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Old April 15th 2004, 07:10 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Thumbs down Beware of CWIHosting.com!

I've had such a bad experience with this hosting company that I can not but share it with everybody so it doesn't happen to other people.
You can see the whole account of what happened here:
On how CWIHosting screwed my sites for a week

In brief: CWIHosting just kicked me out one nice day without any previous warning, and then they held my data from me so I could not move to another hosting company (I made the mistake to keep my database backups in the server). Instead, they proposed that I pay 8 times more to get a dedicated server with them, as the only way for me to get access to my data (and even to my e-mail messages!).

This is definitely not a professional behaviour and can render your site anavailable for well over 4 days! and cause you a lot of trouble and desperation. So my advice is: do not hire any services from CWIHosting.com
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Old April 15th 2004, 04:16 PM   #2 (permalink)
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thats rough. i'm surprised they won't even tar or zip up the files for you so you can get on with it.

hope you sort it out.

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Old June 24th 2005, 01:11 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Beware Of Cwi Hosting It Totally Sucks...

I read the following post:
http://fantasyrantsandnews.blogspot....s_archive.html

PLEASE READ THE ABOVE LINK BECAUSE THIS IS 100% EXACTLY WHAT YOU WILL GET WHEN YOU USE THIS SERVICE.
My experience with CWI is similar (I was shocked - them again I am not surprised since I too have been using CWI for one year) only that I have had a worse experience.

Almost every week the site does down (sometimes several times a week) and the SSL certificate does down more often for no reason. There have been times when even the support site was down when you need to tell then to put your site back online.

Well today they shut down our site www.muathe.com because I spammed my subscribers ( I send on average 7 emails to my members per week for one year now) but today it appears that I have started spamming the same members that I had just sent an email some hours ago. Anyway the site was down for two hours and I would not get to their support anyway so I tought here we go again... After about three hours I called the support line was shocked to here that the site was shut down due to "spamming" ... I went off on the poor guy who said that the CTO some damn ass called Jason (this guy is Ruuudee and a smart ass). Keep in mind that I was supposed to have received an email from the very server they had shut down. The guy promised to get the site back online which he did after about 6 hours but the SSL certificate was down and remains down as I write this. We are missing out on some sales for sure here is an example:


This is an enquiry e-mail from Roger Dunifon (rdunifon@adelphia.net)
When I click on the subscribe link, I get the following error:
The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.

If you were shopping around for a hosting service please do not give your business to this guys because you will regret it.

Here is what you will get when you sign up and start using this hosting service.

Hello Eric Muathe:

This email is in regards to your account muathe.com which you host on our servers. It has came to our attention that you were sending out a large mailing earlier today. This mailing in its large quantity has flooded the mail servers processing queue. In addition, it appears that we have already received complaints from several postmasters about this mailing. As this is not the first time we have brought this issue to your attention, we have suspended your site to prevent blacklisting like what occurred last time when you sent a large mailing.

As you appear to need to send out large quantities of email, we would recommend moving to a dedicated server. We will be moving your site to a temporary holding server for 7 days. During this 7 day period you will either need to make arrangements to move to a dedicated server or other arrangements. However at this point we can no longer host your site on a shared server as its impact and future risk towards other customers on this server is too great.

Once your site has been moved it should begin loading from that server.

Jason A. Taylor - CTOCWI Hosting.com http://www.cwihosting.comhttp://my.cwihosting.com

PLEASE NOTE: The information in this private e-mail message is confidential and intended only for the use of the intended recipient. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by e-mail, and destroy the original message. Thank you.

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