| Anthony Ricketts, 13th 2008f December, 2008 |
| Datapacket.net is BY FAR the worst host I have ever seen in my 12 years of web development. I have never seen e-mail and database servers go down so many times in one month. Their tech support is absolutely terrible(usually 24 - 48 hrs response time). However, sales responds in less than 10 minutes. They have 30 day money back and I'm trying to get that now. I sent the information required for refund and have not heard anything since. I am now disputing charges with Visa. Maybe if they get enough chargebacks eventually Visa and Mastercard will cut them off. They are terrible, please nobody ever use them, save your money and go elsewhere! |
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| avoidatapacket.net, 08th 2008f November, 2008 |
| Mr. MOhanty, OK, maybe it is OK for now, but you will join the club soon! Just one warning: Make a backup of your website, you will need it! And backup of your databases. Because it has has happen that they one day just loose all your data! And offcourse there is no way to contact them after that! |
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| Mr. MOhanty, 03rd 2008f November, 2008 |
So far its working fine .
and i am happy with it.
i have hosted 15 domain and all running fine., |
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| homutke, 23rd 2008f October, 2008 |
datapacket very bad company
Do not use its services
Only will lose money |
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| Nora, 21st 2008f October, 2008 |
What a waste of time.
Overnight and nothing works. Poof!!
No response, no telephone support.
Left us red in the face and several clients left our services.
BAD COMPANY |
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| onexone, 17th 2008f October, 2008 |
I hosted 3 domains with them.
spoke to their customer support , and he deleted my account on the spot for using sarcasm.
this company needs to come down and Brian Bennet needs a good beating. |
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| Nick, 01st 2008f October, 2008 |
| They take my renewal fees 100$. No reply from support. My sites was down for past three days. I am very stupid person. They are THIEVES ! |
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| Punith, 29th 2008f September, 2008 |
No reply from support for my tickets my site was down for past three days. Guys, don't put yourself in trouble by taking their service.
DATAPACKET.NET GO TO HELL. |
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| Junaid, 18th 2008f September, 2008 |
BULLSHIT.........no answer no response, their price is good, dream package, but no support, after reading reviews i will not host any client here.i am waiting to cancel my account and i will take refund, till now i didn't get my refund.
Please this is true , some people says its good, i am experienced now with them 100$ i pay for shit only. |
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| John, 21st 2008f August, 2008 |
| 5 month i have 15 outages downtime, DO NOT USE DATAPACKET.NET!!!!! |
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| Meelis, 21st 2008f August, 2008 |
Hello,
I sign up today in Datapacket.net and Pay 9.99$ with ns1 and ns2 but they are get my money but don`t open my WHM account???
In support nobody answer.
Please,
does anybody now good cheap Reseller hosting company with cPanel/WHM about 100 GB Store and with nameservers about 10-20 $/mounth?
Please let me now.
Thanks and Regards,
meelisrt@hot.ee |
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| John T., 21st 2008f August, 2008 |
DATAPACKET.NET IS UGLY, UGLY UGLY COMPANY!!!
Get You money and You lose all clients and data.
Please never get business this company!!! |
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| Ravi, 08th 2008f August, 2008 |
I lost all my data after a some 8 months. They did not bother to restore it even after repeted telephone & ticket calls. HOW CAN A RESELLER SURVIVE WITH SUCH AN UNRELIABLE WEBHOST.
If you want BEATINGS & ABUSES from your customers after their data is lost, go ahead and sign with them for the cheapest reseller hosting!!! |
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| Hugo, 28th 2008f July, 2008 |
This plan doesn't exist ...
please chose other company ..
NOOOO !!datapacket.net
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| Daniel, 25th 2008f July, 2008 |
| I got my refund today, after 4 days waiting for it. I do not know how everyone else's expierence will be w/ getting refunds, but I did get mine. |
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| Daniel, 22nd 2008f July, 2008 |
I found some more info on our old friend Brian and his family... and all of the business's they run...
Christopher M. Bennett
3619 Surrey Dr
Orlando, FL 32812
Orange County
Lori L. Bennett
5250 NE 153rd Ct
Williston, FL 32696
Levy County
Brian William Bennett
5250 NE 153rd Ct
Williston, FL 32696
Levy County
Ashleigh C. Bennett
5250 NE 153rd Ct
Williston, FL 32696
Levy County
Brinet Networks
Data Packet Networks
Smarter Shopper, Inc.
Bennett Construction Group, Inc.
Bhi Construction & Remodeling, Inc.
The A.B.L.E. (Achieving Beyond Limited Expectations)
A Accredited Traffic School, Inc
Accredited Traffic Classes, Inc.
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| Daniel, 22nd 2008f July, 2008 |
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Ocala/4421-NW-Blitchton-Rd-425-Ocala-FL-34482-a2025056.aspx
The address for Brian Bennetts office in ocala florida, is also for a Bennett Construction and Smarter Shopper Inc... SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM |
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| Daniel, 22nd 2008f July, 2008 |
| I am getting scammed too, negative uptime on my reseller account... I am filing fraud charges with ocala pd, and marion county sherrifs department, if anyone wants to join me on this email me at daniel@holtblog.com |
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| fadynet, 12th 2008f July, 2008 |
hello
no support reply
i ask him to cancel my account and get my money back and they not reply
it is very very bad companey
if they try to have support agent it will be good companey
i can not cancel my account and i am afread of my credit card
if any one can help me contact me
info@fadynet.net
to cancel my account |
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| Waleed Youssef, 26th 2008f June, 2008 |
| I had a reseller account with datapacket for a few months ago and i hosted 9 sites in this account all my web sites deleted twice, the uptime no more 70%, no customer support, no response , it is a very bad company , stay away from them |
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| Jackie Holmes, 03rd 2008f June, 2008 |
really wait this company fraud like shit no service time is low like many hours not available response when urgent never there no tel answering nobody home
mircea and brian never send trouble ticket answer and mircea in ROMANIA!!! making remote and not possible to restart device and site down!
god may sue mircea god sue brian i canot and nobody can
if do you like happy in business progress make money call other company |
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| data, 24th 2008f May, 2008 |
All this service is absolutely inexistent. ASK YOURSELF ONLY ONE QUESTION: WHO WILL ANSWER MY TICKETS WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM. The answer: no one, not mircea, not brian, i sent both of them around 5 tickets and mail but nothing, these guys didn't even bother answering my cancellation order!!! DO NOT ORDER FROM DATAPACKET, it does not worth to loose all your work (and your clients) for a 10 bucks a month!!!
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| Sizif, 20th 2008f May, 2008 |
I used to have almost ten web sites on Datapacket.
STAY AWAY FROM THEM!
They are constantly ignoring Support tickets, there is no way you can get to them if something goes wrong.
And something goes wrong often. |
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| Data, 15th 2008f May, 2008 |
Well guys,
Le'ts just say that you were right... |
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| DO NOT BUY DATA PACKET SERVICE EVER, 09th 2008f May, 2008 |
I had reseller account with Data Packet. It is WORST service provider I have ever come across.... their servers are down half the time... everyday their servers down for several hours... websites are not reachable on their server... they don;t maintain any backups... recently their sql database server crashed and they restored two months old backup... many of our accounts we created in this period were lost...
They don;t even bother to respond on support tickets... no answers on phone calls... Brian Bennett, owner of data packet refuses to answer any support calls.
Do whatever you want but don't ever think of buying service from data packet or Brian Bennett, you will burn your money and mind for this looter's services...
Better pay few dollars extra to any other service provider and get peace of mind.... |
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| sandeep shukla, 09th 2008f May, 2008 |
DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY. Support is non exsistant. My site indiandulhan.com is down 12 days , i asked him to provie me data they not replying my ticket.
and trouble tickets go unanswered.It doesn't deserve to be a hosting company! we have reseller hosting and have more than 2 accounts with them and several domains are we are moving them all. STAY AWAY from DATA Packet. STAY AWAY from DATA Packet.
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| dataneto (yohanan), 07th 2008f May, 2008 |
I host a number of sites under datapacket with two reseller packages while i do have accounts with two other providers, in US and in other countries, depending ont the type of service i need to offer. I must say that considering the price, Datapacket is a very good hosting. The downtime i had (once) was very short, no problem with the mail or with the FTP. on the other hand, there is always something they can do better (but this is what you pay for!).
I'll definitely stay with them as I saw what others can offer. A (very) small improvement in the "email response time" and "decision without notice" would make them, IMHO, the best quality/price you'll ever find in the web.
To all the negatives in the forum - Sorry, but i can't believe that a feedback can be so different about the same provider.
My own and very personnal Summary
+++++++++: The price
++++: The email response time
++++++: short downtime
-: taking decision without notice (can do better here)
++++++: they're pros
+++++++++++: hosting features
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| Jon, 30th 2008f March, 2008 |
| All this review from opponents. Because no one can beat their plans. So they are trying to distroy them through Forums. But I think they will grow up more... |
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| Sha, 27th 2008f March, 2008 |
| Good Company. No compalints and I am happy in last one and half years... |
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| Piyush Rawat, 28th 2008f February, 2008 |
Very Bad Company
Very Bad Support
No Business Relation
Lost Many Clients and Data
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| Gareth, 10th 2008f February, 2008 |
At the end of the day I'm paying $4.99 for a web host with a lot of features, I'm happy with the service. The only problems I've had is one of the servers crashed that hosted a mambo site and when they moved the site to a new server the mambo configuration was incorrect. I e-mailed support and told me what happened and I was now on a different disk to the other server. They did this same day and the site was fixed and back up. The e-mail has gone down before while the server is re-booted and the mail service can take a while to restart. My sites have never lost files and if you are here complaining you lost your files years of work why are YOU not keeping your own backups??? YOU uploaded the files and you should have copies. I've never lost any files at all. I sent a support ticket due to slow response from the server for the initial page load some time last year, they looked into it and ever since it has been good. SQL server, never lost any databases there either. All in all, I have not had much trouble with this host and at the end of the day you get what you pay for. If you don't abuse the e-mail servers and the TOS you will rarely run into a problem, I have 3 domains hosted under a normal account (not reseller) and only 1 has experienced down time and from me being notified it was down, contacting support and getting it resolved was all done within my working day and i live in the UK - I think my response cam in about 3 ish GMT. I also pay monthly so I have no worry of stumping up money then losing it. All in all, I have been pretty happy and since I notified them about the email going down and taking ages to started up I haven't had any problems with it since and it's being used on a daily basis by 2 people I see regularly. Don't slag a company off for no reason. I've noticed on other review sites people slagging off domains by proxy in the whois but if you go to http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=DATAPACKET.NET
you will find that they aren't and the contact details are there. As I said don't do any naughty stuff and abuse the service and you won;'t run into problems. You get what you pay for and if you have a high traffice/high importance site then you shouldn't really be looking at the cheapest possible hosting provider (and probably reselling itn on for a small fortune to your client).
At $4.99 and no setup fees or contract its best to give it a go and see it for your self, get a program and load test it, see if it meets your needs and make your own minds up. If its no good you've only lost little. Also I have had account now for 2 years and not once have the terms changed on me. |
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| Brian, 04th 2008f February, 2008 |
| Don’t use the services for illegal purposes or spamming and generally you will have no issues with DataPacket and the shared hosting services. |
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| Steve T Junior, 03rd 2008f February, 2008 |
Datapacket is not hosting company this is criminal organization. I have reseller packet and he suspend my few web page without any reason. I have lose all my data which I build few years.
He not answer on my any ticket when I contact him and ask for my backup. Well I lose all my data and web page with all mysql database which I build few years.
I can't believe but I can't say nothing about this company which is good. Support not answer, server have uptime 70% monthly and he suspend account without any information for user and user can't give backup.
Well I can say only this is not hosting company this is criminal organization. You can see some link about this nightmare company
http://www.hostsearch.com/review/data_packet_networks_review.asp
http://www.vistainter.com/reviews/D/datapacket.net/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/worst-web-hosting-companies-more-than-520-bad-reviews/
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-266440.html
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| Daren, 27th 2008f January, 2008 |
I have lost $119.88
datapacket.net is not Good hosting services
The company SUCKS.
All Admins and Support are Tell lies
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| Markuza, 02nd 2007f November, 2007 |
| Datapacket are run by terrorist jew from Israel currently live in USA. Avoid datapacket. Avoid jew business. |
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| Matt, 23rd 2007f October, 2007 |
Whatever you do, I urge you to avoid Datapacket like the plague. Their hosting features are okay (and certainly cheap, but as I will explain you definately get what you pay for), but their customer service and reliability are appalling.
I started hosting my site with them in November 2003 and things seemed okay for about six weeks. However, my site went down for three days in December due to Datapacket's incompetence with database management. It then went down again in early January, this time for FOUR days. Datapacket claimed it was a Sprint router outage, which was completely untrue because I contacted Sprint and they had no record of an outage. Besides, router outages tend to last for a few hours at most, not FOUR days.
In late January 2004 my database apparently vanished from their server. I submitted a message to their "help desk" - it took them two days to get back to me, but that was better than the week it took them to get back to me the time before. I found, tucked away in their Web site, a little note that SQL Server was being discontinued from February 1 on their servers. Of course, they hadn't bothered to notify any of their customers about this. The message conveniently disappeared later in the day.
Datapacket used to trade under the name "BriNet" and they have had numerous complaints made against them with the Florida Better Business Bureau.
Steer clear of Datapacket - they change their policies and guidelines on a whim and their customer service is next to non-existant. Don't bother trying to call them - all you will get is a voicemail message. The truth is that Datapacket appears to be one guy (Brian Bennett) running an inept, unreliable, and bordering on illegal hosting service from his mom's garage. Their site might look professional but, trust me, their service is not. |
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| Mike, 30th 2007f September, 2007 |
I used Datapacket for both domain registration and hosting. I discovered that Datapacket would delete any MP3 file without regards to ownership (even though they were my work). What's worse, toward the end of the first year I started receiving notices from Directnic (the real registrar) that my domain needed renewal, but I could not get the login info from Datapacket. (I still have the emails) I finally called Directnic, they were helpful and switched the registration to my own account.The next day I received a notice from Datapacket that my site and account were being nuked.
Stay away from Datapacket, and always keep your domain registration separate from your hosting account. |
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| matt, 19th 2007f September, 2007 |
I have had many bad experiences with datapacket. I have 2 web sites and both were previously hosted there. Here is a list of the following complaints I have against them (these are only the ones that come to mind right away):
1. Files being lost/deleted - several instances of losing files from the server. not sure if the tried restoring from an old copy but...
2. FTP accounts reseting - several times whenever I tried to ftp files to one of my sites, I had to go into control panel and reset the password.
3. Email failures - several times either SMTP or mail@mydomains were not working. I lost business on account to not having received my mail.
4. Database connection - several times they changed the port number to access SQL server. NEVER COMMUNICATED THIS WHATSO EVER!!!
5. Changed security settings on hosted sites - one of my sites were down several days and could not get any information from DP. It was not until I discovered the changed to a medium trust environment and I could change settings on my site.
6. Never returned calls - with all the problems I have had with them I've left voice mails (politely) and not once got a call back.
7. No response to trouble tickets - for some reason when I would open a ticket for a problem, not receive any feedback for days, my ticket would move to a "closed" status. How can they close a ticket without even working the problem.
These are just the problems that immediately come to mind from DP. I made the mistake of signing up for a year and regretted it about 1 month into the contract.
They even have many complaints on the Better Business Bureau's web site.
Do yourself a favor and stay away from the hoster.
- Matt |
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| ahmed, 19th 2007f July, 2007 |
| DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY. Support is non exsistant. My server is down 12 days , and trouble tickets go unanswered.It doesn't deserve to be a hosting company! we have reseller hosting and have more than 10 accounts with them and several domains are we are moving them all. STAY AWAY from DATA Packet. STAY AWAY from DATA Packet. |
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| Clara, 12th 2007f May, 2007 |
| I need help from any datapacket customer. I odered the reseller package and it's going great until my yahoo account was deactivated, which is the account I opened datapacket with. Now I don't have the url to the control panel(it was lost when yahoo account was deactivated),which every customer needs to get into the main account. I've been waiting almost 2 weeks for this from datapacket, I dont know whats the holdup, can someone please help me by linking that url to the cpanel signin here please? Or email it to clara@postmycds.com Thanks. |
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| joe, 10th 2007f May, 2007 |
| we must destroy this company |
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| datapacketsucks.net, 10th 2007f May, 2007 |
| Im going to get a website named after them to let people know who they really are. |
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| fedup tohear jr., 10th 2007f May, 2007 |
| i hate datapacket. They started off emailing me back(that was b4 I paid them) but now that I need them, and have paid them $100.00 they respond 4 or 5 days later if at all,....Im still waiting, and when they do respond ,now the lady can't speak english(Mircea is her name). I'm looking else where, Id rather pay a few dollars more. |
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| rick, 27th 2007f April, 2007 |
| DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY. Support is non exsistant. My server is down a minimum of 8 hrs a week, and my trouble tickets go unanswered. |
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| Dan, 23rd 2007f April, 2007 |
| This company is a crap. My web sites are still down and we are trying to move our data to somewhere else. This is the worst host provider we've ever had! |
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| X, 26th 2007f March, 2007 |
does anyone know how can I cancel my account and get my money back from data packet?
They're more than horrible. It is like talking to a brick wall. |
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| Ahmed, 13th 2007f March, 2007 |
| Good service, i found thier service reliable and support was always responsive. Although I didint get the answers i expected, they were always responsive to me. |
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| Mike, 04th 2007f February, 2007 |
good price...
bad service...
I hate it...
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| RDS, 23rd 2007f January, 2007 |
| They are the most unreliable hosting company that i have ever seen. no phone support, no monitoring, today their email service is down since last 4 hours and no signs to be up, also none of the phones are answered and emails are also not responded. how can they run a hosting company like this. they are crap, we have reseller hosting and have more than 1 accounts with them and several domains are we are moving them all. STAY AWAY from DATA Packet. |
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| Mean, 14th 2007f January, 2007 |
I use datapacket for 5 months, it's working great for me, there was one server down for few days but at the end i got my file back. Anyway becareful there is no any word Data backup quarentee at all with Datapacket.
Anyway their support is friendly I don't have any problem with them yet, BUT if you plan to host a big website and demand high load i suguest you to find much more expensive services than this. |
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| Terry, 24th 2006f December, 2006 |
| I’ve been with datapacket for some time now and they have amazing prices and even better support, I’m still in awe after all this time. I was paying triple the cost for half the features and crappy support. I have hosted with other companies and I would consider these guys one of the best in the business. |
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| Operator, 09th 2006f December, 2006 |
| One of the best providers in the world. It’s just a real shame that some people try to take advantage of DataPacket, abuse the service with illegal activity or spam and then try to trash DataPacket’s good name and reputation. There are rules, policies and agreements that unfortunately many people just conveniently ignore and then complain. |
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| Dimitris Siskopoulos, 09th 2006f December, 2006 |
This company advertise a dream Windows hosting package (500 GB traffic, 20 GB space, Unlimited domains, Unlimited SQL databases, major scripting languages support etc) and if you have a site that really need all those and has some traffic, they try to give you charge you extra fees and if you dont pay them the just delete your sites from their server.
This company is the biggest scums, thieves and diserver to shut down by the law. I've already taken send an email to Federal Trade Comission about those vermins.
DON'T do the fault to believe them and move your sites to their server! |
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| mxc, 29th 2006f November, 2006 |
One day I woke up and found out that all my sites were gone. poof ...just like that..deleted without any warnings.
But they still wanted my money. Datapacket is SCAM.
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| Fred Barnes, 28th 2006f November, 2006 |
| DO NOT USE DATAPACKET.NET!!!!! I have experienced about 20% downtime. They promise 99.9% and do ont deliver. They also state you get daily backup. They had a server crash and all of my files were gone. I have lost a huge amount of money with thier reseller hosting as many of my design clients have left my company due to so many hosting problems. They offer terrible customer service and have absolutely nothing positive to offer customers. Stay away from them! |
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| Client, 18th 2006f November, 2006 |
It doesn't deserve to be a hosting company! They will loose every client of them! We have a very very bad experience with them! Hope them go to the hell:
If you want to loose your clients and to loose your data and the websites as well go to Datapacket for stealing!
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| Mike, 06th 2006f September, 2006 |
| Everything has always worked great for me. You can see by looking at the stats on the left that the uptime is great (over 99.9%). |
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| Nico, 06th 2006f September, 2006 |
| They are THIEVES and low life criminals |
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| Gulli, 26th 2006f August, 2006 |
| I have lost $99. I could use the service just for 4 days and now the entire site is gone. The company SUCKS. |
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| Samer, 05th 2006f April, 2006 |
| It's the horrorest hosting company in the world, if you want to host your site, please stay away from Datapacket |
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| kunjal, 28th 2006f March, 2006 |
wait this comany Frode
services is god but not right policy to price evey month chang prices and blackmailnt
wait do not perchesing do you like happy
see other company |
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