Hi Folks I've hosted several of my important sites at 3ix.com (3ix.org). Yesterday my account was terminated without warning, due (as 3ix support says) to "spamming". I've not send any spam message from their server (as well as not sending a spam at all), so was really upset and ask 3ix.com to restore my account. Imagine my surprise when they declined to restored it in rude words and told me that there is even NO way to send me backup of site's database, at least. Most likely, my sites took "too much" of their resources (only ~100 times less then stated in their advertisement). I did not make site backup, so this mistake cost me around US 3000$ and 2 weeks of hard working time. Thanks 3ix.com! That’s why please learn on my mistake, using this advice: DO NOT be lazy and BACKUP all your sites. And for God's sake DO NOT USE 3ix.org (3ix.com) as your hoster. Regards, Vladimir
Very sorry this happened to you. I also had the samething happen to me with fatnetwork.com cost me $550 as I had custom work done to my scripts to make my sites unique. Lesson learned now all my stuff is on a dedicated box and I do backups weekly.
thats from there acceptable use policy, who doesn't receive spam ? those bots just scan your whois information and start bombing your email address until they find some one. so your in violation for just signing up and hosting email with them. how are you developing your scripts ? live on the server ? do everything locally first and make backups on one or more servers.
Hi again, Folks 3ix just restored my account completely and make their apologies along with the promise to not to terminate accounts without warning in future (it seems that I and 3IX both took a lesson). Actually this was my fault, because that was my competitor who initiated real spamming attack on 3ix server using my site as a faked source. From my side I make my apologies to 3IX in public since they are suffered from this attack much as well. Hope to stay a happy 3ix client in future since overall their service is very stable. Best Regards, Vladimir
It's a good point, though. Everyone should get into a habit of doing regular backups of their website. ...because, in the end you just never know