Horrific 3ix Experience
Posted by adminMay 13
A friend of mine, a fellow sysad, hosted her blog to 3ix.org for some time until this horrific experience.
She quotes:
I have been a subscriber of 3ix for over six months before I transferred pinoytux.com to 3ix hosting, which worked pretty much well. I decided that free hosting no longer works for my blog so I ordered an upgrade of my account amounting to $28.10. It was OK at first. I mean I can’t transfer my database to their MySQL server but the support was kind enough to upload the dump file for me. Then hell started to break loose.
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i have been sending and exchanging emails from their tech support too since january 2008, asking them why i cannot browse their website from my current geo location. what they advised me is that my isp is blocking their website, which was really wrong as the error was definitely related to their htaccess list file - blocking IP block networks coming from my current geo location. i confirmed that my provider was not blocking any websites too.
stay away with sloppy support, free ones are good only for limited resources, you get what you ask for, cheap, and limited resources .
Thanks for putting up my post about 3ix.org. Until now, they have not responded to my emails. I also came across this forum thread and I am not only one scammed by 3ix.org.
I hope that my experience will serve as a warning to fellow bloggers and webmasters.