crushed-core

Well after about 6 hours (that I’m aware of) downtime we’re back online. I set-up a temporary home at Wordpress.com. You can view it here. I also used some of that time to rant:

“Well, I’ve setup my website/blog temporarily here at Wordpress.com. It seems that Spoonohost is at the end of it’s useful life. Downtime after downtime, very little support or communication. As this email shows, the owners don’t particularly care;

Hello to all of you Spoono Forums members, this is your retired admin Spooky. Personally, I haven’t been to the forums, or and Spoono network site in some time after I resigned from my administration position.

Although, it goes to show you even after my resignation they still have yet to take me off of the administration list. Well, I have known that spambots have been attacking the forums for some time and I am now sick of it. I rather save whats left of Spoono, especially since Spoono Host is bringing in a little extra cash for some college students.

So, today I have closed the Spoono Forums until Brian and/or Akash come to an agreement or understanding that the community needs a little help and tender-loving-care. I am aware that some of the users are Spoono Host customers, and to further provide support to you guys, please contact support either through the Live Chat feature on the main page of SpoonoHost.com , or through the provided e-mails.

Thanks again, and I wish everyone the best.

Best Regards,
Ryan Barr
“Spooky”

Well, Spoonohost.com, Spoono.com and the forums are down. The frontpage of Spoonohost was hacked and defaced a while back. The worst webhosting service ever? Various webhosting ratings sites claim Spoonohost has a 99.9% uptime. Don’t believe that, that’s only for their frontpage, as many people on different servers (mango, cherry) have experienced long periods of downtime. I’ve had countless outtages. In fact I just signed up for SiteUpTime.com. You can view the statistics for crushed-core at spoonohost.com here.

To put the icing on the cake? People had their credit card details comprimised as a result of various short-comings with their secure payment system. In short (if they ever come back online) do not buy any hosting from Spoonohost.com.

So, once I’ve saved up some money (it’s been an expensive week, dual quad-cores cost a lot) I’ll look to move hosts. Any ideas/recommendations? I’m thinking Media Temple, possibly overkill and a bit expensive, but I’ll have room to grow.”