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What sarcasm are you talking about exactly?
I think the correct term is LeopardsAteMyFace or FAFO
This alone could be an entire separated thread. Alexhost is a shady host. But I dont have time for that. The current downtime is just the trigger. I'm doing the service for their old customers victims and potential new customers.
For the love of popcorn, please elaborate.
I'm confused.
Are you an affected customer who is upset because a shady provider turned out to be a crappy provider aswell?
Or do you spend your spare time posting about how terrible this provider is, hoping people will read it and think, "Wow, that guy really knows what he is talking about. I'll follow his advice"?
Abit of both id imagine
Yeah, there's 255255255255 IPs in the world, no way someone have to reuse them if not for greed or laziness.
OK, this is a forum where a lot of technical people hang out so blurting out something you just made up will not fly. If you have no idea what you are talking about, for the love of god shut up or you will only prove that you are an idiot.
There are exactly 4,294,967,296 ip's in the world, and over half a billion of those are not useable. IANA, the global allocator of ip addresses, officially assigned their last ip space in February 2011.
We, as in the entire world, have been reusing ip's for the last 20 or 30 years.
to be fair i don't think he was giving a number, he was saying [0-255].[0-255].[0-255].[0-255].
also don't be racist against ip6 addresses sir.
Seems like someone didn't get the joke :c
Oh fuck, I totally missed that.
In my defense, if someone types a bunch of numbers without clearly stating otherwise most people would assume we are talking decimal.
Nothing would be further from my mind, I'm probably the biggest ipv6 advocate you ever talked to. I've been running ipv6 only for 15 years, I have no idea why people still use ip4 but they do so I just adapt to it.
Ok 5+ days of on-going down time. 97% Uptime soon (still advertising 99.99% uptime on the website) = Garbage.
Now with additional information regarding Scammy Account Suspension practice, and many more shady behaviors = Grift/Greed/Scummy.
Please do not defending AlexHost, they are not your friend. They are Alexander the Garbage, Alexander the Grift/Greed Host.
Can we all agree that you should request for a name change, to Goodtesteroffline now?
Services went down June 2. Thread opened serveral hours after. Now its June 5. Our dude here has a time machine and can travel to the future somehow.
We are not defending Alexhost, we are making fun of you. But your IQ is too low to understand this huge difference.
I called this guy bootlicker/asskisser and he probably got mad, now calling people idiots/low IQ lol. There are high chance that I have higher IQs than you, based on my SAT tier. Dont attack people using nonsense shit. I tried to ignore you but you keep coming back. Dont expect me to read or answer any of your nonsense shit.
Back to the main topic, dont try muddying the thread:
On-going down time = Garbage host.
Scammy Account Suspension of legitimate users practice = Grift/Greed/Scummy.
Alexander the Garbage, Alexander the Grift/Greed Host.
Should we mention who started it?
Without any proof, since I never defended Alexhost, just shared an objective opinion
on the situation. As I said, Alexhost is a place you host reverse proxies.
You decided to host actual content there. Now you are mad that your stuff is offline
Hi,
probably i am just too boring and a fun breaker but it would be nice if in the raising postings counter for this thread, there could be also some topic specific postings mixed in.
Some kind of news/updates, maybe even experiences with the alternate moldova location/offer or maybe some refugee suggestions or what ever that might help people who are affected by this problem could gain something from this thread.
Without question the partner choice here was not good. I assume the provider will learn from it and do things next time better. Finding the right longterm partner in a foreign country is really really not easy. But at the end of the day if this situation happens, we are talking about weeks and months of recovery ( in the sense of original hardware/IPs are useable again ).
I had once an argument with a datacenter. They choose to turn off the power and refuse giving out my hardware ( 20 sqm private suite full of servers ).
It took me ~ 1-2 weeks to have a court order in hand to at least force the datacenter to grant access to the servers to copy/rescue the data of the customers to be able to continue the provisioning with another location. Thanks god from the beginning i was RIPE member and the same IPs could be used.
And this was me = german going in germany against a german company. Not going against what/who ever in a foreign country. And using really massive amounts of money to replace all the server out of nothing + the law stuff.
~7 years ( yes years ) later, the final court decision ( after many ) was that this was not rightful. Did not help much giving the fact that the hardware was 7 years later without value and the reputation damage was obviously done. The only reason the business survived this was that i had already started to implement Plan B with another datacenter location, so they "just" killed 20% of my business.
I hope this will give you an impression about the situation @alexhost is in now -- and if the police or what ever is involved you are anyway completely lost with fast what ever.
So you can really save your time posting here because X hours or days passed by and using it for something more senseful like watching the gras growing or counting clouds...
IF alexhost will be able to recover this stuff ( assuming there is really a law / what ever issue and not just unpaid invoices or something like that ) in the close future ( weeks and months ) then they were lucky and working with lightspeed and god's grace.
But you should not assume that. Take the refund or take the alternative location. And if you do not have a backup of your data, then take this as a chance to learn something about hosting and maybe introduce some backup strategy.
Good luck to you all who are affected with this!
That's a really sad story Layer 7. The datacenter wasn't forced to pay you restitution?
Hi,
haha, yes they were forced. But my lawyers f*** it up in several ways and i just got a fraction. I sue the lawyers yet again years later for that for a small portion of it successfully. This time doing the proper paperworks myself.
But this all is just a brutal sad story how some uneducated wanna be "business guy" bloody noob learned some hard lessons. But well, i learned them and benefit from them until today a lot. So better sooner than later later to have it explode right in your face.
But that did really cost money, time and grey hair... i suggest other ways to learn how business works in the real world and not some fairytale fairness, rightful, blabla unicorn world.