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I once rented servers from a company that came highly recommended on WHT, back in 2004 or so. One day, all their servers went offline. There were hundreds of po
by dangrossman 15y ago
I once rented servers from a company that came highly recommended on WHT, back in 2004 or so. One day, all their servers went offline. There were hundreds of posts in the thread at WHT. They never came back. It turned out they were operating at a loss and had stopped paying their bill to the data center for so long that the building finally pulled the plug on their racks.
I'm reminded of this every time I log in to my now 12-year-old PayPal account. I see "1 open case" in my "Dispute Resolution Center" -- it's the case disputing my prepayment for the servers to this host, which PayPal said they would leave open forever, and if the principals of that company ever opened a new PayPal account they would have to resolve those disputes with all their former customers first.
- larrys 15y agoI have a quarter rack at the same place for many years now. I make a point of stopping by in person to get the feel of how they are doing business wise from time to time. Just by walking through the office, talking to the employees things like that. They are actually on the expensive side but I like that it keeps out the riff raff that could tax the network or create problems (when I say expensive I mean for bandwidth..)