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The biggest culprits are Airtel and Visafone. Visafone may even be worse than Airtel in the number of spam messages they send per week but Airtel is more dubious in the content they send out. MTN was equally as bad sometime ago but it seems they have piped down. Etisalat has reduced theirs to maybe twice a week.

I use all four lines so you can imagine how frustrating.

But Airtel is behaving like a company in distress. Theirs is tantamount to harassment and its unacceptable.

ghostofsparta: Can you give me 100% assurance that the First Bank Visa Gold card would work for registering a PayPal account?

You cant verify paypal in Nigeria unless you want to start trying to circumvent their system and terms. Dont waste your time.

No where in Enddystar's post did he mention paypal.

Namecheap accepts my GTB Mastercard (Dollar account) and my UBA Africard (Naira account). Also Godaddy accepts both of them as well.

[quote author=Mr. Globe]^
you dont know what you are talking about. The hostgator I know and used servers go down often. My new web hosts are a million years ahead of gator in uptimes and features. If its good for you then continue[/quote]Its you who dont know what you are talking about. I also use hostgator and maintain that I dont see the frequent downtimes you are talking about.

[quote author=Mr. Globe]I just learnt hostgator has just been hacked! I hope you know what you are going into. Hosgator in addittion has many downtimes you will be frustrated. I advise you to pick a dependable host from http://bestwebhostingoffers..com The owner I guess only features the best host you can get.[/quote]I use Hostgator for some sites. I dont know the many downtimes you are talking about

Oh well, no major damage has been done.

remoranger: Well. Its the usual, but what makes me wanna drop them is their attitude to solving the problems.

1. Website goes down. The client doesn't care if its not from your end and they rain down fire and brimstone on your head. So you contact the host. You are requested to send mail to their support team. Nothing is done until you have to call personally. When it comes back up, the website database has been rolled back to a month ago and you have lost files and database entries including articles. Your call the host back. the host gives your crappy excuses instead that the hosting plan you paid for is too cheap (10k per year) that's why its your website is acting up and I did not pay for data recovery so my files are gone. A good thing I trained the resident webmaster to backup.

Instead of solving the problem they send you a long mail marketing their basic plan of 30k and all will be well. Well, the client is one of those rare clients that pay well for web services so I cough up the dough and pay the 30k per year requested. The same problem happens, only this time its while you are presenting the website features to your clients business partners. Hoping you could strike gold with them. Imagine the embarrassment in-front of a projector and 30 people.

You call the host back and they say send a mail. Apparently I am angry and in the mail I said and I quote "I wonder what creative excuses you are going to come up with this time considering I have paid you the extra money for the basic plan u requested(30k)" I get a mail back from Mcreal.net telling me to learn to be courteous in my correspondence and not use condescending and snide remarks which is a gross violation of their policy"

Imagine the total crap...for my own money again?

So I have decided to stop doing business with them and walk!. To be terribly inefficient is one thing to reprimand me when i complain of unsatisfactory service is another.

PS: To be fair, they have been good and professional since 2007 when I started business with them, but been having several issues since last year and this is the last straw. Probably the owner has become a millionaire and doesn't give a crap about the business. Its the Nigerian way, you start a business humbly, the customers come and you end up thinking you are a god.

nhmmm, I would be angry too if I were you. I think from the way Dual Core explains stuff here, he probably knows what he is doing in his hosting business so if you are willing to give another Naija company a try..(Havent used him though so am not recommending from experience but from words from others here).

If you are looking for quick and easy foreign hosts, I recommend HOSTGATOR(From experience).

But another thing is that you havent explained what kind of site it is that was affected. Is it a news publishing site or a forum? How busy is the site? Because, its more than just upgrading from a 10k package to a 30k package. If the 30k package is still not good enough to handle your data and resource usage, it still wont work.

But its a forum. What is there to review? The posts/topics?

yamakuza: he would have stood a better chance if he had registered the domain before the name change, and not after.

#Makes me think of registering some for Ojukwu, Yekini and Adedibu in advance. Lolz.

Exactly, yet the .edu.ng requirements must come into play sooner or later...

yamakuza: Even if u get to register it, u can hardly sell it.

#cybersquatting

Thank you. And I believe If Unilag/Maulag feel they must have it, they will get it from you without paying those hundreds of thousands you are talking about...

adaybayor: Short the F and address đ matter at hand...why don't answer my question and stop disturbing urself over doctrines you will never understand.

In other words, you confirm there is such a doctrine as 7 virgins waiting for martyrs?

destiny10: i want to build a simple cms website for news content. Prefer wp and i will give design layout. Please name your price by sending email to helpmateconsult@fastmail.us with sample work.

In reference to the highlighted part, what then do you need someone else for, if you already have wordpress and a design layout?

@ Omo to dun and Dhtml, is the arguement for websites building generally or for data presentation?

Because we all know that its better to build websites with CSS(*DIVS*) these days for a number of reasons. However for presentation of Data, tables are easier and better and they can also be styled and presented better with css.

So one could have a site designed with CSS but also integrate styled Tables when it wants to present data that is perfectly aligned...

oluwa12002: Pls can someone tell SUNNEWSONLINE.COM to use an unlimited bandwidth, this is a major cause of their website being down all the time. kudos to the webmasters for the job a little well done. yes you have made major changes to your website but come on Sun Newspapers you need bandwidth. i think ur registrar (directnic.com) is ripping u off. with what you pay, you will get unlimited from the big boy registrars

I think their problem could be that the old site was running on flat files(no database). Just plain static test posting/adding of news so it could be hosted on any shared /reseller hosting . I think since they migrated to a data-based cms(Drupal I suspect), the site has had to make repeated calls to the database hence an increase in resource usage resulting to the constant break down.

Now they will get to see what the rest (Guardian, Vanguard, Businesday, Thisday) spend on hosting every year.

They will need to get a solid dedicated server to run their website as the site generates huge traffic.

Seun: Heh. Programmers like to create work for themselves. It's cute. Tables are too easy, so let's use DIVs and mind-bending CSS!

chinedumo: [size=20pt]imagine LAGBOOK being as old as Nairaland?
imagine it with their current pace of achievement of two years



Nairaland should Do a "membership drive"

898859 members is disgraceful

even Nairaland has a lot of inactive members

the bases of comparison i used for both Nairaland and LAGBOOK is "Nigeria-NESS"

there are people in Nigeria who have not heard of Nairaland

the unfavorable disposition of majority of Nairalanders to this thread
will not cause me to withdraw my call to Nairaland to "sit up"

one more thing

I am not in the pay book of LagBook[/size]

i want to congratulate Nairaland for not suppressing this thread. for being democratic

are there columns dedicated to nairaland in newspapers?

Typing like this is called shouting and its very disrespectful of other users...

Wordpress is good for blogs.

virtuoso01: This is just an attempt to give more publicity to their site through Nairaland.

And Seun duly obliged them by moving it to the frontpage knowing what was coming their way....

Seun , you sly devil you......

Slyr0x: You should be done building the scam site by now. .No?

lol

Kpimp: The uba branch at ogunlana drive at surulere is giving me wahala.imagine i filled the africard form on thursday(17th) and i was told to come back on wednesday(23rd),but i went on thursday just to give dem more time.but i met anoda lady not the one dat attended to me before,she showed me some africard for other people which the date was last year november.she told me maybe my card is not ready and she will ask the lady that i met on the firstday i filled the form.today i went there and i met the lady i met the firstday,she directed me to go upstairs for the card.i met a lady telling me i need to open a uba account to get the africard.i was dissappointed cos of the time wasted.anybody wit any idea where i can open in lagos that is near to surulere.cos me don tire 4 there wahala.

I hope you explained exactly what card it is you are asking them for? Cause you dont need to open an account to have that card.

Unless there has been such a rush for it that they now see a need to vet and streamline their users.

green10119: Good point, i have also searched but nothing like that i think they just help you with PAD DB for easy software submission through pad files, then you can go ahead and customize the way you like but the main issue is i have not seen what am looking for as listed above in my previous posts, but i'll try to see is i can come up with something from SOLOGY'S ideas, though am still open for suggestions.

Yamakuza's and Yawatide's ideas you meant to say?

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]Soloqy, Oh, so yours was necessary, right? Can't take a dose of your own medication? [/quote]What exactly did I do? What medecine are you talking about?

ONLINEbizDON4U: Well! !!

With my own PayPal account,I'm secured and make payment anywhere any time and to tell you the fact,I made a $95 payment

3wschool yesterday for PHP certification and just paid another $10 with it to apsense to get 2,000 credits to promote this

my article on apsense which you can read more about here =>

http://www.apsense.com/article/do-most-people-actually-buy-the-products-and-services-they-promote-to-you.html


Thanks..............................

Good for you. Carry your Paypal business and open another thread. This is discussing UBA Africard

cap28: Ileke was right wen she said tht those nigerian girls will nevr do these jobs - if I knw I cn get ten times wht walmart wld pay in an hour frm an old alhaji why wld I work a forteen hour shift live in a room wth ten othr ppl because I dnt earn enough to rent because thts how the chinese and indonesian. And haitian walmart workers live

Thats where you people like generalising. Nigerian girls are already doing such jobs at places like Shopright. Walmart will not be diffrent. Not everyone wants to do alhajis.

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]Soloqy:
Any more smart alec retort this time? [/quote]^^^^^^^^^^
This..... Unnecessary .....

Bontee: The sites only harvest peoples email and sends spam mail to them if they would be greedy enough to fall for the bait. So it is not entirely wrong if you go ahead but depending on your conscience then you can decide to do whatever you like. No one is 100 percent moral and we never can tell tomorrow if some situations can make us to compromise.

I am sure morality will give you profits in your business when there is competition and cost of doing business facing you here and there. Sometimes they say only those who are caught are guilty but whatever your conscience says you should do then do it whether good or bad depending on your situation.

And where did the OP state that the site was just to harvest people's emails and send spam mails?

People are just looking for excuses for the OP to do this thing sha..

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]If you have $150, I would advise that you get the middle-tier version of jomSocial. It will be the best $150 you will ever spend on software - period![/quote]But you didnt ask him whether his main site is done in joomla or has jomsocial done a stand alone version?

ebamma: it depends on how mouth watering the offer is,if its in the region of 15mili i will gladly oblige them but if na 1 mili,make them go pour stone.and one word for u all,only the greedy are defrauded,if u invest 5k and expect to earn 500k u deserve to be defrauded.

Why are you talking like this? What if its a site that imitates a bank like we see those that imitate GTB? Would the people going there be classified as greedy too? What if its a site that wants to steal people's identity by asking for user details?

Nothing would justify knowingly doing such a job..