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[swsouft]

OMG
I am freaking out!!
I received an email about 3 hours ago that they are going out of business and and will shut down 1201am 9th of April
I have lots of data on both dedicated servers over 800GIG of data.
They did say they would sell me the hardrives and or servers.

I don't think I have enough time to transfer all my data to a back up in 1 day any suggestions

thanks
Jack
Their letter below

This email is to inform you that OpenReaction will no longer be serving clients as of 4/9/2011 at 12:01AM EST. It has been a long and hard road to reach this conclusion that we could no longer do business and we regret that we could not be here to continue serving our loyal clients.

After this date all network access to servers will be disabled and they will be removed from our data center space. For the time being all clients have been moved to full 100Mbps port access to allow for faster data transfer and backup. For those clients looking to purchase the hard drive(s) or sever(s) their data is on they should contact us at info@openreaction.com within 10 business days of our closing to have their servers packed and shipped. After this 10 business day period all remaining servers will have their data wiped from the hard drives and will be sold.
Please address all other inquires to corporate@openreaction.com.

It has been a pleasure doing business over the past five years and I hope that we can cross paths again in the future.

Thanks for your time and loyalty,


Matt Armour
Founder and CEO
OpenReaction Hosting Solutions, Inc.

[GCM]

Unless you stay within the same facility of course. Judging by their bandwidth graphs, they're in GNAX/NetDepot. I would suggest contacting NetDepot to see what they'll quote you for something similar since inter-datacenter transfer wouldn't take long at all.

[nuthin]

Get moving..

At least they gave you a warning, I suppose.

[Host Ultra]

If you shut down everything on your server (to free up maximum bandwidth/disk I/O) and start your transfer now you just might make it in time.
You could use an amazon EC2 server which are very fast and instant setup.

EDIT: GCM's idea is probably better.

[RyanD]

Thats a shame, we had talked to them about a purchase but it just wasn't something to be worked out at the time.

Best of luck to all the customers.

[ivor]

Why don't you contact them and buy your whole server and negociate a co-location contract with the datacentre?

[swsouft]

Thanks I'll take all this in. I just asked what the server would cost and options.

J

[net]

That's really sad.

Is it because they are financially unstable or something else?

I wonder how much they will sell their servers :-)

[Dougy]

Originally Posted by net

That's really sad.

Is it because they are financially unstable or something else?

I wonder how much they will sell their servers :-)

No business just closes because they are making money and want to stop..

[swsouft]

I asked. He is not saying why.

[RyanD]

Originally Posted by net

Is it because they are financially unstable or something else?

the were stable.

[chasebug]

Never heard of this company before, how were their services?

Their servers seem very expensive unless there are unadvertised deals I don't know about, like this one:
AMD Sempron 3400+
1GB DDR2 800 ECC
160GB SATA
10Mbps Dedicated
Unmanaged
$89/month + $29 setup fee

Upgrades are expensive too:
+1TB hard drive $55/month or $329 one-time fee
+1GB RAM $19/month or $109 one-time fee
+7GB RAM $133/month or $763 one-time fee

[chasebug]

AMD Sempron 3400+
8GB DDR2 800 ECC
2x 1000GB SATA
10Mbps Dedicated
Unmanaged

$199/month + $1,450.99 setup fee
Total Due: $1,650.98

[swsouft]

They were good. I thought the prices were fair after the onetime fee low monthly costs.

J

[garysimat]

As a notice to all OpenReaction clients, TSS has made arrangements to take over the entire clientbase. We will be sending an official announcement out in the morning with details.