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still no proof logs? videos?

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proof?

Let’s get started with my review.. This is my personal experience and thoughts, things may have changed now. I don't know. So I purchased a 40 slot server for DayZ in NY from “Host Altitude” on the 31st of July, their ETA said July 31st for NYC servers. After purchasing I didn’t get my server right away, fine by me I understand setup times etc. So I am patient and wait for 24 hours. Aug 1st : I get an email for my CP, I’m all stoked, I login to stop my server and update it etc., I can’t start my server. It just said (Status: Error, slots 0/0). All of a sudden the CP goes down about 10 minutes later, (cp.dayzhosting.com), so I put in a support ticket, no response for 24 hours. Their CP is basically down until about 1 AM EST. (GMT-4, tried periodically through the day) Aug 2nd : I never received and email for my ticket, I had to manually check that it had been responded to. Someone did responded, Notice, This ticket went up 1st August 2012 08:58, I Got my response 2nd August 2012 05:31. Not a full 24 hours but pretty damn close to it. In this ticket it literally says this: Okay? First of all what patients? Did you mean patience? Why did you go down? What do I tell my friends/community? Unbelievable who is working for you that can’t even spell? Anyway, I login to the CP, to find my server up and running it has been assigned a PID etc. Okay, cool so I shut down I reupdate the OA build 95417 + DayZ 1.7.2.4 + Hive 0.7.2 + BE update. It says it was all done, I go to start my server, it starts and when I tried to join (along with many others), I get the “This server is running an incorrect version of the server side application, you cannot play on this server, if you are the server admin please contact DayZ Staff”. Then, I try to troubleshoot it by using the older 95389 build and even manually updating the server by downloading the latest zip for DayZ via FTP, just to find out that they don’t allow .dll’s to be uploaded, I search around the ftp for the dynamic link libs for @hive and MySQL, I am not the server admin so I don’t know if I have been restricted from seeing it, but on their website it says server.cfg is restricted and I can access it via FTP/CP, but I couldn’t find the DLLs. I don’t know if DayZ requires these things but it was in the zip I received. I also checked the logs for possible reason while I was at it and everyone who joins my server basically gets one of these: “Player X: Wrong Signature for file Y.” Also, I see no updates on the forums/website saying that you may experience downtime for any new customers or any possible reasoning as to why things aren’t working. I feel they leave you out in the dark. This is a managed server I am paying for I should not have to troubleshoot your problems for you by checking logs that you should be checking, or uploading files that you should already have. If I had wanted to do any of this I would have paid for an unmanaged VDS. I have been renting/purchasing managed/unmanaged servers for multiple purposes since 2001 and honestly this is the worst company I have ever seen in terms of ETA’s, support and response times. I can’t even rate their server performance because they can’t even get things running. Host Altitude says if you are an unhappy customer to refund with them, they will be happy to refund you.

Let’s get started with my review.. This is my personal experience and thoughts, things may have changed now. I don't know. So I purchased a 40 slot server for DayZ in NY from “Host Altitude” on the 31st of July, their ETA said July 31st for NYC servers. After purchasing I didn’t get my server right away, fine by me I understand setup times etc. So I am patient and wait for 24 hours. Aug 1st : I get an email for my CP, I’m all stoked, I login to stop my server and update it etc., I can’t start my server. It just said (Status: Error, slots 0/0). All of a sudden the CP goes down about 10 minutes later, (cp.dayzhosting.com), so I put in a support ticket, no response for 24 hours. Their CP is basically down until about 1 AM EST. (GMT-4, tried periodically through the day) Aug 2nd : I never received and email for my ticket, I had to manually check that it had been responded to. Someone did responded, Notice, This ticket went up 1st August 2012 08:58, I Got my response 2nd August 2012 05:31. Not a full 24 hours but pretty damn close to it. In this ticket it literally says this: Okay? First of all what patients? Did you mean patience? Why did you go down? What do I tell my friends/community? Unbelievable who is working for you that can’t even spell? Anyway, I login to the CP, to find my server up and running it has been assigned a PID etc. Okay, cool so I shut down I reupdate the OA build 95417 + DayZ 1.7.2.4 + Hive 0.7.2 + BE update. It says it was all done, I go to start my server, it starts and when I tried to join (along with many others), I get the “This server is running an incorrect version of the server side application, you cannot play on this server, if you are the server admin please contact DayZ Staff”. Then, I try to troubleshoot it by using the older 95389 build and even manually updating the server by downloading the latest zip for DayZ via FTP, just to find out that they don’t allow .dll’s to be uploaded, I search around the ftp for the dynamic link libs for @hive and MySQL, I am not the server admin so I don’t know if I have been restricted from seeing it, but on their website it says server.cfg is restricted and I can access it via FTP/CP, but I couldn’t find the DLLs. I don’t know if DayZ requires these things but it was in the zip I received. I also checked the logs for possible reason while I was at it and everyone who joins my server basically gets one of these: “Player X: Wrong Signature for file Y.” Also, I see no updates on the forums/website saying that you may experience downtime for any new customers or any possible reasoning as to why things aren’t working. I feel they leave you out in the dark. This is a managed server I am paying for I should not have to troubleshoot your problems for you by checking logs that you should be checking, or uploading files that you should already have. If I had wanted to do any of this I would have paid for an unmanaged VDS. I have been renting/purchasing managed/unmanaged servers for multiple purposes since 2001 and honestly this is the worst company I have ever seen in terms of ETA’s, support and response times. I can’t even rate their server performance because they can’t even get things running. Host Altitude says if you are an unhappy customer to refund with them, they will be happy to refund you.

Same deal. I ordered from them 2 days ago, waited 24 hours for my first CP notification, after that their CP went down for hours, with no response on what was going on. Just a terribly spelled sentence 24 hours later saying "Control panel is back up, thanks for your patients" OK? What patients?.. What happened? Why did the control panel go down? Why did my server stop running? What do I tell my community? I am paying you? Why am I being left out in dark, hence getting such slow response times, I understand you are busy or w.e but 24 hours for each response is stupid, for you to reply to me 24 times would take 24 days rendering my subscription useless. Anyway, horrendous response time from them, I have been buying/renting servers since 2001 and this is by far the worst company I have ever rented from, in terms of providing ETA's, reasons, and support/response times. I feel I have been left out in the dark with this company, I have called their phone number to have no one pick up and then I listen to their voicemail, nothing along the lines of host altitude. This is 2 days already, 2 days of downtime and no server, I have to wait another 24 hours just for their response. So make that 3 days. My word of advice, don’t buy from Host Altitude as they are going to screw you over. If I don't get my response soon I’m filing my dispute with PayPal. I can connect to a lot of other servers but my own? I also see people join and leave, I wonder why? OH maybe because it’s not us but the host, At least now I know it’s the host and not me since i am not the only one experiencing this issue from the SAME host. Coincidence? I think NOT! Checking logs, basically every single person who joins my server gets these errors. The log is terribly long just player XX wrong signature for X. 5:58:56 CamoReaper uses modified data file 5:58:56 Player CamoReaper connecting. 5:58:56 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\characters_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\desert_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\dubbingradio_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\dubbing_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\l39.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\language.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\languagemissions.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\languagemissions_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\language_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\misc_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\missions_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\modules_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\mp_armory.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\music_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\plants_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\roads_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\rocks_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\signs_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\soundmissions_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\sounds_e.pbo 5:58:57 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\structures_e.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\takistan.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\takistan_data.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\takistan_data_layers.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\tracked_e.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\ui.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\warfare2.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\warfare2_e.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\weapons_e.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\wheeled_e.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\expansion\addons\zargabad.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\a10.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\ah64.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\air.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\air2.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\air3.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\animals.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\animals2.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\anims.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\buildings.pbo 5:58:58 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\buildings2.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\buildings2_ind_cementworks.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\ca.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\characters.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\characters2.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\chernarus.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\chernarus_data.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\chernarus_data_layers.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\dubbing.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\editor.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\misc.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\misc2.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\misc3.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\misc_fix.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\missions.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\missions_ew.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\modules.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\music.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\plants2_bush.pbo 5:58:59 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\plants2_clutter.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\plants2_misc.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\plants2_plant.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\plants2_tree.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\roads2.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\rocks2.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\signs2.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\soundmissions.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\sounds.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\structures.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\tracked.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\tracked2.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\uifonts.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\utes.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\warfare2vehicles.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\water.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\water2.pbo 5:59:00 Player CamoReaper: Wrong signature for file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\ArmA 2\addons\weapons.pbo Upon further investigation I notice that they don't have any .dll's checking their FTP for their servers, nor will they allow it. Hiveext.dll is missing under @hive and both mysql.dll are missing from root directory. can't upload any either. I could also be wrong and they are just hidden but I doubt it.