I login today to find these errors

Uncategorized August 31st, 2008

MD Web Hosting just keep making it easier for me. Today I login to find my permissions have been changed on the server so the plugins that were working before now no longer work.

If you are on the site today you can see the errors for yourself. But if you come later when (and if they fix the problem) here they are.

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/tmp/sess_7bb9f3e2e508d904ce8515242a3aaa93, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /media/sdb1/home2/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 119

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /media/sdb1/home2/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php:119) in /media/sdb1/home2/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 119

These errors are from wp-admin

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/tmp/sess_e8e8fa3bc81cbb8f5a5e9e76a4251ac0, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /media/sdb1/home2/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 119

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie – headers already sent by (output started at /media/sdb1/home2/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php:119) in /media/sdb1/home2/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 119

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /media/sdb1/home2/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php:119) in /media/sdb1/home2/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 119

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /media/sdb1/home2/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php:119) in /media/sdb1/home2/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 770

Warning: Unknown: open(/tmp/sess_e8e8fa3bc81cbb8f5a5e9e76a4251ac0, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct () in Unknown on line 0

Now I have not changed any thing I have added no new plugins all these plugins work on my other servers it just happens to be MD Web Hosting that is having a problem. I am not even going to waste my time contacting them as this site I really don’t care for and its just to warn other webmasters that MD Web Hosting could be a real problem for them and their sites.

My Server Error Log

Uncategorized August 22nd, 2008

This is how unreliable this server that the server that this website is hosted on is. Check out the dates and some of the times. The Database was was out on the 3rd July for 2 1/2 hours. I mean even to reboot the server should only take them 5 minutes at the most. It barely goes 1 full day without crashing and that’s just the database errors. I am lucky that this site is not my main source of income, having this site down for those periods of times and for so many periods of times sometimes 4 times in 1 day it crashes. My other servers will go weeks without having any log errors like that. The following is just a 48 hour period. I have attached the full log so you can see how absolutely useless this server is.

Now you might say hey this is the scripts problem. Well I run this exact same wordpress setup, the same version, the exact same version plugins, the exact same theme, on other servers and have none of these problems.

[03-Jul-2008 23:30:29] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function  wp_quotes_random() in /home/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/themes/genkitheme/single.php on line 26
[03-Jul-2008 23:31:01] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[03-Jul-2008 23:31:49] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[03-Jul-2008 23:31:54] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[03-Jul-2008 23:32:08] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[03-Jul-2008 23:32:11] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function  wp_quotes_random() in /home/kitkitch/public_html/MDWEBHOSTINGSUCKS/wp-content/themes/genkitheme/single.php on line 26
[03-Jul-2008 23:32:44] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[03-Jul-2008 23:33:30] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[03-Jul-2008 23:34:02] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[03-Jul-2008 23:34:05] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[03-Jul-2008 23:36:12] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[03-Jul-2008 23:36:58] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[03-Jul-2008 23:42:25] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 00:56:46] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 01:33:28] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 01:33:39] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 01:33:43] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 01:39:50] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 01:39:52] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 01:40:03] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 01:40:09] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 01:40:29] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 01:41:08] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 01:42:34] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 02:07:03] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 02:07:07] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 02:07:07] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 02:07:09] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 11:58:04] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 12:11:33] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 12:14:59] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 14:02:11] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 14:11:24] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 16:00:01] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:22:11] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 16:26:10] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:26:14] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:27:05] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:28:01] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:30:26] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:32:29] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:32:35] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:34:04] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:36:18] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:38:45] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:39:25] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:51:10] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:59:08] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 16:59:11] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 16:59:25] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 20:44:45] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = ‘0? WHERE option_name = ‘doing_cron’ made by update_option
[04-Jul-2008 20:45:50] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 20:47:54] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 20:58:44] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 21:04:38] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT * FROM wp_posts, wp_postmeta WHERE wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id AND wp_postmeta.meta_key = ‘_pingme’ LIMIT 1 made by do_all_pings
[04-Jul-2008 21:04:38] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT * FROM wp_posts, wp_postmeta WHERE wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id AND wp_postmeta.meta_key = ‘_encloseme’ LIMIT 1 made by do_all_pings
[04-Jul-2008 21:04:38] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE to_ping <> ” AND post_status = ‘publish’ made by do_all_pings
[04-Jul-2008 21:05:46] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = ‘0? WHERE option_name = ‘doing_cron’ made by update_option
[04-Jul-2008 21:06:25] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 21:10:28] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 21:13:42] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 21:15:02] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT * FROM wp_posts, wp_postmeta WHERE wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id AND wp_postmeta.meta_key = ‘_pingme’ LIMIT 1 made by do_all_pings
[04-Jul-2008 21:15:02] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT * FROM wp_posts, wp_postmeta WHERE wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id AND wp_postmeta.meta_key = ‘_encloseme’ LIMIT 1 made by do_all_pings
[04-Jul-2008 21:15:02] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE to_ping <> ” AND post_status = ‘publish’ made by do_all_pings
[04-Jul-2008 21:15:55] WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = ‘0? WHERE option_name = ‘doing_cron’ made by update_option
[04-Jul-2008 21:15:56] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 21:16:00] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 21:18:06] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 21:27:38] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 21:32:10] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_quotes’ doesn’t exist for query select * from wp_quotes where visible=’yes’ made by wp_quotes_random
[04-Jul-2008 21:44:56] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories
[04-Jul-2008 23:05:15] WordPress database error Table ‘kitkitch_wrdp1.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC made by amt_get_all_categories

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Other Companies know how bad it is

Uncategorized July 6th, 2008

It must be so bad at MD Web Hosting that other companies* have picked up and offer to help you move your domains away. http://www.crucial.com.au/mdwebhosting-refugees/index.php

  • *I have no affiliation with the above hosting company, I am not a customer of theirs, I don’t work for them, the link is not an affiliate link. I am not saying the above hosting company is any better than MD Web Hosting as I have no personal/working knowledge of how they operate. All I am showing you is it must be pretty bad if other companies have picked up on the dissent that is going on at MD Web Hosting.

You might think I am going overboard

Uncategorized July 4th, 2008

You might think well it is really only you that have had troubles with MD Web Hosting, you would be wrong what really tipped my hat into building this site was I got frustrated and typed “MD Web Hosting suck” into google and got dozens of results.

http://www.webhostingstuff.com/review/MDWebHosting.html

The link above has 3 reviews and none of them are good.

Quote by “David (australia.coop) on 10 March 2008: Inability and/or unwillingness to communicate with clients about issues – unless you are able to initiative a query,….”

Quote by “Lorcan Tanner of www.loreindustries.com on 08 Mar 2008: Md Webhosting when I first joined was a fantastic web host, however as time went by it started to get worst. Finnaly by the time I have decided to close down my account with them I had come to the conclusion my site had got to of only been only 60-70% of the time, which is not what you expect from a proffesional hosting company.”

Quote by “M (imageidentity.com.au) on 12 February 2008: I used to love MdWebhosting. Used to that is. Over the last couple of months their servers have been hacked to the extent that I’ve moved my site to another host. They have been impossible to contact. I’ve left support tickets, sent emails, sent…”

That is just off of one site. I had never seen that site until 2 days ago when I did the search I should have done before taking an account with MD Web Hosting.

The link below is from the Whirlpool Forums. If you are considering MD Web Hosting then I would suggest you take the time to read it. You will see many a webmaster that has had considerable problems with MD Web Hosting.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/913594.html

Quote by : “Mr Stego Forum Regular

Does anybody have a contact phone number for them?

1800 600 934 – Good Luck”

Quote by : “hto

Forum Regular

Just over a year ago there were (and I experienced) considerable problems with MD Webhosting. So much so that I started looking for another company.
But then things improved and the last twelve months have been relatively trouble free with the exception of the occasional hiccup – but I guess that happens with every hosting company.

The last couple of days things have been really bad. Due to outside attacks MD says.”

You can go on to read much much more from that Whirlpool Thread which was started in February 2008 unfortunately too late for me as I had already been a customer at that stage. That is just from 2 entries I found in google I could go on with the list. But I will leave that for another Post. I hope you can see that I am by no means the only person suffering from MD Web Hostings bad performance.

Need More Staff

Uncategorized July 4th, 2008

The following is my 1st attempt at contacting them. I had started to upload the font site at this stage and the site went off line. I rang them to see how long before it would go back online and I was on hold for 1 Hours and 5 minutes. This I found to be the same every time I rang them and never was able to get hold of their support system.
Ok I thought fair enough its nearly xmas lots of staff on holiday others out partying. So I didn’t think anything else of it.
1hour 5 minutes on hold
Ticket Details
Ticket ID: SLF-557817 Department: Support
Status: Closed Priority: Normal
Created On: 22 Dec 2007 11:19 AM Last Update: 22 Dec 2007 12:33 PM
Conversation
Tom N
Posted On: 22 Dec 2007 12:33 PM

Dear Tony,

Sorry about the delay; recent events and an unexpected growth rate in the christmas period really stretched our staff past capacity.

We’ll try and have things back to normal by the new year, our aim is of course to answer calls within the first few minutes.

Have a merry christmas!

kind regards

Tom N
support@mdwebhosting.com.au
MD Support

Alex
Posted On: 22 Dec 2007 11:22 AM

Hello,

We have gone through your issue and please let us know the exact issue you are having so that we can investigate it further.

Please let us know if you need anything else.

Regards,
MD WebHosting

Tony
Posted On: 22 Dec 2007 11:19 AM

You Need More Staff. I don’t think i have ever been on hold this long anywhere

I have moved my sites off

Uncategorized July 3rd, 2008

I have moved the 3 sites off the new Orion Server which was supposed to be more reliable than the old server I was on. But as a pinch of irony I have left this site on their server. You will probably not be able to see this post as the server is highly unreliable and falls over every few hours. I was wondering, seeing that I have paid for a year in advance, if they removed this site. I checked their policy and also checked it with my lawyer and this site contains nothing that could be deemed in breaking their policy for site hosting. So it would be un professional of them to remove it from their server. Time will tell.

Dont Expect them to answer the phone or their live help

Uncategorized July 3rd, 2008

As you will see from the logs I have kept from their support system. You can expect that MD Web Hosting will not answer your calls to their support line or answer their live help system. Of all the phones calls I have made to them and the time waiting on their live help I think I have wasted 1 full day of my life. They have answered once in all that time and then I was only waiting for about 25 minutes (and all they told me was to lodge a support ticket).

My 1st MD Web Hosting Problem

Uncategorized July 3rd, 2008

Welcome to this Blog. Its a simple blog just to warn any unsuspecting website owners that are contemplating hosting their sites with the Australian Company MD WEB HOSTING PTY. LTD. (ACN) 109 613 194 (ABN) 41 109 613 194. The reasons for the warning you will see in the following posts.

My journey with this so called hosting company began on the 25/11/2007 I was looking for an Australian Hosting company that was cheaper than my current hosting company. I took advantage of MD half price sale and grabbed the Dingo Hosting Package (1 yr, free domain offer) it cost me $59.40 AUD/Year which for what I was paying seemed a reasonable amount. The package seemed decent enough 5gig of Website Storage, 10Gig of monthly data, 20 MySQL Databases, 2 Addon Domains. I had 2 fairly large sites a Font Site around 600meg and Games Site around 1.5gig along with another Smaller Website that I wanted to put on an Aussie IP and keep it off my other aussie IP’s.

So I ended using about 3.3 gig of space and 6 MySQL db’s along with using about 2.5gig of bandwidth per month. So you can see there was nothing startling about the website. Not massive traffic magnets only around 20,000 uniques per month between the 3.

I have around 750 websites allup hosted on different accounts, some are on my own dedicated servers and others are on hosting accounts and reseller accounts. I have the servers in Australia/UK/USA/South Africa mainly to do with traffic from google for the individual websites.

My monthly bill for my servers runs up to around 500 usd per month so I am always on the lookout for cheaper packages while obviously I want to have some reliability as well. If my sites are offline or not working then I am not making money.

So on the MD Web Hosting package I put the 3 sites none of them being monetized yet as I like to build a sites user base up first before scaring people off with adverts. While they were larger sites they were heavy workloads as they were being built up.

My first problem with them come in the way the font script was written I could not run the .htaccess file on the server as part of the code for the mod_rewrite was being blocked by the php parser. Ok I thought well the script runs on other servers I will just have to modify it to work on MD’s package. I did this and while I was doing it I made a few modifications to the script to make it more search engine friendly. So while some could say it was the MD’s fault it could also be argued that it was the scripts fault as well (even though it works on other servers) So my time was also not really lost as I made the script much better in the long run.