Has anyone ever seen this site before? I was checking out hosting from http://www.personalsites.org/ and saw they bill throgh this company? anyone heard/used http://www.paypaldownloads.com before?

i did a whois lookup on the domains both registered under Adam Stewart.. not jumping to conclusions though

paypal. I mean EBAY will be attacking very soon on the use of the name.

It's just how they roll...:D

well said :-)
:stickout:

Originally posted by ZiCmaN
paypal. I mean EBAY will be attacking very soon on the use of the name.

It's just how they roll...:D

I wonder how they havent got paypalsucks.com off the net yet?

Has anyone ever seen this site before? I was checking out hosting from http://www.personalsites.org/ and saw they bill throgh this company? anyone heard/used http://www.paypaldownloads.com before?

I can back Adam on www.personalsites.org. he is currently hosting my site. his service has been fast & reliable. i would recommend him & personalsites.org to anyone...

paypalsucks is using the name in fair use

I'm also hosted under personalsites.org and am very happy with their service. Support is almost instantaneously over IM, the plans are very affordable, and I don't have a single complaint. I highly recommend them.

KingNothing.com

PayPalDownloads.com is here to help solve this security hole in PayPal. Our website interfaces directly with PayPal to ensure that only your paid customers can download your products! The system is advanced enough to allow your paid customers to download the items they have paid for almost instantly, while at the same time it will deny access to thieves who have not paid.

Originally posted by AlaskanWolf
paypalsucks is using the name in fair use

Paypal sucks is freespeach and they can not get it taken down.

Gee, deathlord asks WHT members a question about a host that nobody has heard of, and is amazingly replied to by customers of that host. Dedicated customers who spend their own valuable time to check their hosts referral links.
WoW, what a host they must be to have such faithful customers!
Hey they look honest too:
"How can you provide this account so cheap?
Its simple, we arent making any money."
:D

I'm also hosted by www.personalsites.org and I can vouch for adam as I have yet to run into any problems with his service to date :)

funny :eek: how everyone can "vouch" for adam (sounds almost like the same person typed all the posts :eek: ) and yet they dont have any urls assoicated to them (2/3)

just doesnt add up....but thats just me. :)

yeah it all looks a lil funny... but im not trying to jump to conclusions i just find it weird how he has a hosting site and is using another site that sounds firmilliar to people as a payment system. I dont know and i dont think im ready to give my cc #'s to them. Just wanted to see if i had figured something out.

Strong words :rolleyes: Why make assumptions on somebody you don't know or know anything about ... why jump to conclusions? Last time I checked this thread was about Paypaldownloads.com, not about how good some hosting company is...

Anyways don't make comments you can't back up, assumptions and blind stabs alone doesn't justify you the right to attack this company, just cause we all added the URLS in our posts doesn't make us the same posters ..

also note how you happened to signup just to reply to this thread.. i said im trying not to jump to conclusions but i havent seen any evidence yet to decide either way. All i know is im not prepared to give my creditcards to a "webhost" that is using an unknown/unsecure payment system.

First off I didn't signup just to reply to this thread, you may of noticed that it said 3 posts on my profile even though I only made 2.

Anyway's that comment wasn't to you it was to the thread above you, and like i said before - this thread was originally about Paypaldownloads.com and if anyone has ever used them before ... not about what the service was like with one company. The only reason i posted in this thread to begin was to let others know that i host with them and that i don't have no problems... not about how you should run and jump up to signup with them this second or whatever cause that's a decision you have to make, not me.

going with common sense and the amount of time i been on these boards 99% of the time, when someone comes in to defend or promote "their hosting company" they are usually the owner of THAT hosting company or has very close ties with it...

but again... thats just my 2 cents :eek:

amazing how this thread hasnt brought much attention to people at wht... or resolved an answer

Hahahaha .. this name is mentioned once, and suddely all kinds of 1-5 post people show up (with no referal url's in their profile) vouching for that company, sure.. it is not because of them, we are just paranoid. I wonder if they all used proxies, or diferent dia-in accounts.... I do hope no one was stupid enough to create a few accounts on his own unique IP ....

Weird to me is that paypaldownloads.com is not affiliated with paypal but has a logo that looks quite like the logo off paypal to me...

I checked this out because I'm interested in security software/solutions and two things jumped out at me:

1. You can test the system by sending the guy $1 through Paypal. Even though you can request a refund this seemed a little out of place - send me $1 and I'll let you have an HTML document that says "Download was successful".

2. The TOS is freaking 13 pages long! I've seen contracts selling houses and businesses less than half that. I'm a little leery of such a long TOS because most people won't take the time to read it or if they do they may not understand it so they just agree and don't really know what they are getting themselves into.

Originally posted by Monolith65
I'm also hosted by www.personalsites.org and I can vouch for adam as I have yet to run into any problems with his service to date :)

You mean 2 days?

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?postid=728126#post728126

Oh what a tangled web we weave when we attempt to pull the wool over us WHTers. :D

edit this one. :)

i'm answering to the question abt "have anyone heard about personalsites.org"

i'm a current customer, with my website www.half-dragon.net. You can check it if you want. Their service is great, with a fast account creation.. and no problems at all.

as a comment to being a customer who answers a thread abt their host, i visit WHT often to look at special offers and read abt hosting companies to see if i should go with them or not. It's part of doing your homework, after all. search my nick if u want, too.

Just don't be rude man

personalsites.org, no matter what their method of credit card transactions is a good company. I have moved all of my sites to their servers. They have my CC# and have never missused it. I would recomend them again, it's just cheaper to use something like paypaldownloads.com to make credit card payments. If you really need proof here are my sites, you can do a whois on them and find that the name servers are personalsites.org's.

http://plerophory.com
http://vastcs.net
http://phase-two.com

Hello,

My name is Adam Stewart and I am the owner of both PersonalSites.org and PayPalDownloads.com. Let me clear up a few things, since there is some confusion about exactly what the two organizations offer:

1) PayPalDownloads.com is NOT in the business of money transfer. PayPalDownloads.com does not provide payment processing services. We are not selling services to compete with PayPal. PayPalDownloads.com is a service to sellers of "digital goods" (ebooks, mp3s, commercial programs, etc.) to allow them to sell their goods securely, with instant digital delivery, using the paypal payment system as a payment method. My service integrates with PayPal's service to provide a turnkey solution to people who have limited web programming knowledge. This is a business that actually generates income for me.

2) PersonalSites.org is a "not-for-profit" web hosting company. When PersonalSites.org started, the idea behind it was to offset the cost of the dedicated server that is required (root access is needed) to run paypaldownloads.com. Since the PersonalSites.org web hosting does not generate much income, it is not feasible to have to pay for a seperate merchant account. (which usually cost a minimum of $50/mo, plus startup costs which are generally arond $300). Since PayPalDownloads.com doesnt come any where close to using small fraction of available server resources, I decided to spread the cost of the server to other people who wanted an inexpensive website. Its a win-win situation: I enjoy lower costs for my PayPalDownloads.com business, and people who host their website with me enjoy web hosting at my cost.

Now PersonalSites.org has grown at a steady pace since we started offering web hosting services. We have just purchased a 2nd server that is dedicated to just hosting websites. I know that PersonalSites.org is still small, but it is growing very steadily, due to the inexpensive price tag.

If you have any more questions or concerns about either company (PersonalSites.org or PayPalDownloads.com), feel free to ask :)

Thanks,
Adam

Originally posted by ATST
Gee, deathlord asks WHT members a question about a host that nobody has heard of, and is amazingly replied to by customers of that host. Dedicated customers who spend their own valuable time to check their hosts referral links.
WoW, what a host they must be to have such faithful customers!
Hey they look honest too:
"How can you provide this account so cheap?
Its simple, we arent making any money."
:D

And such a long history of posting .... LOL

i still dont think im willing to give paypaldownloads.com my cc's even if people have experienced no problems yet a year down the road im sure your info is in some text file on some ones comp... if the wolrd was only full of trustworthy people..