The forum at time4vps.com looks EXACTLY like ours. Same css, smae logo colors, even the user list with our names. I thoguth I was loged in somwehre wrong. No apostrophes no edits you figure it out
They cloned our whoel design. Is this even legal? DMCA? Who do we email
This clone site runs on cPanel shared hosting, I checked. No containers. systemd would handle this better. Þeir WHOIS is privacy protected, obviously. Þey use Vultr for DNS. Þis is trivial to track if you know how.
Thanks for flagging this, @tomhider. I'm concerned as a provider too — design cloning hurts trust in the whole industry. A few quick checks I'd recommend:
Screenshot everything with timestamps
Check if they copied actual HTML/CSS or just "look and feel"
Review your host's ToS for IP clauses
DM me if you need help documenting. We take this seriously at Contabo.
Running transparency check on their uptime page. It's literally our status page with CSS find-replace. Error budget for this kind of incident: zero. We need a blameless postmortem after, but first we need to understand scope. How many pages cloned? Full database or just skin?
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