Mydosty Proxy Hosting Sucks

Don't sign up for Mydosty proxy hosting. I'll show you why!

I can't believe I found this awesome deal. $2 a month proxy hosting with 40gb bandwidth if I sign up for the entire year. What makes it even better is that they have a Thirty Day Money Back Guarantee. I have nothing to lose! This deal is too good to pass up. I'll just sign up for the plan. Wait, what?

First, let it be noted that the description for that plan isn't even accurate. On the actual Proxy Hosting page, it lists 40gb of bandwidth if you sign up for the entire year. Still, this is a fantastic deal, I'll just clear up the matter through their support. Here is my support ticket. Let it be noted that on the date December 9th, 2008, the typo still stands, despite the site owner acknowledging it in the previous ticket.

So I signed up for the plan above. When I went to pay my bill through Paypal, it automatically set me up to monthly payments, instead of yearly payments. I had to cancel the subscription, but it's only a yearly payment, I don't need a subscription to handle that. Everything is going great.

The hosting account process went okay, and I quickly uploaded my sites to Mydosty and started splitting the traffic using DNS. Mydosty was receiving half of the traffic, which totaled around 1gb per day on their servers. I paid for an account that was meant to provide me with 40gb of bandwidth, with the notion that this is proxy hosting, so they have the hardware capable of handling it.

About five days in, I get a suspended page notice. What ensued next is just plain bullshit, as outlined by this support ticket. Let's walk through what happened in this ticket.

• I ask why I was suspended
• Apparently my proxy, which was promised 40gb of bandwidth, was using too much cpu for the server to handle (38.9%)
• I acknowledge the issue and decide to cancel my account and request a refund.
• He agrees and says I can have a complete refund if I ask within the first 30 days.
• I cancel my account and mention that I will recommend this service for smaller proxies.
• He thanks me.
• Twice.
• A few days later, I mention that my cancellation request was not fulfilled.
• He assures me I won't be charged (wait, he means I'll be getting my refund, right?).
• Weeks later, I ask for my refund of $20.
• He says no because my account caused problems for other users when it used too much cpu.
• I remind him I paid for a yearly account and that I only used his service for a few days. I offer to accept $18.
• He threatens me with an extra charge for "braking the TOS" and then says I crashed the server.

I'm sorry, but what the fuck? First my account only used 38.9% cpu, now it crashed the server? That's bullshit. I could have used 100% cpu of that server and it still wouldn't have crashed. I have ran a FreeBSD server with an 800mhz processor and 256mb of ram, and it has never crashed because of resource usage from Apache, and I have ran considerably higher loads on it than Mydosty was receiving from me.

Even if I was using too much cpu, his offer is bullshit then. He promises to handle proxy hosting, which is known to be resource intensive. If 1gb of proxy traffic is too much to handle, what the hell is the point of offering me 40gb of proxy bandwidth a month? Don't offer that much if you can't support it.

Dave Manchous, fuck you. You are a piece of shit. All you had to do was give me my $18 back and we would have been fine. Instead you decided to be a worthless asshole and keep my money that was meant for a yearly payment, on a service I used for maybe five days. I hope the $18 is enough to rent a rowboat so you can paddle yourself down the rivers of an eternal hell.

It will be my pleasure to post reviews of your hosting company anywhere someone may be considering your services. Hopefully someone is reading this article with the intention of signing up with Mydosty Hosting. Good thing they know better now. In fact, it looks like a bunch of people feel the same way as I do.

You were not the only one on the server. A sudden surge of procy using 39% can easily cause a carash! Thanks Anyway, I like the way you manipulated the whole thing.
http://www.mydosty.com/Testimonials.php

12-12-2008

That's funny, I didn't know you were running the server on a NetBSD toaster. The bottom line is you offered me 40gb proxy hosting, and you knew that if I actually used that much, your server load would be too high.

A server will not crash because of cpu usage. The only way that server could have crashed is if I used up all of the ram, and then used up all of the swap, making the machine run out of virtual memory. If that honestly did happen, you did not have enough resources to offer proxy hosting in the first place.

I don't see how you consider this to be "manipulated" either, considering I posted a mirror of the ticket thread where you clearly mention the refund, and then when I cancel my account you tell me the refund is off.

And finally, your testimonials page is laughable compared to the negative feedback your site has at http://www.webhostingreviews.com/mydosty-hosting-reviews.htm

12-12-2008

I had a proxy plans with these guys to temporarily host my proxy sites for $4/month back in May 2008. My account got suspended after passing BW limit and that after like one week. That's understandable, but I ended up canceling my subscription because I found a new hosting company for my VPS server. 5 months later, I realized they were still charging my credit card (I barely check my CC since I barely use it)...and I let them go again to avoid the headache since it was only $20. After that second cancellation, I'm getting another bill again!! So I'm going through the same process again as I'm writing now. I'm getting my refund this time...these guys are ridiculous!

12-31-2008

MyDosty.com is wrong gary and ill search the sappenal codes and law...etc cause i know this website is wrong and could be shutdown due to this. You dident violate his TOS he did. There was no where saying in the TOS that if u cause problems with the server your service is terminated nor does it say you can be suspended. He has the right to do all that but not take your money
HE PROMISES YOU 30 DAY MONEY BACK AND YOU DONT GET BUT HE ALSO PROMISES YOU THAT HE IS VERY SERIOUS ABOUT PROTECTING THE SERVERS WHICH HE DIDENT DO...So on this note i would have sued and gained more outta him than the ammount payed

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02-09-2009

I had a bad experience with them. I have an Icelandic domain, and ISNIC refused to set their DNS records to the mydosty DNS because they were not "consistently registered" as in this email to me:
what "consistent" means, is that the nameserver should be registered
properly, so that when you perform:
nslookup <fqdn> -> you receive an IP address
nslookup <IP address> -> result includes fqdn of nameserver

You must therefore contact the person who manages the reverse zone for the
IP address range 75.127.68.0 and request that they ADD the following PTR
records:
100 IN PTR ns2.mydosty.com.
98 IN PTR ns1.mydosty.com.

Mydosty refused to resolve this issue, and refused to refund my money - in spite of their money back guarantee. That was the fastest ten bucks I ever spent, and I got absolutely nothing back in return!

03-06-2009

It's ridiculous how they get away with scams like this, and it was also ridiculous of Paypal to not refund me on my chargeback, or anyone else's chargeback it seems.

03-06-2009

Today ive noticed my website has been down for the last few days. After trying to find the problem online, the server from mydosty.com is down - looks permanrtly, not got any message of any issue they're having and no email to inform users of anything at all.
After reading through dozens of bad review experiances, not a single 'Genuine' review has been sumbitted except of course the owners of mydosty.com- im left with little choice to get move away.
Little chance of me getting my money back $2.99 for the month only 2 weeks into the first month. The CPanel options didnt quite work as expected. I'll make sure im not on any subscribtions, *Note to others please pay hosting on PAYPAL if possible to add extra layer of web security between you and service provider.

Right now im looking for cheap proxy web hosting - recommendations anyone?

04-27-2009

Oh my gosh! I was just going to purchase a hosting package from them. My luck suddenly laughed that I happened to find this review. Thanks dear.

01-31-2010

Hey, thanks for the reviews guys! I was 2 seconds away from going with Mydosty, but the cheap price doesn't seem to be worth the hassle and poor treatment. A prime example of what treating your customers poorly can do to your reputation. (taking notes)

Funny thing is when I searched for Mydosty on google, this website popped up only a few sites from the Mydosty website... ouch!

02-09-2010

Have som bad experiences with them as well. Not recommended.

04-08-2010

I would recommend not to pay annualy if that's possible, since some hosting companies are somewhat controversial. This is extremely important especially on the "unlimited" bandwidth web hosts. Remeber that nothing is unlimited and you can get your account be banned if you use to much bandwith. If you have a lot of visitors go buy dedicated hosting or vps hosting plans, not shared. Even thought shared hosting is a lot cheaper it is worth to uprade to either a vps or dedicated plan.

05-23-2010