I think many of you may be remember with the hot deal last year at cheaphostonline.com that offer $35 domain + hosting life-time. The only catch is you have to receive a junk email from them a day. I go sign up in November last year. Everything seems to be excellent. But last february my host got down more than 50% of the time. So, I email them and they replied me that they are migrating to their own host (the existing one is on another location, not theirs). I gave them some information to transfer to their own, new server. It's working fine (more than 99% uptime). Until last week, I got this email
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:09:46 -0800
From: "Cheaphostonline" <cholkill@cheaphostonline.net>
Subject: Important info regarding FreeHostSpace
We at Cheaphostonline.com/DH Enterprise regret to inform you that our
reseller/dedicated server reseller freehostspace.com has been shut down
due to non payment of its debt and technical difficulties.
All of freehostspace.com customers have 3 choices
1)
Signup on the cheaphostonline.com service plan at a discounted rate:
$2.99 for the free customers
$4.99 for Package 2
$7.99 for Package 3
$9.99 for Package 4
$11.99 for package 5
In order to do this you will need to goto the link below and fill out
all the information listed. Please note that we will verify all
information with what is on your whois registry. Please keep in mind that we
may need to contact you to verify your account, so make sure you leave
a valid number.
https://www.cheaphostonline.net/freehostspace/newcustomer.php
2)
If you registered a domain thru freehostspace.com then you can keep
your domain active and request to change the name servers to another host
canceling your service. You will be required to enter a valid credit
card number, but it's only for verification.
https://www.cheaphostonline.net/freehostspace/transfercustomer.php
3)
Cancel all together. By choosing this option you will loose your
domain account and any chance of renewing services in a year if you
registered the domain thru freehostspace.com.
Your site will be interrupted and soon removed from the servers.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Customer who signup after February 1st 2002 The best way to get you
account setup is to follow the link below. Your site may be on the
servers that they have in their current location, which we have an agreement
in place that if they go under we would acquire those servers as well.
If you don't get the chance to move your sites to our current servers
your site may be down for a while. To know if you are affected your
name servers would say something like nsv3a.freehostspace.net or anything
with freehostspace.net.
If your service cannot be interrupted for a period of 24 hours or
greater then you may want to setup an account on our existing servers. To
do this please contact our support department.
http://www.cheaphostonline.net/perldesk/ . Please note that we cannot
help any of the customers with any other problems until they have
signup with option 1 or 2 plan to move.
All freehostspace customers have until April 5th 2002 to pick one of
these options or else their site will be terminated. By continuing
service most of freehostspace customers will not have to make any other
changes to their website or network settings.
To be kept up to date please visit
https://www.cheaphostonline.net/freehostspace
Thank You
Cheaphostonline
*********************************************
I got really shock with this, good luck that I still being the owner of my domain at godaddy.com (not buy domain with them). So, I signed up with cyberwing.com for my host survival. I'm waiting for the response from cyberwing now. But, unbelievable, today, I just got another email, this time come from the real owner that doing business of freehostspace.com like this
From: "FHS Member Services" <memberletter@freehostspace.com>
Subject: FREEHOSTSPACE.COM SERVICE RESPONCE LETTER
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:22:27 -0600
Reply-to: "FHS Member Services" <memberletter@freehostspace.com>
To all former FreeHostSpace.com customers. We want to set the record
strait about why we are no longer in business. We are no longer in
business because of CheapHostOnline.com's malicious and underhanded
efforts that finally forced us out of business. CHOL effectively
planned
and executed a hostile take over of the FreeHostSpace.com domain name
and
web site. CHOL not only shut the web site down but also against our
wishes
redirected thousands of accounts to CHOL's forced sign up page over the
Easter weekend. FHS has worked for months to migrate accounts from
CHOL's
servers, which are the exact same servers that many of you are having
problems with your site going up and down constantly. These are also
the
servers that CHOL now wants you to pay to stay on.
We had agreements in place with CHOL that if they had chosen to honor
would have prevented all of this from happening. All of the network and
technical support problems that many of you experienced over the last
several months were due to CHOL's less than professional support to us
as
their reseller. Furthermore it is outrageous that CHOL is requiring you
to
sign up through them or risk losing your domain name if you registered
through FreeHostSpace.com. You own this domain name and you should have
the right to host it with whom ever you like. We suggest that you
contact
enom.com either by phone or email and let them know what their reseller
DH
Enterprises is trying to do with your domain name. Enom can and should
over ride this and provide your domain management account information
to
manage your domain name. DH Enterprises is in affect holding your
domain
name hostage unless you host with them. This is unethical and illegal.
We are very sorry that this has happened and did everything in our
power
to prevent it. We trusted CHOL to do the right thing in this situation
so
that our customers would not suffer. Unfortunately CHOL chose to take
the
"pirate" approach and effectively voided an agreement to continue
paying
them while we migrated our accounts from their servers so everyone
could
continue to have a free account. If you do business with
CheapHostOnline.com you are effectively doing business with the very
company that caused all of this to happen to begin with. You will
continue
to have the same poor server up time and customer service that we had
which in affect made us look bad as the company providing you with your
service. This was the very reason we had made the decision to migrate
back
in January to our own data center. Unfortunately we made some business
decisions with CHOL that consequently allowed them to do what they have
done now. However, what they have done was not what was agreed and as
stated earlier was a hostile shut down and take over of
FreeHostSpace.com.
We at FHS thought it better to at least contact our former customers
one
last time and give our side of the story rather than have you only get
CHOL's side, which frankly is a complete and utter disregard for the
truth. We know this does not help alleviate the inconvenience this has
caused you and we tremendously regret once again that this has
happened.
Sincerely,
FreeHostSpace.com
*****************************************************
I don't know what is the real story, but just wanna let you guys to be carful for doing business with cheaphostonline.com
Sorry if this is off topic, but I just wanna alert all of you about this.
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:09:46 -0800
From: "Cheaphostonline" <cholkill@cheaphostonline.net>
Subject: Important info regarding FreeHostSpace
We at Cheaphostonline.com/DH Enterprise regret to inform you that our
reseller/dedicated server reseller freehostspace.com has been shut down
due to non payment of its debt and technical difficulties.
All of freehostspace.com customers have 3 choices
1)
Signup on the cheaphostonline.com service plan at a discounted rate:
$2.99 for the free customers
$4.99 for Package 2
$7.99 for Package 3
$9.99 for Package 4
$11.99 for package 5
In order to do this you will need to goto the link below and fill out
all the information listed. Please note that we will verify all
information with what is on your whois registry. Please keep in mind that we
may need to contact you to verify your account, so make sure you leave
a valid number.
https://www.cheaphostonline.net/freehostspace/newcustomer.php
2)
If you registered a domain thru freehostspace.com then you can keep
your domain active and request to change the name servers to another host
canceling your service. You will be required to enter a valid credit
card number, but it's only for verification.
https://www.cheaphostonline.net/freehostspace/transfercustomer.php
3)
Cancel all together. By choosing this option you will loose your
domain account and any chance of renewing services in a year if you
registered the domain thru freehostspace.com.
Your site will be interrupted and soon removed from the servers.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Customer who signup after February 1st 2002 The best way to get you
account setup is to follow the link below. Your site may be on the
servers that they have in their current location, which we have an agreement
in place that if they go under we would acquire those servers as well.
If you don't get the chance to move your sites to our current servers
your site may be down for a while. To know if you are affected your
name servers would say something like nsv3a.freehostspace.net or anything
with freehostspace.net.
If your service cannot be interrupted for a period of 24 hours or
greater then you may want to setup an account on our existing servers. To
do this please contact our support department.
http://www.cheaphostonline.net/perldesk/ . Please note that we cannot
help any of the customers with any other problems until they have
signup with option 1 or 2 plan to move.
All freehostspace customers have until April 5th 2002 to pick one of
these options or else their site will be terminated. By continuing
service most of freehostspace customers will not have to make any other
changes to their website or network settings.
To be kept up to date please visit
https://www.cheaphostonline.net/freehostspace
Thank You
Cheaphostonline
*********************************************
I got really shock with this, good luck that I still being the owner of my domain at godaddy.com (not buy domain with them). So, I signed up with cyberwing.com for my host survival. I'm waiting for the response from cyberwing now. But, unbelievable, today, I just got another email, this time come from the real owner that doing business of freehostspace.com like this
From: "FHS Member Services" <memberletter@freehostspace.com>
Subject: FREEHOSTSPACE.COM SERVICE RESPONCE LETTER
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:22:27 -0600
Reply-to: "FHS Member Services" <memberletter@freehostspace.com>
To all former FreeHostSpace.com customers. We want to set the record
strait about why we are no longer in business. We are no longer in
business because of CheapHostOnline.com's malicious and underhanded
efforts that finally forced us out of business. CHOL effectively
planned
and executed a hostile take over of the FreeHostSpace.com domain name
and
web site. CHOL not only shut the web site down but also against our
wishes
redirected thousands of accounts to CHOL's forced sign up page over the
Easter weekend. FHS has worked for months to migrate accounts from
CHOL's
servers, which are the exact same servers that many of you are having
problems with your site going up and down constantly. These are also
the
servers that CHOL now wants you to pay to stay on.
We had agreements in place with CHOL that if they had chosen to honor
would have prevented all of this from happening. All of the network and
technical support problems that many of you experienced over the last
several months were due to CHOL's less than professional support to us
as
their reseller. Furthermore it is outrageous that CHOL is requiring you
to
sign up through them or risk losing your domain name if you registered
through FreeHostSpace.com. You own this domain name and you should have
the right to host it with whom ever you like. We suggest that you
contact
enom.com either by phone or email and let them know what their reseller
DH
Enterprises is trying to do with your domain name. Enom can and should
over ride this and provide your domain management account information
to
manage your domain name. DH Enterprises is in affect holding your
domain
name hostage unless you host with them. This is unethical and illegal.
We are very sorry that this has happened and did everything in our
power
to prevent it. We trusted CHOL to do the right thing in this situation
so
that our customers would not suffer. Unfortunately CHOL chose to take
the
"pirate" approach and effectively voided an agreement to continue
paying
them while we migrated our accounts from their servers so everyone
could
continue to have a free account. If you do business with
CheapHostOnline.com you are effectively doing business with the very
company that caused all of this to happen to begin with. You will
continue
to have the same poor server up time and customer service that we had
which in affect made us look bad as the company providing you with your
service. This was the very reason we had made the decision to migrate
back
in January to our own data center. Unfortunately we made some business
decisions with CHOL that consequently allowed them to do what they have
done now. However, what they have done was not what was agreed and as
stated earlier was a hostile shut down and take over of
FreeHostSpace.com.
We at FHS thought it better to at least contact our former customers
one
last time and give our side of the story rather than have you only get
CHOL's side, which frankly is a complete and utter disregard for the
truth. We know this does not help alleviate the inconvenience this has
caused you and we tremendously regret once again that this has
happened.
Sincerely,
FreeHostSpace.com
*****************************************************
I don't know what is the real story, but just wanna let you guys to be carful for doing business with cheaphostonline.com
Sorry if this is off topic, but I just wanna alert all of you about this.
