FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - BuyVM joins Cloudzy AI!
This will go out as an email later today/tomorrow:
Hello {$firstname},
We’re happy to announce that as of January 7th 2025 BuyVM has been acquired by Cloudzy AI!
WHY??
Quite simply, it’s time for a change, and that change for me is focusing on NameCrane, our domain registrar.
I’ll still handle a lot of the more complex tasks at BuyVM and support requests, but Hannan and his team at Cloudzy AI will bring much needed upgrades, new products, and maybe if asked nicely, new locations.
So, you’re staying with BuyVM?
Yep. I’ll be working for both companies, focusing on infrastructure, advanced support requests, as well as supporting multiple teams.
You’ll still be able to talk to me directly on Discord or on hosting forums like WebhostingTalk, LowEndTalk, and LowEndSpirit.
Who’s Cloudzy AI?
Cloudzy AI is a Cloud/VPS service provider operated by Hannan Nozari, a friend of mine that I’ve known since our days doing gameserver hosting under Frantech. He fully supports our stance on Freedom of Speech & Law of the Land. We’re in good hands.
We wouldn’t have considered this acquisition otherwise.
I’ve personally known Hannan for over 15 years (since before BuyVM). Cloudzy has colocated servers with BuyVM for almost 2 years now, allowing me to work closely with his teams on a near daily basis.
In that time I’ve been able to see how skilled & driven they are. From their development team, to their support team, to their leadership. I have no doubt we’ll dream up new products & features that I couldn’t do with how small I’ve kept the BuyVM team.
What changes should we expect?
Your current pricing & services aren’t changing at all. No change in pricing. No reduction in resources. No IP address renumbering. No downgrades in hardware. No loss of features (Anycast, DDOS protection, BGP, etc).
All the staff you’ve grown to love are still here. Akash, Leo, Mateus, & Dave, are sticking around.
Our content policies are staying the same as well; Law of the Land. Our TOR policy isn’t changing, although we ask that you update your EXIT policies to block port 22. Our fair share bandwidth policies stay the same.
Locations?
Luxembourg is moving in the next 6 months. The location has become borderline impossible for us to operate due to a lack of Remote Hands, as well as non stop vendor related issues. More on this in the next week or two.
This means the location will likely move to the Netherlands. This isn’t a choice I’ve wanted to make, but the 6 hour total outage in November, and an additional 2 day outage on one of our hypervisors is what’s breaking our backs.
New York, Vegas, & Miami, are staying put, with Miami aiming to get additional bandwidth providers soon.
What improvements are coming?
Lots, all good things. New hardware, a new website, a proper marketing & sales team, and more support staff. New product lines and new locations will come in time.
With the changes in Luxembourg, we’ll be deploying all new 7900/7950X based nodes and live migrating everyone we can from LUX to NL. No IP changes required (unless you’re wanting to renumber for some reason).
We’ll also be joining at least 1 Internet Exchange in the area as well (something that was pointless in Luxembourg).
Closing thoughts
As always, we thank you for your years of patronage and hope to continue seeing you around!
A word from Hannan at Cloudzy AI
Thank you to all our valued customers for your continued trust and support throughout the years. We want to reassure you that, with these updates, there’s no need to worry about the future of your services. Cloudzy remains committed to providing top-tier performance and reliability, and your data will always be in safe hands with us. We look forward to continuing to serve you for many more years to come.
Comments
I'd say so long and thanks for all the fish, but you're really not going anywhere and I'm glad. Best friend and mentor in the hosting industry I'll likely ever have.
Congratulations Fran!!
I hope everything works out amazing for you 🤞
Ant.
GLWS!
I mean GLWB!
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
https://lowendspirit.com/uploads/editor/gi/ippw0lcmqowk.png
Thanks boss man, good luck on your ventures.
See you on... I want to say rift, but I dunno what Marvel Rivals calls their maps.
Francisco
HF^GL
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Congrats, and hope you reconsider the move to NL
Doesn't have to be Lux though, but Swiss looks great as others have pointed out on OGF.
I think Swiss would be a great pick.
I also think it'd be a GREAT pick for EU mail.
Francisco
Congrats! 🎉
Sad to hear about LUX. But understandable. NL is okay, but seems a little bit more common than it's predecessor.
Michael from DragonWebHost & OnePoundEmail
Congrats! Does that mean NameCrane LUX is also migrating to NL?
Now relevant again:
LinuxFreek.com
It's not my first pick. Honestly, I think Swiss would be fantastic for both, but especially cranemail.
What do you guys think?
Francisco
Congrats @Francisco !
And I agree. Swiss would be a great location for Cranemail.
As a Dutchie myself, I'm obviously not going to say no to lower latency, but I have to agree that Switzerland would be a great location as well.
LinuxFreek.com
Lets see what we find
I'm working quick on it. NL's basically the backup plan where we can get setup quickly if need be.
Francisco
Congratulations! Good luck on NameCrane. I've been using that since it was BuyShared and it's been rock solid.
For BuyVM, I hope this means that more resources will be available for deployment in the future!
Seems like Hannan Nozari works for Iranian state, in which case we will be moving all our servers elsewhere.
https://therecord.media/iran-company-providing-ransomware-infrastructure
Regarding the location quest: CH would be a nice surprise and especially unique selling point, while NL.. well, everyone has NL.
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Switzerland would definitely be a cool location
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Just curious; what are the expected timelines on the migration
?
LinuxFreek.com
This is incorrect. That same article shows multiple cloud companies that got looped into it as well. Azure, DO, BuyVM, and others. They picked on Cloudzy because "DO had a bad customers" doesn't sell well.
You're welcome to do what you like, but I've known him for literally 15 years and have worked with him for many of them.
I wouldn't have gone through with things if I felt any customer was endangered.
It's the better pick.
Francisco
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Our contract runs out June 1st. I'll see if we can get a few months extra for buffer.
We're announcing it now so we have time to get things organized (new nodes online, etc) and then we can do live migrations.
Crane's migrations will be pretty straight forward. I got feelers out to some CH DC's and should hear back by morning. I got a quote from NorthC for NL as well.
Francisco
This is troubling. At the same rate, it seems people expressed concern that Cloudzy and Frantech were hosting Kiwi Farms and The Daily Stormer. To some extent, a researcher or reporter being upset about unsavory content makes their accusations of enabling illegal behavior less compelling.
Further the allegations might not be accurate. From Reuters:
I imagine this is probably an issue with accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency as payment - I would assume it makes KYC difficult. Long-term, it might be worthwhile to find a provider with anycast IPs that only accepts more traditional payment methods. The major risk is that an anonymous provider could be suddenly shut down due to political pressure or a criminal investigation. That risk goes beyond Cloudzy, but extends to any anonymous provider.
Hmm, mutter, mutter,seeds of doubt..
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh)
Let's also hope the upcoming domain thingy works well and is inexpensive a.f.
The Meatbun was great once, now it's a full bag of Pigdung.
@Francisco
Will you continue Anynode plan and maybe uograde its hardware (LV location)?
https://microlxc.net/
Ah one of NorthC's DCs is right around my corner, I've actually been into one of them as well, so if you ever need remote hands just send me the keys
LinuxFreek.com
I will throw some change at you if you have a CH offering with BGP.
The all seeing eye sees everything...
Hang on, is this a rerun? Didn't Fran sell BuyVM like 6 months ago?
I'm guessing the dots have only now officially been signed
Michael from DragonWebHost & OnePoundEmail
What's wrong with it? I finally moved there from Joker about 3 years ago because of price, and while I haven't particularly kept an eye on the prices, it feels like they've only been going up roughly in line with ICANN price rises.
Porkbun is cheap, they used to be technically nice, but the features offered have been on a downslope, and there's no improvement in sight.
No full-zone edition, a few records impossible to add through their tedious UI, dns management buggy (e.g. dnssec) and delegated to Cloudflare... It's like a prettified NameSilo nowadays.