Oh please not Windows - No please!
» 17/05/2006, 10:05:00 / / / Subscribe
Well I got an email a few days ago, one which I am not exactly too pleased about if I am honest. For a good few years now I have had the risingdragon domain hosted with a small but reliable hosting company. Well, it's a one man outfit I think because regardless of what I request, ask moan or inquire about it's always the same guy that answers - rather like me I guess. However I digress, I got the below email:
Dear Customer,
We have a small number of customers who remain on a non-Helm hosting account. It is no longer financially viable for us to maintain these
non-Helm accounts. Because of this we will be migrating all non-Helm customers over to our Helm set-up.
As a non-Helm customer we will contact you directly regarding your domains and the migration process. This will occur over the next few weeks.
The non-Helm accounts are hosted on a third party system which we have no administrative control. Because of this we will be unable to retrieve
your FTP / email or database passwords. Therefore we will either set-up new accounts with a common password (which you can change yourself) or request password details.
For more information and to read a FAQ we have prepared please visit the URL below
Now for the less savvy people non-helm translates to UNIX and Helm translates to Windows. I pay a medium fee for the hosting but it was only a few months ago that I paid a £70 bill for re-registering the domain for a few years so I am pretty narked that I am actually being forced to shift to a Windows server, well actually I won't ever be on Windows because I am going to have to find some new host, I may even transfer it to the host that runs this domain as they are actually pretty excellent. I feel annoyed though because the reasons given are pretty rubbish if you ask me - UNIX doesn't cost anything so it's nothing to do with finances.
I feel let down by the small guy.
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Comments:
#1. neil
17/05/2006, 15:23:02
#1. neil17/05/2006, 15:23:02
Urgh, that is such an arse! I use Media Temple and touch would they have always been fantastic for me, I have even been able to someone (all be it a call to the US) to sort out more serious issues.
Theres nothing worse than being forced to change.
