Just realized I have been here for 7 years, don't blink or life will pass you by.
First the back story. The host I had previously was outstanding when I first signed up. It was smaller company that only offered VPS and dedicated servers. Very active forum with lot of customers and you could even get response from the engineers and the owner. Support was quick and knowledgeable, as good as it is here. After I was there a few years they started offering shared hosting and buying up a bunch of smaller shared hosting companies, things went down hill quick. Instead of minutes tickets turned into hours.
Just to be clear I'm not one to abuse the ticket system. I had perhaps 20 tickets over a 10 period and a lot of them were for initial setup of the VPS. The final straw was because of a DDOS attack with requests coming in about 3000 per second over 1 week period. I don't expect miracles but the solution of null routing the IP until the attack subsided combined with hours between ticket responses and no advice on what I could do was the end of the line for me. I was already considering moving at that point because of another ticket that took a day to resolve.
I showed up here 7 years ago on the advice of someone else. Pleasantly found support to be fast and knowledgeable and then a short time later they announced shared hosting plans and I thought to myself Noooooooooooooo! here we go again.
Well I'm still here. Support is still as outstanding as the day I signed up. Give yourself a pat on the back KH. Keep doing what you're doing.
Now that I'm done kissing ass where is my free stuff?
First the back story. The host I had previously was outstanding when I first signed up. It was smaller company that only offered VPS and dedicated servers. Very active forum with lot of customers and you could even get response from the engineers and the owner. Support was quick and knowledgeable, as good as it is here. After I was there a few years they started offering shared hosting and buying up a bunch of smaller shared hosting companies, things went down hill quick. Instead of minutes tickets turned into hours.
Just to be clear I'm not one to abuse the ticket system. I had perhaps 20 tickets over a 10 period and a lot of them were for initial setup of the VPS. The final straw was because of a DDOS attack with requests coming in about 3000 per second over 1 week period. I don't expect miracles but the solution of null routing the IP until the attack subsided combined with hours between ticket responses and no advice on what I could do was the end of the line for me. I was already considering moving at that point because of another ticket that took a day to resolve.
I showed up here 7 years ago on the advice of someone else. Pleasantly found support to be fast and knowledgeable and then a short time later they announced shared hosting plans and I thought to myself Noooooooooooooo! here we go again.
Well I'm still here. Support is still as outstanding as the day I signed up. Give yourself a pat on the back KH. Keep doing what you're doing.
Now that I'm done kissing ass where is my free stuff?