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For what it's worth:
I've been with Mike since 2019. There have been a few occasions when it would take a few days to sort things out, but the hosting always got fixed and back on line.
I suppose that's normal for a one-man show (with a family to take care of).
Colour me naive, but I wouldn't panic. I'd be surprised if it's not up and running in a day or two (hoping Mike is OK).
However, for the business and "important" stuff, I've moved to other providers, since it's difficult to explain any holdups ("loosing millions" and the likes).
I'm mostly dreading a customer emailing me about where their website has gone to... also why my wp-umbrella.com ping test is telling me all is well when pinging sites at 2 minute intervals..
Why not put the backups in different providers and sleep well . No problems. Hosting IS cheapo in Europe
I think we need to leave…
Just got an answer on a ticket. Looks like a ddos. Announcement also made on website. Everyone can chill now 😜
Whoever is doing it needs a kick up the arse - wasting everyone's time including our @MikePT .
yeah... i think a one man show can work if there is a strong resilient setup and a good contingency plan, like another biz/outsource, partner, part/time employee, intern, family member, even a reliable friend that keeps an eye on things when he is offline more than 24h, im not saying to reply to trouble tickets or anything, just be able to reboot servers\services or contact server/noc and if something is catastrophic to be able to contact him, because as of now it looks a bit adrift...
When i was running my own servers (for my own sites and apps) i had a solid simple setup, a good regular maintenance schedule and multiple contingency plans, so even if i got sick or unavailable for more than a weekend, someone was looking after it...
@DrFunkenbreakz where on the site is the announcement?
https://myw.pt/manager/serverstatus.php
DDoS Attack in wde1 (Reported)
Priority - Critical
Affecting Server - WDE1
Dear clients,
We're currently observing a layer 7 DDoS attack on the wde1 server, we're doing our best to mitigate the attack.
Update: The websites are back online, we're monitoring it.
I intended to move to ZAP, but I remembered, I won a 1yr free Namecrane DA plan, and @Francisco and @Harambe just made it too easy to move. Like, for real. Migration center offering DA->DA, DA->cPanel, cPanel-cPanel..
Thanks, we're very proud of it. The amount of man hours we've saved not having to do manual migrations is massive.
We're in the middle (literally as we speak) on writing a better DNS system for DirectAdmin so it handles moving between internal nodes better w/o blowing up ("domain exists!").
Francisco
Bought a 20gb limitless reseller account which looks like direct admin too and should be a nice backup to flip to for important sites next time there's a hiccup. $6 a year... Would be rude not to take it up
link please
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4011799#Comment_4011799
just waiting for @Francisco to announce Singapore location.
@MikePT In your offer, you specify JetBackup, but JetBackup hasn't been working for 2 month now. Can you please restore this functionality which you sold to who purchased this offer?
@knireis move on my friend!
I have lifetime service with him and stopped using it for a few months. I have even stopped monitoring the service.
I realize lifetime is not forever, but i purchased it not even 4 month ago. So i would like Mike to deliver what he promises or offer a refund.
I'm surprised he is not answering at all.
Which is unlike him. Once again, I hope he is ok.
yeah. he indeed resolved that DDoS issue couple of days ago. So might be reading our replies. But indeed tickets are not answered nor LET comments are replied. But services is now up and running. I've started moving remaining clients' sites to namecrane and racknerd. But I'll be keeping my project sites/personal sites still with him as I've paid for lifetime.
I'm just worried about those customers who paid monthly/yearly for premium (preferred) support and are hosted on same server just like lifetime customers and still some features like Jetbackup is broken and their is no more email support. Something goes wrong and you can't fix it then its over for the customer.
To offer lifetime plans, 90% of your customers must pay a monthly fee. Otherwise it is not sustainable. If we exceed the limit of 5% of lifetime plans, we do not accept new orders.
How long you have been in business?
since 1998.
@MikePT the LA server seems to be having issues again this evening. My remaining sites there are super slow (like downloading files at 10KB/s from it).
@silicomnet
With all due respect, I think you should open your thread instead of publicizing yourself on a competitor PROMO thread.
I'm sure Mike is just busy, and hasn't gotten time yet to visit this topic.
Well, my lifetime 'investment' didn't last very long, just a few months.........
Just got this email.
Dear MyW clients,
I still remember when we launched MyW in June, 2019 - since then, it's been 5 years since we launched our first offer. I had expected MyW to grow further, by launching new products and trying to innovate. This was actually planned. The recent investments a few months ago to move to rented IPv4 subnets and owned IPv6 prefix, and to better hardware that'd allow us to launch our VPS offers that, due to the lack of time as I had a fulltime job, didn't actually happen.
Unfortunately, I have lost my job recently and even tough MyW could handle the monthly bills, before we invested to better hardware and subnets, I can no longer keep this project alive. It has been a month and a half jobless, everything is due currently. From servers, to licenses, and even at the personal level (my rent, bills, etc). The money I had last month was to pay for the servers, and I tried to get a job as soon as possible so we could continue to operate. It's no longer feasible.
It is with sadness that I announce that MyW is closing its doors. I have asked for payment extension for all our servers and subnets, but I cannot guarantee any exact time, nor prediction. Some are already well past due, and the providers we've been using have been more than great to me. I had high hopes that I could get a job ASAP so I could not only survive, but to keep MyW alive.
My sincere apologies for the lack of proper notification - I tried to go the extra mile and paid for everything until I can no longer pay for anything at all.
As so, I urge you to create backups as soon as possible and migrate elsewhere, I'd recommend migrating to Namecrane, Francisco is not only great, as his hardware and network is very decent. Their pricing is great, it works flawlessly.
We thank our clients for trusting us for over 5 years, it was a great experience, both professionally and personally.
Once again, my apologies for closing shop - it's been a hell of a ride.
Never a dull moment with MyW !!
Hey friend,
My name is Jarland Donnell and I'm the owner of MXroute, LLC. You recently received an email explaining that MyW will be closing it's doors. While that email did in fact describe the facts of the matter at that time, we were able to prevent this at the last minute. MyW is in good standing with it's vendors and will remain operational. All of the services that you have paid for will continue to function. Miguel, the founder of MyW, is an old colleague of mine and we have the type of relationship that allows me to send you this notice before we have finalized all of the details of this transition. I believe it is more important that you know that your services are not going offline than it is for you to know the details that we're still working out. What I can tell you is that MXroute has the resources to keep MyW afloat indefinitely, regardless of it's profitability. Presently there is no risk of your services going offline.
As we work out the finer details of this you will of course be kept in the loop. I'm sorry that I don't have any more for you right now. Please expect that support may be limited during this time. A primary focus right now will be ensuring that everything is online and functioning as intended so as to reduce any need for you to contact support.
Jarland Donnell
@jar any re-launch lifetime offers?
