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ExpressAdmin #246695 11/09/2011 6:49 PM
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Originally Posted by mig
Two quick questions, if I may:
Our current host is at times 'throttling' our site mad and from what I gather, many hosts actively discourage business of hosting community forums. 1. Does your partner, Express Hosting, utilize any form of throttling and, 2. what rate is charged should a site exceed the monthly bandwidth limit please? Not that we'd exceed it - just curious.

Hi there. My name is Tom and I run ExpressHosting. Brooks pointed me to your post and I wanted to take a minute to answer your questions directly.

1) Throttling: ExpressHosting has no problem hosting community forums, but we do use a form of throttling on our shared servers called CloudLinux. CloudLinux is designed to help moderate sites and prevent them from using more than their fair share at any given time. Most customers never even notice it.

For example, we had a site that was listed on a big site suddenly one day. The surge in traffic crushed the site, but CloudLinux prevented this site from crashing the other sites on the shared server. We moved that customer to a dedicated server and throttling is no longer an issue.

2) Bandwidth: We have a pretty lax policy on bandwidth utilization. If you happen to go over one month, we don't mind and we will just reset the bandwidth for your site for that month. If it is something that is consistently occurring, we would suggest you move to the next hosting package up to give yourself more bandwidth (our packages double in size for each tier). Our base package includes 100GB of monthly data transfer, so you have to try pretty hard to meet that.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Thank you for the response but most of us here with a shared hosting account have had issues with email throttling.
meaning I have a ubb forum with say a 1000+ users.
So I decide to use the email function in the ubb control panel.
What will happen?
What is the limit on sending emails per hour,minute?


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Just for a FYI type thing

Mindraven seem to have fixed all issues...except, now I have to set up my own upload limit size in htaccess.

I'd move my site to ExpressHosting now but I don't get paid until next Tuesday.

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Originally Posted by Ruben
Thank you for the response but most of us here with a shared hosting account have had issues with email throttling.
meaning I have a ubb forum with say a 1000+ users.
So I decide to use the email function in the ubb control panel.
What will happen?
What is the limit on sending emails per hour,minute?

Ah, good question Ruben.

The answer is nothing. The system will send out emails as fast as it possibly can. What the receiving end does is another matter (Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail will all throttle a specific IP address for having sent more than an allowed amount in a specific time frame) and that is, of course, out of our hands.

We have many customers that do daily mass mailings to thousands of users. We understand that this is a viable method for communicating with customers. The only thing we ask is that removal requests/complaints are acted on quickly. That's just good Internet etiquette.

If you are sending out 1000's of messages to your clients every 15 minutes, then we might need to have a talk. smile

We also offer VPS and dedicated servers for those customers that need more capacity/control/etc.

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Hi Tom, I really appreciate your quick response.

It's nice that you are welcoming to community forums and it's helpful to know that you are using CloudLinux. With our current host, we felt certain that we were being penalized for errors being generated by other sites on the shared server, yet our requests for support were met with a series frustrating 'form letter' types of responses, which proved next to useless in helping us to resolve anything. We tolerated the slowdowns and things eventually improved (they probably moved the culprit site) but the experience left us with a desire to move. Your responsiveness here is a good sign. And you are right - we're not apt to reach 100GB in bandwidth anytime soon! smile

Thank you for attending to my questions!

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THANKS RICK!!!

Now I have had about 15 sites down for several hours. No response from our friends in India who have take over this.

What was the uptime guarantee??


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Has anyone asked for a refund from Mindraven yet? My site seems ok today, and they did respond to my call for help yesterday, but I still don't have a great feeling about them yet... I think we are paid up till July of next year with them.

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MY SUPPORT TICKET TO THEM BOUNCED BACK


Your inquiry was sent to the server administrator because no contact information was configured on the server. Attached is a copy of your inquiry for your reference:

body: Whats up? I do not get responses to my email. I just lost a $300 a year client.

Generally when people take over a business they want to keep the people they just paid for.

I am not getting the 99.9% uptime I was guaranteed .

Please fix this or refund...

This is getting old.. We deserve better.
domain: clubadventist.com
email: stanjensen@mac.com
ip: 75.51.170.218
owner: root
realname: Stan
server: Box1.myprivatecompany.ca
subject: ????
uri: /cpsess1673882696/frontend/x3/cpanelpro/support.html
user: clubadve
useragent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/534.51.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.1 Safari/534.51.22


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so a company in India took over MindRaven?
And moved everything to their servers in India?

I upgraded to a semi-dedicated server on Sept. 14th.
Today i get online and I've lost all posts and over 1000 new members dating back to Sept 14th. Where is the last 2 months?????

Who are the new owners?

Has anyone contacted them yet?

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how are the dots connected with a Canadian Host?


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Stan #246709 11/09/2011 10:34 PM
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Just got this email from "support@mindraven.com":
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Hi,

Mindraven now has a new administration. We are actually based in North America and we have currently own a few hosting companies.

As some of you may have noticed during these 2 last days, we had some problems due to a server migration that was supposed to be of no trouble at all.

We do our best to keep all our clients 100% satisfied and we always managed to achieve 100% Uptime and satisfaction.

We put a lot of effort in supporting our clients. We have a really dedicated team of Level 3 support technicians and we generally answer ALL support ticket in less than an hour!

We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and all the trouble this may have caused.


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I expected:
1. to be notified BEFORE a move.
2. to be signed by an owner or support personnel, not "The Administration".
3. I expect them to grammar and spell check their emails...


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I did an ip whois on the ip of the new server my site is on.

I get to http://foxhost.ca

I think that is why people are saying Canada host.

I fully agree with Gizmo here, I expected better.

As for the information lost, I appear to have lost about 1 week of data. I am currently pulling my old SQL database from mindraven by use of the ip address I had gotten when I signed up.

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as for support, I did get an email back within 5 minutes of a ticket submission.

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I got a response as well (within 1 hour). They never fixed the issue, said it was done but only worse 24 hours later.

I don't tolerate that nor do I do business with people like that. It was very easy to make a decision to move to Express Hosting.

Mindraven customers were kicked to the curb IMO. I can say more but think I will stop here.

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sadly I just renewed about 2 months ago. I will likely ride it out for now and then move myself.....I wish it had been sooner to my renewal date.

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I'm a little surprised that with all this going on - ubbcentral is still advertising Mindraven in its interstitial banner slots.

As for the Mindraven Difference "Your website deserves better".

Well....

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I got the following email response... and what is DNS propagation?

We are currently migrating the server, do not worry all your data is still there, might just be the DNS propagation.



Thank you

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They mean that your browser is possibly still reading from the old server. What is DNS Propagation


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looks like I'm finally back to normal

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Back when I was doing Tech Support for a webhost based out of the UK with servers in the US (I was the US point of contact) we had to move our servers from a center in Chicago (Voxel) to one in California (Hurricane Electric), we set the TTL for DNS queries ultra low so the propagation on domains was easier on the clients; but we also emailed them all like a month prior that we where migrating them to new servers (then again the servers we migrated them to where far better machines as well).


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yea, would of been nice if they gave us a heads-up

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I stil have multiple sites down... but they are working on it..


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am still waiting for them to bring up the rest of my sites,... anyone else having problems still?


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Wow. When Rick started Mindraven, I felt slightly guilty for not going with his ops when it came time for me to re-up at my current host.

However, I made my choice based on tangibles.

Which serves to support something I learned a long time ago...

Never let sentiment rule a business decision.

Still, I hope Rick and his wife made out like bandits when they sold the outfit.

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Stan both of mine are up, what kind of problems are you having? Sites down or broken?


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I have several down still
http://www.christianwebdate.com/
http://sdapg.ca/

and more... these are not busy sites... but have them hosted there,


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man.. that is shoddy business practice by Mindraven

yikes eek

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do you have backups? you could have moved them already.... do they have any explanation?

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I do not have back ups, they should have everything still. The transfer did not go well for those who had more than one domain...

The UBBThreads went ok, it was weird but ok.


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The transfer did not go too well for those who had one domain.

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Originally Posted by Stan
I have several down still
http://www.christianwebdate.com/
http://sdapg.ca/

and more... these are not busy sites... but have them hosted there,

Stan,
I think
http://sdapg.ca/
is up now. Don;t know if it is correct!


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these and a few other sites are now working as they should....

AND am thankful for that..


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Stan #246921 11/17/2011 12:31 AM
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all things worked out in the end... they are treating me right.


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Stan #246945 11/18/2011 2:54 PM
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hmmm this actually seems a lot faster now. The person who does my THIS WEEK ON... said it went screaming fast..


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so a company in India took over MindRaven?
And moved everything to their servers in India?

I upgraded to a semi-dedicated server on Sept. 14th.
Today i get online and I've lost all posts and over 1000 new members dating back to Sept 14th. Where is the last 2 months?????

Who are the new owners?

Has anyone contacted them yet?

Hello,

We confirm than we have make an error to outsource our support with an India company and this is for why we have got a lot of problem in the migration of our server.

We have rectified the situation and now we have our own technicians.
We apologize really for the customers that have lost posts in the migration of our servers, our "outsourced" technician was forget to update the mysql localhost for the ip on the new server.. Our error, and i confirm also than we have applied some credits to customers due to this error.

Now our team of technical support is simply awesome and we work a lot to make our customers 100% satisfied !

Israel Gaudette
Mindraven.com

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I concur, I had several frustrating issues which were fixed by Isreal, and the IP number in the cPanel quit being an Indian IP.

I am not against outsourcing, but that did not work well here.


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To be honest, when we had choose to purchase Mindraven, we had invested a lot in "competents" technicians to assure to our customers a fast migration without problems. By the way, our outsourced support company (that i will don't give the name here), have started the transfer without advertise us because they said simply, only a downtime of 15 minutes was scheduled for all hosting accounts.. what was completely false !

Because these "stupid" guys, we have lost all our credibility and we have lost 4 customers.. customers that we respect and that we are really sorry to see leave from our new company.

Now, we have a solid structuration, all our servers are now fully compatible with ubbforum and we can guarantee to our mindraven customers that we can guarantee now a REAL 99.9% uptime guarantee and the best technical support possible.

For the next new year, we will put online our new website with a brand new look and we hope this new year 2012 will be a new start for us.

And to stop all rumors, Mindraven was not purchased by an Indian company but from a Canadian company. Our servers are hosted at Montreal(QC), about 3-4 states of Chicago, where was localized the old datacenter, by this way, you can keep an excellent ping and a fast servers.

A big thank to all customers that understand our situation and that continue to support us ! Thank you very much.

Greetings,

Israel Gaudette
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Mindraven.com continues to be my best hosting experience ever, I get personal emails, and get my problems solved, even the ones that I am able to create. smile


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Stan that is good to hear. Other than the hicup with the server move we are still happy too.


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They have fixed some problems with one of my dating sites I host there as well, sever issues that did not get resolved before.


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