I really do have to share this with you guys even if it is just to make you laugh.

As a few of you know I used to work for Donhost but that isnt the issue for a change. Anyway when I was there I had a few domains on a provided reseller account, nice perk never earned a bean.....

I recently, about two months ago, sold one of the domains to a friend of mine and it now resides in his UK Reg control panel. He set his site up with Donhost and everything was going swimmingly until today. I get an email from him saying that he had noticed this domain was missing from his control panel and on checking so was the site.....

Another case of delete the site without telling the reseller we imagine but the reason was a corked.....

It was deleted as I used to work there and he will not host my domain...... ok fine fair point, but did he even ask the reseller about it? Nope.... usual lacksidaisical approach to customer care from Mr Conlon and yet another peed off reseller.

Regards

Ian

Originally posted by kermitsworld
It was deleted as I used to work there and he will not host my domain......

Why didn't he host your domain?

Hey, I've just noticed my mail form support thingy not working. They have disabled sendmail. How long have they been doing that?

What control panel are they using?....just wondering..

They use their own control panel.

i think its a modified version of web.cp ?

Cheers,

Hey guys, I have noticed something about donhost this week, they seem to have a new member of staff and he is actually HELPFUL!!!!!!!!!!! I know scarey isnt it... He helped me the other day, unfortunately he obviously went home or something cos my last few emails were answered by Daniel :(

Originally posted by jonny b
i think its a modified version of web.cp ?

Cheers,

No, he wrote his own Control Panel. :) And I've seen the source code. The Control Panel is written very well and it is in Perl plus uses mySQL Database to store users data.

http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-webhosting/0011/msg00343.html

Wed, 29 Nov 2000

Hi,

We have an online control panel, a demonstration of which you can see at http://www.donhost.co.uk/products/paneldemo. This control panel was written in house by myself and I am currently in the process of developing the control panel into a commercial product. The completed control panel software for FreeBSD and Red Hat Linux is now available.
Message ws dated Nov. 2000 and I've seen others priase the control panel system they use and want it. Although this message indicates that it was available almost 2 years ago, I assume those plans changed and it is no longer (or never was?) available for purchase?

Originally posted by Chicken

Message ws dated Nov. 2000 and I've seen others priase the control panel system they use and want it. Although this message indicates that it was available almost 2 years ago, I assume those plans changed and it is no longer (or never was?) available for purchase?

I don't think they have ever sold the control panel. You want one chicken? :)

must share this as well. The client received this email from Donhost:

Hosting Solutions for Business
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donhost Support" <support@donhost.co.uk>
To:
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: RE: www.telewaste.co.uk


> Yes, but what stopped you from e-mailing me to say that you
> had decided to
> terminate the site?

Lazyness, we will try to in future.

at least they're honest ;)

Welcome to the forum, Avatar...

You might want to shorten that signature before the mods cut it for you... you're limited to four lines ;)

Well, technically, it's one line. :buck: It's four lines for me in 1024x768.

Donhost doesn't seem to care about having customers anymore. I think they could make quite a bit selling their control panel, but they're probably too lazy to support it.

Originally posted by ToastyX
Donhost doesn't seem to care about having customers anymore. I think they could make quite a bit selling their control panel, but they're probably too lazy to support it.

Depends how much. If they are going to sell it for 99USD/month, ppl would rather get CPanel instead. I think 50USD for that control panel is reasonable. :stickout

I am currently working one by myself! :)

To be fair to Daniel, and I aint that often the control panel is one of the best if not THE best in the industry.

Just my two penneth worth

You might want to shorten that signature before the mods cut it for you... you're limited to four lines

Actually, it didn't mention anything about wrapping ;) that it is in fact 1 (one) line. so :-p

anyway, the donhost control panel is ok, but a major niggle is the limitation on 10 domains per page is annoying, and there's also a niggling bug in the e-mail stuff that i've not quite cracked yet.

i'm also gonna write my own at some point, but as i'm a windoze person it'll be for IIS...