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Old 11-07-2008, 06:02 PM
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Holdfire help. Really need help here

Hi, I am with Holdfire and have been for around 6 months.
A few days ago they suspended my account. They gave me no warning or any response for over 7hs.
When trying to open any domains on my account i am taken to this page: htt-p://holdfire.net/suspended.page/
This their response:
Posted: 11/06/2008 10:40
We do not provide backups to clients that currently have a suspended account with us. Please bear in mind that this is an issue that can be resolved.
Your account is currently suspended due to your account using too much CPU on the shared server.
The account, leedoyle, is currently overloading the CPU on this server with to many active web requests.
[root@chirpr ~]# top -u leedoyle
top - 21:31:22 up 80 days, 20:30, 1 user, load average: 2.37, 1.90, 1.80
Tasks: 200 total, 3 running, 197 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7% us, 15.8% sy, 15.4% ni, 38.5% id, 29.4% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 6230616k total, 4704696k used, 1525920k free, 229956k buffers
Swap: 2040244k total, 2184k used, 2038060k free, 3089132k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9650 leedoyle 30 10 36420 23m 5648 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.41 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/post.php
9654 leedoyle 26 10 3916 1152 892 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 xmllint --nonet --xmlout --encode UTF-8 -
9660 leedoyle 30 10 31372 17m 5380 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.34 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php
9769 leedoyle 30 10 30908 18m 5464 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/post.php
10004 leedoyle 30 10 31640 18m 5444 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.26 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/post.php
10011 leedoyle 30 10 32236 18m 5436 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.23 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/post.php
10018 leedoyle 30 10 30392 17m 5388 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.32 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
10019 leedoyle 30 10 30384 17m 5388 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.32 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
10024 leedoyle 30 10 31924 18m 5436 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/edit.php
10085 leedoyle 30 10 31120 17m 5388 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.23 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
10086 leedoyle 30 10 31688 17m 5408 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.23 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
10093 leedoyle 30 10 31652 17m 5388 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.22 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
10094 leedoyle 30 10 30728 17m 5380 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.23 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
10569 leedoyle 30 10 37228 23m 5648 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.50 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/post.php
10576 leedoyle 31 10 3500 1152 892 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 xmllint --nonet --xmlout --encode UTF-8 -
10581 leedoyle 30 10 31144 17m 5448 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php
10680 leedoyle 30 10 31604 17m 5416 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.23 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
10888 leedoyle 30 10 31240 18m 5436 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/post.php
10918 leedoyle 30 10 30200 17m 5416 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.23 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
10930 leedoyle 30 10 30456 17m 5388 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.26 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
10934 leedoyle 30 10 30468 17m 5416 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.23 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
11104 leedoyle 30 10 37724 23m 5672 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.52 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/post.php
11109 leedoyle 34 10 3648 1152 892 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 xmllint --nonet --xmlout --encode UTF-8 -
11110 leedoyle 30 10 30064 17m 5388 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.23 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php
11123 leedoyle 30 10 31716 17m 5388 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-mce-help.php
11182 leedoyle 30 10 30384 17m 5380 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
11184 leedoyle 30 10 31688 17m 5388 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.32 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
11193 leedoyle 30 10 31624 17m 5408 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
11194 leedoyle 30 10 31952 17m 5412 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.22 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
11197 leedoyle 30 10 31896 18m 5432 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.25 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/index.php
11210 leedoyle 30 10 32584 18m 5460 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.25 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/index.php
11225 leedoyle 30 10 30672 18m 5440 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.37 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/index.php
11239 leedoyle 30 10 32288 18m 5460 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/wp-admin/index.php
13285 leedoyle 30 10 30868 17m 5408 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 /usr/bin/php /home/leedoyle/public_html/index.php
[root@chirp ~]#
The account is temporarily suspended to alleviate the stress on the server that your own account caused. We are currently investigating into this issue so that your account can be unsuspended.
If you site is found to use too much CPU usage again, we will recommend that either you upgrade your account to a VPS to accomodate the need for more power, or find another host. If you choose to find another host, we will unlock the account for 6 hours so that you may access your data; After those 6 hours are up, the account will be suspended and within 30 days termindated.
We'll be unsuspending your account in the next hour.
===============
Since this was made my account has NOT been unsuspended in anyway. I have since found a new host as I do not think that this is good management. I still have 6 months on my account but they just refuse to reopen my account. I have asked 5 times and all of today have been given no answer or reply to any of my questions.
I need my files. I have spent weeks designing my website and also have years of posts on my blog. I have SQL backups but for some reason they are out of order when I have updated mysql on my new host... but I still have none of my template files.
I now feel that they are holding my data hostage as they refuse to contact me or let me know what is going on.
They do not have any live support or phone number... The only way I have of contacting them is their Help Desk which is now useless.
I live in England and am not sure of my legal rights if this did turn out bad.

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Old 11-07-2008, 06:43 PM
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I live in England and am not sure of my legal rights if this did turn out bad.


If the host isn't in England as well, that will be of little importance.
Most terms of service make it your responsibility to have backups ready. You could ask them to make a full backup of your account and let you download it via FTP, if they're reticent when it comes to unsuspending it.





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Old 11-07-2008, 09:24 PM
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Sorry to hear your troubles. It's always good to have your own backups in case of issues like this. At this time I would recommand just staying on the good side of your host (in case they arn't professional or try to get revenge on you for leaving).
Then after you got your files just have them cancel your account and be done with them.





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Old 11-07-2008, 09:35 PM
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sorry to hear you troubles.

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Old 11-08-2008, 05:40 AM
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I have asked for backs but they just refuse to give them. They tell me they do not give backups and the only way is from cpanel. The only thing is... they wont let me in cpanel to get them.
I thought holdfire was a good company....

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Old 11-08-2008, 06:16 AM
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You can get the name of the registrant and contact details here:http://whois.domaintools.com/holdfire.net
The last name might ring a bell.http://www.webhostingtalk.com/member.php?u=152212






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Old 11-08-2008, 06:24 AM
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I guess it shows that when your stressed you dont look at the obvious things.... I should have checked Whois straight away.
Thanks I have no idea who this is though.... Maybe it is a name known on these forums?

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Old 11-08-2008, 06:31 AM
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jordanriane.com/contact/
There is a mobile number on that page.
There is no "they":http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=718116






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