Rants and a contest about 3ix

It’s not me ranting and running a contest here but a fellow blogger: PinoyTux. She has been having problems with 3ix’s webhosting services and she was ranting about it here:

Finally, my patience with their antics run dry when they suspended my account because of reasons unfamiliar to me. I opened a chat and asked them why my account was suspended. Their answer was because my site is “causing high server load”.

Having limited access to my account, I asked the support what is the reason why my account was suspended. The answer I got was “check your logs”. Being a good girl that I am, tried to download the logs only to find out that the archived logs are in .exe file. I asked the support where can I get my logs, I was pointed at my CPANEL account which is what I did. When I asked the support that I can’t see the logs because it was in .exe format, he just said “never mind”. Continuing with the isolation process, he asked me if I have scripts and cron jobs. I said that I definitely don’t have a cron job and scripts running, aside from those that are included in my wordpress installation and asked the support to give me what cron job he is seeing so I can check it. I didn’t get an answer to that. What I got was the mysterious cron job was removed and the site should be fine. It never happened. – 3ix is not a cheap hosting provider (PinoyTux)

And she has reason to be alarmed, right? However, not everyone probably has the same problems she has encountered. One of her readers even commented about it. So maybe it’s not all bad? I suppose. I’d never know until I try. And there’s now a way to see for myself. Or if you’re curious about 3ix’s services, that is. PinoyTux is running a contest: Free Webhosting!

The rules:
The contest will run from June 1, 2008 – June 26, 2008. Deadline of submitting the entries is on June 26, 23:29 PDT (GMT -7) The winners will be announced on June 30, 2008.

Participate in her blog to earn points! Sounds easy right? Here’s the point breakdown:

• 2 Points – Create a comment here on contest post
• 3 Points – Subscribe to PinoyTux RSS feeds by email (the form is on her post) and let her know that you have done so by posting a comment.
• Write a post on your own blog about this contest and create a link back to contest post.
• 2 Bonus Points – Create another comment on a different topic on PinoyTux (except the contest post).

Prizes:
First Prize: 3ix Webhosting Account
- Expires on 04/05/2009 (that is what is stated on the account page)
- Web Hosting – Extra Plan – 30,000mb (30GB) Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, Host 3 Websites
- Powered by 3ix.org
- Can be downgraded to Excite Plan, the renewal date will be extended

Other Prizes:

(2) Winners of $5 each, Paid through PayPal (Winners must have valid PayPal account)
(2) Winners of 500 Entrecard credits each (Convertible to $5 by PayPal)

I personally got curious because I was thinking “How bad could it be?” If I win the free hosting service, then we’d all find out, I guess? Aren’t you curious enough to join?

If you had blogs or websites hosted on 3ix before and you think that they have good service or you didn’t have problems dealing with them, drop a note on the PinoyTux blog and maybe voice out something about it. I think that she’d welcome your comments on the topic too.