WHTHost.com Report from now ex-employee.
I was an administrator for WHThost.com for a month and
I ran and had access to you name it, billing to the servers.
I was put in charge of the business while the owner worked
on his other hosting company.

What I learned was the following:
* Severe over selling / crowded servers.
* Numerous client TOS violations including some one using
one of the servers as a proxy server through PHP / PERL.
* Spam central and only getting worse, server Panther blocked by sorbs.net as a Spam source, sorbs.net charges a "fine" to be delisted ($75) I think it was.
* Main DNS system is located on worst bloged down server, that server goes down like 65% of all clients from the 3 servers have DNS resolve issues that can last upto 48 hours if their registrars DNS refreshes during the downtime and can't find the server in that time period. (SERIOUS!) DNS should be clustered with the other 2 servers!
* An out side company is used to monitor the servers, they do ok, but still they do not do proactive downtime reduction, they only fix the server after it goes offline so problems remain unfixed untill that happens.
* Now as of April 10th, 2005 there are no other staff besides the owner him self who is to busy to handle things and he just wants to sell, but won't hire me back as he doesn't want to spend the money, he wants to keep what he can before selling!

Looks to me the owner bought thinking "wow, great investment, I can sit back and watch it grow and do nothing and make money!" or if not, he just play don't know how to run a bussiness.

Personally now with how bad things are getting and how little he cares about his clients, he said he cares, yeah because if they start leaving he looses money, now we don't want to take his precious away do we?

All of the above I have stated as what I know to be facts.
Also another fact coming from another employee "he doesn't care about his customers, he just spends his money on his new girl and is using the income to impress her!" the employee in question is no longer with the company in which he stated "Resign which is due to personal reasons as well as some others" others, ok, lets talk about the others shall we?

* Pay reduced from previous $125 / Month to $90 per month.
* Expected to be on demand 24/7 and answer all support tickets in addition to tracking Spamers, and watching the servers.

Tell me this didn't have anything to do with his leaving?!
He was a nice guy, I would have hired him if I bought WHT, yet there was no chance of me getting the bank to come through as the owner wouldn't answer my questions that I was using as due diligance, I could have bought the company as I planed if I had cooperation from the owner, must be he doesn't want to sell or has something to hide? I dunno and it will remain as unknown as I personally don't think WHT is worth buying with my 7 years IT experience, it would be better to start from scratch then rescuing this roughting log, I dunno, I prefer hard wood!

So in short as I still am a customer, I am now backing up my 2 only paid account and moving ASAP to a new company.

If you like downtime, no support, WHThost.com is where to be!

hostwolf123
04-10-2005, 01:50 PM
I have looked into 495hosting.net and it is same template.
I think it may be by the same owner, not sure, maybe I can find out.

webuyhosts
04-10-2005, 09:21 PM
Hello things are going to improve as of today. We have taken over management and have seen what needs to be done to get this host 100%. We are implementing this into our system as we speak. Any current customers or future customers have confidence in us as new things are starting to happen, thank you

hostwolf123
04-10-2005, 09:39 PM
And who might you be, I'm canceling and am moving on to resellerzoom.com, same prices and they've never had problems, I'll go with them.

I'll believe it when I hear about it from other customers who I talk with regularly as friends, I wouldn't be surprised if thats a load of bull, but who knows maybe Lyall hired some one *coughs* right..

Any who, buyer be weary!

Take care all!

hostwolf123
04-10-2005, 09:53 PM
I'll be damed, nice company, you will do wonders for WHT, though I already am moving to another host, if I need to expand I'll keep WHT on file and keep monitoring the service and seeing it emprove hopefully.

About time some one got on track!

Good show, take care mates!

foxmen
04-11-2005, 07:57 PM
Originally posted by FarComm
WHTHost.com Report from now ex-employee.

If you like downtime, no support, WHThost.com is where to be!

LOL !!!

backup and RUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

SpeedEXEC
04-11-2005, 09:08 PM
Never seen something phrased so perfectly ;)

webuyhosts
04-12-2005, 03:19 PM
those days are over no need to act haste

hostwolf123
04-13-2005, 03:53 AM
Uhm, well here's new stuff to my headache..

I put in cancel request on monday, the final day before I get billed again, I moved to a new host and can't afford the new charge WHThost.com charged me for another month.

My cancel request has been ignored, I emailed etc. Then I get the owner Lyall Mc Evoy on MSN and I complain to him, and he goes yeap yeap yesterday after the charge and finally said "OK" assuming he was going to cancel my account and do the refund, well next morning 10 hours later, here I am, account still active and the charge posted to my back which I don't have the money for as other charges will soon post as well for the new host, so I am about ready to go to all the consumer reports sites and do a charge back!

I am sick of the crap from Lyall, it's not now WHT's fault or the soon to be new owners, it's the carelessness of the *** that currently owns WHThost.com.

I'm sorry, but when I ask for something to be canceled and I don't want it no more I expect it to be so and legally I have that right!

I'll be reporting his name not WHThost.com as I'm mad at him for being so not caring about customers and only his wallet, girl friend, etc.

Also if he doesn't solve this with in 24 hours not only will I do that, I will let go everything I do know as fact about him and I will also post all his other web hosting companies he runs so people can avoid him!

ThomasO
04-13-2005, 11:58 AM
Ryan, go to 2checkout, and file a claim. They'll chargeback whthost.com

hostwolf123
04-13-2005, 02:40 PM
Actually I did but they said via email that they canceld the recuring cycle but didn't state it has been charged back, though I replied to 2CO and am going to find out shortly.

relajo
04-15-2005, 03:27 AM
whthost.com site's has been down almost all day today...(4-14) My site is up and running, though...

hostwolf123
04-15-2005, 02:25 PM
Actually any one on the panther server is offline since yesterday, dunno what thats all about, I still have my monitor on WHT host servers and panther is constant red since yesterday around 11am my time, People are going to be leaveing left and right unless they moved all 900 some accounts which is including resold accounts to a new server which I find highly unlikely as such an operation would be massive..

Just my words on the situation, not good!

hostwolf123
04-15-2005, 06:18 PM
Well I looked at my bank account yesterday and it was back where it should be and I thought my money had been refunded then today there it was, the charge from tuesday, grr, I have sent yet another complaint to 2CO, my one from wednesday has been ignored and I have not yet 4 hours after sending the new one received a response :(

I think 2CO could care less really.

Today my account on WHThost is still active fully and no refund has been given, to date all I got was 2CO saying they canceled the recuring cycle, which is ok, least I won't be charged again, but damn it, I asked to be canceled before the end of the cycel to begin with, my account should have been canceled which it hasn't and I shouldn't have been charged for another cycle!!!

I'm pissed and this is about to go to consumer affairs and forums across the net!

ThomasO
04-15-2005, 08:33 PM
Actually, lion, tiger and panther, all 3 servers from WHTHost are down...

hostwolf123
04-15-2005, 08:44 PM
Nope, Lion is up, I still got access to it and my account is still active, lol
But Tiger and Panther are down and don't resolve on any DNS or regular pings I have run.

Just when I heard things were going to get better, as I said, I'd believe it when I see it, and I aint seeing it to be blunt, lol

webuyhosts
04-15-2005, 09:10 PM
ya we have walked away from this deal, we were checking thru the servers for 3 days before we were going to close the deal. We even took some support to make sure he was legit, but he got shut down becasue of spam issues, they warned him 12 times he was being used as spam machine , he ignored them, they took action and shut his operation down, hes about done, i have over 500 into this crazy mess with support pay to my guys and just time, i will offer any whthost customers the same package 30% cheaper if they sign up with us, i want to help save some of them , please email us
support@cshelpdesk.net to get set up

hostwolf123
04-15-2005, 09:13 PM
OK this just in..

We Buy Hosts is not purchasing WHThost.com

From the owner of webuyhosts "ya hes done anyways, iam not buy it, hes a crazy kid, he has lost his servers due to spam he didnt take them serious enough" - From Email reply.

WHThost.com lost server Tiger and Panther do to spam, this explains WHThost.com being offline.

This will also explain why the owner has not responded to emails and such to customers and cancelation request, if you with WHThost.com request a refund directly from 2CO.com or Paypall.com.

I have suspended the paypal account for WHThost.com and anyone coming into the service paying through WHThost.com will receive refund, though only 2 active accounts on this new email account, they will be refunded, the old paypal account I will not be able to help you with you will need to bring your complaints to Paypal.com directly.

Other companies by the owner which I was told by the owner while I was with WHThost.com are listed below, be warned!

coolixhost.com
netwinhost.com

Posible new one is: 495host.net *
(got no response on live support when it said it was online and it stated I was only one in line for online support and I waited 4 minutes, this is similer to the activity of WHThost.com as there was no support staff, Lyall is probably loged in and is not even around to answer, unfortainitly whois is done through an anonymous service as such is the way Lyall does his domains.
A well regarded company does not hide they're information on whois, etc. They make it public!

* I can not prove 495hosting.net is his, just I have a funny feeling and my nose is keen for these things.

Any other input is appreciated, and any help in alerting customers will be appreciated by the customer!

hostwolf123
04-15-2005, 09:56 PM
Well I refunded the two accounts on the WHThost.com U.S. account I manage and removed the owner of WHThost from access list to that account. Next will be the canceling of the subscriptions, once paypal fixes an error, then the closure of the paypal account so it can not be used again for secuirty concerns of potential buys of his other companies, etc.

As for the other 100 or so customers of WHThost.com I can't help as that is on 2CO and the old paypal.com account which is still receiveing payments, it's upto you to cancel, but I highly dought the owner is going to refund the money, heck he's like spent it all for all we know.

I will do what I can to help in this, but I am no longer an employee nor authority figure in this sadly, otherwise I'd help out even more.

ThomasO
04-15-2005, 10:48 PM
Hello:

As webuyhosts said, this is an irresponsible kid trying to run a company. He just wanted a few bucks (well... more than a few), but he was careless with his customers. I was head of support at the at whthost.com for over 10 months. I'm really sad that this is the end of the company, however, this is a lesson for all of you who plan to run a webhosting company, without even caring of it, and just wanting to earn a few bucks. This is a major responsability. I can't even imagine the face on those unhappy customers who are now without hosting, and without webpages. If they didn't backup their files... well, for most of them, this is the end.

For those who has backups, and just as webuyhosts said, I'll be offering a 50% on your plans at WHTHost.com just because I think those customers are great, and they don't deserve this.

I'll be trying to contact the server owner in order to get the server online for a few hours, so people can backup and go.

Regards,

hostwolf123
04-15-2005, 11:03 PM
Nice idea, hope that comes through.

Boy it gets better! I still have access to the old paypal account, he hasn't changed passwords, and get this, he also has sold things on ebay, which I beleife to be illegal, such as reselling copies of WHM Auto Pilot with full licenses as he has unlimited license granting as a web host, and kaza, etc. I will post proof and ebay transaction ID's shortly!

Also the ebay items or at least one is reported on Paypal.com to be in chargeback nigotiations, probably never got their product?!
Hello!, I'm doing some digging with the trust this kid gave to me, and well I trusted him up till about 2 weeks ago, now I'm out to expose every fact I can find on him to make him known to the public!

I will be back shourtly with links to PDF's on my server, etc.

hostwolf123
04-16-2005, 01:21 AM
Well I did some diging and what do you know..

The owner of 495hosting.net is Kevin Marsden
the one who started WHThost.com though he was a good owner
untill he sold to 19 year old Lyall Edward Mc Evoy of southern Africa!

He didn't care, and Lyall claimed that Michael (Kevin) was now retired, but then comes 495hosting.net which raises the question in my mind now, was this all some big scam to start or did Kevin actuall think he was done and told Lyall he wanted to retire and then decided not to?

Just more questions to this mess.

Consumer advocate general Ryan signing out for the night, will resume tomorrow, lol

hostwolf123
04-16-2005, 01:35 AM
Well I just sent an email to Kevin asking about him.

Kevin had said he lived in the U.K. but he lives in Florida U.S.A.
I will try to find the city, I forgot.

relajo
04-16-2005, 02:21 AM
I just checked....I'm on tiger....my site is still up and running...I'm backed up, though....waiting for the end.

hostwolf123
04-16-2005, 01:34 PM
OK, I just looked, all servers are online.
However the account for whthost.com account has been deleted so there is no chance of us looking into the billing system, etc.

All the server owner did was delete the domain that Lyall was using to do business from it appears.

I just thought of another way to posibly solve this whole mess and will talk to Thomas about it and we'll both then talk to the server owner and see if it can be done.

I'm now going to work on them papers and upload them as PDF's.

hostwolf123
04-16-2005, 02:15 PM
OK, these are large files in JPG format with commentations by my self.

First one is Kazaa being sold as a download, which I believe isn't legal unless he who sells it is licensed by the company to do so, some how I don't think Lyall has a license to do so because I don't think he'd spend that much money to get one (normally a few hundred U.S.).

http://farcomm-it.com/lyall_evidence/evidence_b_1.jpg

The ebay listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7139921099

Next is the billing product, he did buy this and for the unlimited license granting which I am pretty sure is to CLIENTS ONLY?..

http://farcomm-it.com/lyall_evidence/evidence_c_2.jpg

The ebay listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3873967269

Note the billing software one in the paypal account is headed for a chargeback by the buyer, did he not get his product that he THOUGHT he was getting? Was it ever made available to him or was it all a set up?

OK I'm done, just pointing out what this kid does on the side to shed some light on him so people can be made aware of this fraud, though WHThost.com was very real, I think as well as others that he bought WHThost.com to let it grow a bit, collect the income then stop paying for the servers and/or just walk away attempting to then sell and make even more money as he got the company for about 5k U.S. and was looking to sell for 9k U.S. to me which was a steal as the company was worth 14k U.S. at that time, but wait it wasn't really as glamorous as he told me, he told me that the monthly expenses were only $300, the servers alone were $448.90 per month plus the $75 for the remote monitoring company, which by the way hosts on server Tiger, sad that they to will loose they're web site and hosting soon (serverwizards.com).

All this said, I'm done, be warned about this dude, warn others about him, etc.

Anyone else want to drag this scum through the mud?

hostwolf123
04-16-2005, 02:30 PM
OK, it was Lyall who said Kevin lived and UK and not Kevin, Kevin lives in the US in florida and was going to retire due to personal/family issues (sickness) and he sold because that was more important, but he is back at 495hosting.net.

He did appologize though!
"I do feel sorry for the clients and I am very sorry this has happened. If I can help in any way please let me know."
- Kevin Marsden (email reply to my self)

He also said "I sold the company in good faith along with full 24 hour support and a sys-admin to look after the servers and the clients always came first." which is all correct and I believe all of it, he just wanted to sell to get the money for medical treatment for a family member.

So I say to you Kevin, appology accepted and you can only do so much to find out about who you sell to, it wasn't your fault sir.

Kevin is available as an alternative hosting provider at the same rates as WHThost.com. http://495hosting.net

hostwolf123
04-16-2005, 04:16 PM
Well to end this all I present a chat log of Lyall blaming me for his dismay and lieing about me stealing clients, nope, sorry, I don't do hosting anymore, plus all my clients the 2 that I have have never heard of WHThost.com, they are my friends at that, nothing more.

I'm done with this dude, I think he speaks for him self, well thats an understatement actually.

http://farcomm-it.com/lyall_evidence/lyall@mcevoy.com.log

I'm 100% through your honor!

Take care folks, and watch who you deal with, cause trust these days is a precious limited resource, you get what you pay for, so carefull on what you buy or buy into!

hostwolf123
04-16-2005, 04:43 PM
A discalimer:
The defendant claims I was out to ruin him as his defense, he did that him self when he cut wages and his staff ended up leaving him leaving all the support to Thomas, Thomas due to personal/family things he must take care of can't be there 24/7 like Lyall wanted him to and I came up seeing his dismay and try'd to help, noticing things were to far out of wack I wasn't going to help for free, Lyall offered me $90 a month which I think is slave labor for what he expected and I didn't want to stay on so I left.

I was going to buy WHThost.com or at least try to get a line of credit for it at my bank, but things didn't work well as I try'd doing the due diligence and Lyall wouldn't provide information I asked for proving his residence in South Africa, he claimed to have a passport and would send it to me via fax or email with image scan, after a week of waiting and other things not answered I backed out of the purchase agreement he had faxed me as I didn't trust him to continue on to the bank.

I then on monday April 11th put in for my hosting account to be canceled, tuesday I was charged for another month and to date nothing has been done by Lyall to cancel my account or refund the money, I am headed to the bank on monday April 18th to get a charge back.

2CO.com has canceled my recuring bill but said they can't charge back as thats upto the owner to pay me back or my self charging back from my bank.

Lyall let things get out of hand, that simple, he hurt him self with all of this, I try'd to help but I couldn't and I wanted people to know the truth about what was wrong with things and how I planed to fix them while I was working for WHThost.com, I believe in honesty even if it hurts, it's better to say the truth then nothing at all.

I have nothing further to add, I am moving on now, I hope the best for the clients of WHThost.com!

The servers Lion and Tiger are online and you can backup your stuff if you so choose to do so.

Lion: 65.98.59.178
Tiger: 69.57.173.154
Panther: 69.72.144.90

FTP to the IP address if your domain doesn't reslove,
if it still don't work, chances are the server is offline and you may want to keep trying.

You've heard it from webuyhosts, Thomas and really heard it from me, now it's upto you!

Cheers mates, and take care!

Beachcomber
04-16-2005, 05:27 PM
Hey Folks,

As a number of you have found, the WHTHost servers were purchased from us.

Despite a number of attempts to allow the current ownership clean up the server(s) they have been disregarded and we have been forced to terminate WHTHost and turn the servers off

But, we also understand that many people will be hurt by this and we would like to minimize that as much as we can.

We will be turning ea server back on after a full security audit is completed and we feel that they can be safely run. We will keep the servers up for 4 days...so that anyone who has content on the server has a chance to download their data and find a new home.

A word to the wise...WHTHost was, due to its pricing and feature pack a house of (oversold) cards that in the end was precarious at best even under the best management. Unless you want to be in the repeating cycle of this being done to you, look for a host that charges a fair price for reasonable features...etc or you will be involved in one of these again

Again, I am sorry it has come to this, we will try to get the servers back online tonight (BUT ONLY FOR 4 DAYS) and will update as we can.

ThomasO
04-16-2005, 06:20 PM
Mark:

What can I say. I'm very glad that you decided to take all servers online once again in order to download backups. I received your email, and will be doing it as well.

This is not a happy ending.. but could've been worse. Pack your things... AND RUN!!!

Thanks again Beachcomber.

Regards,

hostwolf123
04-16-2005, 06:56 PM
Now like what 4 whthost.com customers know about this place, the only way I see informing them is to go through WHM and telling them via email to move to new host and/or setup home page on WHThost.com that sais to pack and leave, but the second one would take 2 days to resolve again sadly.

The accounts are still there and if you can give Thomas or I the login or your self could do that even, login and right one email and send to all through WHM on each server, then they'll all know.

Otherwise they may think WHT is back or something.. who knows

DNCSolutions
04-17-2005, 01:36 AM
So is there any company that is taking on old WHT customers? I'm glad I didn't set up the new payment arrangements... whew...

Is 495 safe now or is there another host that I can transfer my account to? I may not have had a super active account, only 4 domains but they still matter! heh

hostwolf123
04-17-2005, 01:56 AM
Well I can't list here alternatives as it may cut into the TOS of this site, there were a few sugested on the other pages of this thread though.

495 is safe I have talked with the owner there, there was some mix up about where he lived, that was sorted out as a billing or technical error with WHThost, go figure, and I thought the owner lived in Florida due to that, though he did confirm as well as Lyall and Thomas that he lives in the UK and Kevin, the owner of 495 also confirmed and cleared that up, that was just confusion in all this mess, so yes he is safe and I don't think he's going to make the mistake of selling to a 19 year old who wants a quick buck again again. Though take Mark's words, basically what mark is saying is that "you get what you pay for" and in the end it's your choice to choose who to go with, listen to others praise, etc.

If it smells like a fish, it's a fish!
I suggest resellerzoom.com as they are a big company and beem around for some time part of hostingzoom.com. They are incorporated and are not a sole proprietor such as WHThost.com was and they manage and add servers as needed, etc.

They helped me out with SQL issues which come find later was just me being over tired and finding I was using my account name from WHThost.com, lol, they said it was ok and we all have them days, and asked if I needed anything else, great support, and fast at that!

My two sense.. Cheers!

aussiegalx
04-17-2005, 06:38 AM
:bawling:

Are the servers up? I'm with DNCSolutions but he neglected to ask LOL. I am in Australia and I need to know if the servers are up so we can back up our stuff before it is lost.

Don't you just hate flybynighters like whthost? I hope people won't think he is associated with this place as it has been said in this forum before.

I just want to save our stuff and not lose it cos most of it is writing posts eg sim/rpg and we haven't done a recent back up :-( So please let me know how I can access our site to back it up so that all information is not lost.

Thanks :cool:

DNCSolutions
04-17-2005, 12:17 PM
I already got a reply back from Thomas, but it would be nice if someone could pass my e-mail onto beachcomber so I can backup the two domains I had that really matter heh.

Boy this whole thing was so sudden too, I mean I never got any contact from the owner or anything. I do want to get us backup online for about the same price and similar package as before, or else the gal who runs the counseling office site I host is gonna get evem more mad at me... and she's my mom!

Beachcomber
04-17-2005, 12:47 PM
All of the servers are to much of a security risk to leave up at all per se... We are taking one at a time and bringing it back up, suspending all of the accounts and putting a placeholder in place so you can contact us.

Once we have been contaced by the reseller we will unsuspend for a short time to allow the accounts to be offloaded

On Thursday Am, 4-21-05 at 9AM EST, we will send all the servers in for reformat.

Sorry folks, it is the best I can do.

Aussie Bob
04-17-2005, 08:28 PM
Another trainwreck caused by an unresponsible and uncaring host. :eek:

The entry point is just waaaaay too low, to call yourself a "host" these days. :(

NexDog
04-18-2005, 12:49 AM
Ah, yet another WHT inspired host goes down the toilet. Amazing the difference a few months make.

Great to be back. :D

johnboyo
04-18-2005, 02:54 PM
i have also been screwed over by lyall and his total lack of business sense. If any of you guys connected with whthost could message me as wht registered my main domain and now i dont have the logins to move it. is this something you could possibly help me out with ryan?

Thanks in advance
John Maguire

hostwolf123
04-18-2005, 03:27 PM
What is the domain name?