1, Within a few days of sighing up for a web site with hostica.com I was receiving email from webhost designers to build my site. I know this came from hostica.com because I setup a NEW email address just minutes before I set up the hosting account.
2. Data inflation:
I started to notice in my hostica.com stats area that my hits and data down loads seemed way off. Now my website is not even built yet and I have one index and graphic with no links and a 2nd page with one 2 minute 6MB mp3. For the last week I have been testing the counts and the data flow. And it is extreme! One hit to my MP3 test page from IP address turned into 633 hits and 32.90 MB of data flow.
The techs I have been talking (email) to basically tell me to prove it…
I am sorry that you had a bad experience with us. There is a misconception about web hosts selling information all the time due to a new client buying a domain without whois privacy.
Godaddy is the biggest web hosting company in the world, and even they get accused of such. If it were true, courts would heavily punish them.
1and1 also has been accused, see the second post: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235469
All web hosting companies get accused of this, and it simply isn't true. With time I hope people learn to proactively protect their identities and learn from this example.
Designers, freelancers, blackhat SEO managers and all sorts of people are benefiting from scraping the internet. When you purchase a domain, your information is publically published.
The web traffic was most likely due to rules not being in place from your robots.txt or htaccess file. This will invite bots and other automated traffic.
I don't know if you will see this, but I hope you have found somewhere to create a website and online presence to prosper.
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1, Within a few days of sighing up for a web site with hostica.com I was receiving email from webhost designers to build my site. I know this came from hostica.com because I setup a NEW email address just minutes before I set up the hosting account.
2. Data inflation:
I started to notice in my hostica.com stats area that my hits and data down loads seemed way off. Now my website is not even built yet and I have one index and graphic with no links and a 2nd page with one 2 minute 6MB mp3. For the last week I have been testing the counts and the data flow. And it is extreme! One hit to my MP3 test page from IP address turned into 633 hits and 32.90 MB of data flow.
The techs I have been talking (email) to basically tell me to prove it…
Your information was made public via whois record
Hello,
I am sorry that you had a bad experience with us. There is a misconception about web hosts selling information all the time due to a new client buying a domain without whois privacy.
Godaddy is the biggest web hosting company in the world, and even they get accused of such. If it were true, courts would heavily punish them.
1and1 also has been accused, see the second post: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235469
All web hosting companies get accused of this, and it simply isn't true. With time I hope people learn to proactively protect their identities and learn from this example.
Designers, freelancers, blackhat SEO managers and all sorts of people are benefiting from scraping the internet. When you purchase a domain, your information is publically published.
https://help.hostica.com/en-us/article/490-domain-privacy-contact-privacy-whois-record
The web traffic was most likely due to rules not being in place from your robots.txt or htaccess file. This will invite bots and other automated traffic.
I don't know if you will see this, but I hope you have found somewhere to create a website and online presence to prosper.
Best Wishes,
Seth Brand