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UK/York provider bought by iomart
Okay, so technically not LowEnd, but interesting to see what happens after this:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/30/iomart_buys_north_yorks_cloud_biz_bytemark/
Anyone with BM? And if so would you be concerned?
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@Dediserve was earlier bought by iomart. I haven't heard anything bad since the acquisition.
Yeah I did see that - but also heard some less good things about iomart - although it's usually always easy to find bad publicity lol.
Not sure how iomart stands out there as company.. But It feels a bit sad because Bytemark was great company, big opensource contributor and some great people worked/work there. Comment on above article mentions people will jump ship because on "how things are at iomart" . Let's see..
Yeah, seen similar comments from customers. Also has been mentioned about customers finding out from a reg article before a BM announcement.
And that will not remain firmly in the past tense, iomart is a company of morons with money.
Bytemark's MD has said that iomart "wanted not to make a statement", against his advice. Seems an odd way to piss off your new customers, given that part of the attraction of Bytemark has always been their remarkably open approach.
Yeah that seemed like an odd move. Full statement from them next week apparently.