Another EIG acquisition, who survived?

Another one! EIG buying KnownHost! That's six in four years! Who's left standing!

I tracked the body count:

• 2019: HostHatch — support went from 2 hour to 2 weeks in 6 months!
• 2021: Leaseweb — prices "harmonized" up 40%!
• 2022: InterServer — cPanel licenses "bundled" whether you wanted or not!
• 2023: Hostinger — entire chat support team "redundant"!
• 2024: pinecloud — "migration to enhanced platform" that broke everything!
• 2025: now KnownHost! Whose turn next!

I got 8 boxes with KnownHost! Migrating starts now!

Who else is trapped in the EIG death spiral! Speak up!

This hits different

EIG playbook I've seen:

• Acquire at 3-4x revenue multiple
• Immediately "optimize" support (cut 60% staff)
• Raise prices 18-24 months later
• Blame "market conditions"

My $/GB/RAM on KnownHost was 0.012, now post-announcement I'm calculating migration cost at 0.019 with Hetzner https://www.hetzner.com/cloud. Painful but necessary.

Funny thing: my oldest EIG box is HostHatch from 2019, still running because I automated around their breakage. It's zombie infrastructure at this point.

Former KnownHost employee here. Left 2023. Can confirm "integration playbook" exists, saw draft.

Steps in my country we would call hostile:
- support ticket targets increased from 4 hour to 72 hour "to align with portfolio standards"
- intentional degradation of legacy control panel, push to "unified platform"
- "voluntary migration" with 90 day notice, actual capacity on new platform 40% less

I did not work on this directly. Saw document in shared drive. Left for ethical reason.

Can answer practical question but not legal.