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It's just my personal opinion that regardless of the situation, providers should refrain from involucrating other providers. In my opinion it's unprofessional at best..
I think this whole thread is about an issue affecting a product line from HS, and a lack of sufficient communication, not an outright scam like you suggest.
It's interesting to see the input from other providers in this thread, you'll quickly notice it's speculation, jabs, and some nasty moves. Nothing helpful or necessary.
Simple experiment, look at cociu's comments. Does he attack other providers? Now look at "fran, seriesn and others" and check the same..
@Francisco talking about shilling is hilariously ironic given his history also...
But thats the thing. Speculation is the only thing that we have, because of the lack of communication from the provider, followed by a weird ass middle-of-2week-outage-for-3000-customers-sale 🤷🏻♂️
He is trying to recuperate from involucration and gathering money for lawyers vs GTT? Without LET, his advertising capabilities is bellow zero and he lost provider tag.
There could be possible 2 finishes: he either flip flop completely and run or he begin to actually resolve ongoing problem (new provisions, fuck the data etc.).
My POV: HS is unsustainable business model, run by incompetent person who has major issues financially and legally. We can speculate the shit out of this, feeding the drama beast, but cold reality is that this venture is flopped and is beyond redemption.
/PMS
I'm not against speculation at all, just when a provider feels they need to speculate about other providers in public as a representative of their own business, it feels tacky to me.
I think in this case the speculation about how 400 drives became involucrated all at once is fair speculation to make, but I believe a provider should only comment if they believe it's in good professional taste for them to do so and won't come across as either "I told you so" or "cancel and move to me" - neither are helpful and both are self-serving in my view.
It's not a big huge deal to me, just one of the nuances of this community which stands out to me like dogs balls and seems largely unaddressed by others etc.
yeah let's not keep things unaddressed that stand out like dogs balls:
weren't you the one shilling over the top for different providers that went AWOL later and after that even cookie stuffing your affiliate things for the next best one in this very forum?
how is it that of all people you think you should be one to 'address' other providers behaviour like that?
Some providers here really have no shame
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No one (I'm speaking of providers in this thread) is attacking @cociu given the goodwill he has gathered here over the years, in fact, most are just tolerating the BS & the lack of information that has been shared by him.
On the contrary, @seriesn is rescuing a sinking boat, you should be thankful to him. He isn't trashing @cociu nor is he spreading any lies/hate towards HS.
It is business after all. Survival of the fittest.
Are you really trying to.... shill shame me?
You're aware my motto on this site is that "I'm here to shit post and sell my wares", right?
Your shilling is different, you'll jump in any bed that gives you free service.
I'm fairly sure that's why you got banned too.
Right now you're trying to defend a host that claims 3,000 customers are affected by an outage, refuses to provide anyone an update that isn't utter bullshit, and then takes the time to rack new Ryzen servers and email blasts.
I think people would still feed bad for him if he didn't send the sales posting. Now that he did, gloves off.
Francisco
I wished cociuo the best, but this is just stupid at this point
so, summary? in less than 2 words, please
@dahartigan
A provider is a person and can have personal views as well as company views.
Your interpretation is that a provider is trying to get more business at the expense of another. While that may be true (unlikely), a provider may also want to help anyone in trouble (human nature).
@seriesn and @Francisco are acting (to me) as humans and should be respected for this instead of the mindless drama / popcorn / bashing.
Quality drama
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3236015/#Comment_3236015
FFS, I was thinking you all are a bit harsh towards cociu because his norms could be a bit different but hot damn. Sending out a promotional email blast when your clients are suffering from a major outage without any proper updates from the provider is a big no no.
At least now we know that his emailing system is working but only for promotional emails.
just came back and saw this thread. oof.
I’ve never had any services with HS (history doesn’t repeat itself blah — I wasn’t about to store data on a dirt cheap box with absolutely no guarantees, no matter how cheap), so I can’t say much about service reliability.
However, I do wish (errr) HS customers the best!
lmao
does this work for my plan?
my server 193.148.70.* is down too
I'm not a provider, and don't need to be professional, which is what my point was. I'm just a guy who shitposts and tries to help where I can. Sorry (not sorry) if you don't like me lol
I should clarify - I'm not saying you are a shill, I was squarely referring to your history of engaging shills to shill for your operation.
Ad hominem much?
Doing popcorn giveaways to burden more isn't a thing that a provider should do when a lot of people lost their data and don't have any actual information.
Dropped pizza
To be honest I think they would thank you for it.
Calls Fran out for being a shill while offering some… uhm… reassuring words:
Normally I wouldn’t give a crap, but given his past history, I really, really, really find it hard to believe that he has some image of HS in his mind where they’re actually dependable.
MEANWHILE:
lol
Got this last night, any ideas?
It's not like anyone who uses HS can say they are surprised by this can they?
Someone even commented earlier in this thread that things like 2 weeks of downtime are 'built into the price'.
You really can't try and take the moral high ground after the point in which the provider in question finds the time to throw out an email to all clients advertising a new product but stays silent towards everyone who has a downed service and potentially lost data.
That would be rather unprofessional, so I agree with that.
First, let me make it clear - nobody expects reliability from cociu. I buy from him because I use his servers for torrents and it's cheap. When it goes down, it really doesn't affect me at all. Not in the slightest.
Secondly, I couldn't give a shit what you believe/think/feel/say about me. Coming from you it has no effect on me, but the fact you took the time to dig through my comments history to find something to quote I thought I could at least give you an explanation for your bothers :-)
Based on the post here, I guess not everybody.
If one provider doing shit, it doesn't mean another one can come and be on the same level.
Does it make sense now?
Whats's next?
This thread opened up something new.
It is allowed for a provider make opinions and speculations about other providers or other business, without respect.
It is allowed for a provider to make attacking offers towards another provider; like in this case: create conditions that customers should leave a specific provider, in order to benefit the offer of a different provider.
This is very important history being created. If @cociu will get the provider tag back, I strongly hope he will create conditional offers like these. Maybe other providers will do this too. It seems it's allowed.
I call this: involucrating another provider. This definition seems legit.
Understood Sir, you pick up most of your new business elsewhere. Please may I inquire at which sites you see most of your new business come from? I'm guessing Reddit/Webhosting as I see "BuyVM" recommended often there.