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Jar saves the day, MyW to continue (WAS MyW is closing doors)
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Me too... DE, LA & SG
Yes I would, that's why I spent personal savings last month renewing the servers.
It's very hard for me lately, because I and my ex split in January, a 9 year old relationship, with 2 kids.
Now the job loss, back in August, it's just... Tough.
I was doing therapy but had to stop it due to the lack of funds.
Try to see if there are further logs, most likely, permission issues?
If I had time I could cut the costs a bit, yes, but I have no more time, everything is due.
I am deeply sorry for what I'm causing to you guys.
I can barely see through the crust on my eyes as I'm waking up, so I confess I stopped reading the thread a bit of the way in. If nothing has yet occurred to keep this all running, I am willing to absorb what exists and either give it's death a longer trajectory with excessive notice to customers, or keep it running. However, the former is more likely. If this is acceptable, I can have all of the bills paid by end of day.
issue solved, seems no space exists in user account for backup.... increased space and no transferred done successfully. 👍
After having done the same to NexusBytes clients, and now this... I have never personally been a client of those companies, but I'm sure those who have been are incredibly thankful.
Thank you for making this place a lot better Jarland
@MikePT Let this guy help you out!
Yeah, but there’s no magic wand that would suddenly turn all those lifetime accounts (where money has already been spent) and ultra-cheap yearly plans into monthly paying clients.
If it wasn’t sustainable after all these years, what would change in a few months? It would require just more and more lifetime deals just to keep going with old lifetime clients.
Financial injections from a full-time job just mean keeping the company on life support. This might make sense when a company is still young and growing, but after all these years... it's just a struggle, in my opinion.
Could be we're hammering his DirectAdmin with backup requests and it cacked itself.
Francisco
Agree to this point
Shit happens, and Mike didn't pull a Bob.> @Francisco said:
When I transferred to Namecrame a couple of days earlier it worked just fine. Might be indeed the case.
Might be worth looking into some rate limits per IP resolved so that your tool dosen't get used for DDoS
Edit: Maybe not, since the requests could just be made by the attacker directly... nvm.
LowEndRescue: jar awakens
@MikePT wouldn't mind consolidating the whole sevice to DE if that is even remotely possible
Oh man that terribly sucks (I guessed about break up
). In Portugal is there also some non profit organization to support mental health? This exists in France and in Canada, I'd be surprised if it was missing in Portugal. I understand you may be low energy at this time so take your time this is valid emotion. Hope you have some close friends also watching on you and providing support!
In my opinion it is very hard to save this @jar because of too many lifetime packages. Solution is to buy some time for customers to transfer data towards other providers as courtesy (some already transfer towards NameCrane).
Ask @MikePT for more details, but if you can find a way to incorporate it into MXRoute, that would be truly awesome. However, I doubt this is possible with all the active lifetime plans.
Aye. I've got a fair number of them myself but it's extremely important that they be kept to sustainable levels. I suspect this brand would be above that, but I've not much room to talk as anyone could assume the same of me and all is fair in assumptions.
But if you keep the services online and up to date, don't accept new orders, and make strong expectations of reduced support I'm sure this would be easily propped up for a year.
no one you can trust in LET, specially "lifetime plan". in the late 2023 I was ready to pay your lifetime reseller service. fortunately I never finish the payment. thanks god for saving me 🥳
I've been using lifetime since 2020, so I got more than enough for the money. It really depends on how much time did you get out of the offer.
Now the only thing I'm waiting is an agreement between Mike and jar. That would be awesome. I hope Mike can make MyW happen!
Another idea would be to grab the whole MyW brand and hire the guy to manage it. This way he can still be a manager, and you will be perceived as saviour.
Lifetimes could be declared as without support (unless critical downtime) and squeezed into their own server. Meanwhile you get to sell hosting powered by MXRoute. I don't know if hosting industry ever tempted you to get into it, but this would be a good start. Besides, you had Miguel working with you and learning from you in the past.
Didn't even notice that my LTD hadn't been rebuilt after the migration, LOL. That's why I came to LET this place.
Bummer.
Anyone else remember when @MikePT had a 24- (or was it 48-) hour livestream event where people submitted graphic design jobs (logo, etc.) and you got to watch him and the crew work on your orders in their office? The camera was continuously up the whole time.
I seem to recall them periodically putting up signs that said "Hi LET!" and other things.
You've got a lot of history here, @MikePT, so don't be going anywhere.
It's probably pretty hard to keep the lifetimes sustainable as they are.
For example, ZAP Hosting succeeds in doing so, because they have the numbers.
Their website reads: "25667+ Active servers, 5310+ Active Lifetime Servers".
So for one, lifetime services seem to "only" account for 20% of all services, meaning they've got 80% services that are billed on a regular basis. On the other hand they've got a large team and are an established company that has been operating for many years and has an active community (on Discord/Socials). Mike was alone running all this and even though he often mentioned that he also had clients that paid monthly/yearly those clearly weren't enough to sustain the lifetimes. Adding dedicated IPv4s to that is a dangerous gamble. Didn't OVH also remove one-off IPv4s for dedis?
Very unfortunate. I had a customer of mine get the service a month or two back. Definitely they didn't get "lifetime" service. Get what you pay for I guess ... lesson learned.
From what you've said here, I do really wish you the best to be able to recover from what has happened to you in life @MikePT - I'll say in the grand scheme of things considering what you've said you're experiencing and experienced and because kids are involved as well - it's better that you're alive and well than my $150 USD and I really mean that. You definitely have my forgiveness not that you've asked for this or need it.
May God's grace and love be upon you and your family 🙏
...and then all those years when he was known by the alias MrGeneral, hanging out in #xenvz and #frantech IRC. That was almost 15 years ago.
@MikePT also helped me fix some corrupted database years ago when I was still a LET freshman. We never want to see you leave, @MikePT
Check PM please.
Wait, do I have an imposter, or Vanilla just buggy?