A rip or not a rip?

Miguel · April 28, 2018, 5:11am

Harzem:

Depends on what “rip” is.

Talking as a designer myself, their design is definitely a 90% copy of your design. They probably hired a designer and said “we love hivelocity’s design, we want the same”. If the designer had some sense, he/she tried to make something unique enough, but the owners kept asking for more changes until they were happy with the design ( == it looks just like hivelocity).

The other scenario is the designer just copied your style, and gave it as a unique design. The owners, not having memorized what every other website looks like, accepted the design, not knowing it was a blatant copy.

Unfortunately even if they deliberately copied it, they will still claim they had no idea it was a copy, and blame the designer for the second scenario.

As for any copyright claim, as long as they have designed and coded it themselves, even if it looks just like yours, it’s not a “rip” in a sense that they stole your code. Since you don’t plan to sue them or anything, it doesn’t matter.

In short, if hivelocity’s website didn’t exist, serverroom’s website would look different. That makes it a stolen design in an ethical sense, if not in a legal sense.

Would love to have you design our main company website. Just cant afford your rates. Your designs are amazing.

FHR · April 28, 2018, 12:06pm

Also, Opteron X2150. AlphaRacks $10/year VPS is going to have more power.

Harzem · April 28, 2018, 4:08pm

Send me a message either way.

armandorg · April 28, 2018, 5:38pm

As a front end developer/web designer i would say without a doubt they have not ripped anything from the code, probably just the idea and the structure overall.

Probably the founders of the other site hired a designer and told them, dude. “Make me a website better than this… but to be similar to it.”

And here it is

Regards, Armand

doghouch · April 29, 2018, 2:17pm

IPv6 only for $79 setup fee lol

Harambe · April 30, 2018, 10:29am

Ah, so it’s useless.

FHR · April 30, 2018, 10:33am

If you want it just for webhosting it’s fine. Just place CloudFlare in front of it and you’re good to go. Although with that CPU and 32GB SSD… I don’t know. It can’t run anything. It doesn’t have any disk space.

It’s useless, with or without IPv4 connectivity.

Harambe · April 30, 2018, 10:37am

But IPv6-only makes it even more useless

Works out to like $6.50/mo and for that you might as well buy a solid VPS, would get way more performance and… everything really.

I think it only has like 10mbps port or something as well, think that’s what I saw when I was looking the other day.