top | item 42450578 (no title) notwhereyouare | 1 year ago tweet reference by another poster makes it seem like they've been around since '96 in some form discuss order hn newest nickdothutton|1 year ago Upon further digging there is a parent LLC[1] which I presume is the one predating the Vultr entity.[1]ClanServers Hosting LLC bauruine|1 year ago They where using the brand Choopa before vultr which was a thing since at least 2001. [0]EDIT: News about their brand consolidation [1][0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010405033628/http://choopa.com...[1]: https://www.constant.com/transition-to-vultr/ load replies (2) simonw|1 year ago https://www.gameservers.com/corporate/article/27/Clan-Server...June 20, 2006: "Clan Servers Announces New Identity and Launch of GameServers.com"https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-aninowsky-b1241924/ shows current role as Founder/Executive ChairmanFounder/Executive Chairman, Vultr, but also lists CEO/FounderCEO/Founder GameServers.com Mar 2003 - Feb 2021(As someone who played a bunch of TFC, UT, Quake 3 and Counter-Strike back around the turn of the century it's fun to see someone from that world who rode the wave all the way to modern GPU hosting.) wut42|1 year ago it was Choopa before being Vultr. They had other brands. Current holding has renamed to "The Constant Company" or something. load replies (1)
nickdothutton|1 year ago Upon further digging there is a parent LLC[1] which I presume is the one predating the Vultr entity.[1]ClanServers Hosting LLC bauruine|1 year ago They where using the brand Choopa before vultr which was a thing since at least 2001. [0]EDIT: News about their brand consolidation [1][0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010405033628/http://choopa.com...[1]: https://www.constant.com/transition-to-vultr/ load replies (2) simonw|1 year ago https://www.gameservers.com/corporate/article/27/Clan-Server...June 20, 2006: "Clan Servers Announces New Identity and Launch of GameServers.com"https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-aninowsky-b1241924/ shows current role as Founder/Executive ChairmanFounder/Executive Chairman, Vultr, but also lists CEO/FounderCEO/Founder GameServers.com Mar 2003 - Feb 2021(As someone who played a bunch of TFC, UT, Quake 3 and Counter-Strike back around the turn of the century it's fun to see someone from that world who rode the wave all the way to modern GPU hosting.) wut42|1 year ago it was Choopa before being Vultr. They had other brands. Current holding has renamed to "The Constant Company" or something. load replies (1)
bauruine|1 year ago They where using the brand Choopa before vultr which was a thing since at least 2001. [0]EDIT: News about their brand consolidation [1][0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010405033628/http://choopa.com...[1]: https://www.constant.com/transition-to-vultr/ load replies (2)
simonw|1 year ago https://www.gameservers.com/corporate/article/27/Clan-Server...June 20, 2006: "Clan Servers Announces New Identity and Launch of GameServers.com"https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-aninowsky-b1241924/ shows current role as Founder/Executive ChairmanFounder/Executive Chairman, Vultr, but also lists CEO/FounderCEO/Founder GameServers.com Mar 2003 - Feb 2021(As someone who played a bunch of TFC, UT, Quake 3 and Counter-Strike back around the turn of the century it's fun to see someone from that world who rode the wave all the way to modern GPU hosting.)
wut42|1 year ago it was Choopa before being Vultr. They had other brands. Current holding has renamed to "The Constant Company" or something. load replies (1)
nickdothutton|1 year ago
[1]ClanServers Hosting LLC
bauruine|1 year ago
EDIT: News about their brand consolidation [1]
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010405033628/http://choopa.com...
[1]: https://www.constant.com/transition-to-vultr/
simonw|1 year ago
June 20, 2006: "Clan Servers Announces New Identity and Launch of GameServers.com"
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-aninowsky-b1241924/ shows current role as Founder/Executive ChairmanFounder/Executive Chairman, Vultr, but also lists CEO/FounderCEO/Founder GameServers.com Mar 2003 - Feb 2021
(As someone who played a bunch of TFC, UT, Quake 3 and Counter-Strike back around the turn of the century it's fun to see someone from that world who rode the wave all the way to modern GPU hosting.)
wut42|1 year ago