Comments on: Over 10,000 malware sites hosted by IPowerWeb http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/05/08/over-10000-malware-sites-hosted-by-ipowerweb/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Craig http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/05/08/over-10000-malware-sites-hosted-by-ipowerweb/comment-page-1/#comment-588120 Craig Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:10:09 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1420#comment-588120 By the way, http://center.spoke.com/info/p9ySjfs/NaveenKapoor If you scroll down, there are other executives listed. Maybe a few letters to these people will make them wise up. By the way,

http://center.spoke.com/info/p9ySjfs/NaveenKapoor

If you scroll down, there are other executives listed. Maybe a few letters to these people will make them wise up.

]]> By: Craig http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/05/08/over-10000-malware-sites-hosted-by-ipowerweb/comment-page-1/#comment-588109 Craig Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:55:54 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1420#comment-588109 I won't go into a lengthy story about my experiences with ipowerweb. It would take days just to cover the bad stuff and maybe a minute or two for the good stuff. With so many good hosting services out there, why take the chance with ipower. They are a nightmare in many ways. I can't imagine a company like them will stay in business so there's another reason not to use them. they will take your money and you will find yourself out in the cold. I won’t go into a lengthy story about my experiences with ipowerweb. It would take days just to cover the bad stuff and maybe a minute or two for the good stuff. With so many good hosting services out there, why take the chance with ipower. They are a nightmare in many ways. I can’t imagine a company like them will stay in business so there’s another reason not to use them. they will take your money and you will find yourself out in the cold.

]]> By: Bruce http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/05/08/over-10000-malware-sites-hosted-by-ipowerweb/comment-page-1/#comment-558540 Bruce Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:25:47 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1420#comment-558540 Well kids, this just gets better and better. The IPOWERWEB bastids took me from a shared site to a vastly more expensive VPS situation. I told them I don't know zip about administering web sites nor did I have a web designer. They assured me all was fine, no prob, they would simply transfer all my files to the new location and all would work as advertised. They didn't do any of that for 5 months! When I discovered that, they agreed to change my renewal date to 5 months later. Well, at least that was proper. Then 4 months after THAT I find they STILL didn't transfer the files. After multiple and endless phone calls with truly amazing 40 minute and longer wait times (including being disconnected once after waiting 25 minutes!) I'm told for a mere $150 dollars more, they can and will transfer all the files I was told originally they could and would do anyway. I said okay. It's now 2 weeks later. The new location doesn't operate properly and after 3 more nightmarish calls, I finally get "Spring" to confess that the Plesk system they provide IS NOT CAPABLE OF DOING WHAT MY EARLIER SITE DID OR WHAT I NEED THE CURRENT SITE TO DO!!!!!!!! Catch that? "Not capable." IPOWERWEB to date as taken my money, either deliberately or due to incompetence misrepresented what they would provide me, and left me twisting in the wind. A lawyer is my next move, and I am making it with gusto. These kinds of truly crappy and pathetic companies that care zip about service or even merely providing what they advertise must be challenged at every turn. And y'know what? It feels really great to do that. Don't let them get away with shafting YOU. If you do, you have only yourself to blame. Well kids, this just gets better and better. The IPOWERWEB bastids took me from a shared site to a vastly more expensive VPS situation. I told them I don’t know zip about administering web sites nor did I have a web designer. They assured me all was fine, no prob, they would simply transfer all my files to the new location and all would work as advertised. They didn’t do any of that for 5 months! When I discovered that, they agreed to change my renewal date to 5 months later. Well, at least that was proper. Then 4 months after THAT I find they STILL didn’t transfer the files. After multiple and endless phone calls with truly amazing 40 minute and longer wait times (including being disconnected once after waiting 25 minutes!) I’m told for a mere $150 dollars more, they can and will transfer all the files I was told originally they could and would do anyway. I said okay. It’s now 2 weeks later. The new location doesn’t operate properly and after 3 more nightmarish calls, I finally get “Spring” to confess that the Plesk system they provide IS NOT CAPABLE OF DOING WHAT MY EARLIER SITE DID OR WHAT I NEED THE CURRENT SITE TO DO!!!!!!!! Catch that? “Not capable.” IPOWERWEB to date as taken my money, either deliberately or due to incompetence misrepresented what they would provide me, and left me twisting in the wind. A lawyer is my next move, and I am making it with gusto. These kinds of truly crappy and pathetic companies that care zip about service or even merely providing what they advertise must be challenged at every turn. And y’know what? It feels really great to do that. Don’t let them get away with shafting YOU. If you do, you have only yourself to blame.

]]> By: Vicky http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/05/08/over-10000-malware-sites-hosted-by-ipowerweb/comment-page-1/#comment-540803 Vicky Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:18:25 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1420#comment-540803 iPowerweb is one of the worst companies I've ever dealt with. Many people don't check their websites enough to make sure they are up and running and have no idea that their iPowerweb site is consistently down. I've found that my site is either sluggish or completely unavailable on almost a daily basis (especially lately) and at least several times a week every week (all the time). The "support" is always way too understaffed and the wait times can go literally beyond an hour or more. The online help will put you on hold for well over 45 minutes only to say they will "review" your account and put you on hold another 45 minutes or so until you finally just give up. I'm going to finally get another webhost. I feel like an idiot for having giving them so many chances already. I'm through with being swindled by iPowerweb. iPowerweb is one of the worst companies I’ve ever dealt with.

Many people don’t check their websites enough to make sure they are up and running and have no idea that their iPowerweb site is consistently down. I’ve found that my site is either sluggish or completely unavailable on almost a daily basis (especially lately) and at least several times a week every week (all the time).

The “support” is always way too understaffed and the wait times can go literally beyond an hour or more. The online help will put you on hold for well over 45 minutes only to say they will “review” your account and put you on hold another 45 minutes or so until you finally just give up.

I’m going to finally get another webhost. I feel like an idiot for having giving them so many chances already. I’m through with being swindled by iPowerweb.

]]> By: richard http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/05/08/over-10000-malware-sites-hosted-by-ipowerweb/comment-page-1/#comment-533252 richard Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:52:16 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1420#comment-533252 For over two weeks now we cannot receive our emails due to ipowerweb incompetence. Their server WS21 was down for a few days which affected our website too. Upon restoring the server an older version of our website was reloaded which leads us to believe that they do not have an up to date backup. Every day we are in touch with their customer relations unit to no avail. We even wrote to their director of customer service Ms Victoria Masjedi and to date our email is down. Shame on such a money hungry good for nothing company. We are still waiting for a fix For over two weeks now we cannot receive our emails due to ipowerweb incompetence. Their server WS21 was down for a few days which affected our website too. Upon restoring the server an older version of our website was reloaded which leads us to believe that they do not have an up to date backup. Every day we are in touch with their customer relations unit to no avail. We even wrote to their director of customer service Ms Victoria Masjedi and to date our email is down. Shame on such a money hungry good for nothing company. We are still waiting for a fix

]]> By: Matt Berg http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/05/08/over-10000-malware-sites-hosted-by-ipowerweb/comment-page-1/#comment-249125 Matt Berg Wed, 09 May 2007 22:44:13 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1420#comment-249125 Ethan, You may have already seen this but it refers to the response Google is preparing to help police malware. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/05/driveby_malware.php Matt Ethan,

You may have already seen this but it refers to the response Google is preparing to help police malware.

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/05/driveby_malware.php

Matt

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