Spry Servers closing down

DP

@emgh said:

@DP said:

@CheepCluck said:

@DP said: The dude listed like 5 Evocative staff email addresses, COO, VP, etc. and their Legal Department.

Imagine having one of your DC's go down from a fire, and then you walk in on this shit the next monday.

CTRL + A

BACKSPACE

SHIFT + DELETE, and call it a day.

Void

Domain seems to be 10 year old. Was the company too?

DP

@jmaxwell said:
Domain seems to be 10 year old. Was the company too?

Looks like it.

October 3, 2013.

CheepCluck

@DP said: SHIFT + DELETE, and call it a day.

Exchange server was hosted on Spry. Time to take the rest of the week off.

MeAtExampleDotCom

@jar said:

@MeAtExampleDotCom said:

@AllHost_Rep said:
In the UK at least, a datacentre would not be allowed to sell the hardware if they had good reason to believe that it was not owned by their direct customer (i.e. resold colo).

That wouldn't help anyone immediately. The DC have paperwork that said the host they have a contract with owns the hardware, so at best the end user will get theirs back after a session of this-word-against-that between relevant lawyers.

While it is bad that their customers are essentially footing the bill for their fraud, or badly filed paperwork if we are being generous with the benefit of doubt, is it any better that their suppliers (the DC in this case) end up doing the same?

I was once in a similar situation (provider going under, DC shutting everything off due to non-payment) though I wasn't colo just renting. The DC actually went beyond any contact and helped end users who asked nicely by temporarily powering on machines so that they could pull data off (I had backups of my stuff but not necessarily end-user data because I charged a few pennies extra for handing off-site backups for them and most chose not to pay that). This might be a good way for the DC to show they aren't arseholes (at least not complete ones) by letting people draw off data instead of waiting for a protracted argument about the hardware to complete. Of course that wouldn't be needed by those who have decent DR plans in place anyway…

Spry had their own network so they couldn't even just power on colocated servers. Otherwise it's a fine gesture. But helping third parties configure software on the servers or helping them access a KVM enters into much different territory in regards to privacy.

Aye. In my case they just powered things on, they didn't arrange any other access or provide support, so you could only get into the machines you already had active credentials for. Giving extra access would be a privacy/security nightmare.

yoursunny

Dear push-up specialist,

We're sending you this e-mail to notify you of spryCloud's discontinuation. Due to ongoing financial difficulties, and the amount of time, resources and money it costs to operate spryCloud, we cannot afford to continue providing this service.

We request you please migrate to another provider or take a backup and download all your data immediately. We will begin terminating accounts and purging data this Friday, August 4th.

Thank you for understanding, and your loyalty over the years.

We are very sorry for the trouble and inconvenience we know this will cause you.

Sincerely,

Sincerely,
Spry Servers

https://www.spryservers.net
1-844-799-HOST (4678) | +1-480-781-HOST (4678)