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VortexNode struggling
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"The price will increase on the UK servers, but no new servers will be offered."
That makes sense.
I would recommend asking them what their plan for UK is if there's enough cancellations. If there's a chance the location will fold fully.
Francisco
I didn't get the email but cancelled my last server with them this morning. Lucky me I guess. Got fed up waiting for them to reinstall the OS.
Magnus created a monster with his BF deals lol
USW > CAE is just as bad if not worse as UK > CAE
I think anyone with any industry experience saw this coming (hosts and end users/customers), you just can't sell a dollar for 100 cents and make a profit, if you can't make a profit you have to make big changes because no one runs a business for free.
I suspect for the most part people that bought anything from them saw this as a "too good to be true" offer and was just happy to use it as long as it lasted.
Anyone that really thought this was sustainable and made long-term plans will have at the very least gained some valuable knowledge for the future.
Yeah I bought a dedi from them and all that's on it is a Blog and an Owncloud instance. Anyone wanna make a refugee offer on VPS or Dedi? I'll be in the market
I'm very sympathetic towards VortexNode at this point, particularly considering that while it's not perfect, they are holding on to their contracts with current customers. Not to mention for the price of the servers, I'm sure they had risks even though they believed that the benefit of offering something cheap on a mass scale would provide them with profits. And considering that it seems the issue is more with the DC than the hardware according to what I read. This is the increased risks involved most of the times (not all) with providers here who try to do us LETers a service by making it affordable to us. For those who might be upset, I don't blame you but at least they seem to be focusing on alternate strategy and fighting to keep afloat.
P.S I have no affiliation with them. I do however wish them the best of luck and look forward to see if they can survive it
I remember every. Single. Rush Hour.
Also if you're running your thousands-of-dollars-per-minute business on a server from here, and it's your only server where you've stored 15 years of your life work with no other copies anywhere else whatsoever:
That's a good point.
Oh well, the $5 ride on the UK atom was fun for as long as it lasted.
Also, FUCK CC!
I'm thinking the VortexNode brand is dead and is going to be rolled into https://www.linovus.hosting/ for them to focus on the upscale market / consulting in Toronto. They already rolled one of their other VPS brands into Linovus a few weeks ago.
Hmm, I have one of those that has mostly worked fine, except the time that they clobbered it in a disk crash and lost all the files.
The best deal probably was their shared hosting as it's going to be viable longer. But even this is going to move to CA.. hum...
So far I am satisfied with VortexNode, but I do not want to see problems in their services or going out of business. However, I am concerned about this move too early; all those great offers that were given on LET have only 6 months of activity, and we are already talking about price increase, downtime, and support issues in datacenter. I still want to see VortexNode as a great provider on the long run.
They told me that they are in talks with the DC that hosts the $5 Atoms to see if the DC can take over at that price, the price will most certainly increase to keep them I think. Once it's gone I think I'll stick with my Kimsufi and online.net specials, at least these two are not going anywhere.
"Price increase"
LET 19/1/17 https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/103197/vortexnode-com-toronto-canada-launch-vps-from-4-mo-100tb-dedicated-only-49-mo#latest $49
WHT 24/5 http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1651275 $110.
Only change HDD went from 1x320 > 2x250
Pretty much. I could understand their shared hosting offers to be dirt cheap as let's face it - it's shared web hosting. When the $25-$40 E3's came about I thought something was a bit suspicious as did most people. Power/Bandwidth alone would have been about that.
I figured at first a lot of it was loss leaders simply to generate interest but the loss leaders never stopped coming... This was always going to be the end result be it 6 months later or 3 years later. Something would have had to change eventually.
Pretty sure they were doing 100TB bandwidth dedis in Toronto for $35 at some point too.
"our ATOM servers will be subject to a price increase if they remain in the UK. We are working to accommodate users who do not wish to migrate to Toronto. You will be able to renew the servers but at the new price adjustment.
Sorry for the confusion. How would you like to proceed?"
When I read this correct, only UK is affected by price increase, Torronto stays the same Price but needs to be migrated. Dafuq? They telling everyone something different.
My understanding:
If you stay in the UK, you accept a price increase.
If you want to keep the same price you move to Toronto.
if neither of those options are ones you can accept, cancel.
Another Update:
If you stay in UK, price increase.
If you get migrated to Toronto, price increase, since they do not have the same hardware in toronto.
But why the fuck, do they want to migrate before they know anything?
They cannot give me a price what It would cost in the UK or what a replacement in Toronto would cost and what specs..
Just cancel, it's a cheap service that was never sustainable, you obviously would not be using it for production ANYTHING so nothing lost.
Obviously too good to be true pricing, turning out to be too good to be true... Shocking!
hmmmm
"CC is confident in offloading themselves to customers at VN prices and cutting out the middle man."
"Apparently that big outage a few weeks back was CC 'muscle flexing'
So, CC wants more profit with cheap deals, and costumers need to suffer.
Capitalism strikes again.
I have an idea guys!
How about from now on if I see an offer thread that is too good to be true I will post that it is too good to be true and then I will follow up with an 'I told you so' thread about 6 months later.
Sooner then expected ;-).
VortexNode is a better brand than Linovus. My first reactions to "Linovus":
"The guys who make laptops do hosting...? Probably some uber-expensive public cloud thing. Pass."
"Isn't that a country up by Estonia? Well, I don't need hosting there. Pass."
"Was that one of the Legion characters in Fallout 3?"
"My mom put that stuff in for her kitchen flooring."
"Great, another freakin' Linux distro."
How are those cheap Venezuelan servers you have doing?
eh What?