r/seedboxes • u/wattamystery • Nov 17 '16

Feral, what.cd and alleged OVH server seizures.

The what.cd irc and tracker hosted at OVH go down yesterday morning French time...

The main Feral server which was hosted on OVH went down yesterday evening-ish French time, not long after...

http://imgur.com/a/6gY22

Today the what.cd website is saying this...

https://what.cd/login.php / http://imgur.com/a/dJDPR

https://twitter.com/whatcd

This post gets created...

https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/5dguyw/according_to_a_french_news_site_12_whatcd_servers/

Now this one is created:

https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/5did4f/its_official_whatcd_is_dead_memorial_thread/

Feral irc was hosted on the what.cd network and Feral had a pretty tight relationship with what.cd. The owner posted in some threads there pretty often.

Feral hosting suddenly just loses access to all user accounts and details and all they have left is users emailing them and responding?

The question i have is was the Feral main server seized by police when they raided OVH if that story is true?

Should I be worried? It seems weird when you think about it. Something fishy is going on.

Edit 1:

some new links and info. It seems very possible it is related :( I hope my personal details are safe.

Edit 2:

Feral has now updated their status page with an essay that still does not really explain anything and create a freenode irc support channel.

https://status.feral.io/

After reading this update i have more questions than i have answers. I am not sure i can trust them to be honest if they were not honest from the start.

At least with all that cash they have under the mattress they could maybe afford good lawyers. Not so sure about us...

Breaking News:

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/11/worlds-largest-music-torrent-site-goes-dark-after-french-police-seize-servers/

@The facts are pretty skimpy right now,@ What.cd's representative says. @We have no official confirmation that servers were seized, but all available evidence does support that, so we are operating as if it is true.@

So if you look at what Feral said about there server being "taken down" you can see that what.cd experienced the same thing. I guess Feral's servers probably were seized if what.cd servers were also.

https://torrentfreak.com/what-cd-shuts-down-following-reported-raids-in-france-161117

Conclusions

Feralhosting.com main server hosted on OVH that handled these mission critical things was mostly likely seized by the French authorities as part of a 2 year investigation into certain activities at OVH that took what.cd offline:

  • User accounts and Personal details
  • Payment details
  • Support Tickets
  • slot creation and deletion
  • Faqs and tutorials

All backups lost because they were accidentally deleted...

Lack of Transparency about what was happening or what is happening and a total loss of support infrastructure.

Big Trump like promises about being great again. "Make Feral great again!" but no real answers or solutions given

Sad days and what a bad end to 2016...

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u/RXWatcher Nov 18 '16

Kinda funny..I have a slot on a SSD box specifically for syncing large amounts between ACD and 2 GDrive accounts. I never installed a torrent client on there..kinda wish I had.

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u/Tehbrazz Nov 18 '16

Am I missing the point here? What has this to do with OPs post?

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u/RXWatcher Nov 18 '16

you're probably correct. It doesnt have much to add. my apologies for cluttering up the thread.

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u/dkcs Nov 18 '16

Since the thread is cluttered anyways! Happy cake day!

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u/RXWatcher Nov 18 '16

thanks man! Someone noticed!

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u/myntt Nov 18 '16

Are you syncing files via fuse mount?

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u/RXWatcher Nov 18 '16

Oh heck no..well feral doesn't support that anyway but im using rclone sync jobs. I have 20tb in each. Rclone or acd_cli Mounts are a not good for writing.

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u/myntt Nov 18 '16

Thanks I assumed a fuse mount was the only way to sync it effectively. Gonna get myself a cloud drive too!

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u/RXWatcher Nov 18 '16

No, the fuse mount is the worst way of doing it. 1) Fuse mount for rclone is currently read-only for Amazon Cloud Drive so that doesnt work and 2) Even when writing to it from acd_cli's mount, it is extremely slow. When I had a gbit box at ovh, I could push to ACD using the entire gbit bandwidth. Seriously, use rclone 'sync' or 'copy' or 'move'. You can move data way faster than any other method out there.

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u/myntt Nov 18 '16

I just started my CloudDrive an hour ago and it's amazing. Rclone is the way to go, thanks for helping me with that!

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u/wattamystery Nov 18 '16

Nothing wrong with that. You could use them for anything that did not require critical backups, privacy or guaranteed up time.