Can I Sue Abimco.com

I am a member of a web design and development company situated in Nsukka. As a new outfit, we looked for a web hosting company and following my enquiry here, we decided to host with Abimco.com Unfortunately, the experience has been bitter. All our clients web sites that were hosted in Abimco personal plan just disappeared from net. And two of the sites are actually owned by popular Rev Frs in this town with functioning NGOs. The reason that Abimco gave is that some people were using their sites to send spam and for that they have to block the data center. Well I am not finding this development funny at all. If it is a fraud or joke, I just want it to stop immediately. Let Abimco just put okunerere.org, kayceenet.com and foundationforgod'slove.com back to net without further delay. We need to complete our work on them and present them officially to their owners.

But we are still working on the sites. None of them has been presented to their owners and neither my MD who happens to be a Rev. Fr nor I ever send spam with the sites. I am 100% sure of what I am saying.

If they are not the ones doing the blocking, then what am I suppose to do? Because right now, I can't afford to allow them eat the amount we paid for the three sites a month ago and then start lying of un existing spam.

No. I see no reason for us to bash Abimco here.

@ kelechiodo, Ask Abimco to give you the proof that the spam originated from your account. If they can prove it, then forget it. You have lost both the money and the account. Abimco's Terms of Service is titled "Zero Tolerance To Spamming, Scamming".


So, all they need do is prove it and you've lost everything.

This is what you get when you get the services of people who go into web hosting business without having a sound and strong business relationship with the web hosting companies as regards issues that may arise.

Since January 2003 no single website hosted by Just Web Services has been down or blocked. While I hate adverting on public forums this is one case where I can boldly say that if you want a worry free web hosting service Just Web Services can help you because ultimately web developers take the blame when things like these come up and some would want to generalize that all web developers are bad or insincere.

Suffice to state here that we have provided web hosting service to some web designers that had such bad experiences in the past.

We have dedicated machines for web server, database and email servers to provide maximum reliability and performance.

You may read the article below to learn more

http://www.justwebservices.com/webhostingarticle.html

I will certainly not be getting into an arguement with you on the business of web hosting.

Just a note to the casual browser to understand why some web hosting packages are cheap and others expensive.

A single server of say 100GB hard disk can conveniently host 500 websites with 200MB for each website.

The same server can host 100 websites with 1GB for each website and can host 5000 websites with 20MB for each website.

So, for the end user, it depends on reliability of the server as the server that is over loaded will be less reliable than one with lesser websites.

The information above has to do with why we do not charge very low prices for web packages because we are not in the business of carving out hard disks to host thousands.

Now to the issue of spamming.

Why would you host a business you do not know or do not understand? Whether you like it or not it is your business to ensure that your clients are into legitimate business.

But what do we have in reality, web hosting companies accept money from anyone that wants a web package because the focus is on the money.

My dear, I have turned down offers to build websites for fraudsters that want to clone bank websites. Some offer as much as N200,000.00 for something that won't take me 6 hours to complete yet I ask them to go elsewhere.

The companies you stated that were shut down were in the business of allowing everyone host with them business the focus was the money that will be made.

As a matter of fact I use my Mastercard to help web designers order reseller packages which they now carve out to make a lot of money from many clients.

In this business, it is your business to know who or what your clients are into. No excuses, do the right thing and you will have less headache.

Meanwhile, our web hosting packages are not expensive considering the disk space, bandwidth and other features.

Personal - Static    250MB    50GB    5 N24,000.00
Basic -   Dynamic    12GB    250GB    250 N44,000.00
Banter - Dynamic    20GB    300GB    500 N54,000.00
Platinum - Dynamic    30GB    Unmetered    750 N80,000.00
Dedicated Server - Dynamic    80GB    Unmetered    Unlimited N540,000.00

http://www.justwebservices.com/webhostingplans.html

I guess it all bores down to screening each web hosting order, before processing it.

We don't want to engage in any public forum to defend our action, we informed our clients when signing up for our services that we have zero tolerance for spammers and other illegal activities on line using our services. We are not ready to jeopardize the interest of genuine clients because of the activities of few spammers, who are destroying the image on the country on line.
Most spammers don't develop anything on the frontpage of their sites, but create e-mail accounts they use in their nefarious activities.