Dear Spammer!

Posted by Crazy Penguin – January 27, 2010

Dear spammer on the other side of the Earth,

I know I am wasting my time by writing this post as there little to no chance you will ever read it.  But none the less I felt compelled to let you know how I feel.  It is highly unlikely I will open any spam email in the first place.  But since you choose to send me spam written in Chinese, (And I am going out on a limb, guessing what foreign language you are using!?)  I guarantee you I won’t even give it a second look before I hit the delete button sending your spam message to email purgatory.  So, spammer,  please attempt to learning English before sending me another spam.   And out of common courtesy if you are too lazy to learn English at least give Babel Fish a go to translate it into something that is intelligible for your spamming market.  Thanks for being so understanding!

Sincerely,

CrazyPenguin

Chinese spam

Bluehost Unreliable!

Posted by Crazy Penguin – March 6, 2008

Bluehost my favorite dysfunctional web hosting company strikes again. Abssorb and Tvuolo were patiently biting nails, waiting for 28 hours, while the technical staff fiddled with box329 attempting to make their server operational. After 28 frustrating hours box329 was briefly up just to tease the clients with the fact that they will have harmful amounts of data loss before the server went down again.

In the same post Abssorb quotes one of Matt Heaton’s blogs Reliability, reliability, relibility…

3 – Proactive administration vs reactive administration – Sometimes we find ourselves in the reactive mode. Fix it when their is a problem. This isn’t right. We have set concrete plans in place that will make it so that each time a server goes down we have the information to know exactly what caused it and how to fix it so next time the same thing doesn’t happen. Many large hosts get caught up in the “reset the server” mode, and don’t really fix the problem for the long term. We will strive to fix it for the long term.

Abssorb follows with the comment, “Looks like that ‘Concrete’ had some crap in it, cos it hasn’t set.”

Folks we have all heard the “How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb joke?” Well how many Sys Admins does it take to fix box329 at Bluehost? Perhaps Bluehost should consider farming out this type of work to one of their competitors whom are a bit more competent than their in house “Technical Department”.

I am beginning to think a Linux virus does exist and it is called a Bluehost system administrator.

Hey Matt Heaton, Bluehost is “unreliable, unreliable, unreliable…”

Bluehost Cult!?

Posted by Crazy Penguin – February 14, 2008

Beware of the unconscionable church of the Bluehost cult! Bluehost has many aspects which share common characteristics with a wayward holy roller church or a hyped-up Amway sales meeting instead of a reliable and stable web hosting company. Matt Heaton, Prophet of the Bluehost cult, is completely obsessed with the number of converts he obtains rather than providing quality service for his existing loyal members. Heaton throughout his blog repeatedly talks about the number of sign ups per day or total number of domains gained. It is all “Quantity, Quantity, Quantity” and quality is always second place at Bluehost. Hallelujah, brethren it is time for a membership drive.

Come one, come all to to the Bluehost cult. Let us send out an army of evangelists to gain neophytes. Our evangelists all have websites due to already belonging to the brotherhood of the Bluehost cult. The evangelists will place banner ads on their sites to draw in disciples. At Bluehost the evangelists are also referred to as affiliates. For every new convert the Bluehost cult will reward each affiliate with a one time payment of $65 for their proselytizing. Welcome all new cult members. Please come and join us at the Bluehost forum.

The Bluehost forum is similar to a church potluck. It is designed to be a place were cult members can get to know one another, exchange thoughts, and ask for direction. Most of the time all goes well at the Bluehost forum unless you dare speak ill about the Bluehost cult. If one expresses any discontent with the Bluehost cult, he will be banned, yes excommunicated, from the Bluehost forum. Power, mad, altar boy areidmtm is a master at banning members, closing and deleting threads, if one dares to question the almighty authority of the Bluehost cult (a few example threads 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Bluehost would love to influence one into thinking that there are no problems with their hosting service. Nothing could be further from reality. Like all cults, the cult of the Bluehost promotes some level of deception.

Do NOT be lured into the insanity of the Bluehost cult with the wild marketing promises of horrendous disk space and bandwidth allocations. What Bluehost doesn’t tell you is they will choke the life blood out of you with resource quotas. Do NOT believe the unsubstantiated uptime claims by Bluehost and wild unrealistic promises of fantastic technical support. All such tactics are deceptive by design. The church of the Bluehost cult is built on hype and partial truths. Bluehost thrives on, ” Hype, Hype, Hype.” If you are wise you will avoid the Bluehost cult like the plague.

Heaton Script Pimpin?

Posted by Crazy Penguin – January 29, 2008

In the header of Matt Heaton’s blog, who is the CEO and President of Bluehost, Hostmonster, and Fastdomain, a script was found. In the Bluehost forum Jasonj75 describes how he found the script in the header of Matt Heaton’s blog, while searching for a new web hosting company. He found it by running Firefox with a plugin called NoScript. (BTW: Turning javascipt off in a browser performs the same function as NoScript in this case.) Jasonj75 asks, “What kind of google shenanigans are going on here and why on Earth is the CEO of a reputable company taking part?” Below is the text he found in the CEO’s header.

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Look how Heaton’s blog appeared to Jasonj75. Jasonj75 discovered, when he clicked on any of the words above, it would lead him to webreakstuff.com. (a web design firm)

Basil came to a similar discovery, “Google cache does *not* lie.” In Basil’s findings when clicking on any of the key words directed him to wildproxy.net. WildProxy is a hosted proxy service.

Ok, I have something very weird going on here. In Opera I see this when clicking a key word. In Galeon, Firefox, Seamonkey, and Konqueror, I view something completely different clicking on the same key word all using Linux. On a Windows 2000 PC, I found this on Seamonkey. And once again I find something completely different with Firefox, Opera, and Flock clicking on the same key word. So what is going on here? What does anyone else see when clicking on the link? Please state your browser and operating system. What does anyone else come up with on brainware-india.com?

So why is Matt Heaton pimpin meds like Cialis, Viagra, and Levitra in the header of his blog?

So Matt Heaton what exactly do you have going on here?

Citation: Source code found in the header for webreakstuff, wildproxy, and brainware-india all in .txt format.

Bluehost Exposed!

Posted by Crazy Penguin – January 15, 2008

When I was looking for a new web hosting company, the first thing I did was surf the net to find out who was rated the best. I wanted a hosting company that had great customer service, 99.9% uptime, lots of space, reliable, easy to use, and plenty of band width. Everywhere I looked on the net I saw so many companies which were rated 5/5 & 10/10. Wow, it made it very hard for me to decide which one I should choose. The more I searched and contemplated, Bluehost came up in more search engines and with higher ratings. So I chose Bluehost.

Who, how, what, and why are the ratings generated?

Then I discovered the following:

mattheaton.com @ box34.bluehost.com

hostboom.com @ box34.bluehost.com

webhosting-topten.com @ box34.bluehost.com

zaneheaton.com @ box34.bluehost.com

webhosthelpline.com @ box34.bluehost.com

Wow! Look at the good reviews that are hosted on the same server as the one Matt Heaton uses for his blog! So what are the odds of this happening by accident? It is really interesting the bottom three all have the same theme “WebHosting-TopTen.com.” And the graphics and contents are very similar.

Go to http://serverstatus.bluehost.com/ and type in mattheaton.com

Matt Heaton Busted

In the drop down directory under mattheaton.com, we find hostsafari.com (parked), hostboom.com, webhosting-topten.com, zaneheaton.com, zachheaton.com (inactive), and webhosthelpline.com. So mattheaton.com is the main domain name and the rest are addon domains in the same account.

So it looks like what we found here is a rating and review factory, right in the office of Matt Heaton to promote Bluehost and Hostmonster. The reviews are written as if they were created by an unbiased third party, but in reality they appear to be written by Heaton and associates. In the review areas, Bluehost or Hostmonster are both rated either #1 or #2, with a 5/5 or close to a 5/5 rating, showing positive stats of 97% to 100%. Business techniques like this border on false advertising and should be illegal. Such deceptive business practices are amoral and is one more reason to avoid Bluehost and Hostmonster like the plague.

Their uptime is extremely unreliable, email has many problems, and you cannot run any reasonable dynamic content without getting an exceeds cpu error. Plus promoting fake third party reviews, when in reality Heaton & staff generated them. Bluehost and Hostmonster are dishonest and unethical concerning many aspects of the way they conduct business. Matt from your own words, “When you stink you stink!!!”