Contabo skin or not, 3 years at €4 is longer than most "real" hosts last in that bracket.
Aren't we all.
Has anyone actually pushed the 1TB bandwidth to see what happens? Curious if there's a hard cap or if they just start ignoring tickets.
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18 days quiet so I will ask
Did you get any migration notice or just dead one morning
My KnownHost shared is also Contabo under the hood and now I wonder if I should start backups
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25 days and nobody asked the obvious — did anyone actually try to *move* off Leaseweb
I tried last month, cPanel backup was 400MB for a 10GB account, turns out they don't include the "unlimited" email storage in the archive
Still, $12 and three years of not thinking about hosting is probably the best value in this entire forum
Anyone got a current ticket response time from "Dave"
I'm still thinking about this thread.
62 days, figured this thread was done but here I am.
Honestly that's the part that would spook me more than the Dave situation. Not the version itself, just that they haven't bumped it to 8.2 or 8.3 to look alive. Stagnant stack smells like "we touch nothing and hope the server keeps spinning."
Still, three years is three years. I've had "real" hosts with worse uptime. Did you ever try pushing that bandwidth limit or were the WordPress sites light enough that 1TB was theoretical anyway
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87 days and nobody asked the obvious
Did anyone ever test this
I opened three tickets same hour, all signed "Dave", same greeting pattern
Fourth ticket I asked "are you the same Dave from March"
Reply: "Yes I remember your issue"
There is no memory, there is no Dave
Still my invoice says $12 so I don't ask too loud
149 days, guess we're all still waiting for the other shoe to drop
Honestly that's the part that scares me most. 8.1 goes security-EOL in november, "Dave" gonna patch or we all learning how to fence wordpress on a toaster
My 2022 Contabo skin died when they did a "server migration" that was just them forgetting to move my account. No backup, no sorry, just ticket closed as resolved with a smiley
Wonder if Leaseweb's "dave" has ever done a migration or if they're still on the original 2019 box
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152 days and nobody mentions the PHP 8.1
That's the real crime here, not the lifetime deal economics
I had a Hetzner skin back when they were still KnownHost resellers, died in four months but at least they gave me PHP 8.2
Dave answering tickets in 48h is honestly better support than half the "real" hosts I've paid real money for
Did anyone ever actually push the 1TB to see what happens
177 days, nice round number for a resurrection
My OVHcloud "lifetime" deal from the same era still limps along too, though they bumped me to PHP 8.2 last year which broke two ancient plugins I was too lazy to update
The "Dave" thing is real across multiple skins, I got "Sarah" at mine for 18 months then she vanished and "Dave" appeared with the same typing cadence
Has anyone actually tried to push the bandwidth limit on these grandfathered setups? I always assumed the 1TB was a fiction they'd enforce the second you tested it
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192 days and nobody asked the obvious — did anyone else actually renew
I was about to grab the same Leaseweb deal last year but held off when I saw the checkout page still listed PHP 7.4 "coming soon"
Has anyone here tried migrating OUT of Leaseweb
My guess is the backup tool is "coming soon" too
