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The difference is I am not abandoning my clients and I'm learning from the experience. I've taken steps to find new providers and offer a better service. I know exactly how to handle these type of situations now. I am also not saying that I am free of blame as I called my clients and explained everything.
if you do simple comparison, it will show that this price isn't possible. it's beyond unbeatable, pure unsustainable.
I believe thats what folks dont understand here, the customer service on Brian's end was really good. He did everything right, replied fast and I guess that gave me a sense of security. I came from shitty shared hosting from bluehost and found this forum a couple years ago. Dealt with several providers and if any were about to go down, they gave warning.
Long way to page 100.
Got my hands on an 8tb external hard drive and a 2nd laptop. Is there a setup I can use that can somehow send directadmin backups to my pc using ftp? This way I can have this laptop on at all times and receive scheduled backups from DA. @Francisco and @seriesn since you guys are my providers now, any ideas on this?
Good lord. You need a managed service. I wouldn't expect those guys to hand hold you through something as convoluted as that type of setup. No offense man.
Buyvm offers managed services with any plan from 2 dedicated cores and up. I'm not asking any1 to set this up for me, I'm asking to be pointed in the right direction. Also I've been through the forums and nexus seems like a really helpful guy and I was gonna buy services from him before Brian..
For a simple solution, reckon you could try rclone
rclone move seriesn:/da/backups ./local/backups
Thanks man. looking into it
I have a lot of hosting services at home, including game servers for friends.
Use a free domain and dyndns from freedns.afraid.org and host your own ftp (or SFTP, or whatever else you would like) at home.
If you have a static IP (some providers offer very cheaply or use an IPv6 tunnel), even better. I have 1 gbps fiber, though.
If your home computer doesn’t have a static IP, you can create some form of port forwarding, with a vpn, then you setup ftp server on your home computer and you know the drill.
Another one would be (if you want to go the “cheap” route) mounting google drive on your server, create a cron job to move your backup after they are created locally, to the drive and clean up existing backups.
To be honest, both of those are hack job and not recommended for business backup
What's the best solution in your opinion? I'm terrified to use block storage as a backup solution. I think static ip option sounds great but I would prefer the best solution. As long as I can get daily backups to my storage then my clients and I will be happy.
Maybe try no-ip? Push your backups to an domain name instead of an IP and lan sync them after that? Never tried it that way but..
Seems like the Reverse DNS for my server has been changed to IP-HERE.serversonline.net instead of the rdns that I have set it to.
And the IP associated with hotlineservers.com which had a RDns of host.hotlineservers.com has also been reset to something else
You would want.to store backup at a different provider, comparing to your primary one.
This is a quick and easy off-site solution, where you don't have to worry about maintaining yet another server
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
That son of a gun..
This is nice, with this I can transfer data to my backup daily. Thanks @seriesn
I'm not techy enough to understand. What does this mean?
Honesty - I'm starting to doubt that he was ever sick. Just used it as an excuse to do an exit scam.
Very disappointed ☹️
The downtime is not accidental.
It is intentional.
It's always sad to see a provider bankrupting
Just a side note: It was said that the provider (the person) had/has serious health problems. So I think it's a bit early to call it a scam. Could be as simple (and personally tragic) as a heart attack or some other sudden acute health issue that landed him in ICU.
Well noted, I do not even know Hotlineservers or the man behind it and I have no dog in this. But I don't think that a panicking customer (who f_cked up big time himself) making lots of noise is sufficiently solid grounds on which to decide that some provider is a scammer.
It's bad enough that nodes are down or unreachable. Some kind of scam is just one potential reason - among quite a few others, and the mentioned serious health issues elevates the "he's been taken to ICU" to one with considerable probability.
So the guy logged into hetrix and removed his public records for the nodes.
This is basically the cuckio backdating postings scenario.
If he's too sick to email his customers, he should also be too sick to login to hetrix to delete his nodes.
It happened right in this thread man, do you like taking L's?
Francisco
I was giving Brian benefit of the doubt. But, looks like he has removed the uptime page and looking house pages manually.
Which suggests that he had access to internet at one point.
An one liner forum response would have been solid.
People really needs to learn how to respect their paying customers. Mike from spear atleast communicated and tried his best to salvage.
I appreciate those that takes care of their customers till the last breath.
Mentality for low end hosts.
At a risk of sounding like a dick, which I already am anyway, respect goes both ways. People paying shit for shit is shit.
Thus, it all comes down to -
The end is nigh.
"L's"? What's that?
As I already stated I have no dog in this and do not even know Brian - nor do I exclude the possibility that he is scamming his customers.
You may both be right in your judgement but you are both based on the assumption that everything (e.g. removing the uptime page) was done by Brian, which may or may not be the case.
If, just assuming, he was brought to an ICU he may or may not have been able to utter some instructions or passwords or ... and it's not unheard of that spouses or employees act weirdly without their husband or boss.
Btw. some of the factors mentioned strongly indicate that if it was a scam it was not a planned one.
Again, my point is not to cover Brian. It is that we should (a) not judge prematurely and with insufficient knowledge, facts, etc., and (b) not exclude other explanations.
Eh. I have to semi disagree rather if its a dynamic IP or Static IP.
Yes, It's ideal for a Static IP but with services like NO-IP out there and using a domain like mydomain.no-ip.com (or your own) makes it easier to push things to your home.
I run a 4th backup to my home. With using a dynamic IP.
We have had some issues with PayPal and at the time thought that we were fully unable to take PayPal. At the moment we do accept them.
Sucks, use freedns.afraid.org. I use them for more than 10 years.
I think duckdns also has something.
Just saying there are options.
Does what you mentioned have an updater app/program?