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Is myw.pt finally down?
Hi Guys, looks like https://myw.pt/ and https://wla1.wndp.pt:2222 are both not reachable as of yesterday.
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Congrats on your first post since January 3rd
(Even if you don't come here often, you must have received the memo, assuming that you have a working email address)
All my emails are working, and I don't see any notification. So, did @jar close the doors?
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4373507/#Comment_4373507
jar annoucned for june i think its july no
The email that I received with July 1st as the closure date was sent in March 24th.
is Offline
Yup. Logged in, ran poweroff.
Backups?
Hmmm, I never got the email I guess and don't see any post about it on LET. No worries, I had taken a backup so will just move my account somewhere else.
@jar, we were willing to pay for hosting so why not just keep it running. I think most of us on lifetime were willing to switch and pay for stable hosting
The announcement of the final closure date is somewhere in this thread (i think), among lots of drama: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/197782/jar-saves-the-day-myw-to-continue-was-myw-is-closing-doors/p1
Although I moved all my personal projects off of it when everything hit the fan, (nothing of real importance anyways) I still appreciate you for keeping it up and running for free as long as you did. Thanks!
thank you jar
Who's "we"?
If it's you, then you expressed your willingness to pay for hosting already last autumn?
Did you learn something useful from this adventure or was it just a cost for you, that you paid to be nice to Mike / the community ?
Server was very stable until end.
Thank you so much for offering such free service.
I believe a lot of us expressed our willingness to switch from lifetime to paid accounts so keep the stable service going.
No doubt MikePTs business skills are crap (running a business with 96% lifetime plans) but the service while active was very stable and even when @jar took over, the service was stable. I am sure others would have been glad to just switch o paid accounts. Heck, I just migrated the account to another host and paying them.
Maybe if we ask super nicely @jar will turn it back on again, did we try that?
Thanks @jar for keeping the lights on even though you had no obligation to. I moved ages ago after receiving the email late March, but took another back up a few days ago just in case.
Admittedly it did refresh my desire to never do shared web hosting again. You know how you look on the past with rose tinted glasses but the moment you go back you just remember why you left. But although I flirted with keeping it around, I think I always knew in the back of my head this was just a friendly gesture to a bunch of good people.
I switched to NameCrane.
Fixed that for you.
I smell the same guy last time "who willing to pay" if jar continue
MYW
the lifetime that never worked
I would say it did work. This way of thinking was simply was abused in my humble opinion. He simply did not invest into project's growth with a clear target in mind, spending the money in personal endeavours instead. When an economic crisis came with questions, there was no proper answer, therefore closure was the only result possible.
Jarland saved the day because Mike was an old employee (respect on that one) and because Jarland cares about this community as an old admin (respect on that one too - even though I am never on the same page of thinking with him - I should have my ego even though I am sometimes wrong).
Would you mind sharing why you feel like this about shared web hosting? I mean in general, not about this specific experience. Because I personally enjoy it, I don't see any particular reason to feel in such a way, so I am curious.
I’m not sure what scale you’ve worked at with it so I don’t want to be like “Well you haven’t seen what I’ve seen.” Maybe you have and just enjoy it. Someone has to. I mean I enjoy email so obviously I hit my head as a child. But to me it’s just so overwhelming at scale. Harder to predict user usage to estimate capacity, too restrictive if you create artificial ceilings (CL), website vulnerabilities, users who consistently blame you for the outcome of not updating Wordpress for 16 years (and then every single one writes a bad review), CSAM due to bad customers or websites that allow public uploads, I think I just hate the entire thing.
Guess who else is selling lifetime plans?
300 outbound per hour
StackCP and instant-ban SSH