So JWJ forms Brohoster before he's a legal adult and later on hires this matt fellow. Matt was a legal adult at the time, so technically he was considered the legal owner of the company. Matt decides to take 93,000$ from the company and runs off with it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I've been gathering from the thread. I never really followed any other Brohoster shenanigans before now.
[QUOTE=Dirf;31439547]So JWJ forms Brohoster before he's a legal adult and later on hires this matt fellow. Matt was a legal adult at the time, so technically he was considered the legal owner of the company. Matt decides to take 93,000$ from the company and runs off with it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I've been gathering from the thread. I never really followed any other Brohoster shenanigans before now.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Lapsus;31400393]Cliff's Notes version, as I remember it. if I'm forgetting shit, my bad, correct me.
* JWJ started brohoster, things were pretty awesome
* JWJ started selling minecraft servers, they were super-popular
* JWJ joined forces with Matt from clubuptime to get better deals on servers, to give his customers better deals
* Things were okay for a while
* Matt fired JWJ, citing poor performance and posting about weed smoking here on FP and such
* Minor general freakout, things settled down again
* Someone found a thread on WHT where Matt was trying to sell the "Brohoster brand" and all of it's customers for $600k, without telling the customers or employees, claiming that brohoster would disappear the following monday if it didn't sell, Firing amcfaggot somewhere along the line.
* JWJ made a post in a Brohoster thread here on FP, and shit really started to hit the fan, FP started a general warning campaign to alert customers
* Matt tried to bully everyone into silence, threatening legal action and making some hilarious phone threats to JWJ, and Crafthub.net, among others, all the while claiming he had 6 buyers waiting on his goahead
* Matt tried to give Brohoster back to JWJ in a desperate attempt to save face, JWJ didn't want it.
* Matt rehired amcfaggot, and posted a press release saying nothing was being sold, everything was fine, etc, while denying refunds and withholding domains from everyone he could, and disabling the brohoster accounts of anyone that tried to post news about the sale to the facebook page for brohoster.
* Matt stepped back from Brohoster, and put someone else [Larry?] in charge, who, despite the shitstorm did an admirable job of keeping a level head.
* Some time of uneventful service here
* Matt took down Brohoster and ClubUptime, didn't tell anyone, there's a bunch of cash missing from the accounts, and everyone's wondering what the fuck happened
* You are here.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Lapsus;31400393]Cliff's Notes version, as I remember it. if I'm forgetting shit, my bad, correct me.
* JWJ started brohoster, things were pretty awesome
* JWJ started selling minecraft servers, they were super-popular
* JWJ joined forces with Matt from clubuptime to get better deals on servers, to give his customers better deals
* Things were okay for a while
* Matt fired JWJ, citing poor performance and posting about weed smoking here on FP and such
* Minor general freakout, things settled down again
* Someone found a thread on WHT where Matt was trying to sell the "Brohoster brand" and all of it's customers for $600k, without telling the customers or employees, claiming that brohoster would disappear the following monday if it didn't sell, Firing amcfaggot somewhere along the line.
* JWJ made a post in a Brohoster thread here on FP, and shit really started to hit the fan, FP started a general warning campaign to alert customers
* Matt tried to bully everyone into silence, threatening legal action and making some hilarious phone threats to JWJ, and Crafthub.net, among others, all the while claiming he had 6 buyers waiting on his goahead
* Matt tried to give Brohoster back to JWJ in a desperate attempt to save face, JWJ didn't want it.
* Matt rehired amcfaggot, and posted a press release saying nothing was being sold, everything was fine, etc, while denying refunds and withholding domains from everyone he could, and disabling the brohoster accounts of anyone that tried to post news about the sale to the facebook page for brohoster.
* Matt stepped back from Brohoster, and put someone else [Larry?] in charge, who, despite the shitstorm did an admirable job of keeping a level head.
* Some time of uneventful service here
[b]* Matt tried to fire Tyler, resulting in everyone other then Andrew handing in letters of resignation.
* Matt decided to withdraw his decision to fire Tyler.[/b]
* Matt took down Brohoster and ClubUptime, didn't tell anyone, there's a bunch of cash missing from the accounts, and everyone's wondering what the fuck happened
* You are here.[/QUOTE]
Fixed.
[QUOTE=darksoul69;31439653]Fixed.[/QUOTE]
only edit(s) are that larry was sortof in charge. in running support but had no control of badly implemented/documented/or thought out releases of a couple of things. that shit got tossed out when he was away for the weekend, including andrew's firing. lar didn't like that too much either.
other minor edit to some time of uneventful service here - uneventful?!?!!? man i remember trying to learn tickets, answers, learn the server logs, read about plugins, beg for help....lol it was eventful!!
whatever this was in response to post 1836. i'm tired it's fine you know what i was commenting on lol
I still don't understand what he wanted to fire you. Seemed like out of spite.
[QUOTE=amcfaggot;31439764]I still don't understand what he wanted to fire you. Seemed like out of spite.[/QUOTE]
It was. He didn't like the fact I didn't kiss his ass and ask him to do this or that and instead went directly to Larry for approval. He also didn't like the fact I shared a private conversation between him and I with Larry.
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;31437530]how come brohoster seems to spend less time providing hosting and more time being down and provoking drama on this forum
after the first 50 times shit like this happened you would've thought people would have changed their hoster[/QUOTE]
Read the fine print, "game server [i]drama[/i] provider".
[editline]30th July 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=darksoul69;31439782]It was. He didn't like the fact I didn't kiss his ass and ask him to do this or that and instead went directly to Larry for approval. He also didn't like the fact I shared a private conversation between him and I with Larry.[/QUOTE]
It's not like he had the power to direct the company's main source of revenue, anyway. He knows that, you know that, everyone knew that. The company operated on it's core staff, and for some reason he neglected that and acted like the management could keep the company afloat without substance.
[QUOTE=amcfaggot;31439787]Read the fine print, "[b]Professional[/b] game server [i]drama[/i] provider".
[/QUOTE]
ftfy
[QUOTE=darksoul69;31439782]It was. He didn't like the fact I didn't kiss his ass and ask him to do this or that and instead went directly to Larry for approval. He also didn't like the fact I shared a private conversation between him and I with Larry.[/QUOTE]
yeah matt wasn't a fan of the non-ass-kissing and as for the second part. he(matt) was pissed that he got caught treating tyler like shit and lar called him on it because tyler shared the info with larry. we were both quitting if tyler went. i wasn't staff when andrew was fired but lar was pissed about that too and demanded andrew be rehired if he'd come back or lar was gone too.
lar knows how awesome his team is! and was and is more then willing to put his own ass on the line for them. neither deserved the treatment they got from matt (none of us did now..) considerng the time, effort and fucking hard work they put in day after day.
Ter2001, who are you from the BH Team? Personally I would like to go with LethalDrive, but it's price/performance is too high for me right now... Me and my friend might go with another company (to prevent other people from going to it instead of LD) for a month to see what happens with LD... Does anyone know what will happen about LD, who he buys hosting from, and why the prices are so much more than BH... Thank you all for your Hard Work, BH's staff really has been the best Customer Support... They do "Treat you like a Bro", It's not their fault the servers went down... but they try to get back the customers data, on their own time, without pay... Truly the best Customer support... This is why I Hate big companies, and because they ruin small businesses... YES, I'm talking to you WALMART!!!!
Thanks again BH's Staff... and Hexxeh!
[QUOTE=McCmonkey;31440070]Ter2001, who are you from the BH Team? Personally I would like to go with LethalDrive, but it's price/performance is too high for me right now... Me and my friend might go with another company (to prevent other people from going to it instead of LD) for a month to see what happens with LD... Does anyone know what will happen about LD, who he buys hosting from, and why the prices are so much more than BH... Thank you all for your Hard Work, BH's staff really has been the best Customer Support... They do "Treat you like a Bro", It's not their fault the servers went down... but they try to get back the customers data, on their own time, without pay... Truly the best Customer support... This is why I Hate big companies, and because they ruin small businesses... YES, I'm talking to you WALMART!!!!
Thanks again BH's Staff... and Hexxeh![/QUOTE]
The reason the prices are higher, is the fact that softlayer didn't give him as good of a deal.
[QUOTE=McCmonkey;31440070]Ter2001, who are you from the BH Team? Personally I would like to go with LethalDrive, but it's price/performance is too high for me right now... Me and my friend might go with another company (to prevent other people from going to it instead of LD) for a month to see what happens with LD... Does anyone know what will happen about LD, who he buys hosting from, and why the prices are so much more than BH... Thank you all for your Hard Work, BH's staff really has been the best Customer Support... They do "Treat you like a Bro", It's not their fault the servers went down... but they try to get back the customers data, on their own time, without pay... Truly the best Customer support... This is why I Hate big companies, and because they ruin small businesses... YES, I'm talking to you WALMART!!!!
Thanks again BH's Staff... and Hexxeh![/QUOTE]
i was just tech support, answering tickets. i am larry's wife as well (yay me!!) i honestly don't know alot yet about LD other then jwj's main page, i actually just met jake two days ago..three days maybe been a long week lol. i *think* he's hosting with softlayer as well there is or there was a lethaldrive thread somewhere here but you'd need to go in a few pages cause the first few were logo designs.
and thank you for your support of us and saying it out loud!! (as an aside i worked for bh for about a month and half before all this, this weekend was supposed to be my first pay :( lol) even with all this we are still bros!!!
and huge thanks to hex from us as well!!!
[QUOTE=ter2001;31440196] i *think* he's hosting with softlayer as well there is or there was a lethaldrive thread somewhere here but you'd need to go in a few pages cause the first few were logo designs.
[/QUOTE]
Yes, He decided to host with softlayer.
[QUOTE=Drakehawke;31433583]Lucky indeed, if anything comes out of this it's that everyone will have learned the lesson to take regular and external backups.[/QUOTE]
Hell yeah. And to anyone else who had LogBlock, and was logging to an offsite database, you should look into the /lb redo command. It's very useful. Or wait for these awesome, awesome former BH guys to fix you up with a download site for your worlds.
Omg, please put it back up tomorrow! I need to download my map but it stopped downloading it after 30mb out of at least 200mb! DX
[QUOTE=maximemoring;31441288]Omg, please put it back up tomorrow! I need to download my map but it stopped downloading it after 30mb out of at least 200mb! DX[/QUOTE]
Chill, At this point in time just be glad your map is still there to back up. Give the team some time to get everything back up to give us access.
Make a note for next time to back up your server on a regular basis
EDIT:
We don't have the right to demand ANYTHING from this team.
They have gone above and beyond customer support at this time. Keep in mind right now all of the Brohoster staff is out of a job until LD goes online. So not only are they doing all this, over a weekend, they are doing it for free.
I just hope it wasnt the only time where we would be able to get our maps...
Because i have a backup on my comp. But it was like a week or 2 before Brohoster "disapeared".
So I would lose everything we did in these 2 weeks. D:
You probably understand why i'm panicking. DX
[QUOTE=maximemoring;31441497]I just hope it wasnt the only time where we would be able to get our maps...
Because i have a backup on my comp. But it was like a week or 2 before Brohoster "disapeared".
So I would lose everything we did in these 2 weeks. D:
You probably understand why i'm panicking. DX[/QUOTE]
Please read the last few pages of this thread. They said that a deal was reached with Softlayer allowing our data to be kept for a while longer. They just need time to get everything working right.
EDIT:
I really wish Facepunch had a feature to allow a persistant header post to appear on every page so people would stop freaking out, saying the VPN is down, asking when it will be up, and show gratitude for everything that has been done for us over this event.
They didn't have to do anything for us, the fact that they are even trying means a lot, please remember this.
[QUOTE=maximemoring;31441497]I just hope it wasnt the only time where we would be able to get our maps...
Because i have a backup on my comp. But it was like a week or 2 before Brohoster "disapeared".
So I would lose everything we did in these 2 weeks. D:
You probably understand why i'm panicking. DX[/QUOTE]
I don't.
Our offsite backup went poof right before this happened. Our whole world is gone. We're all pretty bad off, dude, we just have to be patient.
[QUOTE=ter2001;31435288]okay guys...we've been talking to sl we are working out a plan. we've agreed that they will not reclaim the servers while we work with them. so at the moment all your data is safe!
if someone can also post this in IRC for me please i can't get in there i dunno why. i'm just the typing monkey *g*[/QUOTE]
How about bh-dallasmc35 (the server that could not be routed to)? Can you let us know if that server is safe? I know Shippu7 and I both have our servers hosted on that box. Should we still hang on to hope?
[QUOTE=dbhjed;31441558]Please read the last few pages of this thread. They said that a deal was reached with Softlayer allowing our data to be kept for a while longer. They just need time to get everything working right.
EDIT:
I really wish Facepunch had a feature to allow a persistant header post to appear on every page so people would stop freaking out, saying the VPN is down, asking when it will be up, and show gratitude for everything that has been done for us over this event.
They didn't have to do anything for us, the fact that they are even trying means a lot, please remember this.[/QUOTE]
we have not yet reached a deal per say. what we have gotten so far is them letting us know they will hold the data for awhile longer. we are and have been in commuication with sl off and on all day so it is ongoing. just wanted to make sure people didn't get *too* excited yet but so far data is safe.
thanks for the good words!! we won't stop trying til we HAVE to
[editline]30th July 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=maximemoring;31441288]Omg, please put it back up tomorrow! I need to download my map but it stopped downloading it after 30mb out of at least 200mb! DX[/QUOTE]
we really don't have that as an option at the moment but keep reading cause we are updating as often as possible!
[editline]30th July 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=nullz;31441771]How about bh-dallasmc35 (the server that could not be routed to)? Can you let us know if that server is safe? I know Shippu7 and I both have our servers hosted on that box. Should we still hang on to hope?[/QUOTE]
we honestly don't know yet what's going to happen. we know you guys are anxious we are too! we've all been working very hard and so has sl by working with us. yes hold onto hope! we are down but we are NOT out!!
Too bad Softlayer can't hit the charity switch for 24 hours giving everyone access again to get their stuff off.
They could consider it as "Disaster Relief"
[QUOTE=dbhjed;31441856]Too bad Softlayer can't hit the charity switch for 24 hours giving everyone access again to get their stuff off.
They could consider it as "Disaster Relief"[/QUOTE]
that would rock!!!
To everyone who is impatiently asking for their data back and whining at the BH guys for being slow:
Shut the fuck up. Seriously. These guys are working their asses off with very little sleep, on a weekend, without a job, just for us, FOR FREE.
As someone above said, we don't have the right to demand anything from them. They are doing this because they are awesome and they aren't making a single cent. I was fortunate enough to have an offsite LogBlock database that I could "rollforward" from. And I still donated everything in my paypal, and will donate even more when I get more money in it.
This, my friends, is customer service at its absolute fucking finest and I honestly have never seen anything like it.
Sorry if this post sounded like ass-kissery, but I am just SO impressed by their dedication and perseverance to an effort that they make nothing from.
Nuff said? Nuff said.
We may have a breakthrough here guys, stay tuned for more information.
[QUOTE=Frogging101;31442332]To everyone who is impatiently asking for their data back and whining at the BH guys for being slow:
Shut the fuck up. Seriously. These guys are working their asses off with very little sleep, on a weekend, without a job, just for us, FOR FREE.
As someone above said, we don't have the right to demand anything from them. They are doing this because they are awesome and they aren't making a single cent. I was fortunate enough to have an offsite LogBlock database that I could "rollforward" from. And I still donated everything in my paypal, and will donate even more when I get more money in it.
This, my friends, is customer service at its absolute fucking finest and I honestly have never seen anything like it.
Sorry if this post sounded like ass-kissery, but I am just SO impressed by their dedication and perseverance to an effort that they make nothing from.
Nuff said? Nuff said.[/QUOTE]
please feel free to kiss ass! lol and LOVE the support frog!!!! i don't have a heart emot so bro you fucking :rock: you guys probly have a lil clue of what we've been doing and we HAVE to do this for all of you. what happened is not fucking fair and we HAVE to make it right for as best we can. and we will continue in any and every we can...the bh staff!!
I do hope something will come up, heck I'll pay another payment if it means getting my info back - we built and collected so much and never used invedit. not to mention some of us bought minecraft just to play on this server (friends).
Thanks for your efforts guys, I do appreciate it.
[QUOTE=DeluxeFlame;31442605]I do hope something will come up, heck I'll pay another payment if it means getting my info back - we built and collected so much and never used invedit. not to mention some of us bought minecraft just to play on this server (friends).
Thanks for your efforts guys, I do appreciate it.[/QUOTE]
i am totally willing to accept money! lol 50's are good! lol. we are still here guys!!
[QUOTE=Frogging101;31442332]To everyone who is impatiently asking for their data back and whining at the BH guys for being slow:
Shut the fuck up. Seriously.[/QUOTE]
Why not just stop feeding the trolls? They have nothing good to say, ignore them. Everytime some one has a shit fit about someone else having a shit fit about being slow, bh sux dix, blah blah, a bitch fest erupts.
Just dont reply.
If I get my full map back, I will be happy, if not, it will be a great chance to start fresh. Im not in a rush yet as my LethalDrive account is not ready yet... so no rush, but lots of gratitude for going above and beyond, and thanks for treating me like a bro in the classic bh tradition.
[QUOTE=Oroka;31442829]Why not just stop feeding the trolls? They have nothing good to say, ignore them. Everytime some one has a shit fit about someone else having a shit fit about being slow, bh sux dix, blah blah, a bitch fest erupts.
Just dont reply.
If I get my full map back, I will be happy, if not, it will be a great chance to start fresh. Im not in a rush yet as my LethalDrive account is not ready yet... so no rush, but lots of gratitude for going above and beyond, and thanks for treating me like a bro in the classic bh tradition.[/QUOTE]
everyone is allowed their opinion whether it's right or wrong *g* people have paid money for this and are psised we totally understand that. NONE of the bh staff has been paid either so we get the being out folks. we do not have any control over that side people will have to take that up with [url]http://clubuptime.com/[/url] so we do appreicate everyone's feelings here (yes imma girl) as long as it's kept respectful. otherwise i'll kick yer butts!!! lol :yarr: (as an aside i seriously need more emots in here!!) :BROFIST to ALL:
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