after a ludicrously lengthy and laughable beginning with this host, and after allot of promises by senior staff, i decided to give Green Value Host another shot
well, once again it seems that incompetence reigns and management could care less about who is using their services and for what purpose
for the 2nd time in 4 months the sv3 IP has become blacklisted by enough services that GVH management was forced to move its clients to yet another box
apparently, because of their stellar "deals", and lack of ethics, Green Value Host is a spammers wet dream
Valued Clients, This is a notification to inform you that maintenance is currently being performed on our srv3 hosting server that is expected to take 4-5 hours from the point that this email is sent to you.
approximately 12 hours later...
Valued Clients, This is a notification to inform you that we are still working on resolving issues with srv3/performing maintenance. The main IP address and secondary IP address will be CHANGED as the main IP address is on an excessive number of email blacklists. New Main IP Address: 172.245.4.114 New Nameservers (THESE NAMESERVERS ARE CLUSTERED FOR REDUNDANCY) 198.23.172.197 96.44.172.60
so they send the new name server IP's, but not the domain names they resolve to ???
4 DAYS LATER, my website is "is DOWN for everyone. It is not just you. The server is not responding..." according to isitdownrightnow.com, FTP access is broken and their "CLUSTERED FOR REDUNDANCY" ns1.secureserverpanel.com name server is failing (among other problems)...
Bangkok, Thailand 172.245.4.114 Auckland, New Zealand 172.245.4.114 Gent, Belgium 172.245.4.114 Toronto, Canada timeout Paris, France timeout Echterdingen, Germany timeout Arizona, United States timeout New York, United States 172.245.4.114 Oklahoma, United States 172.245.4.114 San Francisco, United States 205.234.159.58 Washington DC, United States 172.245.4.114 Melbourne, Australia timeout Sydney, Australia timeout Beijing, China timeout Tokyo, Japan timeout Monterrey, Mexico timeout Johannesburg, South Africa timeout Moscow, Russia 172.245.4.114 Manchester, United Kingdom timeout
and after having "finished the server maintainence"...
lfd failed Server Load 9.58 (8 cpus) Disk /dev/md1 (/home) 85 %