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Quote Bounty Replybullet Topic: Bad news
    Posted: May 09 2009 at 7:41am
hey guys jumped on the forum today and noticed our tf2 server was down.
so i tried to contact the provider and noticed all the phone lines were closed.jump on there forum and found this.
 
Customer Notice:

On Friday the 8 May all our servers sustained an unprecedented DDoS attack and as a direct result of this our transit provider was forced to disconnect our servers. In order to have our connection re-instated we would have had to guarantee to pay thousands of pounds in bandwidth surcharges generated by the continued DDoS attack, at one point of the DDoS attack a surcharge £4500 would have been levied (as our transit provider would also directly incur additional surcharges). And further similar charges would also have been levied running into many thousands of pounds.
For many of those who know me through my online presence you will have seen TEAMHOST grow basically from a bedroom business into a moderately sized business over a period of 4 years. Obviously it is with deep regret and sadness that the illegal actions of a person or persons unknown have not only caused my business to close but to also take away my livelihood especially in the current economic climate.
On a final note to the individual who considers that destroying a business and livelihood is acceptable, just remember what goes around normally comes around - and those proxy servers are just that!
Hope to see you soon. 
Checked my email and found this also
 
Date:  Saturday, May 9, 2009 9:32 AM 
From:  ********** 
To:  *********** 
Subject:  Confirmation of FuturePay Agreement Cancellation 
Size:  2 KB 
IMPORTANT: The following Regular FuturePay Agreement with J Dove has been
cancelled, in accordance with the request we received from either yourself or J
Dove.
 
Agreement ID:                                               ******
Merchant reference:                                         ****
Merchant Name:                                              J Dove
Date and time of cancellation:                              09/May/2009 08:32:52
 
No further payments will be taken under this agreement. If you believe that this
agreement should not have been cancelled, please contact J Dove at: 
 
Thank you for using WorldPay, processing payments securely on behalf of J Dove.
 
and to make it worse basterds even took another payment from my mrs
bank account so my names s*it for the day Ouch
 
i dont no what to say guys iam really sorry for this and ill try and get something sorted again soon...
 
for those people who helped me out with the server and came to play there just want to say thanks guys....
 
rick
 
 
 
 



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Quote Intrinsically Replybullet Posted: May 09 2009 at 8:33am
no need for you to apologize, it's nothing that you did...it is pretty crappy that they banged you for another payment though, they should at least give you a pro-rated refund, it's not like you cancelled on them...it's worth firing off an email to them, the worst that can happen is they say no
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Quote ANTHONY Replybullet Posted: May 09 2009 at 12:20pm
damn that sucks.any chance another server will be up in the near future?maybe in the US even.
Killin' em all.

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Quote Conan Replybullet Posted: May 09 2009 at 2:18pm
Well that sucks....I was hoping to do some playing this weekend.
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Quote Bounty Replybullet Posted: May 09 2009 at 5:15pm

yea no what you mean was looking forward to a game myself :(

sent them a few emails.but there cs was sh*te at the best of times so iam not expecting any replys but ill wait and see.



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Quote vorlon Replybullet Posted: May 09 2009 at 5:27pm
Originally posted by ANTHONY

damn that sucks.any chance another server will be up in the near future?maybe in the US even.
awww is that us all friends again?
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Quote Hagar Replybullet Posted: May 09 2009 at 11:53pm
I would not be surprsed if they did not pay their bandwidth bill and was shut down and used this excuse to take everybody's money and run.  This just smells fishy to me.
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Quote Bounty Replybullet Posted: May 10 2009 at 7:46am
wouldnt surprsed me either..ive tried msn email and phone but nothing...
wonder how many extra payments were took somebody,s summers paid for f**kers.and today there web page has been change so you can only view certain pages.what makes it worse is the fact they wont answer calls or reply to emails or msn etc.. doent make them look good at all.


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Quote Cresil Replybullet Posted: May 10 2009 at 11:25am
Put the dogs in the car and go visit them R . Lets see if their customer support gets better.There are alot of resellers on the web that come and go every day, its always better to buy from big hosts.
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Quote Conan Replybullet Posted: May 10 2009 at 1:53pm
I'm updating the tf2 server now. Once done I'll start. It may crash when the server get full
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Quote Conan Replybullet Posted: May 10 2009 at 2:01pm
again maybe not. the server couldn't exec beetlesmod\onceonly
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Quote Cronus Replybullet Posted: May 10 2009 at 2:04pm
shame about the server hope Rick you get your money back. but thanks for your efforts in giving Team OBC another server. Thumbs%20Up
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