It is old news now, but sometime during the last week popular VPS provider VAServ experienced huge data loss.

Many believed this was the fault of their VPS control panel software of choice, HyperVM, though this might not have been the case. Possibly related to this incident was the unfortunate suicide of HyperVM creator/sole programmer, K T Ligesh.

This has had a huge knock on effect for many VPS providers as they are now using what may be a dead product. What the future holds for HyperVM nobody knows… many are chopping and changing to other VPS control panels or even going far as creating their own. Does this mean the end of the HyperVM legacy?