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Examples of Scam VPS Companies That Were Around Longer than A Year and a Half
lowendusername
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Are there any examples of any "scam" VPS or hosting companies that were around longer than a year and a half?
For the purposes of this post, a scam company is one which doesn't at least look like they are providing the service that was paid for, so the slow / downtime prone etc. "bad" providers don't count.
If they were a company run by someone and then taken over by someone else who took the money and ran, then they do still count as being around for longer than a year and a half.
The inspiration for this post is Serverhand, who only (properly) debuted on Black Friday and were revealed as less than kosher within a month.
I can't think of any, can you?
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HungryVM comes to mind- the moment they were banned from LET, everything went down and at the beginning of the month, the primary website was also gone. It's a shame, because I thought they'd be around longer than three months.
The rest I can think of fall under your "bad" clause.
E: Also anything Josh Prout. He pretends to sell/colo/etc hardware, and it works until his bill comes due, and your hardware/etc are missing.
Generally the scam brands last long enough to get outside of the chargeback periods and then they're gone.
Francisco
uniwebhosting memories hurt... they seem to still do their scam with the dedicateds
FortaTrust / FortaCloud had a hell of a run.
Hell, serverpronto seems to still be online.
What was that provider that ditched a DC in the middle of a night? Was quite a big one too, and should still be around.
volumedrive?
That's the one.
I remember getting like five collections notices because their 'free' server wasn't paid for :P
EZServers - Elixant-Tech was around for a year+. Disappeared shortly after renewals paid, kept the $$$.
vps-hosting.ca has been around for years, but they are a scam.
OneBestHost was sold to Xfuse Duke then went tits up.
MyServerPlant been around since at least 2014, but rips people off.
GoodHosting.co - this was a scam and a hoot. The owner is a ghost.
EDIT: and how could I forget all the fun of greenvaluehost.com
What did not go tits up after being touched by xFuse Duke? I still remember his press conference out of his car. Hilarious.
I doubt many were scams from the beginning, but several did runners when their plans didn't work out. Anyone know what happened with Kiloserve? They were considered good for a while.
TacticalVPS. Mystery up until now.