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Hosts Being Scammed, Host MarketPlace? - VeloxMedia BoxFly Sad Stories
MTUser2012
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I just found out, slow I know, that VeloxMedia was in fact too good to be true. So, likely, but not certain, a classic pump and dump scam that we have all seen before on LET, sell yearly and triennial services at low cost (non-sustainable?), lease servers for one month, pocket cash and disappear.
But, could it be a scam like the one I got notified of recently, BoxFly. This company was a great cPanel shared hosting service. I got an email from the seller in advance of the servers going down that he had sold the service, but the seller charged it back and he had lost control of the domain name. So he wouldn't be making next month's payment on the servers, and move you data ASAP.
Perhaps, VeloxMedia is the same type of scam? The legit owner scammed out of everything? Not just the domain name?
Second Bonus Point Question: Is there a marketplace of hosting services? I've been thinking about getting into the hosting service myself and cut out the middle man on all the hosting services that I buy (I suppose a natural progression). Something like BoxFly, I would have happily bought if I knew it was for sale.
If there is no marketplace, how do these services sell?
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go to a board like this and give people huge fomo
Well lowendtalk would be the biggest forum of hosts and such but its not exactly a marketplace.
I did marketing for multiple hosts, and its not a matter of drop an ad on a forum and wait for sales, some hosts do that, the bad ones though. For larger hosts (or more serious) hosts it's an entire marketing process quite frankly, just like every other company.