Good on you for trying something. I hope you learn from this. I can only imagine the trouble I would have gotten into if the internet/social media were around when I was a teenager or even in college.
Show HN: I recently launched a new cloud hosting company
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It's a carbon copy of this template: http://themes.getbootstrap.com/products/marketing Even the pricing area and the footer text are 100% just a copy. There is certainly not functional hosting service behind that, but maybe it a vehicle to test the water and collect emails of potential customers...
Yikes. Yeah, stay away.
I fail to see how using a pre-made Bootstrap template means 'stay away'?
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When you click the refund link in the footer, you are presented with a page not found error: https://ramgrid.com/legal/refunds Is this supposed to be scam or a joke?
There's a service behind this, I can confirm it. I just wasted $9 on a broken VPS. I am not worried about that $9 because I spent that expecting this to be a bust. I've spent far more on stupider things. It'll certainly be the last $9 I spend on this though.
Not surprising. I'd be more concerned with handing over card details tbh.
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There's a service behind this, I can confirm it. I just wasted $9 on a broken VPS. I am not worried about that $9 because I spent that expecting this to be a bust. I've spent far more on stupider things. It'll certainly be the last $9 I spend on this though.
Not surprising. I'd be more concerned with handing over card details tbh.
Payments were handled with Stripe, so it's my understanding that RamGrid won't have the card details.
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#96It seems like they're just renting OVH dedicated servers ( https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/hosting/ ) and selling virtual machines on them. You could get cheaper pricing and more reliable servers by purchasing VPS from OVH directly, or going through a more reputable provider that resells OVH like My Custom Hosting or Luna Node.
As someone who just tried to use OVH, I have to say, it was way easier to pay for RamGrid.
Just tried to rent a VPS from OVH. Payment failed three times. Three new $3.49 pending transactions on my bank card - No VPS...
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I fail to see how using a pre-made Bootstrap template means 'stay away'?
If they can't put any effort into their brand, what makes you think they'll put any effort into their service?
How about making the counter-argument that maybe all the energy is being spent on making the service good? If you had 50 hours to do something, and you either had the choice of spending 10 of it making your own marketing materials, or 1 of it for making a good looking page with a preexisting work, why not go with 1, if you want to spend 9 more hours perfecting the engineering side?
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Wow, really? I might need to report my card "lost" so that I can get a new number. Stripe protects that information from the vendor, right? Though I doubt this kid is going to try to be that brazen, especially since he is using his real name to do this (assuming this isn't a fake identity). Might request a new number just in case. I really don't trust this asshole anymore.
I wouldn't be too hasty to call him an asshole. Based on his LinkedIn, I think he's just a kid without any work experience and, consequently, without much understanding of professionalism. "FuckPaying" seem to be not that different from one of us wanting to start some kind of Napster when we were young, and I think a lot of grown HN users are probably PopcornTime users...
He's an "assistant instructor" at at least one school/program, and others. This isn't a "kid" if he's teaching other people.
We can't and shouldn't blame potential fraud on simple "youth" for someone who is obviously of an age that he is teaching other people to do these things.