Zensix hosting = FAIL



but in all seriousness , fucking $10/year for hosting? shut the fuck up and stop whining dude. you get what you pay for.

I pay about 250-300/MONTH in hosting and guess what? I never have a fucking problem.

are you jewish wezcountry?
 
I feel a responsibility to chime in since I created a thread about their latest upgrades in the Hosting forum.

ZenSix is great for what it is - a low-cost webhost to throw a property or two that gets little to no traffic.

My biggest mistake was relying on the DNS system for a very important domain of mine (sending MX to google apps). Mail went down for less than a day - not a big deal, and I still trust them enough to keep the records in tact so I'm not moving it.

When used for what it is, the server does a great job. You don't put a money site on this kind of thing.

I'm happy to have them kick off high CPU users. It doesn't get a whole lot cheaper, so I take the IP diversity and enjoy the niche link.

edit: One thing I don't get is why there's no support@ or sales@ e-mail ticket system anymore. There should at least be an autoresponder on it telling me what to do. I can't figure out how to log in to the new one yet, but don't care. Will deal with it some other time. Again, not complaining, it's probably an effective solution for their cost setup.
 
papajohn56 said:
This is what happens when you let neckbeards try to run a 'business'
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neckbeard

Talkative, self-important nerdy men (usually age 30 and up) who, through an inability to properly decode social cues, mistake others' strained tolerance of their blather for evidence of their own charm.
Stop being such a neckbeard.


neckbeard http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neckbeard#

1. (n) Facial hair that does not exist on the face, but instead on the neck. Almost never well groomed.

2. (n) Derogatory term for slovenly nerdy people who have no sense of hygene or grooming. Often related to hobbies such as card gaming, video gaming, anime, et. al.
If this party is full of f*cking neckbeards, I'm out. I've got better things to do than sit around with a bunch of unwashed nerds.
 
subigo said:
No, the helpdesk. The thing you submit tickets to and get replies from.



Not much you can do when people are hell bent on sending spam and don't realize there's a daily cap. Even with a crap, spam gets through and people report it to spamhaus, etc. If you allow email, people can spam, there's no way around it. All it takes is one complaint. Even when the cap was down to 100 a day, things still ended up on blacklists. And even when people with accounts aren't sending spam themselves, they're hosting ancient Wordpress installs, just ripe for a bot to bounce shit from.

Anyway... rabble rabble rabble! I hate ZenSix Hosting! $0.83/month is serious business! I host my very important site with them and moving to best-of-the-best (HOSTGATOR!) will surely result in a few days downtime, which will cost me THOUSANDS of dollars!!!

Subigo is such a dick to his clients! So unprofessional! waaah-waaah-waaah
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Okay, I'm done being a dick and will actually offer something useful. It's probably not worth the time (money wise) to implement something like this, but it would really help.

Max number of users low say 10.(what legit business has shared hosting and needs more than 10 accounts?).

Outbound spam filters <= big one. A basic setup would be checking IPs connecting to send email. Do some lookups on them. Can you determine if they're a proxy? Are they on a blacklist? Do the accounts have multiple ips from all over the world / USA connecting to them and successfully authenticating? Run the outbound email through spamassassin > X score then bounce it back to them and tell them to piss off. Are they sending the same email over and over? Say to more than 5 people? Bounce all the other email from that account until they call in.

That's some basic ways to help stop it and it can get a lot more complex than that if you want it to. If you implement something like the above you'll get a lot more slack from the blocklists as well.

EDIT:

I just realized it was $10 a YEAR. I thought it was $10/month (which is still peanuts), but holy crap a year?! I guess I understand why you'd say fuck it and have that attitude at those rates.
 
crackp0t said:
EDIT:

I just realized it was $10 a YEAR. I thought it was $10/month (which is still peanuts), but holy crap a year?! I guess I understand why you'd say fuck it and have that attitude at those rates.
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Correct. It's always been an almost free service. In fact, about 20% of my shared clients do have free service.

I'm not going to bend over backwards for anyone on these plans and I'm definitely not going to let it take up more than an hour of my time each day.
 
Subigo, I was with you back when you had shared hosting and was super thankful for the pricing and for knowing the guy running the company. I recently got on the VPS deal too and don't expect the world. It's been great.

It's being sold away to other guys that kills me :P Both times!
 
stan100 said:
It's being sold away to other guys that kills me :P Both times!
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The vpsoutlet.com sale was bad and there was nothing I could do after the fact. They've ignored every attempt at communication I've made in the last three years.

On the other hand, I wouldn't worry about the ipxcore.com sale. They know what they're doing and I talk with them almost everyday on IRC. Besides, you wouldn't want me as the only support guy after Chris left. You've seen what kind of patience I have for doing customer support.

onigen said:
subigo didn't build that
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huh?
 
subigo said:
The vpsoutlet.com sale was bad and there was nothing I could do after the fact. They've ignored every attempt at communication I've made in the last three years.
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If it makes you feel any better, they haven't charged me since then and are still hosting some of my crap.
 
So much hate in this thread. Not enough titties

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