07.10.2013, 00:43
Hi all,
If you haven't already been alerted about this, on September 1st I officially sold Volt Host to Serverminds LLC, a hosting company in the Netherlands. I'm posting this message to let anyone interested in the reasons know why, reassure any concerns you may have about the future of the brand and to post the official PR release. If I'm breaking any rules, please send me a PM so that I can make modifications to this thread.
I sold Volt Host because I have a lot of other commitments outside of running the host and it was getting to a point where I was unable to work alongside our team to provide the high quality service our customers are used to while staying fully committed to my other work. For those who don't know, I study computer science at a university in Canada, research in the field of artificial intelligence (at the same university), run a student community for programming and I'm currently starting to become more involved in working in another industry.
I worked through several offers with several different companies over this summer trying to find the best company to take on Volt Host and address many of the problems that have become prevalent recently (at Volt and in general with the game hosting industry). For those who know me well, they know that I don't care about money too much, and with Volt, the most important thing for me was to find a company that can do better than I can (this was literally the first thing I detailed when I discussed this with any prospective company).
In the end I agreed to an offer from Serverminds LLC, a hosting company that has been around for a while and definitely has experience in the game hosting industry. They have a strong team of full time programmers and other staff that can manage Volt Host. Additionally, they are a company that has access to enough hardware to provide excellent DDoS protection. They have many full time employees and are continually upsizing their team. All of this means one thing for you: better service and better servers.
In my opinion, these guys are going to do great (which is why I chose them) and you should definitely show them as much support as you can. We should all be seeing a new, future proof line of server products coming out of Volt over the next few months and I hope you're all as excited as I am about that.
I'm still working with them to help their developers get through the source code and get a handle on everything that's in the system I built over the past few years. Over the next month to two they should be introducing stuff such as VPS, voice servers, fully DDoS protected servers and several non-service related things such as a long overdue redesign.
If you have any questions, concerns, comments (or anything else), please post them here or feel free to email me personally at mark.prokoudine@gmail.com and I'll do my best to answer you.
Here is a copy of the press release:
Kind Regards,
Mark Prokudin
If you haven't already been alerted about this, on September 1st I officially sold Volt Host to Serverminds LLC, a hosting company in the Netherlands. I'm posting this message to let anyone interested in the reasons know why, reassure any concerns you may have about the future of the brand and to post the official PR release. If I'm breaking any rules, please send me a PM so that I can make modifications to this thread.
I sold Volt Host because I have a lot of other commitments outside of running the host and it was getting to a point where I was unable to work alongside our team to provide the high quality service our customers are used to while staying fully committed to my other work. For those who don't know, I study computer science at a university in Canada, research in the field of artificial intelligence (at the same university), run a student community for programming and I'm currently starting to become more involved in working in another industry.
I worked through several offers with several different companies over this summer trying to find the best company to take on Volt Host and address many of the problems that have become prevalent recently (at Volt and in general with the game hosting industry). For those who know me well, they know that I don't care about money too much, and with Volt, the most important thing for me was to find a company that can do better than I can (this was literally the first thing I detailed when I discussed this with any prospective company).
In the end I agreed to an offer from Serverminds LLC, a hosting company that has been around for a while and definitely has experience in the game hosting industry. They have a strong team of full time programmers and other staff that can manage Volt Host. Additionally, they are a company that has access to enough hardware to provide excellent DDoS protection. They have many full time employees and are continually upsizing their team. All of this means one thing for you: better service and better servers.
In my opinion, these guys are going to do great (which is why I chose them) and you should definitely show them as much support as you can. We should all be seeing a new, future proof line of server products coming out of Volt over the next few months and I hope you're all as excited as I am about that.
I'm still working with them to help their developers get through the source code and get a handle on everything that's in the system I built over the past few years. Over the next month to two they should be introducing stuff such as VPS, voice servers, fully DDoS protected servers and several non-service related things such as a long overdue redesign.
If you have any questions, concerns, comments (or anything else), please post them here or feel free to email me personally at mark.prokoudine@gmail.com and I'll do my best to answer you.
Here is a copy of the press release:
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Serverminds acquires Volt-Host, a Canadian Game Service Provider (GSP) NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Amsterdam, NL September 1, 2013 - IT solutions provider Serverminds announces today their acquisition of Volt-Host. Volt-Host is a Game Service Provider offering a wide arrange of Gameservers to a steady amount of customers. Volt-Host has serves clients from all over the world with a main focus on providing SA:MP, MTA and Minecraft Gameservers. Serverminds is excited with the new addition to it’s company and is making the customer satisfaction along with the improvement and growth of the business it’s main priority. Volt-Host will continue to be a separate entity with an extended team of technicians who are experienced in supporting and optimizing Gameservers. Within the next few days all clients will be informed about the steps Volt Host is taking to improve the reliability and performance off all services rendered. The last few days have been very hectic for the old and new Management team by a series of DDoS Attacks on the entire cluster of servers as well as some individual node crashes. As these issues occured in the middle of the transition process there has been a lot of confusion within our client base for which we deeply appologize. Serverminds is currently going through the feedback provided on the Volt-Host uservoice (https://volthost.uservoice.com/forum...st-suggestions) to decide on the improvements that need to be made and the urgency thereof based on the amount of votes. About Serverminds Serverminds is headquartered in The Netherlands and provides it’s services to clients via multiple Datacenter Locations around the globe. Serverminds is focused on world-class, high-performance delivery of superior technology solutions. We are passionate about providing the right, rather than the most lucrative, solution for our customers. |
Mark Prokudin
