Nope, skid problem. They were selling like hotcakes but they were going to the wrong people who in turn resulted in a lot of abuse reports, drama, and overall wasted time. It's worth noting that we at Secure Dragon don't collect a paycheck so if I have to spend 3 hours dealing with legal requests for a single group of kids, it makes me not want to sell $1 VPSs anymore. A lot of people were pissed when we raised our prices, but it balanced out nicely. We have a fraction of the userbase in Portland now but those clients bring in more income and less than one abuse ticket per month.
I have no idea why but there are people on a certain forum that recommend us all of the time. I need to find out who they are and ask them to stop because the activities this forum is known for results in a lot of work for us because when people can't DDOS a site offline they resort to other tactics like writing bad reviews, blackmail, even posting DMCA notices. One kid posted CP on a client's website and called the FBI on us even though we have logs that the person who posted it and the person who opened the abuse ticket were the same IP. Now they've threatened to contact child advocate groups with "proof" that we host and support CP on our servers because their DDOS attacks can't take the site offline.
