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Worldstream continues to be top-notch.
@Worldstream_Frank sounds good but my server did not appear and I think it should have if those times are correct...? I'm not sure what LET is so perhaps I'm not in that... My server was in the New York data center.
@bb62 the timeframe is for tomorrow. Giving everyone some headroom. Should be 19 hours from now!
@Worldstream_Frank Oh ok - I thought it was a bit short notice. It says Feb 9th on the announcement - should say 10th?
@Worldstream_Frank - please fix the date to 10th. You said 9th.
@bb62 yes, I stand corrected.
Great - thanks for doing this @Worldstream_Frank
@Worldstream_Frank ok LET I assume means lowendtalk.com users (duh! not been here long enough). To clarify - Worldstream seem to be Netherlands based. Are you talking about the Netherlands servers only? It's my New York server I'm after - but maybe that's not one Worldstream deals with? I had a test server in NL but nothing important was there. Either way thanks for doing this for those who have stuff in NL they need.
I can't even access their site. Connection Time Out
@Worldstream_Frank Thank you very much! You are the best guys! I'm so happy right now that I will be able to get everything that I'm missing!
Literally made my day
I can't find words to say how much thankful I'm now
@Worldstream_Frank 🙏
Could you advise what locations are these servers that are planned to be brought up?
Thank you
NexusBytes' NL servers.
Thanks for clarifying @DP - now if only those responsible for the servers in New York would do the same...
They have already clarified their stance on this situation.
Thanks @Worldstream_Frank, I am also one of the people with an NL-based NB VPS and just found out everything today. These past weeks I've been massively preoccupied with work and moving to a new country (to NL, coincidentally) and luckily happened to check on things today. I have my alarm set for 12:00 CET.
The servers have long since been formatted.
Reliablesite is heavily automated so once those nodes were past whatever grace period they give for non-payment, they went right to the reprovisioning queue.
There's absolutely no reason to hate on Radic here. He did nothing wrong, he's simply an upstream to NB.
Francisco
I have to agree with this. No hate should be on Radic, it should be towards the provider who failed their customers and disappeared.
We have to shut down customers due to non payment at times and it's just part of the business nature. Don't pay = suspended, terminated, wiped, on to the next customers. Time is money, this is a huge reason why everyone should always have off site backups with a different provider / stored at home. We tell our customers this all of the time as you just never know what can happen.
That's great service. Special situations needs special service. Thanks!
Should people also erase their storage or are you doing secure erase?
@DP @Francisco thanks for clarifying. I had heard the name Radic but didn't know he was responsible for the New York servers. So this makes the situation clear. I understand the reasoning but a pity there was no leeway. No hate from my end - just annoyance that NexusBytes allowed themselves to collapse this way and were not more transparent about the situation. These sorts of situations don't do the low end industry any favours.
You should assume that if you are using a provider in the low-end sphere, and especially if it is running on OpenVZ that your data is being read through. KVM can still be read through, but you at least need to make more than a single command effort to get into the VM.
vzctl enter 100If you are worried about the security of your data, get a dedicated server or colocate.
By the way in one sense it's good Radic makes sure the servers are formatted. Presumably no worries about data theft/leakage at least due to the haphazard collapse of NexusBytes - at least from the servers.
Anyone know what data center/provider NexusBytes used for their Los Angeles service? Mostly just for curiosity at this point, as it doesn't sound like there's hope of anything happening. (Haven't read the full hundreds of messages in the thread so I don't know if this has already been mentioned.)
ReliableSite.
@AlyssaD just to point out this in what you are commenting on:
Nothing of value on mine but others may not be in the same situation
I think if you don't understand the security risks of low end servers or servers in general of any sort you probably shouldn't be running servers BUT this is not an ideal world and I think all sorts of people with all sorts of skill sets run servers. So one has to be realistic. Everyone has to start somewhere and learn. That is why I made my comments - to remind those who may not have considered the implications fully. I was assuming not everyone here already knows all this stuff.
Thank you. With something to F3 I was able to wade through the earlier posts and get a little bit of the backstory.
oh holy sh*t.
I just received the mail from paypal that NexusByte/SmallWeb cancel the auto-payment, then I found the smallweb website down...
I just renewed the invoice last month!! how fool am I! I didn't get any mail/notification of what happened until I'm here in this LET topic after searing smallweb keyword......
seems only submitting disputes/claims to paypal may get me renew fee back
yes, I could finally move to buyvm from nb
Yes indeed....it's sad but we have to move on..