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50megs.com billing me for old account

Posted on2012/11/16AuthorTruXter

I dropped 50 megs from my website host, probably 4 years ago.

I didn’t like the small storage I was paying for and limited function and limited … well everything.
Today I looked in my spam filter and see that 50megs has been trying to contact me to get billing issue resolved.

Here’s the email I found from them:

Dear TruXter,

The credit card we have on file for your service subscription was declined when we attempted to bill you $47.85 on November 07, 2012. To avoid any interruption of service, please update your credit card information as soon as possible. Just go to your Member Area and click on the Update My Billing Info link to access your billing information.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Billing Department for assistance

Phone Support Hours: Monday – Friday, 9AM-9PM EST
US Toll-Free Number: 1-800-396-1999
International Number: 1-585-295-0885

Sincerely,

50megs Customer Service

and here is what my webhosting is actually registered through

Why would they try and bill me for something I don’t use them for anymore?
did their servers crash and they back up a broken file?

Well I use Powweb now because it’s cheaper and unlimited with way more function.

none of my site is through 50megs. Not my domain name not my storage, nothing is on their servers .

Low Cost Website Host

Posted on2011/11/222011/12/08AuthorTruXter1 Comment

I Use Powweb Domain and Website hosting. ( in that link, Scroll to the bottom and see what the cost is. [$95 bucks two years].)
Simply because the cost is very low, and the storage is UNLIMITED . When they say unlimited, they mean it. I have well over 40 gigs worth of work online. My friends and other web designers who share tips and ideas with me, download and upload files files from my servers ftp channels, all of the time, at no extra cost to me or to them.
When you first register, the cost is half of their regular low price. I recommend you sign up for two years of the web host service from powweb. One year of service is very low, but after that year is gone, you back to the regular price of (not specific or 100% correct) just under $130 a year. So you register for two years and you come out dirt cheap for two years. and won’t have to mess with your domain updating for another year. Plus, search engines love websites that look like they will be around a while. Click the Low Cost Webhost link and just look at the cost.
It’s near impossible to beat that price. Unlimited emails,unlimited php scripts, Ftp logins you can build as big of a website as you want, with no limitations. You can build your website or have someone build your website for you, and never once be told that you can’t do something. You are fully unlimited on powweb.
This isn’t any Go-whatever Website with spammy banners. Don’t want banners? Fine, don’t make them.

If you have any questions of how to build your website Feel free to see my Webmaster tools Use that and come back as often as you need. I have many tips for website building.

Domain Storage Half Off May 2011

Posted on2011/05/18AuthorTruXter

It seems that Powweb is running a half off sale on their Website domain storage and free domain name sale.
I did not know this until I was at work and getting my boss off of our ten year old dedicated host server that kept crashing and only gave us like 200 mb of storage. My boss was paying $1800 a year for such service. We do not need that kind of server with that little of storage. Sure if they had given us 5 gb of storage, then a dedicated server would have been perfect. Then we could have put customer files on the server and gave them access to the files at break neck speeds. instead we had enough space for a 20 page website with one repeated flash image, and we were maxed out. 200 mb of storage does not go that far. On top of all of that, we had 250 mb limit per month. With no ability to run any scripts because the server was built in 1998 and only updated as far as it’s obsolete operating system is worth.
I called tech support to see if I could get anything done. The fees became unbelievable. That company was bad for the company I work for. Useless for creativity, and far antiquated.
So I mentioned that I use powwebto my boss and that I pay $130 a year, with unlimited emails, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage. That’s for domain name renewal and storage renewal. My boss was amazed at how I knocked the bill into less than 1/10th the cost of previous server bills. I requested he clicked the link on my website for the domain host and he just handed me the credit card and put me on it. While I was filling all of the totals out, I saw that I could get him 2 years for $93.12 on his domain storage. This of course I noticed when at the end it asked “did any refer you?” I selected “other” and then typed in my website address ( TruXterTech.com) and it knocked off an extra $5 off of his bill.
When I showed him that he now has unlimited website storage and unlimited bandwidth and unlimited email accounts, he just grinned. didn’t say much after that. Kind of creeped me out but hey, I did good.

If you will notice, TruXterTech.com loads super fast and is rarely ever down. Then you know with everything unlimited and at half price, you are getting a great deal. Hope you do the wise thing and select more than one year because this sale will not last forever. I don’t even know if it will be on next month. They don’t really say much about that. probably a good idea to select two or more years. Imagine getting 5 years at the cost I pay for two. For five years you wouldn’t have to worry about your website storage, at all.

I can tell you that I have called their tech support and the phone was answered in seconds and the issue was resolved in a matter of minutes. And yes it was my fault for “learning how to do stuff” when I shouldn’t have been messing with stuff. but they restored me for free and got me running again in minutes.

Selling off Some sites

Posted on2011/03/09AuthorTruXter

I have a few site domain names I am selling off.

banned user Banned user was to be a website for the craziest of the internet users to go to. No advertisements nothing. To just let people go nuts in the forum. but instead it turn into a place I list i.p. addresses I ban from all of my wordpress websites.

On My Front Lawn On my Front Lawn, was to be a competitor to craig’s list, but for now it’s just a place I use to try and get rid of my working but used electronics.

I Work With People was to be a fun site ranting about working in retail. . But now it’s just a blog to help people do better in their career. With a job search for those who need to just find a better job and get a better life.

I Work With Music. Was to be a place for musicians to post their link to their site and leave a bio. all for free. After a year of very few bands showing up. Turned it into a wordpress built site with with news and updates about musicians, local music dates and reviews and music news. It gets old.

I Work With Tech Place to sell my technical services. Computer repair and other technical services I have to offer.

Starcraft II Clans For a video game community.

Grand Theft Auto Clans Another video game community.

Hate Filled Soul was a myspace mobsters website.

These are all websites that are for sell. Yeah I gave a description of what they currently are in Google for so you have an idea of what you are working with when you buy these websites. These sites are for sell. The prices you see on the sites are showing what I want. I did set a total of what I will settle for to sell these sites quicker. I can’t take less for them because I have way to much time invested in SEO for these sites.

So if you are looking to buy a website that is already in Google These domain names are for sell. That is all that is for sell, just the domain names. If you like the content on any of the websites for sell, and if the website is built in wordpress, I can export the content and you can work out importing the content to your location. Any of the users that frequent the forums at gaming sites, I will not be giving up their information, but you can join the sites before the domain is transferred, and you can message the users about the new change and your plans and tell them how long before the site is back up. I will work with you on that.

So if you want to buy a website look at the list here.

Netflix and Godaddy

Posted on2010/09/152010/09/15AuthorTruXter

Should both Netflix and Godaddy really be crammed down our throats every time we boot up our computers?
Have you ever been to their sites?
Netflix, they sponsor every dang podcast I listen to and every online video I watch. (well not all but many). Have you ever looked at the shows they offer on Netflix? I mean even Redbox has a larger, better and higher quality selection than Netflix. I truly do not like Redbox. I stop there all the time, smear my snot on the screen as I flip through the first page or so of videos and walk away feeling ashamed I did it again. Heck the Redbox movies are just a dollar and I can get up, grab one movie and be back home watching it, before it ever even comes out on Netflix. If it shows up there. mean while you hog up all of the bandwidth using Netflix and your spouse is mad and your kids are mad.

Godaddy. You ever decide you want to buy a domain name? Ever find that someone bought that domain name but never did anything with it? Yeah that person is typically on Godaddy. It’s like everyone found a place that has a known name and decided to buy from there. Kind of like Walmart. Everyone knows it’s there and the people that shop there, have no idea why you call their stuff crap. Well the people who buy up domain names and do nothing with them are called “squatters”. That name sounds a bit negative, right? Of course it does. It’s meant to. I mean you have a great idea for that domain name and that jerk has 700 domain names and does nothing with them. One of his domain names you have a brilliant idea and are not able to use it now. Now your Websitedesigner dot what ever domain name has to be 1websitedeigner1 dot what ever is available.

Cool they have a domain auction section on their site. That just further provokes even more people to just buy up random named domain names and sell them at scary high prices. Meanwhile their prices are no better than other domain registrars.

Would be nice if the ads would just lay up or be in relevant media.

What’s more likely to happen, I will end up renting a Netflix movie and find a Godaddy commercial at the beginning. Or register with godaddy and find a netflix ad in some banner I can’t remove from my site.

Have a difference of opinion? Reply.

Selling 5 Domains

Posted on2009/10/08AuthorTech News3 Comments

I have a year to renew my domains, but ready to let the mess of them all go. It’s far to much work for just me.

I worked really hard on getting all feeds ranked in Technoratti. Infact this particular rss feed is worth “$1,693.62.”

Considering I have barely writen anything here in the past few months, that is pretty good. For the most part people come here for the Linux info I give in one of my directories, and the occasional coverage ion Grand Theft Auto. (I actually show how to play grand theft auto on Linux. You should Google it and see what you find. I did my work and it’s real info. So people link to me on their sites. I try to not be a spammer. So Google does all the work I need for getting the content noticed.

I wanted to make an ” I work with” network. Meaning I wanted to cover many job fields in content topics, and give people of that field a place to relate with. I wanted them all to be able to talk to each other and trade tips or just rant or sell or trade stuff related. I had no plan to charge anyone for going there and using any of the services. So I never did.

The “I work with” network consisted of

iworkwithpeople.com an employment site that I wanted to help people in retail. Could be used for many things, from therapy to psychiatry to loan agent. It is currently an employment site.

iworkwithtech Wanted to make a site to sample products with and tell everyone about the products. after the products have run their course in my reviews, I was going to overclock them. Never had the time, so I slapped something together to fill the spot and maybe bring me work.

iworkwithmusic.com The goal was to let people submit their music content there and let the world hear it and or buy it. Totally free to the users of the site, except of course the media content they buy from the bands or dj.

Next on the list of sites for sell is not in eth same plan as the iworkwith network.

but still a fun site for me to run, during the times I had a mess-load of users. After the site rebuild I lost a lot of regular users. Down to like 18 people max. That site is gtaclans.com a community for grand theft auto player. That one was fun, real fun.

Next is TruXtertech.com. The news section was three years of steady fun. at times I had stuff just flowing, at other times, I had a life to chase.

The asking prices are as follows.

iworkwithpeople.com $15000 Check the value for yourself Here

iworkwithtech.com $2000 Check the value for yourself Here

iworkwithmusic.com $500 Check the value for yourself Here

gtaclans.com $2000 Check the value for yourself Here

truxtertech.com make Offer Check the value for yourself Here Don’t worry, I will accept a reasonable offer.

I used stimator.com Because they do not base their searches on pure alexa results. If you Google Alexa you will understand. I know for years, malware scanners removed Alexa software off of people’s computers. So it really can’t be reliable if it’s only means is watching activity, and everyone is removing them.

check these websites statistics

Please contact me at (truxter @ truxter . org) {no Spaces}

Paypal welcome, and of course I will hand over the release code once the money is transferred. Sorry I will not give out bank routing number, but you can use my paypal account to use your credit card. If you do not have a paypal account, I suggest you set one up.

The prices are negotiable. But don’t be rude. I have a short temper for low ballers and hustlers. If needed I will gladly sign up to the sites and write for you in my free time. That is of course if you use the same plan I was working on. I will help you with search engines targeting.

Liberty Names Of America, Mail Scam?

Posted on2009/03/26AuthorTruXter

I received this mail from liberty Names of America , also known as lnoa
The mail goes like this:

As a courtesy we would like to remind you that it is time to renew your domain name which is expiring soon. Failure to renew your domain will result in losing exclusive rights to it on the web and losing access to your online presence. By moving your domain to Liberty Names Of America, you can take advantage of the savings we have to offer. Your renewal will start from the day your domain name expires, even th you are signing up months earlier.

It goes on to shoot prices at me for my domain name. Saying that truxtertech.com will go for one year at $29 , two years at $49 and five years at $94.
I can not help but laugh in disgust. I pay 6.99 a year through netfirms for one of my other domain names. I could switch my domain myself for $150 for 10 years at bravenet.com
The people I am registered through for this current domain name is powweb.com I pay $94 a year for unlimited storage space and bandwidth, unlimited email accounts, 75 mysql databases and the domain name is free. My bill is automatically charged to my account before expiration. They can’t help lower my costs any. Why would I want to even consider Liberty Names ? They make it clear that they are not forcing me to re-up on my domain name. But the mail does look like it would be scary to someone who is new to this planet. Not that this an advertisement but hey, if you register through powweb, Let them know you read about their deal from me, I get a kick back from that stuff and it would help out a whole lot.

Well just a heads up to anyone who is doing a search in google for that dang company. They are not the registrants of your domain …. yet, So you might want to head back to where you first bought that domain and pay up. some companies might squat on it and turn it into a spam site. I lost truxter.org that way years ago. Bought it late last year and it has been a hard battle to get it back into search engines.
Is Liberty Names Of America a Scam ? I dunno, but their prices are far out of my reach.
Here’s what other’s think
Search That’s to see rip off Claims
This is to see people calling them a scam.
Others saying they are overpriced

What is a good webhosting service?

Posted on2009/03/23AuthorTruXter

I’m happy with my current host, and about to recommend a friend there.
but i am wondering what company gives the least amount of frustration?
bluehost?
justhost?
powweb?

I do plan to use php and mysql while working on their site for them.
so please any and all information is good.
Should I get justhost? all the sites say it’s great, but all the blogs and forums say it’s only a year old and a rip off. but i do not know. what do you think of justhost,bluehost,powweb ?
something other?
comments section is wide open you do not have to create an account to comment.

like this site says they are wonderful (read closely)
and they teach you how to search the internet to see if they “suck”
but I tried to search for something else
I found this when I searched “Scam”

Of course I found this when I followed their rules

But then again, we are talking about a tech community. Techies do pick and peck at all details, especially when worrying about income and monetizing the internet’s activity.

So people, tell what is good
Bang for buck, what is the best hosting plan
I personally Like Powweb, They seem to have the lowest cost and most options.

Domain name Hell

Posted on2008/06/06AuthorTruXter

After getting a bill for an automatic update to my domain and storage. Well I freaked out and started to cancel. then I remembered that my affiliate settings are signed up through that domain name. I decided that it would be best if just transfer my domain name over to my pow web account.. well when I called the 1800 number to get the refund, “Rodney” (clearly not his name) Some guy I am assuming is somewhere in the middle east answered the phone. Hey I am cool with anyone at all times. but for god sakes what are saying?. I was so excited I got my refund and all I just hung up the phone.. Well “Rodney” closed my account intirely. I still have 4 months left on the storage and a year and a half left on the domain name. Well I call again, this time “joey” answered the phone.. Um this dude sounded just like Rodney..

Well I get go through a huge hokey pokey and finally I get my website signed up to my new host.

I am the poppa of

truxtertech.com

iworkwithtech.com

iworkwithpeople.com

For now they all point to the same spot. I am recreating iworkwithtech and iworkwithpeople . I have miniature plans. Lets see what I can come up with.

I suggest you do your research. It is a battle to leave 50megs.com. who by the way is owned by mysite.com who is owned by freewebs.com.

who is owned by BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. It goes on for ever. Fact is, 50 megs gives you 1 gig of storage

Most new domain places out there like blue host, powweb and on and on give you 15 TB or more.