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cociu - hostsolutions.ro - NETSILVANIA | Move your services!
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100% this ^^
If anyone hosted anything crucial on these servers - thats completely on them.
seems chia coin is the stressing hdd, hoping every storage providers following scaleway to ban chia networks
Pls be notified: His clients are fine with this, and after week response is normal response time there. Also his clients are fine with regular 1-2 weeks outages, it is in the price.
Before time seized 70 servers, now 400 failed HDDs, fairy tales of the old mother (y)
But i am pretty sure when he will return back for sale here, still enough ppl will buy again, unteachable
lol
I don't want to be unfair, but I don't think any other provider (maybe only alpharack..) here has shown as many failures as this one, and most of the time it's always bad someone else, not him. maybe he should try it with perfumes, maybe it will be better there. Some time ago I made a decision STRICTLY not to buy anything more doubtfully and I did very well. Thanks to this I saved a lot of time, headaches, nerves and money
I wonder if @AshleyUk is still amongst us
this drama almost over. See ya in the next episodes
What's the story about zxhost? I joined LET late, don't know their story lol
Start here :P https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/126521/what-happened-to-this-site-www-zxhost-co-uk
then here: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/129635/do-you-have-a-problem-with-zxhost/p1
Does deadpool come back to life?
That was delicious! On a par with gvh drama.
So I guessed it right, it was that evil Chia.
You bastard Chia plots and your flowers!
May you be transformed into chips!
To be fair, zxhost delivered very decent performance for two or three years before multiple problems with their storage setup (afaik ceph) started and incoming flood of chargebacks broke it's neck. I'll blame the latter on not so good communication and slow reaction on disputes/chargebacks.
As said above, if in serious trouble with lots of low margin clients, the best client then might be the one gone with a quick refund.
BS! While I was driven mostly by wanting to get and see factual information on the situation, I did, in fact, strongly criticize @cociu's going incommunicado; I also clearly stated that that is the killer (and not the tech problem per se).
BS! In fact cociu said that he is trying to find a feasible solution to get new hardware. Wrt Raid 0, 1, or whatever: pure speculation from you, no facts known.
BS again! (a) the hold up time of PS (modern or not; it's specified in "standards") is in the 10 ms maybe 20 ms range, (b) disks are among the bigger power consumers, and (c) disks, especially spindles are sensitive to power loss (yes, enterprise disks less so but I'm confident that a super-cheap operation doesn't buy those).
Spindles are known to be sensitive (head crash).
Interesting question. AFAIK chia does not harm spindles. Actually it doesn't harm any drive type but uses up flash (NVMe, SSD) capacity quite quickly due to sheer volume.
So I guess chia only plays a role by being said to have driven up drive prices - which may or may not be a major factor. Keep in mind that semiconductor prices in general have gone up; chia probably is only a minor factor.
@cociu
There simply is no excuse for not even a single FYI post in a week. Period. And any damage to HostSolutions business was mainly created by you, not the disks, UPS, or whatever.
I wish you good luck and success but you behaved like an careless idiot, sorry.
Can't agree with all @jsg comments, but above is certainly accurate.
As far as head crashes on power failure - while it could happen it would be rare. Data corruption is certainly possible and much more likely. Head crashes are likely if the drive is subject to shock (bump).
400 hard disk drives failed due to power failure? 400. Not 4, not 40, but 400.
Its bullshit.
Just like his magical tunnel was.
Agree, a power failure can be very damaging, experienced it myself. 400 HDD all at the same time, hard to believe.
This may not be the best time to buy disks but it could be the best time to sell some if you have 400x12TB HDDs and there's an offer you cannot refuse. #justsaying
I don't think that a whole array of disks dies because there's a power failure but we can't judge it anyway because we have very little information available. The "power failure/UPS" thing comes from a single source, @MikePT, who got it from @cociu who says himself that he isn't a techie.
So all we can do (so far) is to speculate - and based on very little and not necessarily correct information.
And frankly, who cares anyway? What probably virtually everyone (concerned at all) wants is to know (a) when will the VPS be online again, and (b) how much data can be saved. I personally would add some more questions like. e.g. what HostSolutions has learned from the situation and how they'll make sure that it doesn't repeat and that our data are safe there but then most of cociu's customers aren't there for excellence, they are there for very low prices.
Hint: (At least for the time being) HostSolution's storage offers should be considered additional backup and purchased as such (read: if it goes belly up you have another and real backup).
Does @cociu ever have a trivial problem? It's always some impossibly large number of things involved (or should I say "involucrated")? 75 servers being operated by pedos, 400 hard disks failing with 3000 clients being affected, and so on.
I 've been with hostsolutions for like 3 years and had no problems till now.. Actually more reiable than some others (cheap) american, german, italian vps I had before, getting hacked or terminating the service without notice, servicing me way less than 3 years. Personally, I hope that my vps will be restored, even if that will mean waiting a bit longer, since my backup is 3 months old or so
Getting hacked is not the provider's problem.
What it proves though, is that the cociu VPS was probably running very slowly or even completely shut down, so the hackers couldn't ever get in.
I am sorry if I've hurt someone's feelings in this topic and this will be my last post in this thread.
"Hosts" like this make a bad name for LE hosts. You have @seriesn you have @Francisco you have @hostworld and even @Clouvider with his offers once in a while. (I'm sure I'm missing a lot of hosts, I just named the ones I have actually used or use right now, sorry I'm sure you're all good people and hosts).
These frequent 50% credit and what not deals are NOT sustainable, these outages are ridiculous and somehow he is still getting praised for it or getting "good feedback". What are you guys? Really so cash starved that you won't pay even an euro more a month for a service that you are getting treated right at least? Fucking hell.
Good luck to everyone with this. IMHO it's just a matter of time.
Perhaps You should consider buy the hard disk from Malaysia or Hongkong.
They delivery fast and sufficient of goods.
The answer is simple: depressed company owners will attract depressed customers.
The quality is usually shit though, if there are stock. Not even the hoarders want it.
For a promotion to work, the provider has to give some thought into the goals of that promotion, and how it'll make customers stick around. @seriesn's recent offer is a great example of how a promotion should be designed (from a business perspective at least).
Unfortunately, you can have things on the other side of the spectrum, where you offer a shit service and only rely on promotions, and in this case, lie your way out of a bad situation. The aggressive promotions also make it harder to recover when things do go south, because you've hardly been making any money.
The quality depends on model not sell location.