[FoohyAB]

Recently, it was billing time for brohoster. I paid all my invoices a week or two in advance, so I don't have to worry about anything not going through, etc.


Top is service, bottom is domain, both paid in full far before the due dates.

However, brohoster apparently neglected to renew the domain, resulting in it being squatted.

Not to mention I've had previous accounts of bad service with brohoster, I don't know why I signed up for it in the first place and delt with it.
Thanks Brohoster for putting Hoes before Bros.

As for sending tickets, they removed webhosting support tickets, I had to file it under billing:


This is what has resulted of my beautiful website:

[Bletotum]

Brohoster puts on the appearance of a down to earth host that cares and whatnot, but it really isn't such a nicely run thing.

One time JWJ(brohost owner) posted here on facepunch something worded as if to insult another host, 'xenonservers' (who he previously had said helped him out somewhere along the line). I had asked in whatever the thread was why he would be harsh on them, to which the post was edited to remove the insulting wording. That isn't a problem, the problem is that he replied to me to pretend he never said it in the first place. Sneaky.

[brandonsh]

FoohyAB posted:

This is what has resulted of my beautiful website:

Dat gurning.

I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.

[CU-MattR]

That's actually not a squatter -- that's the domain registrar themselves showing this page because the domain is pending expiration.

At the time you paid, it was just before Jacob actually handed us the domain names. He was supposed to back in December, but never did until after he was let go.

I've pushed through the domain renewal and renewal of ID Protection as well. Your domain should come back online within 12-24 hours.

[darksoul69]

Bletotum posted:

Brohoster puts on the appearance of a down to earth host that cares and whatnot, but it really isn't such a nicely run thing.

One time JWJ(brohost owner) posted here on facepunch something worded as if to insult another host, 'xenonservers' (who he previously had said helped him out somewhere along the line). I had asked in whatever the thread was why he would be harsh on them, to which the post was edited to remove the insulting wording. That isn't a problem, the problem is that he replied to me to pretend he never said it in the first place. Sneaky.

JWJ is no longer part of Brohoster.

[SomeDumbShit]

Bletotum posted:

Brohoster puts on the appearance of a down to earth host that cares and whatnot, but it really isn't such a nicely run thing.

One time JWJ(brohost owner) posted here on facepunch something worded as if to insult another host, 'xenonservers' (who he previously had said helped him out somewhere along the line). I had asked in whatever the thread was why he would be harsh on them, to which the post was edited to remove the insulting wording. That isn't a problem, the problem is that he replied to me to pretend he never said it in the first place. Sneaky.

JWJ is gone now, and ever since then they've went to shit. They somehow fucked up the autopayments on a minecraft server a friend and I had, so now my friends account there is suspended and probably lost the map on the server too.

[CU-MattR]

SomeDumbShit posted:

JWJ is gone now, and ever since then they've went to shit. They somehow fucked up the autopayments on a minecraft server a friend and I had, so now my friends account there is suspended and probably lost the map on the server too.

Autopayments aren't screwed up -- The only thing that was temporarily messed up was the automatic creation of new accounts as the Billing center hadn't been updated in nearly a year, so when we updated it, things broke.

If you give us your ticket ID number, we can get your account un-suspended.

[Trumple]

Brohoster have been great for me, besides a few problems when I first started (My fault for having too many plugins and not enough RAM)
Now one of the employees regularly checks back on my server and comes to chat once in a while to see if we need any changes
He also gifted me portal on steam out of the blue

[Shadaez]

JWJ's gone? Guess I have no reason to continue using it, I pay for their cheapest hosting plan quarterly and don't do anything with it, I just have domains going through their nameservers or whatever, just too lazy to switch.

[Soda]

isn't JWJ the founder

who else runs it

[Protocol7]

Hosting services come and go.

Xenon was the GMod standard awhile back, now they aren't, Brohoster came by. Now Brohoster is doing bad. They aren't really any "good" long-standing services.

[hexpunK]

Woah, when and why did JWJ leave? Wasn't he talking about a control panel he was making just for Brohoster recently? Or is he planning on selling that now?

[SomeDumbShit]

He basically got forced out for "being lazy" and posting a picture of himself smoking weed on Facepunch or something. I don't know the specifics.

[Legend286]

SomeDumbShit posted:

He basically got forced out for "being lazy" and posting a picture of himself smoking weed on Facepunch or something. I don't know the specifics.

I thought he ran everything, shows how much I know. No-one else but him ever said anything about it so I just presumed...

[JWJ]

Fake merge edit:
called it

[GrabbinPills]

waiting for garry.

[acpm]

Hi Jake

[lockdown6]

SomeDumbShit posted:

He basically got forced out for "being lazy" and posting a picture of himself smoking weed on Facepunch or something. I don't know the specifics.

yeah i think they fired their CEO or something like that

[wingless]

Ever since JWJ got kicked out, it's gone to shit.

[Matoking]

Back when I was testing out a Minecraft server hosted by Brohoster, I got an e-mail about their change of plans (new SSDs, higher pricing). It didn't have anything about JWJ getting fired though, when did that happen?

I only kept the Minecraft server for a few days anyway, but I would have bought a server from them if I had the time to keep it up. Looks like I won't now.

[Trumple]

wingless posted:

Ever since JWJ got kicked out, it's gone to shit.

I haven't seen any changes, what evidence do you have for it's gone to shit? Sure, it's sad to see the founder go but the quality of service hasn't budged an inch.
Do you host with them?

Edit:
Hohoho hindsight is a wonderful thing

[Phreebird]

Brohoster just isnt brohoster without JWJ.

[NeoDement]

Matoking posted:

Back when I was testing out a Minecraft server hosted by Brohoster, I got an e-mail about their change of plans (new SSDs, higher pricing). It didn't have anything about JWJ getting fired though, when did that happen?

I only kept the Minecraft server for a few days anyway, but I would have bought a server from them if I had the time to keep it up. Looks like I won't now.

I never got an email about higher pricing? How long ago was this?

[Matoking]

NeoDement posted:

I never got an email about higher pricing? How long ago was this?

http://i.imgur.com/oj7Nz.png

29th April

The prices got higher for new customers and those moving onto the new servers. It would have been the same for existing customers, who didn't want to move onto the new servers.

[darksoul69]

Matoking posted:

http://i.imgur.com/oj7Nz.png

29th April

The prices got higher for new customers and those moving onto the new servers. It would have been the same for existing customers, who didn't want to move onto the new servers.

It's really funny how that went down - prices went higher, then they went lower.

[Darkebrz]

Huh. JWJ was the face of Brohoster, that's why my friends and I were using it.

[wingless]

Trumple posted:

I haven't seen any changes, what evidence do you have for it's gone to shit? Sure, it's sad to see the founder go but the quality of service hasn't budged an inch.
Do you host with them?

Matoking posted:

http://i.imgur.com/oj7Nz.png

29th April

The prices got higher for new customers and those moving onto the new servers. It would have been the same for existing customers, who didn't want to move onto the new servers.

Edited:

Also op.

[EBS-Gamer]

Meh, I've only really had a problem with the starting of the minecraft server, it took two days.. but I still have two instead of one mwahahhaa

I also waited 12 days for my ts server.... but i found out they were borked.. anyone know if they work now?

[Trumple]

wingless posted:

Edited:

Also op.

The prices have reduced overall since then:

New Pricing
Bedrock Tier - $2.95/mo - 4 players (192MB RAM)
Stone Tier - $5.95/mo - 8 players (256MB RAM)
Iron Tier - $9.95/mo - 16 players (512MB RAM)
Gold Tier - $19.95/mo - 32 players (1024MB RAM)
Lapis Tier - $29.95/mo - 48 players (1536MB RAM)
Diamond Tier - $39.95/mo - 64 players (2048MB RAM)
Obsidian Tier - $59.95/mo - 96 players (3072MB RAM)
Netherrack Tier - $74.95/mo - 128 players (4096MB RAM)

So that email was written by Jacob (The one you quoted) and so that was at the time he was still CEO
Whats that got to do with anything happening now?
They are still going ahead with the expansion I don't see what point you are trying to make?

[Superkipje]

I also have some problems with their webhosting...
My website a time ago just randomly went down, cPanel didn't work nothing.
Right, So I asked their support. After 3 hours I got a response with:

We're currently in a migration phase with our web hosting services, all of your issues should clear up after migration has ended. This may take place later tonight.

They didn't even send me an email or anything at all, They just did it out of nothing.

Well after that was done, my cPanel got fucked up (Witch they still didn't fix) and stuff was just in general fucked up.

Well around 2 months later. I tried to get on my website and it told me the website was suspended. Ofc I immediately contacted their support, this time I noticed they don't even have a section for webhosting anymore.
I open'd a ticket and the next day I got a ticket back with:

Are you sure that this account is hosted with us? It's currently resolving back to "node59.myserverhosts.com" which is owned by HostNine, LLC.

Then I send them this:

I'm 100% It's hosted here, else I would not keep paying you guys money every month.
But you are saying now my website got transfered without even noticing me about it?

And then they send me this:

Before Brohoster was merged with Club Uptime, Brohoster was reselling HostNine web hosting services. It looks as if your account was migrated to our servers here at Club Uptime, but your DNS records at your domain name registrar were not updated accordingly.

If you change your DNS servers to ns1.serverprovision.net, ns3.serverprovision.net, and ns5.serverprovision.net for your ns1-3 respectively, your website should start working once again within 12-24 hours or so.

Thanks for not even notifying me about this Brohoster

[johan_sm]

Brohoster? More like SURPRISEhoster

[Trumple]

I'll bet half the people posting in this thread haven't used brohoster before and are going purely by what they see.

If someone has a good experience with a game host (or general host) they are not likely to make a thread about it. On the other hand, with bad experiences like this people feel the need to rant about it, which is totally understandable and I can understand your frustration OP

But what everyone sees is the bad things about Brohoster, and the good things are unheard of because who goes around making threads saying "I've had a really great experience with Brohoster"? It's not nearly as interesting and so it never happens (Unless it's in a testimonial section or something)

[Dragonblz]

Trumple posted:

The prices have reduced overall since then:


So that email was written by Jacob (The one you quoted) and so that was at the time he was still CEO
Whats that got to do with anything happening now?
They are still going ahead with the expansion I don't see what point you are trying to make?

I'd really like to see some benchmarks or proof that you (you as in brohoster) can actually host 128 players without lag on a bukkit server with only four gigs of ram

Shadaez posted:

JWJ's gone? Guess I have no reason to continue using it, I pay for their cheapest hosting plan quarterly and don't do anything with it, I just have domains going through their nameservers or whatever, just too lazy to switch.

Namecheap has really good freedns to use

Protocol7 posted:

Hosting services come and go.

Xenon was the GMod standard awhile back, now they aren't, Brohoster came by. Now Brohoster is doing bad. They aren't really any "good" long-standing services.

Allgamer is pretty good stuff

[EDDY TT]

-snip-

[Trumple]

Dragonblz posted:

I'd really like to see some benchmarks or proof that you (you as in brohoster) can actually host 128 players without lag on a bukkit server with only four gigs of ram

Why are you asking me? Getting 128 players is impractical, it's difficult to even get 30 at any one time
If you had hosted anything serious before you would know that
I'm on diamond tier now but I have not had my server maxed out before. The only thing I can vouch for is the lower tiers, when I used to be on Iron tier 16 players ran fine. Assuming constant proportionality as we go up (which may or may not not be true) then we can assume that 4GB would indeed be capable of hosting 128 players

[Dragonblz]

Trumple posted:

Why are you asking me? Getting 128 players is impractical, it's difficult to even get 30 at any one time
If you had hosted anything serious before you would know that
I'm on diamond tier now but I have not had my server maxed out before. The only thing I can vouch for is the lower tiers, when I used to be on Iron tier 16 players ran fine. Assuming constant proportionality as we go up (which may or may not not be true) then we can assume that 4GB would indeed be capable of hosting 128 players

I've gotten to 87 at once (And I averaged 34 before 1.6) with moderate lag on an 8GB alloc server with dual E5620's (Running in a ramdisk even). Minecraft is really a clock based game, so it may or may not run better with something like an x3470 compared to the dual e5620s. Brohoster's performance at that level (128 players) would, I imagine, depend on the cpu's in their boxes, if java didn't start throwing exceptions because it ran out of memory (It probably would, considering it started throwing exceptions about 60 players with a 4gb alloc)

[Trumple]

Dragonblz posted:

I've gotten to 87 at once (And I averaged 34 before 1.6) with moderate lag on an 8GB alloc server with dual E5620's (Running in a ramdisk even). Minecraft is really a clock based game, so it may or may not run better with something like an x3470 compared to the dual e5620s. Brohoster's performance at that level (128 players) would, I imagine, depend on the cpu's in their boxes, if java didn't start throwing exceptions because it ran out of memory (It probably would, considering it started throwing exceptions about 60 players with a 4gb alloc)

I guess it's down to how well Minecraft is coded for now. How long ago was that? (when you had 87 and it was lagging)
My only guess would be recent code improvements, if not then we would have to ask Brohoster for proof

[Dragonblz]

Trumple posted:

I guess it's down to how well Minecraft is coded for now. How long ago was that? (when you had 87 and it was lagging)
My only guess would be recent code improvements, if not then we would have to ask Brohoster for proof

1.4 & 1.5. It still gets up near there (high 70s) when we make group announcements. I hope with the modding API coming out soon someone will refactor the server to be a bit more optimized.

[Trumple]

Dragonblz posted:

1.4 & 1.5. It still gets up near there (high 70s) when we make group announcements. I hope with the modding API coming out soon someone will refactor the server to be a bit more optimized.

Hopefully by the time it's fully released it will be more optimized anyway

[EDDY TT]

I'm going to throw this out, moving from 1.5 to 1.6 boosts resource usage A LOT, almost doubled essentially.
Wonders of adding a bit of code for maps and long grass ain't it.