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did the.hosting/pq hosting really had server in over 50 locations?
I wouldn't be so sure about the Seychelles companies being fake. Seychelles is a pretty popular location due the companies (like to a lesser degree these days Panama) being very hard to trace to an actual owner (without a local court order it's probably impossible to find out who runs them due to there being no public database and all positions very likely being filled by various lawyers or other strawmen on top of that) and they are regularly sold by offshore incorporation services.
Given you actually make some money its not even that expensive to get one. You also just pay a flat fee to the state and zero taxes on overseas (read: all) income, so there's no need to disclose anything about the actual business activities.
Legal entity might be real, but when you see Seychelles as geolocation in whois, it's 100% fake. This is what I'm talking about. And this is not what the locations of the.hosting were.
Ah, yeah that's 100% a given. I don't think the Seychelles have much infrastructure at all. The IP owner being incorporated there isn't all that far fetched though.
lol come on man
looks like geo.hosting also shutting down cause of this
Hmm, have couple of servers in Greece, North Macedonia and other locations with 4vps in which i can see that they use the hosting do i need to worry about? No info from 4vps about shutdown etc...
You can add intentionally delivering 0.15Gbps when advertising 1Gbps shared.
What is the aternative? There is no one offering 10gbps VPS at those rates, not even close.
better do some backups to be safe
At least for Greece, as it appears, they probably leased hardware from Lancom in Thessaloniki (or some third party with servers there). Same for 4VPS, who don't seem to be affected by all this by the way...
in 4vps telegram chat people are talking about locations "falling" so i would say it is affected
yeah, because no one else is spying on their customers
"BuLlEtPrOoF"
Well there are no bullet holes in any of the servers. Checkmate!
Good point, they are now even airgapped in a government facility... very secure hosting!
I bought 3 servers and paid for 1 year! Now they will stop my servers without refund me!
It will probably be hard for them to stop something they do not have. In all seriousness: Why did you buy there? I mean it was pretty obvious that this wasn't the most kosher operation (even if in the end it really was money flows that broke their back). If that's exactly the reason you bought there, well... you should have known that raids and sudden disappearances are part of the game.
I have been their customer for almost two years and was satisfied with their service so I renewed my server again and bought two new servers
as he said it was known
That's not a reason to choose them in general - like when you were researching hosting options. Stuff like cheap, lenient and so on. I mean, if you say you didn't notice the red flags and just went by price there's nothing i can do but believe you anyways. If you actually noticed but thought it was fine just because they managed to stay afloat for a year, well, that doesn't really mean a whole lot in such a context.
Never heard of them but that's a nice domain.
From 4vps Telegram today:
Russian->English via Yandex translate:
Original:
Уважаемые клиенты!
В связи с прекращением деятельности нашего апстрим-провайдера в ряде европейских локаций, мы вынуждены провести миграцию ваших VPS на временные площадки:
Работы затронут следующие страны: 🇧🇪 Бельгия, 🇬🇷 Греция, 🇮🇪 Ирландия, 🇱🇻 Латвия, 🇲🇰 Северная Македония, 🇭🇷 Хорватия. - VPS из данных стран будут временно мигрированы в другую локацию.
В период с сегодняшнего дня по пятницу включительно в этих локациях возможны временные сбои в работе VPS, а также кратковременная недоступность серверов в связи с процессом миграции.
📌 Прямо сейчас пожалуйста создайте резервные копии (бекапы) всех важных данных на ваших VPS. А также сохраните копии в надёжном месте (другой сервер, локальный диск, облачное хранилище).
Мы прилагаем все усилия, чтобы минимизировать время простоя и сохранить ваши данные в полной безопасности. Все работы будут выполнены с максимальной осторожностью.
Благодарим за понимание и доверие.
С уважением,
Команда 4vps.su
Is this related to @antonpa's JustHost shutting down a number of uncommon locations?
Most probably.
wait for the.new.hosting
Will they even issue a refund, or did several thousand euros just burned from my balance?
I mean, they are shutting down, thousand of servers seized and you still expect refunds...
Have you ever considered keeping your money at an actual bank? I know it's weird but i heard it works for some people .
Looks like the.hosting shutdown made room for others, at least in Thessaloniki... Just got an email from a similar provider (similar as in "offering VPS in dozens of locations worldwide") based in Cyprus, that they will be migrating their Athens hardware to Thessaloniki THIS weekend! the.hosting is shutting down everything on Friday for the record.
"Well isn't that convenient!"
In any case, whoever built & operates such a geographically distributed infra has my "thumbs up"...