drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
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
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1276885
Solus Labs was forced to reply to the ChicagoVPS hack, and claims of Solus being insecure. This included some form of external audit, lots of public grilling and patches.
See: http://blog.soluslabs.com/2013/06/18/statement-regarding-current-security-rumours/
What happened from the CVPS final hack (yes CVPS was hacked at least twice in a twelve month period) and CVPS' blame of Solus was legendary. Many hosts pulled their Solus panel down, and manually performed tasks for their customers. Eventually, the paranoia waned and there were hardly any related hacks (officially) to support the SolusVM vulnerability claim.
The latest wrinkle in this saga, and why we are here today is:
ChicagoVPS has hacked SolusVM. They bypassed the licensing and are running illegal unlicensed cracked copies of Solus.
I am unsure how long this lack of licensing / cracked Solus has been going on, but at least for past two months. It's likely longer than that.
Normally, I don't publish he-said / she-said hearsay. Plenty of it floats around and if not suitable as evidence in a legal setting, then not good enough as a source. That's how this license issue was presented multiple times.
I reached out to Solus Labs yesterday, hoping to get some input on the situation and some help from them to verify licensing. Idea was to get some instructions on how to independently verify licensing details (since I research many providers). Today, as-is, Solus doesn't provide an independent public license check mechanism like WHMCS does (and which many of us use).
The good news is, to all you cheapskates who have somehow bypassed that pesky $10 per server licensing, is SolusVM is currently working on a public license checker. Get licensed properly before that comes out and you get publicly shamed.
Back to ChicagoVPS, and those annoying $10 SolusVM licenses. A Solus representative said, and I quote:
“... we do not have any active licenses for the company you mentioned [ChicagoVPS]. Hope this helps!”
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
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1276885
Solus Labs was forced to reply to the ChicagoVPS hack, and claims of Solus being insecure. This included some form of external audit, lots of public grilling and patches.
See: http://blog.soluslabs.com/2013/06/18/statement-regarding-current-security-rumours/
What happened from the CVPS final hack (yes CVPS was hacked at least twice in a twelve month period) and CVPS' blame of Solus was legendary. Many hosts pulled their Solus panel down, and manually performed tasks for their customers. Eventually, the paranoia waned and there were hardly any related hacks (officially) to support the SolusVM vulnerability claim.
The latest wrinkle in this saga, and why we are here today is:
ChicagoVPS has hacked SolusVM. They bypassed the licensing and are running illegal unlicensed cracked copies of Solus.
I am unsure how long this lack of licensing / cracked Solus has been going on, but at least for past two months. It's likely longer than that.
Normally, I don't publish he-said / she-said hearsay. Plenty of it floats around and if not suitable as evidence in a legal setting, then not good enough as a source. That's how this license issue was presented multiple times.
I reached out to Solus Labs yesterday, hoping to get some input on the situation and some help from them to verify licensing. Idea was to get some instructions on how to independently verify licensing details (since I research many providers). Today, as-is, Solus doesn't provide an independent public license check mechanism like WHMCS does (and which many of us use).
The good news is, to all you cheapskates who have somehow bypassed that pesky $10 per server licensing, is SolusVM is currently working on a public license checker. Get licensed properly before that comes out and you get publicly shamed.
Back to ChicagoVPS, and those annoying $10 SolusVM licenses. A Solus representative said, and I quote:
“... we do not have any active licenses for the company you mentioned [ChicagoVPS]. Hope this helps!”
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