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Upon further digging there is a parent LLC[1] which I presume is the one predating the Vultr entity.

[1]ClanServers Hosting LLC

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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/

Good old memories working in the adult industry

You seem to be getting downvoted, but as a former Vultr employee I can confirm this is correct

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.)

it was Choopa before being Vultr. They had other brands. Current holding has renamed to "The Constant Company" or something.

All of this just makes me suspicious, perhaps unnecessarily so. I'm old enough to remember ENRON stashing a load of debt in their various "Raptor" LLCs before the final implosion.

I get you! In this case it was mostly legitimate. Each brand had a segment; just like Vultr had the cloud segment. It only ate the other ones.

I don't see why Constant exist now tho that it's all Vultr.

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