Who is GigaVM.com?
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Hello MediaStar.
I thought i would approach this myself, We have nothing to hide.
I am the Founder of GigaVM, Gavin Hanson, Prior to launching GigaVM I was the Operations Manager at RapidSpeeds, I was responsible for the development of all of the companies internal systems, In charge of all Virtual Private Servers and towards the end In charge of just about every aspect of the company on a Management Level.
I am and My company (GigaVM) Is in no way, Shape or form affiliated with Darren or Craig, The owners of RapidSpeeds who stole so many peoples money and walked away.
My business partner (Grant) is the CEO of SeedNet.eu, A highly successful company who has been trading here on WJunction for quite some time.
So the simple answer to your question is "No" We are not The RapidSpeeds Team, Just two victims from the demise of RapidSpeeds.
I thought i would approach this myself, We have nothing to hide.
I am the Founder of GigaVM, Gavin Hanson, Prior to launching GigaVM I was the Operations Manager at RapidSpeeds, I was responsible for the development of all of the companies internal systems, In charge of all Virtual Private Servers and towards the end In charge of just about every aspect of the company on a Management Level.
I am and My company (GigaVM) Is in no way, Shape or form affiliated with Darren or Craig, The owners of RapidSpeeds who stole so many peoples money and walked away.
My business partner (Grant) is the CEO of SeedNet.eu, A highly successful company who has been trading here on WJunction for quite some time.
So the simple answer to your question is "No" We are not The RapidSpeeds Team, Just two victims from the demise of RapidSpeeds.
I find that quite offensive to be honest with you, I was nothing more than an employee of RapidSpeeds, Why should i be tarnished with the same brush as the scum-bag owner who walked away with all of those peoples money? Including my wages for that month and making almost a years worth of work worth nothing?
Why show my face now? Why not? What makes you or anybody else here anymore welcome on WJ than GigaVM?
Why show my face now? Why not? What makes you or anybody else here anymore welcome on WJ than GigaVM?
Like i said previously, I was the Ops Manager at RapidSpeeds, Which gave me access to such databases, I don't have this list anymore, I had personal connections with many of RapidSpeeds customers and from the moment RapidSpeeds closed I've had the intentions of starting out alone, Unfortunately i didn't have the financial backing to launch in such a large scale back then.
So in answer to your question, I backed up the entire RapidSpeeds Infrastructure When LeaseWeb bought it back online, As My roll at RapidSpeeds included Managing the Website/Client Area/Back-End Platforms. This is why i had a list of all clients & information.
So in answer to your question, I backed up the entire RapidSpeeds Infrastructure When LeaseWeb bought it back online, As My roll at RapidSpeeds included Managing the Website/Client Area/Back-End Platforms. This is why i had a list of all clients & information.
Gavin speaking to you on a personal level only not as a member of the staff of any site.
Do you feel it is wise or beneficial to "sling the proverbial mud" in a thread about a host when you may at some point face issues of your own requiring the understanding of your clients and the public?
Keep in mind I am not disputing your statements and understand your expressed sentiment.
Do you feel it is wise or beneficial to "sling the proverbial mud" in a thread about a host when you may at some point face issues of your own requiring the understanding of your clients and the public?
Keep in mind I am not disputing your statements and understand your expressed sentiment.
You're spamming people emails without there permission which is consider spamming. I think you shouldn't even be using information that you've from rapidspeeds an order to gain clients for your site most likely it's just going to cause issue with your services.
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I do not really condone the "Slating" of people but in this case i know for a fact how things panned out in the instance of RapidSpeeds.
Around 2 Weeks before the Collapse Darren was spending in a completely "Out of the Ordinary" rate, The USA Network Went offline and when myself (and other staff) Confronted Darren about this we were told it's a temporary outage. At the same time LeaseWeb had mistakingly emailed support@rapidspeeds with an invoice overdue and termination notice.
From here on we were lied to and "Strung along" with the promises of money, We also witnessed Darren take over £10,000 from an Indian Investor just two days before the total closure of RapidSpeeds. There was never any intention to make a comeback from the USA Downtime, The company was going down hill and too fast. We couldn't intervene at the time and prevent the scams because we were "Over a barrel" for lack of a better expression, None of us could afford to jeopardize our job's "IF" the company did somehow make drastic and rapid changes to resume service.
I personally would post up and let people know there was issues arrising, I wouldn't let my site and email go down and just "Vanish" off the face of the earth, The way things were handled was terrible.
Sorry if this isn't the correct answer to your question but I hold it near and dear to my heart that the way Myself, My co-workers and our customers were treated was disgusting and the fact there is Nothing we can do about it is 10x worse.
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I would consider Spam as a repetitive form of contact or marketing, This is far from what we are doing, We have sent out one email to ex-RapidSpeeds clients, There will be no further emails to these addresses and the mailing list was removed after the first (and last) email was sent.
Around 2 Weeks before the Collapse Darren was spending in a completely "Out of the Ordinary" rate, The USA Network Went offline and when myself (and other staff) Confronted Darren about this we were told it's a temporary outage. At the same time LeaseWeb had mistakingly emailed support@rapidspeeds with an invoice overdue and termination notice.
From here on we were lied to and "Strung along" with the promises of money, We also witnessed Darren take over £10,000 from an Indian Investor just two days before the total closure of RapidSpeeds. There was never any intention to make a comeback from the USA Downtime, The company was going down hill and too fast. We couldn't intervene at the time and prevent the scams because we were "Over a barrel" for lack of a better expression, None of us could afford to jeopardize our job's "IF" the company did somehow make drastic and rapid changes to resume service.
I personally would post up and let people know there was issues arrising, I wouldn't let my site and email go down and just "Vanish" off the face of the earth, The way things were handled was terrible.
Sorry if this isn't the correct answer to your question but I hold it near and dear to my heart that the way Myself, My co-workers and our customers were treated was disgusting and the fact there is Nothing we can do about it is 10x worse.
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I would consider Spam as a repetitive form of contact or marketing, This is far from what we are doing, We have sent out one email to ex-RapidSpeeds clients, There will be no further emails to these addresses and the mailing list was removed after the first (and last) email was sent.
Again I understand your points.
But I fail to see how lowering yourself to the level of the negative threads will benefit you or change the outcome of the past.
If you throw crap around you will eventually smell like it yourself.
Added: Perhaps showering the forum with a more positive message is a better way to distance yourself from the stigma of your former employers actions.
But I fail to see how lowering yourself to the level of the negative threads will benefit you or change the outcome of the past.
If you throw crap around you will eventually smell like it yourself.
Added: Perhaps showering the forum with a more positive message is a better way to distance yourself from the stigma of your former employers actions.
As Operations Manager, you should have foreseen the affairs of RapidSpeeds. You were not just an employee, you were the Operations Manager lol You should be blamed just as much as them even if you didnt do anything wrong. If you didnt know what was going on, then that means your incompetent to take the role of Operations Manager.
That is exactly the same phrase Boxslots used when saying he was never affiliated with Rapidspeeds before. That was a lie obviously as he was the support worker. And look at what he did with his company. This is no different. You use the RapidSpeeds database just to try and solicit ex customers, and make false claims in your email such as "As of yet no company has successfully satisfied the customers whom were left to find hosting elsewhere. " Oh believe me, I think I can speak for all the customers that they are all satisfied to get away. So I suggest you take this constructive criticism and do yourself a favor and quit this business.
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i also got the same email, tho i wasn't a client of rapidspeeds. i was with knowinservers.
what a cheap way to spam :D
what a cheap way to spam :D
cotufa-ssdd
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So you took rapidspeeds DB for your own personal use, not ures in the first place to use, and yes it is spamming when u send emails without user concent.
I am not questioning ure site, but it is clear your methods arent legit, which brings up questions to anyone with any kind of sense...
I woke up one morning to find the company closed, As any level of employee what was i todo at this point? The director had walked away with every single penny the company had, The title of Operations Manager was given to me after a year of service at the company, Basically saying i could oversee most of the companies tasks, Finances and Vendors was not one of these tasks.
So in reality what your saying is an employee of one company should never step out of line and do something themselves? Your criticism isn't constructive in any way, It's abusive.
My employment at RapidSpeeds was just that, Employment, I was never a director, I never oversaw contacts, finances, accounting therefor i really fail to see how you can point the finger at me.
You may well be correct, From my point of view i was sending out a message to those loyal clients who i dealt with for all that time, And more than I had previously expected have come over and ordered products, On the other hand i can see exactly where your coming from.
GigaVM will Not follow the fate of RapidSpeeds or any of the sub-brands that branched out of that company, If defending our name and withstanding the test of time is what it takes todo that, Then so be it, That is exactly what we intend to do.
Hi,
I also got this email, I am happy you have started your own company, but I did have a small chunk of my infrastructure with RapidSpeeds, and judging by the way they left it with there customers you emailing there old customer base was a little strange, you are associating yourself with a failed business.
Either way, I wish you the best of luck, and if you where the brains behind RS, I am sure you will have no problems building up your business
Thanks,
Danny
I also got this email, I am happy you have started your own company, but I did have a small chunk of my infrastructure with RapidSpeeds, and judging by the way they left it with there customers you emailing there old customer base was a little strange, you are associating yourself with a failed business.
Either way, I wish you the best of luck, and if you where the brains behind RS, I am sure you will have no problems building up your business
Thanks,
Danny
Woah slow down there guys.
He was just the OM of the company. The two owners are still to be blamed. Let's take this scenario, the Sony CEO (not just the OM) made Sony go into a multi billion dollar loss and then he resigns from the company. Tomorrow he opens up his own company, does that mean his company would fail too?
He was just the OM of the company. The two owners are still to be blamed. Let's take this scenario, the Sony CEO (not just the OM) made Sony go into a multi billion dollar loss and then he resigns from the company. Tomorrow he opens up his own company, does that mean his company would fail too?
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