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We will be shutting down the Plesk server LAX2.

If you are still using this server, please request migration to LA2 (if you need a site in the same region).

Just saw this now and I support the third option.

-Allowing the existing customers to stay on the system as long as they desire, but this will require us to finally get rid of all of the extra Plesk servers to bring our costs down.

Hopefully we can get legitimate customers like what h3rb1 said.

-Allowing the existing customers to stay on the system as long as they desire, but this will require us to finally get rid of all of the extra Plesk servers to bring our costs down.

I Agree with this option. The service and offerings has gotten better over the years and I personally would like it to stay.

Would a "referral" or "authentication" system work for new sign-ups?
So, this way current customers could invite "trusted" friends that may want to sign-up (2 per year), hopefully that curb fraudulent accounts

Yes, this is something we will consider.  Thank you for the suggestion.

-Allowing the existing customers to stay on the system as long as they desire, but this will require us to finally get rid of all of the extra Plesk servers to bring our costs down.

I Agree with this option. The service and offerings has gotten better over the years and I personally would like it to stay.

Would a "referral" or "authentication" system work for new sign-ups?
So, this way current customers could invite "trusted" friends that may want to sign-up (2 per year), hopefully that curb fraudulent accounts

Unfortunately, we have been forced to disable signups due to an influx of fraudulent accounts being created that are then used for phishing websites, spam, etc.
This event caused a disruption of service to any client on our NYC server today for about 5 hours.  This server is also where our billing and support system along with this forum are located.

We are evaluating our next steps.  Some options we are considering:

-Shutting down the entire service and refunding the unused portion.
-Keeping signup disabled and servicing the existing customers until their end of term.
-Allowing the existing customers to stay on the system as long as they desire, but this will require us to finally get rid of all of the extra Plesk servers to bring our costs down.

Please feel free to post any suggestions on this thread.

Thank you.

Do you mean those who are in the old Plesk servers must migrate to the cPanel servers in order to continue the FreePgs service?

So, we need to really call the attention of all FreePgs members and remind to all that they really need to update their scripts, REALLY, as to secure and safeguard the service.

Well, I have no doubts in choosing FreePgs.com since 2004 the best web hosting service I have ever experience at all, all hail FreePgs.com! Cheers!

My account has been suspended. I received no email about the east server being disabled. This is the first time I have seen this...

Unfortunately, due to the number of users that have failed to keep their scripts up to date and/or their credentials secure, we are forced to start shutting down this service.  We can continue all cPanel operations as there are more safeguards in place, however, users will still need to keep their scripts updated.

west1.lvcs.net
 OS EOL -- Must migrate

west.lvcs.net
 Old PHP versions

east.lvcs.net
 Phasing out use of Plesk panel

lax2.lvcs.net
 Hardware problems and phasing out use of Plesk panel

If your account is on one of these servers, please email plesk at lvcs dot net for more information to migrate to one of our new servers.
Please ping the following servers and let us know which of these has the lowest response time.

eu2.lvcs.net
la2.lvcs.net
nyc.lvcs.net

The name service had stopped due to an invalid DNS record Plesk allowed a user to create.

Yes, you really need to migrate to one of our new systems.  Please email plesk at lvcs dot net.

You will want to ping the following servers and determine which one is closest to you.  If you were on the closest server, the new replacement is la2.lvcs.net.

Here are all of the available servers:

eu2.lvcs.net
la2.lvcs.net
nyc.lvcs.net

So what (if anything) do I do if my stuff is on west? Do I need to sign up somewhere or something?

Asking because chrome tells me that the SSL certificate on https://west.lvcs.net:8443 is now 200+ days past expiry.

And the nameservice on west appears not to be running right now:


sven@ ~
$  nslookup NS1.WEST.LVCS.NET 8.8.8.8
Non-authoritative answer:
Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

Name:    NS1.WEST.LVCS.NET
Address:  50.62.148.171

sven@ ~
$ ping NS1.WEST.LVCS.NET

Pinging ns1.west.lvcs.net [50.62.148.171] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 50.62.148.171: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=52
Reply from 50.62.148.171: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=52
Reply from 50.62.148.171: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=52


sven@ ~
$  nslookup NS1.WEST.LVCS.NET NS1.WEST.LVCS.NET

*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  50.62.148.171

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.



(I paid for 3 years last time, so I don't get payment emails,
so I might have missed some information somewhere. Probably my fault.
Sorry in advance if that's the case.)