Comments on: Running Debian 4 on 2Host.com http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/ Hosting Websites on Bare Minimum VPS/Dedicated Servers Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:32:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: badstue http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1474 badstue Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:19:44 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1474 Do any of you have problems with accessing ssh ? Im getting "Server unexpectedly closed network connection" from putty when i try to connect. And my profile at the support panel doesnt seem to work.. Do any of you have problems with accessing ssh ? Im getting “Server unexpectedly closed network connection” from putty when i try to connect.

And my profile at the support panel doesnt seem to work..

]]> By: noa http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1430 noa Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:27:52 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1430 my server is back as well but ticket hasn't been answered yet. I guess I'll go for a regular hosting with a dedicated IP for my ssl cert or for a 9 euros OVH RPS when I'll open my store if I don't find anything cheaper and reliable. I'll just keep this one as a playbox for now. It's a shame as their connection it's damn fast from France, and I suppose the speed is the same everywhere else in Europe. my server is back as well but ticket hasn’t been answered yet. I guess I’ll go for a regular hosting with a dedicated IP for my ssl cert or for a 9 euros OVH RPS when I’ll open my store if I don’t find anything cheaper and reliable.
I’ll just keep this one as a playbox for now. It’s a shame as their connection it’s damn fast from France, and I suppose the speed is the same everywhere else in Europe.

]]> By: Alberto http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1428 Alberto Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:33:00 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1428 Activated this morning and working - still, I don't think anyone can afford to have this service and have to wait this long to have it activated - its nearly been 2 weeks now! Anyway, I'm going to end this at the end of the billing period. Activated this morning and working – still, I don’t think anyone can afford to have this service and have to wait this long to have it activated – its nearly been 2 weeks now! Anyway, I’m going to end this at the end of the billing period.

]]> By: noa http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1424 noa Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:13:55 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1424 yes, I will. I just moved to a new appartment and I don't have an internet connection yet so waiting to see for now. I've paid more than needed for July too so I afford to wait. if nobody's home and people keep ordering server and then submit complains to Paypal because they didn't get anything, they, 2host, will/might have their account temp frozen at some point even if they're offering virtual goods regarding Paypal TOS. yes, I will. I just moved to a new appartment and I don’t have an internet connection yet so waiting to see for now. I’ve paid more than needed for July too so I afford to wait. if nobody’s home and people keep ordering server and then submit complains to Paypal because they didn’t get anything, they, 2host, will/might have their account temp frozen at some point even if they’re offering virtual goods regarding Paypal TOS.

]]> By: Alberto http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1422 Alberto Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:16:49 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1422 No, nothing - its like a server with an empty control room. I couldn't wait much longer - I was letting customers down - so last night I signed up with HostLatch - and the service is fantastic - do what I did - forget about the $5 (well, $10 for you) and pull out. They really are a waste of time. I hope you find a good host! Alberto. P.S. Sorry I cant help! No, nothing – its like a server with an empty control room. I couldn’t wait much longer – I was letting customers down – so last night I signed up with HostLatch – and the service is fantastic – do what I did – forget about the $5 (well, $10 for you) and pull out. They really are a waste of time. I hope you find a good host! Alberto. P.S. Sorry I cant help!

]]> By: noa http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1421 noa Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:10:01 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1421 Oh, I forgot to ask. Alberto, did they set your VPS up or answered to your ticket yet? Oh, I forgot to ask. Alberto, did they set your VPS up or answered to your ticket yet?

]]> By: noa http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1420 noa Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:08:32 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1420 Never had a problem either until this and didn't miss a payment either. heck, I even paid twice for July! I guess, my mistake was to select the automatic payment option that was given for Paypal when I ordered a VPS beginning of June. If they were around to answer tickets, they would have checked the first ticket I opened on the 22 and compared the paypal transaction number since the money has been sent to the same gmail account when I paid a second time for July. Though, on the new paypal invoice, there's a new mail -> paypal@.com... so not sure if they really are around but not answering or left for a vacation as Alberto mentioned, or what's going on at 2host. At least, it doesn't seem that they ran away since the HyperVM main server is back but HyperVM is running on a different port. tried to run bind9 on the VPS too and ran into a similar problem, so now I use the free DNS service from namecheap.com. editdns.net has a good and fast free dns service too Never had a problem either until this and didn’t miss a payment either. heck, I even paid twice for July! I guess, my mistake was to select the automatic payment option that was given for Paypal when I ordered a VPS beginning of June. If they were around to answer tickets, they would have checked the first ticket I opened on the 22 and compared the paypal transaction number since the money has been sent to the same gmail account when I paid a second time for July. Though, on the new paypal invoice, there’s a new mail -> paypal@.com… so not sure if they really are around but not answering or left for a vacation as Alberto mentioned, or what’s going on at 2host. At least, it doesn’t seem that they ran away since the HyperVM main server is back but HyperVM is running on a different port.

tried to run bind9 on the VPS too and ran into a similar problem, so now I use the free DNS service from namecheap.com. editdns.net has a good and fast free dns service too

]]> By: Alberto http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1419 Alberto Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:25:37 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1419 Yesterday I also signed up for HostLatch on their $5 deal. It's already been set-up and is fast. Fine, its only 256MB RAM - not 512MB, but it offers 5GB more space and set-up only takes 4h - not 9 days! I reccomend HostLatch to everyone who doesnt want to waste $5/£3.11. Cheers, Alberto. Yesterday I also signed up for HostLatch on their $5 deal. It’s already been set-up and is fast. Fine, its only 256MB RAM – not 512MB, but it offers 5GB more space and set-up only takes 4h – not 9 days! I reccomend HostLatch to everyone who doesnt want to waste $5/£3.11. Cheers, Alberto.

]]> By: LowEndAdmin http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1410 LowEndAdmin Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:02:53 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1410 It has been almost 2 months since I wrote this post and my 2HOST.com VPS is still running fine (pretty fast too for the $5/month I've paid). The only issue is patchy DNS server as I sometimes got DNS resolution error and have to revert to OpenDNS as my resolving DNS server... It has been almost 2 months since I wrote this post and my 2HOST.com VPS is still running fine (pretty fast too for the $5/month I’ve paid). The only issue is patchy DNS server as I sometimes got DNS resolution error and have to revert to OpenDNS as my resolving DNS server…

]]> By: Alberto http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1409 Alberto Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:04:22 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1409 Quote, 'Furthermore, after digging a bit, it seems that 2host doesn’t seem to reply to tickets or emails anymore since last week.' That can only be a good thing - if everyone from last week isn't being replyed to, then it could mean that they have a summer break - maybe in a week or so, all of our tickets will be answered at once - lets wait and see! Cheers, Alberto. Quote, ‘Furthermore, after digging a bit, it seems that 2host doesn’t seem to reply to tickets or emails anymore since last week.’ That can only be a good thing – if everyone from last week isn’t being replyed to, then it could mean that they have a summer break – maybe in a week or so, all of our tickets will be answered at once – lets wait and see! Cheers, Alberto.

]]> By: noa http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1408 noa Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:29:14 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1408 Hopefully not. On WHT, among a few people who ordered a $5 plan, there's somebody claiming that he ordered a regular $30 VPS from them last week hasn't been set up yet and that he didn't get any answer after submitting a ticket either. Furthermore, after digging a bit, it seems that 2host doesn't seem to reply to tickets or emails anymore since last week. I canceled that Paypal subscription since it was linked to another invoice number and the invoice they sent has a different number. I didn't get any invoice, or anything, from them when Paypal automatically pulled money from my account the 5th July to pay for that VPS. I didn't think much about it until their billing system had a license problem on July 21~22 and, strangely, right after it got fixed, I got that invoice saying that I owe them money for July. I paid for that claim, I'm not rich but I can spare 3euros/$5, submitted another ticket asking them to reactivate my server and I also included the PayPal transaction number from the 5th July as well the new one from last night. What puzzles me is that when my server went down, my VPS was still marked as active in the client interface and not as suspended. I didn't get a email saying that they closed my server because I didn't pay either. trying to think positively since they've always been nice and answered quickly to the couple of tickets I submitted; but I fear the worst. Hopefully not.

On WHT, among a few people who ordered a $5 plan, there’s somebody claiming that he ordered a regular $30 VPS from them last week hasn’t been set up yet and that he didn’t get any answer after submitting a ticket either. Furthermore, after digging a bit, it seems that 2host doesn’t seem to reply to tickets or emails anymore since last week.

I canceled that Paypal subscription since it was linked to another invoice number and the invoice they sent has a different number. I didn’t get any invoice, or anything, from them when Paypal automatically pulled money from my account the 5th July to pay for that VPS. I didn’t think much about it until their billing system had a license problem on July 21~22 and, strangely, right after it got fixed, I got that invoice saying that I owe them money for July.

I paid for that claim, I’m not rich but I can spare 3euros/$5, submitted another ticket asking them to reactivate my server and I also included the PayPal transaction number from the 5th July as well the new one from last night.

What puzzles me is that when my server went down, my VPS was still marked as active in the client interface and not as suspended. I didn’t get a email saying that they closed my server because I didn’t pay either.

trying to think positively since they’ve always been nice and answered quickly to the couple of tickets I submitted; but I fear the worst.

]]> By: LowEndAdmin http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1406 LowEndAdmin Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:43:53 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1406 Hmm. That would be a worry. $5 Xen VPS with 512MB is definitely loss leading so maybe 2Host is trying to boot people off? Hmm. That would be a worry. $5 Xen VPS with 512MB is definitely loss leading so maybe 2Host is trying to boot people off?

]]> By: noa http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1405 noa Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:53:00 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1405 I didn't get any answer either from them after submitting a ticket 5 days ago after receiving a email saying that I didn't pay for July... The ticket I opened had the Paypal reference showing that I had pay the money they're asking; but they, or the system, took my server down anyway. I removed the PayPal subscription and I encourage everyone to do the same. I'll pay month to month if somebody revive my server whenever I get a invoice now if they didn't run away already, but I doubt they did since I found HyperVM running on another port and not firewalled anymore. My IP got banned from their site after trying to connect to the HyperVM panel and the slave server last night. a couple of people on this site and Webhostingtalk seem to be in the same situation as yours Alberto. Nobody seem got word from them, or had their system set up, after ordering. I didn’t get any answer either from them after submitting a ticket 5 days ago after receiving a email saying that I didn’t pay for July… The ticket I opened had the Paypal reference showing that I had pay the money they’re asking; but they, or the system, took my server down anyway. I removed the PayPal subscription and I encourage everyone to do the same. I’ll pay month to month if somebody revive my server whenever I get a invoice now if they didn’t run away already, but I doubt they did since I found HyperVM running on another port and not firewalled anymore. My IP got banned from their site after trying to connect to the HyperVM panel and the slave server last night.

a couple of people on this site and Webhostingtalk seem to be in the same situation as yours Alberto. Nobody seem got word from them, or had their system set up, after ordering.

]]> By: Alberto http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1403 Alberto Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:14:09 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1403 I signed up to 2host 1 week ago. It still hasn't been set-up, and none of my support tickets have been replyed to. A big thanks to myself for choosing monthly! I was wondering what anyone thought the problem might be as I have received no form of contact and have already paid. Cheers. I signed up to 2host 1 week ago. It still hasn’t been set-up, and none of my support tickets have been replyed to. A big thanks to myself for choosing monthly! I was wondering what anyone thought the problem might be as I have received no form of contact and have already paid. Cheers.

]]> By: Gary http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1290 Gary Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:50:09 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1290 No problems for me receiving email from 2host.com which arrives okay in my googlemail account and is not mistakenly marked as spam. No problems for me receiving email from 2host.com which arrives okay in my googlemail account and is not mistakenly marked as spam.

]]> By: noa http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1236 noa Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:18:13 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1236 just wondering.. anyone is able to send mail that doesn't go to the spam folder to majors online webmails like hotmail, yahoo or gmail? Tried about everything possible, different smtp servers, SPF/Sender ID, mail signature and others but the mails still land in the spam folder. Even the 2host.com mails do land in the spam folder on my hotmail box when they send something.... kind of weird. just wondering.. anyone is able to send mail that doesn’t go to the spam folder to majors online webmails like hotmail, yahoo or gmail?

Tried about everything possible, different smtp servers, SPF/Sender ID, mail signature and others but the mails still land in the spam folder.

Even the 2host.com mails do land in the spam folder on my hotmail box when they send something…. kind of weird.

]]> By: kbroom http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1217 kbroom Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:55:08 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1217 Hmmm I signed up 3 days ago and my VPS is still not up. I entered tickets for support with HIGH priority and still have not heard back. I hope I didn't loose my money... Is anyone else on the same boat? Hmmm I signed up 3 days ago and my VPS is still not up. I entered tickets for support with HIGH priority and still have not heard back. I hope I didn’t loose my money… Is anyone else on the same boat?

]]> By: Sean http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1216 Sean Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:33:01 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1216 LowEndAdmin - credit goes to google translate (detect language). OK. just signed up. waiting for magic to happen. Guess XEN provisioning is much slower in this case. thanks for the site with the info I am looking for. LowEndAdmin – credit goes to google translate (detect language). OK. just signed up. waiting for magic to happen. Guess XEN provisioning is much slower in this case. thanks for the site with the info I am looking for.

]]> By: LowEndAdmin http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1215 LowEndAdmin Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:19:41 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1215 @LP -- Debian 5 is okay -- just not Debian 4. However you should still have console access (although you might need to email support to know about your console's IP address). @Sean -- yes me too. Except I have no idea that it was Dutch :) @LP — Debian 5 is okay — just not Debian 4. However you should still have console access (although you might need to email support to know about your console’s IP address).

@Sean — yes me too. Except I have no idea that it was Dutch :)

]]> By: Sean http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1214 Sean Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:52:02 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/running-debian-4-on-2hostcom/#comment-1214 WTF, the invoice page send me to a paypal page in Dutch! DOes this happen to everyone? WTF, the invoice page send me to a paypal page in Dutch!

DOes this happen to everyone?

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