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TL;DR: Stablepoint silently killed their “Unlimited” plans, slapped hidden hard limits on existing customers without notification, and completely broke existing packages to add accounts to my server without editing the packages. Hey everyone, I need to warn the community about some incredibly shady and downright fraudulent business practices happening at stablepoint.com right now. I’ve been running my London server with them and originally signed up under their “unlimited” packages. Everything was fine until I recently tried to add a new domain, only to find out the system completely blocked me as the packages were set to unlimited bandwidth as per the contract and legacy plans I have been paying years for. After digging into it, I found out why: Stablepoint quietly decided to remove the “unlimited” tag and secretly impose hard limits on their servers. No email notification. * No announcements. * No heads-up to existing customers. They just altered the server limits in the background. While the new hard limit might technically be a high number, the fact that they stripped the “unlimited” designation from their backend means my existing packages are now registering as invalid. Because of their silent backend changes. This is a classic, unethical corporate bait-and-switch. They lure you in with promises of unlimited resources, secretly change the deal, and break your server configuration in the process. I’ve paid for one final month strictly to buy myself time to migrate my data completely off their platform. If you are hosting anything with Stablepoint, I highly suggest you log in, check your package limits today, and start planning your exit strategy. submitted by /u/ankushthor [link] [comments]

I’ve been working on a server management panel recently (focused on game servers, but a lot of the challenges overlap with general hosting), and I’ve been thinking a lot about where existing panels fall short. Things like: – performance overhead from the panel itself – UI/UX complexity vs flexibility – scaling across multiple nodes – how much control vs abstraction users actually want Curious from people here, especially those running VPS/dedicated infrastructure: What do you think current panels (e.g. cPanel, Plesk, etc.) still get wrong? And what would you want to see done differently if someone were building one today? Would be really interesting to hear perspectives from the hosting side submitted by /u/badgerpanel [link] [comments]

I hope this question is welcome here, as in the end WordPress as a CMS is widely used by a lot of hosts, while wordpress(.com) is a webhost in its own right run by the company Automattic. I was working on a WordPress website for a while, but I think I have to start from scratch as there’s a lot of updated needed. This is the right moment as well to reconsider moving on with the same host, or starting again at wordpress(.com) which I’ve been using for 15 years and is very user friendly even to less tech savvy users. There is one question I have here. At the WordPress site that I have with a webhost, when you make a blog entry and someone responds, you have several options: approving the post, approving the post and allow the poster to make more replies to blog posts without needing approval for his future posts, granting the person whose response to your blog post had been approved to also write/edit/remove your blog entries, or even granting the person whose response has been approved the right to co-administer your website (including creating, editing and removing static pages). I don’t like those options. I am unsure if these options also exist at WordPress(.com) but I cannot remember having seen them: as far as I know there you can only select to disallow responses to blog posts, having to approve each response to a blog post, or granting the person whose response was approved the right to post responses to all blog entries without needing approval each time. But I cannot recall that there were options allowing the person who responded to your blog entry to create/edit/remove blog entries or static pages at all. I want my website and blog to be mine, without anyone else contributing to it except for visitors leaving a reply to a blog entry. But I do not want anyone to be able to create/edit/remove blog entries and static pages. Could the existance of those options be standard for wordpress(.org) or does it depend which theme you choose if those options exist? submitted by /u/AniMeshorer [link] [comments]

Recently switched from shared hosting to VPS. Performance improved, no doubt – but: Server setup took time Had to learn basic sysadmin stuff Security configs were confusing For non technical users, is managed VPS better option? Curious how others handeled this transition submitted by /u/HotAuthor6438 [link] [comments]

https://preview.redd.it/bhn07kghltsg1.png?width=1442&format=png&auto=webp&s=14f457d89c1da39e4d92ac991b8951346451db9a I had iPage hosting for several websites, and this is a warning for anyone else who used iPage and was then bumped to Network Solutions. I’ll try and be succinct, while giving you the info you need. For starters, it’s important that iPage hosting included several things. The first was a free SSL certificate, and the second was security support for any malware or attacks. All included in their base hosting plans, which started around $5/mo. For the decade that I used iPage, I never experienced any problems. Literally as soon as Network Solutions inherited me as a customer, everything went south. First, I got notifications that my sites no longer had SSL certification. Turns out, Network Solutions charges almost $100/year, per site, for SSL certificates. So I paid them. Then, one of my sites was infected with malicious advertising software. I contacted Network Solutions, and they told me that security was a separate package, which they would be happy to sell me. Since my primary site was full of ugly pop-ups, I paid them again. Their security team took a week to tell me that they could not fix the problem. Told me that the malware had infected my other site, which was on the same server, and that unless I bought another security package for that site, they would not clean it, so both sites would stay infected. While this only takes three paragraphs to explain, all of this took hours and hours of chatting with various Network Solutions support agents, often with wild wait times in between, and being kicked back and forth between departments- all for them to tell me that they wouldn’t fix it unless I paid more. Again. At this point I was pretty annoyed, so I began researching, and it turns out- virtually every other reputable hosting platform offers the exact same package that iPage used to, for virtually the same price. Reputable hosting, with free SSLs and security support, for ~$4/mo. So I began migrating my sites. But halfway through, my old iPage contract expired and the hosting needed to be renewed. Without that hosting, I could not access my site for the migration. I explained all this to Network Solutions, and asked if they could just give me the SFTP access for half an hour on my way out the door, because of all the other horrors their company has inflicted. They told me to kick rocks and pay them. I talked to two supervisors, and explained that this was the last chance they had to do right by me. I told them that I would pay them, again, to regain access to my sites, but that this was going to cement forever my opinion that their entire company was just one giant scam. They again told me to kick rocks and pull out my wallet. So I did. I migrated my sites to another reputable hosting service. My new hosting service was able to completely clean both sites in under 48 hours, with zero of my time required. Both sites now have free SSLs again, and the new company did the entire migration and even fixed some things in the sites that the malware had broken, all for $4/mo again. One last insult from Network Solutions- I contacted them to cancel all my plans and services, and ask for a refund of as much as possible. The representative was very apologetic and happily agreed to refund all my money. She sent me this confirmation email that my refunds were on the way: https://preview.redd.it/0fd6we1rltsg1.png?width=1466&format=png&auto=webp&s=f469a38af0201cc583f815bbf9c8d276d09baec8 An hour later, I received this email, explaining that they would not be refunding my money: https://preview.redd.it/tfwg93wbltsg1.png?width=1470&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0ff082083dd64085fbd08e6f7ea62ef4a6fb6b3 It took another several hours of contacting them, getting in touch with supervisors, explaining what had happened over and over, for them to finally agree to give my money back. But they really didn’t want to. All told, I had paid them almost $400 in the six weeks since they inherited me as a customer from iPage, and to get them to fix the problems that my new hosting service fixed for free, I would have had to pay more. I’ll add this. In a decade of hosting from iPage, I never had a single malicious adware or attack. Literally as soon as Network Solutions had me as a customer, both my sites were full of malicious code, and the only way to solve that was to pay Network Solutions hundreds of dollars. I have no way of knowing if they’re infecting their own customer’s sites to force customers to pay for their jacked-up security support, but the timing and their policies certainly had that effect for me. I would not wish Network Solutions on my worst enemy. At the end of the day, they were trying to charge me something like $60/mo for the exact same service that iPage provided for $4/mo, and the same service that my new hosting service still provides for $4/mo. To me, Network Solutions has all the characteristics of a scam. They operate in bad faith, they don’t solve problems, they demand more and more money to even attempt to fix things that they said they would fix already. They charge a lot for things that it is industry standard to include for free, and they don’t take care if their customers are harmed, dissatisfied, and furious. Do with that what you will, and best of luck. submitted by /u/Axestential [link] [comments]