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ServerBear
rethinkvps
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Does anyone know what happened to ServerBear I remember they where pioneering the way people rated VPSs based on performance and not the way that the plans where marketed. They used to create alot of new blog posts and keep very active with their customers, but I don't see anywhere on their site where they say it was abandoned. Anyone got any news?
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The bear is in hibernation.
I forgot to give them honey. Do you think they will be hungry?
I also tried contacting them about 1-2 weeks ago with no luck - I remember I had tried once more back in past. Even honey did not work, interestingly. They definitely are in hibernation until something/someone wakes them up...
The guy has quite a few other projects, I don't think this comes to high in the priority list, because it just doesn't generate as much income as the others. I remember he had a fairly popular coupon 'website plugin' sort of thing and then a fairly popular giveaway 'website plugin' sort of thing and likely more.
Well, that makes sense then. I personally don't know him but I know how painful it can be to deal with multiple projects at once. That, for me, explains it.
It was such a neat concept I hope the owner doesn't let it die.
you should offer to purchase it off him
I used to visit servbeard pretty often when they were actually updating it. No I have no reason to visit anymore. It seems like it's already dying.
Benchmarks were never interesting to me because it empowered the biggest-numbers-must-mean-better crowd when many do not understand how benchmarks worked on a shared server
Still use it for personal, normalized benchmarks.
Hey guys
Benchmarks still work etc but we've moved onto other projects that took off in a big way for us so maintaining the actual plans side of Serverbear ended up slowly losing priority.
Few issues as to why this type of project is tough to run (in the aim of transparency):
That being said, the site could easily support a single owner in terms of income
We've had quite a few offers for the site, which we're considering. However we'd like to see it go to a good home, plus there's a few technical dependancies that would need to be sorted out.
I can do this: GreenValueHost, BlueVM, Cloudshards...