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What about your dedis with him? And also you are some sort of competitor, even if at another scale.
I am personally no customer with him since way before this happened (i think i had some VPS years ago), and never was directly either - only customers of me that wanted to use him and pay me for either hardware config/management or server management.
No idea where you get that idea from - I tried to find any statement from me that claims so also in the other thread (EDIT: i went through all 106 pages now, i never stated i have any services with him) but cannot find anything. I have servers in Moldova (Trabia, Alexhost, Moldtelecom) and manage some infra for customers in Romania, but they are not selling hosting or related services either.
I am also no customer in any other Romanian DC (unless i forgot, but i cancelled my RO Voxility services years ago and negotiated for EDIS with an entirely different DC before his even existed).
I give you the point that as ISP i cannot be entirely neutral (especially with me selling Moldova servers nearby), but if you want an expert analysis/opinion you will always end up with someone in the same industry writing it. The usual circumvention for this is to provide all source material and get a second opinion on it.
How exactly? I do not even provide services to the public, only on request, and in a whole different price range (i am by far more expensive than any single provider on LET, in any location, even my cheapest services start at 3 digit EUR/Month).
In total hosting (VMs, dedis and colo, excluding IPs, management and ddos protection) revenue i assume i am actually smaller than him, but my accounting is... complex and not done by myself, considering i have convictions for tax things
Some services are still up. Website is still up. HostSolutions is alive! The end is NOT nigh.
Oh, I didn't understand from your initial post that the point is fear.
Rather, I was simply imagining some friendly investigative reporting.
If the point is fear, perhaps engaging a couple of Romanian mafia guys would be more effective? (But I guess that this would be more costly.)
nslookup -type=mx hostsolutions.ro
Server: 192.168.6.1
Address: 192.168.6.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
hostsolutions.ro mail exchanger = 0 _dc-mx.e4feb7d5b9d4.hostsolutions.ro.
nslookup 0 _dc-mx.e4feb7d5b9d4.hostsolutions.ro
Server: _dc-mx.e4feb7d5b9d4.hostsolutions.ro
Address: 88.198.25.70#53
whois 88.198.25.70 | grep org-name
org-name: Hetzner Online GmbH
The mailserver is now hosted at Hetzner, Website probably as well
Knock, knock.
"Hello, I'm Maounique..."
You misinterpret "fear". I have no intention to harm anyone or do anything illegal. I just want to ask questions and the "fear" comes automatically by someone actually going out of their way to do that.
I see journalistic value on this as the entire story is just absurd:
If its just a random ISP disappearing this would be not interesting to me. I see it as a 3 page article with videos and a nice addition to my CV in investigative journalism.
No idea if you're a paid a shill or actually stupid.
15:55:01 up 103 days, 14:23, 1 user, load average: 0.53, 0.46, 0.41Or better yet: a "mechanic".
He will not communicate with you. What's the point for him? Situation is beyond any redemption or reasonable explanation. As he is pathological lier, provided information may be another lie.
If you travel to Romania, I hope interview will be your side quest with lowest priority. Good luck.
I don't need him. I mainly want to see the DC and go from there - Is anything running in it (noise, heat)? Who owns the ground/building (talk with owner)? Do others in the area know if equipment was moved out lately (balkan people love to talk over coffee/alcohol)? Or construction work was done? What does the court say about this weird debt? And the assigned lawyer? What does local press know/do they have interest in the story (likely, as Romanians scamming EU foreigners is always big news there)? What do the cops know? etc. etc.
As always with journalism you don't trust interviews with the target anyway, they just add to the story.
@William
Propably overdue the amount of everything, now sell all beside hetzner to get a bit money.
I know his DC exists. I know where it is and i know the fiber demarc.
I did not even intent to ask them.
Oh well, let's just wait for a new brand to surface.
I miss my seedbox.
And my €80.
Tried using HS for a seedbox ages ago and the network was too poor...plus bringing anything home was another sad network experience.
Have since gone with real seedbox providers (PulsedMedia, UltraSeedbox) and been much happier.
I think that the "fear factor" has already happened to @cociu, and it concerns/concerned the precarious financial situation of his business.
With all due respect, I somehow doubt that a non-Romanian LET participant (who in addition doesn't speak Romanian) suddenly showing up in Oradea would be able to incite any further "fear" in him.
Re: "absurd". Early in the other (long) thread on this unfortunate situation, I think that @Maounique described well (what seems to be) the psychology of @cociu in this situation, and I would merely add the "shame factor": he's ashamed to come forward, and as more time passes, his sense of shame grows and the more difficult it becomes to come forward and to admit having failed his users/customers (and having failed financially).
If there had been an easy (technical) solution to the problem, I'm sure that he would have come forward with a plan/strategy, but if the basic problem is/was financial, then there is/was no easy (technical) solution to this problem.
In sum, from a certain perspective, the story isn't absurd: it's unfortunate and disappointing, yes, but not absurd.
(Just to be clear, I don't think that @cociu is/was a scammer: he can't/couldn't recover from the hardware catastrophe largely because of his mounting financial issues.)
Who says i dont know Romanian...? I was in BUC many times and have friends all over RO and MD, wtf.
Okay, fair enough, so let me ask: do you speak Romanian to an extent that would make it feasible for you to try to carry out "fear"-instilling investigative journalism in Romania? (It's a question.)
I stand by my "William is a part time mercenary".
Francisco
Sometimes, he certainly sounds like one!
Right? Guy has 9 passports, armed to the teeth, does deals with Iranian IP addresses, wanted in at least a couple countries.
Francisco
By all signs, he's a very unusual guy (in some ways, a bit scary as well).
At this point he should be banned from using the Internet itself IMO. I mean, is he actually in trouble "LEGALLY" :P
It's not dead until @dahartigan @jsg @Maounique and @default say its dead. So, don't worry - be happy - It's all just a misunderstanding. @jsg is cociu just getting his needed IPs elsewhere along with his drives and his servers. After all it just takes time doesnt it. Since he has 255 IPs working he is not dead yet is he- or because yours and the ones you have "access" to are dead you finally concede he is dead it water and using Paypal to fund chargebacks rather than his own cash?
@databoss you're embarrassing yourself boy
@dahartigan so were you - shilling for them on your site. The real thing you should have used as the selling proposition - just as reliable and dependable as hostdoc, woot, alpharacks, etc. with the @dahartigan seal of approval. The thrill of the shill is strong with you, too bad the choices go splat- A LOT.
China.