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Hardcloud launching their "Premium Virtual Private Servers"

sundaymouse

New Member
From their mass email:

Dear (Name),

Thanks to your business, we have been able to grow these past few months into a true competitor in the budget Virtual Private Server market; providing services at the same or better pricing than all of our competitors whilst maintaining our ticket reply time, quality of support, and enterprise hardware.  We have only our loyal customers to thank for this.

And as part of our thanks in rewarding our loyal customers for their business that has brought us to where we are now, we are offering all of our current active customers with paid services the chance to try our new Premium Services, which will be rolling out later this week; at HALF PRICE for the first month.

Our new premium line of services are aimed primarily at our business customers, and those consumers that need a little more "oumph" to their servers with us.  All premium Virtual Private Servers come with IPv6 support by default, full access to a 10gbps top-of-rack switch, premium Dell hardware (chassis, motherboard, RAID cards), enterprise Seagate harddrives and Intel SSDs, and CacheCade to speed the whole thing up.  All premium services also come with top-of-queue priority support in tickets, and will include Phone Support for no extra cost when we roll it out early next year.

Please open a Support Ticket to the new "Premium Sales" department to inquire about our premium services if you are interested and to receive your HALF PRICE discount code.  We will be sending out one more E-Mail about these services when we're ready to roll them out later this week, this is also when we will stop giving out these coupons; so you'd better act fast!

Yours sincerely,

HardCloud Staff
Looks like this email doesn't include actual offer details, I wonder how premium this service is :D :p
 

raindog308

vpsBoard Premium Member
Moderator
HardCloud...I'm thinking they meant to connote something like Hardened Security but instead ended up suggesting a global peer-to-peer porn network.
 

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
Yeah another horror name.

Clouds are hard?!?!?!   Oye!  G'damn cloud seeding and weather modification.

Sounds like bullcrap to me like so many offers from cloud delusional buzz word folks.

Is this the company?  http://www.hardcloud.net

Located in Buffalo, New York Data Centre
1Gbps Port
24x7x365 Support
99.9% Uptime SLA
99.9% uptime for a design (cloud) that is supposed to be hyper redundant.  Ho hum.

and also servers located worldwide in 5 locations increasing day by day
Would those locations be: Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles and Buffalo?
 

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
Sounds like bullcrap to me

The bullcrap was their claim in their early offers that the VPS's included "dedicated hardware".

@DomainBop said: Hard Cloud, is your claim that the KVM VPS's include "dedicated hardware" a case of you being an absolute fucking moron with little knowledge of virtualization or is it a case of false advertising? Inquiring minds would like to know.

@HardCloud said: Simply a marketing phrase, you can find them everywhere.
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
So is he still involved or no?

I saw he 'sold' but we've seen the same owners stick around and just change names.

Francisco
 

Wintereise

New Member
That email is actually rather well typed, ignoring all the premium nonsense.

I doubt this will be a real cloud deployment, but meh.
 

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
I doubt this will be a real cloud deployment, but meh.
^---- This is the story of these  projects rolling out of Buffalo.   If you were rolling out some big, bad servers with the right ingredients to be a true "cloud" solution, you probably wouldn't be racking or renting from ColoCrossing, especially not in Buffalo.

I claim the term VAPOR.   I am going to sell my new VAPOR based computing solution.  VAPOR will be all the rage.   :popcorn:
 

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
So is he still involved or no?


I saw he 'sold' but we've seen the same owners stick around and just change names.


Francisco
The hardcloud.net domain name is still registered to the "old owner" Australian teenager Mitchell (http://whois.domaintools.com/hardcloud.net )but several ColoCrossing IP ranges were SWIPed to   Albino Geek Services ("new owner" Damon in Canada) on October 14th-16th.

CC-23-94-29-192-28 (NET-23-94-29-192-1)

23.94.29.192 - 23.94.29.207

CC-192-3-11-224-28 (NET-192-3-11-224-1)

192.3.11.224 - 192.3.11.239

CC-23-94-29-208-29 (NET-23-94-29-208-1)

23.94.29.208 - 23.94.29.215

CC-192-3-205-96-27 (NET-192-3-205-96-1)

192.3.205.96 - 192.3.205.127

CC-192-3-92-8-29 (NET-192-3-92-8-1)

192.3.92.8 - 192.3.92.15

CC-23-94-20-0-25 (NET-23-94-20-0-1)

23.94.20.0 - 23.94.20.127

CC-192-3-205-192-27 (NET-192-3-205-192-1)

192.3.205.192 - 192.3.205.223
 
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Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
That makes a lot of sense.

The new guy likes to shove his sig/company name on every post so it always came off a little odd to me.

The original owner was a funny guy with many of his comments, though.

Francisco
 
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