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PulsedMedia Server Offline Since Sept 27th: Stuck in AI Support Loop

eKoeKo Member

Hi everyone,

I’m opening this thread to document a frustrating support experience I am currently having with PulsedMedia, and to hopefully get a human staff member to finally look at my prolonged outage. I want to keep this completely factual and respectful, as my main goal is simply to get my paid server back online.

I want to preface this by saying that PulsedMedia has historically been a great provider for me. I have always been a loyal customer, which is why this prolonged downtime and the recent inability to reach actual staff has been totally unexpected and feels unprofessional. I always make sure to pay my bills on time, and my current dedicated server is fully paid for and listed as "Active" in my client area. Furthermore, I currently have a 50+ Euro credit balance sitting in my account, ready for my next invoice.

The Timeline & Situation:
* September 27th: My dedicated server went offline following a DDoS attack.
* Current Status: At the time of writing this thread, the downtime is exactly 10 days and 6 hours, and the server remains completely unreachable. It seems all that is required is a manual reboot to get the service running again.
* Support Attempts: I immediately opened a support ticket and have also tried reaching out via direct messages here on LET to seek assistance from their staff.

Unfortunately, my ticket has only been handled by PulsedMedia's AI support agent, and its responses have been quite inadequate. It has been completely unable to escalate my ticket to a human technician. At one point in the ticket, I was even asked if I was paying for a 10,000 Euro "concierge plan" just to get human assistance.

I want to be completely clear: I am not acting entitled to VIP support or special treatment. I solely want to use the standard service I have already paid for. While I understand that budget providers operate with lean teams, if they lack the human resources to perform a basic manual server reboot after 10+ days, that is ultimately an operational issue on their end, not the customer's.

Documentation / Screenshots:
For full transparency, here are the screenshots documenting my account status, the server downtime, and my attempts to get support:

I am tagging the provider here ( @PulsedMedia ) in the hopes that a real person on their team will see this, review the provided ticket details, and kindly help me get my server booted back up.

Thank you for your time, and thanks to the LET community for providing a space to help facilitate support when standard channels get stuck.

Best regards,
eKo

Comments

  • itzsenuitzsenu Member
    edited 6:17PM

    What a Profile pic this is!

    @eKo said: I have always been a loyal customer

    Loyalty subscription expired.

  • monsoon73monsoon73 Member

    This is well documented. But, based on the responses from PulsedMedia here, I doubt he has much interest in retaining your business. - Might be best to cut your losses and move on.

    Thanked by 2itzsenu tux
  • You clearly need to "Check your entitlement"

    His response should have told you all you need to know, really. His attitude is hilarious to watch. Same shit as the other post in essence. Gets a bit boring, but his ai girlfriend is for sure trying harder than he is.

  • zedzed Veteran

    @eKo said: Full DMs on LET

    that's pretty fucked up, well it's here for everybody to see what they can expect. what a fucking tool.

  • johndeo983johndeo983 Member
    edited 6:47PM

    It's fine for random backups of stuff you dont actively use and wouldn't mind vanishing by tomorrow, Since its cheap HDDs (mostly 7th hand survivors from China), when they finally drop dead, you just accept it and move on there isn't exactly a support team running the show there

    He sold a mountain of garbage here in the last two months and a lot of drama is coming

  • TiLTEDTiLTED Member

    That's absolutely embarrassing on PulsedMedia's part. I've been using seedboxes for years and have never heard anything good about PulsedMedia, this thread just confirms that once again.

    If I were you, I'd switch providers. What kind of incompetent bunch is that?

    I can recommend the following providers:

  • s0n1cs0n1c Member
    edited 6:47PM

    usually with these posts, its usually an mjj who complained about getting banned, or a user error. But this post is different, the host is a complete bitch relying on ai for everything. 10 days for a manual reboot on a server thats paid and active is actually insane, and the dude asking to pay a 10k concierge plan just to talk to a human is fucking stupid. LET should ban hosts like these.

    Chargeback yesterday

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