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ChicagoVPS database leaked? ChicagoVPS customers - change your root passwords immediately!
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Well CVPS forced a reset and expired all their passwords on them today didn't they?
Root passwords or SolusVM passwords?
Hey @CVPS_Kevin, did you wipe all root passwords and consoles or only solus login passwords?
Only for client side, I don't think solus has a mass 'expire all root/console passwords' option. That'd really really suck for the clients to be locked out like that.
It's possible @soluslabs has quickly written them a script to mass randomize passwords for them? Can't see it being more than 5 - 10 lines of code.
Francisco
This most certainly has nothing to do with us (noticed URPad mentioned a couple times). I feel for them as I can't imagine how stressful this has to be. There have been URPad and CVPS quarrels in the past, but nothing that would justify anything like this.
I've never had anything against CVPS as a company personally. I never had issues with Kevin, I think he's a talented guy and he was with URPad for a very long time before I came onboard. I've never had any direct contact with CVPS-Chris other than him calling me out in IRC and making silly threats towards me personally unprovoked. He's made it clear he's not fond of me, that's okay, I, like many many others are not particularly fond of him either, but still that's nothing that would justify anything like this.
@Corey
The forced reset was for solusvm accounts as far as I am aware. Not sure how they can force reset all the passwords of different VMs.
vzctl exec passwd
@CVPS_Kevin
Can you explain the 46 2GB and 70 1GB you put on every 32GB box?
Remember, they can't change all of the passwords to the same thing.
They somehow need to update the user with a new root password for the VPS and somehow forward it to that specific user. Maybe it can be done through solusvm API, though.
I can explain it for him..... not everyone uses all their ram.
vzctl exec passwd ($rand)
mail($to, $subject, $messagewithnewrandpass)
Chris will probably say:
"We have oversell under control and we're fine as is, we provide good service and we're WINNING"
@corey
Obviously, but selling 162GB of ram on a 32GB node is sure to be trouble. Let alone 116 VM's per node.
Jesus, @BradND said 46x 1GB to me in PM
3 times oversell on 2GB plans, and a little more than 2 times with 1GB plans
How is that trouble if everyone has been comfortably sitting on that box for X months? Probably 50% of the people that buy those just get them cause they are too good to pass up and then never use it for hardly anything.
@mpkossen here it is, freebie because @BenND probably couldn't keep it to himself, haha, no offense
@BronzeByte
I could, Just don't see no harm in sharing.
Also if you think about it that is a very small number compared to how much they charge... only $230 on the 2gb nodes and $175 on 1gb noes.
Gotta figure in how many people pass up the promos and go for full price. Definitely happens.
Yea but say that is 50% and then how much more money do they make? Not that much more money.
No harm, but keeping it a challenge to find out ;-)
I don't think you should judge CVPS by how many VMs they put on a node, but by how well their nodes actually perform. If they oversell their RAM by 400% but your VPS still runs fine, why care?
Pretty much. This is a balance that no one can instruct you on. You just have to go about it best you can and have a backup plan for any signs of miscalculation.
BECAUSE I'M PAYING A LOT OF MONEY FOR THIS AND I DESERVE ALL THE RAM AVAILABLE TO ME AND 24/7 SUPPORT WITH INSTANT RESPONSE
The key factors is that @CVPS_Chris works at Colocrossing (probably as simple hardware engineer like remote hands seeing his lack of technical knowledge)
He has an income (so doesn't need to make a lot of profit), probably gets discount and because of having the income.
Having the servers from colocrossing it was easy for him to start cornering the market with the 2GB offers as he knew people didn't use much RAM anyway. I respect that though, he has been an inspiration and (sadly) changed the LEB market
One of those super fast typing Asian people that can read your mind before you submit your ticket? Or they will write a response to your ticket while you're writing and haven't clicked submit yet ;-)
Bingo. Chris & Jon go way back. I think it would be foolish to think that Chris pays anything close to what anyone else here does.
Chris is practically Colocrossing's VPS company, if people don't want Chris' shit, then why would they want somebody's else? With Chris they have more control
Hehe, @Jacob gives me 90 pounds for colo in UK while his DC gives me 140 pounds, not unusual I guess? ;-) (and @Jacob doesn't even work there)
I wouldn't discount the personal relationship. I'm not going into the "they're one company" rant or anything, but I mean Jon gave him chicagovps.net, I'm sure there's a friend deal going on. I'm not knocking it. That's fair business.