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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
11. Have you ever been fucked over by a host?
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Oh yeah! and I should start with a shout-out to Chaz and say.... "I never should have left you guys lol"
I hooked up with two hosts the first was not really a fuck-over unless you count that fact that they sold off their company and my "Barter deal" was not honored by them.
The second is by far ONE of the WORST experiences I've ever dealt with in my adult industry carrier!
There was a little known host years back (Lela Hosting) who had a good name for itself, they use to host another adult board, lets say it was a "wet" board, now if a BOARD says a host is ok, then it MUST BE! WRONG!!! (Hindsight is 20/20 lol)
Anyway, I worked out a killer deal with the owner of the company where I would do graphic work, promotions, and work with his other ventures in exchange for free hosting... and not only that but dedicated servers
So anyway, I'm hosting with them for prolly a few years, and things are running semi smoothly, nothing out of the ordinary happens, I do work, I get free servers, I need something done to the boxes and I can't get a hold of my techs it gets done by the hosting company for me, he needs more work above and beyond what we agreed upon he pays me....
well THAT was the plan
What he did instead was come up with excuse after excuse of how he was unable to send the money for whatever reason, a few times he'd send it trough paypal (VERY FEW Times) and when it would happen that way he'd send like only $20.00 with the promise that more would go through later.
THEN... he offered to pay some bills for me instead of just sending me the money, I thought cool save me some time doing it, so HE called up this place and that and paid MY BILL with HIS credit card.
I come to find out later he claimed the charges on his card were fraudulent and he got full refunds and I damn near got sent to jail for credit card fraud! The ONLY thing that saved me were the "amounts" it was low enough that the two companies he paid on multiple occasions KNEW it was not fraud (and they knew me) they wrote it off as a loss.
(it gets even better!)
I take off for a weekend to work security for a music festival, Tim (owner of the 'company') knows this, I'm not "supposed" to have internet access that weekend BUT I managed to get some, While I was away, he moved us from our dedicated servers BACK to a shared server, BUT he fucked up when he entered in our login info and accidentally gave us full root access, sooooo we were able to see exactly how many other sites were on our "dedicated servers"
When confronted with both screenshots and proof of who did the move (lol server admin logs) and when it happened Tim played the "tech fuck-up" card and assured us we would be moved back, we were (but not really)
(Still gets better)
All the sudden Lela starts going down more and more, (even our "dedi boxes") and their starting to get blasted on the boards, Tim assures me everything is fine and in fact they JUST bought out another hosting company and are setting up
100 new servers and "Everyone including you is getting free upgrades due to the downtime"
The "sheep" are calmed, and everything goes back to normal, then Tim does a huge 'sale' on the boards offers an insane deal for new clients, collects over 200 new clients (found out through grapevine) and gets 3-6 months of hosting money
per client, a few days later EVERYTHING GOES DOWN......
Long story short
It turns out that Tim / LelaHosting was NOT this nice big hosting company, but in fact nothing but a reseller, they stopped paying their bills to their upline and took all the clients money (and data in some cases) and then vanished off the web, the upline yanked the boxes down BUT was "so kind" to offer the Lela clients....
"A 12 hour window to retrieve their data, we can not tell you when this 12 hours will start so please keep trying to access your cpanels or FTP servers"
In the end, I lost EVERYTHING but my actual content, I lost all my custom backend scripts, everything, and I did not have "backups" cause well I was PAYING them to back my shit up and they never did, and the backups that were on my
office computers got fried by lighting WHILE I WAS BURNING THEM TO DISCS
so yeah, a bunch of us tried like hell to hunt down his real info, since it turned out not only did he use fake info for EVERYTHING, he also had did this a few years back under a diff company name, so far he's safe in hiding.... so far
-Loki-