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Blitz-Host
September 10th, 2005, 07:28
Dear all members

i want to tell you about the experience I had with WMS in the last couple of days. I took them up on this offer http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?t=75304 post #6.

Seemed really good idea to try it. When to sign up with them told me it all be ordered and ready in a few days, 1 day later I get told I can't get this with cpanel on a free trail I’d have to pay $19 for the cpanel and then get the server free for the month. Ok fair enough I chose to have WebMin as it was free so that was set up with a few hours all seemed good.

Then when a friend of mine looked a bit of closer at the server it seemed to look like VPS not a dedicated server, so i found this test on WHT http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=441290 and run it on the server to make sure and it comes back with that it is VPS


This is VPS Check. See if you are on a VPS
(c) A2b2.com 2005
You are on a Virtuozzo VPS
[root@reseller root]#


This is what I get back from ssh test I run

So watch out it seems to sell VPS but sell them as dedicated servers, this is total miss advertising, I am also sure I am prob not the only one for this to happen to and I am not sure what step to take next really, I have yet to talk to them about this and my knowledge of this, will keep you updated to what they say about it.

utcrazy
September 10th, 2005, 07:52
This is looking very bad for this company. I guess just watch out what they sell you.

utcrazy
September 10th, 2005, 10:28
I was actually interested in their server, and I asked them about this. They said

"We do not sell Shared VPSs. We currently only provide Dynamic Dedicated
Servers."

Blitz-Host
September 10th, 2005, 10:31
I was actually interested in their server, and I asked them about this. They said

"We do not sell Shared VPSs. We currently only provide Dynamic Dedicated
Servers."

witch is VPS

Blitz-Host
September 10th, 2005, 11:35
just had a very long cov with them on msn. They tell me they are not VPS but it is a "Dynamic Dedicated Server" - they said they will be defined as a VPS is because we have one virtuozzo installed as management software. - you can get more info at http://www.sw-soft.com/en/products/virtuozzo/hsp/hsp/#dynamicdedicated

Blitz-Host
September 10th, 2005, 15:16
another update!

This is an e-mail from Robert the owner of web media specialties.


The first thing I hate to hear is a customer having problems with our service. I have been reading over the various materials John (sales person in here for them) gave me regarding this subject. I am sorry to inform you that the Dynamic Dedicated Server is a VPS. Any way you define it, it is still a VPS. We do not offer any of the features of a VPS and Virtuozzo is mainly management software for the servers. I am sorry for the confusion, but John thinks no one will buy a 1 VPS box without saying it is a true Dedicated Server. The dedicated functionality of the server does define them as Dedicated Servers, but with using Virtuozzo they are called VPSs. In addition, I am sorry to inform you that Our Company has three IT personnel that deal with server setup and they are unable to install the OS, Debian, for you. Again, I am sorry for the confusion, but I hate to loose a future customer over some miscommunication.