downloads from the official site

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

Is anyone else having problems with the downloads from the official Galloway site? Whenever I try to get one it seems to be cut short. I was really just wanting to check if they're still leaving the adverts and news in, and it seems they do, so I'll keep making them available without those extra chunks. Today's show is just around 2h07 when edited, so that makes the programmes about 30% unwanted guff!

edouard_g · Joined: 29 Dec 2006

I am Having problems also, Keeps cutting off during the download. Its quite frustrating and the sendspace claims I'm downloading but I'm not because my ISP has a proxy server.

Sad

eD.

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

I've heard from the guy who runs the official site and it seems that there's been an overload on their server company, so that explains the downloads not working sometimes. If anyone's having trouble in future, try using a download manager like the one you can get from www.flashget.com which will pick up your connection if it's lost.

nekokate · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: West Yorkshire, UK

The reason they're having problems is that they are hosted by servage.com, which is an unscrupulous company. They claim to offer 2,100 GB of transfer a month for peanuts, which is utterly impossible. If you sign up for an account with Servage and use even 20% of your supposed allotted bandwidth, they will either temporarily put a stop on the account and claim "server overload" or, more commonly, they will simply shut your account permanently and tell you that you've abused the T.O.S.

Sounds crazy? Just google "servage review" - they're shits!

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

nekokate · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: West Yorkshire, UK

You're exactly right, faceless.

You probably know this already - but it's called "overselling". Anyone can become a web host just by purchasing a reseller account from a current host and inserting their own details into a template site that handles the sign-ups. Most of the hosting sites out there that offer things like 250 GB transfer per month for $5.00, or similar, are overselling like crazy, and if you were to actually use the amount of transfer they pretend to offer, it would cripple them.

I've had plenty of experience with web hosting in the past and I've been lucky enough to have got good advice from people to stop me blundering into mistakes. The bottom line is that you get what you pay for, and if a host offers 250 GB a month for 5 dollars, it is without question a scam. They rely on people signing up and then not using anywhere near that amount, and if someone signs up who really needs that much transfer, then they're going to get ripped off.

The customer can't do a thing about it, either, because their copied and pasted Terms Of Service will always include the clause that they reserve the right to cut you off at any time, for any reason, including no reason at all, and keep your money.