Comments on: Server Seed is a bad host

By: Connor Wilson

Connor Wilson — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:45:43 +0000

Hey, I don’t know how old this article is, but I have to say I had the exact problem, and my solution was the same :P The only difference, was that I wasn’t even spared the dignity of a Suspended page, but what I though was just your typical… 300 hour downtime cough turned out was them giving me and many others the boot. Doesn’t help that all my support emails were never answered.

I’ve since been on DreamHost for a couple of months, and its been 99% great so far! (They don’t allow fopen() in PHP very easily).

Here’s to a good, stable host! ;)

By: Pramod Kiron

Pramod Kiron — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:43:23 +0000

While most are unhappy with hosting service providers, I am extremely happy with Host Department. 24 hour chat support which is pretty good. Also the support team is always eager to please. Really good service at such low rates. The databases are fast too. I saw remarkable speed increase after shifting http://www.exclventures.com to Host Department

By: Janet Angelo

Janet Angelo — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:38:47 +0000

HELP!!! I am trying to make a change to an A record for a domain name registered with Server Seed. I cannot figure out where to do it or Server Seed has to do it for me. They will not respond to numerous emails and time is critical. Can you help me?!? Thanks!! Janet

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:39:35 +0000

Joe, do you read my comments? My account was in good standing. Since you are apparently unable to comprehend reality, here is a reciept from February in which I paid for 6 months of hosting (3 months before suspending me).

Dear Kyle Neath,

This is a confirmation that your invoice has been processed by Server Seed.

Status: Approved
Invoice Amount: $xxx
Invoice Number: 5074
Date Paid: 02/07/2006
Trans ID: 4MB956078W374584H

Outstanding Balance: none

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:33:20 +0000

I only base it on facts. Unless you have paid invoices, I tend to not believe your opinion. He only admitted his accounting software faulted in not billing you, and you recieved your data...yes or no??

Next time, stick to facts and evidence and you won't look so foolish yourself.

Joe

p.s. I am not going to keep going back and forth....some people it's pointless.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:57:41 +0000

Actually Joe, Tyler fully admitted fault. They were experiencing growing pains; as such their system misbehaved, and they were drowned in tickets that they weren't answering. My account was in good standing at the time it was suspended. The end result was completely abandoning their customer (me) for over a week after a wrongful suspension. Also, a refund of services not rendered is not the same as 6 months of free service.

Try not to make too much of a fool out of yourself in the future.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:42:32 +0000

I’ve used Server Seed with no problems. But maybe you should pay your bill and your account wouldn’t be suspended. (I had to find out what the problem was….) Getting 6 months free service, you should be so lucky, although it was a glitch in the accounting software. You should really remove this blog, since you got free service AND got your data too!!!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:03:10 +0000

JC: You know, I wanted to try asmallorange, but I've attempted to sign up for their service three times over the past two years and have been unable. If you won't accept my money, not much I can do about it :)

Keep in mind, I've been with DH for going on 5 months now, and things have gone perfectly. So, hopefully I'm good...

I do need to update this entry though as I (finally) got a dump of my files.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:38:27 +0000

I can’t really argue about Server Seed (while I’ve personally never had any major problems with them, I know many who have, and sometimes it has taken Tyler ages to respond to support tickets)–but DreamHost isn’t much better. DH is really slow, imposes a lot of artificial limits, and pages go missing all the time.

Switch your stuff to ASmallOrange.com … they’re EXCELLENT. Site5 is also good.

(For refence, I have two sites hosting on ServerSeed, two on ASmallOrange, one on DreamHost, and six on Site5.)

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:00:25 +0000

Christian: It may very well be. In any case, the latest version of hemingway can be found at http://kneath.dreamhosters.com/hemingway (svn required).

And, to be fair - I gave ServerSeed almost two whole days to respond to my email before posting this. Not to mention, I paid for a service - which I have subsequently been denied.