Quote from: lobcmt2 on December 18, 2018, 05:51:38 AM

My question is, where is the Masternode Foundation Masternode hosting services?
How about the progress (if the project actually been alive) recent months?

Hi lobcmt2,

Good questions. While in beta the hosting looks to have been on OVH. Although not tier 1, after beta finished it was to be migrated to tier 1 providers (AWS e.t.c.). But, we aren't in a good place at the moment. The hosts that were added to the platform before the upgrades started are still online and working well. But, we haven't been able to add new hosts for months now. The lead dev isn't sharing any information at this point, so I can't say whether the project is alive, dead or otherwise at this point. I've copied his last announcement below so you have an overview of the last communication. The 60 days will be up come Jan 1st. At this point, I expect we would need to look into options and see if the project is even viable to continue, and how to do this. Considering we don't have access to the IP, I assume it would need to be some kind of community takeover, or have a person(s) lead a new team that have experience with creating hosting platforms.

I hope something is delivered by January, however, even if it is, communication will need huge improvements with someone else taking this component over, and being provided the information to do so successfully. The aggressive tone in the last announcement (below) isn't acceptable in my opinion, regardless of what is happening in someones personal life.

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As promised last week, here is an update regarding MANO services development and the projects overall situation, but before I start, there are a couple of things we need to make clear.

Without help and dedication from @-Dwigt- and @Towaberg , MANO wouldve died a long time ago. They have been extremely supportive to me and the project during these rough times and, unlike the vast majority of people Ive met here since we launched MANO, they never thought of abandoning ship when prices crashed or FUD reigned.
I express here my deepest gratitude for that and much more.

These last few days, Ive been reading all DMs and posts here and it seems that some people dont know the difference between an investor and a trader, between a delayed roadmap and an exit scam.
If you are one of these people, you should not be involved with crypto.
We all know crypto is a risky investment and yet there is not a single initial offering investor who has not gotten their investment back.

When we first planed our roadmap, we knew it was aggressive, but we were confident wed be able to deliver in time since we could dedicate exclusively to the project, sometimes, we forget to consider that life is so fragile that it could change in a matter of seconds. Its even funny to think that life itself is even more volatile than crypto.

People who ask for verifiable proof of my previous announcement, can search for that information online, call the Panama authorities and try to register a for-profit company with the word "foundation" on it.
The ones who dont believe about the websites outage reason can look for a hosting company that takes more than 25 days to suspend an account due to payment issues.
Do as you please, I am not here to explain why shit happens, what matters is that we are still here and working, but things will change from now on.

As I stated on my previous announcement, Im personally going through a very difficult time and for the last couple of weeks, Ive been trying to balance development coordination and taking care of my family.
Obviously, it is not working.

A side note regarding that, someone recently speculated that MANO is a one man show, Im flattered, but anyone with common sense can see thats ridiculous.

I know weve been over this, but most people (generally due to lack of knowledge) only pay attention to the frontend of a project, very few actually understand what happens on the backend, someone I respect a lot, recently told me You are the only ones making it the right way.

We did not started MANO to be just a masternode host" and we will not stop until we offer the services we envisioned.

Here is the revisited development schedule for the hosting and shared masternode service:

- We will continue to develop improvements and implement them as soon as possible, however to do that we will suspend our current service on October 5th (one week from now) until our new version is ready to be deployed.
At this time, we will not set a hard date for this release, but we estimate it to be between 30 and 60 days.

Communication from MANO will also change from now on:
Development updates will be posted on Twitter and announcements will be posted on Medium.

We know we have the support of the majority, so we will not waste any more time dealing with a dozen of FUDders on discord.

Thank you @everyone