VPS-Forge is shutting down

[joepie91]

Received this 4 days ago...

Dear Customer,

 

It's with great sadness that I'm writing this email to you. Unfortunately in its current form VPS-Forge simply cannot continue to run and thus we are beginning the stages of shutting down the company and it's servers. This means your server will continue to function until the 20th of May 2015, at which point it will be powered off and any data lost. We have disabled all invoicing and will be contacting you shortly if you are owed a refund.

 

To help you back up your data we are able to create a complete dump of your server and make it available for you to download. If you require this please open a support ticket in the client panel (http://vps-forge.com/clients/).

 

We've had a great run over the last 5 years and we are sorry for any inconvenience this announcement may have caused you.

 

The VPS-Forge Team

Unfortunate, they were quite good

 

[Francisco]

Has there been any information into why they're closing down?

Francisco

 

[joepie91]

Has there been any information into why they're closing down?


Francisco

Not that I know of. Reading the e-mail, it sounds like the good old "we can no longer bear the tax on our personal lives" that most established provider shutdowns seem to result from.

 

[joepie91]

From the LowEndTalk thread:

Hello guys, Yes we are shutting down after 5 great years. Everyone is sort of right as to why we are shutting down, it's a mix of all of that and more. As a result of this thread we have had many inquiries about purchasing our company, however we simply don't trust that anyone will take good enough care of it to do this so shutting down is simply the best way.

Our top uptime was about 450 days, and we regularly got a years worth on all of our servers. It's going to be a shame to turn out the lights

 

[VPS4LESSDE]

I am sorry about this, but thanks for the news!

 

[cociu]

is not a good news eaven for the competitors