I do not usually comment in threads, but I need to correct you here, since your theory is nosense
Lets start by this “Namecheap + Hetzner = garbage” logic.
Registrar means nothing in this industry. Domains get blocked and rotated all the time hosts change domains constantly to avoid filters and ad-blocks. Judging a host by registrar in 2026 makes no sense we are talking about video hosting services not warez websites.
Namecheap it's the world biggest registrar and also Openload.io used them too so maybe they are garbage too based on your theory that every host using namecheap is garbage
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openload
Now about Hetzner. Let’s compare actual numbers instead of vibes.
Stronger CPU, more storage, unmetered traffic, and less than half the price… that’s 'garbage' ?
So what exactly is the logic here? That saving $300–400 per server is bad business? That hosts should overpay just to
look expensive?
Using Hetzner for upload/encoding/FTP Servers is
smart cost optimization. Streaming layer is a different discussion, generally Infrastructure has nothing to do with if a host is
good or
bad
To correct you garbage hosts theory and what more likely to fail:
- Hosts who promise extremly high rates that they cannot afford (over paying)
-
Most Important Hosts
without Infrastructure cost optimization
I give you a small example what I mean with
Infrastructure cost optimization:
- Believe it or not for us at Vidsonic our servers are extremly cheap like under 500$ for +15 servers and can be increased or
decreased to 100$ without any data loss and with
1 click, we are also able to use
instant hourly-billed servers on demand for boosting the speed like on week-ends due high traffic and remove them our system is made right from the first line of code bankrupt safe
Why hosts failed:
- Streamup
Funds held by Ad-Network bankrupt cannot pay
- Up4Stream
Over Paid
- VidGuard
Uknown but mostly bankrupt why else would someone shutdown
- StreamBolt
Over Paid 50$/10k and Bankrupt
- StreamHB
Bad Management 20G per user?
- IStream
OverPaid 90$/10k
- ztreamhub
Bankrupt / Possibly due its multi-quality eating storage & costs
More:
https://www.wjunction.com/forums/file-hosts-support-archive.136/
Why others are online?
- Perfect Management
- No Over-Paying no 1000$ per 10k...
- Lower rates
- Multi Quality but as premium option
- Do not promise what they can't keep
My final 2 cents: Infrastructure choice doesn’t define if a host lasts or not. If your whole conclusion is based on registrar + provider name, that’s not analysis, that’s no sense.
To reply to the thread as well…
Let’s say Streamup is Vidara. What changes exactly? Do users suddenly stop using it? No. Does it magically affect payouts ? No.
From what I read in the Vidara thread, he sold the script to the new owner. That means he had full rights to the code. If he still has access to his old codebase, he is free to reuse parts of it or even the entire platform and rename it to whatever he wants. That’s normal.
It would be a completely different story if he never mentioned selling Streamup and suddenly launched something identical without context. Then yes, that would look suspicious.
But right now? There’s no strong evidence of anything wrong. Similar code doesn’t prove anything when the developer originally owned it.
And honestly, there will never be “proof” unless someone shows contracts or private agreements. which won’t happen.
So at this point it’s just speculation, not facts.
