1 edit | Wow, who knew CIHOST was still around? I had two domains hosted by them from 98-99. They were pretty bad back then (errors in setting up my account, overloaded servers, and then constant billing errors). I switched to Pair for a few years and now I'm on Dreamhost. No complaints with either.
I found this spam email from 2000 that details their problems back then:
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:58:59 -0500
To: xx@xx.xxx
From:
Subject: RE: When CI Host told you that they were making headlines...
I want nothing to do with you, and here's why -
I would never deal with a company that uses the denegration of its competitors as its ONLY reason to use its services. You don't say dick about your company in this - at least nothing interesting.
I would never deal with a company that CUTS AND PASTES copyright material for its own ads
I would never deal with a company that USES HUGE TYPE
I would never deal with a company that SPAMS! You spammed! What sort of company IS this?
I would never deal with a company that requires me to REMOVE myself from a list I never asked to join in the first place
I would NEVER EVER deal with a company that relies on FALSE news reports. Ten seconds of research would have SHOWN YOU that the credit card files obtained by hackers were from FAILED CREDIT fraud. They were ALREADY bad numbers - they were USELESS.
Here are things I WILL be doing with your message: sending a copy to HostIndex, the Web Hosting Guild, CNet, and of course, CI Host.
Do not - EVER - send me another e-mail message about your company. It is not possible for me to be LESS interested.
-----Original Message-----
From: Free Web Hosting [mailto:freeweb@mail.exordior.com]
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 8:51 PM
To: cihost3@exordior.com; cihost4@exordior.com; cihost5@exordior.com; cihost6@exordior.com
Subject: When CI Host told you that they were making headlines...
When CI Host told you that they were making headlines, is this the kind of press that you thought they were generating?
Business disappears as servers crash
CIHost goes down, small e-commerce sites assess damage: When service is down, you just don t exist
By Bob Sullivan MSNBC
Jan. 4 - Lisa Sievers had finally gotten that big break. After months of desperately seeking attention for her fledgling e-commerce Web site, coolballs.com, she had hit the jackpot. Her site, where Sievers sells automobile antenna balls, was featured in a front-page story in the local daily newspaper on Dec. 28. Then, disaster followed. Her Web page went down, and stayed down. Sievers wasn t alone all 48,000 sites hosted by Texas-based CIHost disappeared that day, and many are still either inaccessible or in a state of disrepair.
»www.msnbc.com/news/353491.asp FULL STORY
CIHost exposes credit card numbers
Accounting database of Web hosting service was viewable right on the Net no password required
By Bob Sullivan MSNBC
Jan. 20 Even professional Web hosting companies can make major mistakes when it comes to credit card security. CIHost, which houses around 50,000 home pages, including thousands of small businesses, recently left hundreds of customer credit card numbers in plain view on the Internet. MSNBC on Thursday was able to view CIHost customer information, and even utilize an internal search tool to find specific customers. The Web site containing all this critical information was hardly disguised at all it was accounting.CIHost.com.
»www.msnbc.com/news/360102.asp FULL STORY
CIHost Support Site Falls to Hackers
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