Hello, I have not slept for the second day. I am an IT marketer, in every sense: an IT specialist who went into marketing. That is, I have several projects that I help promote, including online advertising, SEO, content, etc. And now several of my side projects have been covered with a copper basin for more than 30 hours. This is a nightmare that really happened. And it’s completely wild and stupid to compare it with the situation with NGINX, as the author of the article did, outlining the position of one of the parties. So, 30 hours ago ihor hosting fell. And I'll tell you why this is a black mark for all of us.
What's happening?
And we do not need to delve into what is happening. In short, one entrepreneur is trying to squeeze out the assets of Ihor hosting from another, while one, judging by the statements and photos and videos from the field, cut off the data center’s power supply and covered the router, and the other clamped down on billing and this two-headed hamayun is tearing apart the hosting, on which thousands of sites hang, from the largest communities and sites to small online stores, 1C databases, coursework, diplomas, pet projects, etc. There are also dedicated servers with serious databases, architectures, and monitoring of different companies. So, all these guys, whose projects are hanging on the dead servers of Aichor, don’t care at all whose flash drive is sticking out in the port - what matters to them is that because of the conflict of 4 adult men with signs of infantilism and hysteria, this is what is happening.
- People are losing traffic, which, after recovery, will drop significantly due to pessimization, and we all will have about 30-40% of the usual volume.
- People run the risk of running into sanctions from search engines, up to and including a ban, and falling out of the search results (search engines, you understand, with all their desire and sympathy, will not be able to slow down the search robot algorithm because of Aichor’s fakap).
- Online stores and websites of commercial companies are losing New Year's sales - the same sales that sometimes account for almost 20% of the whole year. The new year is irrevocably ruined.
- While everyone is chopping salads and skiing, the victims will continue to painstakingly restore what has been lost.
- From all sides there are huge losses and lost profits, which, by the way, are extremely untenable in the claims of Russian law enforcement practice.
That is, at any time we can depend on 2-5 people, together with our business, staff, and developments.
Why is it stupid to compare with NGINX?
Honestly, I'm even embarrassed to write this paragraph, because I'm dragging myself into this moronic comparison. The situation with nginx is a serious dispute of large capitals behind which there are huge companies. There is no idiot who “turns off the switch”, there is a different technology and a different level. Yes, we all (and my side projects) made a blackout on the topic “a world without nginx”, but we still knew that the huge IT community (how Habr thundered, Habr, you are space!) and reasonable capitalists would not let this story downhill Although initially the situation looked like greetings from the 90s, she was met in a very adult way.
The situation with Aichor looks bad: the dismantling of several men is stealing money from business, from its most unprotected and dependent part - small and slightly medium-sized businesses. At the most inopportune moment in terms of cash flow! That is, the reaction is immediate: here it is, action, and that’s it, subscribers stand there spit upon, pull backups (whoever had them), look for hosting and lose money, lose blood that is needed for the next year.
Already in two threads, among the curses of these 4 men, I read the same comment: but Pavel Durov did not steal data, servers, databases, did not turn off the valves, but left and made another cool project. I have a response to this comment. Durov, despite his controversial figure, is an IT specialist, a developer, a person who knows the value of clients and people who have trusted him. With his behavior, first of all, he did not let down the users, did not let down those guys who started a micro-business on VKontakte (by the way, the same thing happened with Telegram). And the guys from Ikhor are not IT specialists, they are businessmen with rotten principles who think only about money. They didn’t even have enough gray matter to understand that their dismantling had sucked out the entire subscriber base, and the community hated them all - it’s unlikely that we will get involved in a project where we will meet the names of these participants in the redistribution (I don’t mention it, I don’t want to). And there cannot be a right side here: both could not agree, both do not value subscribers and the work of IT specialists, the most hosting-dependent work.
Why are we so naive?
I’m probably in all the chats dedicated to this situation: official and unofficial, private, etc. And in each chat there are 300-600 people who talk live about what they have lost and are losing. And it’s scary, scary in scale and... doom. This is what I saw.
- People believed in Aihor, many call his pluses and believe that everything will return and be fine. And they will stay with him!
- IT people didn’t make backups or kept them on the same server - I’m sincerely freaking out and I hope that this will be a great lesson for everyone. Friends, keep backups on another server or on your own. It's your money and nerves.
- People are quite skeptical and proud of discount offers, which is cool.
- Competitors flocked to chats no worse than hawks on the battlefield.
- There are a lot of fakes, false information and trolling in chats (not to be confused with humor). This is inappropriate in a situation where people, I'm not afraid of this word, are in trouble.
- Ihor subscribers do not think about what will happen next: will they sell and merge their database, will they bring them to a new hosting, which will actually be the brainchild of the old owners, will they throw them with backups and servers, etc. There are more emotions than advice and analysis. This is a bad sign.
- No one reacted to the previous beacons and signs that Aihor was over (it was predictable, and there were already situations and dumps).
- There are almost no thoughts to solve this story in the legal field: class actions, courts, RKN, fines, etc. And this is not because IT people are smart to save everything, and passive, so as not to waste time. This is just such a level of legal culture in the country, alas.
Friends, I suggest everyone to be careful with those who have already turned out to be unscrupulous businessmen. Fortunately, there are many hosting services in Russia. If placement in Russia is not critical, even more so. Such people need to be punished with rubles, then we can keep our IT industry honest and transparent, where we, even without knowing each other, are collaborators, not enemies.
Source: habr.com