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Sad that the new owner hasn't introduced themselves yet.
Duing my college time, I work for a skincare company as a part time programmer for almost 2 years. Maybe beauty companys expand IT service is somehow a norm.
I own a hair dye company.
You are all shocked right now to finally discover that hennaboy is not the name of a webhost!
BTW and FWIW I did not even get an email from them (I'm a customer).
Neither did I
None of those are even in the same universe as the wacko shit coming out of veloxmedia, come on man. The only one I'd even count as questionable is dedirock and he's a cc stepson. Not familiar with comet though.
Also I don't recall ever seeing anything from host_c or hostdzire would get them in that grouping.
Protected but not shielded I’d say. If things are bad enough you can be personally liable.
My job focus isn't on the beauty products themselves, but on online marketing and event planning. Start by using them yourself, then resell them to others.
If I was a bad guy I would start a vps hosting company, get a load of customers and then sell their data on the dark web
GL valox media
Indeed, liquidation does not guarantee that a director not become liable if they deem misconduct.
They will come take all your shit to cover what is owed.
I hope that this won't end up being the low-end hosting fiasco of 2025
I also fell for them have a VPS with them
Crossing my fingers -- we'll see
Well, it could all be plausible; I've seen a remark when offering the "company" that at this moment it's making a loss due to not using the infra fully. Putting out more offers - even not really sustainable - could be a try to get those servers filled up more so it'll generate more revenue with the same costs. When that doesn't happen enough you could even panic and see new bills coming up that you can't pay. Or that you've hidden from your wife/girlfriend who has a beauty salon.
All in all: everything has to do with communication. When you sell your company: communicate and tell customers what's going on. The worst that could happen to you and/or the buyer is that there the customers you have turn against you, create bad publicity and/or stop payment (or withdraw it).
A few providers under new owners / management recently, you w ehave no idea whoe the new owners / management are...
I wonder what percentage of the hosts "enthusiastically" offering ≤$7/year for 1C1G+ deals exist more than 1 year.
We have permanent threads with way less than $7/year deals running all-year around from multiple completely new hosts. How many have you seen survive?
If a strategy was unsuccessful with multiple hosts in the past, it's, most probably, going to fail in the future, too.
There's a reason we call them deadpool/unsustainable deals.
From Discord:
The end of year you have to prepare for paying company taxes. If they where too high, some run away to avoid this and propably comeback under new names.
Brand New Day ...
Anyone know anything about BentHost?
Do your magic @DP
Quick Google makes them look fishy af.
If it's https://benthost.com/
About page does link back to start page.
Contact page has fake address
Privacy policy and TOS is from 3 days ago
Somebody call detective @beanman109
Whois
Domain Name: benthost.comRegistry Domain ID: 2067505937_DOMAIN_COM-VRSNRegistrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.comRegistrar URL: https://www.godaddy.comUpdated Date: 2025-09-30T14:34:39ZCreation Date: 2016-10-19T18:47:09ZRegistrar Registration Expiration Date: 2026-10-19T18:47:09ZThat is not same. Reason being.... we are talking about contracts here (long term commitment).
In your case, it was day to day transaction. So it does not matter who is behind the counter but when you make a contract, the party against whom you are making contract to is an important factor.
When you sell a loss making company, you not only buy the assets but also the liabilities in paper. In this management change, no one knows about the contract agreement between them and whether the new owner will respect the old contracts.
The new owner can just switched off the servers (making loss) one day without any notice and as a customer, you have a null & void contract in hand because the entity, that you made contract with, does not exist in the first place.
$7/year is not that big issue because of one reason.... Most will remain idle and whoever is actually using it, doesn't have much expectation from it. Even if it is oversold to the maximum like no day tomorrow, no one is going to complain much and just let it remain idle.
Providers know it, buyers know it. It has just a novelty factor. Like a trophy that you put on a showcase but except that, not much of use.
Its true then. Or someone thinks otherwise.
THE END IS NIGH!
Only that the name is absolutely terrible
Only business registered I can find is Benthost LLC in Ohio
https://businesssearch.ohiosos.gov?=businessDetails/3962894
Facebook page for the business looks to be recently changed to private as it's still indexed in Google but results don't load on FB but it also looks like they were more of a local MSP / IT Technicians rather than in webhosting
https://www.facebook.com/61579075247451/about/
Benthost.com as a domain has been around since 2016 but it looks like the it was recently updated (possibly sold or transferred?)
https://www.whoxy.com/benthost.com
Show yourselves @VeloxMedia !!
As you prepare your popcorn for this drama, don't forget to backup your data. Even if your service is less than a month old (since Black Friday), you might still wish to consider backups.