New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Comments
Why using analogy? I can make 10 analogy with your mum in those also. The grocery store doesn’t control the power grid. A host controls its server stack, redundancy, monitoring, failover, and vendor choices, upstream services, etc.
How about using facts first, tell Alexhost to remove 99.99% uptime on their website, coz it is 98% on NL location (at least for now) .
this thread lol, thanks!
There were 800 servers seized. The entire infrastructure was targeted. Remembering megaupload, it took years for some data to be recovered.
800 servers of alexhost seized? Sorry, any update what exactly happened? is it in the news? Why were they seized though?
This has nothing to do with the case here. Nothing was seized. nLighten DC in NL decided to cut power to all MIRhosting's colo customers.
Right now the following hosters confirmed outages and they have issued letters:
Alexhost, vdsina.com, 4vps.su, IHC.ru, hosting-vds.com, Hip-hosting, kvmka.ru, Datacheap.ru, ruweb.net, Eurobyte.ru.
Btw - they appointed a tranny as CEO with a funny name, Dame Dawn Childs lol, and less than 1 month after it, this happened. Sounds like April 1st joke but here is the picture:
https://www.nlighten.com/en/press-releases/nlighten-appoints-dame-dawn-childs-as-ceo-and-matthew-harris-as-cfo-as-ai-drives-edge-infrastructure-demand/
This is the most succinct update so far. What I don't understand is why Alexhost is being so cagey about it. That is the reason for all the ire.
Because like everyone else, they are also kept in the dark regarding this whole situation.
And since the following question from customers will be "ETA WEN?!", probably they decided to play it safe and just provide a backup solution instead of broken promises.
I have nothing to do with them and not even their customer. If you ask me, the only thing
worth to host with Alexhost is a cheapest throw-away reverse proxy to a bigger provider.
So in the end, are the servers back online and is all customer data safe?
And the reason was... there was a reason right? anyhow alexhost seems colateral.
The reason was the arrest of the CEO of MIRhosting. nLighten didn't want to get in hot
water, and few days later decided to cut off power to his company, which resulted in collateral damage and effective outage of dozen or more partners who used that colo space, Alexhost among them.
According to AI, their issue takes at least 3 to 7 days to be fixed (and potentially up to 2 weeks).
If customers don't have any backup they are cooked. ofc u should always have a backup and if needed a database replica
No. 4 days of on going offline
I guess AI is the new horoscope then. Unless Alexhost can reach an agreement with the DC they will likely have to rebuild at an entirely new location. If the article linked earlier on how the DC is holding their servers hostage is correct this will be even more painful - if they can manage to replace the hardware here and now at all. I wouldn't be surprised if they were currently waiting to see what their options will be and if those will turn out overly negative just call it a day and migrate/refund people for good.
At this point their NL customers are probably best advised to weight if a (hopefully temporary) move to Moldova is an option for them until it's clear when (or if) a NL location will return or if it's better to take the refund and restore elsewhere. Personally i don't see why it would be all that bad to ride out the situation in Moldova (outside of the work involved in restoring there just to - potentially - move back to NL soon) but i have a feeling that a lot of customers don't really have the option to restore (backups... coughcough...) in which case right now is probably a good time to come up with a plan for what to do if the NL servers don't come back at all.
thats not hostage, it is likely court order to preserve evidence.
evading EU sanctions and providing services to Russia cyber criminals is a serious criminal act... he's definitely looking at a few years in jail if he's luckily
Well, Alexhost isn't really the target of those though. They are literally collateral damage.
As far as seriousness goes i don't see how this is much different to other zero fucks given hosts that came before them. People act like if they hadn't been able to host in NL packets would have suddenly stopped at borders or crooks wouldn't have found other shelters welcoming them with open arms. The initial targets will obviously be hit with a metric fuckton of shit but it's hardly exciting.