Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
Four years ago I signed up for hosting with a tiny little host called dr2.net. It was run by a 16-year-old in the midwest who offered the best customer service ever. Then he merged the company with a place called mesopia.com. Then mesopia became netbunch.com. And this morning I got an email informing me that netbunch had been bought by Webhostplus.com. I really don’t know what any of this means … I just keep paying my ridiculously low hosting rates ($15/year, beeyotch!) and hoping for the best. But at some point, I may have to get more pro-active.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, is in bookstores now.
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helenjane
February 7th, 2006 at 8:43 am
We loved our dr2.net.
(I feel the same way! )
My site goes down about once a month on Mesopia/Netbunch/Webhostplus.com… I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
donut
February 7th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that nothing changes… For what it’s worth, I don’t think my site’s been down once since mesopia became netbunch. But customer service did get slack… I love Matt, but it’s not reasonable for him to be the primary customer service agent for a million customers.
DAwn
February 9th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
I just hope that 16 year old made some serous cash when he sold dr2.net!
Andy
February 10th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Hear hear. I like having an account just to play around with, and really don’t keep a worthwhile website. But even me and my minor usage has uncovered technical problems. Here’s hoping that they both fix their support issues and let me keep my $20/year hosting plan…
Peter
February 12th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
This is BAD NEWS.
Webhostplus have a bad reputation for a major server crash that occured last year. I was one of the clients who lost data, profits and traffic because of those morons. They wouldn’t answer my e-mails, I called them a dozen times and they always gave me stupid answers. A nightmare.
And now my mesopia/netbunch account is being transplanted to Webhostplus.
BAD NEWS INDEED.
I don’t want to sound dramatic or something, but here’s a piece of friendly advice:
BACKUP YOUR FILES!
Just in case it happens again…I know what they’re capable of…unfortunately…
Ariel
February 13th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Ack, Peter! If I wasn’t already migrating to Dreamhost, I certainly would be after reading your comment. Scary shit!
Sad Destiny
August 30th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
I got this today:
Dear Client:
Last night there was an attack on the Netbunch servers. Some of the server got hacked and were completely erased. We are currently working with our best administrators and security experts to have the servers restored. On certain servers the backups were attacked as well resulting in deletion of data. If you site is down and you have backup of your data, PLEASE open a trouble ticket requesting your account to be recreated on a new and secured server. WebHostPlus would like to assure all clients that all necessary measures is been taken to find the person responsible and take legal action.
Thank you,
WebHostPlus
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Reading around on other sites, an amazing series of convoluted scams have surfaced, worthy of a pulp crime novel.
Basically, WHP seem to have snuffed out Netbunch sometime on or after August 24th, 2006.
I was one of the eejits that hung around for a bit longer..
OJ is helping WHP search for some Puerto Rican guy seen at the server farm..
Frank Pridgen
December 7th, 2006 at 4:50 am
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