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YourVZ.com ceasing operations??
Just received this email:
Hi
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I am sorry to inform you that the IP range that we are using is beeing revoked by the upstream provider due to exessive abuse by the users.
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YourVZ.com will be deadpool in 24 hours as the ip network is being terminated.
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Please make backups of your servers to prevent data lose.
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Regards
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Justin
Doesn't sound very good, pretty shitty business practice if he is just gonna withold all the customers any further service.
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24 hour? WHF @ZEn
Got the same email. I paid for a year up front....have sent Justin an email reply but have yet to get anything
Yay, another runner!
Sounds like it was outside of his control....
That sucks, never heard of them.
Cheap services attract some of the shittiest customers sometimes, it sucks that abuse couldn't be handled and they have to shut down.
Time to find a new provider! There are a ton of well established ones that are capable of providing solid services. I'd check out SecureDragon, I use them and they're great so far. Of course, everyone seems to like BuyVM and a few other brands seem to 'stand above' the rest.
ninja edit
May just not have the funds to recover if the other side to this story is what that e-mail makes it out to be.
@littleguy happen to have your vps ip? Wondering if it is OVH/Kimsufi .
Surely there are better ways than closing up and letting customers lose all their data with 24 hours notice.
I had two boxes that just renewed also.
Yeah I'd like to see who owns the IPs as well.
No, it's Hostnoc. Here's the block my IP was in:
http://whois.domaintools.com/184.22.204.0
Some won't even see that notice, it's too short of a warning. There are email accounts that I use that I only check every other day or so. I'd notice my server was down before I notice a random email in my inbox.
Don't a lot of burstnet LEB companies fail?
Burstnet is very scrict with abuse and once you get suspended there are small chances of getting backups even if you beg them like there is no tomorrow.
So they are kicking them off burstnet, not actually loosign their IP space. As far as I know burstnet does not lease IP space seperately.
Spammer hosting (escalation)
It's quite interesting to see all the mayhem gonig on around your subnet, I was just hosting a tiny vpn tunnel to watch Hulu.
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL124157
Doesn't sound right. Burstnet will not shut some one down with first and single notice and overnight. Something is fishy. Really fishy.
With their pricing, I can only assume it was a pump and dump.
It could be. I jumped on almost exactly a year ago when they had some LEB promotion, and I guess a lot of people renewed their service for another year this month.
Sounds more like he didn't keep a clean house and thus had the IPs/servers revoked, something completely within his control. Until we know more than just a few vague lines it's hard to know how much is his fault, and how much is the upstream provider being unreasonable.
Hey Copyrighted :P!
@ZEN are reading baby?
originating ip is same block as yourvz.com points to, so there is no doubt the mail is authentic
I haven't had that experience and I usually take 48 hours to respond to any Abuse reports, Unless it's a blacklisted IP but spamcop reports the Spammy IPs before the DC is even close.(We're usually a day ahead).
US BurstNET probably has more strict rules, and obviously if they are renting then burst has more control.
@Jacob but kicking users out for a single violation like that? Sounds like owner didn't even bother to explain his situation (i.e his business model etc).
Most likely it was not a single violation.
Getting a /23 listed should not be possible with a single violation. Sounds more like some one wasn't taking care of things and was only after making lazy money.
tos from yourvz
Bulk Commercial EmailBulk commercial email, mailing lists and email reflectors are allowed on YourVZ.com's servers, we do however allow a maximum of 1500 emails per hour per account. For any emails sent from your YourVZ.com account you must adhere to the following rules:
a) Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure;
b) Your procedures for soliciting consent include reasonable means to ensure that the person giving consent is the owner of the e-mail address for which the consent is given;
c) You may not obscure the source of your e-mail in any manner.
d) You otherwise comply with the CAN SPAM Act and other applicable law.
These policies apply to messages sent using your YourVZ.com service, or to messages sent from any network by you or any person on your behalf that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to a site hosted via your YourVZ.com service. In addition, you may not use a third party e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers.
Unsolicited E-Mail
You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk or individually, to any person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it. You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate in using your YourVZ.com's services.
Its nice to see BurstNet is actively working to resolve these issues, im sure there used to be one from 2008/2009 on there a few months ago
However it would have been nice for YourVZ to at least spell check there email.
really 1500 emails per hour per account? if you had 23 accounts sending 1500 emails? Damn even if it was legal advertising, I am sure that even legitimate mailings get flagged as spam by spamcops or spamhaus once in a while.
How do you end up being with these hosts?
That was quick. :P
I didn't read it, but the pictures entertained me, Good read pictures.
Now time to watch some Gold Rush! Just downloaded S2.