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ThrustVPS aka DamnVPS closing
DewlanceVPS
Member, Patron Provider
Message on ThrustVPS control panel and main site.
It's a sad day today, but unfortunately it's time for ThrustVPS to end.
It's been a great run and we've enjoyed working with the wide variety of customers we've had over the past 5 years.
From 2009 to 2011, I use thrustvps which help me to grown my $20/month earning website to a good business site.. in 2009 every other hosting company sell "windows vps" at very high price like $45/m but thrustvps sell same vps under very low and affordable price.
Thanks to thrustvps aka damnvps for their services but I don't like their silent decision like closing business without informing their customers.
Contact new provider before 1 May and don't forget to take a full backup of your data on your PC or other server(not on thrustvps server)
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Okay, I have to say it, it is quite hilarious you put this here with your signature at the bottom boasting cheap windows vps. I can't imagine that you would use this announcement as a method to drive up sales on your own product, would you?
LOL.
Cheers!
Why do loads of providers close down rather than sell to a good company?
thrustvps was bought out by IOMART no? Seems like they ran it to ground. After the buy out, it seems they were hacked several times or at least once, lots of frequent downtimes etc etc.
Lol p*ss off, this is another iomart brand. Just a way to clear the dirt of thrust brand
Edit. Infamous Rus Foster owned this brand and it seemed to do ok and was popular, bought out and destroyed by IOMart. Google thrustvps iomart and all the crap comes out.
My first VPS from them.
If I want to advertise then I can post my windows offer in "offer" section and they are only closing thrustvps and give their servers to other or similar company(iomart)
It will be helpful for me If they close their company and ask their users to take a backup and move to other host.
I post this so If any customer of thrustvps who don't know about this then they can contact new provider before losing their Important data.
It's hilarious for a business owner to take advantage of an opportunity to gain business? Is he holding a gun to anyone's head?
Unfortunate truth is iomart accepted they messed it up, and decided to abandon ship... A few people inside iomart wanted to try and save the customers and asked us (an iomart brand customer) to help them... Hence VirtualServers...
The whole things a mess, we (the people left picking up the pieces) where given about 2 weeks to setup a new brand, replace hardware and get everyone moved, then had to spend most those 2 weeks getting access to the old hardware.
I'm a fan of the truth, probably going to get shit from someone either at iomart or here, but yeah, we're just gonna try and do our best for the ThrustVPS customers we managed to keep their VM's going for, we've got a few years experience with VM hosting, so hopefully we don't fudge this up.
I too had a windows vps from thrustvps 2 years ago.. sad to see another company closing.
Did existing clients have a chance to backup their data?
I don't think so honestly, according to a lot of clients they never got the emails sent to them telling them basically everything's on fire, grab your stuff and run...
Note: The ones who did, we got them new VM's up on the new platform as quick as we could so they could move their data.
Can you explain?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OQWHwR9c1kIJ:www.thrustvps.com/fast/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Thrust::VPS and Damn::VPS are trading names of iomart Cloud Services Ltd
VirtualServers is ran by the same company name as above.
No, it's owned by the same company, ran by another entirely, right down to hardware spec choices.
So you know we're not affiliated with iomart directly, see Company #08401051 (UK), AS 201971, we're running the new brand because they admitted they couldn't, issue was the US providers contract ran out and wouldn't renew, the brand had shrunk so much they were getting bandwidth overage charges and it was haemorrhaging money.
We've got massive pools from under use from our existing business model, but of course, in what I, and they're pretty happy to admit, the US stuff was handled absolutely terribly, we needed at least a month.
Either way, we can't change what iomart did, but I wanted to make sure ThrustVPS customers know they'll get a month free and 25% off, on iomart's money, because they feel bad too, and we'll manage the service and handle everything, not them.
There's some really nice people at iomart, who bend over backwards to help, but I feel very... Mixed about this entire thing now, I personally feel really shitty over it.
We did try to migrate the US VM's, but Thrust's US network was so bad, it took 14 hours to move a single VM.
If you have any direct questions, feel free to mail me at [email protected], or if you're a ThrustVPS customer, [email protected], we'll do whatever we can to help you out, end of.
Yeah, I'm one of those who didn't get any email. Sigh.
Surprised it lasted as long as it did, frankly. (It was a GigeVPS VM from July 2010, from before GigE was acquired/merged by Thrust.) Had quite good uptime, though the memory overcommitment was astounding. I recall not-very-fondly once checking the UBCs, and finding that I was allocating 49MB of the 512MB "guaranteed" - and that 37MB of that 49 was swapped. Was just too lazy to migrate. Even after Thrust jacked the price up at one point, sigh.
Doesn't make sense, the company who ran Thrust to the ground are still the owners of the new brand they suggest users move to. I guess you're an employer of that brand and they can fire you at anytime and run the brand down again?
(Going by the footer: iomart Cloud Services Limited)
They somehow manage several data-centers but can't manage what probably was a tiny equivalent VM brand?
Oh wow, I'm glad I bumped into this topic, as I didn't get any email either.
The suggestion of moving to another brand of iomart, whilst leaving current customers in the dark/handling this so poorly, is a joke.
Each company has it's focus, theirs is most definitely not low-profit virtual servers, I may not agree with the handling, but I cannot blame them for wanting shift resources to what makes them lots more money.
This is why they gave it to us to run
And they most definitely don't employ me, I am a customer of theirs in all honesty.
I'm not sure if you looked up the company number I provided, but we're running it, it's just owned by them, it's a partnership, clearly advertised on the about page, and I am the Managing Director of the other company involved.
This won't ever happen again, I can guarantee it, because we pay for the hardware and then invoice iomart, so even if they pulled out, we would handle it entirely from there.
I'll even tell you ontop of this, check who owns the address space the virtualservers site runs on, on RIPE.
Handling was terrible, we (at our end) did the best we could in what we was given, but it should've been at least a month longer than it was, but if I was you I'd take up the free service at least to try it out while you shop around for a replacement provider.
I consider a fair few people at iomart to be friends, but I do not condone how the company handled this, and almost wish I had never been a part of it, but the truth is, if I wasn't, none of Thrusts customers would have any virtual servers at all left right now.
TLDR; I don't condone the handling by iomart, however I can guarantee the same thing can't happen again.
Briefly used them several years ago.
Horrible host. Crappy service. Incompetent owners.
Glad to see them go.
I actually agree to an extent, my own business started as reselling their VPS'
Support was terrible, service was unreliable
It took us less than 2 months before we started doing it all ourselves.
I don't think there's anything else I can say now honestly, so I'll check back in a few days
I wouldn't recommend making such promises. You're just inviting troubles by overlooking your station.
Read rules 24 and 27 from this list, please. Althought it's most a joke, these 2 rules should be strictly abidden by all hosters.
I am one of the poor customers of ThurstVPS that has never been told to make a backup and I lost EVERYTHING.
Now IOMart rebrands the product under "VirtualServers" and expects me, to give them my money again. This is very unprofessional an unethical.
I hope your brand burns, just like you burned my data.
That's why you are supposed to make backups without being told to. I had to learn that the semi hard way,too (had backup but not very recent). Then, when my uniwebhosting server disappeared 10 days ago, all I had to do was run ./install.sh on a new server and I was good to go.
I LOST EVERYTHING TOO AND ASKING THEM TO TURN THEIR VM BACK SO I WOULD GET MY DATA BACK.
Will you help me @VSPaul ?
Not surprised this has happened. I had around 300 active services with them at some point when Rus ran it (I don't think he owned it).
Iomart terminate all US based VPSs without any prior notification and switch from thrustvps to another new domain. (nothing changed but its a good trick to fool their customers)
Cost of your data for IOMART = 0000