Ouch. This one kind of hurts.
LowEndTalk veteran @MikePT announced today that MyW is closing up shop.
MikePT has been a LET member since 2011 and a member of the moderation team for some time. He started MyW as a shared hosting enterprise based in Portugal back in 2019. It got good review and the service seemed to be in for the long run.
Alas, not the case. Today, MyW announced they’re closing their doors – and soon.
The full text of the announcement is below. According to comments in the thread, MyW simply ran out of funds. MikePT was funding it on his own but it got beyond his means.
Logically, no lifetime offer can continue on forever because a one-time payment isn’t enough to cover decades of hosting. In this case, I think the feeling was that MyW’s non-lifetime customers would provide ongoing revenue, but apparently it wasn’t enough.
Dear MyW clients,
I still remember when we launched MyW in June, 2019 – since then, it’s been 5 years since we launched our first offer. I had expected MyW to grow further, by launching new products and trying to innovate. This was actually planned. The recent investments a few months ago to move to rented IPv4 subnets and owned IPv6 prefix, and to better hardware that’d allow us to launch our VPS offers that, due to the lack of time as I had a fulltime job, didn’t actually happen.
Unfortunately, I have lost my job recently and even tough MyW could handle the monthly bills, before we invested to better hardware and subnets, I can no longer keep this project alive. It has been a month and a half jobless, everything is due currently. From servers, to licenses, and even at the personal level (my rent, bills, etc). The money I had last month was to pay for the servers, and I tried to get a job as soon as possible so we could continue to operate. It’s no longer feasible.
It is with sadness that I announce that MyW is closing its doors. I have asked for payment extension for all our servers and subnets, but I cannot guarantee any exact time, nor prediction. Some are already well past due, and the providers we’ve been using have been more than great to me. I had high hopes that I could get a job ASAP so I could not only survive, but to keep MyW alive.
My sincere apologies for the lack of proper notification – I tried to go the extra mile and paid for everything until I can no longer pay for anything at all.
As so, I urge you to create backups as soon as possible and migrate elsewhere, I’d recommend migrating to Namecrane, Francisco is not only great, as his hardware and network is very decent. Their pricing is great, it works flawlessly.
We thank our clients for trusting us for over 5 years, it was a great experience, both professionally and personally.
Once again, my apologies for closing shop – it’s been a hell of a ride.
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What a shame it has been just 1 year, I paid them around 95 Euros for 1 year? ideally they should refund
There has been an update to the status of MyW. Looks like RouteMX will be taking over.
“Hey friend,
My name is Jarland Donnell and I’m the owner of MXroute, LLC. You recently received an email explaining that MyW will be closing it’s doors. While that email did in fact describe the facts of the matter at that time, we were able to prevent this at the last minute. MyW is in good standing with it’s vendors and will remain operational. All of the services that you have paid for will continue to function. Miguel, the founder of MyW, is an old colleague of mine and we have the type of relationship that allows me to send you this notice before we have finalized all of the details of this transition. I believe it is more important that you know that your services are not going offline than it is for you to know the details that we’re still working out. What I can tell you is that MXroute has the resources to keep MyW afloat indefinitely, regardless of it’s profitability. Presently there is no risk of your services going offline.
As we work out the finer details of this you will of course be kept in the loop. I’m sorry that I don’t have any more for you right now. Please expect that support may be limited during this time. A primary focus right now will be ensuring that everything is online and functioning as intended so as to reduce any need for you to contact support.
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Jarland Donnell"