webhosting.NET MAJOR data loss and downtime

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Posted by zap87, 03-20-2004, 07:41 PM
I just started hosting with webhosting.NET, an hsphere provider. Then this... webhosting.NET is the "large webhosting company" referenced by "beady" in this post: webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=250047 In a nutshell, all Windows servers at webhosting.NET are down and have been down for at least 12 hours! Downtime will probably continue for a number of DAYS. And webhosting.NET might not ever recover, because they are suffering a MAJOR data loss affecting all windows servers. This includes windows content servers, windows backup servers and all MS SQL Servers. webhosting.NET says that they are working on the problem, but they will be very lucky to recover the data. Since their backups are also corrupt, then they are in big, big trouble. They blame a BlackICE vuln and the witty worm, but I blame webhosting.NET. The BlackICE patch has been available for two days but webhosting.NET did not install. Besides that, why is a "large webhosting company" using a $20 software firewall to "protect computers" anyway? BlackIce is for home/personal users. This is beyond belief. If you want to be a real webhosting company then protect your *network* with a hardware firewall and IDS! webhosting.NET has about 5 windows servers, some linux servers and they also run WholesaleColo.Com. Do not even both visiting their website. You will not see any network status indicator on their website, because they do not operate a forum and are very secretive about their network. Last edited by zap87; 03-20-2004 at 07:45 PM.
Posted by zap87, 03-21-2004, 06:58 AM
webhosting.NET downtime continues for all windows servers. 24 hours and counting.