Chris Mann on 20 Jul 2004 22:36:03 -0000 |
Well, hell, I thought I was sending it off list. Pardon me while I go pry my head out of my ass. Sorry all.. On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 18:26, Chris Mann wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I'm sending this off list, as I don't want to appear to be bashing a > decent company, despite having a few issues with them. > > I was using them for about 12 months a couple of years ago. They're > uptime isn't the greatest, but it was something I was prepared to deal > with. > > The meat of my issue came down to this: > > I had some original recordings (music) that I had hosted on my website > (which was legal at the time according to their TOS). But this was at > the height of the RIAA throwing about their muscle and using the DCMA to > enforce it. Long story short, Drak scanned my directory and noticed I > had MP3's there, and cancelled my account with no warning to me at all. > > I inquired to them as to why, and got the reason. I couldn't really > blame them, as they had to look out for the whole of their company. I > explained to them that I was the creator of the music and that I held > the license to it, not the RIAA. No success. So I asked for my files > back. At this time, they were *supposed* to be backing up files daily or > weekly (can't remember which). By the time I had gotten to this point, > about 7 days had past, and they informed me that they backup had been > over written and there was nothing they could do about it. > > Long story short, they're not to bad. I've known some friends who've had > uptime/email issues with them, but I can't say I had any out standing > issues myself, other than what I explained above. I still recommend them > on occassion as a "Do you want fries with that?" hosting company to > friends just getting started etc. I just find I get more bang for my > buck with PHPwebhosting. > > Hope this helps! > > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:58, Paul wrote: > > Chris Mann wrote: > > > > >I had used drak.net in the past, but have had issues with them, we went > > >our seperate ways. Not a bad choice over all tho. > > > > > >Currently, I use www.phpwebhosting.com. > > > > > >IIRC they give you all you're asking, plus a few extras for 9.95 a > > >month. Uptime is very good with them, or at least I've never noticed any > > >downtime at all. > > > > > > > > > > phpwebhosting lacks point-and-click backup and they do not offer a good > > mailing list package. Their uptime seems to be almost 100% as far as I > > have noticed. > > > > Please, share your Draknet experience with me as they are under serious > > consideration. > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Chis Mann, SAGE Systems Administrator Stonebridge Bank 610.235.1515 cmann (at) stonebridgebank.com http://www.stonebridgebank.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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