Yeah - I was with Amerinoc - and sadly I'm still with them so far.
I am that fucked up guy who struggles for the past few years - drawing cartoon porn for nickels. Mydirtydrawings.com was hacked and it's content ripped and then sold outside for a buck on some file locker sites. In order to adapt to the vast tendency that goes around - I removed all the barriers and showed my stuff to be seen for free. That's quite popular tactic among the artists - and it works: people are coming, because I create stuff on regular basis - some are becoming my patrons, some are paying to draw something for them and I have ads on the site.
People somehow started to acknowledge me and notice my page. I started to have regular visitors and clients. Everything started to look somehow promising.
Until today - when Jetpack told me my site is down. It was down for the entire day. And the support was silent. I wrote them message earlier to hear that they have hardware malfunction. I though that this will be solved quickly and told them they are free to close the ticket. However this lasted the entire day and even more. I wrote them message - asking when my site will be up and running again - and I got this :
Dear Customer:
This morning the server on which your shared web hosting account was located suffered a catastrophic failure of its disk subsystem. Numerous attempts were made to recover the information from the server. Unfortunately all of those attempts failed and all data on this server has been lost.
We have created a new shared web hosting account for you on our new load balanced and redundant web hosting platform. You will need to login to the Account Manager to configure the account and then upload your web site files to put your web sites back online. Please review the information in the Account Manager closely as access and DNS information has changed. If you require any assistance, please contact customer service using the details on the Support page in the Account Manager.
A credit in the amount of one month's service has been issued to your account.
Our new platform utilizes a redundant network-attached storage system so we can assure you that this type of failure is impossible in the future. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
If you have any questions or comments, contact customer service by opening a ticket in the Account Manager at
https://secure.amerinoc.com/manage or send email to
[email protected] or toll-free telephone at 877-803-8128. All tickets via phone or email will require the user's support token for authentication.
Thank you,
AmeriNOC
So basically Amerinoc are bullshit : through all these years of hosting my site experienced numerous of downs - it was down for hours - and my wall of tickets to them had one and same message: mydirtydrawings.com is down / again and again/.
Then new owners showed up on the horizon.
And most of you ran away from Amerinoc years ago.
I was sitting on my ass - simply because I paid them for 3 years in advance.
Now they are bringing me back to start from scratch !
Well - Amerinoc. You made my day even more miserable. Thank you!
Now GFY - please recommend me a good host - where they accept adult drawings -
24/7 support. My site is not that popular so I don't need a dedicated server. Let's say I'm fresh starter.
I will be using Comic Easel to show my comics , drawings , animations and all the stuff I create - I'm not showing stupid manga stolen/bought from somewhere - I create stuff on my own.
Please tell me what is needed for me to migrate from amerinoc to another server including transferring the domain name without the need to pay amerinoc something more ?!