Re: scintilla.org may be unavailable for a few days

While I didn't see this until now, just passing along that I use 
GeekStorage.com <https://www.geekstorage.com/> for my hosting service. 
Reasonably priced and not part of EIG scams.

EIG, now known as Newfold Digital owns a steaming excrement pile of hosting 
companies.

https://newfold.com/brands

If they really did evolve from EIG, way more than they list there. 
According to this Reddit thread 
<https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/tag6sg/beware_of_newfold_digital_eig_if_you_are_buying/> 
it was over 80 hosting companies. Having had many of their brands over the 
years, the scam is as follows:


   1. Buy hosting companies in America. 
   2. Layoff all U.S. staff.
   3. Move all operations to India.
   4. Just have a different phone number and email address for each company.


Now, for the customer the scam is:


   1. Advertise unbelievably low starter/introductory hosting price.
   2. Charge at least $150/domain for migration. 
   3. After the first couple of weeks move the site to massively under 
   powered virtual machines.
   4. When customer complains about sucky site performance have customers 
   service tell them "Well you are running on really old computers. You need 
   to pay us to move you to new computers." All that really happened was they 
   virtualized the one core you are running on to be N-cores and now it is 
   completely overloaded.
   5. Double, triple, or more, the hosting fee at end of "intro" period.
   6. Spam customer with unbelievably low starter/introductory hosting 
   price from 2-3 of the other 79 domains.
   7. Charge at least $150/domain for migration *when nothing leaves their 
   servers*.
   8. Goto step 3.
   



On Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 11:56:00 AM UTC Neil Hodgson wrote:

> Since the current hosting provider is increasing their price by 60%, I'll 
> probably move to a new one. This may lead to scintilla.org <
> http://scintilla.org/> not responding or other problems, like missing 
> downloads, for a few days.
>
> As there are some commercial pages and (not open-source) downloads, the 
> site can't be completely moved to GitHub or SourceForge although I may move 
> more of it to GitHub.
>
> Neil

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