Web Hosting Provider: Easy CGI
Company Info: Since its inception in 1998, Easy CGI has become a globally competitive Web Hosting Provider, hosting over 20,000 Web sites. Consistently ranked among the top 10 Web Hosting providers worldwide. Company offers 24/7 customer support and claims to have 99.9% uptime.
Serving Area: Worldwide
Basic Web Hosting Plan: Advanced
Included: 350 GB disk space | 3,500 GB Transfer | PHP, ASP, .NET 2.0 | Windows 2003 Hosting Environment | ASP.NET 2.0 | Script Library | Full Featured Control Panel
Price: $7.96/month
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Absolutely crap services. Not a sigle technically skilled person. Good to give reasons. Reps are not confident. All rubbish and bullsheet. I haven;t see this sort of crap services.
anyone interested in filing a class action lawsuit contact me at smapua at comcast dot net or call me at 2535201284
For five years I was with Web Strike Hosting, it was great, no issues, fast support, limited down time and no hacks.
Then EasyCGI took over and within minutes stuff was going wrong, from the poor support, “Beta” Interface, costant down time, horrific migration, it has been a constant headache. On top of this suddenly my sites are being hacked. Obviously EasyCGI knew this was going on because when I logged in 2 weeks ago I was met by a “change your passwords” requirement…too late as 3 of my sites had been attacked through both the web and DB.
All in all horrific, I dream of the days when Web Strike was around, why they sold out to EasyCGI I guess we’ll never know, but when they did they sold out their customers and dumped us all in the crapper!
Avoid like the plague I doubt there is a worse host around.
Mr “Ray Akers” (boy this name sounds so much like one of those names that you chat with through LiveChat @ easycgi) you are saying that OUR scripts are crap. Well let me disappoint you. Easycgi has broken their own scripts, and paths starting from SQL, ASP, IP addresses, to the InstallCentral applications they offer, such as Wordpress. So, NO I do not think that our scripts are crappy. Additionally, there is nothing in HTML that should be broken no matter where you put it, but they manage to break even those pages.
I actually came here to see if there is any type of lawsuit against easycgi.
Our website has been broken more than not and I am in the process of moving it. If only I could. Yesterday finally they broke the ftp connection as well.
My story is long but here it goes in bullets.
– I have been with easycgi for about 7 years with no problems. I actually encouraged others I designed websites for to sign up. What a mistake!!
– I am also hosting with bizland, which as I found out after 7 years of hosting, is also part of easycgi. – I had portions of my site linked to bizland where I used Linux.
– Problems started to happen about 2 years ago when the site would go down for a couple of hours. I figured well I give the benefit of the doubt that they are working on something and it needs to be down.
– In 2009 I thought I was prepared for the server moves. It took them forever I was about a month off schedule. Then suddenly the website broke on both hosts. They changed the relative path to the domains without ever telling the customer, they changed something with ASP that made my forum and calendar dysfunctional.
– I could no longer access FTP through Dreamweaver and when I researched it and told them what option needs to be turned on on their servers they sent the same solution back to me, saying I need to do that!! I was running in circles.
– There was no way for me to reconnect the websites properly, so I decided to rebuild the site completely. I could no longer use Dreamveawer to synch so I had to get more manual with up and downloading.
– I registered a new domain name and hosting space (made the mistake of using them again) just so they can restore my forum and calendar to that space. That is when I noticed that they overwrote my forum and calendar with a 3 months old version. When I asked for the recent backup they overwrote it with the same version and told me that is the recent backup they took a couple of days ago.
– I rebuilt the site, it was down a couple of hours here and there, and it lasted until May 29th 2009. Then it went down for another couple of days. Technical support on the web was like talking to a drone giving me weird answers and questions.
– They ask for my name every time because “it is not on file” – why ask it then if you not going to put it on file.
– After I finally got the site back, I was thinking I should move now while I can. Low and behold, on June 18th 2009 the site went down. It is June 24 and the site is still down. I opened a ticket on the 19th and asked them to look into it. There was a huge storm there so I figured it should be fixed soon. Then they came back on the 20th that they are aware of the issue and working on resolving it. 23rd…still nothing. So finally I contacted them and ask what’s taking so long. They actually resolved the ticket on me!!
– Within about an hour they came back that they had to update the zone file in the DNS records. Why on earth was it changed to begin with???? They said it will take another 24-48 hours before it would come back but I do not think so because the site now says “PHP working” and I can no longer access my files through ftp.
So how do you want to start that class action suit and what do we need for it?
I found this entry in my despair. I’m currently hosting only 2 sites in Easy CGI’s VPS (DedicatedX2). The server has been down for more than 12 hours but they haven’t done anything. No replying to emails, no commenting to support ticket. This must be the worst-supported service I’ve met.
After the server is back (if it will), I’ll certainly backup my sites and move to another place.
Yes, all my sites have been hit with an iframe virus. this then extended to all my dedicated servers and has caused us massive havoc. I am still planning a class action lawsuit. Anyone interested in joining me on this?