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Remember VPSAO? It's out!
I don't know if you remember VPSAO, but it shuts down anyway. I just got the following e-mail:
Dear Clients,
It is with a very sad and heavy heart that I announce the closure of VPSAO.com
We deeply regret this choice, but are no longer able to keep running.
All Systems will be shut down by end of business today. Please take your backups now.
Sincerely,
Yong Zhang
Cooking popcorn for another summer host drama...
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lol... dropping like flies.
Appeared on LEB in January of this year offering (who would have guessed it)..... 3-year deals... only to crash and burn several months later, as expected.
@CVPS_Chris, see the problem yet? No..? Alright, then.
They're still accepting offers. Brb, signing up for the drama.
so clearly something about having your servers with colocrossing = BAD business model
The prices are well known and very cheap so its not a financial issue, perhaps the hardware and network they provide is SO BAD it is impossible to keep customers even paying bottom of the barrel prices?
Lets pretend for a second that they are legit businesses (LOL), no seriously lets pretend for the discussion they are legit businesses, what other possible reason is there that SO MANY fail in colocrossing?
colocrossing prices = CHEAP
promotion = FREE
end user price = LOW
so whats the problem?
Threshold has been reached, lets pull the plug.
Back in the day when server mania was having a price war with CC, I believe the lowest price I've seen was $39 for a 1240 v3 with 16GB ram and 120GB SSD. You need to be able to generate at least $500 / year on the server to at least able to recoup the cost of the server alone. I think the cost these days is at least double for the same specs.
Lowend server pricing is nothing but a pyramid scheme. You need more and more people to pay the yearly cost in order to subsides for the old customers.
Is there something I'm missing or is servermania hosted at CC anyway
Sure, they are colocated there.
HVH, SM, CC, and probably CVPS was fighting for the same piece of the low end pie.
PS- SM is a different company than CC. SM actually owned the hardware they sell, unlike HVH.
What will the 3000 customers do naao ?
Upon their first order, allowing 3 year orders, they did not have the company for a full month yet.
Their WHMCS payment was expired. They claimed the reminder email was sent to "the old email account which they hadnt switched over yet".
This means that in that first month, they had no need to do any back-end administration, as that would clearly give them a notification that their license needed updating.
Upon pointing out their lapse in WHMCS license, my comment on LEB was held for about a week in the moderation queue. When it was finally released, a reply from vpsAO was posted within a few hours.
Here's their response, verbatim. On LEB. Public information.
Please also note that their ssl cert was not renewed at the same time, meaning that the company acquired the website AND the complete server infra including a certificate allowing them to potentially decode earlier transmissions between clients and the site.
@Kevin_vpsAO Tell us a story,
my friendyou faggot.Did I read it right?
Shut down by end of the day? Less than a day of notice?
Dramatic end, closed on the same day of the announcement... Why not announce it early?
Can't announce early if you have no idea how finance works.
The dude probably had no idea until he tried to buy a Steam game and realized no money was there.
"Out"
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
So can we use this one as the example, lets try and encourage as many people as possible to file an actual charge back when possible, even if it is only for $10 with the charge back fee's if enough people do it perhaps we can force the owner (scam artist) in to personal bankruptcy.
The summer isn't even started yet 🤣👍
There are always kids who experience premature ejaculations.
This is one.
Why VPSAO customers are not posting here? They should had started already.
Wait... services are still up...
Either that, he really has only 30 clients.
Always remove 2 or 3 zeroes when they claim something. Since he claimed "3000 clients", I think 30 is more of a realistic figure.
You are underestimating the amount of people that are willing to throw money, thinking that its the deal of a lifetime.
They could easily have over 3000 customers.
$$/3yrs usually gets a lot of sign ups, and even more broken hearts and failed paypal chargebacks after that
Sure, look at AR, they claimed 100,000 clients.
But see how little reactions their now-2-week downtime has. Granted, only a small portion overreact but a client base size of 100,000 will case havoc if true.
It wasn't.
P.S. (edit)
In my experience, it's usually 10% of client base that enter PMS when things go horribly wrong.
Based on that, AR has around 1,000 clients. I take their twitter post that has the most comments (96) and multiply by 10.
Yeah, thinking the same.@FAT32 - any chatter on the Chinese forums? With supercheap yearlies and a LA location, I'd imagine a large portion (if not the majority) were Chinese customers.
There are about 3 threads open at the same time as this thread (11:15pm, 11:27pm, 11:34pm GMT+8), I believe there will be more but it is early morning now.
Some interesting comments:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/154905/hiformance-scum-is-back-with/p1
I can predict the future!
Next time, before you buy servers on lowendbox.com , you should call me first.
First Time Callers get 3 Minutes Free!
Here was the ass @Kevin @Yong Zhang @Daniel Zhang lied from 5 months ago:
So what happened to "RC Portfolio"?
From what LEB said about them in their deal posted in Jan:
100000 clients is easy if you operate multiple and acquire business and provide very cheap service . Many join and try for some time and never come back . Bet they have just 100k customer data in whmcs .
but 100000 active customers with service is difficult . If they said active clients , then trump is right
In this thread ... @deank modernizing the “German tank problem” where estimates of tanks were made based on serial numbers into customers based on twitter posts. 10/10.