iCreate Web Hosting – false advertising

August 20th, 2010

Right, so after one more asshole spammed the living shit out of the TLUG forums (and yourselves truly had to go clean up) I got relatively angry. I decided it’s time to start exposing these folks for who they are and what they’re doing. Today, iCreate Web Hosting.

For starters – I would expect any “reputable” web hosting company to refrain from practices such as forum spam. I expect those kinds of unethical, moronic spam tactics from the likes who tries to sell viagra replacement drugs in an underground fashion. Not from a hosting company.

Secondly, when you consistently insist “Web Hosting Johannesburg” you are creating the impression that you’re hosting in JHB SA. In this case, it’s a lie. You’re reselling a product created by “The Planet” (who does happen to be reputable, and I’d recommend ALL of your clients to go directly to them), which is in fact NOT hosted in JHB, or even anywhere else locally, but in fact in Hueston Texas, then you also become a liar.

So Mr Francois la Cock (If that is even your real name, it does seem way too appropriate), who also seems to own iCreate Media, please stop your practices and become legit. It would seem that Ravenswood (Boksburg) sounds similar to Ravenholm (Half-Life II) for a reason.

Ticketing Systems and email

July 8th, 2010

So after some experience with working with these on both sides of the fence I’ve formed some rather strong-willed opinions on these things. Both good and bad, a lot of common mis-use from users, mis-perceptions from developers and support staff, as well as some other frustrations.
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Cell C following in the footsteps of Vodacom?

July 4th, 2010

Most people that know me well will know that I really don’t like the way Vodacom runs their firewalls for their 3G consumers. In fact, they’ve managed to make it onto my blog no less than 3 times now – and not once for anything they’ve done right. And now Cell C have decided to join the crowd of braindead arseholes who can’t run firewalls. I present to you the man-in-the-middle TCP connection reset. As it stands right now I can’t ssh. I can’t connect to my jabber server. I can’t even browse. At least, not using my Cell C internet connection.
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Capped, Uncapped and Unmetered

July 4th, 2010

Recently we’ve seen an explosion of uncapped accounts entering the market. We’ve also seen that they are typically horribly slow in comparison to capped accounts – and if one goes and reads most of the acceptable use policies it becomes clear that they are in fact not uncapped, but rather, severely shaped capped accounts.
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