Koddos - power issue?

Crawlson said:
It was always a business name and now it is a person first+last name.

And around a month ago they stopped the subscription for the server and now only accepts manual monthly payments.

Who does that? It is clearly not a good business practice (manual payments vs subscriptions).
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Have you searched their name online to see if anything suspicious comes up? Possibly a new owner that doesn't understand paypal. Open a ticket with koddos and ask why they don't do subscriptions anymore, it'll be interesting to see what their answer is
 
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Crawlson said:
Something is off ... in last 2 days I got notifications about "maintenance" / downtime needed of my server(s) on 3-4 different providers. One mentioned a kernel security update is needed. These are is in UK, NL, Germany. All at once is a strange pattern.

Anyone else getting these issues/notifications?

I think eider LE are looking trough large number of servers OR there is a zero day currently being exploited and downtime is eider caused by exploits directly or by ISP's attempts to patch things.
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Turns out I was right, "yeeey" , critical vulnerability (rated 9.2 out of 10) was just anounced today in PHP, affecting ALL versions, remote code execution. This is HUGE!
 
the_mago said:
This has nothing to do with the koddos downtime, you're a weirdo.
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Maybe, but we don't know that yet. Maybe Koddos was "lucky" to go down for other reasons while the PHP vulnerability is being exploited.
But the fact that servers from 3-4 ISPs were going offline all in same day many days ago was 100% related tot he PHP vulnerability. They were eider patching things or were attacked.
 
Crawlson said:
Maybe, but we don't know that yet. Maybe Koddos was "lucky" to go down for other reasons while the PHP vulnerability is being exploited.
But the fact that servers from 3-4 ISPs were going offline all in same day many days ago was 100% related tot he PHP vulnerability. They were eider patching things or were attacked.
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Take your meds, the issue with koddos only happened at equinix am4, servers I had in other locations were not affected.

The php vulnerability you are describing is very important (I just finished updating all my servers) it is 1000% NOT related to the 3 week koddos downtime.
 
the_mago said:
Take your meds, the issue with koddos only happened at equinix am4, servers I had in other locations were not affected.
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So then Equinix had a notification or status page mentioning the 3 week downtime affecting so many servers?
 
Crawlson said:
So then Equinix had a notification or status page mentioning the 3 week downtime affecting so many servers?
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No, but I harrased equinix on their live sales chat page and they admitted the problem, I'm done talking about your crazy theories.
 
jeffham12 said:
Have you searched their name online to see if anything suspicious comes up? Possibly a new owner that doesn't understand paypal. Open a ticket with koddos and ask why they don't do subscriptions anymore, it'll be interesting to see what their answer is
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The first + last name I see on new PayPal account doesn't come up when I search online. I did ask Koddos why subscription was cancelled, they just said I need to setup new one because of changes at PayPal. New paypal button is not a subscription thou, by PayPal you can now only do one-time payments to a new receiver.

Actually ... the new paypal pay button is set so you pay just for current invoice but from what I understand you give receiver the right to take money from PayPal, it is a billing agreement that can trigger payments from their end but not a subscriptiuon. It shows up as active agreement in PayPal and payment can be triggered from Koddos site. I think these are called "Pre approved payments".
 
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All servers have been restored. As compensation for the downtime, the provider extended the service period for each server free of charge by the duration of the outage.
 
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