YourVZ.com ceasing operations??

littleguy

Just received this email:

Hi

I am sorry to inform you that the IP range that we are using is beeing revoked by the upstream provider due to exessive abuse by the users.

YourVZ.com will be deadpool in 24 hours as the ip network is being terminated.

Please make backups of your servers to prevent data lose.

Regards

Justin

Doesn't sound very good, pretty shitty business practice if he is just gonna withold all the customers any further service.

Taz

24 hour? WHF @ZEn

judouk

Got the same email. I paid for a year up front....have sent Justin an email reply but have yet to get anything

Shane_Elmore

Yay, another runner!

Damian

@littleguy said: is just gonna withold all the customers any further service.

Sounds like it was outside of his control....

MannDude

That sucks, never heard of them.

Cheap services attract some of the shittiest customers sometimes, it sucks that abuse couldn't be handled and they have to shut down.

Time to find a new provider! There are a ton of well established ones that are capable of providing solid services. I'd check out SecureDragon, I use them and they're great so far. Of course, everyone seems to like BuyVM and a few other brands seem to 'stand above' the rest.

ninja edit

jarland

@littleguy said: Doesn't sound very good, pretty shitty business practice if he is just gonna withold all the customers any further service.

May just not have the funds to recover if the other side to this story is what that e-mail makes it out to be.

Zen

BRB notepad

Taz

@littleguy happen to have your vps ip? Wondering if it is OVH/Kimsufi .

littleguy

@Damian said: Sounds like it was outside of his control....

Surely there are better ways than closing up and letting customers lose all their data with 24 hours notice.

@judouk said: I paid for a year up front

I had two boxes that just renewed also. :(

Alex_LiquidHost

Yeah I'd like to see who owns the IPs as well.

littleguy

@Taz_NinjaHawk said: @littleguy happen to have your vps ip? Wondering if it is OVH/Kimsufi .

No, it's Hostnoc. Here's the block my IP was in: http://whois.domaintools.com/184.22.204.0

MannDude

@littleguy said: Surely there are better ways than closing up and letting customers lose all their data with 24 hours notice.

Some won't even see that notice, it's too short of a warning. There are email accounts that I use that I only check every other day or so. I'd notice my server was down before I notice a random email in my inbox.

Jack

@littleguy said: YourVZ.com will be deadpool in 24 hours as the ip network is being terminated.

That doesn't sound very professional or like someone would say in this industry.

Jack

@littleguy said: No, it's Hostnoc. Here's the block my IP was in:

Burst.net...

Shane_Elmore

@littleguy said: http://whois.domaintools.com/184.22.204.0

Don't a lot of burstnet LEB companies fail?

Jack

@littleguy said: 184.22.204.0

SBL124157
184.22.204.0/23 hostnoc.net 16-Dec-2011 13:01 GMT
Spammer hosting (escalation)

I can't see that being brought up now?

apollo15

Burstnet is very scrict with abuse and once you get suspended there are small chances of getting backups even if you beg them like there is no tomorrow.

Jack

@apollo15 said: Burstnet is very scrict with abuse and once you get suspended there are small chances of getting backups even if you beg them like there is no tomorrow.

Looks like it too...

http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/hostnoc.net

Alex_LiquidHost

So they are kicking them off burstnet, not actually loosign their IP space. As far as I know burstnet does not lease IP space seperately.

littleguy

@Jack said: Spammer hosting (escalation)

It's quite interesting to see all the mayhem gonig on around your subnet, I was just hosting a tiny vpn tunnel to watch Hulu. :)

http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL124157

Taz

Doesn't sound right. Burstnet will not shut some one down with first and single notice and overnight. Something is fishy. Really fishy.

With their pricing, I can only assume it was a pump and dump.

Jack

@Alex_LiquidHost said: So they are kicking them off burstnet, not actually loosign their IP space. As far as I know burstnet does not lease IP space seperately.

I doubt they would...

littleguy

@Taz_NinjaHawk said: With their pricing, I can only assume it was a pump and dump.

It could be. I jumped on almost exactly a year ago when they had some LEB promotion, and I guess a lot of people renewed their service for another year this month.

Jack

@littleguy said: data lose.

Incorrect spelling...

Jack

It Just doesn't sound right @littleguy have you got the mail headers from which server it was sent from?

Chief

@Damian said: Sounds like it was outside of his control....

Sounds more like he didn't keep a clean house and thus had the IPs/servers revoked, something completely within his control. Until we know more than just a few vague lines it's hard to know how much is his fault, and how much is the upstream provider being unreasonable.

Taz

@MannDude said: ninja edit

Hey Copyrighted :P!

@ZEN are reading baby?

Jack

@Taz_NinjaHawk said: are reading baby?

He said BRB Notepad ;)

littleguy

@Jack said: have you got the mail headers from which server it was sent from?

originating ip is same block as yourvz.com points to, so there is no doubt the mail is authentic

Jacob

I haven't had that experience and I usually take 48 hours to respond to any Abuse reports, Unless it's a blacklisted IP but spamcop reports the Spammy IPs before the DC is even close.(We're usually a day ahead).

US BurstNET probably has more strict rules, and obviously if they are renting then burst has more control.

@apollo15 said: Burstnet is very scrict with abuse and once you get suspended there are small chances of getting backups even if you beg them like there is no tomorrow.