To be honest, after HMS became part of Hosting.com, their service went so far downhill so fast that I moved everything to other hosting companies. HMS used to be awesome when Lou and Neil were in charge but after the acquisition I had nothing but problems and once Lou and Neil left things really fell apart :(
And can I just take this opportunity yet again to say that shared hosting is not appropriate to run a business on? Anyone on the same server can read your entire application scope and get access to any information you have cached there - and the uptime of your business is dependent on the good behavior of everyone who shares that server. I ran my blog on HMS shared hosting for several years but eventually had to move it to VPS due to performance problems (I suspect HMS put 100's of customers on each server...). Later I had performance problems with the HMS VPS as well (again, too many customers sharing a server I think). Now I'm on an EWH enterprise cloud server (which I believe has a strictly limited number of customers per box?). Sean On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Bryan Stevenson <br...@electricedgesystems.com> wrote: > Just a notice to possibly help save someone some grief if you host at > Hosting.com (formerly HostMySite.com before the merger). > > Make sure that they have your account up to date!! > > They have a policy where if they find a database who's name is not found > on anyone's account - they blindly delete it with no notice!!! > > This is an odd policy given the number of errors I found in our own > account....I can only assume other accounts are in similar states and > this policy could be destructive. > > One of our SQL Server DBs on a shared box had a name that WAS the same > as the datasource setup pointing to it, however it was not the name they > had on file with our account. > > Boom....the DB for the backend of our corporate site was gone! > > Thankfully they still had a backup. > > So just a word of caution to make sure your accounts are up to date and > accurate or you might just get a nasty surprise ;-) > > ...and for the record, this is not sour grapes in any way....just > looking out for the community.....the issue was resolved to my > satisfaction. > > Chee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344164 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
