Cavecreek/CCBill deal to buy Alphared falls through
 

http://avn.com/internet/articles/32761.html

well, i for one am very happy with this. Alphared has been hosting some bad shit and i got worried when i saw ccbill getting in bed with them.

apparently, they tried to save the AP clients, but when they saw what they were dealing with, they decided to leave it alone.

smart move

Rough times for alpha red clients ahead.

If any of the survivors need anything we can have you over in no time. Contact us if you have any questions or comments.

Best of luck!

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Awww man that's fucked up. You people better get your asses over to phatservers or hosthead before it's too late.

damnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

this deal was doomed from the get go!

Hate to say it, but doesn't surprise me.
Hopefully people there have themselves covered after the warnings last week.

Who's the bitch now, eh?

Brad

agreed :error:error:error

For some reason, this doesn?t surprise me, Cavecreek/ccbill and alphared mix like oil and water.

Anybody that deals with alphared is dealing with a company where 10 DMCA notices stand between them losing 75% of their revenue.

CCBill has too much to lose to acquire a business like that, they are too honest ;) and leaving up hosting clients after getting repeated DMCAs will f*ck them on the billing side.

You are... LOL

We just knew this will happen...

why do you say that? there was a lot of vague comments but nothing specific? everyone was mum on what they knew

I'm sure they took one look at AlphaRed's books and high-tailed it out of there. We all knew this wasn't going to play out.

well have to wait and see how many "if you are SOL and with alphared, please come in here! we can host you" threads first :) haha

they were probably one of the few companies that could make it happen, if the fundamentals were there, but alas

The fundamentals were never there, they operated on a fundementally flawed business plan. The days of hypergrowth and thin margains should have died with the .COM collapse in the late 90s/early 2k. How this stupid idea is still around amazes me.

Because I KNOW and warned, i was thinking about buying AR 12 month ago and when I saw the book ...yikes...

I knew no smart biz man will get into this deal with clean mind.

Wow alot of bandwidth is going to be moving around this week to say the least.

DH

not if their servers go offline. that appears to be whats happening now. looks like the datacenter is coming offline carrier by carrier to me.

people who waited this long might be fucked in the ass.

isn't it why feds are after those guys? for hosting spam, virus aka anti-virus crap?

whats wrong with their books.. no profit?

Mike we have a few transfers going righjt now from AR and all I can say is it taking forever, their shit is almost at a stand still and getting worse as more and more peeps are trying to run. They all should have listend last week :winkwink:

Bingo, you are 100% correct bro.:pimp

Outbound pipes are hammered with everyone leaving

well, if it was a revenue issue, why did it take so long? they were in biz for a long time. upstreams stop giving you bandwidth if you dont pay? tried to get insight, doesnt make sense to me, not tryimng top be pushy :)

so was it the MS lawsuit or the biz model, the catalyst here seemed to to be the MS lawsuit

no shit, big effect on you guys, seeing as how you deal with a lot of tube traffic

NDA my friend still in effect....

we know what hosts not to use by the way they post in this thread.

or acted last week. i think the only host without a thread soliciting alphared customers was natnet

so maybe in a few weeks or so?

wheres it happening airek? i got my shit off and fast the day mayhem let loose thanks to pacific rack (great job and support btw) i do have a couple domians still there and they are loading

also, if it does shut down, one reason might be the techs running it arent getting paid and have'nt been, and they might just say fuck it.

I would suggest all Alphared customers to keep a close eye on the situation and think about if they would want (and can afford) to take the risk of waiting what happens with the (still possible) option of seeing your server going offline.

I think the fact that Alphared doesn't bring any update about the situation and the future of its hosting customers is a bad thing and unnecessary as it will make the situation only worse.

As far as I can see servers are still online as we just initiated another two transfers but I don't think this will last long, I wouldn't be surprised if everything went down for the weekend.

.. and those who did not want this low-paying business :2 cents:

i'd get em out man.

or at least have them somewhere else so you can flip the DNS when you need to.

Let me take a look at the books....

ASSETS
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Gizallion Servers $50,000
Hosting Revenue $100,000
Scareware Revenue $4,000,000

LIABILITIES
=========
300 Gbps bandwidth $5,000,000

Hmm.... i'm not an accountant... but I think we have a problem.

get out guys, its closing.

thats from two reliable sources from the inside, and servers aralready going down. end of rumours. last warning.

um im saw pretty much every host in there, mate

yeah trying to copy files out of there is like a 2 week deal, slow bandwidth

Lazz hit me up