Friday, May 16, 2014

Joe's DataCenter, not for the faint of heart.

Hi guys, just thought I'd post my recent experience.

I had a server at Joes DataCenter. They unplugged me and gave me the silent treatment for days. They would not allow me to communicate with them through phone nor their ticket system.

They did this on the grounds that I was damaging their IP reputation by spamming.

Although there were previous occasional incidents of users having changed their passwords to something like 1234 and getting picked-up by a spambot; and spamming for a few days. What caused this last and final rift was a COM_JCE exploit on Joomla CMS software. JDC couldn't seem to wait until I was able to patch all the 35+ sites to remedy the problem. They unplugged my server; and discontinued my service.

They were however nice enough to allow me to extract some important data belonging to one of my customers after several days of down time. But only after I called another company to pickup my server for data-recovery services.

So if you're a bullet-proof super-admin that never has any issues, their service is great. If you're like me and are learning as you go, you might look elsewhere.

Needless to say, I had them packup and ship my server to another colo-service provider.

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