Dave Torkington
February 6th, 2012, 04:53
Hi fellow simmers,
I'm in need of a short rant to hopefully make myself feel a little better and to make others aware to beware!
A good buddy and I have been renting an FSHost server [paying monthly] from a UK based game server provider [name witheld] for many months. The service was very good initially, but within the last twelve months and then very recently it got pretty dire. It got to the point where we'd paid in advance for the following month and the server was down for two weeks out of four, even after submitting a 'high priority' ticket...
So, my point - choose your game server provider carefully! Beware when you're given positive responses and promises and days, then weeks go by without any action. I should have noticed when links to Forums and 'Get Support' on their homepage didn't work. Thankfully, I can still get to the ticket system.
Ok, it's only $13 a month, but I wonder how many other folks have been paying up front in advance for a service that was far from reliable! We've since cancelled the account and are now running our own FSHost session [thanks to a good friend] and wondering why we didn't do this long ago!
Thanks for watching :salute:
I'm in need of a short rant to hopefully make myself feel a little better and to make others aware to beware!
A good buddy and I have been renting an FSHost server [paying monthly] from a UK based game server provider [name witheld] for many months. The service was very good initially, but within the last twelve months and then very recently it got pretty dire. It got to the point where we'd paid in advance for the following month and the server was down for two weeks out of four, even after submitting a 'high priority' ticket...
So, my point - choose your game server provider carefully! Beware when you're given positive responses and promises and days, then weeks go by without any action. I should have noticed when links to Forums and 'Get Support' on their homepage didn't work. Thankfully, I can still get to the ticket system.
Ok, it's only $13 a month, but I wonder how many other folks have been paying up front in advance for a service that was far from reliable! We've since cancelled the account and are now running our own FSHost session [thanks to a good friend] and wondering why we didn't do this long ago!
Thanks for watching :salute: