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They also scan your files its like a managed service for free
dont forget to run globalping on it
server location?
Someone comment on the wrong discussion
Flash Giveaway quiz question!
1st one to post the correct answer gets a free VPS NVMe Gold 1 for 1 year!
"What is the main mission of CharityHost.org?"
Note: prize winners in this thread can only have 1 prize
empower non-profits, schools, and charities by offering them heavily discounted hosting solutions
WINNER! That was too easy. It's on our site. lol. DM us your email registered with us. Here is the reference: https://charityhost.org/our-mission/
@FAT32 do you trust this person with your PII?
@CharityHost_org I did some research. Are you’re based out of Nevada/Wyoming? If yes, you did violate privacy laws, there are rights you are obligated to respect in this country. Esp for a private collection and not on a public website for redistribution. Burden of proof it being illegal falls on you because you can download the content when paying membership sites and keep it afterwards.
Following laws come into play against CharityHosts actions regardless of AUP/TOS. These protect consumer rights from snooping.
1. Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
2. Federal Trade Commission Act
3. The Wiretap Act (applies to all digital communication and media forms) - you aren’t even the government so you have less leeway
4. Wyoming Consumer Protection Act
5. And weirdly enough this one has history of being used against cloud providers it seems - Stored Communications Act (SCA)
Finally I have some time to read about this drama, I would say morally (and maybe legally too but IANAL) it is being seen as unacceptable for service providers to look at non-public data. I am sure most members in this community cares a lot about privacy, thus explaining the anger.
I understand the frustration on both sides (provider and consumer), but I would argue that both sides have their issues. Provider might have gone a little bit too far, while the consumer might have not read the AUP properly which caused the outcome today.
I don't really want to repeat this but I am sure a lot of people have suggested that the best way forward for CharityHost should be just own up the mistake and it should lead to a better outcome. LET can be forgiving, all the best and hope this issue doesn't happen again.
The trust has been lost and it will take years to recover again, hope this serves as a lesson not to CharityHost but also new providers venturing into this business.
For us from the admin/mod team, it is not that we don't moderate this thread (we actually discuss about this actively in our internal thread) but we are actually hoping to see a happy ending - though it doesn't seem to be the case. There also isn't a lot of meaningful discussion in the last few pages.
Regarding to ban or not, we don't have any conclusion yet but so far we don't have strong enough reason to do so.
there are many others who see it differently.
And those "many others" see a bit more clearly, methinks.
@FAT32 , well the drama was posted on LEB too by @raindog308 . However, it has incorrect information on the post. So, I commented on that post.
yes, I always wish for that too... when I'm at the thai massage!
Houston/Spring TX US
https://looking-glass.charityhost.org
This is good SEO for LEB. Can’t say the same for you though sorry. Just a fact.
You do not need to be sorry, sarcastic, or spiteful. We understand what has transpired. Thank you
I dont think it is that simple.
Incorporated with an agent in one state by an organizer in another state with a principal office/mailing address in a third. And the data can be hosted anywhere although I think he mentioned the location of the servers in this thread. Probably none of this unusual. Mailing address is probably out of date. Wish I could have timed the market that well
My guess is he has the tech skills but the people skills we've seen may keep him hopping around / remote work / working for himself and moonlighting as a charity case. The servers are probably solid. Maybe rebrand, reincorporate, learn from the mistakes.
Of course I could be mistaken about all of this
That's an honest comment. Have office in Nevada, incorporated in Wyoming. It's not unusual to incorporate in another state. Servers strategically hosted in Houston/Spring TX
We wont rebrand, reincorporate, just deal with the situation. We own up to the issues and have answers for them. 1st customer issue was resolved and is a long term customer keeps buying. 2nd customer with a giveaway free FTP Storage account violated AUP once, we suspended, then unsuspended to try to level with him. Asked for him to post that his account was unsuspended, but he continued to be demeaning and insulting us by tickets and public for vengeance. So we decided to cut the thread there with this customer, gave him 48+ hours to take his data and go.
CharityHost.org is fine and wont disappear just because a customer does not respect us, takes it to this forum posting up to a small number of active members in this forum that move mob effect mass attacks specially when they are full of insults, derision, and mocking.
https://looking-glass.charityhost.org
....after he posted this thread and you got a bad rep. You miss out details a lot to make it seem like you've never been in the wrong.
Seems you've overtaken virmach on recent activity over at the OGF. Not sure if that is a good thing or not but at least I have 2 threads to look at over there now.
@CharityHost_org , I got this error when placing an order. There is no captcha at all.
Please correct the following errors before continuing:
Complete the captcha and try again.
@biny Please reach out on our site when having issues. So, the captcha integration, we do not manage that, it's just an integration. Try this:
Let me know how that goes.
Thanks for the reply.
I tried all 3 browser in their private/incognito windows, no extension, no vpn,
All 3 have same error and no one ever show any captcha.
Can you check your captcha integration?
@CharityHost_org , I found the issue in your transaction workflow.
Your regular new user sign up process takes the potential user to a captcha screen to verify. However, when a new user tries to make a purchase and create a new account at the same time, the transaction workflow does not jump to new user signup screen.
So you may just disable new account option and force user to create a new account first, as a work around until you guys fix the workflow.
That isn't an FTP service, that's just another shared hosting package. There's no difference, you also get FTP for shared hosting to upload files.
You fucked up making calling shared hosting as FTP.
Do prostitutes wear uniforms in your country? I'm curious what signs they wear to be identified from the house over by looking.
Fucking ban this douche already.
Well if you already have a login and have a cookie in your browser that might be the issue. You setup a new account while you are checking out from the cart. That should be working fine. You can also login with your existing account during checkout.
Very interesting presentation. If you can follow.
"Not trying to spam, just peacefully ask you about your unethical business practices"
Such as when you are going to address the review manipulation, Andrew.
This screenshot from a DM I received
https://imgur.com/a/Qx8UiXn
shows that you ask for "the url to your 5 star review."
If your intention was not to incentivize, if not outright demand a perfect review, then why phrase it like this? And let's be real. Who in their right mind would post anything but a 5-star review, now that 1) they know how you respond to any criticism of your services, 2) the review is tied to their account and real identity?
BTW it'd be a great idea if you, who are reading this, took a look at this dude's comment history, and why he's so desperate to silence criticism.
And now he's dragging his old threads into it, too. Wow he's desperate.