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ServerMania misleading/dishonest ad
So I saw this ad on LET where ServerMania is giving whitepaper about running VPS business. I found it interesting so clicked on it.
The ad takes you to the following page:
http://downloads.servermania.com/vps-hosting-company-startup.htm
They ask for your name, email etc. but once you press Submit button it doesn't show you any download link. I signed up yesterday and haven't received any white paper. Not even some confirmation email that we have received your request and reviewing bla bla.
Looks like they are just harvesting email and other info and providing nothing in return.
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haha hope you gave a fake details
Pretty sure a consultant is going to contact you via email.
Looking at the code, it's not designed to reply with a download link. They are saving the info, as well as hitting you with an iframe bug at https://d3mwhxgzltpnyp.cloudfront.net/local-storage/index.html
You then get redirected to http://surveys.servermania.com/step1 / http://surveys.servermania.com/step2 with your submit ID passed. So, yeah, you're gonna get spammed.
They will teach you how to become a customer of Servermania. I am happy to teach you about virtualization on our servers (become a customer of Rad Web Hosting)
For what it's worth, you get an email with an embedded redirect that goes to https://www.servermania.com/gallery/resources/Starting_a_VPS_Company.pdf It's a 13 page document that has a copyright of 2014.
They're big on metrics.
maybe it was written for when summer hosting was craze ?
Possibly, but one of their notes is to "Not Oversell". Obviously they've missed their target niche.
lol no I gave correct details but I am not much worried because Gmail is very efficient in handling spam and I never had to worry about it.
Great work!
Finally, I can say that WSS is not useless after all :P
Seems legit now?
It used to work, pretty sure I downloaded it over a year ago.
Yeah I also remember getting it long time ago .
well i signed up too just especting alot of fan mails to get into my creamy spam box
Didn't I see a Trump tweet about this? Something about the dishonest
mediamaniaHot.
You take that shit back.
You must be on the slower side then. It's obvious since quite a long time that @WSS is far from being useless. He is a special kind of unicorn, but useless? Pah!
@WSS is very special to us. He has a way of insulting you like nobody else will, but still provides accurate and competent answers to all of your questions.
Hoped to be entertained here. Did not deliver, just like the white paper.
1) Read whitepaper
2) Start reselling servers in Buffalo
3) ???
4) Bankrupt
Francisco
@FrannyBoBandy 3) Wait for CC to deliver IPv6
Stop being so god damn fragile Susan.
There's this thing called google, where you can get shit for free without entering your email. Let me show you how it works.
Here's how to use it: http://bfy.tw/1Mk