Hello from BulkVM!

BulkVM · August 6

I’m excited to introduce BulkVM to the LES community!

We're all about providing scalable, affordable storage solutions. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, our team is spread across the US.

I oversee the day-to-day operations, and I’m looking forward to engaging with the community!

skorous · August 6

Sorry, I can't read

BulkVM · August 6

@skorous said:
Sorry, I can't read

Ahh no worries, we'll send a carrier pigeon with the details!

TheDP · August 6

Associated with any other host(s)?

BulkVM · August 6

@TheDP said:
Associated with any other host(s)?

We're our own entity, but I do share rack space with @linveo in Arizona at PhoenixNAP.

yoursunny · August 6

How bulky are the VMs, compared to this person?

@ehab profile picture

BulkVM · August 6

@yoursunny said:
How bulky are the VMs, compared to this person?

They make that guy look like he skips leg day

ehab · August 6

@BulkVM said:

@yoursunny said:
How bulky are the VMs, compared to this person?

They make that guy look like he skips leg day

i can help you with your pants only.

BulkVM · August 6

@ehab said:

@BulkVM said:

@yoursunny said:
How bulky are the VMs, compared to this person?

They make that guy look like he skips leg day

i can help you with your pants only.

Whoa! Haha! Our expertise is in scaling up servers, not pants!

DataRecovery · August 6

@BulkVM said:
Ahh no worries, we'll send a carrier pigeon with the details!

Please send the bulkiest one and make sure it's edible.

root · August 6

@DataRecovery said:

@BulkVM said:
Ahh no worries, we'll send a carrier pigeon with the details!

Please send the bulkiest one and make sure it's edible.

You want a Double Big Mac for the price of a small portion of fries?

Neoon · August 6

cmon, any 5TB Storage deals for 12.50$?

root · August 6

@Neoon said:
cmon, any 5TB Storage deals for 12.50$ /yearly ?

There. Fixed that for you. 🫡

Neoon · August 6

@root said:

@Neoon said:
cmon, any 5TB Storage deals for 12.50$ /yearly ?

There. Fixed that for you. 🫡

forgot that time exists.
I did mean to say 3 months.

root · August 6

@Neoon said:

@root said:

@Neoon said:
cmon, any 5TB Storage deals for 12.50$ /yearly ?

There. Fixed that for you. 🫡

forgot that time exists.
I did mean to say 3 months.

BulkVM · August 6

@DataRecovery said:

@BulkVM said:
Ahh no worries, we'll send a carrier pigeon with the details!

Please send the bulkiest one and make sure it's edible.

A combo meal? It's on the way.

tenpera · August 6

boot drive is too small. at least 20G.

archivist · November 4

...And in 2024 (...?) 5TB RAID6 was finally low end(, with no need to learn Filecoin and accepting latency and no missing the legend of "unlimited google drive". How is it called actually when one paid that for years in advance without even using it, just trusting in google's consistency)

@BulkVM what are your host machines? HDDs, RAID, CPU.
And at $10 whats the guaranteed share and burstable share?
Assuming an old 4HE 80 core machine with 4x20cores/2TB DDR3 with only 12x1TB SSD Raid6 but a 4HE NAS with 60 drives in five RAID6 groups of 12x8TB, then we could still give 140 GB SSD per 5TB HDD and per 1 core or 2 hyperthreading cores and a guaranteed 24GB RAM and much more burstable. So your machines might rather be 2HE 2 x 20 cores, for 36 x $10 customers, with 36 x 6 HDDs NAS , 128GB ram and 6x512GB SSD? Or you might be maxing out some archival NAS with 1000+ HDDs?

@BulkVM https://www.abuseipdb.com/user/162842 looks good, any other references or linkedin?

imok · November 4

What's going on?

BulkVM · November 4

@archivist said:
...And in 2024 (...?) 5TB RAID6 was finally low end(, with no need to learn Filecoin and accepting latency and no missing the legend of "unlimited google drive". How is it called actually when one paid that for years in advance without even using it, just trusting in google's consistency)

@BulkVM what are your host machines? HDDs, RAID, CPU.
And at $10 whats the guaranteed share and burstable share?
Assuming an old 4HE 80 core machine with 4x20cores/2TB DDR3 with only 12x1TB SSD Raid6 but a 4HE NAS with 60 drives in five RAID6 groups of 12x8TB, then we could still give 140 GB SSD per 5TB HDD and per 1 core or 2 hyperthreading cores and a guaranteed 24GB RAM and much more burstable. So your machines might rather be 2HE 2 x 20 cores, for 36 x $10 customers, with 36 x 6 HDDs NAS , 128GB ram and 6x512GB SSD? Or you might be maxing out some archival NAS with 1000+ HDDs?

@BulkVM https://www.abuseipdb.com/user/162842 looks good, any other references or linkedin?

Thanks for asking about our infrastructure! We're running on solid enterprise-grade hardware:

Dual Xeon E5-2630 v4s with a minimum of 128GB ECC RAM per node
Samsung data center SSDs for boot and SAS storage in RAID6 per node

Just server-grade hardware doing what it does best. And no, we're not relying on some mythical "unlimited" Google Drive plan from the cloud's golden age (though who doesn't miss the nostalgia of infinite space? 😏)

Our $10/month Standard plan includes:
- 2GB guaranteed RAM
- 2 vCores fair share
- 15 GB SSD Boot Drive
- 5TB HDD storage
- 15TB monthly bandwidth + unmetered inbound
- 1-10Gbit networking

We keep it simple. Being storage-focused means no email ports or crypto mining, and definitely no sketchy "unlimited" cloud magic.

yoursunny · November 4

@BulkVM said:
Our $10/month Standard plan includes:

You won't be able to advertise this plan on LES, unless you discount the first month to $7.

forum	price ceiling	recurring	setup fee	engagement spam
LES	$7/month	optional	forbidden	forbidden
LET	$10/month	required	permitted	permitted

BulkVM · November 4

@yoursunny said:

@BulkVM said:
Our $10/month Standard plan includes:

You won't be able to advertise this plan on LES, unless you discount the first month to $7.

forum price ceiling recurring setup fee engagement spam

LES $7/month optional forbidden forbidden

LET $10/month required permitted permitted

I do understand, @archivist asked about it.

archivist · November 4

hi @BulkVM thanks.

How many drives are in each RAID6? And what capacity

And how many customers will share one Dual Xeon E5-2630 v4? (if 1 physical core is the burstable/fair use maximum cpu share)

And i assume, even surprisingly rare (unique?) your offer is still pretty profitable, so that you might not want to ever raise the price? (Then i like to support a small and new service.
Only having to move will be no fun. Hetzner Storage Boxes cost 10% more including snapshots)

Didn't mean to assume it is google drive or anything
(just still wondering how i paid them for air. Plans ended with 0 bytes stored and no refunds. Was just assuming google won't)

BulkVM · November 4

@archivist,

Each RAID6 node consists of 12 drives, each with a capacity between 14TB and 20TB.

Regarding server allocation, we do not oversell our resources; once a server reaches its capacity, we do not add more clients to it.

Our pricing is designed to accommodate all budgets. While I can't promise that prices will remain the same indefinitely due to fluctuating datacenter power costs, we're committed to keeping them competitive for the time being.

Ha, let's hope we don't see Google Drive on killedbygoogle.com I do remember Web Hosting in Google Drive.

Ganonk · November 5

Hello BulKVM

WebUK · November 5

Welcome and GLWS.

selalumenang · November 5

US is no good for me

archivist · November 5

hi! @BulkVM,

"dont oversell"

Not what i thought. So the cpu is (almost) dedicated? (If fully dedicated, then you won't call it "fair use"?) When the biggest possible difference between an average 80% and an average 10% CPU usage might be less than $0.4 electricity per month.)

(I assume in general every VM should come with two sets of specs. (the hardware(-fraction) and the a burstable multiplier allowed (the bigger the machine the better it averages out.) and what quota / timelimit /percentile might be applied to that multiplier)

BulkVM · November 6

@Ganonk said:
Hello BulKVM

Heya @Ganonk!

@WebUK said:
Welcome and GLWS.

Thank you @WebUK!

@selalumenang said:
US is no good for me

Sorry @selalumenang, our main focus is in the US.

@archivist said:
hi! @BulkVM,

"dont oversell"

Not what i thought. So the cpu is (almost) dedicated? (If fully dedicated, then you won't call it "fair use"?) When the biggest possible difference between an average 80% and an average 10% CPU usage might be less than $0.4 electricity per month.)

(I assume in general every VM should come with two sets of specs. (the hardware(-fraction) and the a burstable multiplier allowed (the bigger the machine the better it averages out.) and what quota / timelimit /percentile might be applied to that multiplier)

The reason I mention "fair use" is that while you get consistent access to the CPU resources, the CPU is not dedicated and the CPU usage falls under fair usage. The electricity cost difference you calculated is interesting, but not really the main factor in BulkVM's pricing model.

Hello from BulkVM!

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