He's not doing anything wrong. He's just making a lot of orders. Some customers do that. It was just unexpectedly large so it made my calculations inaccurate for any custom deals right now.
@roseyysa said: I mean why is the current cycle 7 hours? 15 minutes is enough. And VirBot generated configurations are so boring.
Many reasons. The system works better with longer times, and it's no longer Black Friday. This is just a small bonus. As we add more nodes and people cool off a little bit, we can have bursts of it speeding up on special occasions when more people are around, if I have more deals, etc. It's not realistic to expect everyone to passionately follow 15 minute deals for weeks non-stop. I'll have some more time to add in other features maybe to make it more exciting, like announcements for these periods. This all gives it a higher chance we can keep it around longer and in a more meaningful way as a sub-brand if we go that route.
Other reasons:
Lower timer results in exponentially more issues with last minute orders which require manual intervention
Lower volumes, it means by the time people get to seeing and considering buying it, it's gone. Longer timer, plans still sell
Sales are much more accurate as nodes have more time to settle down, which is also required as nodes fill out more
All of the above can be dealt with for Black Friday as an exception but also not 24x7 indefinitely.
tl;dr version = Some of us are getting old, and can't go for weeks with no sleep anymore, we need some breathers to recuperate !
Speaking of getting old... after days of not having more than about 3 hours sleep at a time... I eventually fell asleep unplanned for over 6 hours! (I'm backspacing the part that followed about how the first thing I did was the check the flash deals... let's stick with, some decent sleep is good!)
@VirMach said:
Can you guys get me some MTR reports, both directions via DM for Chicago? They didn't specify how many iterations so run it for a bit then send it over in text format.
I DM'ed some to you. Markdown failed for the first message so check the pastebin on the second one.
Please let me know if you need something more or different.
I checked the latest situation in Chicago and I am very pleased to report that the networking performance has been improved drastically. @FrankZ please check yours too. Hopefully this'll stick now!
@VirMach said:
Can you guys get me some MTR reports, both directions via DM for Chicago? They didn't specify how many iterations so run it for a bit then send it over in text format.
I DM'ed some to you. Markdown failed for the first message so check the pastebin on the second one.
Please let me know if you need something more or different.
I checked the latest situation in Chicago and I am very pleased to report that the networking performance has been improved drastically. @FrankZ please check yours too. Hopefully this'll stick now!
Latency has dropped dramatically. Packet loss is virtually non existent. Bandwidth is also better.
I'd say that this is a big win. Thank you VirMach
I tried to start 1 core 512MB bashvm in my 1core/1776 MB/ 720GB/8 ip/20TB BW vmach, and CPU spike up 100% constantly for minutes . I decided to delete it, and change plan of this vps..
@VirMach said: It was looking bleak, no one got any of them right and then @Jab comes in and creepily gets all three of them right (within 1%) so I'll go ahead and end it early now before everyone copy/pastes his answers.
GIVEAWAY
As I was told it's okey to give them away so I have a coupons to giveaway!
Disclaimers:
1. It will be like-a-post, get put into giveaway, random.org from likes.
2. You can like only one post - if you like more than one you are eliminated.
3. You can LIKE ONLY ONE POST - if you like more than one you are @mockingbird calling other company support.
4. Giveaway will end tomorrow midday EU/PL timezone [final time unclear, depends from my free time, +- 16-24 hours from this post]
5. Only accounts created before 2024 BF mega thread creation. No multiaccounting please.
6. You can like this aka Rules post. It will not count towards the points 1, 2., 3. Only post linked below counts to the limit. You can like every other VirMach post!
Disclaimer from VirMach about deadline of coupons:
I don't know if there's a deadline, I guess don't expect them to still work in a week? Maybe?
I've checked - all coupons/codes working.
They recurring.
The value is correct.
They works for every BF #SKU aka no need to wait for a good deal in specific position/ID :-D
What is the line of the Tokyo data center now? Is it still IIJ?
I saw your last comment, I wasn't sure what you were trying to say specifically. We didn't make any changes on our end, I'll speak with provider. Let me know when you noticed it changed for you, maybe make a ticket and provide MTR both directions.
Comments
Correct. That's what they're referring to when they say "like" the post.
tl;dr version = Some of us are getting old, and can't go for weeks with no sleep anymore, we need some breathers to recuperate !
Speaking of getting old... after days of not having more than about 3 hours sleep at a time... I eventually fell asleep unplanned for over 6 hours! (I'm backspacing the part that followed about how the first thing I did was the check the flash deals... let's stick with, some decent sleep is good!)
I checked the latest situation in Chicago and I am very pleased to report that the networking performance has been improved drastically. @FrankZ please check yours too. Hopefully this'll stick now!
(The whole thing was a joke)
Latency has dropped dramatically. Packet loss is virtually non existent. Bandwidth is also better.
I'd say that this is a big win. Thank you VirMach
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@VirMach check DM pls
I tried to start 1 core 512MB bashvm in my 1core/1776 MB/ 720GB/8 ip/20TB BW vmach, and CPU spike up 100% constantly for minutes
. I decided to delete it, and change plan of this vps..
I’m a simple man I see gifs, I press thanks
a c> @Jab said:
an hour warning
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
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WINNERS
FULL SUSPENSE WINNERS REVEAL.
CLICK THE WHEEEL AND ENJOY THOSE EMOTIONSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
38% - https://randomizer.uk/r/65087-a17vkErCf4xQlO5FiRDMVwyhtGXgWu
23% - https://randomizer.uk/r/65089-EqiCh54pUZT0IX_aPdOyeoHNJvG71j
13% - https://randomizer.uk/r/65090-Qtnr5l_d2ZiWDmX3HbqehvBfsEaujg
Winners please PM me. I know normally I should PM you, buuuuuuuuuuuut that would kill the suspense and I wanna be VirMach a little (-:
Please PM me if you have won.
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
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Congratss for whoever won.. ( i won't tag him ) sssssstt
I’m a simple man I see gifs, I press thanks
PMed
食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.
Well done @Jab very generous and organised. Come on @VirMach I am sure you could sort Jab out with the small VM he wanted.
Congratulations, winners! Also, thanks for the giveaway @Jab
@VirMach
What is the line of the Tokyo data center now? Is it still IIJ?
I saw your last comment, I wasn't sure what you were trying to say specifically. We didn't make any changes on our end, I'll speak with provider. Let me know when you noticed it changed for you, maybe make a ticket and provide MTR both directions.
Where is the 1200GB NVMe server?
@VirMach
MOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR