[Speirs]

Recently Volt Host has been going through major DDoS, causing the servers to either lag majorly or crash regularly.
United States Roleplay has been running Volt Host for quite a while, now it's enough.

The United States Roleplay server was down for around 24 hours due to Volt Host being DDoS'ed.
The administration contacted Volt Host regarding the problem, however they claimed it to be USRP that was being DDoS'ed. United States Roleplay haven't been DDoS'ed since way back, that changed when they started using Volt Host.
As a major hosting company, they have to be able to actually provide the services they claim to be able to provide, now it was clearly shown that Volt Host is unable to do such a thing.

Now this isn't the first time United States Roleplay had problems with Volt Host. The first time they left, they left because of an FTP problem that was using 100% CPU Usage which would crash the server numerous times, and during all this, the administration were completely unable to use the FTP or even access the Controlpanel because when that happened, their controlpanel was inacessive also.
USRP switched to Delux Host, they had terrible customer-service but the server didnt once crash hostwise.
We switched back to Volt Host again, and had the server down for three days due to a File Read error. We moved to JiHost which has been the best host we've had throughout our time in running United States Roleplay. Although we moved back to Volt Host because of a host-rangeban on a few of our members. Within six hours of moving back to Volt Host, after an IP-change (that ended up getting null-routed), the server was down for an approximate 24 hours due to DDoS on the host.
We contacted JiHost about the rangeban issue and they found a way to fix it after a while, we moved back to JiHost and since putting the server back online since 7PM last night (GMT-5), we have NOT been DDoS'ed, yet Volt Host is still being DDoS'ed.

The administration of United States Roleplay asked for a moneyrefund since the services provided by Volt Host wasn't what they promised it to be. In return however, Volt Host suspended the USRP account.

If your administrating a major community, you don't want a hosting company that cannot provide the services they promise. Hence why me, and alot of other players say, no thanks to Volt Host.

[Calgon]

In all fairness, there's a much higher chance that US-RP would be the target of a DDoS attack, rather than one specifically aimed at taking Volt Host down - your community has caused a lot of pointless fuss and warranted many pointless attacks.

[Astralis]

got no problem with UK location.

[Speirs]

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Originally Posted by Calgon In all fairness, there's a much higher chance that US-RP would be the target of a DDoS attack, rather than one specifically aimed at taking Volt Host down - your community has caused a lot of pointless fuss and warranted many pointless attacks.

Sorry to say, we don't do shit to other communities to piss them off. For example, we're not NGG, our administrators aren't payed to get other servers mapping/scripting, or SARP that attacks any server because they piss them off.
And how come everything went better when we moved to JiHost again? Because JiHost, isnt getting DDoSed.

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Originally Posted by Neonman got no problem with UK location.

We've been on three of Volt Host's boxes, US, UK and France, and we've had nothing but problems on each.

[Calgon]

Probably because they just range ban continents where botnets reside in, like X-Serverz used to.

[Smally]

it will only be a matter of time before you are targeted again and it happens and eventually no host will have you so if i were you move to a dedicated end off

[Karlip]

This is the problem that comes with owning a popular server - there are those who want to get you down. Volt-Host might be DDoSed and you may be the reason why.

[Speirs]

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Originally Posted by Calgon Probably because they just range ban continents where botnets reside in, like X-Serverz used to.

No, it's because JiHost actually has a datacenter that has firewalls to actually protect against DDoS. They dont just use IPTables and null.

[iNorton]

Volt-Host has nothing to do with it, Volt-host was down due you lads were being targeted because you pissed some child off or your admins are "cocks" to someone, I personally think Volt-Host have no reason to money refund you.

[Destiney Rodricaz]

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Originally Posted by iNorton Volt-Host has nothing to do with it, Volt-host was down due you lads were being targeted because you pissed some child off or your admins are "cocks" to someone, I personally think Volt-Host have no reason to money refund you.

Sure! it was targeted towards us

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Volt Host Support11:22am, November 12th/2011 Hi Destiney, We have another high profile server on the same node which we believe has been the primary cause of the attacks.

Would you like to retract your statement now?