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Web hosting story: Could you google your company's advertisement?

This is a story of web hosting on an Internet provider. It didn't work unfortunately in my case. I use Alice since you can quite it in a few months time span instead of  a two years contract. I signed up ``comfort'' that has a better service even the hardware is the same with extra 15 Euro/month. I liked it since I never need to wait the service operator. The quality of the operator was good. That was around 2009. After that, O2 bought Alice. This time, I could not manage the ftp connection. I can connect to the server, but the connection only kept a few seconds. It was unstable. I changed client software, I looked forum, I changed operating system, I changed other connection point... I spent around eight hours in three days. I called the service, but it turned out, the operator didn't know what was ftp. Another operator showed up, he seems also no clue about what I was asking. He told me this night shift could not handle the request, we will call back in the mor