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CaliHop closing down

Leyton

Member
Verified Provider
Felt this coming for a couple of weeks.

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Dear CaliHop, LLC Clients,

 

It is with our deepest regrets that we must inform you CaliHop, LLC will no longer be offering Dedicated Server and VPS products, effective immediately. Please move your data as soon as possible, as we cannot guarantee how long your server will remain online.

 

CaliHop, LLC 

 

Real shame, they provided a decent service.
 
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Leyton

Member
Verified Provider
They just powered everything down. AIS say they didn't do it, so it was CaiHop's action.
 

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
I was more shocked when people used Calihop for mission critical purposes (i.e. a San Diego "location" for their  VPS business) instead of using established dedicated players like Amerinoc and Cari.net (who I used from 2000-2008) than I am by Calihop closing.  

Renting a dedicated server for your business from a  dedicated server provider that doesn't even own its own IP space, or from a reseller, middleman, is never a good idea.  If the server you're renting is going to be running something that is mission critical you shouldn't be putting your business at risk by renting from a middleman who doesn't even own their own IPs and will need to contact the real DC (meaning increased support times) when something goes wrong. (all the GVH/CVPS complaint threads which mention delays caused by their "upstream" are a perfect example of what can go wrong when you use a middleman)
 

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
I thought there was mention of Calihop being sold a week or three ago.

Anyone remember/heard/saw  that?
 
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Leyton

Member
Verified Provider
I thought there was mention of Calihop being sold a week or three ago.

Anyone remember/heard/saw  that?
I haven't seen anything, but about that time ago they payment options disappeared from their invoices - I've spend the best part of the last week to try and contact them to see what's going on (intending to pay the invoices).
 

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
I thought there was mention of Calihop being sold a week or three ago.

Anyone remember/heard/saw  that?
PieLayer mentioned it on 7/2 on LET:

Joseph told me he is no longer owner of Calihop ( even though on company records it still says he is ) and that "new" owner decided to close our account with them. Joseph, in short reply, told me he can't guarantee any uptime of nodes and "this is probably my last communication with you, good luck with your business sir" reply. I'm already working on migration strategy and creating backups for our customers there. Hope servers will not go offline in the meantime.

http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/27879/calihop-net-not-resolving
 

Awmusic12635

Active Member
Verified Provider
Yes, as of right now our nodes are still online. We have already been backing up all our customers in anticipation of this sort of news. The wheels are in motion for our new nodes.
Changing location or finding a different provider in the same area?
 

Damian

New Member
Verified Provider
Joseph had been getting kinda funky for awhile, maybe a year or so. If I had to mark the time, I'd pin it to around October/November of last year when they pulled their promotions and said they probably wouldn't be offering them ever again.

He was always extremely helpful to any inquiry we ever had, no matter how inane it was. I kinda hope he restarts and can have something that keeps going.
 

concerto49

New Member
Verified Provider
Joseph had been getting kinda funky for awhile, maybe a year or so. If I had to mark the time, I'd pin it to around October/November of last year when they pulled their promotions and said they probably wouldn't be offering them ever again.


He was always extremely helpful to any inquiry we ever had, no matter how inane it was. I kinda hope he restarts and can have something that keeps going.
Those offers never looked realistic from day one.
 

W3-Host

New Member
Shame to hear this. I was considering buying their services a few months back. Thank God I didn't.
 
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DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
AIS shut CaliHop down last night. (Presumably for nonpayment)

Yep, and it looks like ReverseHosts didn't get all of their customers migrated in time so total data loss for some customers.  Hopefully those customers had backups.

July 13 update:

UPDATE: Looks like all of our nodes hosted by Calihop are now offline and we were still waiting on the new node to arrive from QP. I am really unhappy with the way that Calihop has left things and this has ruined our business and also has frustrated our clients. If you were waiting on a migration the best we can now offer you is either a refund for your last payment or a fresh VPS on our new node. Please open a ticket with us and we will try our best to compensate..
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/30771/reversehosts-announcement#latest
July 11 update:

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UPDATE: Unfortunately the Las Vegas server is now full and I'm looking at bringing up another server in LV so if you're waiting on migrations please just hang in there because we just need to wait on getting a new server which should be very soon.
Why didn't they order 2 servers to begin with?  If you know your existing servers use x amount of resources it's not that hard to figure out that your new servers will need at least x amount of resources.
 

BlackoutIsHere

New Member
Verified Provider
Why didn't they order 2 servers to begin with?  If you know your existing servers use x amount of resources it's not that hard to figure out that your new servers will need at least x amount of resources.
Just imagine how many people are downloading backups and so on. Probably a lot more activity then normal.
 
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