Comments on: ServerWOW – $5 512MB OpenVZ VPS

By: surverwow is a scammer

surverwow is a scammer — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:52:50 +0000

Darren Slade is a scammer – turns out this is not the only hosting company he has run that has gone belly up and they lied in blaming BurstNet see here: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=900503
Never deal with this scammer – he is NOT refunding and will simply steal your money.

By: vRozenSch00n

vRozenSch00n — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:49:48 +0000

Whew…

I tried to buy the package earlier this month but thanks to MaxMind that automatically rejected me with a fraud alert due to the geo where I come from.

Blessing in disguise… or maybe its the Christmas spirit… dunno…

Anyway, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and may god bless us, all boys and girls who work their fingers to the bones for a living… Amen…

By: arunn

arunn — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:28:32 +0000

oh yea.. serverwow is no more wow.. their servers are all offline. and whoever run the show is missing from the scene. yet another fly-by-host. i filed for an refund and no answer yet. wat a stupid thing.

By: bobby

bobby — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:22:12 +0000

yap its closed now by the looks of it. my website is not working.. and serverwow.com is down

By: voson

voson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:30:04 +0000

I buy their VPS last month,But I found my website couldn’t visit or Ping today! the serverwow.com and could not visit too!!Did they close?

By: LowEndAdmin

LowEndAdmin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:29:49 +0000

LOL. There are plenty of dead providers featured here over the past 2 years. This just adds another one to the ever growing deadpool. Time to move on!

Edit: The two NS for serverwow.com (adjacent IP address from BurstNet) has just been taken offline. It’s now really in the deadpool.

By: drmike

drmike — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:20:45 +0000

Boy, I hope no one’s going to blame me for passing this along to LEB. :)

By: LowEndAdmin

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:05:05 +0000

ServerWOW forced by BurstNET to post what was really going on with the termination. They were

- not taking care of rogue users
- not paying the bill
- not following Burst’s terms and services

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6548836&postcount=20

It was posted 3 hours ago, and they promised “In the next 30 minutes we will explore avenues to try and turn things into a posertive outcome”. Any updates?

By: dls

dls — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:22:24 +0000

I got an email from them just like @agreen got and did as they suggested which is to ask for a refund claim via paypal. The good thing is, serverWow gave me my refund very quickly. I guess, they are at the mercy of BurstNet.

By: agreen

agreen — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:16:13 +0000

I’m not affected but wasn’t surprised when I saw the following:

Dear Customer

Over the last week BurstNet have pulled several servers with reasons due to abuse and other issues un be known to us. All servers have been paid for in full however these servers remain offline. We have contacted BurstNet on several occasions regarding their actions and to do our best to get these server back online. We have not had a single reply from them.

All I can suggest at the moment is to submit a paypal claim for a refund to be issued. Due to the nature of Unmanaged vps servers / hosting services this excludes a backup solution or options we can not be liable for data lose.

We are incredibly sorry things have turned out the way they have but the circumstances around the problem is completely out of our hands. We shall put this down to a business stunt on their behalf to do with compertition ( offering the same service )

Under no circumstances have we been out to scam and do people out of money. The issues around this problem is purely as described in this email.

Kind Regards,

ServerWOW

By: sjzri

sjzri — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:34:06 +0000

@dls

ServerWOW is die,my vps been down for two weeks, email does not reply, the control panel also do not increase, simply can not contact anyone on ServerWOW.

By: dls

dls — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:46:41 +0000

I bought this package based on this article and the purchase was smooth. I got a confirmation email accepting my order and PAYMENT but WITHOUT ANY SERVER DETAILS except for a link to the control panel which does not WORK. I waited 24 hours and nothing. I sent several support tickets asking for the server details. Zilch. Nada. I have asked for a refund. No response. A week has passed since the order was made.

By: sjzri

sjzri — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:30:43 +0000

@David

Sure, I intend to request a refund.

By: David

David — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:16:40 +0000

@sjzri

Man, that /is/ bad.

By: sjzri

sjzri — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:31:18 +0000

I bought one, and now the ping value is：

33 packets transmitted, 30 received, 9% packet loss, time 32002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.605/9635.610/23122.808/7446.255 ms, pipe 24

i ping it from my burst.net vps.

By: Tim Morgan

Tim Morgan — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:09:50 +0000

Update: I did get my full refund, for the entire time I was with ServerWow, within minutes of requesting it. It seems the guys are trying, but unfortunately, I cannot host my stuff there.

By: Tim Morgan

Tim Morgan — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:05:05 +0000

I had a vps with ServerWow for a little over a month. In that time, it was offline twice, for up to 12 hours at a time, I was double-billed (but they did resolve it quickly), and now my server is gone completely, permanently. Their response:

We have had notification from burstnet that the server has been terminated due to abuse which is news to us and beyond our control.

We have contacted burstnet but have not had any reply as of yet. ( Aprx 2 Hours )

We are able to offer two options at the moment.

1. a refund
2. a new deployed vps on the hypervm control panel which would be active within 10 minutes.

I sincerely apologise for this and at the present time we are limited to anwsers on the issue in hand.

Kind Regards,
Pete

–

I asked for a refund.

By: David

David — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:56:19 +0000

Digital Point, back in the day, was pretty good – when it only focused on SEO/SEM-related stuff. Then the market place got invaded by dodgy people so I wouldn’t touch it with a 50 foot pole. Too much noise and not enough signal, as it were.

As such, I’d be very hesitant to order/buy anything advertised there.

By: Mark Grant

Mark Grant — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:52:40 +0000

Digital point is a stinking cesspool of dodginess and all round web quackery, low-balling and dishonesty. The fact that they advertise there primarily is indicative enough (hint: you won’t see respectable firms advertise there), and also would you want to share a server neighborhood full of god-knows-what from 100′s of digital point desperados ..spamming, scamming, phishing ,link farming..ugh

By: cling[y]

cling[y] — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:17:28 +0000

Hope these guys are better than BurstNET, because my VPS in Scranton from BurstNET goes down every 2 or 3 days.