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Cyberwings stops mad sales --- ! AKA: Service Problems

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Brasscat

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Coincidentally, their service has been up adn down very frequently over the past week. Apparently their "upstream data provider is flaking out" ...yeah, like BIG TIME. They have to be at an average (realistic) uptime of around 80% -- which is appallingly low...

But for $6.00 a year hosting plans, you get what you pay for. I still think if you're shooting for a amateur site, it's not a bad sandbox to plan in. I do feel sorry for those that bought reseller accounts (I wonder what kind of h*@ll those guys are getting right about now)....

Cyberwings
 
I ordered last week and I just got the info for my free account to set that up but my main account which I paid for still hasn't been set up. WTF?! :|
 
We've replaced nealr's regular "Hot Deals" forum with our special "Non-stop discussion of Cyberwings' various efforts to pack a suitcase full of money before heading for the border, intermixed with threads on credit-card scams that affect roughly 0.00000001% of the readers of the board" forum. Let's see if he notices!

 
I PMed, used a Staples coupon and got 2 service outages for the price of one!!!
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LOL!

We've replaced nealr's regular "Hot Deals" forum with our special "Non-stop discussion of Cyberwings' various efforts to pack a suitcase full of money before heading for the border, intermixed with threads on credit-card scams that affect roughly 0.00000001% of the readers of the board" forum. Let's see if he notices!
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dying laughing!!!! 🙂

okay, yeah, I bought an account too 😉 I dont' mind tho... $3 isn't bad for what I get.... so far.... 😉
 
Natural progression:

1. Worthless threads about Cyberwings crappy scam 'lifetime' (read: 6 weeks) plans
2. Members with any sort of intelligence realize this is a scam and flame everytime a new thread is made and alert everyone to the fact this is a worthless scam
3. Guess what? We were right!

STOP POSTING ABOUT CYBERWINGS

Andrew
 
You know, I think Cyberwings has a legitimate business plan: oversell really cheap hosting, and cheapos like us will by plans that we have no use for. I bet less than 10% of those who bought the $3 accounts actually set up a website that gets more than 1 hit/day. In real world costs, Cyberwings is reaping in close to $30 for every account actually used.



[okay, so the numbers are made up, but you get the idea]
 
I've been up on Cyberwings since March so I don't know what to say except they have worked well for me, and I haven't had any traffic probs the last week. So far I've spent half of what I would have spent for a single month with a regular provider, and hosting with them allowed me to get my site up and established and packed full of nearly 2000 photos when I could not afford at all to have it hosted with a regular provider for what I got in my Cyberwings deal. I keep regular backups too anyway. if they died today I still would have gotten my money's worth.

Thus I have to say for me at least, they have not been a scam, and any questions I have had so far have been answered fast in their customer chat.

Paul.

www.txmma.com
 
I don't think it's a scam.

But I do wonder if the CEO's enthusiasm gets a bit ahead of the business plan, so that when they have a recurring problem outside their immediate control (e.g., the recurring problem with a pair of Lightship routers at their backbone access provider), they don't have the personnel and money immediately at hand to do whatever it takes to make the problem go away NOW and FOREVER.

If it doesn't go away soon, though, CW's reputation may not be tarnished, but destroyed, and even amongst its friends and customers.

A sense of determination and confident rhetoric are nice and perhaps prerequisites for fast, effective action--but they are not substitutes for fast and effective action, unfortunately.
 
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For me Cyberwings was and is a chance to promote my own business...
Stop flaiming them.......
 
They were down again this evening for close to an hour, but announced that they're planning to switch their backbone access providers by the end of the week or early next.

That should solve the problem--but it may conceivably have problems of its own, particularly if (as seems unlikely but still possible to me) the problems they had so often with Lightship were due to some errors on CW's part.

(The real kicker is that the problem reportedly doesn't appear as a sudden series of errors, but rather just a sudden diminution of traffic--so their error-driven automatic provider backups haven't been kicking in.)
 
One other thing to bear in mind: while they try (obviously, or not) to get way above 98% uptime, they only guarantee 98% on an annual basis.

This sounds perhaps okay to the layperson until one realizes this permits half-an-hour of downtime every day of the year! (I know that calculation surprized me!)

Once they get things settled down, I think they'll need to raise their guaranteed uptime level, and back it up with a literal insurance policy.
 
Even though I too am in the cheap hosting business, I will say, as people here of reasonable intelligence have alluded to, you get what you pay for.

Though I am jealous of the volume they seem to generate! <g>
 
They were down again this evening for close to an hour, but announced that they're planning to switch their backbone access providers by the end of the week or early next.

That should solve the problem--but it may conceivably have problems of its own, particularly if (as seems unlikely but still possible to me) the problems they had so often with Lightship were due to some errors on CW's part.

(The real kicker is that the problem reportedly doesn't appear as a sudden series of errors, but rather just a sudden diminution of traffic--so their error-driven automatic provider backups haven't been kicking in.)
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Wolfgang
well...lets do a TRACERT and hold 'em to it! 😉 I"ll post what I get on my tracerT for the last servers and stuff. 😉
 
It's sad that a hosting company has 80% uptime only. It shouldn't matter how much you pay; they should be providing reliable service, no matter if it's $10 a month or $10 a year. I'm proud to say I've had 100% uptime on our servers for over 4 months.
 
Originally posted by: haner
It's sad that a hosting company has 80% uptime only. It shouldn't matter how much you pay; they should be providing reliable service, no matter if it's $10 a month or $10 a year. I'm proud to say I've had 100% uptime on our servers for over 4 months.
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Well you get what you pay for.
I have domains I don't really care too much about on Cyberwings. If it's down they'll try again later.
For my business domain I have that on Dixiesys. Dixiesys has about 99% uptime which is good enough for me.
For mission critical type webpages they'll probably want to pay more for 100% uptime webpage.

I got 4 personal websites on Cyberwings for $9 for 1 year. I don't expect much for $9.
 
Yes, poeple think this isn't a hot deal --- but it is.

It's a deal if you stay away from Cyberwings... You save just a few bucks, but a lotta time...
 
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