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Looking for a New Host
Posted: 29 Jan 2026 12:23
by admin
You may have noticed performance and availability issues with the website and forum in recent weeks. These issues were caused by HostEurope's migration of our webspace to cPanel and our email to Office 365. The migration was poorly communicated and implemented. Once completed, many things worsened and nothing improved.
Yesterday, we contacted HostEurope support and asked them to resolve the situation. Their response was so inadequate that it's clear this company is a sinking ship. Therefore, we are looking for a new provider, preferably in Germany. Does anyone here have personal experience with Ionos?
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 29 Jan 2026 12:53
by highend
I have two Ionos servers since probably a year. No issues so far
Another Netcup server since several years, no problems either
But all my servers are VPS, not webhosting (so I administrate them myself)
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 29 Jan 2026 14:35
by admin
Tnx, sounds good.
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 31 Jan 2026 12:42
by admin
This weekend, xyplorer.com will move to Ionos. Expect some downtime.
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 31 Jan 2026 13:17
by highend
Which package did you choose?
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 31 Jan 2026 13:35
by admin
Nothing yet. I'm just starting to look into the process.
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 01 Feb 2026 17:01
by highend
Done?
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 01 Feb 2026 17:08
by admin
In the process of... takes 120 hours for the final switch, so that's supposed to happen on Thursday. Gives me time for moving the gigabytes to the right places.
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 06 Feb 2026 10:59
by highend
Finally a fast forum again^^
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 06 Feb 2026 11:00
by admin
YEAH, back in business!
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 06 Feb 2026 12:08
by Filehero
Nearly instant response times over here, great!
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 06 Feb 2026 18:02
by Borut
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 08 Feb 2026 10:41
by admin
Hmm, looks like most attached images and ZIPs in older posts don't work anymore?
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 08 Feb 2026 11:06
by highend
Seems so
Interestingly in posts where a .zip / .xys was attached recently even very old attachments still work, e.g.:
viewtopic.php?t=12662
Re: Looking for a New Host
Posted: 08 Feb 2026 11:56
by admin
Okay, I found out what happened. When downloading the files from the old provider they were incorrectly treated as text files instead of binary files and line endings (well, what looked like line endings) have been changed from 0A to 0D0A. This is an irreversible damage (replacing all 0D0A by 0A would fix some but not all).
I now try to re-download the files (about 10,000 files, total of 1.65 GB) which is a bit tricky because of the DNS changes due to the provider switch. Damn...
PS: I guess the files that still work did not contain a single 0A byte.
