Yup, just read a thread related to that and as usual he posted in it lol.
NinjaHawk Purchased By One of the Giants* of the VPS Industry
He probably purchased some advertising and all was forgiven
Does TMZ seriously have such a large operation that:
"After months of searching for a new location, we found one about 10 minutes from were we currently are. After months of renovating, buying furniture, moving furniture around, running wires and many other things in between, we have finally fully moved in and ready to roll!"
http://blog.tmzvps.com/2012/12/new-offices-and-support-addition/
They claim that now that they have enough office space they've been able to double staff because prior to that, they were constrained by their old offices. That'd have to be a pretty big operation to have even a small dedicated physical presence.
I got a good laugh out of this:
"Among the training our qualified representatives recieve is the Lean Six sigma training. Lean Six Sigma is a six step high quality assurance program developed by Motorola and used by almost every Fortune 500 company."
https://www.tmzvps.com/about/
That cracked me up because I've never seen that Lean/Six Sigma (it's two separate things, actually) nonsense outside of big bureaucracies. And the Six Sigma in Six Sigma has nothing to do with six steps
Well, we shouldn't be playa-hatin'...Daniel probably can't even hear our comments all the way from Tahiti.
DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
LinkedIn + NJ corporate records says he's never been near a Fortune 500 company. His 2 other NJ companies before TMZ were a small trucking company and a scrap metal collection company.
>>interupts everyone's trashing of the new management for an important bulletin >>
Based on a post on LET, Ninja customers are being migrated with only a few hours notice:
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/19817/ninjahawk-has-been-acquired-by-tmzvps-and-client-area-now-offline
Migrations to a new city with only a few hours notice on a weekend. #WINNING!
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Aldryic C'boas
The Pony
The owner (SeriesN, I believe?) used to be quite active here. The silence now doesn't bode well.
Aldryic C'boas
The Pony
Nah, not implying he should release details/etc. But not at least dropping by and saying "Hey guys, check this out *link to news release*" just seems ... odd.
Yep, but I think the NDA stops all of that =\
It seems a little harsh but yea.
Francisco
I like Nahian, he's a good guy. But I don't think this is in his hands anymore. NinjaHawk merged with HostVenom a month or so ago as per this thread () and I think the decision probably wasn't his.
Sad to see it happen like this because NinjaHawk was good, and I utilized it because I trusted the provider and owner. The service was solid. Now I'll be migrating my data elsewhere because not too sure on new owners. Time will tell how it goes.
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DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
TMZ's only locations are LA (WebNX) and London (UK2). Ninja had locations in NYC/AtlanticMetro, Dallas/Internap, Tempe/PhoenixNAP.
Ah interesting, so they're forcing everyone to LA then?
From what I read on LET by NodePing is they haven't even been told where they are moving to:
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/439643/#Comment_439643
lv-matt
New Member
Welcome to TMZ, Daniel really isn't the sharpest knife in the draw, up until a few months ago he thought he had been buying fail-proof HDDs
For a company "bigger than KnownHost", I should be expecting much better and considering they used HostDime this year, that does mean they did not have 100% uptime thats for sure.
TMZVPS information: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=8729199&postcount=6
Judging by the lack of proof reading in his email this was a really cheap deal for him, and the fact he is handling the migrations so poorly already, which once again shows how serious Daniel is about his operation.
For a company "bigger than KnownHost", I should be expecting much better and considering they used HostDime this year, that does mean they did not have 100% uptime thats for sure.
My VPS with TMZ had multiple issues, early suspension before my due date for non-payment, few little outages here and there, also a little bit of packet loss. Definately not what I expected for a company bigger than KnownHost.
TMZVPS information: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=8729199&postcount=6
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This was an epic read:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1242498
First time I've ever seen a hosting owner say "look how huge we are - here's a pic of a check we got!"
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1242498
First time I've ever seen a hosting owner say "look how huge we are - here's a pic of a check we got!"
Hey guys look at this check I just wrote up to pretend I just got a check for a large amount!This was an epic read:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1242498
First time I've ever seen a hosting owner say "look how huge we are - here's a pic of a check we got!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Six_Sigma
"Among the training our qualified representatives recieve is the Lean Six sigma training. Lean Six Sigma is a six step high quality assurance program developed by Motorola and used by almost every Fortune 500 company."
https://www.tmzvps.com/about/
That cracked me up because I've never seen that Lean/Six Sigma (it's two separate things, actually) nonsense outside of big bureaucracies. And the Six Sigma in Six Sigma has nothing to do with six steps
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Ah, I didn't know someone had merged them.
Lean is the Toyota stuff.
Six Sigma is GE's stuff.
The Six in Six Sigma refers to statistics (error levels), not "six steps" that TMZ made up.
Regardless, it's all management fad stuff. In my not-so-humble opinion it has a lot more relevance in manufacturing than in knowledge worker activities. I am still laughing that someone would quote it for their two-man hosting operation.
It's possible there was legitimately a misunderstanding. I was banned on WHT for months because of a similarity between myself and Fizzadar - who I work with.
They gave little to no details - They simply said I was a duplicate account - I actually had to guess that was what the misunderstanding was for them to unban me.
I know nothing of this current situation - this is only my personal experience with WHT misunderstandings.
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