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Not a programmer at the time, but a system administrator. I won't mention the company. This was 2011-2012 -ish. We hosted dedicated servers and most of the tim
by movedx 8y ago
Not a programmer at the time, but a system administrator. I won't mention the company. This was 2011-2012 -ish.
We hosted dedicated servers and most of the time, they were mostly Plesk or cPanel servers run by people selling email and or web hosting to hundreds of clients from a single server.
This one time a client joins the network, buys a server from us, and migrates from Rackspace. We wondered why he'd move from Rackspace given they were better than us, and it turns he was kicked off of their network because he basically submitted tens of support tickets daily asking for all kinds of optimisations, improvements, and silly stuff not covered by the support contract. Rackspace had decided he wasn't worth it and booted him.
We ended up with him and boy was he a pain in the backside. Anyway...
Long story short, he cost us more in engineering time than he paid us and this irritated the owner of our business. The owner had my team leader find someone on his team willing to do the following: dump the guy's Plesk database containing all of his customers and make a copy of it on our network. I took on the task and was told it was simply a backup. I was young and didn't really think things through. I feel bad about it now because...
The customer was booted from the network a month later and all of his customers were offered free email and or web hosting for the year, including migrating them over to our network... the owner absolutely annihilated the guy. He contacted all his customers and simply wiped him out.
That same owner is now a highly respected business man and an MBE.
You might be able to do some digging and find out who this company and owner is, if you look hard enough.
- iamdave 8y ago.....isn't HostGator by chance is it? Sounds like the kind of stuff they would have pulled back in their days
- movedx 8y agoNo. They're UK based.
- saluki 8y agoHostgator was started in a dorm room in FL and their HQ is now in Houston, TX. Interesting story would be curious which hosting company. Daft move.
- valar_k 8y agoWas gonna say, it sounded like HostGator. One of the HostGator former admins actually doxxed one of my old accounts on reddit by typing my full name in response to some random comment. When I asked him how he knew it, it's because my reddit username was the same as my domain name at the time, and he remembered looking through my server. Whenever the admins would get bored, they'd just dig through peoples' servers and see what they had. He remembered mine because I had a lot of sheet music on it. They get people like this because they put their admins through the puppy mill process. Basically hire anyone not braindead, train them to do basic shit, and then pay them peanuts. The company men eventually get a high position in the hierarchy for a negligible pay bump and then help keep the new ones in line. Such a shitty company, but I don't host anything sensitive there and it's been reliable for the last 10 years so I haven't migrated anything yet.
- angersock 8y agoThat sounds like Hostgator.
- movedx 8y agoNo. They're UK based.
- hello_newman 8y agowhat is an MBE?
- movedx 8y ago"Order of the British Empire" - it's awarded by the Queen her self, directly.
- ajrussellaudio 8y agoActually "Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" - the Queen is apparently a Bill & Ted fan.
- gadders 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire
- typpo 8y agoUKFast is a UK-based web host whose CEO has received an MBE. Probably not that many other web host CEOs with an award from the Queen.
- mancerayder 8y agoFascinating story! I'm curious why this isn't massive lawsuit material, I know in the US it would be. I thought the UK was similarly litigious?
- gremlinsinc 8y agoSounds like something people over at bluehost or EIG would do...lol..
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