AtratoIP in the troubles

[Kruno]

Looks like AtratoIP hasn't paid to their suppliers / uplinks and going bankrupt by the end of this month if they don't find a buyer to take-over their operations.

http://www.ispam.nl/archives/34169/uitgelekte-brief-aan-leveranciers-atrato-in-zwaar-weer/

There is quite a lot of companies in the NL that are single-homed to AtratoIP and resold tons of their extremely cheap bandwidth. Will be interesting to see how this ends up.

 

[Francisco]

It's amazing how many hosts go broke in NL.

*So* many of them resell dedi's from leaseweb for almost no profit margin, target the rapidshare/etc pushers and then go broke.

There was one host on WHT that got all their racks turned off because they didn't pay their bills twice.

Francisco

 

[concerto49]

Yep, read it on WHT. Huge thread that got to DO/Incero instead. Off topic there.

 

[Kruno]

It's amazing how many hosts go broke in NL.


*So* many of them resell dedi's from leaseweb for almost no profit margin, target the rapidshare/etc pushers and then go broke.


There was one host on WHT that got all their racks turned off because they didn't pay their bills twice.


Francisco

RapidSpeeds or HostPlate?

RapidSpeeds has their /23 PI and whole rack with hardware rented, HostPlate was just a simple reseller. Profit margin was probably higher that LEBs so there must be something else that went wrong.

 

[Francisco]

RapidSpeeds or HostPlate?

RapidSpeeds has their /23 PI and whole rack with hardware rented, HostPlate was just a simple reseller. Profit margin was probably higher that LEBs so there must be something else that went wrong.

Both actually

Rapidspeeds went broke I think. They were doing 1gig unmetered and lots of 'we will ignore all dmcas if you buy this gear'. The owner was a funny guy going on about buying a $90k brocade and how he had 40Gbit/sec to himself out of leaseweb.

Hostplate resold boxes and had minimal margins. Likely got a bunch of chargebacks because of the markets they hit and ended up getting screwed. The last time they had a billing outage they bumped all listed prices by $20/m+ each.

Alas they had another billing outage just a few months ago I think?

Francisco

 

[Francisco]

Here ya' go:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=8725929&postcount=247

I had a really bad experience when I used leaseweb many moons ago but I give them a big thumbs up for doing what they did. Twice.

They did the same thing for the rapidspeed people too.

Francisco

 

[Kruno]

Alas they had another billing outage just a few months ago I think?


Francisco

Actually, HostPace also went broke

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1276527&highlight=hostplate

EDIT: You were faster. 

LeaseWeb is pretty good but as with all massive providers, you are just a number there. Great network though. 

 

[Jack]

So what's the crack with this, I haven't been following anything regarding it.

 

[Tux]

So what's the crack with this, I haven't been following anything regarding it.

Atrato needs a nice customer infusion if they want to live. I'm sure that just isn't possible now.

Look on the RamNode IRC though, there's a guy that would love for Atrato to go.

 

[MartinD]

They've been bought out by Hibernia: atra.to/3ho