DomainMonster mash: Hundreds of websites vandalized after Brit web host server hacked Hundreds of websites have been defaced by hackers who hijacked a web-hosting server run by UK domain registrar DomainMonster. The index.php pages on the attacked sites were rapidly vandalized by miscreants late on Tuesday, with 612 domains and sub-domains overwritten within seconds of each other. Among the websites hit include …
Moved away from them since they have not updated their systems since 1999 ... really bad at routing, really bad at hosting, really bad at customer service.
You speak on the phone and you are honestly saying "you realise it is 2017 right"
Their online interface does NOT work, don't try and do anything creative with the DNS.
Their email service was down for 3 weeks in December.
THIS IS A COMPANY TO AVOID.
They were good in the 1990s, but literally stopped all progress, guess that was the new owners.
I was interested to read the comments by jeremy 3 and by a previous writer on the deficiencies of Domain Monster and their successor 123-reg. I am a researcher in English Literature, and use data-processing for authorship attribution studies. I had a website on D-M that contained a lot of research data. In March I receved an email from D-M to say that my site would be transferred to 123-reg, respecting the annual fee that I had already paid. I went through a process of registration with 123-reg and was assured that all was OK. In June, however, D-M sent a mail saying that all accounts would be cancelled. -- I was on holiday at the time, and didn't notice that my site was "down", i.e. gone. I recently spent hours on the phone at 123-reg (literally) to find out what was wrong, and was finally told to contact D-M. I rang their UK number and talked to a man called Iosua in Romania, who told me that since I hadn't replied to their June email, they had cancelled my site and returned the fee to my cc. account. He promised to "raise a ticket" for me, to see if they could still access the content, but no reply since. -- OK, this is a cautionary tale for what can happen to a novice in this field. But, as I start to assemble all the content again, this is my query: where can I find a web-hosting service with better security? I'd be grateful for experienced and informed comment. Thank you! BrianV
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