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Hetzner.co.za (Hetzner Pty Ltd) has been offering cheap servers in South Africa since 1999.  It owns and operates 4 datacenters in South Africa..it opened the first one in CapeTown in 2001. The cheapest VM in South Africa is Host1Plus in Johanesburg: their cheapest plan includes 500GB (at...

Taking a wild guess: do they use OnApp?  I had something similar happen 2 weeks ago with my VPS at SeFlow (VPS froze, restart attempts were failing, a few random cold migrations occurred) and they contacted OnApp who discovered (yet another) bug. Murphy usually waits until 2AM-4AM to get me.

7th floor, 12000 gallons, CorporateColo?

Donald Trump definitely was taught as a child to thumb his nose at customers.  His father, Fred Trump, made his $400 million fortune (which is why Donald is rich) by being one of the worst slumlords in New York.

Large scale DDoS attacks cause databases to be rolled back one day...I learn something new every day.

I don't have a favorite Christmas movie but someone forwarded me a link to this Santa story and I think this now my favorite Christmas story. :P

Yes, Virginia, ARIN changed the rules and "SEO" is now a valid justification for IPs promotional email sent by a Windham, NH high school kid: http://i.imgur.com/7Otd4WJ.png

Almost all hosts will accept a .pdf of your online statements (utility or bank).  The only company I've ever dealt with that wouldn't accept an online statement was Moneybookers/Skrill.  If you don't have a paper bank statement they require you to fill out this form and have it signed by your...

...and the problem with that is the #winning business plan is no longer winning because there is a plethora of better alternatives .  The reliance on unsustainable annual plans to meet the monthly bills was a house of cards just waiting to implode.  Rated F for #fail

That idiot at LEB just posted an offer for a provider that deadpooled on November 1st.  You'd think the default CPanel page would have clued him in that it was deadpooled. :P

Interesting statistics on website traffic (and bot trends)... full article: http://www.darkreading.com/informationweek-home/bad-bots-on-the-rise/d/d-id/1318276?

See the dropdown box on #2 on their form.  One of the choices is: domain information to publish-no contact information https://www.nic.io/new1.xzx

It's a novelty among low end providers but it's standard fare at most cloud (the real ones) and dedicated providers and an increasing number of VPS providers. It's necessary in my opinion if you use any type of complex setup and it provides an added layer of security.  Some uses: clusters...

The TOR project issued a warning on their blog on Friday that this might happen: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/possible-upcoming-attempts-disable-tor-network

There's always the possibility that the skid who got pissed off when GVH (or someone claiming to be from GVH) spammed his LET PM box did more than just DDoS them...i.e. maybe they got hacked again.  Their followup tweet says they are  "performing very critical security and DDoS maintenance"...

Provider offers DDoS protection and yet can't keep their own site online... From their Twitter tonight...

DaveA won't answer questions about Vultr's RAID setup, CPU type, or multihoming but I bet if you asked the providers on that thread who are whining about his lack of transparency how many VPS's they put on their "latest Xeon E3-1270v3 with fast RAID10 8x1GB SATAIII and 1 Gbps ports"  nodes very...

3-step VPS provider pro tip for preparing your first #winning low end offer: step #1: edit  /etc/fstab and add 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' and reboot step #2: test your results root@noraid-server ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records...

The even bigger problem with affiliate programs is affiliate fraud.  My company used CommissionJunction to run our affiliate program from '99-'01 and back in those days most affiliate programs were pay to click not pay per sale/signup...we had 15,000+ affiliates...$10K-$15K monthly paid out to...

Buffalo Business First  has a short article on their new NOC: 2500 s.f. of space, NOC will be staffed by 15 employees (including 5 new hires), and the company's other 15 employees will be working out of the suburban daycare annex until they move to the new office space in the spring. On a...