I agree. Thumbs up to servage. Inexpensive and top-notch.

Well, they’ve been having over 20 hours of downtime the last week. In fact, they’re still down right now.

If you are using mysql for database don’t use servage. I have transfered to them just this October and they are having to many problems like:

cannot connect to database etc. page not found.

There tech support replies a little quick but cannot give a good opinion to address your concern.

And usually the problem just go round and round. I spent 4 days about an issue that till the end they cannot resolved. So in the end i have to go back to my old hosting.

Hi

Nice to hear that you don’t have problems with SERVAGE while we are having tons of them. You are right, specs and the whole system is really nice and organised but their support is the worst we ever had and RUBY ON RAILS is not at all working on SERVAGE HOSTING I guess as since 2 weeks we are communication with the support of SERVAGE to install REDMINE and TYPO and other’s like TRAC … and NONE RoR Application is working until now.
You don’t have SSH Access therefore you need the SUPPORT to assist you while installing the RoR Application. You can read all about SERVAGE HOSTING in our BLOG http://apapococ.blogspot.com/

Have you got meanwhile RoR Applications running on SERVAGE and if yes HOW did you accomplish this? Thanks for answering and a happy new year.

Do not use Servage. Wish I had read these comments before I signed up with them. Had nothing but problems with my mail servers, no emails getting through to hotmail or yahoo whether sent standard or through php.
Been continuously onto their support since the first day I signed up 7 days ago and now I know why they kept me hanging on…… they only refund within 5 days of sign up. Now my refund has been refused and they’ve kept an upfront payment for 14 months hosting!!!
Servage has not only left me out of pocket but with a list of cheesed off customers aswell. DO NOT USE SERVAGE

it’s great hosting company, support, money, databases and all.. just never had problems with them seriously.

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I’ve been with Servage.net for 3 months, as of February 2008. My sites have been innaccessible 5 times during that period. Entire sites were “unable to be found on the server. SITES, not files.

Responses to support tickets say, “We’re aware of the problem. Please be patient.”

Once I couldn’t access any sites for over 8 hours.

Whenever I have asked them what caused the problem, I get no response.

There are also frequent database connection problems.

Another negative is their 5-day money back guarantee. There is no pro-rating. Once you sign up with them, you’re stuck – unless you get smart and decide to change hosts.

I am changing hosts.

Bottom line. Servage is a webmaster’s nightmare.

After 2 years i leaved servage.

Mysql server is going down every 10 mins.
Php script (ie. oscommerce , wikimedia, phpstats ) are very very very slow!!!

Also, in the last month, some one has cracked server. I found all my index defaced. After a little check, i found other site (not mine) on my same node, with the same defacement. I have report this problem by email and support. One day later, again the same attack, all my index are changed. I REPEAT IS NOT A PROBLEM ABOUT ONLY MY ACCOUNT, BUT ALSO OTHER ACCOUNT ON THE SAME SERVER!!

One week after this, a my friend on other servage server, has found a similar defacement (iframe with an activex) and it’s site is only in pure html.

I’m sure 100% servage has big security problems!!!

I have asked to the support many many many times informations about this ‘hack’ but no one has give to me a little and easy answer!! I asked if some my personal information was stolen, but NO ANSWER!

I warning every one with an account on server to check its page for possibile shell or hidden defacement (index.php, index.htm, index.html, login.php, auth.php and others )

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Okay. To sum up what I am about to say about Servage.net; Do Not Purchase Anything From Servage.Net!!!

Here are my reasons

Pros

- 510gb space 5000tb bandwith woow!
nothing else!

Cons

- Bandwith And Storage Space Lie -

- you will Not get 510gb space and 5000tb bandwith. It Is a Lie. Your account will be suspended when you reach around 20gb bandwith, WItHOUT Any NotICE!
- Once your account is suspended, removal Will take about 4 days.
- and once they remove the suspension on your account you Will still have problems. Like on my site, I had a huge problem with the images. Html images were not loading fully on page load. you needed to refresh the page multiple times to get the entire page view correctly.

so don’t get fooled by their overselling policy 5000tb bandwith, It Is Not True.

- DoMAIN Name -

- you won’t get a yourdomain.com for Ftp or for email server, it will always be servage.net

- Incompetent Idiots At Ticket Support System -

- First of all you won’t get a straight answer to your question at the first time you ask a question. I am repeating again, you Never get a satisfying answer at first, you have to ask in a different way!!! sometimes it takes me around 10 question before get an answer to my actual question.

- DAtABASE -

- At least once a Day you will get mysql database connection error! at least once a day I am REPEAtING. Now tell me how can you manage a e-commerce-like site on a server like this. imaging your client will have a mysql connection error when they click on the purchase button. Chaos!!!

- my account sites uptime-

- Your sites will be inaccessible at least 5-10 times a week, and you can’t do anything about it. only thing you will get from ticketing system will be moronic answers.
you will lose customers,
you will look ridicule to your clients.

- I only purchased for 14 months, but they kept on giving me free months, because i complained a lot. so my account will be active 3 more months. but i don’t care even if they give me 2 years for free, i am going elsewhere once it is finished!

I can keep on going here. but anyway hope you guys get the point.

No No!
Do Yourself A Favor Do Not Choose Servage
No No! “

Well, their support system is awesome they reply fast enough when your question is general and not too technical or related to a real issue!

I have been with them for a few months and I am totally unsatisfied since my site has been unaccessible / down about 8 times or so. The down time is short but still I DON’T LIKE IT NEITHER DO VISITORS. Sometimes I get 404 my site URL is not hosted on this server etc of crap. And when I ask about it they say “We are aware of your problem, system administrator is on it” then I know they BS all the time and my problem appears again and again.

I got many MYSQL problems too like connection lost and supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource.

Although I liked servage pretty much at the begging, now I am starting to regret at I purchased their service and I am seriously thinking about changing host if they don’t fix this crap in the next few days…

my site http://www.neeshu.com is hosted on servage right now I am getting

Could not connect to the database server

error damn problem with servage i thought i could get some great uptime during high traffic period

I am customer of servage since three years.

You couldnot get good availability the whole time, but last couple months I got more and more 404 error on all domains.

But not only this:
end of May 2008 I got a message from Servage, that I have to change the passwords for all FTP accounts. I did this, but many sites were already defaced through a .htaccess file. I guess the passwords were stolen from the database of servage, because I found the .htaccess files only in the folders, which were provided through FTP.

Three weeks later I got a bill for my credit card, where someone bought something in New York for 1380 Dollar on 24th May. I guess that not only FTP passwords, but the credit data too were stolen.

So don’t let servage store your credit card data, because servage is not secure enough.

I have just transferred over 50 websites away from these people. Theit technical support is a joke, their sql servers keep timing out, they lose files constantly, they are very prone to hacking and I have had my credit card details stolen too. Whilst I can’t prove it was servage I have only provided these details to two other companies so it is highly likely.

AVOID THESE PEOPLE AT ALL COSTS. PAY A LITTLE EXTRA AND GET A STABLE, DECENT WEBHOST WITH TECHNICAL SUPPORT THAT IS NOT A JOKE. MY CUSTOMERS WERE REALLY ANNOYED WITH SERVAGE AND I ALMOST LOST SOME OF THEM BECAUSE OF THE POOR CONFIGURATION OF THE SERVAGE CLUSTERS AND THE NON-EXISTANT TECHNICAL SUPPORT.

Pros: Cheap, huge space
Cons: Everything else

If you have more than one website hosted there, or multiple domains/subdomains, if only one of them reach daily transfer limit, your full account with all domains will get blocked for full 24 hrs without possibility to enable it within “punish” time.
It’s not possible to setup different bandwith or capacity quota per domain, mail or ftp account. Their support is arrogant, they lie, and they often offer only empty phrases for answer. If you can reach em.
For last 5 days I cant login to my account, passwords are somehow changed and their password resetting system is broken. I cant fill ticket because I cannot login.
If I use my default mail for contact I got automated reply that my mail is already in their database so that I rather fill online ticket.
I cant call them because they don’t have (LOL) telephone number.
Their security is almost non existent. People reporting hacked sites non stop, slow databases, slow loading, bad support all around.
If you need site to brag with storage capacity use Servage, otherwise avoid like plague.

Servage will let you down when you need it most, like what happened to me today: I cannot upload my work: 600mb big interactive CD for my client because I cant log into my account or FTP, and that’s main reason why I paid for servage host.

Several months ago I made and deployed one flash game for my online gaming community (EVE online) into servage.
I suffered slash dot effect, bandwith got sucked and they blocked it for 24 hrs.
I even offered them money for extra bandwith, but they just said: not possible.
That flash game was made special for big patch day for that game, which lasted 24 hrs and it went offline 4 hrs after deployment. So my several days of work was almost wasted.

They advertise huge monthly bandwith.

But info about daily limit is well buried in their ToS.

Tf you try to fill full advertised space, your account will get blocked for some puny reason: cpu usage, max hits achieved, etc.

To choose servage or not?
Your decision, but I’m not renewing my subscription

MAJOR ISSUES!
Sites get hacked (thousands of them – just google “servage hacked) yet support blames customer and does not fix their poor security!
Huge down time
Slow servers
Poor support

Sites hacked all the time
Support ignores questions
support also skim reads at best
down time
slow servers
Read my story, its a long one, but it needs to be and then never use servage.
http://blog.lottomad.info/ab-personal-updates/servagenet-hosting-stay-away

Don’t go near servage if you are hosting sites for your customers, in fact do not go near them full stop. You will be disappointed and like I did probably lose some or all of your customers, without recompense.

My sites were all hacked as per others comments above, when I asked them why someone from Poland was accessing my administration account I got no response.

They are quite simply rubbish, I would never use/trust them again.

I would advise anyone looking for a webhosting provider to make sure they do business with a company which at the very least has a REAL telephone number and can be contacted and to bear in mind,

when it looks too good to be true, thats because it is and there are no exceptions

Hacked, defaced, slow, MySQl sucks need i go on! Very poor. Pay the extra and get a better host.

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Thanks.

Ya just wait until you have a problem with something that is a fault at their end, and see how good and “speedy” their support is. They ignore you for days and sometimes weeks.