I just got this in the email:


New Texas Company

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 16, 2002

Houston, TX



Jaguar Technologies LLC ("JaguarPC"), a Texas based company

is pleased to announce that it has recently acquired Aletia

Hosting ("Aletia"), a Nevada based corporation. We at JaguarPC

are pleased to be part of the success with all the services provided

to Aletia clients in countries all over the globe. JaguarPC will

continue to provide and expand the services and features to all

current and future clients. We will also be honoring all existing

features and pricing of the Aletia accounts.



The former management of Aletia will not be continuing on with

JaguarPC but some of the other Aletia staff members will join our

team. In addition we will be hiring more staff to provide all clients

with stellar support and services like.





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We are actively participating in forum discussions covering this

acquisition. The discussion below includes many questions or

concerns that some users may have in common.



Discussion:

http://aletiaforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5570





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Please send all billing inquiries to billing@aletia.com

Please send all sales inquiries to sales@aletia.com

Please use the ticket system for any support related issues.





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Please contact us in our forums at www.aletiaforums.com or via

email at info@jaguarpc.com or sales@aletia.com if you have any

questions or concerns.



Regards,

Greg Landis

Jaguar Technologies LLC

Houston, TX

JaguarPC.com - Aletia.com - HostGUI.com





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If you are receiving this and are no longer a client please

accept our apologies. You can email us at info@jaguarpc.com

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Is this good news? I hope they turn aletia around, cause the way aletia has been going lately they were headed for bankruptcy. Looks like they did the smart thing and sold! Good riddance old owners and welcome JaguarPC!

- BattleForums

We'll just have to see if Jaguar can turn Aletia around and regain its quality :)

Just a note, so the usual idiots don't post "We already knew this"...... I know this was already announced here yesterday, just wanted to post the e-mail I got, which is the first official statement that Jaguar has made (uh, I think).

Originally posted by BattleForums
Is this good news?
- BattleForums

Yes, JaguarPC its a reputable hosting company who has been around for a long time.
I don't remember a single bad review about them, which in WHT its GREAT :)

Originally posted by Jedito


Yes, JaguarPC its a reputable hosting company who has been around for a long time.
I don't remember a single bad review about them, which in WHT its GREAT :)
Actually, that's pretty close to a miracle. :stickout

Originally posted by Ankit
We'll just have to see if Jaguar can turn Aletia around and regain its quality :)

Well its not going to be a cake walk but we are doing what we can to help as fast as we can. We have already had hundreds of great comments and feedback so far. For some users its too late, they have had all they could take. That is perfectly understandable and also sad to see happen.

I hope we can make a difference for all the users.

Cheers

best of luck with the deal Greg. I've always held JagPC is pretty high regard, so I know you guys will give Aletia's customers the attention they've been needing for a while now.

Greg Moore

Its nice to see Aletia in good hands.

I still wonder about a highly reputable host digging the bottom of the barrel. I mean, how would we all view VO if they bought Cyberwings or imhosted.com?

Look at HP. They bought Compaq, but Compaq wasn't a bad company. Other unions form all the time between companies. Here's another, NEC and Mitsubishi... but they were BOTH reputable companies.

I'm just throwing this out for some thoughts on it. From what I've read here, JaguarPC seems like a good host, and hopefully they will bring Aletia up to their level. If they do, then I agree it's a good thing.

On the other hand, for an example more related to the hosting industry, look at deru (who bought Weinbar). Because of the bad experience people had with Weinbar, I'm sure many are afraid to go with the new owner, Deru.

Originally posted by chrisb
I still wonder about a highly reputable host digging the bottom of the barrel. I mean, how would we all view VO if they bought Cyberwings or imhosted.com?

I'm just throwing this out for some thoughts on it. From what I've read here, JaguarPC seems like a good host, and hopefully they will bring Aletia up to their level. If they do, then I agree it's a good thing.


That wouldn't tarnish VO's rep in my view at least. I would see it as them saving all those poor clients at Cyberwings that needed a real host real fast.

This is the same thing we aimed for. Its hard to sit by and watch clients literally complaining ina few new posts everyday about Aletia. Btw, there has not been one negative post on here since we took over. Im not saying there won't be one but there hasnt been one yet. We are working hard and fast to get to everyeon we can as fast as we can but with some complaints going back a few months there are bound to be some people that need to get things off their chest.

Aletia once had a reputation equal to ours and it will again.

Actually, that's pretty close to a miracle.:D

As a compliment Aussie Bob..you would be a very close second! :cool:

MaXy PoWeR :homer:

Don't worry folks. The old Aletia owners will prolly change their name to something else and come back later.

unless they have signed an non compete agreement when they sold.

Originally posted by MAX POWER
[b]

As a compliment Aussie Bob..you would be a very close second! :cool:

MaXy PoWeR :homer:
Thanks. :) :blush:

Originally posted by chrisb
I still wonder about a highly reputable host digging the bottom of the barrel. I mean, how would we all view VO if they bought Cyberwings or imhosted.com?

Its happened -- BurstNET bought TrueHost (or was it TrueHosting?) a while back. Some fuss was made in the beginning, but after a few days things died down.

I don't think it's anything to worry about with JaguarPC and Aletia.

Originally posted by Justin S
or was it TrueHosting

Weaselboy Incoporated. :D

Good hosts buy out bad hosts. It makes good sense really. I'd imagine you'd get a better deal on a sinking ship than one that's floating well. Once you cork the holes and fix the sails you end up with a fine vessel again :)

hmm quite a nautical theme to this post

Greg Moore