According to their Discord, Hostaris has changed hands

SocksAreComfortable

Quoting from their discord server:

Just a messenger, I have one of their DE services for a VPN node, but don't use it enough to have much feedback on it from before the buyout.

vyas

Did they mention who is the new landlord ?

cybertech

hope i get upgraded to 7950X for free

SocksAreComfortable

@vyas said:
Did they mention who is the new landlord ?

Didn't see any mention of it, sadly.

cmeerw

@SocksAreComfortable said:

@vyas said:
Did they mention who is the new landlord ?

Didn't see any mention of it, sadly.

Nothing showing up at Companies House yet: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14630388/filing-history

TheDP

Curious about the identities behind "we".

EDIT: On second thought, after reading the Discord message in the OP again, it appears that there's no "we", but is an individual who took over.

rcy026

One of the individuals that seems to be involved in buying Hostaris dropped a few interesting comments on discord.

...whilst Hostaris has been purchased by a host in the bare-metal industry, we don't yet offer VM hosting. The ultimate plan here is to rebrand Hostaris as a VM/GSP provider

Game Hosting, VM Hosting, Website Hosting, that kind of thing, whilst leveraging the location diversity of our parent company (We've already got dark fibre, multiple private cages in reputable DCs, makes this business very easy to ramp up)

Seems to be someone already in the bare metal industry that bought it to get into vps.

wdmg

@rcy026 said:
One of the individuals that seems to be involved in buying Hostaris dropped a few interesting comments on discord.

...whilst Hostaris has been purchased by a host in the bare-metal industry, we don't yet offer VM hosting. The ultimate plan here is to rebrand Hostaris as a VM/GSP provider

Game Hosting, VM Hosting, Website Hosting, that kind of thing, whilst leveraging the location diversity of our parent company (We've already got dark fibre, multiple private cages in reputable DCs, makes this business very easy to ramp up)

Seems to be someone already in the bare metal industry that bought it to get into vps.

Kuxo/Ellis vibes.

ialexpw

@wdmg said:

@rcy026 said:
One of the individuals that seems to be involved in buying Hostaris dropped a few interesting comments on discord.

...whilst Hostaris has been purchased by a host in the bare-metal industry, we don't yet offer VM hosting. The ultimate plan here is to rebrand Hostaris as a VM/GSP provider

Game Hosting, VM Hosting, Website Hosting, that kind of thing, whilst leveraging the location diversity of our parent company (We've already got dark fibre, multiple private cages in reputable DCs, makes this business very easy to ramp up)

Seems to be someone already in the bare metal industry that bought it to get into vps.

Kuxo/Ellis vibes.

Might not be far off from this post on LET asking for feedback. The guy has Hypere on his profile who he has worked for before...

FatGrizzly

@ialexpw said:

@wdmg said:

@rcy026 said:
One of the individuals that seems to be involved in buying Hostaris dropped a few interesting comments on discord.

...whilst Hostaris has been purchased by a host in the bare-metal industry, we don't yet offer VM hosting. The ultimate plan here is to rebrand Hostaris as a VM/GSP provider

Game Hosting, VM Hosting, Website Hosting, that kind of thing, whilst leveraging the location diversity of our parent company (We've already got dark fibre, multiple private cages in reputable DCs, makes this business very easy to ramp up)

Seems to be someone already in the bare metal industry that bought it to get into vps.

Kuxo/Ellis vibes.

Might not be far off from this post on LET asking for feedback. The guy has Hypere on his profile who he has worked for before...

good chance that Alex, the new operations manager might be a puppet of Ellis.

I don't know if that's true though.

SocksAreComfortable

Two weeks after the buyout, can confirm....that the nodes are down a LOT. Like currently down and have been for like 3 days. From discord, seems like a lot of people are in a similar spot, and there's a lot of "we didn't realize the previous owner did X or Y" from them, even a couple weeks post-buyout.

Not gonna bother with a refund for a $12/year service that I've used sporadically for months, but barring a massive change soon, can't imagine renewing this.