Turns out solia.cloud didn't exit scam, the owner was arrested and servers were seized by feds

remy

Tried their service back then.
It was great for the price. And was upgraded to genoa nodes.

I am surprised because their website the way they were advertising their service were not shady at all.
Whereas for other hosts I have serious doubts about the type of clientele they attract only by reading their posts or their website

Cybr

@angstrom said:

@Cybr said:

@angstrom said:

@Cybr said:

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@Cybr said:
This federal seizure happened the day the owner disappeared and stopped responding to everyone's tickets: https://www.bka.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/DE/Kurzmeldungen/241031_Festnahme_Cybercrime.html

Just wondering: why do you think that this is about Solia.cloud?

I'm not saying that you're wrong about this -- I don't know -- but since that article doesn't mention Solia.cloud or Taylan Güler, why should we think that it's about them/him?

Within hours of that that federal seizure being published, customers stopped being able to login to their portal while it was "down for maintenance": https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/199068/solia-cloud-cannot-log-in

When the "maintenance" finally ended like a week later, all payment methods had been removed from their billing system, and the company has been running on autopilot since then.

I didn't realize that multiple of my servers have been hosted by feds for months.

It's true that @Auroraa hasn't been active here on LET since October 2024, but couldn't these two events be a coincidence? (The two events are (i) the arrest of two individuals and (ii) the disappearance of @Auroraa from LET)

Hard to believe it could be a coincidence based on the timing alone lining up so perfectly, but there's another connection too.

The same people who ran the dstat.cc DDoS service, which was taken down by the seizure, also ran check-host.cc, which promoted Solia.cloud.

Sometime in the 3 days prior to the seizure notice was published, the owner completely disappeared from LET, Discord and stopped responding to all customers tickets.

The day before the seizure being published, a customer on their Discord said their server was suspended for no reason, and another user suggested "maybe taylan is jailed". That makes me believe the user knew something about Taylan's other business activities, possibly having been referred to Solia.cloud by him on another illegal platform.

I was very confused about this whole situation until I found the discovered the seizure, since their beefy host nodes remain online even now, with customer services that haven't expired being operational, even though they have virtually no customers left, have no employees, and have had no revenue for over 3 months. Would be the worst executed exit scam ever.

I agree that the timing is very suggestive, and you may well be right about the connection -- I just don't know enough about the background context, in particular, about how check-host.cc was related to Solia.cloud

I see that there's a (very?) plausible connection, but it seems to me that there's still a (small?) leap of faith required if we want to jump from the premise "Solia is promoted on check-host.cc" to the conclusion that Taylan and Solia.cloud were arrested/targeted by the feds

You may well be right, but we're still a bit short of irrefutable evidence, I think

As the saying goes... Where there's smoke, there's fire.

There can only be so many coincidences before it becomes implausible that it's simply coincidence.

remy

@kait said:
What do you expect, skylink datacenter, aurologic ddos protection, tube-hosting transit, neterra IP leases. That is just the holy cocktail of WE ARE DOING CRIME

Skylink is cheap. Many LET providers are based there.
But yes, let's say it's not necessarily the first choice of data center for a company.
That leaves small businesses, individuals and criminal activities. I'll let you guess which ones pay the most.

Neterra IP are crap though !

truemagic

So in this case all the details of customers must have been recorded by the feds? This is quite scary lol

remy

@truemagic said:
So in this case all the details of customers must ehave been recorded by the feds? This is quite scary lol

Yes probably

jh_aurologic

@kait said:
What do you expect, skylink datacenter, aurologic ddos protection, tube-hosting transit, neterra IP leases. That is just the holy cocktail of WE ARE DOING CRIME

Missed @kait talking non sense on LET

kait

@jh_aurologic said: Missed @kait talking non sense on LET

Missed you 2 bro, did you enjoy getting railed because of pfcloud?

jh_aurologic

@kait said:

@jh_aurologic said: Missed @kait talking non sense on LET

Missed you 2 bro, did you enjoy getting railed because of pfcloud?

No idea, but we generally have a good relationship with authorities, the only rails here are busbars in our DC

Cybr

@truemagic said:
So in this case all the details of customers must have been recorded by the feds? This is quite scary lol

Only really scary if you were doing something illegal with the servers. I don't operate any illegal services, and could have also never known that some LET host was being run by a criminal.

I assume the feds already had my details anyway, since they have almost everyone's details. Privacy has been an illusion for a very long time already.

People who make political posts on social media are probably on more fed watch lists than actual criminals these days.

kait

@jh_aurologic said: No idea, but we generally have a good relationship with authorities, the only rails here are busbars in our DC

Ah thats so sad to hear, hope things will become better for you

truemagic

@Cybr said:

@truemagic said:
So in this case all the details of customers must have been recorded by the feds? This is quite scary lol

Only really scary if you were doing something illegal with the servers. I don't operate any illegal services, and could have also never known that some LET host was being run by a criminal.

Right, I also never run illegal stuff with my VPS but I certainly do not want any of my private files or data on the server unknowingly exposed to anyone either (including the feds).

remy

@truemagic said:

@Cybr said:

@truemagic said:
So in this case all the details of customers must have been recorded by the feds? This is quite scary lol

Only really scary if you were doing something illegal with the servers. I don't operate any illegal services, and could have also never known that some LET host was being run by a criminal.

Right, I also never run illegal stuff with my VPS but I certainly do not want any of my private files or data on the server unknowingly exposed to anyone either (including the feds).

Agree but I'm more worried about having put my data on the servers of a guy who engages in this kind of activity.
I'm going to be more careful and think twice before choosing any host that posts here.
It's not the first time.
Paying less to be a cover for other activities isn't necessarily my ethic and also not worth it

diaomaolei

This is the first time I chose a server provider on LET. It happened a few days after I paid.