This just in "HFB screws hundreds of thousands"

[ZERO]

Yea it is not unheard of for game server hosts to fuck over their clients and run off with all the money. Normally though it is them just providing really laggy servers and forcing their customers to leave and pocket the moneys. This is the first I have heard of a large company just dropping everything like this though:

You can still access their customer portal here: http://gamecp.hfbservers.com/Interfa...2fdefault.aspx

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

Yea it is not unheard of for game server hosts to fuck over their clients and run off with all the money. Normally though it is them just providing really laggy servers and forcing their customers to leave and pocket the moneys. This is the first I have heard of a large company just dropping everything like this though:

You can still access their customer portal here: http://gamecp.hfbservers.com/Interfa...2fdefault.aspx

It is interseting. It also appears as if they shut my servers down today... 15 days before they claimed they would go down. Bastards.

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

Ill dispute the cost, i just dont like how they appeartly sold off my email to some guy. I guess now i need to find a new provider, which is always... lovley.

[ZERO]

Selling off your e-mail might have been illegal. When you gave them your e-mail there should have been some sort of agreement with how they would use that information. If they broke that agreement they are liable to damages and fraud charges. In addition there maybe laws where their company is located forbidding them from selling that data without your express permission.

As far as servers go I reccomend just trying to get a dedicated box somewhere as then you are in control. The only host I ever used for non deticated was from affordable game servers who went out of business at the start of the Second Great Depression. At least when they went under the guy in charge was very nice at telling us when service would stop and helping us move our servers to a new host and copy data over along with suggestions for what sort of hardware we would want to have given what he has seen our servers using at that time. Unfortunately, in all the years before I went to softlayer for dedicated hosting I never did find a single honest good quality low price host like them. Other than our webhost wiredtree who has the best customer service in existence.

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

lol, yea.. i need the down payment to build a dedicated box. I have been slowly saving.

[ZERO]

What? You do not need a down payment you just rent the box...

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

What? You do not need a down payment you just rent the box...

Im confused now, i thought you were implied that i should build my own server and pay to have it sit in a rack at my near by data center.
Thus saying that "making a down payment" portion. I dont have money atm to build a decent server.

I only rent dedicated boxes. VPS is frustrating as balls. Especially VPS servers on cogent lines.

Just to note: I was renting a dedicated server from HFB. Full root access and un managed by them.
The entire company just took a dump and left me in the wind. Server went offline today, not when they promised...

[Steamer]

*lease
The server is yours to do with under the lease as long no harmful or illegal activity. Renting, or more so leasing, from a top host rather than a cheap gaming server host is a much smarter choice if going with a dedibox. You get what you pay for.

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

*lease
The server is yours to do with under the lease as long no harmful or illegal activity. Renting, or more so leasing, from a top host rather than a cheap gaming server host is a much smarter choice if going with a dedibox. You get what you pay for.

Thats not what im saying here. Take alook at the website. Its not like i broke agreement or anything. http://www.hfbservers.com/

They just ended up being another group of scumbags who sell billing and contact information.

Anyways, if anyone happens upon talk about HFB or other server hosts doing what HFB did recently.. id like to know about it. Apart from gathering information about these scumbags, i also was compensation for them selling my personal information.

[ZERO]

Oh well if that is what your looking for you should be renting from softlayer. The thought of renting from a reseller reseller never occurred to me.

Normally companies like that are renting their servers from another reseller who is renting their servers from the actual datacetner. For the best quality you want to go to the source, softlayer is the largest and highest quality data center you can rent directly from.

This is a company that deals with multi billion dollar companies. When I was COO of a long distance company we relied on Softlayer to provide critical servers to run our switching on for termination. I knew that if you got a server that produces thousands of dollars in revenue per min it needs to be from a provider that is always working and has fast and effective support.

If you can find a server from them in your budget and spec needs I would highly recommend. (let me know too if you decide to go with them b/c I will set up an affiliate code)