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Sure, yeah took about 24 hr per step - they said same thing to me (wait to hear from reseller), then after that timed out they asked me to prove ownership by emailing a renewal invoice, then they were able to verify my ownership of domain as my original email that I'd used to register the domain (during smallweb times) was still associated somehow. I emailed them from this email address verifying it was me and about 24 hr later I received a "this domain has been transferred into your namesilo account" email!
Many thanks. Do they follow up with you (without you asking) after the said period?
or you would have to remind them for the next step?
I am still waiting for them
no news yet
What's the reason for Deadpooling?
It was quite successful company with sustainable pricing.
At least he could sell the company if he can't manage it because of life issues
Oh they were following up without me asking, didn't need to remind them.
No one knows exactly.
Haha what? Sustainable pricing?
The profit margin is so thin you can see through it.
Any company that have their core audience in the "lowend" segment is going to fail.
Any company that has their core audience in the "lowend" has a harder time to succeed but doesn't mean it's automatically going to fail.
It just means the economy of scale is the real road to profit at that level.
We are offering same spec + same pricing for NB clients as refugee offer and looking at the invoices we have received so far, it was bound to fail.
Dont really wanna sound like a bad guy here, but some of the offers are/were unrealistic. Less profit margin is one thing, but those are definite loss deals.
What's the reason for Deadpooling?
It was quite > @kuroit said:
That make sense now. I think one of reasons of Deadpooling is poor business planning.
Sure, then you are just playing the volume game.
Higher volume = more work, higher risk, higher stress
Not to mention, low prices bring out all the bad apples.... Pick your poison
but those are definite loss deals.
Not if you disappear one day maintaining radio silence.
If selling 2gb ram vps 7$month is definite loss, how much should they sell it for?
Thats on the website, invoices are different story.
Some of the invoices were like these:
VPS: $7 a month > on invoice > $15 for 6 months
25G Email: $6 a month > on invoice > $5 for 3 months
Haha, some people don't realize a lot of companies on here are relying on these speical sales to get orders.
Also don't forget to talk about how sustainable some LET "lifetime" directadmin hosting deals are as well
You can still make it up on volume!
Oh you're not wrong.
Unless you have something unique to your method to mitigate it (either automation of everything or cheap help or whatever), you're under a lot of stress or whatever.
That's why code and custom tooling is so useful, because if you have the proper tools built to manage it then higher volume doesn't actually mean more work.
You see teams like BuyVM who are a small team of highly capable and effective people who have the ability to build customer tools or solutions (or deploy prebuilt solutions effectively). Using custom-built solutions to reduce the cost of operations (aka, work time) so that they can offer competitive pricing within this space and profit off the scale.
Then you see others who are willing to sacrifice an arm and a leg and with limited automation capabilities who are stressed out for peanuts. Old days of CVPS where they deployed a shit ton of servers and basically had shit performance but hey they charged shit too.
At the end, it really depends on the competence of the person running the org or the team behind it.
Depends.
There some vendor here who are charging peanuts and they're still using DDR3 hardware. I mean you and I both know you can build a fairly competent kit built with old secondhand hardware for like 400-500 dollars. Where as an actual decent VM node costs like 3-5k per kit. Only thing they need to do is get their colo + network + IP costs down to peanuts and then boom. You're in the ultra low end baby.
There goes my SG VPS.
I'm not sure whether anyone has already said it in this thread, but now it seems opportune to say:
The end is (very) nigh
penis
Treefiddy is proudly hosted by NexusBytes free hosting and it is still left standing!
https://treefiddy.yoursunny.dev/
JP nodes just down around 4 hours, and there's goes my data
Just know the issue on here today since my nodes were down
*I didn't get any backup vps, even I subs for yearly renewal
Edit : any hoster that have location on JP for migration ?
Same here with SG server, down for 4 hours ++.. 1 VPS got backup but not for another... sucks
RIP Nexus Bytes
Hope there still good news on NB... maybe can turn on the server back for a while for us to make another backup...
Friendly reminder to archive every piece of information hosted on NB sites.
archive.today / ghostarchive.org / web.archive.org
Can be useful in the future for whatever reasons. And NB sites clearly can go dark any time now.
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We're opening Japan using the same network upstream as NexusBytes within the next couple of weeks, just shipping out the initial hardware at the moment. Happy to work out a temporary deal on Singapore and migrate to Japan if that is an option for you.
Just send me a DM if interested!
Damn. NB not notifying their customers that they're deadpooling is really something.
My SG VPS is down now for a few hours. Good thing I had backups. I just recently paid for renewal of this VPS. Might file a case on it directly through PayPal for a prorated refund.
Do it now, don't wait. The longer u wait the worse it is.