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True.
He has his own DC in Moldova, why not backup data there?
Or for example NL to FR, and viceversa? Would save him the trouble in these kinds of situations.
Then quote the original post that said full refund for proper context. Tag the representative if you're talking about someone else besides alexhost. I can't find two posts from him saying "total refund".
Were you thinking this? The "affected period" is from June 1-, not from service start.
What data are you talking about?
7 days and still no update
I dunno but I see a lot of updates.
He offered a refund or new server in Moldava
NL data is held until the police investigation is over. Could be years
Not gonna be years but not anytime soon either.
The data they cannot f’in access right now because there is a police investigation?
Nobody was talking about a police investigation, no need to spread fake news.
The only investigation was of THE.hosting, which had their servers taken (in a different
datacenter not related to nLighten which then led to the arrest of the owner of MIRhosting. Since nLighten didn't want to get in trouble, they decided - several days after the previous incident, to cut down the power to all MIRhosting's colo space, and since last week the power was not restored. When you cannot access the data, is not the same as data is permanently lost or was sent to police. Totally different things.
Is there any news after being offline for so many days?
I understand it's not Alexhost's servers that are taken. You don't understand what I am saying is that their servers are offline because of a police investigation, and if he backed up data from the NL servers to the FR servers and viceversa the customers could get their data right now. I understand it's the customer's fault for not backing up too but this is a good solution, since he offers so many locations.
We already discussed that, read the last 2 pages.
This means he will need to have double storage (yes, like the LET joke) in every location,
and some sort of sync mechanism to LIVE sync it to a remote location. This is some very
problematic thing to do by itself, since you need to snapshot the entire disk, then send
all it's content lets say every day, to another datacenter. How many TB is that? Let's say
small, 50GB SSD. 1.5TB just for remote backup? for 1 customer. Now think if it's a 1TB
storage box. 30TB/mo just for backups? This is only realistic in non-lowend prices.
Or when you have physical access to the rack, like he has in Moldova, because it has
to only be synced locally.
no, the investigation IS MirHosting and its owners.
They were owners of WorkTitans B.V, the company under which the.hosting operated in EU to bypass EU sanctions. MIR Hosting was basically OWNING the.hosting, not just providing them rack space. Thats the whole issue here.
That is why police seized ALL MirHosting servers and arrested its owners.
No, why are you making conspiracy stuff up?
MIRhosting is a Russian man. THE.hosting are 2 Moldovan brothers.
nLighten didn't like the smell of it and just cut power in NL and DE.
So tell me, if it was Dutch police, why the servers in Germany were also cut off?
This is just stupid decision of the management, they were afraid to get fined for
helping evade sanctions. As you can see from the list, 90% of the affected hosters
were Russian. Totally bad choice of Alex to choose this neighborhood, but he did
it because this is what most of their clients expect - dmca ignor.
WorkTitans B.V, company which holds the.hosting assets and proceeds payments, is owned by MirHosting owner. You can verify this on Netherlands company registry official website.
they did it for massive amount of money or % of the.hosting ownership.
It was co-ordinated action of multiple EU enforcement agencies, same like they do for IPTV for example.
Even if it was not, nLighten is NL-based company(nLighten HQ BV) and if NL police or court gets them court order, they MUST comply in ALL their locations.
So how do you explain that the.hosting 800 servers were seized on May 22, 2026, and MIRhosting continued to operate until June 2nd, 2026? Took them 10 days to figure it out? And how do you explain there is no court order, or a statement from nLighten? You are just making up facts. This is the EU, not some banana republic in Africa. Police cannot just go and do whatever the fuck they want without court order. This is why it can take years to shut down something like IPTV sites for example. There is no "coordinated action" and nothing even close to what you say. Just a CEO who pulled the switch in 2 locations.
I guess we will see soon. If that was case servers would be up in another location already.
It's post-democratic state.
That's just bad publicity for nLighten is they decided to cut off power just because. If there was some ongoing investigation they still be liable.
They would not, they must act on court orders.
This is exactly the point I was making earlier, nice to see that you finally accept it.
If it was a real court order, nLighten would make some announcement "sorry guys, we
are innocent, we were ordered to shut down MIRhosting according to court order in NL.
But no. They did it entirely on their own, and are keeping silent about it. Because evading
sanctions in the EU is a serious offense, they figured they will lose much more money than
just pulling the plug on MIRhosting. At least now they only lost the money from the clients
of MIRhosting, not more.
I am not sure that Alexhost is directly cooperating with nLighten. Most likely, Mirhosting rents space and connection from nLighten and then resells resources to its customers. So Alexhost is not a nLighten customer, but a Mirhosting customer. As for the investigation regarding Mirhosting (probably, not enough information), nLighten has decided to simply disable everything related to Mirhosting in order to prevent any activity coming from Mirhosting resources. How legal this is will become clear when Mirhosting receives a conclusion from law enforcement.
so the servers are never coming back?
Probably not never but when is very much in the stars. In any case chances are that it'll take long enough for it to practically not be much different from never.
no, but need years to get it back, which is meaningless
Hi,
assuming "never" is safer than assuming "this year" based on my experience if police is involved.
Especially if its not your hardware, but you just rented the hardware from a reseller.
So you as reseller do not even exist for the police as someone who has any right on the data on this server. You are just no one :-)
Again: If @alexhost can manage to get this data in this year he is really really really good and/or really really lucky.
Just assume its gone. Everything else is believing in unicorns. -- They exist... for sure... but limited people saw them ( without taking drugs )... ;-)
Ok so the servers just die like that? Very nice service. At least remove 99.99% uptime crap on the website. Is it closed to 90% now?
Other locations are online?
Pretty sure the uptime % does not count upstream being jailed and hardware seized
Yes in fact, @alexhost 's Service Level Agreement excludes force majeure situations.