Re: RamNode and InMotion Hosting

sunilsaxena

Hey Everyone,

My name is Sunil and I’m the co-founder of InMotion Hosting. I understand that there has been some speculation about the acquisition of RamNode by InMotion Hosting. We were planning on sending out the official press releases next week, but I wanted to give you a brief update here.

• InMotion Hosting, via our acquisition arm WebVentures.io, did acquire the assets of RamNode in early February.
• Nick and I really felt that InMotion Hosting was the best move for his customers and employees.
• InMotion Hosting will continue to run the RamNode brand as-is. No re-branding, consolidation or changes to the core product line is on the table right now.
• All staff, outside of Nick, have come over in the deal. It is my core focus that we will do our best to maintain the culture, quality of support and technical experience that you all have come to expect from RamNode.
• Nick is a great guy, he and I have spent quite a bit of time on the phone getting to know each other personally and professionally. Additionally, the CTO of RamNode is a former InMotion Hosting employee, and his technical background and experience will be valuable as we grow the RamNode business.
• Along with a match in core values, there is synergy in our technical roadmaps, which we plan to build on. Especially our shared vision of building easily-accessible and high-performance clouds on OpenStack.

Hope this provides some clarity. Be on the lookout for our official press releases next week.

Thank You,

Sunil Saxena
Co-Founder, InMotion Hosting

Nick_A

Thanks Sunil and thank you to all of our LES customers! I believe RamNode's future is bright as part of IMH. As Sunil indicated, the team is still onboard--it's just time for me to pursue other endeavors. I'll still be around for a while to assist with transition, but our customers are in good hands!

1030

Congats for both sides! RamNode is in excellent hands.

Lee

Oh well, sad day. @Nick_A was one of the good guys. Good luck with whatever you do next.

AaronSS

@sunilsaxena @Nick_A should we expect any changes to shared hosting?

ehab

@Nick_A say what are you up to next?

Nick_A

@ehab said: @Nick_A say what are you up to next?

Spending more time with my family and pursuing some offline opportunities

nessa

@Aaron said:
@sunilsaxena @Nick_A should we expect any changes to shared hosting?

Long-time IMH employee here, who just joined the RamNode team We plan on keeping the core product offerings the same, and that includes shared hosting. We will of course be leveraging the resources of IMH to invest in new features and product improvements focused on stability and performance.

ehab

@Nick_A said:

respect and head bow.

now hopefully you will have your life back best wishes to you and your family.

Ympker

@Nick_A Fare thee well, and if forever, then forever, fare thee well. All the best for the future, mate

PureVoltage

@Nick_A
Congratulations, good things come to good people. Happy you will be able to spend more time with family.
Best of luck on any future adventures.

Nekki

RIP Ramnode

I remember the glory days well, so many dd tests.....

Lee

I miss the old website and the 42% discounts.

Not_Oles

Best wishes @Nick_A and @sunilsaxena and @nessa ???

Asim

RamNode is an amazing brand with multiple locations and a great support team, I wish @Nick_A all the best for his future endeavors

Congratulations @sunilsaxena

Ganonk

Congratulations @sunilsaxena and @Nick_A

DataRecovery

@Nekki said:
RIP Ramnode

Meanwhile on the neighbour forum:

Nekki

@DataRecovery said:

@Nekki said:
RIP Ramnode

Meanwhile on the neighbour forum:

That’s high-class shithousery right there. I got paid more for my first job doing basic data entry back in ‘96.

cybertech

this shows ramnode is in good hands in terms of bottomline!

InceptionHosting

I don’t feel I can objectively comment on this one so I will simply say, whatever the next 12 months turns into for Ramnode I wish @Nick_A the very best Ramnode has been a high class giant of this specific segment for a long time and a standard to aspire too.

Lee

When did it become something for the end-user to worry about what a company pays its employees?

It's really quite funny seeing this. I mean so many of the LE* dependant providers are either making no or very little profit as it is. If they tried to increase their prices in an attempt to improve their income (still nowhere near $17k) there will be threads of shock and horror whilst many look for another, cheaper provider.

Focus on the quality of service for what you pay, in the case of Ramnode that is excellent. All you as an end-user need to be concerned about.

angstrom

I don't think that much will change in the near future, so I don't see any need to migrate anywhere at this time. It's been a good while since RamNode last catered specifically to the LET crowd, and the recurring discounts of old disappeared a long time ago. Even so, their regular prices are still reasonable for the quality of service that they offer.

nessa

@Lee said:
When did it become something for the end-user to worry about what a company pays its employees?

I'm going to speculate that the 17k he's referring to was the pay differential for relocation, not his actual salary lol

lentro

@nessa said: I'm going to speculate that the 17k he's referring to was the pay differential for relocation, not his actual salary lol

Yeap, seems like quite a few ppl work for Inmotion Hosting, that wouldn't happen w/o reasonable compensation lol

ukhan

First Congrats to both companies, next few month will revealed how this acquiring effect it users and Ramnode performance