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apinkingston
08-20-2006, 11:47 AM
PCG Hosting (pcghosting.com), out of Denver, has been dead for more than 24 hours (as of Sunday 8/20/06, 9:00 a.m. EST):mad:

Along with my three websites. I have no websites, no e-mail, no phone support, nothing!

How long should I wait before I switch webhosting? I've been with them for more than 5 years and have otherwise found them to be reliable.

Is there a fire in Denver or something?

Is it common for website hosting companies to simply go out of business and not tell anyone? I'm beginning to panic.

Please help. And, thank you,

Arlene Puentes
apuentes@ureach.com (temporarily because my regular e-mail is dead along with my websites! )

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08-20-2006, 12:29 PM
Hi Arlene,

I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s common for hosting companies to just appear and then go out of business, but there have been occasions where the owner has intended to make a quick profit and leave. If you have been with your current host for a while I would consider giving them some extra time to get back online, 48hrs is usually more than enough, even then, if it was planned for this kind of duration alternative contacted methods should have been provided.

If after 48 hours you are still unable to get online and or contact their support then consider looking for a new provider, you should find plenty in the offers section of HostSearch.com

Best of luck,

apinkingston
08-20-2006, 03:13 PM
Thank you for your feedback.

48 hours! That's a long time when you're business counts on your websites and e-mail addresses working!

This has been so frustrating. And surprising! Imagine a webhosting company making all that investment in equipment, in building a business, in goodwill, and to just disappear overnight!

Or could something have happen to their equipment that would make this a forgivable though unfortunate occurrence?

And pcghosting.com has been around for a while. I wonder how many other websites they had? How many other businesses are offline?

Arlene

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08-20-2006, 03:34 PM
Yes this would be very frustrating for any of their clients, and generally if its planned maintenance then they usually have backup contact methods in place for their existing clients.

I would consider leaving it for 48 hours, any longer and I would start looking for a new provider.

I hope you do manage to resolve the situation, it does seem very odd, hardware replacements should never take this long, and power failure should be backed up using standard UPS tools.

Best of luck,

apinkingston
08-20-2006, 04:40 PM
August 20, 2006 4:30 PM EST,

Thank you, Tahir Ahmed.
They're back up. No explaination.

I looked into your company, NetspaceOnline.net.

Is there any disadvantage to website hosting outside of one's country?

You're in the UK?

Arlene Puentes
www.octoberhome.com

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08-20-2006, 06:11 PM
Hi Arlene,

Yup, I assumed that they may be back online within 24-48 hours, it may have been a DNS issue, or hardware, but hardware related issues should not take as long as most host's have backup parts at hand within the data centre.

The only problem one may encounter choosing a host from another country is SEO issues. Search engine optimisation relies heavily on the countries IP address to detect the origin of the host and then provide relevant search results. As we are a UK company, most of our UK hosts wanting to specialise in UK only search engine results would need to choose a UK hosted server to ensure the IP address detected by search engines is UK based for relevant UK only results.

Our company is located in the UK, but our servers are US based. We can provide clients with UK servers upon request, but these will most likely be dedicated only at this time.

Other than that, if you have no specific need to have search engine results for your country of origin / business then there are no other real disadvantages I can think of.

If you have found a reliable hosting provider, the occasional down time should not be too much of an issue, because wanting to move can be a big task, its usually very difficult to find a provider you can trust, is reliable and is able to offer the services you require. As a result, I always recommend clients only to consider moving if it is a real necessity.

Hope you get in touch with your host and obtain an explanation for the unexplained down time :)

VertuHost
08-22-2006, 12:54 AM
It depends on your registrar actually. You should change your DNS immediately and it can take between 1 hour and 3 days for full propogation, depending on registrar, update times, and location.

Chris

PGHostingUK
08-25-2006, 02:43 PM
48 hours is way too long to wait!

Especially if you have had no warning of the outage!

Of course it is possible that they were not prepared for the outage themselves and all of the customer records were held on an affected server and they could not get to them!

Martie
08-26-2006, 05:22 PM
Arlene,
Although this is 6 days later...I hope they gave an explanation.
Good luck to you.

mghomeishy2010
08-27-2006, 01:46 AM
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