Webhosting & Hosting Reviews

After the negative hostgator review that I have posted few days ago. I found another hostgator review but this time it seems very honest to me. Cisco was the user who reviewed hostgator as initial impression. Very well done and very straight forward:

I recently switched over to HostGator after a horrific experience with HostNine. I ended up leaving HostNine after a period of downtime followed by one of their employees making strange demands of me in exchange for downtime credit. That incident and their snotty staff, overloaded servers, and inadequate WHM replacement resulted in me looking for a new host. After reading some positive reviews of HostGator on WHT I decided to give them a try.

Setup - 10/10
HostGator set up my account instantly, just as HostNine had done. One of HostGator’s staff members called me up and asked me if I needed help migrating my accounts. They went ahead and moved my accounts/files/databases and WHMCS installation over for me. I had been dreading moving WHMCS over because I thought it would be a real pain to set up the new HostGator license but it turned out to be a non-issue. When I originally signed up with HostNine no one bothered to contacted me about migrating my accounts and I had to do it manually.
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I was searching for many Hostgator reviews and found 99% positive but that is too good to be true so at least I have found a customer that is not happy with them. The review came from Josh who had a horrible service with hostgator, I am trying to be neutral in hosting reviews and the best reviews are not the only “positive” ones. Is good to see the good and the bad face of a hosting company so I present you this hostgator review:

About 12 hours ago I ordered a dedicated server through HostGator. During the ordering process I chose PayPal as my payment option (I wasn’t asked for my PayPal email).

Order was complete, nothing was charged. A few minutes later I received a call from a HostGator rep telling me they need my PayPal email to get this going. No problem. I provided the email and was told my server would be up within 24 hours. I also replied to a ticket telling them my PayPal email just to be sure.

-PayPal email given to HostGator twice-

This morning I wake up and see an email from HostGator. I open it up and I see login details. The server is up and ready, right? Of course not.
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This article have been writting by Powervps tech, all copyrights to them.

Finding out your VPS has been hacked is like walking out to your car, and seeing the gaping hole where your stereo used to be. It hurts, bad.

However there are plenty of steps you can take as a VPS owner to secure your setup. Most of these are fairly basic and can halt the majority of hacking attempts.

If you need help setting up or configuring anything listed below, don’t hesitate to contact support. Who knows, you could get lucky and get me for your tech!

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I have found over the years that it is anoying when you update the hostname on a server running cpanel and cpanel gives you an invalid licence error, if you want to change the hostname on a cpanel server then

• 1) log into shell with root
• 2) type “hostname (then at the end put anything you want as your hostname, but it must be something.yourdomain.xxx please be aware that the something will show as the server name in cpanel
• 3) type /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt

Then just load cpanel as you would normaly, but dont forget to add an a entry for the new hostname.

You Can also Read: How To: Install and Configure a GUI on your Linux VPS

This post have been posted by SEAN of Zone.net. All copywrites goes to him.

This seems to be a topic that appears often on the VPS forum, so I thought I would get around to posting a simple instruction set for getting a GUI (GNOME or KDE) working on your VPS.

These instructions are aimed towards the Fedora distribution, but should work fine with CentOS or any other Linux distro (except maybe RHEL, which has some extra steps):

Firstly, make sure that you have YUM installed, if not, you have to go find the RPM for YUM via google or rpmfind.net, and do an “rpm -Uvh < . file .rpm .>” (remove the dots) once you get it. YUM works off python, so it’s not a binary just a bunch of scripts (so arch. doesnt matter).

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One of my favorite Domain name registrar is Godaddy and I am sure many of you agree with me in this. That’s why when buying a domain name is good to use godaddy coupons so you can save tons, of course that depends on how many domain names you register you can save up to $500. I always recommend to not register your domain name with your hosting company. These coupons are latest tested on March 20, 2008 so it will work at least at the end of March if this is no Exp. date.

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If you check the forums of Hostgator you can see how active the users are there, and not just like this but you will get help from hostgator support team and even experienced customers. Here is a problem that I found on their forum a user in hostgator reseller plan that have his online business with them and he had some problems with his shopping cart. Read the full story and the support:

Problem: I’m on a reseller plan. The server I’m hosted on has dual 2.4ghz CPUs. I was having some weird shopping cart problems, so I called up the shopping cart people and they said it sounded like a server load issue.

I checked the load avg, and it’s fluxuating between 4 and 9. Currently it’s at 5.88. From what I’ve read this is really high, and the shopping cart people are sure this is the problem (since nothing in the code nor database has changed at all).

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