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11-18-2006, 11:08 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Bliksem Hosting The end?
Sites are down.
Reseller account is down, all my customers sites down.
Bliksems Support Site is down.
Bliksems Forum is down.
Blimsems toll-free # out of service.
Bliksem whois toll-free # out of service.
Bliksem not answering emails to admins, support, sales
Blimsems live chat down.
Bliksem has a new hosting company hostingjoy.com?
Is anyone having any luck getting things back up and running today or is this the end? DO I need to face all my customers now?
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11-18-2006, 11:23 PM #2Disabled
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Good luck, I seriously wish you the best of luck. I had a rotten time with them, and they try to turn it around like you`re to blame for all the problems.
I left a few month ago due to lots of downtime. First time it was somebody abusing the server, then a few weeks later we had a whole weekend of downtime. After very little if any response from support, they turned around and said the server problems were because of one of my clients. I asked for proof and they couldn`t give it to me so I had to take their word. I also complained because it took forever to get a response from support (I had my own clients breathing down my neck). I hate being kept in the dark with nothing to tell my clients. A few days later I get an email from Jav I believe saying I send more tickets to their desk than any other Bliksem client has ever done!!!
I said I was thinking of cancelling, I never got a response to that. I figured they was glad to see me gone! Most hosts would try and work something out to keep you, but not Bliksem.
I hated sending in tickets as it always took hours and hours before you heard anything, sometimes it would be the next day or more. Eventually you would get a short sharp response and a telling off for the follow up emails!
I mean, WTF do they expect us to do when we`re in the dark. Play the guessing game and just give our clients come crap old excuse.
It`s sad because they started out an awesome company. Seems like they`ve joined Sonataweb and ended up down the shitter
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11-18-2006, 11:45 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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Bliksem has a new hosting company hostingjoy.com
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11-19-2006, 12:13 AM #4Frontend Web Developer
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That's quite upsetting to hear when hosting customers are blamming their customers for server problems. However, sometimes it can be a client issue, they can at least talk to the client in a nice way. Well, I wish you the best of luck and hope you have a better time elsewhere.
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11-19-2006, 01:08 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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11-19-2006, 01:30 AM #6Retired Moderator
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11-19-2006, 01:52 AM #7Texas Female
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Originally Posted by Aussie Bob
Well maybe so but there are many posts in different threads currently about Bliksem. If that is their reason...very unethical IMO, but thats just me.
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11-19-2006, 02:37 AM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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You could handle anything but what about backups ?? Do you have backups ??
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11-19-2006, 03:04 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by lindmar
If you have your account backups, I would suggest that you find a new suitable hosting company and move on.
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11-19-2006, 07:54 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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There seems to be no option but to leave Bliksem as soon as is possible. Remember, warning signals have been there for quite sometime now.
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11-19-2006, 11:10 AM #11Disabled
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Originally Posted by WN-Ali
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11-19-2006, 11:38 AM #12Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally Posted by Aussie Bob
Its one thing to start up in a new niche but you still have existing customers.
The fact is, while there may have been warnings here. Bliksem was heavily promoted here as a decent host.
I think if this is the case , hosts like this should be banned from advertising here.
Including his new company hostingjoy.com
Should be an instant blacklist.
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11-19-2006, 06:57 PM #13Junior Guru
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Seems the URL on the site which links to the public profile Hyperpin report is not available now for some reason!
http://www.hyperspin.com/publicrepor...3/7076/2/25742
Taken from here: http://bliksemhosting.com/coop.html
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11-19-2006, 07:03 PM #14Disabled
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I see nothing has changed. They still like to keep their customers in the dark. The least they could do is take five minutes and come on here with some answers. I can only feel sorry for those not knowing what is happening. I was there a few months back in the same situation.
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11-19-2006, 07:43 PM #15Junior Guru Wannabe
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The servers just went back up.
How do I migrate the accounts of about 300 customers to a new host?
Anyone have a quick/safe solution that isnt going to be huge?
I gotta get these sites out of here while were back up.
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11-19-2006, 07:51 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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Unfortunately, there's no easy way for moving 300 accounts out of there.
I suggest to start doing full backups of all them through Cpanel, with them, you can restore the site in another server easily, however, that's done 1 by 1.█ Shared Web Hosting - Reseller Hosting - Semi-Dedicated Servers - SolusVM/XEN VPS
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11-19-2006, 07:52 PM #17Disabled
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Are you on a semi-dedicated Lindmar? If not that`s an awful lot of clients on a reseller plan :O
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11-19-2006, 08:25 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by lindmar
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11-19-2006, 08:46 PM #19Web Hosting Master
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You'll need the username and password for each of those domains, and your new host can migrate them over to their server.Although I can't see many reseller providers that will migrate 300 domains, unless it's to a VPS or a dedicated server.█ Shared Web Hosting - Reseller Hosting - Semi-Dedicated Servers - SolusVM/XEN VPS
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11-19-2006, 08:59 PM #20Junior Guru Wannabe
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There are 296 domains set up. many are parked and use zero resources. I need to go through and clean it up.
I was exagerrating in a fit of anger!
I am going to move to a dedicated server. Can anyone reccomend a host?
Also, I have WHM access if that helps.
Thanks
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11-19-2006, 09:30 PM #21Junior Guru Wannabe
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Make Certain Your Backups Are Good Before You Do More Than 1
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11-19-2006, 09:50 PM #22Web Hosting Master
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11-19-2006, 10:03 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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If you're in a real rush, you could try doing an rsync and replicating the databases. You'll lose a lot of things that could be done by a cpmove, like preferences, mail settings etc.,
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11-20-2006, 09:51 AM #24Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally Posted by mesobob
Moves up per bliksems request, moved up again, upgraded.
Also have a VPS with them with I basically don't use. It has about 50 sites on it. Not really in action.
On a side note does anyone else have trouble logging into this forum?
The cookies/login just doesnt want to stick for me here. Takes about 20 tries..
Anyways, I tried a full backup. Not sure what I do with that once I have it?
This seems very very complicated.
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11-28-2006, 01:08 AM #25Newbie
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Bliksem Hosting, is terrible and I'd hate to see any of you make a mistake and have to go through what I've gone through with them.
I noticed that there was not one charge from Bliksem like there should be but three. Wow. I never really look at my credit card statements and they are paid automatically so I didn't even know that these guys were charging me almost every month. It makes me wonder because I notified them of the problem and they knew there was a duplicate charge but wouldn't they have seen 2 duplicate charges in their system?
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everytime I've tried calling them this is what I've gotten -
davidjay.net/forumpics/bliksem_hosting.mov
The empty promises from Javier Vidueira and his staff at Bliksem Hosting have caused such a nightmare for me. I think there might be something more serious going on over there.
Sounds like many of you have had similiar experiences and maybe we should investigate this?
Cheers,
David Jay