Register1 site dead?

[zcacogp]

Mine seems to be off-air, so to speak.

I'm singularly unimpressed.


Oli.

[BlueMR2]

Back up now.

[dtmpower]

Despite beng a happy register1 customer under Jamie - I've bitten the bullet and trasferred my domains to GoDaddy - which was surprisingly easy and free. The email forwarding is setup with a few clicks as was the nameserver details.

[SGirl]

Funny to look back over this thread now, several months after switching to TSOhost. I received a mail from them yesterday, apologising for the fact that my website was down for 10 minutes on Saturday, explaining that it was due to a severe DDoS attack and outlining the measures put in place to prevent it happening again. I don't think I ever received anything like that from Reg1.

10 minutes on Saturday. I never even noticed it was down.

[Du1point8]

SGirl said:

Funny to look back over this thread now, several months after switching to TSOhost. I received a mail from them yesterday, apologising for the fact that my website was down for 10 minutes on Saturday, explaining that it was due to a severe DDoS attack and outlining the measures put in place to prevent it happening again. I don't think I ever received anything like that from Reg1.

10 minutes on Saturday. I never even noticed it was down.

I did, it took my email server out too... The head of support apologised and explained the issue, they said I had run out of memory, I knew that was BS, but they go it back online quite quick, so didnt pry.

Then that message came though and kind of explains why the head of support was in the office on a weekend.

Good group... though they really hate to support iPhones and iPads with their email servers.

[Aprisa]

I asked the same question in another thread about my email.
Left a ticket at 0830 and no response, got a reply yesterday in five minutes so it suggests they do not want to answer as they have a bigger problem?

[WinstonWolf]

One of my customers raised a ticket regarding mail. They said it wasn't to do with them, it started working again...

[Kinky]

Hummm ........

I've seriously being considering moving away from them, and have been following this thread carefully.

In the last week, Mrs. Kinkys emails stopped coming. Then she got hit with about 3 days worth of emails all at once. And it's been sporadic ever since. My email (exact same setup) has been functioning as normal. Or at least I think so. It's been a bit quieter than usual, which i put down to summer holidays, etc.

The only thing is that I'm sure my email is routed directly via Win live admin centre. So I suspect if there is a problem, it's at the MSFT end and not Register1.

In fact, I need to figure it all out. It was so long ago I set it all up, I can't recall how I did it!

So that all said, best advice on who to use? Most important requirement is my private domain email address. Content hosting is not important, as I only use it for posting pics and it's not publicly accessible anyway.

[Sonic]

IIRC there were some problems on live yesterday, but I didn't experience any disruption on office365 which I moved all my private domains over to a few months ago.

I gave up running and managing my own mail services after 8 years, besides outbound SMTP, and have advised all my clients to migrate to 365. It's so cheap and functional it seems nuts not to! Is highly recommend it.

I still run my own London-based colo for my own VMs, lab and customer machines.

[MonkeyBusiness]

Kinky said:

So that all said, best advice on who to use? Most important requirement is my private domain email address. Content hosting is not important, as I only use it for posting pics and it's not publicly accessible anyway.

I cannot recommend Vidahost/TSO enough. I use them for personal and business.
Give them a call and they will tailor a solution for you very quickly.

[Du1point8]

MonkeyBusiness said:

Kinky said:

So that all said, best advice on who to use? Most important requirement is my private domain email address. Content hosting is not important, as I only use it for posting pics and it's not publicly accessible anyway.

I cannot recommend Vidahost/TSO enough. I use them for personal and business.
Give them a call and they will tailor a solution for you very quickly.

Definitely tsohost... I use them for business and they are great.

Moved off Register1 when email went down and they blamed me and refused to help.

[WinstonWolf]

A customer's VDS has just been hacked

Strong passwords etc, why do I have a feeling this is going to be like pulling teeth...

[JonRB]

Register1 has been steadily going downhill for ages. I have a notification from Jetpack saying my self-hosted Wordpress blog has gone down on an almost daily basis, sometimes several times a day, for between 2 and 15 mins each time on average (but sometimes for more than 30 mins). This has been going on for almost 2 months now. It's pathetic.

I'm not sure when each of my VDS renewals are due, but I will without doubt be looking to move as each comes up for renewal.

Edited by JonRB on Friday 24th October 13:00

[illmonkey]

Can't remember how long since I swapped (18months?). I pay half the price and it's not crashed in a year at least, which was a daily occurance on R1.

[JonRB]

This was how my Jetpack notifications looked like on 17th October.



Things have not improved since then either.

[illmonkey]

Maybe it's down due to the DDoS attacks Jetpack must do on it?!

[jammy_basturd]

[andrewrob]

Just had 300 spam emails come through in the last 2 minutes.
ETA over 1000 now

Edited by andrewrob on Friday 31st October 10:06

[leeb]

Looks like it is down again this morning?? Anyone know anything about this or have any contacts to them?

Thanks

[P4ulB]

Email seems to have gone up its own backside again today for one of our sites using Register1.

Anyone else experiencing issues since yesterday?

Not getting much response from the raised support ticket.