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It isn't worth the effort. Looking at their machine (CPU) specs, their equipment is pretty old. They likely have been running on autopilot for a few years.

Rebuilding their clientele after a unmitigated disaster like this would probably take so much time that they would never get back in the black, especially since they are trying to do it on $12/year per customer. That requires a LOT of customers and they will have lost most of their existing ones before they would be able to rebuild.

Add on that they probably have outdated software, probably a lot of it custom/customized, that have unknown security holes...



> Add on that they probably have outdated software, probably a lot of it custom/customized, that have unknown security holes...

Then advertising themselves as a hosting site for experienced people makes all this mess quite poetic.


With services like Wix now you have even less potential customers.

They probably have been slowly losing customers for years.


And from the other side of their potential audience, the cheap VPS setups that are readily available these days will probably have been eating away users too.

Heck, for $5/mo and a setup fee you can sometimes get a small dedicated server (only an Atom CPU, but 500Gb storage and half decent bandwidth) from Kimsufi and their ilk.




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