Here's what I think.
About 4 years ago, I came across a notice in a newsgroup that a company was seeking programmers to assist in the development of a new free operating system. So I went to the site and checked it out. Thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
So I hopped onto the band wagon, and after exchanging lengthy emails with the "President" of this company, I was elected to help create the grahical interface. I did a lot of research, made a lot of plans, communicated with a lot of people, even created a pseduo-plan for a new type of file system.
Well I won't get into the gnitty-gritty, but the "President" and his "Partner" turned out to be a bunch of kids mooching off everyone. The website he had, was made by another web designer who volunteered his services. This president was a 14 year old kid in Nigeria. He managed to get another guy on his team who programmed an OS kernel before. His partner was a slightly older kid who did some web programming work and had a website domain similar to his, which is how they met.
We all got screwed because this kid did such a good job of conjuring up something that wasn't real.
A few weeks ago somebody suggested Cyberwings as a good server to sign up with. I looked at their site, which posted info about moving to another location over the holiday. I waited not to sign up until after. After reading the stuff on CWSTATUS.com, reading the BS on the chat room logs, etc. I have come this conclusion:
Shawn, i.e., CEO of Cyberwings, is just some kid who has older servers setup in his apartment probably running on frame relay.
My guess is he couldn't pay his bill, or maybe the "move" he talked about was a residential move, and the reason the servers have been down is because he couldn't get a connection to his home fast enough - and everything is slow when it's up because he is on Cable modem or something.
And I'm also guessing he couldn't afford any backup software/hardware and maybe dropped a server during the move or tried upgrading the OS and accidentally wiped out the drive - who knows, but just reading how this guy talks reminds so much of this other guy that screwed me - it just sounds like his stature isn't legitimate.
In other words, you guys were owned.
