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	<description>Tales From the Inside!</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Lunarpages Lies About DreamHost's Billing Fiasco &#124; The Mystic Bird</title>
		<link>http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10/robbing-your-customers/#comment-95571</link>
		<dc:creator>Lunarpages Lies About DreamHost's Billing Fiasco &#124; The Mystic Bird</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 22:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The comments above give a good idea of what I&#8217;m trying to show here. One thing to note here is that the above comments are unedited and straight from the Forum in which they were posted. Below is one from an employee of Dream Host: Full disclosure: I believe they made that post in response to DreamHost offering &#8216;refugee codes&#8217; and blog posts about their company like this one: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10&#8230;our-customers/ [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] The comments above give a good idea of what I&#8217;m trying to show here. One thing to note here is that the above comments are unedited and straight from the Forum in which they were posted. Below is one from an employee of Dream Host: Full disclosure: I believe they made that post in response to DreamHost offering &#8216;refugee codes&#8217; and blog posts about their company like this one: <a href="http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10&#8230;our-customers/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10&#8230;our-customers/</a> [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Lunarpages Lies About DreamHost's Billing Fiasco &#124; Merlins Minute</title>
		<link>http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10/robbing-your-customers/#comment-92829</link>
		<dc:creator>Lunarpages Lies About DreamHost's Billing Fiasco &#124; Merlins Minute</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The comments above give a good idea of what I&#8217;m trying to show here. Below is one from an employee of Dream Host: Full disclosure: I believe they made that post in response to DreamHost offering &#8216;refugee codes&#8217; and blog posts about their company like this one: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10&#8230;our-customers/ [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] The comments above give a good idea of what I&#8217;m trying to show here. Below is one from an employee of Dream Host: Full disclosure: I believe they made that post in response to DreamHost offering &#8216;refugee codes&#8217; and blog posts about their company like this one: <a href="http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10&#8230;our-customers/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10&#8230;our-customers/</a> [...]</p>
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		<title>By: 7.5 Million Dollar Mistake by Dreamhost</title>
		<link>http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10/robbing-your-customers/#comment-92397</link>
		<dc:creator>7.5 Million Dollar Mistake by Dreamhost</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] time, when Lunarpages changed the 404 page of every customer who had a default 404 page, Dreamhost ridiculed them on their blog. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see other web hosts do the same to Dreamhost. Bad! [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] time, when Lunarpages changed the 404 page of every customer who had a default 404 page, Dreamhost ridiculed them on their blog. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see other web hosts do the same to Dreamhost. Bad! [...]</p>
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		<title>By: MOST MOST &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Dreamhost Offers Free Web Hosting for Lunarpages Users</title>
		<link>http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10/robbing-your-customers/#comment-91904</link>
		<dc:creator>MOST MOST &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Dreamhost Offers Free Web Hosting for Lunarpages Users</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the web hosting deal, Dreamhost offers a special promo code - &#8220;Any Lunarpages customers who want to switch to [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the web hosting deal, Dreamhost offers a special promo code - &#8220;Any Lunarpages customers who want to switch to [...]</p>
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		<title>By: DreamHost Billing Blunder - Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair &#124; HostingFu</title>
		<link>http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10/robbing-your-customers/#comment-91896</link>
		<dc:creator>DreamHost Billing Blunder - Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair &#124; HostingFu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] billing fiasco, and offered a special coupon code for DreamHost refugees, possibly in response to DreamHost&#8217;s blog post with the same title. Search result for &#8220;dreamhost&#8221; on Google is still populated with [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] billing fiasco, and offered a special coupon code for DreamHost refugees, possibly in response to DreamHost&#8217;s blog post with the same title. Search result for &#8220;dreamhost&#8221; on Google is still populated with [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Web Hosting Blog &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Free Hosting to Lunarpages Refugees</title>
		<link>http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10/robbing-your-customers/#comment-91424</link>
		<dc:creator>Web Hosting Blog &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Free Hosting to Lunarpages Refugees</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] a move to lure away customers from their competitor, DreamHost is now offering one year of free hosting for Lunarpages refugees who want to escape this sleazy [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] a move to lure away customers from their competitor, DreamHost is now offering one year of free hosting for Lunarpages refugees who want to escape this sleazy [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Blah &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Dreamhost Needs To Stop Being An Asshole</title>
		<link>http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10/robbing-your-customers/#comment-90484</link>
		<dc:creator>Blah &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Dreamhost Needs To Stop Being An Asshole</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] So, Dreamhost is apparently not for personal storage.  Fuck that.  I&#8217;ll use 100% of the 500GB of hard drive space if I fucking want to.  If you guys are going to be assholes and require that my webspace be used primarily for hosting a website, then I&#8217;ll just encrypt everything and make it publicly accessible.  Basically, you guys are being assholes and need to stop.  You&#8217;re pissing a lot of people off and now a bunch want to leave.  It&#8217;s funny how this comes right after the whole LunarPages thing. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] So, Dreamhost is apparently not for personal storage.  Fuck that.  I&#8217;ll use 100% of the 500GB of hard drive space if I fucking want to.  If you guys are going to be assholes and require that my webspace be used primarily for hosting a website, then I&#8217;ll just encrypt everything and make it publicly accessible.  Basically, you guys are being assholes and need to stop.  You&#8217;re pissing a lot of people off and now a bunch want to leave.  It&#8217;s funny how this comes right after the whole LunarPages thing. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Why I Left Lunarpages Web Hosting &#124; Thu Tu&#8217;s Blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10/robbing-your-customers/#comment-90469</link>
		<dc:creator>Why I Left Lunarpages Web Hosting &#124; Thu Tu&#8217;s Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Web Hosting Blog: Robbing Your Customers. DreamHost offered to give free hosting for a year for Lunarpages refugees. Too bad for me that I [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Web Hosting Blog: Robbing Your Customers. DreamHost offered to give free hosting for a year for Lunarpages refugees. Too bad for me that I [...]</p>
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		<title>By: MapleOne</title>
		<link>http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10/robbing-your-customers/#comment-90434</link>
		<dc:creator>MapleOne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey guys, I need an opinion....

The Lunar forums are no different from other forums like PowWeb. It seems like most hosts (not all) heavily censor their forums and customers have no real place to go to state their opinions. 

We quickly found out that even sites like WebHostingTalk will lock topics and leave clients stranded.

The LPrefugees was a good idea but ultimately the site will only get traffic as long as a subject is hot. Then it dies off until the next episode.

The review sites on the net are all bogus and a ton of them are owned or in bed with web hosting companies.

So I'm seriously considering putting up a site like WebhostsUncensored.com as a forum and making forums for all the major hosting companies. This way when the host deletes topics the clients have a place to go where they can freely chat without being censored or fear of the topic getting closed.

A site like that would be a true measure of finding out how clients really felt about a host. The important thing is that I make it so it also has a place to put positive experiences. The we could make a rating system and use it to allow actual customers to vote on their host.

Now some of you might say sites like that already exist but I have yet to find one where customers were able to freely vent. There is always some ass closing the topic because a webhost is advertising or paying promotional fees.

Maybe I could partner with someone, or would anyone be willing to help moderate?

Email domain name suggestions to Frank@MapleOne.com

Feedback would also be appreciated</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys, I need an opinion&#8230;.</p>
<p>The Lunar forums are no different from other forums like PowWeb. It seems like most hosts (not all) heavily censor their forums and customers have no real place to go to state their opinions. </p>
<p>We quickly found out that even sites like WebHostingTalk will lock topics and leave clients stranded.</p>
<p>The LPrefugees was a good idea but ultimately the site will only get traffic as long as a subject is hot. Then it dies off until the next episode.</p>
<p>The review sites on the net are all bogus and a ton of them are owned or in bed with web hosting companies.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m seriously considering putting up a site like WebhostsUncensored.com as a forum and making forums for all the major hosting companies. This way when the host deletes topics the clients have a place to go where they can freely chat without being censored or fear of the topic getting closed.</p>
<p>A site like that would be a true measure of finding out how clients really felt about a host. The important thing is that I make it so it also has a place to put positive experiences. The we could make a rating system and use it to allow actual customers to vote on their host.</p>
<p>Now some of you might say sites like that already exist but I have yet to find one where customers were able to freely vent. There is always some ass closing the topic because a webhost is advertising or paying promotional fees.</p>
<p>Maybe I could partner with someone, or would anyone be willing to help moderate?</p>
<p>Email domain name suggestions to <a href="mailto:Frank@MapleOne.com">Frank@MapleOne.com</a></p>
<p>Feedback would also be appreciated</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Hatfield</title>
		<link>http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/10/10/robbing-your-customers/#comment-90418</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Hatfield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another classic post! :) Keep it coming man!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another classic post! :) Keep it coming man!</p>
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