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Originally Posted by porno jew
what's the deal with the fbi and the hard drive?
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When you have good deals/promotions, you attract a lot of clients and sign ups.
That can be both good and bad, as you get some people who abuse resources as previously described. By that I mean not only in using too many resources to effect their neighbors, but ultimately the performance of the server. That is one issue.
You also have a lot of people out there who sign up for cheap plans and do nefarious shit. Those include torrents, script kiddies, mailers, phishing scams and alike. In short, you have a lot abuse to deal with which is a different level of abuse to contend with.
When we first launched that brand, we did not know how attractive high bandwidth VPS plans would be in the marketplace. At the time, we were the only guys out there offering 1TB VPS (although many since have followed suit) at the price point. We did not have the abuse tools, and network monitors, in place initially to deal with that volume of sign ups, and abuse. High bandwidth usage was the least of the issues.
The same stuff that's happened with us, has happened with many (not all) hosts out there. While I appreciate the other small fry hosts chiming into this thread with their
, I'd bet most do not have the amount of clients/revenue, or growth we've have in a few years since launch. That can be both a blessing, and a curse when you grow so fast.
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Originally Posted by papill0n
i dont give a fuck about barefootsies but people shouldnt be able to call the guy a scammer with no proof
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Correct. There was no malicious intent to rip anyone off with the hosting (i.e. scamming anyone). You have one guy in the thread who had excessive usage by anyone's standards, we tried to help, he refused, and choose to go elsewhere. You had others terminated for abuse, not paying their bill, left because of slow performance (caused by abusive clients on same server), or because they didn't make back ups of their supposedly "mission critical" clients and data. None of which qualifies as a 'scam' by any sense of the word.
In the end, most people see this thread for what it is. A few of the same people (many never clients) trying to smear myself, or businesses I own, because of their personal vendettas. They were banned in the past, and can't get over it. Or they are like said flip who has always had a personal beef, and never misses and opportunity to bash me.
These guys do not like me, that's fine. I really do not care. Apparently it's not enough that I know it, they know it, and they have tried in endless number of 'Barefootsies' threads to let everyone else in the industry know it. They continue to persist, year after year. Ultimately, that problem is their own. I am not going anywhere. Put me on ignore, or get on with your life.
Are there a few clients in the thread who actually have had service with us we let down? Sure. But as I said, we are not perfect. Are their some of those same clients that were the source of their own issues? Yep. That said, we continue to reinvest in the business, and strive to get better.