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@raindog308 , I vote for an interview with @SmartHost . Seems like it'd be a good read!
My bad, too late to edit my post. Someone else pointed it out as FDCservers at the time, not y'all.
ah! 250 usable IPs /24 block was just $100/mo in those days
and bandwidth 2GB cost $1.00 !!! oops!
Haha, just dug up an old invoice
Fuck VolumeDrive/quadix
fuck them with a steel rod. Burst.net was great!
isn't scranton where the office is based out of lol
I've told @Smartiehost numerous times that he should have named his new company @Dumbhost.
We're probably close to Alabanza pricing again with cPanel's price increases over the past few years.
Yup!
I used to watch that and nit-pick all the inaccuracies...heh.
BurstNET was fine while Shawn was running it. Low price / low quality for sure but it was always clear what you were getting from the outset.
Is Smart Host physically present in Henderson or is that just a mailing address?
Physically present...I live in Henderson NV for past 7 years, since I relocated from PA.
~ SMARTHOST
I got a family member living there. Hope you're doing well with all the nasty smoke coming from the Cali fires!
Never had a service with Burst directly. But, my first cheap dedi was with VolumeDrive.
Fuck VolumeDrive. They were the real scam.
WOW !
Burst.net was the first place I met my first lover. Quality was not very good, but it had a value to me. Those ages, we tried to enable TUN/TAP on OpenVZ and so on...
SOCIETY ! SOCIETY !
TIME GOES BY !
Burst.net was the first provider to reject me back in 2009 I think. They did a full refund, though, so no hard feelings. Also were very polite, they told me they "refunded to the card owner". Since then I had a couple more, then lesson learnt, I stopped using my real data and gamed the system, only once got caught in 20 times more attempts than before.
I don't think he/she would take that as a compliment.
Burstnet had some really great offerings, team and support was quite well for the price. It's too bad that things happen the way they did there.
I believe at that time we had already been setup in Seattle, Dallas and New York. After PA we really pushed much more in our New York locations.
These days we are maxed out in Manhattan for a few large cages and racks and really now push our Staten Island location. Just setup a new suite that supports 68 racks there.
There was a lot of small hosts in Burst at that time who have now grown larger. Great to see a lot of the people still around these days. Unlike the summer hosts.
I definitely don't miss their $35 reinstall fee.
A very long time ago, before SharkTech, I loved them, quick setup + lots of IPs.
The good old days. They were pretty big on veportal.com
let my mail archive talk.
No rackshack story is different.
Rackshacks owner have a small dialup isp in texas houston area as I remember
then they started offering RAQ servers very cheap. (Any body remember RAQ's?)
then they become rackshack and started selling amd duron cpu's etc. First time ever desktop components in bread racks.
Later they are very successfull and build their own dc somewhat comparable to todays hetzner.
Then there were another company called ThePlanet and they were rivals in dedicated server stuff.
Later ThePlanet acquired rachshack.
And Some time later ThePlanet become Softlayer or Theplanet's original founders founded Softlayer.
and sometime later Softlayer was acquired by IBM ...
My first ovz VPS.
It was 2009, I remember - and my mail archive supports:
I parted with them in 2013. I have to admit that the VPS I used was good nonetheless - not too fast, but quite useful and with good uptime.
R.I.P., Burst.net.
What criteria do you suspect he rejected you on?
I was so estatic when I was accepted by Burst.net, thought I was going to take over the world. Ended up never selling anything on it. The site I had hooked up at one time to my Burst account still idles sadly 😥
A dream neglected
I think because I am from Romania. It was 2009. People from here which had a card and money must have been up to something illegal :P
As close as 2014, Paypal used to regularly block my account whenever I was receiving big amounts of money, just that I was one step ahead of them and each time I was withdrawing minutes after the transfer. They kept asking for documents I never gave knowing they will automatically unblock it in a year or two. Also, I was using another account for mundane day to day stuff which they never blocked.
Thank god for Crypto, now I can get thousands without any worry, I started small with DOGE in 2014, got paid some hundreds of Eur in it, I sold when Musk did his scheme for 7 K. It is fun :P
Burst.net was an absolute disaster of a company once you peeled back just one layer of the onion. They took down a giant facility and only filled it about 5%. I was privy to some internal info as they were circling the drain and I can assure you, they were a dumpster fire.
Burst.net was a bigger & more successful company than 70% of us will ever own.
Sure Hivelocity is sitting pretty but it's all relative.
Hats off to @SmartHost for the success he achieved and even cashed in when he sold.
I was not trying to boost myself up, just pointing out that Burst was a lot of smoke and mirrors. During their "heyday" all their announcements and press releases caught my attention and I was impressed as well. Then I got to see behind the curtains. It was a mess which is ultimately why they ended up going down in flames. I surely hope someone walked away with a pile of cash at the end but that would be news to me.