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cociu - hostsolutions.ro - NETSILVANIA | Move your services!
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I thought this episode is almost over, .. but not
It is over, but competition wants to fuel the fire for their own profits. This is how market works: a dead body means food for the rising worms.
DeFault
If he had competition, considering his offerings and prices, no one here would would QQ due to the fact that this is happening
They'll just move on to the so called "competitor", restore their backup and be on their way.
I ain't moving anything. I have 2 servers with HostSolutions and they are both up and running. I expect downtime anytime, but I don't care because I knew this when I signed up. This is a provider that I respect, even though it may not be that great for production environment because of such downtime from time to time.
You are absolutely and totally right about backups. Every person should have backups, and backups of backups if possible. I love backups. In fact, HostSolutions is an encrypted backup of a backup, for me at least.
I thought the disk is fine, but data is not readable. If you want to recover 400*12T, it means you need lots of other disks to put the recovered data.
But when is backup of backups is enough? One can go insane in vicious cycle!
How Many Servers Do You Need for a Crucial Website?
You need:
Your data would be 99.9999% secure by recovering from the cold storage.
To finally reach 100%, transmit your data as radio waves toward a black hole.
If your data isn't on at least two planet, nothing is safe.
Yes, it is, considering most are multi-TB boxes paid for 2-3 years when I ordered them. But at the same time, I took a calculated risk that has already paid off. Anyone who saw one of cociu’s offers would have been crazy not to factor in a deadpool event into their risk assessment
BGP data is public by design. HE has the same data as my router.
I would not be so sure. SMR drives are incredibly cheap.
They do MDADM RAID1/10 fine, Hardware also, but yea any RAID5/50/6/60 (and even 0) will fall apart. ZFS can be patched to ignore the timeouts but it's ugly.
Nice offline backup drives tho, i run a single ZFS pool on one and just feed backups in as snapshots.
HS is going to lose customers over this fiasco.
At the same time, this thread will probably bring him even more customers. Don't know why certain people won't let this thread die.
I smell something is going behind scenes.
How many servers you own now
Because you must feed the drama. It is far from over. What actually happened to servers? How it will end? How is the bankruptcy case? Provider tag reanimation?
People just want drama, and this is a good drama thread after a very long time. The last thread which had this kind of drama was probably the alpha/woot shutdown.
Also, you have a cociu fan in here who keeps posting "everything is fine" and when people point out mistakes in his reasoning, he comes up with more implausible explanations. Which keeps the thread rolling.
See ya'll on Monday, when cociu will be back with news on how to get out of this situation.
I was in fact thinking of just buying the company once i saw this thread. It has value and i could cover 60k debt with hardware and IPs easily - Then use the existing transit contracts up fully (he for sure has no 95/5 billing but flat ports) and make some cash this way.
Then either keep the brand or close it entirely - But its all around too much work for not enough profit.
Best wishes!
That's what I was told by Marius!
I need more popcorns !
Are you considered to be a IPv4 mogul? How tall is your IP space?
It's ok mate, no one's blaming you for anything or putting you under the spotlight. We are very well aware of your responsibilities @ HS
There's just some inconsistencies with regards to the information shared where in cociu's ONLY response ever since this incident occurred, he didn't mention about the UPS/power failure, or anything along those lines.
Well yeah, we know he's not a techie but if he's been traveling back and forth to the DC like he said he did, I'm pretty sure he has techie guys on site with him to tell him what's up as they're looking into it.
No. 138meters.
3 inches
same as my 🐓
I want a small slice of that, in meters, the precise size of number Pi.
Give him a slice
No, I do not believe that. But then I never gave much on that hearsay line anyway.
Yes, I also think it's something storage related but I don't have enough information about his storage system to make an educated guess what really happened.
Afaik he owns and runs his own DC and based on what my friend and colleague has seen and knows it's not a rotten shack.
I even did consider that for a moment but think it's extremely unlikely.
I wouldn't call it a lie but a misunderstanding. That "explanation" comes from cociu (not a techie) via @MikePT (who only has cocius statement), but as MikePT does support for HS many took it as somehow official and it gained even more weight because cociu didn't please to provide any statement.
But again, if that explanation were provided officially by cociu I wouldn't believe it but want more details and insist on cociu providing them.
Based on what I know I exclude #2 and bet on #1.
While I'm quite confident that cociu owns his DC I'm not at all confident wrt what is used inside. I wouldn't be surprised if for instance normal power strips (for home and office but not for DC use) were used.
AFAIK he's got an UPS from some turkish manufacturer which may or may not be on par with what's normally used in european DCs.
But at the end of the day I do not even care a lot as a customer. I got a nice little storage box for an insanely low price and I never expected more than 98% availability and I'd even not have a serious problem if that dirt cheap system failed for a week once or twice in 3 years.
What angers me is that cociu didn't feel like providing a singly FYI. Nothing. That is utterly unacceptable and offending.
First, forget about your framing ("running out of arguments").
No, I'm saying that that list doesn't show, let alone prove, how many IPs a provider holds nor how many customers he has.
Uhm, if saying "he behaved like an a__hole" means "he's defending him!" to you then you should see a psychiatrist.
What really bothers you is that I'm not joining the herd in blindly accusing and condemning @cociu and barking aggressively at him.
I'm an engineer and that's how I approach things. I want to know, to understand. "7 out of 9 nodes I have access to are working" was simply stating facts.
As you seem to not have got it - no surprise there: I have 1 ("one", 1 more than 0 and 1 less than 2) HS VPS. And a good friend and colleague of mine (and fan of cociu almost from the beginning) has a lot, 8 of which he gave me access to.
Sorry for spoiling your pig pit fun with facts.
Yes. Maybe not a deadpool event but occasional failures, some of them multiple days or even a week or two.
Thanks, I know, but not everyone runs a real router plus bgp.he.net offers a nice interface.
I know and I didn't mean to attack you in any way. You merely forwarded what cociu told you.
Plus I'm 100% certain cociu had a spare minute during the first 2 days and could - and damn should - have put a short FYI here.
FYI you can always telnet into any of the servers at http://www.routeservers.org/ and get live BGP data from any of them.
And this is why him trying to play his customers as fools is poor form.
Every business should have a realistic view of their operations. Where they excel, where they need improvement. They should then be able to look at how much they make, how much fixing those short comings will cost, and if it's worth it.
HS should know their target market/customer base and be upfront of how things are done. Is he overselling space hard to make the pricing work and has gambled poorly with Chia? Say that. Everyone already prepaid for X years and YYY% of credit top up. He's been down over a week now too.
No one believes there was any sort of power issue.
Francisco
They will not pay. Ever. APC also never pays, neither does HP. They send you lawyers mostly.
Then use one of the 20 other services like my bgpinfo. Point being;: BGP data is correct. Always.