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u all schizophrenia
there is no data breach
what r u all talking about?
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i will fucking lirrr
2.6 Rating not great, not terrible.
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/colocrossing.com
It will go lower, especially considering this breach.
Now he can change his email not once but twice!!!
This could be a nice way to prepare for a second data (leak) breach?
your pii has been deployed
FYI if colocrossing is getting special treatment here, it may constitute a violation of FTC disclosure rules due to no conflict of interest disclaimer being prominently displayed on the site/forum/posts. (This should probably be posted prominently regardless, even if no special treatment were happening).
Provider tags have been carefully managed in past to prune out abusive providers. Thus, provider tags are an endorsement of the reliability and fitness of a provider. They carry significant weight within the community, and factor into community members likelihood of purchasing or not purchasing services from a particular provider.
It is extremely difficult to justify colocrossing not getting their tag revoked given any other provider would face similar censure.
Per § 255.5 Disclosure of material connections
Furthermore § 255.4 Endorsements by organizations
I have become a big fan of LET over the last year, so mods please don't take this the wrong way, but LET needs to operate separately from colocrossing influence.
not sure where this came from
Well.. it signifies they passed some basic criteria but calling it an endorsement is definitely a stretch. But @jbiloh is LET and CloudCrossing both so I'm not sure I'd expect any dramatic gestures.
edit: even another unnamed LET admin who isn't(?) directly connected to CC seemed happy with the nonresponses and general sweeping under the rug. SHOTS FIRED.
imo, it means they paid $200
Not exactly to the point but similar enough: I know for a fact from providers themselves that if I post a positive review they see a significant increase of sales, but when my review is negative they see sales slow down. One example (although they provided no feedback, but it was publicly visible here) MG's sales slowed down significantly after a - deservedly - "bad" review ("bad" in "" because I don't do positive or negative reviews but simply report hard cold data plus some comments).
So it seems to me that @WyvernCo clearly is right. It's just how humans tick. When LET gives a provider tag to some provider of course that is supposed by many to mean that that provider meets some reasonable standard. And in fact the LET leadership, it seems to me, does even confirm that impression, e.g. by stating that any provider desiring that tag must meet certain, commonly assumed to be strict, standards and that providers are checked and also must stay "clean" so as to not loose that tag.
And that is OK and perfectly fine in my view. What's not OK, and what's the problem here, is the clear impression of many that Colocrossing does not - and is not required to - meet those standards.
Btw and talking about legal requirements anyway: I don't know the USA laws well but I presume that they do have laws regarding adequately and carefully handling PII of their customers.
From my personal perspective it clearly was a major clusterfuck and I'd be not all surprised if there were a legal dimension to that as well.
Just to bring back some people to reality, LET sells hosting providers tags so they can legally spam on the board without any penance. It doesn't mean anything more.
You can, set up a summer host, pay your fine provider tag cost, get some customers and then deadpool. And LET wouldn't give a single f, as they get paid already.
As long as there is demand and if the price is right, some from the community will still buy from returning deadpool summer hosts.
If admins won't remove the provider tag, the least we can do is spread the news and hope for the best with regards to consumers.
Based on what we've seen, I'm not sure if intervention by the admins or mods in this case for this particular provider will lead to meaningful results. One moderator tried not too long ago with another provider, but look how it ended. A whole lot of nothing.
At the end of the day, they are just 'unpaid bouncers'. The ultimate decision-making power still lies with the owner of the place.
This thread must never die!
Well it's really the only way we can contribute right? I certainly don't have the power to sanction CC, except by not giving them my money. But I was already doing that.
Oh it will see its glorious fall into the abyss
Mark my words
True. They will set it to sink to reduce the volume, then at some point they will close it too. It is up to us to remember this and keep warning potential customers.
May the force be with you ✨️
The sad truth is, those who can only afford low cost services don't really care so much about a provider's reputation nor do they usually have the ability or desire to read 30+ pages of comments to form an opinion on whether or not their purchase is a good one or not, especially if English isn't their native language. What they're looking for then isn't commentary about a provider. It's specs, location, pricing and an order link. They're not digging deep and translating text that is irrelevant to those specific points. Whether CC does or does not do a proper disclosure honestly probably won't hurt their bottom line much.
And Colocrossing isn't just one brand, several house brands exist for them to extend their reach. Don't like Brand1? Don't worry, Brand2 has a similar offer in the exact same location. Buy that instead. (It's the same product).
It depends, Initially probably yes, afterwards no.
The amount of time you can waste, even on a 10$/y VPS, doing ticket after ticket, just because they keep providing you with pure shit.
Since then I skip most of the yearlies here on LET, especially the new ones.
Except they have some kind of history.
ColoCrossing has history too, and what a history!
I feel like a boomer now.