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Mad City Servers and Chicago Servers
I signed up for a server with Mad City Servers in February. For some reason I was unable to access the server after about a week. The support team was happy to migrate the service from Salt Lake City to New York, and for some reason this resolved the network accessibility issue.
Fast forward to last week, hours after the Copy Fail exploit was publicly released. I updated my New York VPS with no issues. Then I went to login to the website, and was redirected from Mad City's website to a new website called Chicago Servers org. It was a plain text page that complained that they were hacked, and lost all customer data. They were closing Mad City and reopening as Chicago Servers. They had a line at the end stating "thanks to Low End Shit Talk for driving customers to them".
That seemed odd, because there's been almost no discussion of Mad City on this site. In fact, I was able to find only a single thread when I searched for them of a customer complaining about being auto-renewed a week before an annual subscription renewed 🙄
As of today I have gone back to both their old Mad City site and their new Chicago Servers site. The Mad City site is a default cPanel page asking the owner to contact their hosting provider, and the Chicago Servers site is a different text blob telling the user "We have most of Chicago servers added to the billing system. Still working on the others."
My connection to my VPS hangs for a few minutes until it times out. I am assuming it is now offline for good and all data has been lost.
Has anyone else used them, or had any experiences at all with them (good, bad, or neutral)?
Comments
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/216686/madcityservers-vps-down/p1
There are plenty of threads about them.
Read:
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/216854/madcityservers-website-and-service-gone-exit-scam
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/207049/beware-of-mad-city-servers-madcityservers-com-scam
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/207723/madcityservers-com-loss-of-service-and-no-contact-exit-scam/p1
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/196548/madcityservers-lost-my-data
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/198629/looking-to-move-15-vpss/p1
I was one of the few customers of them that had a pretty good experience and cancelled on my own accord due to not needing it anymore. But, I posted on here warning others about its history and received threats in dm from @Madcity
After that, the line has been crossed and its just simply unacceptable behavior from owner.
There are plenty of other providers here that can replace and offer a better service and not engage in such childish behaviors.
Obligatory @Madcity @Madcity @Madcity
SKILL ISSUE. There are lots of things.