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

I used fasthosts which seems reasonably priced. My previous provider (of 
many years) ended up with crazy prices that I could not justify.

On Sunday 2 June 2024 at 14:24:51 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:

> 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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