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KuJoe
03-16-2007, 10:33 AM
As other have said Cirtex has by far the fastest Support than any other host I have used in the past 3-4 years. Their ticket response time is amazing, even if it takes 4-5 replies to get a real answer or get your ticket escallated to level 2 support. With that said their quick response is extremely nice, but without quality support speed is nothing. A few issues I've had to fix myself and a few issues were never resolved and I have since given up on. It's unfortunate that problems arrise, but atleast Cirtex is there to answer you, even if it's not the correct answer or the answer you want to here. The frequent downtime of their servers since I have joined leads me to think that their 99.5% uptime is a rare occurance, but maybe I just joined at a bad time. One thing I can say is that when something is broke, their support is quick to reply to confirm something is broke and that there is no accurate ETA available. Apologies are always good, but you can't pay bills with them.

And to give an example of their support, this is one of the issues I had which (luckily) ended up fixing itself:

I was having a DNS issue with my account, 3 replies to my ticket later and their support was still trying to convince me that my problem was that my index.html file was empty... I populated the file with something to satisfy them and their reply was along the lines of "Now you're fixed." I ended up telling them to just close the ticket as the conversation was killing brain cells at an alarming rate. Luckily whatever the problem was resolved itself about an hour later (or somebody else was having the same problem and had more patients than I did at the time).

Overall I don't think I'll be leaving Cirtex, mainly because I doubt I'll find anything better and I'm not willing to pay for VPS or Dedicated just yet. I'm also under the impression (from reading other experiences) that these problems will iron themselves out sooner or later, and luckily my sites are not live just yet... but they will be by my 6 month review and it will be reflected accordingly.

Cirtex Admin
03-16-2007, 11:00 AM
Hi KuJoe

First of all thank you for your kind words.

Sorry about the DNS Issue you had, I actually remember your ticket and I believe we were running QuotaCheck on the server you were on due to some customers complaining their accounts showing up wrong Disk Space Usage. Which during quota check some dns issues surfaced, but after quotacheck was done, everything returned to normal ;)

Thanks for choosing Cirtex and take care!

KuJoe
11-09-2007, 03:10 AM
Wow, I can't believe it's been almost 8 months with Cirtex. I must say that they have been the best hosting company I have been with in the past 4 years. Sure, I've had to open dozens of support tickets (luckily only a small few were "critical" or "emergency" priorities) but the response times were excellent and the majority were resolved within the first hour.

I currently have 3 accounts with them now and I will be gladly be adding more in the future since their prices are low enough that I don't have to worry about using to many add-on domains to keep things organized easier. :D

Before I came to Cirtex I had been through 4 other hosting companies within a 2 month time frame ranging from the cheapest I could find to the offensively expensive (1 of which company stole my money and domain from me after 3 days of transferring all of my data over).

Oh, and neither I nor my visitors/members have not experienced any downtime with any of my sites (10-12 domains over the course of 5 months) relating to server or hardware issues.

Cirtex Admin
11-09-2007, 10:39 AM
Hi,

Thank you for your updated review, we'll keep doing our best!

Cheers