Beaware of Stellavps DO NOT USE

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• DP Administrator, The Domain Guy

  January 2023

  Oh, just FYI, looks like it's OdinVPS now.

  AlienVPS -> StellaVPS -> ZeusNode -> OdinVPS

  Thanked by 1treesmokah
• raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

  January 2023

  @DP said: OdinVPS

  They just submitted some GREAT offers for LEB.
• op23 Member

  January 2023

  @treesmokah said:

  @emg said:
  In the past, some credit card providers offered the ability to create one-time use credit card numbers tied to your credit card. You could set the expiration date and charge limit. Some offered repeated payments for up to 12 months - like a gym membership.

  It is a great feature, because you could set the temporary number to expire before an automatic renewal would take place, forcing the merchant to come to you to obtain a new credit card number to renew whatever (gym membership, online streaming subscription, etc.). I used it to negotiate an "annual" discount for a satellite tracker subscription with a company that was mercenary in their renewal tactics.

  One by one, credit card providers stopped offering the feature. Some stopped because the one-time credit card code was written in Flash, and they did not want to bother to create updated secure versions of the feature.

  To my knowledge, the only credit card provider in the US that still has the feature is Citibank. Sadly, it is not included in Costco's version of the Citi card, only the ones provided directly by Citibank.

  If you know of other credit card providers who offer the feature, please share.

  USA/Maybe Canada - https://privacy.com/
  The rest of the world - https://www.revolut.com/

  Sadly Canada has neither privacy.com nor revolut. We are special.
• treesmokah Member

  January 2023

  @op23 said:

  @treesmokah said:

  @emg said:
  In the past, some credit card providers offered the ability to create one-time use credit card numbers tied to your credit card. You could set the expiration date and charge limit. Some offered repeated payments for up to 12 months - like a gym membership.

  It is a great feature, because you could set the temporary number to expire before an automatic renewal would take place, forcing the merchant to come to you to obtain a new credit card number to renew whatever (gym membership, online streaming subscription, etc.). I used it to negotiate an "annual" discount for a satellite tracker subscription with a company that was mercenary in their renewal tactics.

  One by one, credit card providers stopped offering the feature. Some stopped because the one-time credit card code was written in Flash, and they did not want to bother to create updated secure versions of the feature.

  To my knowledge, the only credit card provider in the US that still has the feature is Citibank. Sadly, it is not included in Costco's version of the Citi card, only the ones provided directly by Citibank.

  If you know of other credit card providers who offer the feature, please share.

  USA/Maybe Canada - https://privacy.com/
  The rest of the world - https://www.revolut.com/

  Sadly Canada has neither privacy.com nor revolut. We are special.

  https://wise.com/ this should work.

  Thanked by 1op23
• FatGrizzly Member, Host Rep

  January 2023

  @DP said:

  @jimmy234 said:
  Beware. StellaVPS changed their name to ZuesNode.net. They just registered the domain on the 24th. StellaVPS.com forwards to the new domain though their chat support claims they have nothing to do with StellaVPS.

  Yeah, sure.

  basilisk# dig soa stellavps.com +short
  ns1.zeusnode.net. admin.zeusnode.net. 2022122512 3600 1800 1209600 86400
  
  basilisk# dig zeusnode.net ns1.zeusnode.net ns2.zeusnode.net billing.zeusnode.net +short
  14.1.30.242
  14.1.30.242
  14.1.30.242
  14.1.30.242
  

  Recipe for disaster

  Juicy

  https://verify.cpanel.net/app/verify?ip=14.1.30.242
• TimboJones Member

  January 2023

  @ninjatk said:

  @jimmy234 said:
  Beware. StellaVPS changed their name to ZuesNode.net. They just registered the domain on the 24th. StellaVPS.com forwards to the new domain though their chat support claims they have nothing to do with StellaVPS.

  You know what? My entirely life as a ninja I was once think that ninja life is the most dark and shadow in the world.

  As ninja as Chris Farley was.