I donn't know if this change was recent or whatever but I just noticed this site isn't being hoseted ny Ultraspeed anymore, is there service good?

Well, the site started loading very slow a few weeks ago.
Then they moved and it was like lightning.
Now, it's kinda sticky.

I would blame every problem this box has had on the great program Microsoft NT.. HEH :)


James R. Clark II
Nethosters Inc.
http://www.nethosters.com

This is getting bizarre

I come back from goign to the store .. and one of my class c's is not assigned in the box anymore ???? what the heck

3 Attacks in 1 week

Misteriously the DNS server got shut down

Either this box is cursed, ot I am

(PS - The d-server for this board is on it's way to VDI as I write this) .. seems that not soon enought :(

It seems your having hard luck all around right now. Ever since the 5th anyway is when I noticed it going on. Regardless, the SW server needs to be up today.

It will be, the SysAdmin is working on it right now :)

If I understand it correctly, this site is hosted for "free" by hosts who "make an offer." The best offer is taken. At this point WizardsHosting had a better offer than Ultraspeed. During the time of transfer, there was another host in the middle, but I think their servers fell flat on their face. WizardsHosting has been the host now for a couple of weeks now? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the changeover was fairly recently.

As far as Ultraspeed goes (and you may well have missed it, if you're new to the board) they were bought by BurstNET (burst.net) and all EXISTING customer accounts are supposed to remain same service/same billing. In my experience Ultraspeed did provide good service.

BurstNET is moving to a new Network Operations Center in March and I am _personally_ not comfortable with that move or their "new" connection because it is not time-tested. Call me old-fashioned, but change increases the potential for problems, where I am from. As well I simply do not "buy into" the fact that USUSA customers will have the same services etc. at the old billing rates for any truly extended period of time, because the package differences between USUSA and BurstNET are hugely different. If you have not yet signed up with USUSA, be aware the BurstNET "has not yet decided" how to handle billing for _new_ accounts -- as in, how much they will charge or what a customer will get. This was the last I heard although if I am incorrect, I'm sure Sean will correct me. :-)

If you were impressed with Ultraspeed and would like similar service, I would personally recommend venturesonline.com. Ventures Online is run by two of the techs who left UltraspeedUSA before Ultraspeed was sold off to Burst. The packages are even more affordable than Ultraspeed's were, and I have found that they are more robust in offerings than I had at USUSA. I have transferred my own sites over there and am VERY happy with both the server performance and the tech support. Paul has been extremely helpful and has provided immediate support. All issues were solved in far less than 10 minutes. :-) The server has performed beautifully. No complaints whatsoever so far.

And new virtual accounts get Feb. for free right now, no billing 'til March. So the transfer is, essentially, free, if you pay monthly at your old host...

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So. does that answer your question? If I missed it, let me know, I'll do my best to help. If anyone has anything else to add... please! go for it.

:-) Your friend Bailey

Small correction

Its the Former Owner and his Tech that are now partial owners of Ventures Online :) :) :) :D

(Note that I sold out to my partner long before the burst crap)

Originally posted by DanielP
(Note that I sold out to my partner long before the burst crap)
I had the burst crap once... believe me, it's not fun.

Whoopsie, there. Sorry Daniel... wasn't my intent to slight anybody. *grin*

BTW when I refer to anybody as a "tech" it is with the utmost respect, as you guys could run circles around me with what you do ~~~ it is a total compliment!!!! I would not know where to start...... Thank heavens for people like you, to "save the day" for people like me!!!
:-)

*curtsy*

Bailey

Originally posted by CRego3D
It will be, the SysAdmin is working on it right now :)

Banging your head on the wall yet? The day is over where I am.

[Edited by Webdude on 02-10-2001 at 03:13 AM]

Our sites were hosted by UltraspeedUSA and they were
transferred to Burst.net when UltraspeedUsa sold whatever
was actually involved in "the deal" (there have been many
posts on these boards discussing the UltraspeedUSA/Burst.net "deal")

Now that we have been hosted by burst.net for a few weeks, some issues came up which necessitated a request for
burst.net support last Sunday evening. To be fair, I hope that burst.net will comment publically or privately to us so that our impressions of their service and reliability can be influenced by their input instead of us just posting a possibly one sided view here.

We appreciated the way that Daniel and Paul (both now at venturesonline.com) provided support to us when they were at UltraspeedUSA. We quickly signed up for hosting of another of our domains with venturesonline.com after reading the announcement here last week. Since we have a reseller account with burst.net and cloaked name servers that display our domain name, we would like to continue doing business with burst.net, if possible.

We'll give Burst.net some time to respond to our concerns.

I cancelled my accounts on two separate attempts with BURST over a week ago and was told that I would receive an e-mail confirmation.

E-Mail confo never arrived for either cancellation attempt.

I'm getting an uncomfortable feeling about this -- this is rapidly setting up to be a Classic Webhosting Tale. Funny how different companies can all play the same game, "gee, we don't have any record of it, and we're not actually _responsible_ for our own system... now you owe $x." Well we'll all know by Feb 20th, which is my cancellation effective date. I'll keep everyone updated.

*stewing*

;) My best to all...
>Bailey<

I haven't received a cancellation notice yet. I cancelled on the day (effective on that day) that they send the e-mail with links to cancel. I had already moved sites :)

Hello BC, Chicken, Kunal, MattF and any toher Mods,
Can you add to the forum rules that users should not posts without proper topics and meaningless topics? Example: This thread - "???"

This causes the visitors to check these topics without knowing about them, and may not be relevant to all visitors.

Also, it's better to prevent topics like - "Read this" or "Check this out" or other similar ones which call user to read the thread but essentially convey no meaning otherwise.

Why don't some posters use proper topics like those in the newspaper headlines?

Atleast "???" could have been preceded or succeeded by some few descriptive words.

No offense intended ExtremeDude. Just my 2c to make WHT more user friendly.

Thanks.

Wing.

I don't think ExtremeDude will take offense. I know what you mean (as someone who reads plenty of threads per day), and it helps if there is something desciptive up there, but I end up reading all of them anyway. I'm not sure what the thread topic would be now?

Where is the board hosted?
Burst cancellations?
??? (oops, not that one :))

Baily,
I canceled on the 14th, have recieved no confirmation and the reseller accts still there and still live. (forgot to update my FTP and hit it instead of new one by accident.)

Maybe the Exodus has got them swamped?


...Rag tag fugative Fleet...Shining Plantet, Known as Tux. <G>

No, we are just still waiting for a large chunk of the virtual and reseller accounts to cancel or confirm.
If not done by the end of the month; non-confirmed and cancelled accounts will be deleted from the servers.

If you cancelled, or did not confirm, we will not be billing you. We are 100% honest here.

We are just giving users a little more time to decide, and work with their data, before we proceed further.

Sean R.
BurstNET™

cool. Thanks for the update. I'm assuming that for those who canceled there will a confirmation email sent?

Nothing personal against Burst, just got bad vibes about the whole situation.

Originally posted by Kaith Sutai-Rustaz
cool. Thanks for the update. I'm assuming that for those who canceled there will a confirmation email sent?

Nothing personal against Burst, just got bad vibes about the whole situation.

I talked to Burst on AOL IM last week and they said they were not sure if they would be sending cancellation comfirmations or not. They said when someone cancelled, they would not be billed though. This does make me feel a little uneasy.

"They said when someone cancelled, they would not be billed though. This does make me feel a little uneasy."

What exactly makes you "feel a little uneasy" about
"when someone cancelled, they would not be billed"?
It can't be made any clearer that you WILL NOT BE BILLED if you are not retaining BurstNET™ service.

Sean R.
BurstNET™

Probably the part about no confirmation. If I remember right, there was a spot on that form to put an address for an confirmation of cancelation. Would be nice to get one, you know, for that whole 'piece of mind' thing. errr, 'peace]. :)