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Velox media under new management

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  • @rpqu said:

    @whynotlearn said:

    @rpqu said:

    @whynotlearn said:

    @rpqu said:

    @whynotlearn said:

    @rpqu said:

    Go back to your parents or relatives. Do odd jobs for neighbors. Use free tier resource to build your dev

    Free tier resources are the way to go honestly. I have found free tier resources to be more than some deals here usually funded by the AI datacenter hype but there are definitely free stuff that one can get.

    Of course. But because it's free, they could take it away once your resource consumption inconvenience them.

    Isn't the same happening here except people paid 100's of euros?

    In veloxmedia case (after Lewis started offering unsustainable deal), no.
    If you're speaking in broader topic, such as legal issues, resource (bandwidth, i/o, cpu, ddos) with other hosts, yes. But then, you could dispute it with the card issuer, paypal, stripes, etc. Until they don't stand on your side

    Doesn't make sense to buy a vps from people like velox or any new company and if you are already doing that, at this point go get something like hetzner or ovh or upcloud or netcup

    All things considered, it's practically gambling. Big providers could charge premium because the benefit of keeping things running smoothly outweigh the benefit of taking a exit scam (rug pull). The reason people choose lesser known hosts is because their value proposition is price competitiveness.

    I was thinking of creating a vps provider or anything which targets low end (I thought about creating an non profit vps provider) but I cant tell how bad of an idea that becomes after reading this.

    Don't. There's reason why hosts sometime are trigger happy, it's a huge pain in the ass.
    Take for example, Matthew prince. One day, he woke up and decide to change the ToS, and kick the costumer. Despite he have uphold his stance because of ideological reason.

    >

    Shame shame puppy shame.

    There are two scenarios I can think of:

    Eric is lewis, in which case: chargeback/sue

    Eric isn't lewis: in which case the way I am seeing it with a person constnatly mention that chargeback would impact lewis's bank account/paypal, chargeback

    If eric isn't lewis, I wonder why someone will invest 1000's of dollars and not know the full extent of situation but its obvious that lewis scammed him but he should take action against lewis and just stop the sunk lost fallacy

    We don't know the exact detail of his transfer. It could be the IP or RAM/NVME.
    Lewis said he configured the server to have high density of NVME and RAM. And this was before the storage and ram inflation. So, I could speculate that the RAM pool has worth beyond the couple grand bill Eric said. So, it has to be at least 2TB, probably 10-20TB to make this worthwhile.

    VeloxMedia's reputation is beyond tarnished imo.

    At this point, I am wondering but for those people who want cheap deals. The best idea is probably to find someone reputable whose willing to create a colocation split between some high level clients

    Or if you are using veloxmedia for the cheap 7$ deals, idk there are many others who actually have decent reputation I suppose or one can just go with the tried and trusted hetzner if they don't even trust some more stable like racknerd (not sure about dedirock but they have family relations with colocrossing so they might be a bit safe too)

    Basically I feel like this industry can't have new players. The current hardware prices and everything makes a striaght nope and the markets have already sunk to the bottom so much that any more and it becomes loss making

    And those market leaders are still reputable with 20+ or 10+ years of experience. This thread made me wonder more about picking the right organizations for vps buying. Its a lesson in vps buying which I got without any loss except time but shame that people might lose money in this. May they get their money back since losing money definitely is sad and I sympathesize with everyone who lost money in veloxscam imo

    There's no exact answer. It's more or less similar to why people choose their job.
    I know this sounds unrealistic, but I judge host by their swarm

    Yea no I don't know, The whole business is extremely intensive and the rewards aren't worth it imo due to the saturation. As you and default say, its a mix of gambling-alike (look Ma, I got a really good deal haha) + (I am supporting smaller providers [ideological reasons])

    Please tell me one thing but in this economy, why are people incentivized to do low end hosting perhaps. Like someone can create an vscode fork xD and then get billions in funding and profits and here you have to do all these things and invest so much money to get investments.

    It feels that there are only two proper ways that one become lowendhosters:

    They already have a job in this industry or have a business

    They got some really good homelab or hardware (but it seems that veloxmedia alike rented hardware themselves so that point becomes moot too)

    I said this to default as well but although yes I know we won't be able to get 7$ deals but what stops people from grouping together to buy one large server and then colocating?

    Like the reason why I think homelabbing can become moot sometimes is that I don't really want to serve public hosting websites from people's homelab, the risks just aren't worth it.

    I think what most websites do nowadays is provide compute in complicated ways instead of vps and have more offerings (in railway, people pay for only the consumption that they do etc) and lowendmarket is usually dominated by people already in the industry for many years etc. , maybe I am going offtopic but it would be interesting to hear about financials of lowendproviders and in how many years they achieve it, I feel like cloud is getting more and more prominent nowadays which definitely might hurt lowendproviders or the reason why those providers have to transition to lowend too.

    Maybe I am getting from the point of veloxmedia but some incentive structure definitely makes me feel as if something can perhaps be done to stop things like veloxmedia from repeating but to me it feels like they probably wont happen.

    Hosting business in one way or another is more similar to airline business than railway. It's highly competitive market with two type of service: full-service and low-cost carrier. I'm not going to the details but even plane could be leased, then re-leased again. And the barrier to outsider is considerably high. But, people could bootstrap by doing charter business.
    Why people do LowEndHosting despite all of the struggles? Perhaps because they already have the knowledge and it's a honest way to bring food to the table. Even Lewis was an employee at multinational car rental company.

    As for why people can't just colocate, it's because finding friends who want to rent with you is a hassle. All the roommate drama, which is avoidable if you pay extra money per month.

    Thank you for your response. I learnt something new today.

    Why people do LowEndHosting despite all of the struggles? Perhaps because they already have the knowledge and it's a honest way to bring food to the table. Even Lewis was an employee at multinational car rental company.

    Regarding this, I suppose the reason feels much more passion/interests which then generate knowledge. So I assume that has a split with the homelab communities too for lowendhosting and similar.

    I think the honesty part is accurate too. Although if you ask me I feel as if the initial investments in vps providing are immense to begin with so usually the people who start lowendhosting might be IT people themselves

    As for why people can't just colocate, it's because finding friends who want to rent with you is a hassle. All the roommate drama, which is avoidable if you pay extra money per month.

    Can something be done about this? If this is a problem, I think that something can be done about it as well.

    I suppose though that what I am saying is more akin to a dedicated server alike then a vps which can of course have more roommate drama.

    I'd love to know about financials in this industry solely because hosting business has fascinated me and not that I think I am gonna build one right now or something (I just dont think the costs are worth it) I am still curious about how the model operates and how much people make profit and similar.

    For what its worth though that when we are comparing hosting businesses to airline industry is that airline industry is notorious for losing money or not performing well (fun fact but this was actually in the book: the intelligent investor in just the introduction of book or just the start of book!)

    Do you think hosting business is also akin to that?

    Also another question but what are the most transparent lowendhosting's provider services (in how much profit they make, how much lose) or willing to talk about it because I am kind of interested about the financials of such lowendhosting business as I talked abotu earlier and I didn't know that some of these lowendhosting actually lose money on deals.

  • @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.

    I haven't figured out yet if I should initiate the chargeback for my 3-year prepaid plan. It was a super cheap 30gb ram deal. I guess I'll continue watching this thread and hold off for another month or so and reassess before the black friday chargeback window closes.

    For sure, I'm backing up my data and will be ready to switch over to another vps if this one deadpools.

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    On a personal note, about me I’m Eric Banks. Over the past 20 years my focus has been medium-large corporations mainly in hybrid environments providing specialized hosted services. Most of which is enterprise level gear VMware and such where stability/support is much more important than cost, so this side of things is a bit new for me. I have plenty of experience, relationships, connections in the industry with the enterprise world, just not so much in the VPS end yet.

    On the business side. We’re a network of companies and employees, so as Velox Media’s needs grow, we have the resources to grow with it. But as it is, we need to grow first to unlock these additional resources. We have finalized our budget and our runway and have the funds to keep the business operational without any issues. We’re working with all the current providers to lock in terms and be able to guarantee you that your service will remain as-is for the duration of your current agreement.

    Our mission in the coming days is to finalize some more of the information you’ve requested and help make everyone feel comfortable. We’re making tons of progress here but there’s a lot of moving parts and pieces.

    Posting this here as the most recent comment by @VeloxMedia said they're done with this thread and won't be reading or replying.

    I can't find anything about Velox Media Inc.

  • @x0x0x said:

    @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.

    I haven't figured out yet if I should initiate the chargeback for my 3-year prepaid plan. It was a super cheap 30gb ram deal. I guess I'll continue watching this thread and hold off for another month or so and reassess before the black friday chargeback window closes.

    For sure, I'm backing up my data and will be ready to switch over to another vps if this one deadpools.

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    On a personal note, about me I’m Eric Banks. Over the past 20 years my focus has been medium-large corporations mainly in hybrid environments providing specialized hosted services. Most of which is enterprise level gear VMware and such where stability/support is much more important than cost, so this side of things is a bit new for me. I have plenty of experience, relationships, connections in the industry with the enterprise world, just not so much in the VPS end yet.

    On the business side. We’re a network of companies and employees, so as Velox Media’s needs grow, we have the resources to grow with it. But as it is, we need to grow first to unlock these additional resources. We have finalized our budget and our runway and have the funds to keep the business operational without any issues. We’re working with all the current providers to lock in terms and be able to guarantee you that your service will remain as-is for the duration of your current agreement.

    Our mission in the coming days is to finalize some more of the information you’ve requested and help make everyone feel comfortable. We’re making tons of progress here but there’s a lot of moving parts and pieces.

    Posting this here as the most recent comment by @VeloxMedia said they're done with this thread and won't be reading or replying.

    I can't find anything about Velox Media Inc.

    After all pages in this thread what actually made you believe you will find anything?

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker
    edited December 2025

    @ralf and some others

    Further discussing with you makes no sense IMO because you insist on considering your feelings, interpretations and partial relevant knowledge to be facts.

    Example:

    ralf said:
    He told us explicitly that he reads the stripe mails that are intended for Lewis.

    That is a crime in UK law, but like I said, whether is ever a legal issue for him or not is up to Lewis.

    Even assuming that the first statement is correct, it still is questionable, among other reasons for the assumption, stated as if a fact, that (a) the stripe emails were intended for Lewis (as opposed e.g. for anyone holding that account) or "the company", and (b) that Lewis had not given permission - which from what I can see, is just speculation, and (c) that Eric even could have access to that account and/or those emails in the first place without explicit or implicit permission.
    And we/you actually know in between very little and almost nothing. What, for example, if Lewis did not provide or not only provide access to that email account but rather simply copied those message for Eric?

    As I already said multiple times, details are important and "X told that he read emails intended for Y" can mean lots of things, ranging from "he illegally and intentionally hacked that account (and then read the messages)" to "Y copied those messages and gave them to X".
    To find out those relevant and sometimes decisive details is one of the reasons for investigations and cross examinations. Without those details what you quoted (him saying) carries very little information and weight, far, far less than you seem to think.

    Also you play judge or at the very least legal expert yet again with your second statement.

    Whatever, it doesn't make sense to discuss on that basis. But hey, enjoy your witch hunt ...

    Thanked by 1OpaqueRegistrant
  • all servers up.

  • @tenpera said:
    all servers up.

    Good for you.

  • jokotanjokotan Member
    edited December 2025

    Okay, now we need some news about the future of our servers :-) At least they are running...

    Also, it was true statement from @VeloxMedia that the VPS was always online. I see 80+ days of uptime. (Can it be paused and transferred?)

    In principle, this confirm statement about DDoS attack. As I mentioned before, I saw that at that time some pages were loading fine from time to time during the DDoS period.

  • @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.

    I haven't figured out yet if I should initiate the chargeback for my 3-year prepaid plan. It was a super cheap 30gb ram deal. I guess I'll continue watching this thread and hold off for another month or so and reassess before the black friday chargeback window closes.

    For sure, I'm backing up my data and will be ready to switch over to another vps if this one deadpools.

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    On a personal note, about me I’m Eric Banks. Over the past 20 years my focus has been medium-large corporations mainly in hybrid environments providing specialized hosted services. Most of which is enterprise level gear VMware and such where stability/support is much more important than cost, so this side of things is a bit new for me. I have plenty of experience, relationships, connections in the industry with the enterprise world, just not so much in the VPS end yet.

    On the business side. We’re a network of companies and employees, so as Velox Media’s needs grow, we have the resources to grow with it. But as it is, we need to grow first to unlock these additional resources. We have finalized our budget and our runway and have the funds to keep the business operational without any issues. We’re working with all the current providers to lock in terms and be able to guarantee you that your service will remain as-is for the duration of your current agreement.

    Our mission in the coming days is to finalize some more of the information you’ve requested and help make everyone feel comfortable. We’re making tons of progress here but there’s a lot of moving parts and pieces.

    Posting this here as the most recent comment by @VeloxMedia said they're done with this thread and won't be reading or replying.

    quite the team he's got there, sounds like customers of @VeloxMedia will be well taken care of.

  • deafcondeafcon Member
    edited December 2025

    @Envida said:

    @jsg said:

    ...Besides why would he, a us-american citizen care about GDPR?...

    Here's why.

    No matter where he is, if he is doing any of the following he needs to care about GDPR

    • Selling products and services to the EEA/UK, even free ones
    • Tracking online activity of individuals in the EEA/UK (Cookies, IP Addresses, behaviour etc)
    • Having a physical presence in the EEA/UK (servers count, also employees, agents etc)
    • Processing data of EEA/UK citizens (no matter where they are based) or residents. It doesn't matter where the processing of the data happens. Could be the EU, could be USA, could be China.

    I'm a customer in the UK on a UK server (Packetstar, Fareham, Hants). As such all those things apply

    Any US company meeting the above criteria should be particularly concerned that they have consent to collect data from EEA/UK citizens and residents. Which is opt in, not opt-out. That rights to access, rectify, erase and port data are respected (that is my right to do those things, or those of any other EEA/UK resident, not Velox Media Inc's), there is a designated data protection officer that can respond to Data Subject Access Requests and is responsible for data in the organisation as a whole, that transparent up-to-date data policies are in place. These need to be GDPR compliant, that all data breaches are reported within 72 hours. Fines are regularly given for not doing those things, as well as the ones below.

    All data needs to pe processed in line with the Core Processing Principles (Article 5), which cover things like lawfullness, purpose limitation, data minimisation, accuracy, integrity and accountability. Records must be kept and data can only be transferred outside of the UK if the country it is being transferred to has an 'Adequacy Decision'. The USA kind of has one under the 2023 "EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework" and the "UK-US Data Bridge", but its tied to specific frameworks and under constant review. Partly because the USA is awful with data protection on the whole but too big not to give data to.

    Velox Media would have to comply with this framework and self certify with the FTC before they can even touch data from the UK/EEA. It would have been up to Lewis to ensure that Eric was an active, certified participant on the Data Privacy Framework and UK-US Data Bridge or that contratual clauses and Transfer Impact Assessments were carried out before handing over the data. That said, the US Importer (Eric) is also liable for data protection once the data has been handed over, but Lewis bears primary responsibility.

    Both can be fined up to 4% €20 million of their turnover and ordered to stop processing EEA/UK data with individuals having the right to recourse under national laws if data is illegally transferred. Mata was fined €1.2B fine in Ireland for illegal transfers.

    Amazon, LinkedIn, Uber, Google and TikTok have all been fined hundreds of millions of € under GDPR.

    I was fairly sure this was the case based upon my yearly compliance training, but didn't want to misspeak. California has a data privacy law that is similar to GDPR called CCPA. However, I would guess that Velox doesn't meet any of the required thresholds that would compel them to comply.

  • And about that he is at US. No one will stop him from registering a company at UK and access all of your data from US :-)

  • ascicodeascicode Member
    edited December 2025

    The operation hides lewis from being visited by govs and care money under carpet.. Seems like its done for many years, same as the other companies he sits in as "director". Not first time a company got so called selled or whatever. The government needs to know, that a black sheep is in to money laundering.

  • @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.
    .

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    Weird that the SEC site or the Pennsylvania State Department site does not show a Velox Media Inc.

    Can anyone from the US confirm that these take time to update?

    I would've thought they'd be updated before confirmation of initial filings and approval.

  • @zed said:

    @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.

    I haven't figured out yet if I should initiate the chargeback for my 3-year prepaid plan. It was a super cheap 30gb ram deal. I guess I'll continue watching this thread and hold off for another month or so and reassess before the black friday chargeback window closes.

    For sure, I'm backing up my data and will be ready to switch over to another vps if this one deadpools.

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    On a personal note, about me I’m Eric Banks. Over the past 20 years my focus has been medium-large corporations mainly in hybrid environments providing specialized hosted services. Most of which is enterprise level gear VMware and such where stability/support is much more important than cost, so this side of things is a bit new for me. I have plenty of experience, relationships, connections in the industry with the enterprise world, just not so much in the VPS end yet.

    On the business side. We’re a network of companies and employees, so as Velox Media’s needs grow, we have the resources to grow with it. But as it is, we need to grow first to unlock these additional resources. We have finalized our budget and our runway and have the funds to keep the business operational without any issues. We’re working with all the current providers to lock in terms and be able to guarantee you that your service will remain as-is for the duration of your current agreement.

    Our mission in the coming days is to finalize some more of the information you’ve requested and help make everyone feel comfortable. We’re making tons of progress here but there’s a lot of moving parts and pieces.

    Posting this here as the most recent comment by @VeloxMedia said they're done with this thread and won't be reading or replying.

    quite the team he's got there, sounds like customers of @VeloxMedia will be well taken care of.

    Quite the team indeed, you mean:

    Tom Harper -> alter ego with a name taken from football ?
    Eric Banks -> alter ego with a name taken from football ?
    Velox Media Inc -> a corporation that does not exist ?

    Thanked by 2JohnnySac wocatx
  • skorupionskorupion Member, Host Rep

    @xAbhi said:

    @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.
    .

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    Weird that the SEC site or the Pennsylvania State Department site does not show a Velox Media Inc.

    Can anyone from the US confirm that these take time to update?

    I would've thought they'd be updated before confirmation of initial filings and approval.

    On the PA Buisness search website:

    image

    https://file.dos.pa.gov/search/business

  • @skorupion said:

    @xAbhi said:

    @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.
    .

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    Weird that the SEC site or the Pennsylvania State Department site does not show a Velox Media Inc.

    Can anyone from the US confirm that these take time to update?

    I would've thought they'd be updated before confirmation of initial filings and approval.

    On the PA Buisness search website:

    image

    https://file.dos.pa.gov/search/business

    The existence of Eric Banks and Velox Media Inc remains a mystery :)

  • ascicodeascicode Member
    edited December 2025

    @Roxyrex said:

    @zed said:

    @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.

    I haven't figured out yet if I should initiate the chargeback for my 3-year prepaid plan. It was a super cheap 30gb ram deal. I guess I'll continue watching this thread and hold off for another month or so and reassess before the black friday chargeback window closes.

    For sure, I'm backing up my data and will be ready to switch over to another vps if this one deadpools.

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    On a personal note, about me I’m Eric Banks. Over the past 20 years my focus has been medium-large corporations mainly in hybrid environments providing specialized hosted services. Most of which is enterprise level gear VMware and such where stability/support is much more important than cost, so this side of things is a bit new for me. I have plenty of experience, relationships, connections in the industry with the enterprise world, just not so much in the VPS end yet.

    On the business side. We’re a network of companies and employees, so as Velox Media’s needs grow, we have the resources to grow with it. But as it is, we need to grow first to unlock these additional resources. We have finalized our budget and our runway and have the funds to keep the business operational without any issues. We’re working with all the current providers to lock in terms and be able to guarantee you that your service will remain as-is for the duration of your current agreement.

    Our mission in the coming days is to finalize some more of the information you’ve requested and help make everyone feel comfortable. We’re making tons of progress here but there’s a lot of moving parts and pieces.

    Posting this here as the most recent comment by @VeloxMedia said they're done with this thread and won't be reading or replying.

    quite the team he's got there, sounds like customers of @VeloxMedia will be well taken care of.

    Quite the team indeed, you mean:

    Tom Harper -> alter ego with a name taken from football ?
    Eric Banks -> alter ego with a name taken from football ?
    Velox Media Inc -> a corporation that does not exist ?

    Velox Media is actually a company in UK, but not a hosting company. It looks all to lighting the clients so nothing can be found through google. Same goes to all old businesses made by Lewis.

  • @ascicode said: Velox Media is actually a company in UK

    VeloxMedia was never a company. It was merely a trading name used by Lewis, who was a sole proprietor.

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  • @Maelstrom36 said:

    @ascicode said: Velox Media is actually a company in UK

    VeloxMedia was never a company. It was merely a trading name used by Lewis, who was a sole proprietor.

    Because the name was stolen from veloxmedia.com, to hide his mess in google. The same for all fake names and hosts by him.

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  • I think there was a company VeloxMedia but unrelated to our Velox. Domain was also bought off the shelf, so seems like both were not coincidences.

  • @JohnFilch123 said:
    I think there was a company VeloxMedia but unrelated to our Velox. Domain was also bought off the shelf, so seems like both were not coincidences.

    The only company that has a similar name on LET is VeloxServ. Even I was confused in the beginning when VeloxMedia showed up :)

  • @x0x0x said: The only company that has a similar name on LET is VeloxServ

    On LET yes but I meant this company.

  • @JohnFilch123 said:

    @x0x0x said: The only company that has a similar name on LET is VeloxServ

    On LET yes but I meant this company.

    Yes, they've had sketchy vibes since day one.

  • @skorupion said:

    @xAbhi said:

    @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.
    .

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    Weird that the SEC site or the Pennsylvania State Department site does not show a Velox Media Inc.

    Can anyone from the US confirm that these take time to update?

    I would've thought they'd be updated before confirmation of initial filings and approval.

    On the PA Buisness search website:

    image

    https://file.dos.pa.gov/search/business

    Alright, so just to give them the benefit of doubt. We can consider th filing was done after the 23rd.

    Alright, let's see

  • @xAbhi said:

    @skorupion said:

    @xAbhi said:

    @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.
    .

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    Weird that the SEC site or the Pennsylvania State Department site does not show a Velox Media Inc.

    Can anyone from the US confirm that these take time to update?

    I would've thought they'd be updated before confirmation of initial filings and approval.

    On the PA Buisness search website:

    image

    https://file.dos.pa.gov/search/business

    Alright, so just to give them the benefit of doubt. We can consider th filing was done after the 23rd.

    Alright, let's see

    I mean, whatever xD

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  • @ascicode said:

    @Roxyrex said:

    @zed said:

    @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.

    I haven't figured out yet if I should initiate the chargeback for my 3-year prepaid plan. It was a super cheap 30gb ram deal. I guess I'll continue watching this thread and hold off for another month or so and reassess before the black friday chargeback window closes.

    For sure, I'm backing up my data and will be ready to switch over to another vps if this one deadpools.

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    On a personal note, about me I’m Eric Banks. Over the past 20 years my focus has been medium-large corporations mainly in hybrid environments providing specialized hosted services. Most of which is enterprise level gear VMware and such where stability/support is much more important than cost, so this side of things is a bit new for me. I have plenty of experience, relationships, connections in the industry with the enterprise world, just not so much in the VPS end yet.

    On the business side. We’re a network of companies and employees, so as Velox Media’s needs grow, we have the resources to grow with it. But as it is, we need to grow first to unlock these additional resources. We have finalized our budget and our runway and have the funds to keep the business operational without any issues. We’re working with all the current providers to lock in terms and be able to guarantee you that your service will remain as-is for the duration of your current agreement.

    Our mission in the coming days is to finalize some more of the information you’ve requested and help make everyone feel comfortable. We’re making tons of progress here but there’s a lot of moving parts and pieces.

    Posting this here as the most recent comment by @VeloxMedia said they're done with this thread and won't be reading or replying.

    quite the team he's got there, sounds like customers of @VeloxMedia will be well taken care of.

    Quite the team indeed, you mean:

    Tom Harper -> alter ego with a name taken from football ?
    Eric Banks -> alter ego with a name taken from football ?
    Velox Media Inc -> a corporation that does not exist ?

    Velox Media is actually a company in UK, but not a hosting company. It looks all to lighting the clients so nothing can be found through google. Same goes to all old businesses made by Lewis.

    Correct me if I am wrong but when one party makes materially false statements to induce another into a contract they otherwise wouldn’t have signed sounds like a very valid ground for a chargeback, right?

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    @HotaruBlaze said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @ralf said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @ralf said:

    @VeloxMedia said:

    @Neoon said:

    @VeloxMedia said:
    Also another update. I'm seeing some chargeback emails. I can't see the statuses as I can only see the emails that come into Lewis's old Velox mailbox. So if anyone files a chargeback I'll be terminating their account and deleting all their data. I believe this is the best course of action and follows Lewis's original TOS. Its the most fair way and completely your decision as a buyer and your agreement between you and Lewis's company. It isn't fair for users to receive a refund while still keeping their full service.

    Why do you even care? Its not your Paypal or Stripe account, or is it?

    Because its not fair that they're getting a full refund and I'm hosting their data. That's called fraud.

    They need to pick a lane, Either they can take the path of litigation and try to get a refund or they can continue the service that's working perfectly fine. You don't get both legally

    Is it fair that people have paid in full and you're threatening to pull their service because you think Lewis sold it too cheaply?

    How about YOU pick a lane dude.

    You're thinking that he has any responsibility towards someone who charged back the service he claimed to the payment service that he's not receiving the service? GTFO.

    No. Maybe you missed the context of the thread. He was threatening to pull service from people who had paid in full for a 3 year deal because Lewis had sold them too cheaply. He wasn't offering refunds, just saying it was unfair to expect him to honour the contract.

    EDIT: see https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4694093#Comment_4694093

    "Because its not fair that they're getting a full refund and I'm hosting their data"

    You misunderstood the context. They successfully charged back and received a refund. Nobody owes that guy any service. Full. Stop.

    Not quite, if a dispute opens, he's deleting the service, he's not waiting for the chargeback to be successful, it's purely on intent because "He can't actually access the status of disputes"

    If he can't see the status, how does he know theres a chargeback request anyway?

  • @Saragoldfarb said:

    @HotaruBlaze said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @ralf said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @ralf said:

    @VeloxMedia said:

    @Neoon said:

    @VeloxMedia said:
    Also another update. I'm seeing some chargeback emails. I can't see the statuses as I can only see the emails that come into Lewis's old Velox mailbox. So if anyone files a chargeback I'll be terminating their account and deleting all their data. I believe this is the best course of action and follows Lewis's original TOS. Its the most fair way and completely your decision as a buyer and your agreement between you and Lewis's company. It isn't fair for users to receive a refund while still keeping their full service.

    Why do you even care? Its not your Paypal or Stripe account, or is it?

    Because its not fair that they're getting a full refund and I'm hosting their data. That's called fraud.

    They need to pick a lane, Either they can take the path of litigation and try to get a refund or they can continue the service that's working perfectly fine. You don't get both legally

    Is it fair that people have paid in full and you're threatening to pull their service because you think Lewis sold it too cheaply?

    How about YOU pick a lane dude.

    You're thinking that he has any responsibility towards someone who charged back the service he claimed to the payment service that he's not receiving the service? GTFO.

    No. Maybe you missed the context of the thread. He was threatening to pull service from people who had paid in full for a 3 year deal because Lewis had sold them too cheaply. He wasn't offering refunds, just saying it was unfair to expect him to honour the contract.

    EDIT: see https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4694093#Comment_4694093

    "Because its not fair that they're getting a full refund and I'm hosting their data"

    You misunderstood the context. They successfully charged back and received a refund. Nobody owes that guy any service. Full. Stop.

    Not quite, if a dispute opens, he's deleting the service, he's not waiting for the chargeback to be successful, it's purely on intent because "He can't actually access the status of disputes"

    If he can't see the status, how does he know theres a chargeback request anyway?

    Email notification.

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  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    @NotFoundException said:

    @xAbhi said:

    @skorupion said:

    @xAbhi said:

    @schrauger said:
    I had joined the discord to read more, and I saw that the owner just posted this 15 minutes ago with his full name (supposedly) and other info.
    .

    10:20 AM Eric: Hope @everyone had a great holiday!

    I wanted to give an official update and some details that have been requested. Our official name and contact details are below. Our web team is working on the frontend; Tech guys are setting up phones and our new DC.

    Bear with us a bit longer on the legal agreements and policies. Because of yesterday’s attacks our legal has been busy and just got a lot busier.

    Velox Media Inc
    301 Grant St
    Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    888-881-1308

    Weird that the SEC site or the Pennsylvania State Department site does not show a Velox Media Inc.

    Can anyone from the US confirm that these take time to update?

    I would've thought they'd be updated before confirmation of initial filings and approval.

    On the PA Buisness search website:

    image

    https://file.dos.pa.gov/search/business

    Alright, so just to give them the benefit of doubt. We can consider th filing was done after the 23rd.

    Alright, let's see

    I mean, whatever xD

    At least he came.

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  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad
    edited December 2025

    Fwiw, @VeloxMedia account not 'eric' anymore. It's now operated by chatgpt legal.

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  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    Either he actually talked to legal or realized, that he fucked with the wrong community.

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