[UPDATED] Spry Servers closing down
Just received this email ("Urgent: Immediate Closure of Spry Servers - All operations ceasing"):
Dear [name name],
With a heavy heart, I must announce Spry Servers will be discontinuing operations, effective immediately.
Due to unforseen circumstances, we have accumulated profound debt which we cannot resolve. We’ve made numerous attempts to work on a solution with our data center provider, Evocative, to no avail. They have ignored our offers and suggestions for to a way toward a resolution. On Friday, 07/14/23, they discontinued all network services and locked us out of the facility.
We have no way to recover our hardware or any data within the facility. We’ve been attempting alternative solutions, such as the sale of Spry Servers. We have not been successful. It is now my sad duty to inform you the only choice left is to cease operations completely.
As of now, any services which were hosted within the Phoenix datacenter are unavailable, and are not recoverable. This includes spryCloud, dedicated servers, VPS, shared hosting, etc.
If you have a domain registered with us, we ask you to please initiate transfer to a new registrar. If you are a shared hosting client in Dallas, we request you find a new web host to transfer your data to prior to services shutting down in Dallas. All Spry Servers servers and other operations will completely cease on or before 07/25/23.
For those of you who purchased a Microsoft 365 subscription from us, please contact Microsoft to arrange the transfer out of the CSP agreement to either their business direct agreement or find another CSP to service your account.
To those making use of our colocation service in Phoenix, we ask you or your attorney please contact Evocative directly to arrange for the return of your equipment. Spry Servers is unable to assist you in recovering your equipment. Evocative refuses to release any equipment to us. Please direct your correspondence to the following addresses:
[redacted]
I profoundly regret the upheaval this has caused and understand this will cost you and/or your company considerable time and money. For all of this, I am truly sorry.
I personally appreciate all the business our customers have given us over the last decade. I have come to look at Spry Servers’ customers as family. This is a heartbreaking moment for me. I cannot express the sadness I feel at having to do this, however my hands are tied.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being a loyal and valuable customer of Spry Servers. I wish you peace and prosperity in the years to come. You will all always hold a place in my heart for being part of the Spry Servers family.
Sincerely,
Tab Fitts
Founder/CEO
Spry Servers, LLC
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Sad. Anyway, can we get the Evocative version of the story ?
Why?
Unpaid bills? What else...
Now that's a real crap.
I think this line says it all: "Due to unforseen circumstances, we have accumulated profound debt which we cannot resolve."
In the end it's just unpaid bills and unability to pay the bills in such a way that the datacenter is happy enough to continue service.
It sounds like any service provided at the Phoenix datacenter is unrecoverable, which is basically zero-time notice to customers, which is tough
Presumably, Spry Servers was able to see things going downhill a bit more in advance
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
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@SpryServers_Tab Mind answering the allegations above? Are these things bullshit or actually true? Rumors are going off the chart in discord, reddit, various forums. Mainly in discord.
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(Your assessment seems pretty accurate -- I'd just be very surprised if he returned here to answer questions)
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
Just asked for comment from Evocative as kindly as I ever could from neutral perspective, and they just closed the live chat with "no comment".
what
the
fuck
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
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Spam network goes bye bye (to be fair radwebhosting were the spammers, but also to be fair, spry knew).
Do everything as though everyone you’ll ever know is watching.
One week's notice to their customers; that's horrendous, especially in you happen to be on your holidays at the time. Yup, Spry really kicked their customers where it hurts.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
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I hate to see these kind of situations, but it is a good reminder to always backup things yourself. Your provider may provide backups, but that does not mean anything if the servers are all offline. You cannot rely on anyone but yourself when it comes to your data. Not even AWS, GCP, or Azure.
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Just got this email
I am a representative of Advin Servers
From the OGF.
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Sort of unrelated question but I never understood those US Phone numbers, can someone explain?
What is doing HOST in a phone number? Do you type in alphabetical letters when dialing a number? What happens to the numbers in brackets ( )? What is the actual number you would type in your phone?
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You just press the button with the letter on it. See below picture. So for G, H or I you press 4. The number in parentheses is just the conversion to the actual dial string to save people figuring it out. So actual number in the above is 18447994678.
Thanks for explaining I was always confused on how you would dial those. Is the usage of alphabetical letters just just "marketing" then? Or asked differently: Do people usually send friends/family their numeric number to dial only, or do you always in clude ABCDEFG..?
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Used to be a big thing in the states made it easier to remember the number. It has fallen out of fashion you could say, since cell phones and emails have become mainstream. They would even write the numbers into jingles and make them rhyme.
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It is marketing, and companies pick words so they are easy to remember. I can tell you that you can order flowers at 1-800-FLOWERS, but remembering 1-800-3569377 (what you would actually dial) is not as easy. Mostly (but not always) it applies to toll-free numbers (1-8xx). For personal numbers, it is numeric like everywhere else.
Do we need to have a deadpool list?
Websites have ads, I have ad-blocker.
Lol, sounds like it was quite funny
I do understand the marketing concept, but then again, I don't try to "remember" a phone number. I look up the shop on google maps and dial directly via their, or simply copy&paste it, or save contacts to my address book.
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My personal number is +1 80445 SUNNY.
It was selected in Google Voice in 2009.
In 2016, I read the number like this at 10 different business transactions.
Only 1 was able to figure out how the vanity number works.
The other 9 demanded numeric phone numbers.
Nowadays I don't advertise my vanity number anymore.
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Doesn't that mean that vanity numbers can not have any zeros? Cause only "+" (and pause) are on the number "0"?
In the old days, phone memory was a premium. Land line phones had like 10 speed dials and mobile phones could hold a max of 100 numbers (on top brand models). So I understand the reason to have vanity numbers (and phone books by that extension). In the modern age, that's useless as phones can save all the numbers you ever need (and sync to cloud), and if you forget to save, just look it up on google (or whatever the apple people uses).
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Vanity numbers commonly start with 800.
The letters portion of a vanity number cannot have 0 or 1.
Advertisement can show vanity numbers so that customers can easily recall them.
I've seen an injury lawyer advertising HURT phone number on the side of city buses.
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Ah, that makes sense. Those do not contain any letters.
Must be a American thing. Here in Singapore, I do not see any phone numbers, only websites, QR codes and apps.
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Two days is not a huge amount of time to move things, but you probably should have prepared a few weeks ago when they announced they were selling.
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Still businesses would try to find a easily remembered telephone number? (well, before smartphones are ubiquitous anyways)
As a Malaysian this toll-free phone number is forever burned into my memory: 1-300-88-2525 ("Pizza Hut Special Delivery!")
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Some places still use this marketing tactic. Here's one from my town...they use their vanity phone number on radio ads a lot too:
Yes. This is what they do in SG too, but they do not replace the number with letters.
For example, DBS bank (one of the most popular bank in SG) uses the number 1800 111 1111, which is damn easy to dial.
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