Burst.net emergency bailout of Dallas
- Thread starter Jonathan
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This shows you that no matter how large the company is, anything can happen. Take backups!
- Daniel
- Daniel
Not a Burst customer but this looks interesting...
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1342218
Short version: "I cannot stress this enough to all of our clients. If you do not have recent offsite backups get them ASAP. As the email states, we are willing to work with our clients and get them services in our flagship facility in Scranton, PA should they so choose. But the main thing here is getting your data OFF of these servers."
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1342218
Short version: "I cannot stress this enough to all of our clients. If you do not have recent offsite backups get them ASAP. As the email states, we are willing to work with our clients and get them services in our flagship facility in Scranton, PA should they so choose. But the main thing here is getting your data OFF of these servers."
This has already been discussed in this thread: https://vpsboard.com/topic/3316-burstnet-closing-dallas-location/
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Weren't they burned pretty bad by VolumeDrive?
I don't remember the details...wasn't it something like high 5/low 6 figures?
Perhaps a knock-on effect...
I don't remember the details...wasn't it something like high 5/low 6 figures?
Perhaps a knock-on effect...
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Wtf? From the word "cage" it sounds like they have colo equipment in Dallas, but they're not going to give any assistance to customers getting data off? Is the gear all getting seized by the Feds, or what? Has it been taken hostage by the data center, which sounds like grounds for calling the FBI? And 1 month of service as compensation for this level of disruption makes them sound like complete idiots.
I think that sounds a bit extreme. More than likely a contract dispute and due to the dispute their contracts won't be renewed. So eventually bandwidth/power/and space will be cut off. I haven't seen any real activity or anything in their cage so I am guessing they are working on finding someone to ship off their gear or something. Their on-site tech has been gone for a few weeks.
peterw
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They are dead. They should have said this first not trying to hide the real reason. I am sorry for their customers.
drmike
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That's cause, as I suspect, Burst is leaving a heap of crap behind in Scranton/Dunmore. Since leasing company owns such and Burst doesn't want to get into legal hair splitting about moving the gear elsewhere.
My understanding is they left what they had at Corexchange and Core sold the gear for a song just to recoup some of what Burst owed them.
My understanding is they left what they had at Corexchange and Core sold the gear for a song just to recoup some of what Burst owed them.
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