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When this annoucement was made, and the association established, Arvixe servers were located in the US and owned by a US company. Another company EIG bought Arvixe, moved all the jobs and all the servers to Pakistan to obtain the slave labor waged cheap support people and instituted a basic "I don't care" policy with regards to customer support. I know that Xoops gets revenue from Arvixe for their "exclusive" ads, but I would prefer to NOT see Xoops endorse any hosting company that is defrauding people, providing bad support, and does not care that they are. I would prefer that Xoops dissasociate itself from advertising ANY web hosting companies, no matter what they would pay to have their ads on this site. The fact that Xoops is promoting Arvixe and doesn't allow anyone else to place their ad on the site is a sure reason why MOST if not ALL other web hosting companies do not recommend or offer Xoops in their installation and support scripts. Just do the logical math. Support one hosting company exclusively and you have locked out all the others. Why should the others support some CMS that won't let them have an ad too. Xoops has become a side note in the CMS world partly because of this deal. It is a bad deal for Xoops now. It may have been great back when it was made. For those seeking a Web Hosting Company, please, for your own sake, look somewhere else other than Arvixe.
When this annoucement was made, and the association established, Arvixe servers were located in the US and owned by a US company. Another company EIG bought Arvixe, moved all the jobs and all the servers to Pakistan to obtain the slave labor waged cheap support people and instituted a basic "I don't care" policy with regards to customer support. I know that Xoops gets revenue from Arvixe for their "exclusive" ads, but I would prefer to NOT see Xoops endorse any hosting company that is defrauding people, providing bad support, and does not care that they are. I would prefer that Xoops dissasociate itself from advertising ANY web hosting companies, no matter what they would pay to have their ads on this site. The fact that Xoops is promoting Arvixe and doesn't allow anyone else to place their ad on the site is a sure reason why MOST if not ALL other web hosting companies do not recommend or offer Xoops in their installation and support scripts. Just do the logical math. Support one hosting company exclusively and you have locked out all the others. Why should the others support some CMS that won't let them have an ad too. Xoops has become a side note in the CMS world partly because of this deal. It is a bad deal for Xoops now. It may have been great back when it was made. For those seeking a Web Hosting Company, please, for your own sake, look somewhere else other than Arvixe.