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Hosting on Exabtyes Can Affect Your SEO Ranking

Here’s a reverse IP look-up result for www.meshio.com’s IP address via YouGetSignal.com. The list of websites generated below is not comprehensive, since each new search gives a different number of websites, so I believe that there are easily more than 70 domains hosted on a single web server.

Also I’ve noticed a few “questionable” sites which is allowed to be hosted on their server as well, on the expenses of other hosted domains. Check the sites in red. The following result is generated on 6th April 2008.

Found 60 domains hosted on the same web server as 210.48.157.107.

It appears that the web server located at 210.48.157.107 may be hosting one or more web sites with explicit content. The web sites in question are highlighted in red below. There is a possibility that all of the web sites on this web server may be blocked by web filtering software. Search engine rankings for these web sites may be affected as well.

bennyliew.com
blog.axian788.com
blog.mixterr.com
cashmarble.com
cowdunk.com
demo.syahzul.com
directavenue.net
efficient-consulting.com
forum.utp.net.my
frenday.com
gofloyd.com
justkhai.com
kilikulu.com
laman.mixterr.com
limadang.com
powerman.com.my
press.utp.net.my
sinaran.com.my
sogossipy.com
techborneo.com
vortrack.net
whitehope.net
www.adults.com.sg
www.aibim.com
www.alamin-network.org
www.atcencommunications.com
www.atcenevents.com
www.axian788.com
www.big-cloud.com
www.binashore.com
www.camerazone.com.my
www.cf008.net
www.creativeimaging.com.my
www.darts-pdc.com
www.englishteahouse.org
www.itsim.org
www.iworld.com.my
www.jbexplorer.com
www.klmtbcarnival.com.my
www.kml.matrik.edu.my
www.maildozy.com
www.max-solution.com
www.meshio.com
www.metrodriving.com.my
www.myeho.com
www.myphotographer.com.my
www.quickrelease.com.my
www.ritzilystylish.com
www.serkap.com
www.sextoys.sg
www.shinemodels.com.sg
www.shoppingnsales.com
www.stm.edu.my
www.syahzul.com
www.telesensory.com

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A reverse IP domain check takes a domain name or IP address pointing to a web server and searches for other sites known to be hosted on that same web server. Data is gathered from search engine results, which are not guaranteed to be complete. Knowing the other web sites hosted on a web server is important from both an SEO and web filtering perspective, particularly for those on shared web hosting plans. More about this tool.

And here’s Exabytes policy on “Adult Content”:

What does Exabytes? consider “Adult Material”?

* Any site whose revenue is gained in part or whole from its adult content.
* Photos or videos showing frontal nudity on either men or women for non-scientific or non-artistic purposes.
* Hyperlinks to adult sites, including but not limited to sites who violate these policies.
* Sites that have discussion boards and share information that is ??dult??in nature.
* Sites that sell or promote ??dult??material, including but not limited to adult toys.

Exabytes? reserves the right to decide what it considers “adult content”, “adult material”, “sexually explicit”, or “sexually related”. Let us know if you are unsure of the approval of your site before placing an order. Please email sales@Exabytes.com for review of your content and/or site.

What’s SexToys.org and Adults.com.sg doing on their web server then?

Again, to make that extra ringgit, Exabytes compromised their policy and ignored the well-being of all other hosted domains on this same server, including mine.

Would this be considered a breach of contract? My recent drop of PageRank 3 to PageRank 0 could be directly linked to Exabytes’s hosting, as pointed out here. Asking for a refund would be one thing. As it is now, www.meshio.com could be associated with “Explicit XXX Content”, hmm…





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  • http://kclau.com KCLau

    man, this is a serious problem!

  • http://www.kukujian.com Jian

    GOodness bro~! This is bad this is real bad.. tat could explain ur PR. And guess wat, dunno whether this will make u feel better.. but i got 260 domains on the same server 210.48.145.9!!! %$@%$!@#%$@$!@!

  • http://www.meshio.com yowchuan

    LOL!!!

    I wonder if Exabytes actually have a Quality Policy that at least stops them from hosting thousands of websites on a single server…

    Then again, they are prone to violate their own policy, so what the heck…

  • http://www.exabytes.com.my Chan – Exabytes

    Hello Yow Chuan,

    We host 200 – 300 accounts per shared hosting server as stated on our products page.

    I don’t think hosting on the same server as adults.com.sg and sextoys.sg is the main reason your PR dropped. You may check other domains in the list, some are still PR2-PR3.

    We don’t allow adult contents on our shared hosting servers. adults.com.sg and sextoys.sg appear to be “Addon” domains of one of the client’s hosting account which we had overlooked. This account will be suspended right away.

  • Dave

    Hi Chan,

    nice for you to reply here…. i checked on one of my website hosted with exabytes server (ip 202.75.48.27) and it also have an massage and escort services related website too with the domain 88sexyescort.com

    we all guys and know what it really means by massage and escort services offered by that site…. lol…. :)

    exabytes really need to take this one seriously….

  • http://www.exabytes.com.my Chan – Exabytes

    Hello Yow Chuan,

    adults.com.sg and sextoys.sg have been suspended.

  • http://www.exabytes.com.my Chan – Exabytes

    Hello Dave,

    I will get back to you on ip 202.75.48.27. Thanks.

  • http://www.exabytes.com Andy – Exabytes

    Hi Dave,

    In response to your concern on 88sexyescort.com, the domain is being setup as one of the account by one of our reseller. We have taken the site down.

  • http://www.websitesolution.com Pin

    People can abuse your server if they subscribe to your service and at the same time creating more domain or sub-domain hosting different sites in same account. This can be totally unfair to other shared users. Also, from the number you have mentioned (200-300), what is the spec of your server?

  • Winston

    sextoys.sg and adults.com.sg belongs to us. I guess you have given us pretty much of a hassle just because you think your pagerank drop because of what’s hosted on a server.

    Anyway, I am really disappointed about how exabytes handles the situation. AND it was NOT overlooked by exabytes no matter what they claim here. I have asked them MULTIPLE times with regards to hosting adult sex toys store on their servers and each time, a yes was given. See below email replies from exabytes.

    Hello Winston,

    Q: So, are adult products (sex toys, condoms and lingerie) allowed?
    A: Yes, it is allow.

    Do let us know if you need further assistance.

    If you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact. Thank You.

    Best Regards,

    K.C Yeap
    ………………………………..
    System Engineer,
    Exa Bytes Network Sdn Bhd

    Hello Winston,

    Thank you for your email.

    Q) Can you please clarify?

    ANS>> Yes. Kindly note that we allow for the website that sells adult toys, condoms and lingerie. Please be reminded that we do not allow for pornographic materials on your website.

    If you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact. Thank You.

    Best Regards,

    Kevin
    ………………………………..
    Customer Service Executive,
    Exa Bytes Network Sdn Bhd

    Oh, if exabytes read this, know that I will not just stop here. I will make sure people know how irresponsible your company is.

  • http://www.meshio.com yowchuan

    Hi Winston, a thousand apologies if my revelation caused your site to be suspended.

    However, no offence intended, it was clearly shown in Exabytes’s Policy the following term:

    * Sites that sell or promote ‘adult’ material, including but not limited to adult toys.

    I have nothing against your nature of business, in fact, I don’t mind buying a few of those toys for birthday presents, but I am really pissed when words are not honored.

    I just hope that Exabytes will review their recent lacklustre performance, instead of just giving empty promises.

    Anyway, I am now hosted on another server. And a change will always do you good.

  • Jan

    It is pretty sad when they promise you, but do in another way.

    Lesson learned, you can’t satisfy all the people, when you do so, you lose all of them.

  • http://www.creativeimaging.com.my mathan

    hi, I own exabytes webhosting and http://www.creativeimaging.com.my is my domain that i bought from yahoo. I really din’t understand how my domain can come into the list that you post.?
    Im using seperate hosting for my site. pls explain to me about this..?

    thks,

  • http://www.exabytes.com.my Chan – Exabytes

    Exabytes as a responsible Malaysia based web hosting company, we only can host and support web sites which are legal and not violating any Malaysia’s laws.

    We have being practising No Adult Content Policy since the first day we run our hosting business. However, due to numbers of web sites hosted by us, we might have overlooked sometime. We had just sent a reminder to all our clients that no adult comtents are allowed.

    You may also refer to our annocement here:
    https://support.exabytes.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=370

  • http://www.exabytes.com.my Chan – Exabytes

    take a look at http://www.telesensory.com – the last domain is above list, PR7/10. Hosted on the same 210.48.157.107 server.

  • http://www.meshio.com yowchuan

    It might have been a coincidence that my PR is back to 3 again after barely a month migrating away from Exabytes:
    http://www.meshio.com/2008/04/pagerank-revived/

    Chan, at the time of this writing, the server 210.48.157.107 is experiencing an outage, since the last 30 minutes with the following error messages:
    Error establishing a database connection

    Like I have said in my previous posting, and my constant emails to your technicians, I really don’t mind the server going a bit slow at times or even losing my PageRank. But when my site goes out like that, I am really pissed.

    It makes me wonder if I could do a better job hosting my own website at home with my PC…

    (I’ve just checked, http://www.telesensory.com is hosted on 210.48.157.119 and not 210.48.157.107 as you’ve claimed)

  • http://www.meshio.com yowchuan

    Last I checked, the sites hosted on 210.48.157.107 are still facing connection timed out. Total downtime should be close to 4 hours by now.

    If it’s a scheduled maintenance, it would be polite to alert the clients that are hosted on the said server.

    On Exabytes’s announcement page, it was clear that your technician only posted the alert one hour after the server went down, as evident here:

    Immediate Server Maintainance – Bramble [210.48.157.107]
    Posted By: KM Chow – Exabytes On: Wed, 07 May 2008 23:47:04 +0800

    Websites in Bramble not accessible

    Date : 7th May 2008
    Time : 11:00 PM (GMT + 0800)
    Expected ETA : Unavailable

    Maintenance Details :
    The server is currently in accessible and our system engineer is working on it.

    Maintenance Effect:
    Users will encounter difficulties in accessing their webs, databases and email services.

    We will keep this announcement update from time to time with the latest information.

    Thank you.

    Best Regards,
    Support Team
    ………………………………..
    Technical Department
    Exa Bytes Network Sdn Bhd

    As I see it, it’s another one of those downtimes which I am all too familiar with when Meshio.com was hosted with Exabytes.

  • http://www.websitesolution.com Pin

    Just found out another two interesting websites hosted in the same server as telesensory.com.

    http://bob.my – Bob rasa kurang enak sikit… interesting!

    http://www.gayfriendlyaccommodation.com – Not to worry, this is not another adult website. Just friendly, and nothing wrong about it.

  • http://getfound.com.my Lim CS

    Thought I clarify on how web hosting companies can affect the search rankings:

    http://getfound.com.my/when-its-time-to-blame-your-web-host-and-move-on/

  • Ah-Cool

    You could take a look at this article to understand more on how Google PR actually works.

    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/05/google-pagerank-what-do-we-really-know-about-it/

    Technically, PR got nothing to do with web host. Even in some cases, PR could changed after migrating to other web host, but they are DROPPED instead of INCREASED due to changes in domain, URLs or file structures or DNS after migrating the web site.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for sharing

    best regards
    JOny

    free auction hosting

  • Anonymous

    heck the sites in red. The following result is generated on 6th April 2008.

  • http://beachwear.cc Beachwear

    Esperando a que mami compre luces para el arbolito de navidad. Ya quiero salir de vacaciones!!!!”