I Am Blogging

First of all, let me say that my current host is DreamHost & they don’t use cPanelX. And from my personal experience I know if you want to setup your website in their web panel from a cPanel exported dump file, it may become a little bit tiresome. Especially, if you are a newbie, then you may face some trouble putting the files in proper place in the server with correct structure. Besides, you have to create a new MySQL database & import your existing database there. And that may require some phpMyAdmin knowledge.

But the good thing is that you don’t have to worry about these things from now on. DreamHost have added new cPanel import feature to web panel. I received their newsletter yesterday. Now you can just give your cPanel login information & they will import the site from existing hosting company & set it up in your DreamHost web panel. You don’t have to do anything except updating your domain’s nameserver info. And if you don’t want to supply your cPanel login info, you can just export the zipped file from cPanel & DreamHost will take care of setting it up for you.

By the way, as a current customer I am happy with DreamHost. They have pretty good uptime. Seldom their server goes down. Only problem is that when it goes down, they take a lot of time to recover it. But at least we can see the status update from DreamHost status blog.

Oh! Long time since I have posted & that’s not because I was busy. It’s because F…ing host FusedHosting came out to be a scammer. The old owners sold the hosting company without any prior notification & the new owners took the liberty of toying with all the customers. The server went down & stayed like that for several weeks. They didn’t notify before. You couldn’t contact them as they won’t reply to support mails. They even took out the CAPTCHA image so that you couldn’t send them mail from your client area. Some guys found out the phone number of the owner from some other place but nobody took it. Even their own site was down for several days!

Now when they put it back, we couldn’t login to the cPanel! And that means we couldn’t get the backup. I have sent more than several mails without any reply. Then somebody replied:

Anirban,

We apologize for not responding to your emails, this is first email we have seen from you in a long time. We have checked your site and it is working for us just fine. Please double check your domain name again, and also your temp url with us at http://96.31.78.90/~anirbanr
We would love for you to stick around, please let us know if there is anything else we can do.

Also if you still require a backup, simply email us in return at support@fusedhosting.net

Thank You

They could see a site that was offline! They have a vision after all! And they apologized for the emails that they didn’t receive! How gentle!

The support ticket system was made available to the customers after some days. And when I asked for a backup, it got closed automatically without any reply. When I reopened,  somebody replied that they were generating backup & would send me. No luck! I again mailed them few times. Then I got an email that my backup was ready in cPanel. But as I couldn’t login to cPanel, I couldn’t get it! By the way, several days had passed already to get that response!

I was trying to figure out how to get a backup & get free from these big time jokers. After several failed attempts, I got this to work. They have sifted the server to new i.p address. I couldn’t login to the cPanel of old ip address too. But then I again tried to login to the old one with port 2082, and entered my username in Password Reset field. I was able to login to the cPanel of the deserted server with the new password that was sent to my email. I took a backup, and sifted my site to DreamHost. It was a bit of struggle as DreamHost doesn’t support cPanel. But I have succeeded after all! And now quite relieved!

The moto: Always keep backup! And more importantly never ever go for FusedHosting!

All the existing customers like me have suffered. As I am writing now, I have read a few customers have been able to login to cPanel recently. But if you still can’t, use http://oldipnumber:2082 (not http://oldipnumber/cpanel). My site was hosted on 67.228.116.181 (so the url address was http://67.228.116.181:2082).

Good luck!

I have lost my rankings, traffic in these few weeks. But I am at least happy that I put it back with all the content.

Images in Reply to Tom’s Comment(click to enlarge):

My email screenshot:

Here is my support ticket screenshot:

Do it quickly. DreamHost is offering 1000 Geocities members two years of free hosting with free domain name registration. All you have to do is to add this below string to any of your Geocities page

“I’m off to DreamHost!”

Then sign up for paid hosting for 2 years. In the “Promotional Code” box enter the url of the GeoCities page having the phrase. You will get hosting worth $214.80 for free. Don’t forget to register a new TLD for yourself.

If you like to know more, read it in DreamHost’s blog. But you are running out of time!

HyperWebEnable has become quite popular in recent times. It is quite obvious though. After all, it is hard to resist the temptation of free domain & free hosting at the same time. But take a note of these few points that I am about to mention.

Free domain & hosting service is not a easy thing to find out. I am just giving you an example. A few years back there was a website ihavefree.com offering both free domain & free hosting. But the service is there no more. Nothing to be surprised of. It’s hard to make profit that way & without profit you will be out of business pretty soon. That’s why I don’t have faith on this kind of service. They give too much away for free. But I have to admit that HyperWebEnable is still going strong.

Now come to the point of free domain. They will register the domain you requested & let you use that. But is the domain really yours? No, it isn’t. What does that mean? They will use their own contacts to register it. Practically they own them. And you are stuck with them. You can’t change DNS or don’t have necessary info to transfer it. You are building & promoting a site for someone else. Here you can find a recent interview with the CEO of HyperWebEnable. And this is what he has to say about domain registration:

18. Under Whose name will the domain be registered?

The domain will be registered under HyperWebEnable.

How does it feel? I have nothing against HyperWebEnable. It’s not possible to be so generous. The best thing you can do & you should do is to register your domain independantly & then use only the free hosting from HyperWebEnable if you wish.