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Re: Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

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One of the hardest things when communicating with customers is not taking it personally. Don't take criticisms or complaints as personal attacks and above all else resist the temptation to try and "one-up" your customer. Loads of times we've received pretty insulting emails, but done our best to be polite and helpful back, more times then not we've received a really thankful and praising email back in response. A lot…

It's doubly worse at a porn company. People already half-expect you to be scamming them somehow, and come into it with apprehension if not outright hostility. The upshot is when you give them amazing customer service, they turn into instant evangelists :)

I'm curious how 'evangelical' someone could be about a porn company? Do you really find word-of-mouth advertising to work for you?

Re: Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

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There are better ways to handle one's customers than displayed by the CS employee here, but be that as it may: think long and hard before you get into the business of taking $3 a month from people who are demographically similar to Redditors.

Re: Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

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A couple of points:

- Backups are your responsibility. Not the hosts, not the government. Not anyone else. You. Period.

- Cannot pay with Paypal? Paypal HQ spontaneously explodes into a huge ball of fiery death? Find another way to pay. It's your responsibility to hold your side of the contract.

Re: Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

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This makes me wonder. What's stopping Google from implementing something like "social scam warnings"? It would be nice to see something along the lines "1 of your friends thinks this site is bad" with the search results.

It wouldn't even have to be Google - anyone with a huge social graph (LinkedIn, Facebook et al) could implement "check your friends' opinion on X".

Re: Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

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I hate to say it, but when you go with bargain basement hosting, you're often going to get bargain basement quality. I'm sure we've all heard horror stories of shared hosting providers, but personally I've had one just completely disappear, taking my 2 years of prepaid hosting with them (along with hundreds of other customers, at least).

A few months ago, I was told by Rackspace that "We're not responsible for looking after your hardware" after they'd removed, and destroyed, a working hard drive from a dedicated server instead of replacing the disk that had failed, regardless of the price, all hosting is 'bargain basement quality', some are just more bargin than others =)

Isn't "looking after your hardware" exactly what they're responsible for? Why else are they being paid?

Re: Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

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WhoIs lookup shows him as the domain owner Registrant Contact: ThisWebHost Jules Robinson () Fax: South Building Upper Farm Basingstoke, HAMPSHIRE RG23 8PE GB Administrative Contact: ThisWebHost Jules Robinson (domains@thiswebhost.com) +1.5555555555 Fax +1.5555555555 South Building Upper Farm Basingstoke, HAMPSHIRE RG23 8PE GB Technical Contact: ThisWebHost Jules Robinson (domains@thiswebhost.com) +1.5555555555 Fax +…

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What?!? This information was on the PUBLIC WhoIs database, it's avaliable to anyone. I did this to show the contact information for the site, anyone could have done this but I did it so no-one else had to.

http://www.whois.net/whois/thiswebhost.com

Re: Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

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What?!? This information was on the PUBLIC WhoIs database, it's avaliable to anyone. I did this to show the contact information for the site, anyone could have done this but I did it so no-one else had to. http://www.whois.net/whois/thiswebhost.com

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Re: Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

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A couple of points: - Backups are your responsibility. Not the hosts, not the government. Not anyone else. You. Period. - Cannot pay with Paypal? Paypal HQ spontaneously explodes into a huge ball of fiery death? Find another way to pay. It's your responsibility to hold your side of the contract.

From the looks of it, the company offers no other payment options other than PayPal and didn't provide any information otherwise (I.E. "We need this now, please wire us the money, here's our account details")

Re: Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

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FatCow isn't different. I've promoted their hosting services and they've consistently refused to pay me around $1K.

The only reason I've not brought their actions to light is that I still have some months before my account there expires and they can terminate the account without any reason.

But after reading this I'm very motivated to bring their shady tactics out before they make a buck more by scamming their own evangelists.

Re: Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

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post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What?!? This information was on the PUBLIC WhoIs database, it's avaliable to anyone. I did this to show the contact information for the site, anyone could have done this but I did it so no-one else had to. http://www.whois.net/whois/thiswebhost.com

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There was no intention to track him down, someone posted a comment asking to check on the WhoIs to find out the owner. I do not want to figure out their phone number, I merely noticed it's clearly incorrect (against the ICANN T's & C's)
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