Shit like this witch hunt is the reason why coinsmarkets is taking such a long ass time to come back online.
1) People fudding coinsmarkets leads to
2) Gandi repossessing coinsmarkets.com which leads to
3) The Coinsmarkets team fighting several days to take back possession of coinsmarkets.com which leads to
4) The Coinsmarkets team spending several more days trying to find a more reasonable and secure web host that respects privacy (anonymousspeech -
https://www.anonymousspeech.com/) which leads up to
5) The Coinsmarkets team having to reconfigure everything all fucking over again which will take several more days.
6) Also, guess what? You guys are bitching about how before the database was fixed and now it's corrupted again? Well, guess what, when switching web hosts, your database is at risk for corruption during the switch -
6a) "Key #4. Database: Theres risk where your database could be corrupted during the switch. For the ease of discussion we will focus on just WordPress in this point."
6b) Source:
https://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/web-hosting-guides/switching-web-host/7) So what's the result? It'll take even more days for the database to be functional again.
Now let's do the math, I'll LOWBALL it all and say it should take no more than 2-3 BUSINESS days to fix the problems aforementioned.
i) coinsmarkets team fighting gandi for possession of the coinsmarkets.com domain (3 days)
ii) coinsmarkets team spends time researching for a webhost and finds one (2 days)
iii) coinsmarkets team now has to reconfigure their servers (2-3 days)
iv) coinsmarkets team now has to fix the database corruption that occurred DUE to the webhost switching (3-4 days)
Adding all of that up together, it appears to be anywhere from 10-12 BUSINESS days, so when you include waiting for Saturday & Sunday to pass, it's more like 14-16 days of wasted time.
I'm also sure I missed a few spots, but in any case, let that sink in for you guys. If it weren't for us fucking with Gandi:
a) coinsmarkets.com wouldn't have been repossessed
b) coinsmarkets team wouldn't have had to find another, more reliable webhost
c) coinsmarkets team wouldn't have had to reconfigure their servers FOR the new webhost
d) coinsmarkets team wouldn't have had to fix database corruption (which they fixed for Gandi) FOR the new webhost (anonymousspeech)
That's the summary of all of this. You are your own worst enemy. I completely agree that coinsmarkets sucked ass at fucking communicating, but now you have to realize that we shot ourselves in the foot by playing with fire. We could've just waited patiently and everything would've been done by late/end of January. Instead, we're now approaching mid-February and it might take a little while longer.
At the very minimum we've cost the team 2 whole weeks' worth of time...But considering how inefficient and small the coinsmarkets team is, a more realistic expectation is to take the amount of time wasted and add another week to it, so 3 weeks give or take a few days.
Merit sent. Good post and a fair breakdown of possible delays. Very thoughtful and not just an easy way out "scam" accusation like we tend to see. I will play devil's advocate just a bit though and say that everyone's patience is very thin by this point. Not only that but how long does it really take to simply write out a few updates on their 'news' tab? That would make everyone relax a lot more. There would still be people calling and interfering but maybe not as much. And besides that, the more time goes by the angrier people are getting.
You did a really good job quantifying delays but what about quantifying lost opportunity and profit by these delays? I don't doubt losses tally will into the millions as well as many thousands lost by CM for simply not getting trade fees. I don't mean that to take away from your post. Just trying to see both sides of the argument.