[Hidden-tech] Siteground does serious screwup of web sites

[Rich@tnr]

If any of these were my older serious business sites I'd have move on that.
Although a few are major research projects like Shakerpedia
As is it, I don't think I'm up for the effort or cost of legal battle

That said, I do think they totally violated best practices -- all our 
AWS, google or other services give 3-6 months warning on such structural 
changes.
And I do plan on telling them that.

Clearly time to move past SG.

Thanks - Stay well all - Rich

On 1/18/2021 9:31 PM, Shel Horowitz wrote:
> You'll need to find a lawyer who is well-versed in this particular 
> area. I think you have a claim--but that's personal opinion--I am not 
> qualified to give legal advice. Many lawyers will give you a free 
> initial consult, though--and if they smell a large settlement, working 
> on spec for a (hefty) percentage of the settlement is pretty common.
>
> Good luck.
>
> I had one site hosted with Siteground for one year. I wasn't unhappy 
> until they tripled the price for the second year and I left. I have 
> all my sites with Hostgator now.
>
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> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 4:10 PM Rich at tnr via Hidden-discuss 
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> <mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>> wrote:
>
>     Just checking anyone else has been totally screwed up by
>     siteground changes
>     (and yes, I'm being very polite in my use of words)
>
>     They changed their goGreek hosting so each web site is it's own
>     unix user id
>     and blocking any shared logic between sites.
>     Which would make no difference for simple sites,however
>     I have some 50 sites on hosting with them and a number of busy
>     ones use
>     common logic.
>     now broken at some unknown level -- it will be hours of unwinding.
>
>     Of course they did this without prior warning.
>     Usually a change like this is down after months of warning.
>     I am on the verge of calling a lawyer -- working to determine the
>     damage
>     first.
>
>     Very likely looking for alternative hosting.
>     Before retiring this would have all been done on AWS instances,
>     however since most of volunteer work I couldn't justify the expense.
>
>     Suggestions of hosting or how to handle common logic across domains.
>
>     Stay well - Rich
>
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