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What's the weirdest 'free bonus' you've gotten with hosting?

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This.

#22

Free "migration assistance" that consisted of a shell script they ran as root without asking, which chmod -R 777 /var/www and left a .sql dump in the webroot. I found it via Google dork two weeks later. Host refused to acknowledge it was their script because the timestamp was during "unmanaged hours."

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Did anyone else get the cryptocurrency wallet thing or was wendy singled out? KnownHost's pricing starts at $3.50, that margin cannot support hardware giveaways unless they are buying pallets of failed ICO merch.

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deer_goat said:
Did anyone else get the cryptocurrency wallet thing

I asked in their ticket system. They said it was a "limited promotional partnership" and could not confirm how many were sent. The subdomain that served firmware was wallet-update.knownhostcdn.com, which is not on their main domain and resolves to a Cloudflare error page now. I assume the promotion ended when the partner did.

Have you tried restarting it?

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