Derek Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 What happen to them ? Did they die ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin-Nation-Servers Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Check this http://www.kylegato.com/2009/04/invisiongaming-and-kjservers-no-more.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 What exactly happened though ? If you are pulling in 3 x the amount of your server costs you don't all of a sudden not be able to cover the costs unless you did something terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defcon|Rich Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 What exactly happened though ? If you are pulling in 3 x the amount of your server costs you don't all of a sudden not be able to cover the costs unless you did something terrible. I've known quite a few GSP's that had solid businesses and made decent profits but lacked the will power to invest in the business end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HGN-Daniel Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 There are/were two invision gamings.. I believe the one in that blog post sold IRC shells and shoutcast servers among other things (possibly game servers). The other invision gaming sells game servers in the UK and the owner is a member of these forums IIRC. The latter's site might just be down temporarily. http://clientforums.tcadmin.com/member.php?u=349 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan M Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Ah well, things happen. Rich is correct, lack of investment into the backend of the business can result in unfortunate circumstances such as this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted August 16, 2009 Author Share Posted August 16, 2009 Ah well, things happen. Rich is correct, lack of investment into the backend of the business can result in unfortunate circumstances such as this. Yeah no kidding, seems like gsps leave more then a kids lemonade stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted August 16, 2009 Author Share Posted August 16, 2009 Seems like Hostile Contact is down as well ~72 hours or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonF Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Seems like Hostile Contact is down as well ~72 hours or so. Their shared web hosting account server must be down. Added Invision Gaming to the GSP graveyard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{-SMAKU-}_MotorMouth Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 We're still here the datacenter took a dump and they are tring to get it backup and running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonF Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 We're still here the datacenter took a dump and they are tring to get it backup and running. You should consider a backup web server to change the name servers over to and at least have a web presence until your main server is back online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Seems like Hostile Contact is down as well ~72 hours or so. Web Host is telling us 72 hours to fix the issue. I could build and deploy a new server in less than 72 hours. Time to find a new Web Host Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studeggle Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Hmmm, goes down just before the weekend and they can't have it up until after. I'd have to agree on the new host sounds like they might be enjoying there weekend while you flounder without a web presence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proclan Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Web Host is telling us 72 hours to fix the issue. I could build and deploy a new server in less than 72 hours. Time to find a new Web Host That's odd coming from IXwebhosting I could set you up with a reseller account on one of our cPanel servers. I don't do plesk though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcroom Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I would totally be setting up a temp web server so that you could at least proccess orders through paypal or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I would totally be setting up a temp web server so that you could at least proccess orders through paypal or something... We were in the process of creating a mirror site so if something like this happened we could just update the DNS and drive on. Well didn't quite get it finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 That's odd coming from IXwebhosting I could set you up with a reseller account on one of our cPanel servers. I don't do plesk though Thanks for the offer but we already have a reseller account with another company. That is where we were setting up the mirror site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonF Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Did the data center have a meltdown or did the server take a crap? If it is just the server then I can not explain a 72 hr outage. If the data center had a issue, aka The Planet Houston, then that makes more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studeggle Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Did the data center have a meltdown or did the server take a crap? If it is just the server then I can not explain a 72 hr outage. If the data center had a issue, aka The Planet Houston, then that makes more sense. Personally I wouldn't accept 72hrs iether way, I have witnessed a datacenter having a major issue and having to reload almost all there firewall, routers and switches and replace a few as well. They still had everyone back online in just over 24hrs and there was on again off again service during that time as they were conducting the repair. Granted support for the week after that was slow and all there techs had bags under there eyes everytime I went in. But a good datacenter realises they can't leave the customer offline becuase its inconvient to pull all staff in and make them work until problem is fixed. These are bussiness they provide for and down time can be serious expence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonF Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 I would totally be setting up a temp web server so that you could at least proccess orders through paypal or something... You should also consider offering support, DNS and email not just new sales. Without a site they can not even support their current clients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Web Host is telling us 72 hours to fix the issue. I could build and deploy a new server in less than 72 hours. Time to find a new Web Host Had my fingers crossed the competition for $1/slot just disappeared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickPuppy Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Had my fingers crossed the competition for $1/slot just disappeared We are back online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proclan Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 I would totally be setting up a temp web server so that you could at least proccess orders through paypal or something... The other problem with this or having a backup site is you would have to have 2 billing software license (whmcs is based on the dedicated ip you provide) or reset your license every time your site goes down but then you would have to update your database on the temp site to keep it up to date with your current site. The bad thing is using a shared/reseller hosting account to host your gsp site. VPS would probably work better but your still vulnerable to the other vps services on that box unless you can find a cheap dedicated server some where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 We are back online Good to see anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosit1 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Personally I wouldn't accept 72hrs iether way, I have witnessed a datacenter having a major issue and having to reload almost all there firewall, routers and switches and replace a few as well. They still had everyone back online in just over 24hrs and there was on again off again service during that time as they were conducting the repair. There's a difference between reloading/resetting firewalls and switches and rebuilding an entire data center because of an internal explosion. Haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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