Thread: Namesco Ireland Issues?

I too have noticed a degradation in support. I have a number of sites hosted on register365 / now namesco - both privately and on behalf of our company.

I've found the new support slower and some of the guys seem... less helpful....

(I had a simple standard enough request which was rejected which led me to look for an alternative provider. Spent time looking into alternatives, had to discuss ramifactions with a business client - eventually when the loss of business was mentioned to namesco - request was approved and eventually got an assurance the settings we need would be kept. Took about 2 weeks to get the assurance we need and resolve once and for all and has left a sour taste with the new owners.

The first suggestion by the way was nonsense on this issue "Oh, I think you need a dedicated server instead..."

Another thing that really bugged me was the new support tend to close the tickets, when I feel its not resolved. Its normal for support teams to ask if the ticket can be closed, not tell me it is when I'm not happy... not a good start to my time with Namesco)

I'm missing the Polish guys already as they were very quick and always helpful... and always asked if the ticket can be closed

/sorry, thats quite a rant for a first post!

A reply from Namesco about yesterday's outage

Dear Customer

Yesterday, Tuesday 5th August 2008, the data centre hosting register365.com's mail and Linux servers suffered a hardware failure, which meant that some customers were unable to collect email or view their web sites.

This unplanned outage lasted approximately 2 hours, while hosting365 engineers attempted to resolve an issue with a router which provided access to the hosting365 data centre and register365's network.

During this period, call volumes to register365's Support Centre were extremely high, running at about 500% of normal. This meant that wait times were longer than usual, and some customers either faced a longer wait than normal, or could not get through.

We apologise for this unplanned interruption to service, and we are working with hosting365 engineers to acsertain what happened and what can be done to prevent such an instance from re-occurring.
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Anybody get a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling about this ?
No - me neither....

Signed by a fellow from Namesco - seems to point the finger at "Hosting365 engineers" - wheher this is right or not - it's poor customer relations to blame somebody else...

Adrian

Lads you get what you pay for, true it's annoying, but if you want an SLA, you will have to pay for it. With this Register365 - Ireland's Domain Registry , you could conceivably have 50 websites and pay €100 per year, or €2 per site.

adrian5750

Thats almost the exact reply I got (word for word)

Lads you get what you pay for, true it's annoying, but if you want an SLA, you will have to pay for it. With this Register365 - Ireland's Domain Registry , you could conceivably have 50 websites and pay €100 per year, or €2 per site.

Paul, I hope you don't mind me saying but that’s a ridiculous comment.
Should we be looking for a provider that is going to charge us €300.00 a month!
I get it cheaper because I buy in bulk.
For years in this country we have been told to vote with our feet if something is too expensive. Now they are complaining because we are voting with our feet and going north for our goods.
Just because you pay more doesn’t mean you are going to get a better service.
Hosting365 was a good example of that. They provided a great service at very competitive prices.

Did the outage effect hosting 365 customers?

A small number (about 12) that shared some Vlans with the Register365 network were impacted with increased latency, we're working at the moment to ensure that can not happen again and are sending comprehensive incident reports to the effected customers this morning.

Originally Posted by paul

Lads you get what you pay for, true it's annoying, but if you want an SLA, you will have to pay for it. With this Register365 - Ireland's Domain Registry , you could conceivably have 50 websites and pay €100 per year, or €2 per site.

While I agree its fantastic you can get such cheap hosting in Ireland, where almost everything is expensive, you are missing the point, which is we no longer are getting what we used to pay for... thats the issue

Price hasnt changed, service appears to have

Register365/NamesCo don't provide a SLA. So they can go down any time and you are at their will.

Ans any actual or perceived support or service degradation is purely temporary.

Thats a fine statement which we'll have to accept at face value...

I'm willing to see how it pans out though for a few months, then we can make a decision on what to do in the future.

I know there isnt an SLA but lets face it, any shared hosting company without decent uptime isnt going to last too long

Heres hoping things improve, hope prices dont increase either... checking Namescos site in the UK, they seem pretty expensive.

One thing Hosting365 were great for was driving down prices here...