domVPS is going to stop their business

netguy

Anybody knows what's happened with domVPS? I've just received a notice that they will close all their servers at all locations.

Jack

@netguy said: Anybody knows what's happened with domVPS? I've just received a notice that they will close all their servers at all locations.

Post the notice?

netguy

@Jack said: Post the notice?

sure

domVPS notification:

You may have already been aware of over the last few days domVPS has not been providing a stable service which we aim to provide. This has been due to network-wide attacks to and from our network, as a result many locations have suspended servers due to the massive bandwidth amounts which they cannot handle.

As a result of this choice by the hosting providers / constant attacks we have decided to close our doors and terminate hosting of all virtual servers on every location.

Please submit a support ticket to request a backup of your VPS to be uploaded in a .tar.gz format for you to download to your new provider.

Thank you for being a customer with domVPS, be it over a year or be it a few weeks, we hope that you did enjoy the quality of hosting before the mass of issues this week.

Anyone who has paid or renewed their VPS within the last 2 weeks will receive a refund. We will also provide a refund for the time that has not been used to customers who have a long-term subscription (6+ months).

We cannot guarantee how long existing servers will be online for, due to attacks and data centre policies so we suggest you request your backup as soon as possible. To limit any more attacks, we will shortly be suspending all virtual servers.

If you have any final questions about the closure, feel free to open a support ticket and we will be happy to provide information.

Once again, sorry for the inconvenience this has caused and we thank you for your understanding.

Kind regards, domVPS

22 September 2012

Zen

OTHERWISE KNOWN AS! > DONT USE OVH.

Jack

@Zen said: DONT USE OVH.

You know that better than anyone ;)

LAKid

@Zen +1

Zen

@Jack said: You know that better than anyone ;)

I also know the reason he is closing better than anyone, and even though the owner is an asshat from my experience I actually feel sorry for him. I mean OVH do this constantly, just cut entire clients out because of issues and refuse access to data.

DotAL

@netguy

Are you sure ? Can you display the Email Headers to see where the email came from!

Shane_Elmore

To think I was considering buying a VPS from them...

Oh well.

LAKid

What's going to happen to this? this is not OVH. http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/domvps-com-6-40month-256mb-kvm-located-in-new-jersey/ on 21st, he announced that he'd have IP6, and 22nd, close the biz?

Maounique

domVPS.com – $6.40/Month 256MB KVM located in New Jersey domvps.com, kvm, new jersey September 18, 2012 @ 12:01 pm, by Zahra

maybe listing on LEB triggers attacks ? Or did they send it a couple of months back :P M

Zen

@LAKid said: What's going to happen to this? this is not OVH. http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/domvps-com-6-40month-256mb-kvm-located-in-new-jersey/ on 21st, he announced that he'd have IP6, and 22nd, close the biz?

If this email is legitimate, its likely the profit setback and rep loss of XX amount of servers being taken away will justify closing the entire business down.

netguy

@DotAL said: Are you sure ? Can you display the Email Headers to see where the email came from!

From: domVPS no-reply@node.domvps.com

Received: from france1.node.domvps.com ([188.165.216.7]:53319 helo=panel.domvps.com)

URL of the SolusVM: https://panel.domvps.com (IP 188.165.216.7)

It looks valid.

Shane_Elmore

@netguy said: It looks valid.

Another one bites the dust...

LAKid

In other words, this guy decided to rip people off, LEB fell for it, took money, running.

Brandon

@Shane_Elmore said: Another one bites the dust...

A common occurrence here on LET...

Jack

Why would they send it from Solus when they have WHMCS?

Angry admin maybe?

LAKid

Still taking orders.

Infinity

@Jack said: Why would they send it from Solus when they have WHMCS?

Maybe they host an e-mail server on their Solus master which may also be one of those joint master/ovz container holder thingey, and send WHMCS e-mails via that server.

Jack

@Infinity said: Maybe they host an e-mail server on their Solus master which may also be one of those joint master/ovz container holder thingey, and send WHMCS e-mails via that server.

Looks to of been PHP mail...

acarrascope

@LAKid said: Still taking orders.

All out of Stock and slow like hell

netguy

I opened a support ticket, waiting for a confirmation of closing.

Confirmation:

Hello,

The emails are correct, unfortunately!

You have until about the 13th Oct 2012 before the node will go down.

If you have any other queries, don't hesitate to contact us!

Kind regards,
Cameron Banfield
Director of domVPS 

Jack

DomVPS have been featured a few times before. On their last promotion they were advertising OpenVZ based vps located at a choice of 7 different datacenters.

All 7 Locations are getting shut down or Just the KVM Location?

Shane_Elmore

I demand a reason for shutdown!

Corey

This is too common, why did we even condone @dominicl starting his business?

Jack

@Corey ay? This isn't dominic's business.

Jacob

If domVPS, Even experienced attacks like we had then for sure, I know why he has shut the doors.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket. :-)

@Corey said: This is too common, why did we even condone @dominicl starting his business?

Corey

@Jack said: @Corey ay? This isn't dominic's business.

I know - just reminds me of what is going to happen.

Corey

@Jacob said: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. :-)

All 7 of their locations were with the same datacenter?

Jack

@Jacob said: Even experienced attacks like we had

AND THE E-PENIS GROWS AGAIN

Jacob

The attacks was at all our Locations, So I wouldn't say it is Impossible for that to happen.

@Corey said: All 7 of their locations were with the same datacenter?

Jeez, Mine is so big, And your sausage is so small..

@Jack said: AND THE E-PENIS GROWS AGAIN