Recent content by mightyschwartz

Indeed. I had been with them for several months and actually inquired about paying for a year up front just to secure my hosting with a little bit of a discount... stupid me.

Exactly... but they never said, "We're cutting you off in ONE HOUR!" You knew that threat was looming long before that point and you knew whether or not you had the money to pay it. If not, you probably would've done the decent thing and told your customers before telling your DC that you were...

I concur with that. My point is that the DCs didn't just pull it without telling them what was going to happen. The idea that they only had the notice of 1 hour is not realistic. They had SOME IDEA of what was going on and could have told their customers.

You still know if you will be out of money more than an hour before... the fact that people are still having to speculate why these a-holes skipped town an hour before getting everything ruined is inexcusable and so fkn wrong.

My statement was conjecture on my part, but it seems odd that they would suddenly just BOOM go out of business with no foresight at all. In fact, I think you'd have to be pretty stupid to believe it. This is akin to telling your wife that the power company is outside about to cut off the power...

You don't just close up shop with less than 1 hour notice. Even if there were circumstances beyond their control, they knew about them way earlier than they shut down servers. They chose to continue accepting money for services they knew they would not be able to deliver. I would rather have...

I would have paid to have access for one more day... I now am out one year of prepaid service and a little data. Nothing major, but 1 hour notice is classless.