was a php file from a hack provided here for an ai bot. i didnt realize it ran that many until i seen my account went down....
No, the other site we had a problem a year and a half ago for a couple months, but time heals the wounds, and i got over it. We should have known better. The site has continued to go down all day today.
Im going to start looking into a new company tonight at work. So many small companies and im just starting to think I should pay far more and go with a good reputable company (whoever that might be) instead of these $10/month ones.


I am on hold with ipowerweb right now. I logged onto my FTP and all my information is gone. I have over 650 vbulletin database error emails.
*sigh* Least i got some sleep this afternoon.

Learn and move on. :) There are plenty of good hosts out there.

I manage 5 websites and I just moved the two most active away from iPowerWeb, and have advised the owners of a 3rd to do so.
The customer service was a joke - auto response based on keywords. I constantly had to reply with something to the effect of: OK, now read my e-mail.

The problem I had was with the shared servers. They host about 900 domains/server. One of those domains spams, and the entire server is banned by just about every ISP. All "welcome to the forum", "happy birthday", "You've got a new Private Message", etc. e-mails bounced back. I had more rejected e-mails than real e-mails!
You are supposed to report those to abuse@ipowerweb.com. At one point even that was rejecting my e-mails! I know they started ignoring me when I sent a report from one of the other domains I manage and they responded right away, when I got no response on the two busiest!

I moved to http://siteshostedby.info/ . Yes, more expensive, but much faster, personal customer service, an no blocked e-mails!

I feel your pain.

link to thread?

Yea cause I am going to be installing a bot like that I DO NOT want to install that one :p.



~Curt

I remember installing that bot for a client (I think it's just the vB 3.0.x Talker Bot or something like that) - The number of queries depends on the number of options you select to install (Different responses for different subjects.) If you select all of them though it will perform roughly 300,000 queries and take about 15-20 minutes to complete. I remember running it for my client and shortly after she got an email from her host requesting her not to execute a batch of that many queries ever again :nervous:

I have this installed at s3squad.com and the 300,000 Queries did nothing to my website or our server.

Did it, the server didn't skip a beat (Then again we';re hosted on QUAD Xeon Servers).

TSR..>Check your PM.

Which hosting package do you use, Amy? I'm just now in the process of moving to http://www.splicehost.com

- Sid

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=60329&highlight=BOT+TALKER" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...ght=BOT+TALKER</a>

It's the talker bot that i was trying to install. I thought it would be entertaining. :nervous:

I need to take a break from talking about ipower for atleast a few more days or i might have a stroke.

TSR ... send your members a message letting them know the site will be erratic for a while and you'll let them know once it's resolved. Then, get a dog and take a walk in the park ... buy some ice cream ... throw a frisbee around ... anything.

Maybe a massage? Take a few hundred deep breaths?

Then jump back in long enough to move the whole thing to another host.

Don't give up hope, these things do mean something to us (and our members).. but don't stress. It simply isn't worth it.

Good luck. And let us know what happens.