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

dahartigandahartigan Member
edited January 29 in General

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 (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.

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  • deankdeank Member, Troll

    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.

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  • dahartigandahartigan Member

    @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.

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  • FAT32FAT32 Administrator, Deal Compiler Extraordinaire

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

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  • dahartigandahartigan Member

    @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

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  • jordonrjordonr Member

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

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  • dahartigandahartigan Member

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

    Done, thanks for your contribution :)

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  • deankdeank Member, Troll

    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.

    There are two things that make Earth spin: Money and PMS.

  • EdmondEdmond Member without signature

    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..

  • saibalsaibal Member

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

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  • dahartigandahartigan Member

    @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

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  • webclouddevwebclouddev Member

    add stronghosting to the list

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  • donlidonli Member
    edited December 2019

    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

    MegaZoneHosting Staff
    https://www.megazonehosting.com

  • K4Y5K4Y5 Member

    @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!

  • FAT32FAT32 Administrator, Deal Compiler Extraordinaire

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

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Provider

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

    Pin it.

    Francisco

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  • geekyhillbillygeekyhillbilly Member

    You can add Bigfoot Servers to the list also.

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  • dahartigandahartigan Member

    @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 :)

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  • dahartigandahartigan Member
    edited December 2019

    @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 :)

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  • Daniel15Daniel15 Member
    edited December 2019

    HostedSimply

    Called it back when HiFormance deadpooled :tongue:

    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

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  • donlidonli Member

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

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  • james50ajames50a Member

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

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  • Daniel15Daniel15 Member
    edited December 2019

    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.

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  • smaartsmaart Member

    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/

  • donlidonli Member

    Were they all run by the same person?

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Provider

    @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

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  • K4Y5K4Y5 Member
    edited December 2019

    @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

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

    Add Hosting73 to the list, por favor.

  • K4Y5K4Y5 Member
    edited December 2019

    @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.

  • MasonRMasonR Member
    edited December 2019

    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

    @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.

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  • dahartigandahartigan Member

    @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 ;)

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  • K4Y5K4Y5 Member

    @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?

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  • uptimeuptime Member

    thanks Obama ...

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  • MasonRMasonR Member

    They were just going to keep milking it up until they got hit with those first cPanel bills it seems. Charge back. Before it's too late, my dudes. Though, I hope no one here fell for any of these shenanigans.

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  • caracalcaracal Member

    They’re not even trying to avoid association. The dead pool email is identical to the letter.

    Or is this a template given by CC in their welcome email?

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  • daps94daps94 Member

    There's reason to believe these hosts are related to alpharacks. They stole the alpharacks account database, so either alpharacks sold it or they used it to advertise their new scams.

    Got this letter from hosted simply and from x4servers.

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Provider

    @daps94 said:
    There's reason to believe these hosts are related to alpharacks. They stole the alpharacks account database, so either alpharacks sold it or they used it to advertise their new scams.

    Got this letter from hosted simply and from x4servers.

    Can you share a screenshot from x4servers?

    Francisco

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  • donlidonli Member

    @caracal said:
    They’re not even trying to avoid association. The dead pool email is identical to the letter.

    Or is this a template given by CC in their welcome email?

    Maybe it's from the "So you sold unsustainable offers" part of the CC handbook.

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  • daps94daps94 Member

    @Francisco said:

    @daps94 said:
    There's reason to believe these hosts are related to alpharacks. They stole the alpharacks account database, so either alpharacks sold it or they used it to advertise their new scams.

    Got this letter from hosted simply and from x4servers.

    Can you share a screenshot from x4servers?

    Francisco

    Here you go
    https://ibb.co/QHzTLNv

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Provider

    @daps94 said:

    @Francisco said:

    @daps94 said:
    There's reason to believe these hosts are related to alpharacks. They stole the alpharacks account database, so either alpharacks sold it or they used it to advertise their new scams.

    Got this letter from hosted simply and from x4servers.

    Can you share a screenshot from x4servers?

    Francisco

    Here you go
    https://ibb.co/QHzTLNv

    Another one for the list.

    God damn.

    Francisco

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  • daps94daps94 Member

    Yep this is a massive exit scam, all of these hosts have been offering yearly plans on LEB for the past few months. Same price points as alpharacks. This should be reported to the authorities, lots of money has been stolen here.

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Provider

    N3servers too.

    Francisco

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  • FAT32FAT32 Administrator, Deal Compiler Extraordinaire
    edited December 2019

    I am too tired for this drama after the long VirMach week...

    Why should I give a fck when CC doesnt? I will not close nor merge any duplicate threads about this, let it burn.

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  • efan0388efan0388 Member
    edited December 2019

    https://ibb.co/XxwYKrk

    Sparkvps

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  • masedimasedi Member

    it is a good time for another provider to acquires their customers :neutral:

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  • dahartigandahartigan Member

    FAT32 said: Why should I give a fck when CC doesnt? I will not close nor merge any duplicate threads about this, let it burn.

    I agree mate, you've been working too hard lately for this shit. We love you @FAT32 and we appreciate the awesome contributions you make to this community. LET it burn ;)

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  • donlidonli Member

    @FAT32 said:
    I am too tired for this drama after the long VirMach week...

    Why should I give a fck when CC doesnt? I will not close nor merge any duplicate threads about this, let it burn.

    Burn, baby, burn....

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  • LESLES Member

    Legendary rip-off

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  • Daniel15Daniel15 Member
    edited December 2019

    I just saved a copy of this thread in the Internet Archive, just in case ColoCrossing delete it. https://web.archive.org/web/20191207023954/https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/161957/psa-a-bunch-of-leb-hosts-deadpooling-arkahosting-supremevps-umaxhosting-hosting73-hostbrz-ku
    Edit: also https://archive.is/Aw92b

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Provider

    @Daniel15 said:
    I just saved a copy of this thread in the Internet Archive, just in case ColoCrossing delete it. https://web.archive.org/web/20191207023954/https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/161957/psa-a-bunch-of-leb-hosts-deadpooling-arkahosting-supremevps-umaxhosting-hosting73-hostbrz-ku
    Edit: also https://archive.is/Aw92b

    More likely they delete the posts from LEB.

    Francisco

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  • jokymicjokymic Member

    No more Master reseller provider ☹️ Good bye to all of these who are facing many challenges c u again with new names

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  • isunbejoisunbejo Member

    @jokymic said:
    c u again with new names

    Lol :smiley:

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