h2g2bob

Looks like are shutting down, having been bought out by Iomart last year. I'll be moving my VPS to @beasts

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Dave Holland

@h2g2bob @beasts My notification said that BigV would be suspended on 31st October. Did they change the date or give different dates to different people?

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h2g2bob
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@davebiff @beasts my reading was they make us new accounts on hostinguk on 31st Oct with some free (blank?) vps equivalent to our bytemark ones. They'll run both so we can transfer data, DNS, etc until January.

But with that hassle, why go for hostinguk? Same effort if you switch to someone else.

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h2g2bob

@davebiff @beasts took me several readings to work out "bigv" is "all their vps" as they haven't called it bigv on the website for years.

I found the email hard to read, and tbh the way it's phrased as a support ticket and link to non-bytemak website made me wonder if their support tickets got hacked. I assume it's legit, but who knows!?

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Dave Holland

@h2g2bob that's not how I'm reading it but this is the email I got. I'm migrating to @beasts already after Hosting UK messed up my domain transfer, leaving it pointing at their nameservers with no zone data 😡

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h2g2bob

@davebiff @beasts that's not the same wording as mine - its the same apart from the date and some extra "why are we doing this" section.

Both me (sent 2 identical emails) and my work have the date as 31 Jan 2025.

Each come from different support staff names - I assume whichever underpaid support person sent yours has messed the date up!

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h2g2bob

@davebiff @beasts Full email if you want a comparison :)

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Dave Holland

@h2g2bob @beasts hah! deadline extended!

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h2g2bob

@davebiff @beasts nice of them to let you know in plenty of time!

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Jim Hague

@davebiff @h2g2bob @beasts I got exactly the same, promising BigV shutdown on 31st October. Received a new account on around 5th Oct. I'm spending a lot of this weekend configuring replacements with @beasts.

If I really have until end Jan, that... would have been nice to know.

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