Hello everyone, and here is my story about Giga-International.
First I was treated nice, they replied to my emails they did what they could to satisfy me, but then after a few months, they started to reply with LONG intervals (24 hours or even more, sometimes you have to send it TWICE) ..
This is not what I interpret as 24-HOUR SUPPORT ..
Also ..
When we actually DID have problems and really needed them, the first thing I did was to write them, they then told that the software RAID1 (Which we paid 80€ for in extras) was broken, aka. one disk was broken.
Fine I said, then it should still be running, right? .. No .. One of their incompetent employees pulled out the disk, no dismounting or waiting for my permission, they BROKE the MBR, they BROKE alot of data on the disk, and we were dead with 1 week of downtime so I decided to close the server and find somewhere else.
The site had 10.000 users, 6.000 online at most of times visiting every 30 minutes.
I asked for the money back for the RAID1 and the months subscription, but they refused and said that I could pay to their PayPal for support because they did not want to spend more time with me ..
And this is where I go .. Why the heck did you start a hosting company if you cannot even maintain your own customers? What is wrong with RAID1, why does it have to be so hard for you to replace a disk, and why don't you ask for your customers permission?
After long emails with days in interval of answers they put up the system to a rescue system, I was able to transfer the files via SCP and then I am off, and glad that I am not a customer at Giga-International and never will be again !
This was the PayPal threat they sent me:
Dear Mr,
our support team has invisted hours and hours for you during the last days -
on a free basis - to make your server work again.
It is your responsibility to make backups of your data, this is also appointed
in our general terms and conditions under § 1:
(7) The responsibility for backups of his data lies with the customer, not the
provider.
Thus, all we HAD TO do was to replace the broken harddrive with a new one,
rebuild your RAID1 (or reinstall a new system) and that's it - any broken /
lost / destroyed data then is your responsibility. We're not in charge of
repairing YOUR system, YOUR files and YOUR data. You can pay us for this or
you have to do it on your own.
Though it wasn't our duty we supported you with this problem and tried to help
you as good as we can.
However, what we get from you as a "Thank you" is invectiveness and slander.
We certainly understand that you're angry because your server hasn't been
available for a long time.
But: We're not responsible for this problem, we have done everything what we
had to do and much more than that - and we're not willing to spend more time
on this problem which hasn't been caused by us, just to be attacked by you
again and again. This is a behaviour which isn't tolerated by us.
We're sure you will be able to fix this problem using your knowledge about
servers and Linux systems.
If you need our help again, just send 25 Euros per 15 minutes support time to
our paypal-account
[email protected] and we will immediately work
on your system and data again.
We will not refund you any money.
Thanks for your understanding.
Best regards,
Michael Bölke
Geschäftsführung / executive board
Giga-Hosting.biz GbR
Ges. Michael Bölke & Michael Herpich
Aschauer Straße 32a
81549 München
http://www.Giga-Hosting.biz (http://redirect.wooptydoo.com/?r=http://www.Giga-Hosting.biz)
E-mail:
[email protected]
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 212 683 72
Fax: +49 (0) 89 216 658 62
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The site I was administrator at was primo-nordica.net and was closed immediately after stopping the subscription.. The reason why is because we know that peers start leaving sites after one week at maximum, so we decided to close it instead.