http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ Forum for WhoIsHostingThis.com en Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:49:03 +0000 http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/do-i-have-legal-rights#post-654 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:28:39 +0000 Paul 654@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Yes, you have legal rights - your work is automatically copyrighted when you publish it on the web. </p> <p>Sadly, if the thief isn't responding to the DMCA notice you may need to involve a lawyer - get a threatening letter sent mentioning the fees for use that the thief has already accrued. Contact their hosting company also to put them on notice. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/what-are-your-favorite-anti-plagiarism-tools#post-653 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:24:43 +0000 Paul 653@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Google advanced seaerch remains a good tool, though some scrapers are catching on. For images, Google's own image search (drag and drop). Getting a little cleverer, <a href="http://www.tineye.com" rel="nofollow">www.tineye.com</a> is good for image checking. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/blogger-plagiarists#post-652 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:22:23 +0000 Paul 652@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>As an update, Google remains very responsive to complaints about plagiarism on Blogger. They're also very good at pulling AdSense from other sites that are stealing content - nowadays I automatically notify Google at the same time as sending a cease and desist notice to the thief. </p> <p>Amazon also don't like crooks and will readily pull affiliate accounts if you demonstrate that they're stealing your content. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/do-you-monitor-your-host#post-651 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:17:55 +0000 Paul 651@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Given we can't be awake 24 hours per day - though some employers try to make us :) - who has automated monitoring systems inplace to check performance, eg on business-critical scripts or just standard server responsiveness? </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/php-run-time#post-650 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:13:39 +0000 Paul 650@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>One word of caution: the max execution time is in place to prevent runaway scripts from killing the server - it's a good idea to change it back to a reasonable value once the long-running script has completed. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/is-this-site-still-active#post-643 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:41:02 +0000 Ben 643@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>I've sent a couple of emails now about updating incorrect data and have had no reply in over a week now. Does anyone still manage this website? </p> <p>I have several IP addresses which point to the datacenter, but really they should show my company. The DC is only providing the racks &#38; connection. Has anyone managed to get their data corrected? I have submitted corrections to no avail. It is really quite annoying when this site may be costing hosting companies business.</p> <p>Is there an API that we could use to update our IP addresses? Or some way hosts can easily correct/update data? </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/need-whoishostingthis-api-1#post-632 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:09:44 +0000 darkc99 632@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>hello<br /> i have site <a href="http://www.w3db.org" rel="nofollow">www.w3db.org</a><br /> i need whoishostingthis API for my site :)</p> <p>please allow me to use it thanks :) </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/do-i-have-legal-rights#post-567 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:55:54 +0000 Crotale 567@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Back in May 2010, I created a custom Gears of War 3 image as a facsimile of the official logo. I contacted Epic Games and they have stated the image is copyrighted to me, even though they own the trademark and intellectual properties to the Gears of War franchise. I found out last week that Paul Jr. Designs (PJD) is selling t-shirts with my design on them. Here is my original: <a href="http://crotale.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2pmfw3" rel="nofollow">http://crotale.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2pmfw3</a> and here is the T-shirt graphic: <a href="http://pauljrdesigns.com/product/5B8/PJ-PJD1726/black/." rel="nofollow">http://pauljrdesigns.com/product/5B8/PJ-PJD1726/black/.</a> Zoom in on both images and you will see the logo is the same. </p> <p>I contacted PJD, where I was informed that Epic Games provided the logo artwork. I checked with Epic and they deny sending that particular graphic or having used the graphic. I have a good working relationship with Epic and have no reason to believe they would deceive me or misappropriate my artwork.</p> <p>I have sent a DMCA "takedown" notice to PJD's webhost but have not heard anything back from them yet. I am not looking for compensation, but I do not want my art being sold without permission or credit due to me as being the artist. Do I have legal rights in this regard or do I simply have to roll over and allow this company to commercially sell my artwork without my permission, credit for the work, and no compensation? </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/why-did-you-leave-your-last-web-host/page/2#post-564 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:35:38 +0000 Flow 564@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Because their response time to a support ticket was about 24h. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/what-was-the-deciding-factor-for-choosing-your-web-host/page/2#post-563 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:27:45 +0000 Flow 563@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>I use review sites / customer reviews as a starting point. Then I create a test account which I use for a while before I move an important site over.</p> <p>BTW: I hope other readers realize that the 'best web host' posted above by srikannan is only a reseller account of Godaddy. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/best-hosts-for-wordpress#post-547 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:16:24 +0000 adamslc8 547@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>I have to make a decision for a client about where to get a hosting account.<br /> I would be interested to hear from WordPress "devsigners" about the hosts where they have WordPress sites:<br /> What version of WordPress do they offer to install for new accounts as of today?<br /> What version of PHP do they run?<br /> Do they offer free scheduled backups?<br /> What has been your experience with their support?<br /> What restrictions do they have on space and bandwidth?<br /> What account control panel do they run (cpanel, etc.)</p> <p>Thanks in advance. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/strange-behavior-with-one-of-my-sites#post-544 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:22:04 +0000 johnbr 544@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p> The company I just started working for owns both 'freebeepay.com' and 'freebiepay.com'. They are both registered through GoDaddy.com. </p> <p> when I visit <a href="https://www.freebeepay.com," rel="nofollow">https://www.freebeepay.com,</a> it works fine, and the domain name resolves when I ping it.</p> <p> But when I enter that site in your system, you seem to feel that it doesn't exist. Can you tell me if there's a misconfiguration on my end? </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/new-ideas-regarding-whtcom#post-542 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:58:01 +0000 WhoIsHostingThis 542@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the suggestion. I've certianly considered allowing users to submit support tickets to share with users; will give it some more thought! </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/new-ideas-regarding-whtcom#post-541 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:17:11 +0000 marcelruhf 541@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Hallo,</p> <p>this might require sponsors, but I thought it might be a good idea to share this idea.</p> <p>WHT.com gives away coupons for those who write quality reviews regarding web hosts.</p> <p>Users, while particularly targeting those that never had any web hosting experience, should have the possibility to sign up for a host of their choce which is listed on WHT.com (via a special link).<br /> The user will submit recorded telephone conversations with the host's customer support and email support requests are submitted by a form provided by WHT. Those conversations are saved into a database, which can then be used (by WHT Staff) to give the host a rating. Forthermore, the user will be provided with testing scripts (PHP memory testing, server speed testing, etc...), and those logfiles should then be submitted to WHT.</p> <p>If a user does not "cheat" and is satisfied with that host, he/she may get a 6 month free hosting coupon from that company. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/what-was-the-deciding-factor-for-choosing-your-web-host/page/2#post-539 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:51:13 +0000 nickwalt 539@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>I think people are effectively doing the only thing they really can before taking the plunge and trying a particular host - asking other people for their experiences. It won't necessarily find the best host for a given price/technology, but hopefully will be a satisfactory one.<br /> I've found talking to friends that price does end up being the major factor when first going for (personal, not business) hosting. If there are downtime/support/usability issues, a proportion of people will go through the inconvenience of moving to another host. I bet it's not a high proportion though.<br /> If it was easier to migrate domains, email, databases, CMS configs etc, interesting to hear how many people would have moved *away* from their current host and whether the criteria for the new one would be the same. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/shared-gt-vps#post-538 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:02:05 +0000 ferdies 538@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>To be fair I would stay away from them as well. I haven't had too good experiences with them. I ended up Switching to a VPS with <a href="http://www.ixwebhosting.com/">ixwebhosting.com</a> and they have been very supportive up until now. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/why-did-you-leave-your-last-web-host/page/2#post-536 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:33:28 +0000 ferdies 536@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Totally, I have gone through 3 web hosts. I would not say their names as that could spoil their chances for other clients as I think the experience you get depends on what type of service you are looking for.</p> <p>My first host was a free one. While it did not offer unlimited bandwidth and storage, which I figured was essential in my site, was generally good and seldom faltered down. The second one, lacked the support for forum software, which I needed that time. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/what-was-the-deciding-factor-for-choosing-your-web-host/page/2#post-535 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:30:45 +0000 ferdies 535@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>I am not really picky with what web hosting service to subscribe to but all that could be credited to me knowing what I want.</p> <p>I do not require something with topnotch help desk as I think I can do things on my own. Price, in my opinion, is not of the essence as you do not want to feel short changed because you saved a couple of bucks monthly.</p> <p>I need however something that would offer support to a wide variety of technologies (old or emerging). </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/shared-gt-vps#post-533 Fri, 13 May 2011 12:03:14 +0000 WhoIsHostingThis 533@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Take a look at SliceHost VPS:</p> <p><a href="http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/slicehost" rel="nofollow">http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/slicehost</a> </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/shared-gt-vps#post-532 Mon, 09 May 2011 19:27:22 +0000 illegal3alien 532@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>I checked out ServInt, it didn't look bad, but it was overkill for my needs, I was hoping $20 or less. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/shared-gt-vps#post-531 Mon, 09 May 2011 10:14:09 +0000 WhoIsHostingThis 531@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Avoid DreamHost's VPS - it's not cheap, and it's no more reliable than their shared hosting.</p> <p>I'd take a look at...</p> <p><a href="http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/liquidweb" rel="nofollow">http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/liquidweb</a> - heard very good things<br /> <a href="http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/servint" rel="nofollow">http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/servint</a> - We host with Servint </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/shared-gt-vps#post-530 Sat, 07 May 2011 22:51:55 +0000 illegal3alien 530@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>I'm currently at Dreamhost and like the idea of a cheap VPS. Linode looks pretty good. I have a little bit of experience with CentOS and Ubuntu. Shared would be ok too as long as there is a decent amount of control. (custom php.ini, ability to get perl, python, ruby, and mongodb running)</p> <p>Requirements:<br /> 8GB disk space<br /> 5GB bandwidth<br /> Ability to use nginx<br /> SSH access<br /> PHPmyAdmin (or ability to set it up)</p> <p>Control panel doesn't really make a difference to me as long as it's functional. No control panel isn't a problem. (Possibly setup webmin) </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/results-are-inaccurate#post-527 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:52:23 +0000 siterack_net 527@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Still nothing...<br /> Several requests, a direct letter, and my clients are still showing as being hosted by Glowhost. A completely innaccurate result, and costing me business. I wish whoishostingthis was located in the US. It sure would make legal action alot easier to pursue. So since sueing an overseas company is out of my budget, here is my traceroute for all to see..</p> <p>Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]<br /> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</p> <p>C:\Users\Siterack&gt;tracert siterack.net</p> <p>Tracing route to siterack.net [74.xxx.xxx.xx]<br /> over a maximum of 30 hops:</p> <p> 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]<br /> 2 11 ms 9 ms 9 ms 76.122.100.1<br /> 3 86 ms 57 ms 192 ms ge-1-1-0-0-sur01.l2douglas.ga.atlanta.comcast.ne<br /> t [68.85.36.9]<br /> 4 20 ms 10 ms 10 ms xe-11-3-0-0-sur01.l1douglas.ga.atlanta.comcast.n<br /> et [68.85.109.46]<br /> 5 12 ms 9 ms 10 ms xe-0-0-0-0-sur01.b5mableton.ga.atlanta.comcast.n<br /> et [68.85.109.50]<br /> 6 12 ms 11 ms 10 ms xe-1-1-0-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net<br /> [68.85.109.54]<br /> 7 25 ms 11 ms 12 ms pos-3-5-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [6<br /> 8.86.93.125]<br /> 8 46 ms 16 ms 11 ms 64.209.97.13<br /> 9 14 ms 20 ms 12 ms xe-2-0-4.ar1.atl1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.135.213]</p> <p> 10 14 ms 12 ms 13 ms as16626.xe-2-0-5-102.ar1.atl1.us.nlayer.net [69.<br /> 31.135.46]<br /> 11 15 ms 14 ms 12 ms 207.210.92.142<br /> 12 16 ms 12 ms 13 ms node-atl01.siterack.net [74.xxx.xxx.xx]<br /> 13 14 ms 12 ms 12 ms siterack.net [74.xxx.xxx.xx]</p> <p>Trace complete.</p> <p>C:\Users\Siterack&gt; </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/results-are-inaccurate#post-523 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:44:36 +0000 siterack_net 523@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>I have several clients of mine stating that are seeing results that they are being hosted by my competitors.<br /> I have sent several requests for correction over the last couple months, to no avail.<br /> Search results for my clients are still showing competing host providers.<br /> Since my market is reseller hosting, my clients are typically internet and hosting savvy and do lookups, then complain when the lookups are showing other providers, making them think I am a reseller, which is not the case.<br /> How can I get this corrected? If the results would at least show just the Datacenter, I wouldn't mind, but they showing shared hosting providers, not DC's.<br /> My equipment is self owned and co-located. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/i-want-to-request-an-wihts-api#post-502 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:38:10 +0000 WhoIsHostingThis 502@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Hi Lucas,</p> <p>Will drop you a line this week to discuss.</p> <p>Richard </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/i-want-to-request-an-wihts-api#post-499 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:13:57 +0000 LucasMoreira 499@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Hello!</p> <p>I'm Lucas Moreira, iOS developer. I'm coming here to request an API of "Who Is Hosting This".<br /> I'm creating a new app for iOS (iPhone/iPod touch/iPad) and I want to use WIHT's service. The new app is web tools.</p> <p>I would request the API in contact, but the "captcha" isn't working.</p> <p>Thanks a lot,<br /> Lucas Moreira (sorry for my english). </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/%e2%80%9cadvantages-of-adding-live-chat-to-website-1#post-472 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:58:48 +0000 LBC201 472@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Adding live chat to website is very useful and it helps in increasing online sales and maximizing return on investment. Just by adding live chat to your website will not work the main thing is to provide 24/7 support to your website visitors. Live Business care providing such services at very nominal prices.<br /> Regards,<br /> LiveBusinessCare </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/%e2%80%9cadvantages-of-adding-live-chat-to-website#post-471 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:57:25 +0000 LBC201 471@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Adding live chat to website is very useful and it helps in increasing online sales and maximizing return on investment. Just by adding live chat to your website will not work the main thing is to provide 24/7 support to your website visitors. Live Business care providing such services at very nominal prices.<br /> Regards,<br /> LiveBusinessCare </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/virtualization-technologies#post-425 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:38:36 +0000 ladycooper 425@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Exabytes previously offer VPS using Virtuozzo earlier and recently switched to Xen. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/uk-shared-hosting/page/2#post-420 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:36:38 +0000 Chris P 420@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>I have a Shared hosting account with eUKhost and they are good! Also try HostXNow ( <a href="http://www.HostXNow.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.HostXNow.com</a> ) </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/filter-feature-ssh-andor-sftp-andor-ftps#post-416 Wed, 19 May 2010 07:03:22 +0000 WhoIsHostingThis 416@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>@tvierling - noted on our wish list. Thanks for the feedback. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/filter-feature-ssh-andor-sftp-andor-ftps#post-415 Tue, 18 May 2010 18:17:39 +0000 tvierling 415@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Everyone offers plain ol' FTP for content transfer, but the really good hosting systems offer one or more of the following:</p> <p>* SSH (full shell access)</p> <p>* SFTP (implied by SSH, but may be offered in a limited form by some hosts)</p> <p>* FTPS (standard FTP protocol over TLS/SSL)</p> <p>It would be nice to know if a provider offers one or more of these encrypted file transfer formats. SSH itself is a nice data point; if offered, that means there are more tools at the user's disposal to help maintain the site. </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/talk-about-web-hosting#post-414 Mon, 10 May 2010 21:11:55 +0000 WhoIsHostingThis 414@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Welcome to the forum, HostColor! We've already got a couple of reviews for you here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/host-color/" rel="nofollow">http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/host-color/</a> </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/virtualization-technologies#post-413 Mon, 10 May 2010 11:50:14 +0000 HostColor 413@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Which virtualization technologies do you prefer? We are using KVM, Virtuozzo and OpenVZ fro now and testing Xen in order to find out how could it work for our purposes. What about you? </p> http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/topic/talk-about-web-hosting#post-412 Mon, 10 May 2010 11:47:54 +0000 HostColor 412@http://www.whoishostingthis.com/forum/ <p>I have just registered and will try to contribute to the forum. The WHoisHostingThis is a very convenient tool for consumers and a good discussion board will work fine for them </p>