SUPER CON JOB
Been having a hellish past weeks with my web hosting provider, who inexplicably took down the kayakasia.org website. This was my second bad experience with unreliable web provider for the past 2 years !
Their modus operandi is like this: advertised excellent service with low rates, you signed up for a year, they will provide good service. Pleased with their service you renewed for another year, and thats when the problems begin - missed connections, server down, eventually they would shut down your site. No calls, emails, or threats will make them attend to you. And if they do replied, even their English turned unbelieveably bad. All standards dropped.
Dig deeper into them and you will discover that a 10-men company is actually one bloke at home with 10 identities. All their multiple office addresses are bogus. And if you had asked them to register your web address, you will never see it again. Your website address, files, emails, data, and everything you worked for will be gone.
By this time, you would have lost your money, your website, your visitors, and your cool as well.
And these web hosting agents are still making money, advertising themselves as the best web hosts in Singapore ! Despite accounts of hundreds of complaints and con jobs (www.sgwebhostingtalk.com), they are beyond the reach of law and operating today.
I haved learned to live with this aspect of cyberspace. And the 3 golden rules I have learned about web hosting over the past years are :
1) ALWAYS REGISTER THE DOMAIN UNDER YOUR NAME
2) HAVE YOUR DOMAIN'S AUTHENTICATION CODE FOR EASY TRANSFER BETWEEN HOSTS
3) CHEAP = CRAP !
Peace.
Kayakasia will be back soon !
Their modus operandi is like this: advertised excellent service with low rates, you signed up for a year, they will provide good service. Pleased with their service you renewed for another year, and thats when the problems begin - missed connections, server down, eventually they would shut down your site. No calls, emails, or threats will make them attend to you. And if they do replied, even their English turned unbelieveably bad. All standards dropped.
Dig deeper into them and you will discover that a 10-men company is actually one bloke at home with 10 identities. All their multiple office addresses are bogus. And if you had asked them to register your web address, you will never see it again. Your website address, files, emails, data, and everything you worked for will be gone.
By this time, you would have lost your money, your website, your visitors, and your cool as well.
And these web hosting agents are still making money, advertising themselves as the best web hosts in Singapore ! Despite accounts of hundreds of complaints and con jobs (www.sgwebhostingtalk.com), they are beyond the reach of law and operating today.
I haved learned to live with this aspect of cyberspace. And the 3 golden rules I have learned about web hosting over the past years are :
1) ALWAYS REGISTER THE DOMAIN UNDER YOUR NAME
2) HAVE YOUR DOMAIN'S AUTHENTICATION CODE FOR EASY TRANSFER BETWEEN HOSTS
3) CHEAP = CRAP !
Peace.
Kayakasia will be back soon !
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