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Jonathan Nguyen resigns as GreenValueHost Operations Director
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Because he's an attention seeking immature kid... that's why.
I'm referring to the implication that some people were lying about making a call to the police, not about Jon's suicide threats.
Yeah why people are thinking someone did not call or are makinf false claims of it not happening is weird.
I was speaking to a woman dispatcher, she said hang on a secoond and then it was clear someone else called in.
I have the conversation recorded as it left from my desk line.
Unfortunately I think if he is of age there is not much the police can do. What someone should really do is track down his parents and send them a portfolio of all 3 instances of him talking suicide to prove just how mentally unstable he is. Afterall if you continually say it but never do it that still proves there is some sort of imbalance that needs to be addressed immediately. (perhaps a good spanking at the least)
Good on anyone who called or attempted to locate the proper channel to call. Just think if he does kill himself and it was discovered no one actually called. That would be just as sickening.
yes, gvh john should not get away with this.
has anyone checked his facebook freinds and seen if his mom or dad were there, that way someone can start a dialogue with them.
*edited per @GoodHosting's reccomendation
Who knows, he has used 2 last names for things so that could make it a bit harder to track. Someone call in Dr Mike for the job.
While I do agree that even if it was a marketing / "crying wolf" stunt; or if it was a serious though of suicide, calling the police [ as decent human beings, regardless of our affiliation or lack thereof ] was the correct thing to do. Hell, I even agree that his parents should probably be notified considering the sheer amount of false suicide claims in this short amount of time. That being said, there's no reason to carry on with using obviously biased terminology like "mommy" and "daddy" to make your point come across.
I'm not defending anyone, but I do think we're all just stirring this pot.
Exactly.
My phone call didn't last very long, especially after I told her I was calling from Canada and didn't have much information to add to what she already had on hand about his "web business" (her words, not mine), but she confirmed the address with me and asked where I got it from before telling me they were going to send someone.
Like I said, I'd call a million times if I have to. There is always a chance that he might be serious, and I would rather not take that chance.
I get that's it's super cool to bash the US over everything but seriously, even jokingly implying that we don't care about suicide prevention is not cool and is also just plain wrong. The suicide rate here is, compared to other developed countries, not high (click for graph) and that's because of hard work (and spending) by both the government and private organizations. Like Canada and almost anywhere else, police absolutely will compel someone to go to the hospital -- forcibly if necessary -- if they're an imminent threat to themselves or others.
I like how he steps down as Director of Operations to Sales Manager but still posts under the LET account and also owns the company. What was CEO Lance and the board thinking??
Its not like the principal of XYZ mega corp accidentally drives the company into the groud and just gets demoted to regional director of sales. They get that early retirement package and leave the company.
And from what he has told be theres plenty of money for such a thing.
Heck, DrMike should sign up here on LowEndTalk and investigate.
Jonathan Nguyen, Entrepreneurship Innovation Plan, third place.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/212253280/Pelham-Windham-News-3-14-2014
Is that Jon of GVH?
The board...lol...
As I explained when one other person angrily PMed me about the same thing:
That being said, I would agree that it may have been in bad taste, but I'm not the only one nudging at the issue. Please direct your passion instead to helping this person whom obviously needs to seek help.
yep
https://db.tt/W6jZMkSC
I called his cellphone and it clicked to voicemail every time, so I figured I would at least reach out to him prior to calling the police out of respect.
I am sure people have skimmed this thread but not only did he threaten suicide by a knife he also detailed how he was going to organize his thoughts for whoever finds him
This is 11 minutes between posts. Seems like he actually was thinking about doing such a thing.
Also something to note is that his service is still down/offline. This means that per his prior post it has yet to be determined if he will do it or not.
let it go man hes not going to.
the 5-0 have already rolled through his house, and 100% surely to have notified his parents.
I found his facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/JonDaDancinWoner
Proof it's him - guess who's his friend:
Lance Jessurun
Chief Executive Officer at GreenValueHost
I search friends and dont see any family members we could contact - I tried atleast :-(
He has some people helping him investigate the servers hosting his WHMCS and SolusVM. It's a matter of public record that his WHMCS was hosted at RamNode, so I can say that without breaching any privacy concerns. SolusVM was hosted elsewhere.
Thats good to hear!
We have gained access to our WHMCS server and whilst its clear that box has been compromised, we expect to be able to restore everything to a position about 10 mintues before the attack; We are still working on SolusVM, unfortunately DigitalOcean where we keep our SolusVM installation has some processing delays tonight which is delaying a snapshot we are taking of the server before restarting it, next update in 1 hr.
GOOD JOB JON!
You don't care about the people who called the police and was worried about you ? There is not just technical problems in life, Jon.
Fred
u can do it !!
It would be nice to know how it was compromised when you figure that out. Did someone have root who shouldn't have?
Previous comment deleted.
Jon PM'd me to say thank you for the concern and I think he's contacting others to say thanks.
As I've said already, I don't care if he doesn't care. He can never apologise for causing all this fuss and even hate us for calling the cops on him if he wants.
He already stated that GVH is his life. I would rather he focus 100% on fixing those technical problems and getting things back on track than wallow in despair and feel like he has nothing left.
Now http://www.greenvaluehost.com/ resolves to a centos server.. starting from scratch rather than restoring backups with backdoors i guess
This thread makes me moist.
That's what you should always do, reinstall everything; maldet the backups, and restore as necessary.