PSA: A bunch of LEB hosts deadpooling ArkaHosting, SupremeVPS, UMaxHosting, Hosting73, HostBRZ, Ku

dahartigan

Today, a whole bunch of LEB hosts sent out an email similar to this:

Dear Customer,

Over the past few months we have been met with many challenges within the hosting business. Some that have not been overcome.

As result of this we will be closing our doors.  We will be shutting down this Monday 12/9/2019.  We are taking this time to let our customers know so that they may backup and retrieve all of their data before then.

We deeply apologize for this inconvenience.

Thank You.

Management

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Hosting73
https://www.hosting73.com

Here's a (growing) list of affected hosts:

UMaxHosting.com
SupremeVPS.com
HostBRZ.com
SparkVPS.com
BigFootServers.com
SolvedByData.com
N3Servers.com
MegaZoneHosting.com
KudoHosting.com
HostedSimply.com
WelcomeHosting.com
KayHosting.com
Hosting73.com
UpbeatHosting.com
LQHosting.com
SnowVPS.com
DCNHost.com
StrongHosting.net
ArkaHosting.com
ServerStrong.com
X4Servers.com
TCNHosting.com
SuperbVPS.com
VPSFortune.com
MyHostingSrv.com

Any more? I'll try to keep this list updated.

PS. Anyone who took the "free shitty shit hosting" from me is affected (and _possibly _caused) by this.

EDIT: Thanks for your contributions everyone! It's important people are aware of this so they can take action. Regardless of whether we all know the above are shit anyway, there are many of our new friends who have fallen victim and we are in a position to help them find something much better, right here within our awesome community.

deank

Doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's a tiny group of people rotating shell companies to milk money out of fools.

dahartigan

@deank said:
Doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's a tiny group of people rotating shell companies to milk money out of fools.

Exactly, it's just that it really doesn't take a genius to get scammed by said people.

FAT32

Wow I am so surprised that they deadpooled! Who would have thought of that?

dahartigan

@FAT32 said:
Wow I am so surprised that they deadpooled! Who would have thought of that?

I know right! I mean, they are premium and dedicated to customer service and OMG it's so unexpected!!!1111 /s

jordonr

You can add DCNHost, ServerStrong, and LQHosting to your list also.

dahartigan

@jordonr said:
You can add DCNHost, ServerStrong, and LQHosting to your list also.

Done, thanks for your contribution

deank

They had the decency of lasting around 6 months before.

I guess that no longer matters. Not surprising, given the state of things as of late.

Edmond

While it was 100% totally expected from them, still have to give them credit for not disappearing suddenly without chance to recover your data.

At least they didn't deadpool overnight and am giving people until Monday to pull everything off their VPSs..

saibal

The question is how soon would they be back and under what name?

dahartigan

@Edmond said:
While it was 100% totally expected from them, still have to give them credit for not disappearing suddenly without chance to recover your data.

At least they didn't deadpool overnight and am giving people until Monday to pull everything off their VPSs..

This is a very good point, it has given me time to alert the people who are on my free shitty shithost experiment to backup their miners and spam scripts lol

webclouddev

add stronghosting to the list

donli

You left out:
MegaZoneHosting.

Dear Customer,

Over the past few months we have been met with many challenges within the hosting business. Some that have not been overcome.

As result of this we will be closing our doors. We will be shutting down this Monday 12/9/2019. We are taking this time to let our customers know so that they may backup and retrieve all of their data before then.

We deeply apologize for this inconvenience.

Thank You.

Management

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MegaZoneHosting Staff
https://www.megazonehosting.com

K4Y5

@dahartigan said:

@deank said:
Doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's a tiny group of people rotating shell companies to milk money out of fools.

Exactly, it's just that it really doesn't take a genius to get scammed by said people.

I am a simple man. I see a company posting 'specials' on LEB, I fucking RUN!

FAT32

@dahartigan Please help changing the thread title to include all the names, if it even fits

Francisco

@FAT32 said:
@dahartigan Please help changing the thread title to include all the names, if it even fits

Pin it.

Francisco

geekyhillbilly

You can add Bigfoot Servers to the list also.

dahartigan

@FAT32 said:
@dahartigan Please help changing the thread title to include all the names, if it even fits

Could you please confirm the new title is suitable? Feel free to use your mod powers to edit my post if you want to

dahartigan

@geekyhillbilly said:
You can add Bigfoot Servers to the list also.

Thank you

donli said: You left out:
MegaZoneHosting.

Thanks man

@webclouddev said:
add stronghosting to the list

Thanks

Daniel15

HostedSimply

Called it back when HiFormance deadpooled

Daniel15 said: Maybe HostedSimply as well, their prices seem unusually cheap: https://lowendbox.com/blog/hostedsimply-4gb-ram-ssd-cached-vps-w-120gb-hdd-for-25-yr-in-los-angeles-new-york/.

You mean that 4 GB RAM and 120 GB disk for $25/year isn't sustainable?!?! No way

donli

Maybe it would be easier to post the names of any companies featured on LEB in the last year that aren't going under.

james50a

Honeslty i think everyone here should report colocrossing to the ftc at the very least, if not the irs for probable tax evasion.

Daniel15

donli said: Maybe it would be easier to post the names of any companies featured on LEB in the last year that aren't going under.

1. VirMach (https://lowendbox.com/blog/21189/)

There, I made the list for you.

smaart

Dear Customer,

Over the past few months we have been met with many challenges within the hosting business. Some that have not been overcome.

As result of this we will be closing our doors. We will be shutting down this Monday 12/9/2019. We are taking this time to let our customers know so that they may backup and retrieve all of their data before then.

We deeply apologize for this inconvenience.

Thank You.

Management

SuperbVPS Team
https://www.superbvps.com/

donli

Were they all run by the same person?

Francisco

@donli said:
Were they all run by the same person?

Yes.

But know that @jbiloh and @cvps_chris had no idea that was the case. Promise.

Francisco

K4Y5

@dahartigan said:
Today, a whole bunch of LEB hosts sent out an email similar to this:

Dear Customer,

Over the past few months we have been met with many challenges within the hosting business. Some that have not been overcome.

As result of this we will be closing our doors.  We will be shutting down this Monday 12/9/2019.  We are taking this time to let our customers know so that they may backup and retrieve all of their data before then.

We deeply apologize for this inconvenience.

Thank You.

Management

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Hosting73
https://www.hosting73.com

Here's a list of affected hosts:

ArkaHosting
SupremeVPS
UMaxHosting 
Hosting73
HostBRZ
KudoHosting
HostedSimply 
SnowVPS
DCNHost
ServerStrong 
LQHosting 
MegaZoneHosting
StrongHosting 
Bigfoot Servers

Any more, I'll try to keep this list updated.

Add Hosting73 to the list, por favor.

K4Y5

@donli said:
Were they all run by the same person?

Yeah. ColonCrossing. That seems too be a real thing, unlike IPv6 - http://thebodyvr.com/colon-crossing/
Edit: Autocorrect, damnit.

MasonR

Here's something interesting -

Host	Date of Last LEB Ad	Term Length
ArkaHosting	15 Nov 2019	One Year
SupremeVPS	21 Nov 2019	One Year
UMaxHosting	29 Oct 2019	One Year
Hosting73	8 Nov 2019	One Year
HostBRZ	26 Oct 2019	One Year
KudoHosting	25 Oct 2019	One Year
HostedSimply	1 Nov 2019	One Year
SnowVPS	6 Nov 2019	One Year
DCNHost	12 Nov 2019	One Year
ServerStrong	22 Nov 2019	One Year
LQHosting	11 Nov 2019	One Year
MegaZoneHosting	18 Jul 2019	Monthly
StrongHosting	17 Nov 2019	One Year
Bigfoot Servers	19 Oct 2019	One Year
SuperbVPS	5 Nov 2019	One Year
x4Servers	23 Oct 2019	One Year
n3Servers	4 Nov 2019	One Year
SparkVPS	31 Oct 2019	One Year

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@jbiloh said:

t0ny0 said: None of the LEB crap affects me, aside from learning to never ever ever EVER EVER trust a host that provides services by ColoCrossing.

Why is that?

All these hosts are deadpooling within three days of announcing they are shutting down. 17 out of 18 of these hosts were featured on LEB within the past 2 months offering yearly contracted services. I guarantee no one is getting refunds from this (aside from charging back, which I suggest everyone starts considering right about now). Let me know if you're still having any issues seeing why no one trusts LEB/CC.

dahartigan

@K4Y5 said:

@dahartigan said:
Today, a whole bunch of LEB hosts sent out an email similar to this:

Dear Customer,

Over the past few months we have been met with many challenges within the hosting business. Some that have not been overcome.

As result of this we will be closing our doors.  We will be shutting down this Monday 12/9/2019.  We are taking this time to let our customers know so that they may backup and retrieve all of their data before then.

We deeply apologize for this inconvenience.

Thank You.

Management

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Hosting73
https://www.hosting73.com

Here's a list of affected hosts:

ArkaHosting
SupremeVPS
UMaxHosting 
Hosting73
HostBRZ
KudoHosting
HostedSimply 
SnowVPS
DCNHost
ServerStrong 
LQHosting 
MegaZoneHosting
StrongHosting 
Bigfoot Servers
Hosting73

Any more, I'll try to keep this list updated.

Add Hosting73 to the list, por favor.

They were the very first one, in fact, Hosting73 is where my free shitty shit shithosting was served from

K4Y5

@dahartigan said:

@K4Y5 said:

@dahartigan said:
Today, a whole bunch of LEB hosts sent out an email similar to this:

Dear Customer,

Over the past few months we have been met with many challenges within the hosting business. Some that have not been overcome.

As result of this we will be closing our doors.  We will be shutting down this Monday 12/9/2019.  We are taking this time to let our customers know so that they may backup and retrieve all of their data before then.

We deeply apologize for this inconvenience.

Thank You.

Management

---
Hosting73
https://www.hosting73.com

Here's a list of affected hosts:

ArkaHosting
SupremeVPS
UMaxHosting 
Hosting73
HostBRZ
KudoHosting
HostedSimply 
SnowVPS
DCNHost
ServerStrong 
LQHosting 
MegaZoneHosting
StrongHosting 
Bigfoot Servers
Hosting73

Any more, I'll try to keep this list updated.

Add Hosting73 to the list, por favor.

They were the very first one, in fact, Hosting73 is where my free shitty shit shithosting was served from

So you single-handedly upset their entire business model and got them in the red?