ATTENTION MyW hosting imminent shutdown

System · March 20

No reason to panic, thanks to Jarland, but users should consider migrating.

Refugee offer thread

This discussion was created from comments split from: Lifetime Offers / Shared/Reseller DirectAdmin (DE, SG, LA, AT!).

Hey friends,

When we took over MyW it was to save it from a death that was coming with so little warning that data loss was guaranteed before you could migrate out. We weren't entirely certain how we would move forward with the hosting provider. All that we knew was that we weren't going to let everyone lose their data with virtually no warning, and we would figure out the rest as we went. Today we're letting you know that MyW will be permanently closing on July 1, 2025. At that date all customer data will be permanently deleted and will not be recoverable. The billing database containing your information will be deleted just the same, there will remain no record or backup of MyW (at least not any made by us). We are not entertaining any offers for acquisition of the brand, nor any ideas for keeping it running. It has been on life support and it is most fair to you that it be buried properly rather than passed around like a toxic asset.

We also know that many MySQL databases on WDE1 are corrupted after an abusive user on the server generated over 1TB of logs and filled the disk to 100%. It is unlikely that this will ever work better than it is working right now. There is no available time or funding to focus on repairing anything that is wrong with MyW, it will be severely neglected for the remainder of it's life. Please do not have reasonable expectations of it's support, as that will also be neglected. I understand that sounds bad. Fiction always sounds better. I don't deal in fiction.

Kind Regards,
Jarland
MyW Administrator

bikegremlin · March 20

Jarland took it over saying he'll try to keep it going, but now it seems he's given up.

For those who haven't yet migrated, the time has come to slowly start doing it.

Source - my uptime monitor (Hetrixtools - affiliate link) and LET discussion on the topic.

root · March 20

The end is nigh. Thank you @jarland for trying to keep the services alive for free.

Chievo · March 20

@MichaelCee

Samurai · March 20

I can't seem to login to their DirectAdmin, it returns " Unexpected Error". Anyone else having this issue or is it just me?

bikegremlin · March 20

@Samurai said:
I can't seem to login to their DirectAdmin, it returns " Unexpected Error". Anyone else having this issue or is it just me?

Probably overloaded.

Worked this morning, now it doesn't.

yoursunny · March 20

MyW is deadpooling.
Is MXroute next?

root · March 20

@yoursunny said:
MyW is deadpooling.
Is MXroute next?

vyas · March 21

@yoursunny said:
MyW is deadpooling.
Is MXroute next?

Nope, next to deadpool is Hetzner

root · March 21

@vyas said:

@yoursunny said:
MyW is deadpooling.
Is MXroute next?

Nope, next to deadpool is Hetzner

It is quite possible, considering the price of electricity in EU nowadays.

bikegremlin · March 21

@yoursunny said:
MyW is deadpooling.
Is MXroute next?

As far as I can tell, MXroute did the opposite in terms of marketing and lifetime plan selling.
High (and ever increasing) prices, and probably rare compared to subscription plan sales.

Ympker · March 21

Thanks @jarland for your efforts!

c1vhosting · March 21

What happened?

vyas · March 22

Hosting involucrated

root · March 23

The email has been sent. DEADLINE: 1st of July 2025

Hey friends,

When we took over MyW it was to save it from a death that was coming with so little warning that data loss was guaranteed before you could migrate out. We weren't entirely certain how we would move forward with the hosting provider. All that we knew was that we weren't going to let everyone lose their data with virtually no warning, and we would figure out the rest as we went. Today we're letting you know that MyW will be permanently closing on July 1, 2025. At that date all customer data will be permanently deleted and will not be recoverable. The billing database containing your information will be deleted just the same, there will remain no record or backup of MyW (at least not any made by us). We are not entertaining any offers for acquisition of the brand, nor any ideas for keeping it running. It has been on life support and it is most fair to you that it be buried properly rather than passed around like a toxic asset.

We also know that many MySQL databases on WDE1 are corrupted after an abusive user on the server generated over 1TB of logs and filled the disk to 100%. It is unlikely that this will ever work better than it is working right now. There is no available time or funding to focus on repairing anything that is wrong with MyW, it will be severely neglected for the remainder of it's life. Please do not have reasonable expectations of it's support, as that will also be neglected. I understand that sounds bad. Fiction always sounds better. I don't deal in fiction.

Kind Regards,
Jarland
MyW Administrator

root · March 24

I can only say thank you to @jarland !

Maybe this thread could be made an announcement.

c1vhosting · March 25

@root said:
The email has been sent. DEADLINE: 1st of July 2025

Hey friends,

When we took over MyW it was to save it from a death that was coming with so little warning that data loss was guaranteed before you could migrate out. We weren't entirely certain how we would move forward with the hosting provider. All that we knew was that we weren't going to let everyone lose their data with virtually no warning, and we would figure out the rest as we went. Today we're letting you know that MyW will be permanently closing on July 1, 2025. At that date all customer data will be permanently deleted and will not be recoverable. The billing database containing your information will be deleted just the same, there will remain no record or backup of MyW (at least not any made by us). We are not entertaining any offers for acquisition of the brand, nor any ideas for keeping it running. It has been on life support and it is most fair to you that it be buried properly rather than passed around like a toxic asset.

We also know that many MySQL databases on WDE1 are corrupted after an abusive user on the server generated over 1TB of logs and filled the disk to 100%. It is unlikely that this will ever work better than it is working right now. There is no available time or funding to focus on repairing anything that is wrong with MyW, it will be severely neglected for the remainder of it's life. Please do not have reasonable expectations of it's support, as that will also be neglected. I understand that sounds bad. Fiction always sounds better. I don't deal in fiction.

Kind Regards,
Jarland
MyW Administrator

Oh no, so sad

Groentjuh · March 25

@jarland, thanks for trying and for the reasonable time to migrate elsewhere and the honesty regarding the remainder of the period.

Ganonk · March 25

@c1vhosting said:

Oh no, so sad

🤧

Dewlance · March 25

Thank you @jarland for providing hosting services at very affordable price.

You are great.

Senpai53 · March 25

I need to move my 1 wp site. Enough time to do for sure!

root · March 25

Easter this year will be quite fun. Some people will need refugee offers.

AuroraZero · March 26

I should offer Jarland for it and keep it running.

TheDP · March 26

@AuroraZero said:
I should offer Jarland for it and keep it running.

But

We are not entertaining any offers for acquisition of the brand, nor any ideas for keeping it running. It has been on life support and it is most fair to you that it be buried properly rather than passed around like a toxic asset.

imok · March 26

@AuroraZero said:
I should offer Jarland for it and keep it running.

Don't

cybertech · March 27

@AuroraZero said:
I should offer Jarland for it and keep it running.

just let it die a natural death.

the ponzi style model was never gonna work

vyas · March 27

@cybertech I thought you would ask jarland the "keys to the car" (or a copy) and run benchmarks on all the three server locations... for purposes of scientific research

cybertech · March 27

@vyas said:
@cybertech I thought you would ask jarland the "keys to the car" (or a copy) and run benchmarks on all the three server locations... for purposes of scientific research

i have always preferred vps over dedi and shared.

vps ftw

ATTENTION MyW hosting imminent shutdown

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