ChicagoVPS' highly publicized hacks and subsequent database dumps continue to horrify customers and yield more insight into ChicagoVPS.
"CVPS Machine Passwords CVPS Email Passwords - A good friend got me a partially cracked dump of Chicago VPS data. This has been ran through the new, modular...
Rather funny, and poetic.
Burst.net had 36.4K followers on Twitter very recently (in the past week).
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache:g0peXN-nS4gJ:https://twitter.com/BURSTNET%2Btwitter+burstnet&gbv=2&ct=clnk
Now today, they have 2 followers...
Information has been swirling about ChicagoVPS, and SolusVM for the past two months roughly.
As some will recall, ChicagoVPS blamed Solus in the past for their hacks, and subsequent database dumps of CVPS' Solus information to the public.
See: ; and...
Should be new updates for OpenSSL pushed out today... and other programs that depend on OpenSSL..
Source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/critical-crypto-bug-in-openssl-opens-two-thirds-of-the-web-to-eavesdropping/
Finally, getting a single day break in the endless winter horror. Today we might eek out something tolerable, like 60F.
I am taking the day off and slacking. Was supposed to be out in the field today, but that can wait.
Everyone else anxious for spring?
I am taking a real long walk today...
vePortal has known about the flaws for six months now and hasn't taken any real steps into getting them resolved. There are so many flaws in the product that we actually stopped doing any further testing because it was just pointless. Given the current state of BurstNET, the odds of vePortal...
As per SecureDragon's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SecureDragonLLC/status/448761993017978880
"Apparently our NJ servers are being sent to another data center. No notice was given to us and we're not sure where they are going."
Others commented on here about the situation....
What is going...
BREAKING NEWS
Burstnet ripped off their landlord (Insite Dunmore) and failed to pay lease obligations going all the way back to July 2013.
see for yourself: http://vpsboard.com/files/bustnet_2014_stiffed_their_landlord.pdf
Background:
As mentioned in Burstnet Technologies (aka Burstnet) has...
1205 oneil highway
2013-civil-7316
burstnet
burstnet technologies inc.
insite dunmore
john r. obrien
lackawanna county
landlord
oliver price & rhodes
oprlaw.com
Breaking News: Burstnet's recent and sudden move from Dunmore, Pennsylvania, is due to strategic defaults / refusal to pay for leases. This includes at least FIVE equipment leases. Four of them are for servers and related components and the fifth is for electric materials for their Dunmore DC...
Today is ipxCore moving day. Yep, left Buffalo with their servers and did the drive to Choopa. Racking and getting things back online now supposedly.
From Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ipxcore
IPXcore @ipxcore · 10h
Waiting for our servers to be unracked and brought out to us.
Looks like...
In light of the prior smackdown between Burstnet and volumeDrive over past due money and leasing owed, and with observation of Burst's sudden mass dumping of customers (move to random North Carolina and accept 30%+ rate hikes across many products) --- who is going under first?
Is it:
Burst.net...
Confirmed this with others, isn't just a fake email. Burst.net, known for being cheap colo option, appears to be changing lots. They are kicking colo clients out or you get moved to some random unnamed Tier 3 Data Center in North Carolina.
The also claim to be the only provider that doesn't...
Been fussing around with some BASH scripts for a few months. Getting to the point now to clean up my dev environment and decide where the critters should live and bundle such for documentation and redeployment.
The scripts are such that anything/anyone can run them per se. No grand...
Anyone around here buying off lease servers and related network gear?
Looking for options out there of reputable off lease companies. Looking for HP, Dell and Supermicro.
Looking for prior generation gear and for availability in the United States.
Feel free to recommend your vendor. PMs...
Current thread over on that LET site.
TL;DR - AzzaVPS sold to ChicagoVPS. No real details or timeline, so far. Deal was for the price of a dedicated server.
Fabozzi exited deal / didn't follow through.
Bad business practice
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/23352/bad-business-practice
Looking for some recommendations for cheap Windows VPS providers.
For now, seeking these in New York City, Chicago and London. Close to major trading markets and ideally with low latency to such.
So Dallas, Texas, colo facility CoreXchange has been sold to Zayo Group which owns AboveNet most notably. See: http://www.zayo.com/news/
CoreXchange has been a popular colo facility for many bargain priced resellers and offered reasonable dedicated server rentals directly.
Today, following...
Show your support... can be used any way you please.... They said it...
Time to order some and take them shooting.
ChicagoVPS Sticker (969 Available)
Show your support with a ChicagoVPS Logo sticker! Can be used any way you please.
3" x 3" Sticker.
Price includes postage ( US and CA ONLY...
So from that other world of IRC.... BlueVM's IRC...
<DanielI> I'm babysitting s12-ca
<newbie55> Daniell: Since this is the 4th outage in a month, I'm about to leave this service anyway :P
<newbie55> no offense, just the facts.
<newbie55> you can forward it to management as well, they need to...
Back in December ColoCrossing was issued by ARIN a /14 of IP space:
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL214220
NetRange: 107.172.0.0 - 107.175.255.255
CIDR: 107.172.0.0/14
OriginAS: AS36352
NetName: CC-17
NetHandle: NET-107-172-0-0-1
Parent: NET-107-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation...