Blogging For Money

After all, I had been hosted with them for seven years before I sent out that support ticket telling them that I would like to cancel our semi-dedicated hosting package [hidden message: here is my middle finger for your lousy, expensive package, you MFs]. Here is the reply that I got from them, along with some commentary from yours truly.

Hello Menj,

I’m sorry to hear that you are leaving us.

MENJ: No, I don’t think you are. Otherwise you would have treated me with a little more respect, since I was hosted with you for seven bloody years!

We may credit back the balance months not hosted into your billing account.

MENJ: That is what I want to hear.

We really appreciate your business and hope to keep your account with us. Please reconsider our service and continue hosting with us. Other than great features at the most affordable price, we also offer outstanding service. We have 24 x 7 Technical Support. Our Support Personnel?s work 3 shifts per day including Weekends and Public Holidays which most of the competitors are not able to do so.

MENJ: Yada, yada, yada….

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One of my major websites is now officially hosted with DataKL Hosting for their four-month free trial period. I stumbled on their website after clicking on a Google Adsense link and I was really impressed with the prices (a RM130 for 5GB per year plan) as compared to that idiotic semi-dedicated hosting plan I was subscribed to for RM1.3K for six months at 4GB. I was already thinking of hosting with them after my semi-dedicated plan expires.

Then I saw this Refugees Special package and immediately I jumped at the opportunity. All it took was to submit a support ticket to them and it took them about half an hour to transfer all the content from the old host to DataKL Hosting. Then I had to wait for two hours for the DNS nameservers to propagate and oh, my…I regret not having found them earlier. The site was twice as fast compared to before and the Cpanel is simply amazing!

I am certainly going to host with them after the four-month trial expires and its goodbye, you stupid old host!