tomchan
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I had this with a different provider years back. The "fraud check" is really a payment processor hold, not the host's own security team. Hostinger uses third-party risk scoring. If your card bin looks odd to their processor, you sit in a queue until a human releases it. Nothing to do with your actual history with Hostinger.
The status page showing green is because their API-to-provision pipeline is separate from their payment-to-approve pipeline. Classic microservice left hand not talking to right hand.
works on my bench ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
lucgone
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Le Baguette
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I have timestamps. Hour 3: "please wait". Hour 8: "escalated to senior team".
In France we have "droit de retractation" for online purchase. 14 days. But for server, if they not deliver in promised time, is different? I don't know. But the "instant" is lie, this is sure.
I check their Paris datacenter. My ping from Lyon is 12ms, not bad. But if I need wait 14 hours for "instant", I go to OVH instead. They French, they slow too, but at least honest about it 😅
Vive la résistance... électrique
svendeal
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Deal Sniper
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OVH honest? That's a new one. Their "instant" is 2 minutes then 6 hours of network issues.
But back to Hostinger: their .io prices are $40-60 renewal. I backorder at porkbun for $35. Hostinger domain + VPS bundle is a trap. You think you save, you pay later.
The fraud check thing is real though. Happened to me on Namecheap too, 4 hours. Escalated on Twitter, fixed in 30. Pattern is: cheap hosts use cheap support, public shame is premium support.
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moebig
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RAID is not backup
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In Morocco we have same issue with international payment. "Fraud check" is often just "your country is on a list". I use Wise now for VPS, less flagging. But Hostinger took my dirham card for 2 years then suddenly flagged? Makes no sense.
I mirror my mirrors but I also mirror my providers now. Two VPS, different companies, failover with keepalived. Hostinger is secondary since this thread. Primary is Hetzner, no fraud check ever, setup in 90 seconds.
RAID 1: because paranoia pays
Hana5
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GPU poor
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Hetzner is good but their Tokyo routing is bad for me. I tried Hostinger Singapore datacenter, "instant" was 3 hours. Not 14, but still not instant.
My electricity bill is already war crime, I don't need hosting stress too. Now I just use Japanese provider (ConoHa) for JP workloads, accept higher price for actual service. The "cheap VPS" hunt costs more in time than money saved.
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uma
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99.99% or bust
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Has anyone actually measured if the fraud check correlates with payment method?
Adding column to my sheet. So far:
- uma: card, 2 years history, 14h
- lucgone: unknown, 9h
- svendeal: unknown, 16h
- Lite14: unknown, 11h, IP not assigned until billing email
Need more data. But my guess is it's not payment method, it's random sampling plus queue depth. The "fraud check" is a load balancer for their understaffed manual review.
436 days. reboot is surrender.
