I'm going to ask this discussion to stop. It's not pertinent to these lists. Please take it offline. Thank you. Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Open SRS discuss > Sent: July 23, 2001 4:47 AM > To: lance; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Joel Moss (Online Networks); [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FS > > > Problems? How's this?...: > > We had one of their Matrix Dedicated Servers, after continual downtimes on > their shared virtual servers (good money after bad, hmm....) > > A Month after it was installed, we get two invoices; one for the > server, the > second for an overuse of bandwidth (which is 10Gb per month). Funny I > thought, how could we be using that much, we haven't got any sites running > on there yet.. I call there tech support, and am told basically > 'well thats > what your bandwidth monitor states, mate'. Indeed, on one day it > appears we > used 12.5Gb! > > Fishy, I thought. Calling support again, I was told that we'd have to pay, > �60 an hour no less, for them to look into it, although if it was there > fault there'd be no charge. Bless 'em. Well we've got to know either way I > figured, so told them to go do. After wating a day for them to > call, I call > them to chase, only to be told 'there's been a hack on the server', the > pretty nasty PoisonBox-Sadmind worm no less which attacks unpatched > Solaris/IIS servers, oh and 'had we remembered to add the security patches > in june, which *would* have prevented this hack?'. Which we had indeed, on > the day of its release. > > Ah, says I, so who's accountable?; 'Well, it's awfully bad luck, but the > bandwidth has been used on your account so I'm afraid you are.' was the > reply. Ouch �450 down the swanny...(plus the �60 we paid for this > bad news.) > > Then I did some investigating of my own, and found that we could view log > files on the server from dates previous to when we had the machine. And > guess what? It was actually a Month before we had the machine that the > hacker had been doing his work!! > > So, Fast(buck)hosts had in fact supplied us with a Windows 2000 server > complete with complimentary Sadmind worm. ..Oops. > > I'm still waiting for them to tell me what they are going to do about > it..... > > > From: lance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:16:14 +0100 (BST) > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: "Joel Moss (Online Networks)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Open SRS > > discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: FS > > > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> What problems are you having with them ? > > > > None - I absolutely refuse to have anything to do with them following a > > year of hell. > > > > Lost private key for ssl cert, lost email config 3 times etc etc > > > > At least when they first started you could shout at Andrew > Michael, in the > > end you just got to shout at a lowly techie which wasnt nearly as > > effective or satisfying. > > > > Lance > > > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "lance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: "Joel Moss (Online Networks)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Cc: "Open SRS discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 1:02 AM > >> Subject: Re: FS > >> > >> > >>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Joel Moss (Online Networks) wrote: > >>> > >>>> Yes they are the worst company I have ever dealt with! > >>> > >>> > >>> Seconded. > >>> > >>> Lance Davis > >>> uklinux.net > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Joel Moss > >>>> Online Networks > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> =========================== > >>>> http://homepagenames.com > >>>> http://homepagetools.com > >>>> =========================== > >>>> tel/fax: (44) 1257 794911 > >>>> icq: 69715613 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>>> From: "Open SRS discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:49 AM > >>>> Subject: FS > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Was just wondering, does anyone have or has had any dealings with > >> Fasthosts > >>>>> Ltd in the UK? > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > > > > >
