Francisco at BuyVM likes talk a lot about shilling. Allow me to contribute then. My name is Adam, some of you may know me, some of you may not. I was one of the first LEB hosts from the start of LowEndBox when running HostLatch, and I used to own one of the most prominent managed VPS companies a couple years ago (VPSLatch). Essentially, Francisco and I were great friends during the time I owned my hosting business, but after I sold VL we lost contact and goes around spreading lies about my personality and whatnot. Whether or not this is an act to make himself look as a trustworthy source or not is something I am not sure of, what I suspect is that he believes he can say anything without repercussions/consequences and thinks I won't respond because I am no longer in the hosting industry. This is not true, I may not be in the hosting industry but I maintain several connections who keep me up to date from time to time.
In the following album you are about to see, "plug" basically refers to asking to recommend me in a thread (shilling).
Francisco and I had an agreement to plug each other on WHT, I have kept it to myself for so long but felt it would only be fair to reveal the truth because of the allegations he's spreading about VPSLatch and myself.
I admit it wasn't extremely ethical for either of us to be doing this, but when you see Francisco talking about shilling and acting like he knows everything it honestly had to be done. I was young at the time, and have learned from my experiences. However, that was honestly the one and only shilling ring going on at VPSLatch, the rest were unintentional (i.e. LoyaltyV, wrote review before he even became an active staff member).
In the screenshot album, you will find BuyVM runs nested VMs to sell VPS to customers. BuyVM customers are getting a VPS on top of a VPS on a physical host. The way it works is he uses VMWare/XenCenter on a physical host, and runs 4-5 VMs (referred to as slabs in the screenshot) and inside those slabs are OpenVZ VPS nodes.
What does he gain from this? Well, VMWare has memory deduplication and whatnot, so he is able to save plenty of memory across any node that has the same process running (such as cpanel, openvpn, you get the picture).
On 4/8/11, Francisco stated the following:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=7383441&posted=1#post7383441
What exactly does "** *** *** ** *********** *** *****" stand for? "We Use Xen to Consolidate Our Nodes"
~Adam
EX HostLatch/VPSLatch Owner