the fourth place

It is so good to have you back online :) Who are you hosted with now?

Host Gator, pretty solid looking. Much better cPanel implementation than your last recommendation and cheaper too.

Simon,

Thanks for being slanderous and posting my name here. Your site was taken down, due to the fact which was explained to you, that you were using your account to DDoS other folks via scripts on one of your sites, under a subaccount you had created. Sorry, ProHosted doesn't look twice before shutting down an offender in such a serious matter. We have our clients and ourselves to consider before allowing an offender to continue taking such actions. With this said, you were responded to several times with the reasoning and you chose to take the actions you did (switching hosts), and I wish the best luck to Host Gator once they discover your actions, if you continue to execute them with your new host, that is. On top of that, you were found to be using a stolen credit card to pay for your hosting.

Kristopher

Thank you for getting in touch. I am a little confused as to why the email and telephone contact details I gave you did not enable you to sucesssfuly contact me confidentially or in a more timely manner. I won't dwell on it though, since there were some issues with routing email which were caused by the suspension and that probably explains it.

I will concede that your decision may have been a matter of policy rather than a whim, as I called it in the posting. I will leave it to the reader to decide if that is a good, and properly applied, policy.

As for accusations of DDoSing sites via scripts. I was only using scripts supplied by your company which I had configured using configuration files and web based GUIs. None of those were DDoS scripts.

Since you mention it, the same scripts are running on this host. At least one of those scripts does include an anti-spam feature that verifies referring pages include incomming links. Those might generate a lot of traffic, but no more traffic than, say, a few more pages.

Of course, whenever a card is stolen there is both a criminal and a victim involved. I think we can stipulate that I am one of those two individuals. If you check your records you will find a fax from me supplying you with details of my replacement card. I remember we did speak together about this and I have emails from you mentioning it dated January 4th 2005.

Do be careful with your use of the word "slander".

Simon,

The scripts in question were not the ones provided by us, nor cPanel. They were uploaded there and executed VIA the web as shell access was not enabled on the account. I did in fact attempt to contact you several times at the e-mail address you used to contact me with the initial questioning of your account being shut down. As far as the credit card being stolen, my processor contacted me informing me of this, and to NOT honor the card. When I am faced with facts, I am forced to act accordingly. If you say as you do that you are innocent, I do extend my apologies as this would have all been a huge misunderstanding and an unfortunate incident.

Kindest regards,

Kristopher

BOLLOCKS, sorry but Simon would never do such a thing like that! So sorry I recommemded this site to you. I to have gone to Host gator and it's brilliant.

Once again BOLLOCKS to that accusation!!!!

Wow, three exclamation marks! Thanks Addam.

I think Kris' final sentance sums it all up. That's life I guess.

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