Hosting from Hell -
Whoops, I just changed servers and (you might have seen the site was down for 9 days; so keep well away from MidPhase, the “Hosting from Hell”) all the links have quit. Hopefully fixed soon………..
O-Kay - We’re finally fully operational again and totally cured of dealing with Mid-Phase.
- Too Slow
Any time you go near one of their control panels you better be ready to wait - the servers are so slow that quite often the page times out before you get the next link to work. Like log in and click “Domains” then wait, wait, and wait again……. ( and their best trick, you go and look up some info to enter, and when you come back the page cookie has timed out, and you have to start all over again….)
- No Help
So you have a problem and use the e-mail contact to the help desk, and they take forever to reply, I’m in the southern hemisphere and the response is not usually till the next day. The “Live Chat” is worse, took 2 days just to get a connection, and then an hour and a half to not get my problem solved. I finally rang the “Toll Free” number (starting at; “You are caller number 37, and the delay will be about 45 minutes”), and got it all sorted 8 hours later after a total of 9 days delay - 9 days of no website!
- Incompetent Systems.
I asked for a number to transfer the domain to another ISP, and they sent a dud number, (3 days delay), then when the new number worked at the new ISP, they didn’t release it for a further 6 days - Unbelievable! And of course the Help Desk can’t (or won’t) actually DO anything about it because, “that is dealt with by another department!”
- Pathetic Service
You can’t get at the DNS record to change the info, you have to send an e-mail and ask. There are no AW Stats available, so you have to get third party stats to see what’s going on. Everything else you might want to have is an extra fee.
- The Best way to Monetize Your Site of course is to keep well away from these cowboys who will cost you most of your sanity, and all of your AdSense and affiliate income while they horse about.
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I got to admit I wondered about these guys ’cause when you look at their prices, you aren’t likely to be getting much value
it looks like you’re getting an error with your live comment preview (aWP_livepreview), it’s having trouble including a script and that’s tripping up commentluv.
does the live comment preview work when commentluv is deactivated?
I have turned it off to see, but no different, I am now trying different settings in the AjaxedWordPress panel.
Tried every permutation I could think of then fell back on the tried old remedy - reinstall the flamin’ program, and viola - it works.
now that your ajax preview comment is turned off, your comment fields have changed their id names!
they are now
comment form: #commentform
name: ID author
url: ID url
comment: ID comment
change back to these and commentluv will have some luv to give
Got to leave it now and catch some sleep….
This is a test comment
Hi Andy - Finally worked out the conflict in the Preview settings. I have set the parameters to match the form - EG #awpsubmit_commentform_19, but still no CommentLuv arriving
looks like it got the last post and displayed the pulldown box below.
you are using version 10 of the beta here, the latest version 13 will make things a little better
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just to let you know that commentluv has been updated to 2.1.5 and should resolve any issues reported.
still time to install and get ready for the beta tester contest!
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I want to change my hosting company and was considering MidPhase as an option but after your post they are out..
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Sorry to hear about your hosting from hell experience, however I can relate. I went through 2 hosating companies that had absolutely horrible service. I’m not going to mention any names (Hostnine, startlogic) I won’t go into the specifics of the problem excpet that one of the companies almost erroneously deleted my accounts. I have been very happy with hostgator. Their support has been excellent. Anyhow glad your back up and running now.
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