Fatcow Network Completely Down

[matthewamzn]

I have two sites hosted on Fatcow. Fatcow was recently bought by Endurance International. Fatcow has over 33,000 accounts. Early April 9th morning, everything went down including fatcow's corporate website. Does anyone else use Fatcow? Should I be worried?

[edited by: matthewamzn at 9:17 pm (utc) on April 9, 2005]

[The Contractor]

I'd pull those domains out of your post as they are not allowed...;)

And yes, whenever your host goes down you should be worried..

[leadegroot]

I'm on an industry mailing list that the fatcow mail server pushed 400,000 identical messages through on or about that date. Needless to say the listmom wasn't happy.
I don't think you have a quality host there.

[Frequent]

I too have a couple of sites hosted by fatcow. The outage was very frustrating (ok- perhaps panic) but I've had no other significant problems with them for a few years.

I suspect the problem was related to the purchase, as their hardware was being moved this week according to one report.

Regardless of the reason, no host the size of fatcow should be down for anywhere near 24 hours. I will be shopping around. I've got a one strike rule and they just used up their's. (Of course, if they throw some compensation my way I may see things in a different light.)

I've been looking for an excuse to set up a reseller account anyway. Feel free to PM me with any outstanding reseller programs you have experience with.

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