Yes I saw the same....just wasn't going to rant as we are already in the processing of moving to Viviotech ;-)
+1 on the no shared hosting.....in our case it was a small DB left behind after we went VPS at HMS. It's truly sad....every awesome host I've ever dealt with has gone through a merger that killed all the reasons why I selected them in the first place Cheers On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 09:29 -0700, Sean Corfield wrote: > 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:344174 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
