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    How long does your provider give you to solve a spam complaint?

    What's the industry standard for how long you have to fix a spam complaint once it comes in before the provider blocks your server?

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    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    What's the industry standard for how long you have to fix a spam complaint once it comes in before the provider blocks your server?
    It is usually the norm to give a 24-48 hour window to respond to the issue and have a resolution in progress for spam issues. At least in my experience. Hope that helps!
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    Often enough, it depends on what you buy from your provider, volume, and how much you pay.

    Reseller accounts typically have very little leniency (mostly because the host can just suspend the end user account limiting the impact). Super cheap dedicated providers tend to give a lot less slack, than providers who charge on the higher end, and that's often relative to available resources, how well manned/educated their abuse department is, etc.
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    Let me guess, you are at Hetzner, right?
    They are the only ones that block your server within 24 hours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kotsolis View Post
    Let me guess, you are at Hetzner, right?
    They are the only ones that block your server within 24 hours.
    Nope. Actually Instant Dedicated blocked one of our IPs after 5 hours. I found that crazy as everyone else gives atleast 24 hours, Softlayer gives 48.

    Was curious the 'norm'.

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    On the other hand, based on my experience, companies like QHoster and Stagnom don't block server IPs. At least they should have warned you.
    Hetzner gives 24 hours and if it's Friday and you don't reply they close your server before they leave office for weekend.

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    I like to jump into it as it concerns us.

    If we get 1 complaint in, customer has time (24-48 hours) to get it resolved.
    If we however get repeated complaints in a short period of time, we take further action to stop the abuse. We cannot let a spamrun continue for 48 hours in a row and get our IPs or even subnets blacklisted. It all depends on the seriousness of the issue.

    I am quite sure any serious host would act in the same way.
    This did not involve a server, it involved an IP of a server, the server itself remained online & available.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 24x7group View Post
    If we get 1 complaint in, customer has time (24-48 hours) to get it resolved.
    If we however get repeated complaints in a short period of time, we take further action to stop the abuse. We cannot let a spamrun continue for 48 hours in a row and get our IPs or even subnets blacklisted. It all depends on the seriousness of the issue.
    In this case, i feel they did the right thing. If a spamrun is detected, the block should be done as soon as possible, to ensure that the spamrun does not continue (1) and that the IP reputation of the provider does not go down (2).
    Make sure (to OP) that your provider has a valid 24x7 telephone number on file for emergency situations like this!

    Quote Originally Posted by GorillaServers View Post
    It is usually the norm to give a 24-48 hour window to respond to the issue and have a resolution in progress for spam issues. At least in my experience. Hope that helps!
    You will find that more and more providers have transparent, outbound spam detection systems and will block outgoing spamruns as quickly as possible.
    An alternative to blocking the full IP might be blocking the sendmail (SNMP) port in some occasions.

    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    What's the industry standard for how long you have to fix a spam complaint once it comes in before the provider blocks your server?
    How fast does Stablehost solve or respond to their abuse issues once reported by their upstream? 5 hours feels somewhat long in this 24x7 industry, can you shine a light on that? the norm of host 2 host abuse response is by the way less then 1 hour, we are all in this fast industry correct? surely you guys have a 24x7 support team to take care of things like this?
    Host to enduser is generally ~ 24 hours unless the spamrun is very serious.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 24x7group View Post
    I like to jump into it as it concerns us.

    If we get 1 complaint in, customer has time (24-48 hours) to get it resolved.
    If we however get repeated complaints in a short period of time, we take further action to stop the abuse. We cannot let a spamrun continue for 48 hours in a row and get our IPs or even subnets blacklisted. It all depends on the seriousness of the issue.

    I am quite sure any serious host would act in the same way.
    This did not involve a server, it involved an IP of a server, the server itself remained online & available.
    That doesn't make much sense. Of course there's going to be more than one complaint. If someone gets hacked, a couple hundred emails are going to out. You *will* get atleast 2 complaints out of the couple hundred.

    You're not going to get your "subnet" blacklisted because of a single spam issue.

    This *DID* involve a server, I already told you by null routing that IP, you took over 200+ websites down, but apparently that's okay.

    Emailing us in the early morning because you're in Europe and then null routing us because we didn't respond in 5 hours is unacceptable. That's unheard of and not a industry standard by any means.

    If that's how you want to run your company, that's fine -- so be it, but that's not how we can do business with a company who is hot on the null route button for a single spam complaint (in months)

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    Quote Originally Posted by swiftnoc View Post



    How fast does Stablehost solve or respond to their abuse issues once reported by their upstream? 5 hours feels somewhat long in this 24x7 industry, can you shine a light on that?
    Really? 5 hours for a spam (abuse) issue in the middle of the night. I'm not sure what planet you live on, but most if not ALL companies don't have 24/7 abuse support.

    For small spam issues, we give clients 24 hours to fix unless it's obvious they are hacked and we take action as soon as we get the complaint.

    We host the majority of our stuff with Softlayer who gives us 48 hours.

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    @stablehost, I'm sorry you feel that way. You can take all kind of steps to prevent spamruns from happening by limiting the sending of outgoing e-mails.

    If you want our help for that, feel free to get in touch. I am not apologizing for being pro-active on the abuses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 24x7group View Post
    @stablehost, I'm sorry you feel that way. You can take all kind of steps to prevent spamruns from happening by limiting the sending of outgoing e-mails.

    If you want our help for that, feel free to get in touch. I am not apologizing for being pro-active on the abuses.
    While I'm happy you are offering help, we've been in the web hosting business a *long* time. We already limit spam to 60/hour, but that still means 60 spam emsils can go out an hour, enough to generate 1-2 complaints.

    There's no way to prevent 100% of outbound, all web hosts know this.

    Again, if 5 hours works for you for spam complaints, it works. It doesn't work for web hosting providers due to the amount of abuse we deal with on a daily basis.

    The industry standard is usually 24-48 hours for spam complaints, and 12 hours for phishing and a few hours for more serious abuse matters like child porn, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    Really? 5 hours for a spam (abuse) issue in the middle of the night. I'm not sure what planet you live on, but most if not ALL companies don't have 24/7 abuse support.
    I live on planet earth and all serious hosting providers nowadays provide 24x7 support to customers with guaranteed response times well under 5 hours.

    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    For small spam issues, we give clients 24 hours to fix unless it's obvious they are hacked and we take action as soon as we get the complaint.
    Its obvious that you do not deal with cleaning up the IP blacklist mess afterwards. I hope your customers will not experience to much bounced mails.
    Concerning Softlayer - well i wish them good-luck once Spamhaus & co will start to escalate and blacklist /20s or all Softlayer netblocks.

    http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/softlayer.com
    Found 11 SBL listings for IPs under the responsibility of softlayer.com
    Some dating back to 22-Jul-2013 21:18 GMT
    Ouch!

    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    While I'm happy you are offering help, we've been in the web hosting business a *long* time. We already limit spam to 60/hour, but that still means 60 spam emsils can go out an hour, enough to generate 1-2 complaints.
    Why not use a transparent detection? did you already look at something like the Spamexperts offer?

    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    The industry standard is usually 24-48 hours for spam complaints, and 12 hours for phishing and a few hours for more serious abuse matters like child porn, etc.
    Abuse is abuse, do you say you see abuse but simply ignore it unless you see more serious abuse issues? or are you saying you actually do not see abuse until ~ 12 hours after it has been reported to you? how does this match up with the several hours response time you want to give on serious abuse like Child Porn? does your upstream provider have a 24x7 number to call you guys in case of emergencies like abuse?
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    I've been with a few providers and they all (so far) give 24 hours, which is really reasonable. But, as my clients are the end-user soon as I get a SPAM complaint I suspend them.. as from the time I get the SPAM complaint from my provider I cannot give my users also 24 hours.. as I only have 24 hours myself. So I just suspend my clients till I get some sort of communication going. Rather have one client suspended, then the provider suspending the full dedicated server.
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    Quote Originally Posted by swiftnoc View Post
    I live on planet earth and all serious hosting providers nowadays provider 24x7 support to customers.
    I'm not sure what you mean by that, I think you translated it to english wrong?

    I don't know a single provider who offers 24/7 abuse. Can you let me know of one that does, I'd love to talk to them about how they do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TrentaHost View Post
    I've been with a few providers and they all (so far) give 24 hours, which is really reasonable. But, as my clients are the end-user soon as I get a SPAM complaint I suspend them.. as from the time I get the SPAM complaint from my provider I cannot give my users also 24 hours.. as I only have 24 hours myself. So I just suspend my clients till I get some sort of communication going. Rather have one client suspended, then the provider suspending the full dedicated server.
    Yep, that's reasonable. Glad to hear you get 24 hours to deal with the issue.

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    @stablehost

    Like I said, it all depends on the seriousness of the type of abuse. Unfortunately spam and anything related to that has high priority. Also as we didn't get a reply from your abuse department we are also unaware if you have acted on it or not. Again, we're happy to help find a suitable solution to prevent this from happening in the future, but we need you to be pro-active on abuse issues also.

    You have the right to disagree on how we do business, but we only do this for the sake of our customers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 24x7group View Post
    @stablehost

    Like I said, it all depends on the seriousness of the type of abuse. Unfortunately spam and anything related to that has high priority. Also as we didn't get a reply from your abuse department we are also unaware if you have acted on it or not. Again, we're happy to help find a suitable solution to prevent this from happening in the future, but we need you to be pro-active on abuse issues also.

    You have the right to disagree on how we do business, but we only do this for the sake of our customers.
    You sound like we get spam complaints daily and not answering. This is the first spam complaint we've received if I remember correctly.

    If you were that worried because we didn't respond to your email at 3AM. Why didn't you pick up the phone call and call us?

    That just shows you prefer to just null route customers. Lack of customer service....

    Anyways -- enough of this ;-)

    It's apparent, your hosting is not meant for providers, it may work for other users, but not customers who resell web hosting.

    Moving on.

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    The nullroute was removed within 1 minute after your abuse department replied. It's not like we kept it on for 24-48 hours, it was on for maybe 30 minutes or so because that's when we got the answer/reply from you.

    I appreciate that you responded that fast and indeed, apart from this we haven't received that many abuse complaints, but I like to mention again that on cases like this we simply can't wait 24 hours for the spam to continue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    I don't know a single provider who offers 24/7 abuse. Can you let me know of one that does, I'd love to talk to them about how they do it.
    We automated initial response and automatically identify and send it to customers, then review every abuse mail within 15 minutes it entered into our system. Why would you not be able to do this? surely your customers expect fast service and support? are we in the same (hosting) industry or not?
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    Quote Originally Posted by swiftnoc View Post
    We automated initial response and automatically identify and send it to customers, then review every abuse mail within 15 minutes it entered into our system. Why would you not be able to do this? surely your customers expect fast service and support? are we in the same (hosting) industry or not?
    So, you're telling me if I send an email to abuse@swiftnoc.com tonight at 2AM, I'll get a response within 15 minutes from someone saying it's dealt with?

    I'm going to try it ;-)

    http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/swiftnoc.com

    Looks like your automated system isn't working

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    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    So, you're telling me if I send an email to abuse@swiftnoc.com tonight at 2AM, I'll get a response within 15 minutes from someone saying it's dealt with?
    If you have a real complaint, you will get a response immediately that the customer was identified and the issue has been send on to the customer. I would try abuse@swiftway.net instead however, as we are not Swiftnoc.com
    We then follow it up with the customer. If our upstream provider sends a complaint, we will surely coordinate with them on the progress - are you one of our suppliers? no, in that case we will not follow up with you, you will get the initial reply that we received the Abuse mail and what happens with it next. Can you say the same?

    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    Looks like your automated system isn't working
    Maybe you should try looking up under our company and URL instead?
    http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/swiftway.net
    Seems to work fine to me. Yes, we do sometimes get listings and it is always resolved really quickly
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    Quote Originally Posted by swiftnoc View Post


    Maybe you should try looking up under our company and URL instead?
    http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/swiftway.net
    Seems to work fine to me. Yes, we do sometimes get listings and its always resolved really quickly
    Are you saying SwiftNOC is not you? According to ARIN, it's the same company.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    Are you saying SwiftNOC is not you? According to ARIN, it's the same company.
    Interesting, as the bulk of our assignments come from RIPE.
    I will look into this. If someone sends abuse message to the wrong abuse address then surely, they cannot expect us to solve it correct?


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    Quote Originally Posted by stablehost View Post
    So, you're telling me if I send an email to abuse@swiftnoc.com tonight at 2AM, I'll get a response within 15 minutes from someone saying it's dealt with?
    By the way, from your website i see:
    Blazing Fast Support

    Average response time is less than 15 min.
    Customers of StableHost have the ease of mind knowing that we're on their side with fast resolutions to technical issues with our services. Most of the time with issues resolved so fast, the problem isn't even known to the customer.

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    So what is the problem here? maybe just train the support team to also respond within 15 minutes to abuse tickets and/or automate part of the abuse. You yourself already show on your website the expected response time on issues: <15 minutes.
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