The Future of NATVPS UK and Micronode

Micronode

TL;DR
NatVPS and Micronode will stop providing the Micronode resource pooling platform and VPS’ from January 1st 2026. (Yes I know it’s over a year away).

As our services are offered annually I am giving as much notice as possible before renewals.

This is not a topic that I wanted to write but as always I want to be as transparent as possible especially as Black Friday renewals are coming up shortly.

Natvps and Micronode are projects that I started back in 2021 to keep myself busy during the 2nd half of the pandemic lockdowns. I never imagined that 3 years later we’d have gathered so many great clients, moved away from the mainstream VPS hosting platforms (WHMCS, solusvm etc) to a completely custom billing, support and management panel with servers in 9 locations worldwide.

Whilst the project has not been a great success financially we have managed to provide a fairly solid service for very little money giving almost anybody the opportunity to have servers in multiple locations and the ability to setup high availability.

The project has and continues to take up a huge amount of my time both in terms of support and maintenance and at this point in my life I need to spend more time with Family and actually have some downtime rather than working around the clock.

I’m not deadpooling the project or going out with a bunch of drama, Im simply stopping renewals from January 1st 2025 and the service will be retired on January 1st 2026.

This is not financially motivated and the servers are all on 12 month contracts - this isn’t an exit scam or a way to get a final chunk of money from renewals.

Black Friday Renewals:
Our Black Friday renewal reductions will still take place - credits will start from £6 and will as always be valid for 12 months although this time they cannot be extended past the 12 month mark.

The Black Friday reductions will be in place from the 24th until the 30th December.

An email will follow for current customers and we will make every effort to assist in enabling you to migrate.

If any existing providers want to continue to project after January 1st 2026 I’m open to a conversation.

AuroraZero

Pm me let me know what you wish to do

ehab

Thanks for the early heads up

i had fun with those vms and used as a wireguard vpn's .. they worked when i needed them

lets see if i renew one last time.

but all the best wishes to you/family and upcoming projects.

AuroraZero

@ehab said:
Thanks for the early heads up

i had fun with those vms and used as a wireguard vpn's .. they worked when i needed them

lets see if i renew one last time.

but all the best wishes to you/family and upcoming projects.

You better renew

yoursunny

We have decided not to purchase another Micronode credit, even if it's £6 dealz on Black Friday.
microLXC now allows creating multiple containers with a cap on total RAM, so that Micronode has become redundant for us.
Moreover, the /128 address space and outdated OpenVZ technology crippled the usefulness of our Micronode account.

@yoursunny said:
Prediction:
Come November, many £5~10 dealz recipients will become former customer of MicroNode.

With the discontinuation of Micronode platform, we'd like to see its source code released under BSD license.

bliss

Great service in 2022, sad to hear the discontinuation. Farewell.

wankel

Sad to see you go, thanks for the time it lasted. I had fun with the somewhat experimental way of idling my money, before actually spinning up a container and have fun with that in its own right.

It is a pity to see that low cost just does not pay enough to keep it viable to offer ultra low spec points of presence world wide.

@world in general: which replacement would you suggest?

Neoon

Sad to see it go, one of the remaining NAT providers.

AuroraZero

So he states it will run until Jan of 26 and you bail?