If price is paramount, and quality is not that important, then maybe you can afford to stick it out with them. But that is not the case with myself, and the clients I manage. Good luck to your future endeavors. I hope you don't become a victim a second time.
Is it good that we have competition? Naturally. Should we expect that things like this will happen? I would think so.
The internet, and all of its process, is still a baby. Given this, would you want your first rotten attempt at a home page pulled because it had HTML problems?
Things will go wrong when we are trying something new. But that latin phrase, Caveat Emptor (buyer beware), should always be in the back of our mind.
There have been problems with other domain name registries. Why would we expect this one to be any different?
We all need to roll with these punches and learn from them. It all part of the maturing of this technology.
I am sorry to hear that more of the same is enough for you to turn the other cheek. I am also a customer. I still can't get through to their help line, my controls are still not working and I have email account routing problems. Make no mistake, by viewing the hudreds of threads on this subjet, there is a serious problem with CIHOST in its service, technical expertise and honesty. There is a saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... shame on me!"
There are two common themes we are seeing: hackers and duplication. Hackers come into the picture because each nanite will be following a program. Duplication comes into the picture in the form of a computer virus. Now, unlike what our friendly virus maker of today, if we are to create nanites we must build in that off switch mentioned above. The major reason for this is that it is still much more efficient and cheaper to build a nanite that can reproduce itself than it is to manufacture them individually. If you create one, then that one creates another one and so on. But because they are programmed to make them out of "stuff" the reproduction could go on until everything, even human flesh, is now a nanite. Pretty scarey! Maybe there is a way to program them to use only certain "stuff" to reproduce, and thus limit how may can be created. Say they are allowed to reproduce themselves using water, but only until they run out of water. Once they run out, they are programed to stop reproducing. Then you could drop one of these into a glass of water and they would reproduce until they have consumed all of the water. What scares me about the whole process is that if there is a "glitch" in the program and they can't be turned off. They they reproduce until everything is consumed. Yikes!
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If price is paramount, and quality is not that important, then maybe you can afford to stick it out with them. But that is not the case with myself, and the clients I manage. Good luck to your future endeavors. I hope you don't become a victim a second time.
Is it good that we have competition? Naturally. Should we expect that things like this will happen? I would think so.
The internet, and all of its process, is still a baby. Given this, would you want your first rotten attempt at a home page pulled because it had HTML problems?
Things will go wrong when we are trying something new. But that latin phrase, Caveat Emptor (buyer beware), should always be in the back of our mind.
There have been problems with other domain name registries. Why would we expect this one to be any different?
We all need to roll with these punches and learn from them. It all part of the maturing of this technology.
I am sorry to hear that more of the same is enough for you to turn the other cheek. I am also a customer. I still can't get through to their help line, my controls are still not working and I have email account routing problems. Make no mistake, by viewing the hudreds of threads on this subjet, there is a serious problem with CIHOST in its service, technical expertise and honesty. There is a saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice ... shame on me!"
There are two common themes we are seeing: hackers and duplication. Hackers come into the picture because each nanite will be following a program. Duplication comes into the picture in the form of a computer virus. Now, unlike what our friendly virus maker of today, if we are to create nanites we must build in that off switch mentioned above. The major reason for this is that it is still much more efficient and cheaper to build a nanite that can reproduce itself than it is to manufacture them individually. If you create one, then that one creates another one and so on. But because they are programmed to make them out of "stuff" the reproduction could go on until everything, even human flesh, is now a nanite. Pretty scarey! Maybe there is a way to program them to use only certain "stuff" to reproduce, and thus limit how may can be created. Say they are allowed to reproduce themselves using water, but only until they run out of water. Once they run out, they are programed to stop reproducing. Then you could drop one of these into a glass of water and they would reproduce until they have consumed all of the water. What scares me about the whole process is that if there is a "glitch" in the program and they can't be turned off. They they reproduce until everything is consumed. Yikes!