Goodnight and Goodbye
Dear Cosmos Hosting customers and friends,
Unfortunately today, as of 29th July 2014, we are announcing the beginning of the closure of our hosting services. We’ve had an extremely good run from our early days in the spring months of 2012 to the summer of 2014 (spanning more than 2 years of server hosting) however we, the Cosmos Hosting team, believe it is time to move on and that this is the best time to do it.
Since all of us are students attending University and College we have found that the time constraints put upon us are limiting and in order to move forward we have to drop some of our hobbies. One of these hobbies is, regretfully, our server hosting group. Our initial aim when we set up Cosmos was to provide cheap, reliable servers for many communities while allowing the server boxes we owned to pay for themselves. This is no longer the case.
We managed to do this for the entirety of 2012 and up to late 2013. Since then both the amount of servers we host and the amount of income we were receiving has dwindled drastically and it has now reached the point where it is no longer feasible for us to continue. The main reason for this is our competition. When we began hosting M&B: Warband servers it was only a small group of independent hosters who provided servers for the game and now we have large companies coming in which can beat us hands down for both price and the availability of support. With this sort of competition, we stand no chance of being able to grow as a business and therefore have no other option to take.
We would like to take this chance to thank all past and present customers for supporting us through our years of providing servers for the masses. We have enjoyed our time running them for many groups and have enjoyed watching those groups grow to become popular gaming communities.
Our services will not be taken down immediately. We will continue to function until the end of August, during which you can download and backup any data you may have stored that you would like to keep. Your servers will continue to run until the end of their billing period.
Thank you Once again.
The Cosmos Hosting team,
Rackio, Av3ng3r and Wolfstar.