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I ordered a server on the 31st january. Contract returned and payment made same day.
Subject of paypal payment had wrong customer # on it.
1 Feb - 3 Feb Tried to contact leaseweb by email to notify them of this but had no reply.
3 Feb Went to sales live chat and was rudely told by the guy to email them he ignoring that I already did that.
4 Feb End of day raised a paypal dispute with them but did not escalate it.
5 Feb Server comes online on the 5th feb late in the day.
6 Feb first thing I cancel dispute as I at least got server but left a note saying if the invoice doesnt get fixed I will redo the dispute.
6 Feb in morning payment shows up on my billing area but the amount owed increases so some sort of error. I get an email telling me to wait an hour for it to synch up.
6 Feb just now got another email 5pm leaseweb time saying because I raised a dispute it is NOT paid and they removed the payment of my billing area.
I checked my paypal account and of course the payment is still paid.

They are slow to respond to billing enquires if they respond at all, they appear arrogant and look to be incompetant so want advise on best way to resolve this as their billing system shows me been 11 days overdue on a payment which I have paid.

I have been blocked from my server (so the site is down) by security@leaseweb for last day and they refuse to unblock it. The server cost 4,400.00 euros/month (roughly 7000 US per month) for a 500mbps un-metered connection. Bastiaan Spandaw, in security is being extremely uncooperative and takes 10-12 hours to reply to my messages. The website is a youtube clone where users can upload and share videos. I agreed to personally go through every video on the site and remove any copyrighted video yet he still has not unblocked the site.

We want buy something around: 2 x Xeon 2.8Ghz // good Core 2 Duo/Quad, 2GB RAM // 3-4, 150 GB SATA

And connection… normally we use around 15 Mb at peaks/day but recently we got attacking by DDoS above 100 Mb. We need some true protection or resisting on port 1 Gbps before attackers got bored. No protection via null routing (like ‘the planet’ like to ‘protect’). Where we can find help? Please help our website.

Staminus.net want 800$ for this/month. We can afford around 500$/month.

We have decided to make up a list of Dedicated Server Providers for the convenience of our community. The following is the list of Dedicated Server Providers:
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www.100MbpsServers.com
www.100megswebhosting.com
www.15minuteservers.com
www.191hosting.com
www.1and1.com
www.1stchoicesitehosting.com
www.800hosting.com
www.absolutegaming.net
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www.adjkhost.com
www.ahosting.biz
www.angelnetworkz.net
www.AniPort.com
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Yeah, so I’m looking for a new host that comes with those free-for-life domains. I already know that they’re only free-for-life as long as you’re with that specific company.

I run a small site with forums, but I’d like to have some room to grow. Maybe around 2-4 gigs of space and around 10-15 gigs of bandwidth. Budget is around 7-10 dollars a month, and I can only pay by credit card. I realize that I will most probably have to go with an overselling host, but I’m willing to take my chances.

Also, a question: sometimes I have around 7-10 members online at the same time, and I think it’s causing the slowdown on the site recently. Is that really enough to slow down a shared account?

Given all of the information (and especially the first requirement!), here are some of the hosts I’m looking at, sorted by price per year: SiteGround, BlueHost, HostMonster, Lunarpages, DreamHost.

Any opinions on which overseller is the most workable one? Any more suggestions? Also, if any of these include the domain free for the first year only, please correct me.