Originally posted by: SinMen
I thought you can do better than that. You still don't think he's trying to pull a stupid scam and failed? He just didn't get enough money and run fast enough.
The biggest part of a true scam is to actually get the money and run - he certainly had the opportunity to do so. I have to agre with Wolfgang and others - he actually did mean to run a business, he just doesn't have a clue as to how to do it, and ruined himself and his company in the process. They are now the laughing stock of the hosting industry, and managed to take the heat off of some other hosts that were getting hammered. The also managed to boost the business of many other hosts (although I still wonder how many of them he's pushed to the brink - I tend to believe that some of the marginal ones that were limping along have grown too much since this fiasco and will now wind up on the sidelines with CW soon), educate a few people about some of the technical aspects (thanks Shawn, for helping me remember some of the stuff I learned in class), and provide a good case study in someone's management classes on everything not to do. The fact that some of the supporters are still hanging in there has got to be a whole chapter in itself - I know that hostages sometimes fix on their captors, but this is the strangest thing I've ever seen. I think Shawn ought to seriously think about Scientology or some other cult - this guy must know the Jedi mind trick or something.
By the way Wolfgang - Monty wasn't the only one who missed you. You actually did put together some insightful points that might have been valid - had not Shawn and the crew been involved. They managed to combined the worst luck ever with sheer ncompetence (I've heard from fairly reliable source that the Rackshack non-payment was on purpose - he decided that it was a good time to combine the entire oeration into one place. Of course, he botched it as well. He could have pulled that off if he had notified people that it was going to take place, planned it better so there wouldn't have been all that downtime, and actually had the new servers up and running (which of course no one can even prove exist)) But that's Shawn for you - ignorant and unapologetic to the end.
And when his old friends started to catch up to him - I think that was the final straw. He's been humiliated in ways that I dont' think he can recover from (those pictures are the funniest things I've seen). He's been hiding ever since, and I don't know if he's coming out to play again. But time will tell on that...
Alright, the editing is going haywire here, so I'm going to close this out. Kwad, do you have any more insider info?