Top Bad hosts

[russdev]

Just seen this on a nof list..

 

Top Bad Hosts - November 2009 | HostExploit

 

Russ

[CSNM-Carl]

What is a nof list?

[glennda]

im surprised go daddy are on there - i thort they where quite a large company??

 

toby

[FN-GM]

Not a single one from the UK.... Maybe someone should mention the old edugeek host. I forget the name now.

[CSNM-Carl]

Not a single one from the UK.... Maybe someone should mention the old edugeek host. I forget the name now.

 

I can name a few UK ones.

[john]

Go Daddys Customer Support sucks a bit, I have my SSL certificates with them (as they are cheap and handy) but it really isn't good support, took many days of nagging to get it sorted but now its working its fine and renewals should be easier I was told

[CSNM-Carl]

Go Daddys Customer Support sucks a bit, I have my SSL certificates with them (as they are cheap and handy) but it really isn't good support, took many days of nagging to get it sorted but now its working its fine and renewals should be easier I was told

 

Traitor!

[john]

Traitor!

It was for work not my personal stuff

 

Plus you wouldn't give me your Easter Offer on my reseller renewal

[EduTech]

Traitor!

 

 

I have my SSL Certs with GoDaddy Aswell.. They are pretty good but i do agree with john there support isn't that good although recently i did have an issue and i spoke to someone with some sense and it was solved.

 

James.

[russdev]

Network Operators Forum these guys pretty much run the internet.

 

BBC NEWS | Technology | Unsung heroes save net from chaos

 

UK one is UK Network Operators' Forum

 

Geoff would feel right at home here on these lists.

 

Full list is at Internet Network Operators' Groups - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Russ

[Cue]

What exactly are these stats based on? Purely what has been hosted on them? I have a server with Joe's Data Centre and they're hardly a bad host, very good in fact. The "top bad hosts" title is very misleading.

[pete]

What exactly are these stats based on? Purely what has been hosted on them? I have a server with Joe's Data Centre and they're hardly a bad host, very good in fact. The "top bad hosts" title is very misleading.

 

They're a bad host in the sense that they're bad for the Internet at large. If your hosting platform is being used for malicious activity and a) you're not bothering to monitor for such or b) you don't investigate / investigate promptly reports of X being done via your network, you're a plague on the Internet.

 

Everyone else on the Internet > Hosting providers customers.

[Cue]

They're a bad host in the sense that they're bad for the Internet at large. If your hosting platform is being used for malicious activity and a) you're not bothering to monitor for such or b) you don't investigate / investigate promptly reports of X being done via your network, you're a plague on the Internet.

 

Everyone else on the Internet > Hosting providers customers.

 

Ahh, that makes sense then. I would suspect that Joe just hadn't had them reported, they're not really that big a company in terms of man power so probably not going to be watching over servers all the time (only do dedicated and VPS anyways, and they won't monitor other people's servers unless they have a valid reason to do so).

 

Still, it may be a bit misleading, don't you think? They're not necessarily a bad host, they've just had dodgy stuff put on their servers by customers and either haven't had it reported or they've removed it and the customer has just put it back on, I highly doubt any of these guys would stand for actual dodgy stuff being put on their servers if they knew about it.