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How come one person on LEB has been featured 15 times since March?
SSDVPS, VPSACE, Aim2Game, ServerMania, vpsnodes. All owned by 'Chris N.' Proof: http://imgur.com/a/wx2CG
http://lowendbox.com/blog/vps-ace-2month-256mb-openvz-server-in-new-york/ <–First offer by CC alias 'Stephanie Jourgen'
http://lowendbox.com/blog/vps-ace-7-2048mb-openvz-vps-in-buffalo-new-york/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/vps-ace-18year-128mb-openvz-ssd-cached-vps-in-buffalo-ny/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/vpsace-9year-128mb-ssd-cached-in-buffalo-chicago-los-angeles/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/ssd-vps-3-50month-512mb-openvz-ssd-vps-in-los-angeles/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/ssd-vps-6month-1024mb-vswap-ssd-openvz-vps-in-los-angeles/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/ssd-vps-7-2gb-ram-40gb-ssd-openvz-in-los-angeles/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/ssd-vps-48year-1gb-ssd-openvz-in-canada-buffalo-and-los-angeles/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/aim2game-6-75-month-2048mb-openvz-50gb-ssd-in-buffalo-new-york/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/aim2game-6month-2gb-ram-50gb-ssd-disk-in-buffalo-ny-usa/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/servermania-4month-512mb-openvz-vps-in-new-york-usa-toronto-canada/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/servermania-7-month-1024mb-xenonapp-server-in-buffalo-new-york/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/servermania-7-month-or-48year-1024mb-openvz-vps-in-buffalo-new-york/
http://lowendbox.com/blog/servermania-7-monthly-1024mb-openvz-vps-in-buffalo-ny/
VPSNODES is another company owned by Chris N. That was featured earlier and failed horribly due to them not getting their website updated in time. Chris N bought the website design from LoveVPS.
http://lowendbox.com/blog/vpsnodes-7-2048mb-openvz-vps-in-dallas-texas/
-We will only list one offer per provider per 30 days.
-Providers under 12 months old need to display valid public WHOIS information on their domain.
Well, I guess technically the rules ‘were not’ broken, because they’re different providers just owned by the same dude. The WhoIS is questionable as some of them are using the address of the datacenters whereas others are using likely fake names. Can’t find any business registration info on any of them either.
Why is this allowed to happen?
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What is the average wait time, nowadays, for hosts to be featured?
Can some providers chime in? Preferably both CC and non-CC providers?
How does it make you feel that one guy has gotten preferential treatment, someone who has popped up out of nowhere while you worked hard trying to establish your brand?
2 months and counting
That sounds about right from what I hear.
Manndude your data is flawed. Go do some more research on the ownership and come back to us once you are better informed.
Take note that: ServerMania, SSDVPS, Aim2Game, VPNCast, and VPSAce were all designed by the same guy.
"Launching many projects at once...." So, here he is saying he's got 'many projects', assuming that means ServerMania, Aim2Game, VPNCast VPSAce, etc.
After a shill on WHT posted a fake 'ServerMania Is Awesome!' review, someone linked to Chris N's LinkedIN. Within minutes he had it deactivated. Luckily I had his profile open on a different PC from scoping it out a day or two prior to that, so got screenshots.
There you will see he owns Aim2Game and ServerMania. Based on the screenshots above that from the designer and his 'review' of launching 'many brands at once' as well as some privileges info I can't reveal, it's safe to speculate heavily that there is a connection here that even a blind man could see.
They may have different WhoIS records, fake names and addresses to nowhere but there is a large chance they're all the same. Jon, I know you know Chris and Kevin.
I like that one :]
I know the owners, personally, of a few of those brands. Chris does not own them.
Chris probably wishes he owned B2Net and Server Mania -- B2Net is very large.
@WebSearchingPro said:
That's pretty bad. LEB either needs to make stricter rules so less hosts can apply or post a lot more offers.
Though, this guy is using 4 different hosting companies to apply for LEB offers, I wouldn't necessarily blame it on LEB since it takes some effort to find out those 4 hosts are connected to the same guy. I'd vote that LEB doesn't make any more offers from Chris N's established websites for a year
I thought Chris replaced Kevin B? Or is it Kevin's brother running the ship now?
Either way, 15 offers from the same brands in a short amount of time while other more legit companies get the shaft. Shameful.
Kevin and Justin are brothers (the Blanchard boys). They own B2 and its brand Server Mania.
... and there we go, @manndude has been banned. Let the notes reflect that this is when @jbiloh had enough.
Mun
Warned 3 times, asked nicely personally and yet ignored. Yep had enough and is now temporarily banned.
So what did he supposedly do the third time? If it was over the sig, it seems a lot more like your broken cluster was behind the issue because things are jumping back and forth.
Have you considered hiring a sysadmin or a DBA?
Not gonna lie, I don't see any offer threads advertising VPSBoard..am I missing what he did that caused his 3rd strike?
I really can't be bothered to get involved with all of this, however I've had my signature go backwards and fourth all day even after numerous changes.
Yes, I'd love to see the reason behind this 3rd warning. I see no advertising of vpsBoard. If it was the signature then you're quite ignorant for ignoring your DB issues, I certainly hope that is not the case.
So what I am hearing from a few others above is that Manndude has possibly been banned because of a glitch in the system that is causing his signature to randomly show vpsboard.com and randomly not show vpsboard.com?
"sysadmin" heh
Somebody has to manage their "cluster".
Is that LinkedIn the only backup for this first post?
From a different perspective, what if someone purposely created or hacked Chris N. LinkedIn profile and make it as if he owns those brands?
I was just working on the cluster to investigate the issue. There was maybe 20 seconds of downtime there. You guys are fast
I don't exactly get what was wrong with the old setup LEB/T had, if it ain't broken don't fix it.
It was more stable when it was hosted on Linode. It only moved because of DDoS.
The original box which hosted LEB for a long time worked great. The problem is LEB/LET gets attacked so frequently that it needs a lot of HTTP power, hence the cluster.
The cluster was originally being worked on by someone who was over their head. The project was handed over to one of our engineers who took care of most of within 2 days, there are just a few nagging issues that remain.