Nimbus hosting - Now terrible - September 2025

[Ferry]

Plus they are bad bad people also because they have exercised their freedom to not have an X account

Mr. Lucky, don’t do the mental gymnastics. WebArchive proves Krystal had a twitter link in 2024 and then removed it. That’s not "exercising freedom" in a vacuum, that’s a deliberate branding decision. And no, nobody said they’re "bad bad people", that’s your strawman. Pointing out a choice is not the same as declaring someone evil, for most people it’s called reading signals. Companies signal who they want to attract; usually customers notice that. I noticed that too.

If you want to defend Krystal, defend their uptime, support, privacy and pricing, not with cheap sarcasm about how removing X link is morally neutral.

 

[RobParker]

Trying to figure out if this is a cloudflare issue or Nimbus issue.

Since we were forced to "upgrade" our Nimbus server, any adsense revenue has dropped off a cliff and is practically nothing. Adsense is failing to crawl the site and can't find ads.txt which I think is the cause. I don't know if that's a proble with nimbus or if there's something that cloudflare is doing to block the adsense crawler (which seems a common problem!).

Anyone any ideas?

 

[ES Dev Team]

Since Tim at Nimbus Hosting sold out, the new owners aren't very good. Poor and slow support from pretty much the day they bought it.

Nimbus weren't perfect, but they were a lot better than this outfit.

Anyone know of a decent alternative that includes UK based human support. Ideally not just 9am-5pm. Upgrades done out of UK working hours. Someone picks up the phone who knows what they are talking about.

We have xenforo, wordpress install and magento hosted.

Many thanks

I have extensive experience managing all 3 softwares ( including modifying the software ) if you are okay working with an individual in the USA and still need someone.
Hosting bill: you pay that directly
Server management: you pay by the hour. No monthly fees outside of work you need.

 

[RobParker]

Anyone still with Nimbus?

I’ve just realised our site has been inactive since midday as it looks like they’re blocking nginx requests while they try to fix this PHP security issue.

No communication at all from them though and annoyingly I know we’re running old XF on 8.1 so this is probably going to be a mess to solve and the sooner they communicate their plan the quicker I can start.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Anyone still with Nimbus?

I’ve just realised our site has been inactive since midday as it looks like they’re blocking nginx requests while they try to fix this PHP security issue.

No communication at all from them though and annoyingly I know we’re running old XF on 8.1 so this is probably going to be a mess to solve and the sooner they communicate their plan the quicker I can start.

As its Nimbus I would not hold your breath. I switched from Nimbus to @MattW who has been working on this all day as well as keeping all his customers updated with advice and progress via his support forum

 

[RobParker]

As its Nimbus I would not hold your breath. I switched from Nimbus to @MattW who has been working on this all day as well as keeping all his customers updated with advice and progress via his support forum

Yeah, I think I need to bite the bullet and move :-(

 

[RobParker]

Anyone heard anything from Nimbus beyond this status page?

 

[Slavik]

Anyone still with Nimbus?

I’ve just realised our site has been inactive since midday as it looks like they’re blocking nginx requests while they try to fix this PHP security issue.

No communication at all from them though and annoyingly I know we’re running old XF on 8.1 so this is probably going to be a mess to solve and the sooner they communicate their plan the quicker I can start.

I just got the last of my customers who servers I managed updated. Most were fixed before they even knew of the problem and emailed me

 

[RobParker]

I just got the last of my customers who servers I managed updated. Most were fixed before they even knew of the problem and emailed me

They replied to the ticket telling me to disable the multipart fix if I wanted, they're working on the patches. No ETA.

 

[Cricko]

They have been "down" now for 24 hours. It really is not good enough and we as a very busy football forum, well it just leaves us in limbo. I have been with Tim Dunton since GG days and since he has left Nimbus have been a complete failure and i will be looking for a new server.

 

[philmckrackon]

They have been "down" now for 24 hours. It really is not good enough and we as a very busy football forum, well it just leaves us in limbo. I have been with Tim Dunton since GG days and since he has left Nimbus have been a complete failure and i will be looking for a new server.

I am assuming they took everything down due to the explicit PHP exploit that was acknowledged but they were slow and are slow to patch.
I upgraded my servers within hours as did many others.

 

[RobParker]

I am assuming they took everything down due to the explicit PHP exploit that was acknowledged but they were slow and are slow to patch.
I upgraded my servers within hours as did many others.

They didn’t take anything down (or tell customers) but they just did the mitigations, the multi part stuff, etc. They’re rolling the patches out in stages now. They say they’re patching 8.1 too.