Introducing SmokyHosts and 0frills to LES after 20 years in the industry!

SmokyHosts · June 9

Who are We?
We are a legally registered company under the name of Nish Knowledge Factory Instantiated (OPC) Pvt Ltd in India, operating the brands SmokyHosts.com , 0frills.com and OSLogs.com. Many of you who are also members of WHT and LET would already know us and many of you might already be our customers!

Why SmokyHosts?
Our flagship brand SmokyHosts.com completed 20+ years of industry presence offering stable web hosting services to satisfied customers across 40+ countries. Under SmokyHosts, we offer cPanel based shared hosting, cPanel/WHM based reseller hosting, KVM based VPS, KVM based storage VPS, KVM based IPv6 only VPS and cloud VPS reseller deals. We offer VPS across 3 continents including US, Europe and Asia.

Why 0frills?
With 0frills.com , we ventured into Directadmin based shared and resller hosting. The biggest USP of 0frills is that we offer only one plan, our 0Plan - suffices most everybody's web hosting needs as it includes 100GB storage by default and we add 1GB to your storage allocation, each month, free of cost, perpetually, as long as you continue to renew with us.

Why OSLogs?
With OSLogs.com , our aim is to gather all the information about any Operating System at one place, so it helps our customers as well as other system administrators to be up to date with new features and security patches that get released from time to time.

We are excited to finally join LES and will soon begin offer LES exclusive deals!

cybertech · June 9

Welcome to LES

any $7 dealz

ehab · June 9

hi & welcome

SmokyHosts · June 9

@cybertech said:
Welcome to LES

any $7 dealz

Thanks. You'll have to wait for Black friday for the $7 deals!!

yoursunny · June 10

Welcome to LES.
Any BGP sessions?

SmokyHosts · June 10

@yoursunny said:
Welcome to LES.
Any BGP sessions?

Thank you.

We do have BGP sessions available on some of our deals.

Otus9051 · June 10

Why no IPv6 on the Buffalo and LA VPS locations?
Any plans for UPI payments?

SmokyHosts · June 10

@Otus9051 said:
Why no IPv6 on the Buffalo and LA VPS locations?
Any plans for UPI payments?

We do offer IPv6 on the LA VPS locations (on request), but not in Buffalo location.

We accept UPI payments for Indian customers via CCAvenue payment gateway.

Otus9051 · June 10

@SmokyHosts said: We do offer IPv6 on the LA VPS locations (on request), but not in Buffalo location.

Do you have a Looking Glass

SmokyHosts · June 10

@Otus9051 said:

@SmokyHosts said: We do offer IPv6 on the LA VPS locations (on request), but not in Buffalo location.

Do you have a Looking Glass

No, but you can use our test IPs 45.153.6.162 or 2602:fa62:301::11 for testing it yourself.

AuroraZero · June 11

@SmokyHosts said:

@Otus9051 said:
Why no IPv6 on the Buffalo and LA VPS locations?
Any plans for UPI payments?

We do offer IPv6 on the LA VPS locations (on request), but not in Buffalo location.

We accept UPI payments for Indian customers via CCAvenue payment gateway.

Hmm 😒

MichaelCee · June 11

Welcome to LES

vyas · June 11

@AuroraZero said:

@SmokyHosts said:
We do offer IPv6 on the LA VPS locations (on request), but not in Buffalo location.

Hmm 😒

Smokyhosts welcome. Where is the missing Bandit from the famous duo ??

Wonder_Woman · June 12

@vyas said:

@AuroraZero said:

@SmokyHosts said:
We do offer IPv6 on the LA VPS locations (on request), but not in Buffalo location.

Hmm 😒

Smokyhosts welcome. Where is the missing Bandit from the famous duo ??

I'm not sure that anyone would want to buy from "Bandithosts"

SmokyHosts · June 12

@vyas said:

@AuroraZero said:

@SmokyHosts said:
We do offer IPv6 on the LA VPS locations (on request), but not in Buffalo location.

Hmm 😒

Smokyhosts welcome. Where is the missing Bandit from the famous duo ??

Am i missing something! Who's the bandit at LES!

yoursunny · June 12

@SmokyHosts said:
test IP 2602:fa62:301::11

Single home Cogent, unreachable from Hurricane.
Good provider has at least two upstream providers, in which at least one is neither 174 nor 1299.

@SmokyHosts said:
test IP 45.153.6.162

IPXO rental, may revoke with short notice, customer then has to change IP suddenly.
Good provider has owned IPv4 space.

Wonder_Woman · June 12

@SmokyHosts said:

@vyas said:

Smokyhosts welcome. Where is the missing Bandit from the famous duo ??

Am i missing something! Who's the bandit at LES!

They're referring to the 1977 movie, Smokey and the Bandit

SmokyHosts · June 12

@vyas said:

@AuroraZero said:

@SmokyHosts said:
We do offer IPv6 on the LA VPS locations (on request), but not in Buffalo location.

Hmm 😒

Smokyhosts welcome. Where is the missing Bandit from the famous duo ??

Lol, We'll make the LESians the bandits 😊

SmokyHosts · June 12

@yoursunny said:

@SmokyHosts said:
test IP 2602:fa62:301::11

Single home Cogent, unreachable from Hurricane.
Good provider has at least two upstream providers, in which at least one is neither 174 nor 1299.

@SmokyHosts said:
test IP 45.153.6.162

IPXO rental, may revoke with short notice, customer then has to change IP suddenly.
Good provider has owned IPv4 space.

Well, renting an IP is like renting a domain name. Remember, you don't own your domains, you rent them with an annual contract! And the entire world wide web uses rented domains. What if tomorrow the tld owner wants to revoke the agreement? That doesn't stop you from having your own website right?

DrNutella · June 12

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imok · June 12

@Wonder_Woman said:

@SmokyHosts said:

@vyas said:

Smokyhosts welcome. Where is the missing Bandit from the famous duo ??

Am i missing something! Who's the bandit at LES!

They're referring to the 1977 movie, Smokey and the Bandit

Am I too young to know about that?

somik · June 12

@yoursunny said:

@SmokyHosts said:
test IP 2602:fa62:301::11

Single home Cogent, unreachable from Hurricane.
Good provider has at least two upstream providers, in which at least one is neither 174 nor 1299.

@SmokyHosts said:
test IP 45.153.6.162

IPXO rental, may revoke with short notice, customer then has to change IP suddenly.
Good provider has owned IPv4 space.

Also, from what I see, they are hosted with turnkeyinternet (which got sold to Hivelocity). As a long time turnkeyinternet customer myself, glad to see at least one other host using such a reliable DC.

SmokyHosts · June 12

@imok said:

@Wonder_Woman said:

@SmokyHosts said:

@vyas said:

Smokyhosts welcome. Where is the missing Bandit from the famous duo ??

Am i missing something! Who's the bandit at LES!

They're referring to the 1977 movie, Smokey and the Bandit

Am I too young to know about that?

I would say, me too 😊

SmokyHosts · June 12

@somik said:

@yoursunny said:

@SmokyHosts said:
test IP 2602:fa62:301::11

Single home Cogent, unreachable from Hurricane.
Good provider has at least two upstream providers, in which at least one is neither 174 nor 1299.

@SmokyHosts said:
test IP 45.153.6.162

IPXO rental, may revoke with short notice, customer then has to change IP suddenly.
Good provider has owned IPv4 space.

Also, from what I see, they are hosted with turnkeyinternet (which got sold to Hivelocity). As a long time turnkeyinternet customer myself, glad to see at least one other host using such a reliable DC.

I still miss those crazy deals from TurnkeyInternet though! But yeah, I too am glad that Hivelocity is the one who are at the helm of the company now.

SmokyHosts · June 12

@DrNutella said:
This message is approved by Nutella.

At the first sight, made me wish, the chocolate was flowing through that water dispenser in the background instead 😊

yoursunny · June 12

@SmokyHosts said:

@yoursunny said:

@SmokyHosts said:
test IP 2602:fa62:301::11

Single home Cogent, unreachable from Hurricane.
Good provider has at least two upstream providers, in which at least one is neither 174 nor 1299.

@SmokyHosts said:
test IP 45.153.6.162

IPXO rental, may revoke with short notice, customer then has to change IP suddenly.
Good provider has owned IPv4 space.

Well, renting an IP is like renting a domain name. Remember, you don't own your domains, you rent them with an annual contract!

It's possible to own the IP, which also means you own the reverse zone.
After that, it's technically possible to create A/AAAA/MX records in the reverse zone, although it's just as easy to remember as the IP itself.

And the entire world wide web uses rented domains. What if tomorrow the tld owner wants to revoke the agreement? That doesn't stop you from having your own website right?

Google owns the .goog TLD through their subsidiary.
It costs $18000/year to own a TLD.

SmokyHosts · June 12

@yoursunny said: Google owns the .goog TLD through their subsidiary.
It costs $18000/year to own a TLD.

Lol, one who can afford $18000/year for their own tld will not be a part of LES!

somik · June 13

@SmokyHosts said:

@yoursunny said: Google owns the .goog TLD through their subsidiary.
It costs $18000/year to own a TLD.

Lol, one who can afford $18000/year for their own tld will not be a part of LES!

Hi, I am here to introduce our new .somik TLD. You can own your own domain with us with the low low price of FREE! All you need to do is edit your hosts file OR change your DNS to our DNS! Maximum privacy guranteed (given no one can access your site)

SmokyHosts · June 13

@somik said:

@SmokyHosts said:

@yoursunny said: Google owns the .goog TLD through their subsidiary.
It costs $18000/year to own a TLD.

Lol, one who can afford $18000/year for their own tld will not be a part of LES!

Hi, I am here to introduce our new .somik TLD. You can own your own domain with us with the low low price of FREE! All you need to do is edit your hosts file OR change your DNS to our DNS! Maximum privacy guranteed (given no one can access your site)

That'd actually be amazing!

Imagine, a network with maximum privacy, means Google can no longer show relevant ads. Without their ad network (their biggest money printing machine), will Google be able to afford their $18000/year .goog TLD

My vote is for the free .somik

legendary · June 13

Oslogs seems seo spam written by gpt. Strange to see such ancient design websites. Usually I love rustic style, but that is just bad. Zero frills logo is just some font in blue

SmokyHosts · June 13

@legendary said:
Oslogs seems seo spam written by gpt. Strange to see such ancient design websites. Usually I love rustic style, but that is just bad. Zero frills logo is just some font in blue

OSlogs is actually both... a mix of human input assisted by GPT. There are plenty of GPT content testing tools like nogpt.net or zerogpt.com where you can easily figure out what percentage of which article was written with the help of GPT and how much of it was written by a human. Honestly there's nothing to hide in that, AI is here to assist you, so why not use it, as long as you are not blindly copy pasting, without verifying.

0frills logo, its website and the deal itself (yes, its offering only one single deal) have intentionally been kept as simple as naturally possible. It's targeting the audience who don't want to get confused with too much clutter.

Introducing SmokyHosts and 0frills to LES after 20 years in the industry!

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