Soon to be closing

**Schmarvin** · May 16th, 2009, 09:32

Since I can get no help from these forums, WebHostingTalk, nor anywhere else. Even when I pay someone for help, they don't do anything. I'm closing Cross Industries soon. Apparently, there are only dirt-bags in the world now. Honestly, if I pay you, do your god damn work.

To those of you who used our Blog Hosting, I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Host Woot closed the external database we were using with them. And if you ask why we used their server for hosting the database, its due to the stress. We hosted over 350 blogs, and the stress of both files and database put a toll on our main server. So, we had decided to keep the database external. But, unfortunately, Host Woot closed the account and left us with no backup.

I apologize to those of you who are or were hosted with us. No one seems to give a damn when they are paid or unpaid. Thanks goes out to the few who actually helped.

**Richard** · May 16th, 2009, 12:29

Hello,

Sorry to hear about your problems, if there is anything I can do to help, please let me know over PM.

**Schmarvin** · May 16th, 2009, 12:43

Not really, sorry. I've lost close to $1,600 in just paying people to do work for me. And look at my site, nothing is done on it.

**Gigalicous** · May 16th, 2009, 12:50

Next time you wanna hire designers/ coders etc etc I would suggest you have an agreement of a little payment upfront and rest on completion.

Sorry to hear of you closing your service, try hang on a little longer maybe your luck might change.

**Schmarvin** · May 16th, 2009, 13:39

Originally Posted by stonerocket

Next time you wanna hire designers/ coders etc etc I would suggest you have an agreement of a little payment upfront and rest on completion.

Sorry to hear of you closing your service, try hang on a little longer maybe your luck might change.

I did have contracts. I got quite a bit of money back. But still, its not really the money issue. Its more-or-less the problem of people actually doing their job.

**Gigalicous** · May 16th, 2009, 14:08

How hard can blog hosting be? we tried it at SR before but it never really took off so we dropped it, we had over 1000 blog accounts. Actually thats a lie one of our team who setup SRB got lazy and I closed it because I found ----- material on a few blog accounts..

Ad placement can be awkward unless you have a set of pre-defined themes and lock new upload themes.

**Schmarvin** · May 16th, 2009, 18:37

Its not a problem anymore. I can't find reliable people to help me manage the host.

**.Bobby** · May 17th, 2009, 03:45

I'd have helped you if I had seen your Thread asking for help anywhere on FWS. Where did you post it?

**Schmarvin** · May 17th, 2009, 10:05

Didn't post it here, had it posted at WHT. I did ask a few people on these forums for help though directly ( via PM ). It's all good, I can't seem to find a a big enough management team for my business.

**GlennBeforeTime** · May 18th, 2009, 01:35

Originally Posted by Schmarvin

Didn't post it here, had it posted at WHT. I did ask a few people on these forums for help though directly ( via PM ). It's all good, I can't seem to find a a big enough management team for my business.

Mate, It is very unfortunate that you have been unable to find many people to do the jobs they were paid to do, I would be happy to (And have been for some time) help you out. Even done it totally free of charge

**.Bobby** · May 18th, 2009, 08:51

I would be happy to (And have been for some time) help you out. - Even done it totally free of charge

Ditto.

**Volt.Networks** · May 18th, 2009, 16:06

Sorry to hear about your troubles mate. Good luck on your future endeavors though

**g7j3k1b8n4h1s7u2** · June 16th, 2009, 09:07

I feel really bad that you do this, guys. I would design your site for free!

**varmint** · August 23rd, 2009, 18:34

Originally Posted by Schmarvin

Even when I pay someone for help, they don't do anything. I'm closing Cross Industries soon. Apparently, there are only dirt-bags in the world now. Honestly, if I pay you, do your god damn work.

Ugh! my condolances, Schmarvin. What you mention these days even extends way beyond web services. I couldn't get anyone to fix my leaking shower, and a friend of mine has had a horrible time trying to get the contractors to actually show up for her to build her house.