C-Servers 99-year plan, do you dare?

yoursunny · January 5

@cservers CentralVPS-II 2560

3 vCore Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 @ 2.00 GHz (60% Fair Share)
2560 MB RAM DDR4 ECC
60GB NVMe High Speed Disk - 7 GB/s
1 IPv6/64 + 1 IPv4 NAT (10+5 Ports)
NAT46/NAT64/DNS64 Included
C-Servers ExtraNAT Included
Unmetered Bandwidth @ 1 Gbps
Owned Professional Server - HP ProLiant Gen9
ONI Premier Tier3 Datacenter in Lisbon, Portugal

Price: $399.99 for 99 years
Order link: https://web.c-servers.co.uk/order-steps/server/208

davide · January 5

Okay that prompted me to check the reliable flag for C-Servers on PonyHost. It was already false so I took no initiative.

But I wish to see progress on all fronts.

DrNutella · January 5

But isn’t the point to swap out services every few years for upgraded infrastructure?

I mean it sounds like a great deal for something simple IMHO. Too good to be true.

How long in business?

davide · January 5

@DrNutella said:
I mean it sounds like a great deal for something simple IMHO. Too good to be true.

It sounds like installing Windows on a 99-year-old 50 ĸHz valve computer.

Neoon · January 5

@cservers since when do you got fkn LISBON PORTUGAL? You need tell us THIS GOT DAMIT.
I FUCKING LOVE LISBON.

havoc · January 5

Imagine sitting in the year 2124 and having 2.5 GB of RAM

ralf · January 5

Every VPS product they sell (as far as I could tell, maybe I missed one) only has IPv6 and NAT with a handful of ports forwarded. They don't even mention providing a reverse proxy, which massively limits it usefulness.

Also a company with NAT only products... I'm not sure I'd be surprised if they were running everything from 1 IP address shared across a handful of machines by splitting it up by ranges (e.g. ports 10000-19999 server 1, 20000-29999 server 2, etc). Maybe I shouldn't be giving them ideas.

Jab · January 5

@havoc said:
Imagine sitting in the year 2124 and having 2.5 GB of RAM

'Vintage' by then, probably popular.

legendary · January 5

No. It is ridiculous. In 99 years deep atlantic storage may end, not only some portugal host.

grasple · January 5

@ralf said:
Every VPS product they sell (as far as I could tell, maybe I missed one) only has IPv6

maybe in 2124 you'll be able to email your mum over ipv6!

skorous · January 5

@grasple said:

@ralf said:
Every VPS product they sell (as far as I could tell, maybe I missed one) only has IPv6

maybe in 2124 you'll be able to email your mum over ipv6!

I can do that now! ( She doesn't know it's over ipv6 of course )

yoursunny · January 5

@DrNutella said: I mean it sounds like a great deal for something simple IMHO. Too good to be true.

The yearly price for this plan is $9.99/year.
If we deposit $399.99 into the bank and withdraw $9.99 every year, assuming 1% interest rate and 20% tax on interest income, it would take 47 years to drain the bank account.
See interest calculator for a chart.
Thus, you should purchase if you think @cservers would not deadpool in next 47 years.

@havoc said:
Imagine sitting in the year 2124 and having 2.5 GB of RAM

Imagine sitting in the year 2124 and having E5-2660V2 processor, while everyone else are using Quantum computers.
This plan guarantees a specific CPU model so that it ought to be this model for all of 99 years.
It's just like driving a Ford Model T in 2025.

ralf · January 5

@yoursunny said: Thus, you should purchase if you think @cservers would not deadpool in next 47 years.

With that same calculator, any interest above 3% would result in spare money in the account even if no deadpooling for 99 years. 3% is easily achievable for savings.

With an interest rate of 8% (a low-ball of the average for the S&P) then after 99 years you'd have $100k left.

ralf · January 5

@ralf said:

@yoursunny said: Thus, you should purchase if you think @cservers would not deadpool in next 47 years.

With that same calculator, any interest above 3% would result in spare money in the account even if no deadpooling for 99 years. 3% is easily achievable for savings.

With an interest rate of 8% (a low-ball of the average for the S&P) then after 99 years you'd have $100k left.

Of course, the calculation isn't actually this simple, because the annual price would increase with inflation each year.

yoursunny · January 5

@ralf said:
Of course, the calculation isn't actually this simple, because the annual price would increase with inflation each year.

That's why you buy the recurring offer.
Annual price cannot increase, at all, forever.

cybertech · January 6

$7/-

admax · January 6

How about the one-year plan? The supplier seems a bit new? Uh...

sonic · January 6

lmfao

Newyawker · January 6

@yoursunny said:
@cservers CentralVPS-II 2560

3 vCore Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 @ 2.00 GHz (60% Fair Share)

2560 MB RAM DDR4 ECC

60GB NVMe High Speed Disk - 7 GB/s

1 IPv6/64 + 1 IPv4 NAT (10+5 Ports)

NAT46/NAT64/DNS64 Included

C-Servers ExtraNAT Included

Unmetered Bandwidth @ 1 Gbps

Owned Professional Server - HP ProLiant Gen9

ONI Premier Tier3 Datacenter in Lisbon, Portugal

Price: $399.99 for 99 years
Order link: https://web.c-servers.co.uk/order-steps/server/208

What if they had framed it as $399.99 for "lifetime VPS service"? Would anyone think it would last anywhere near 99 years?

KeqingWangy · January 6

Is the connection from Portugal good? Because I rarely hear of servers located in Portugal.

admax · January 6

Relatively niche, there are Portugal's VPS providers on LES as well, but the prices are quite expensive!

MikeA · January 6

wow.. no offense.. but this is stupid.

Blembim · January 6

I mean how does this diffirent from typical lifetime vps? Expect its portugal and new?? Will this host even survive 2025 anyway?

root · January 6

yoursunny · January 6

@Newyawker said:
What if they had framed it as $399.99 for "lifetime VPS service"? Would anyone think it would last anywhere near 99 years?

Lifetime means until the day we are dead.
99-year means until the year 2124.

As predicted, in the year 2069, we will be hit by a bus and die instantly, at an age of NaN.
We are unmarried and do not have children, so that nobody would attend our funeral, and there would be no flowers in front of the funeral hall.
As the funeral director reads our stories into the empty hall, heavy rain suddenly starts.
It suggests that the whole world is crying for our passing.
We would, of course, give each rain drop an IPv6 address.

If we bought a lifetime VPS, its contract terminates that day.
If we bought a 99-year VPS, it would be a part of our estate and can be inherited, most likely to a charity of our choosing.

bitshub · January 6

I have ordered one for 3 years, now waiting for the delivery.

Newyawker · January 6

@yoursunny said:

@Newyawker said:
What if they had framed it as $399.99 for "lifetime VPS service"? Would anyone think it would last anywhere near 99 years?

Lifetime means until the day we are dead.
99-year means until the year 2124.

As predicted, in the year 2069, we will be hit by a bus and die instantly, at an age of NaN.
We are unmarried and do not have children, so that nobody would attend our funeral, and there would be no flowers in front of the funeral hall.
As the funeral director reads our stories into the empty hall, heavy rain suddenly starts.
It suggests that the whole world is crying for our passing.
We would, of course, give each rain drop an IPv6 address.

If we bought a lifetime VPS, its contract terminates that day.
If we bought a 99-year VPS, it would be a part of our estate and can be inherited, most likely to a charity of our choosing.

No necessarily, you would need to read the "fineprint" to actually know the limitation of "lifetime". If you think "lifetime" means termination at owner's death always you don't know the vacation timeshare industry.

davide · January 6

@yoursunny said:

@Newyawker said:
What if they had framed it as $399.99 for "lifetime VPS service"? Would anyone think it would last anywhere near 99 years?

Lifetime means until the day we are dead.
99-year means until the year 2124.

As predicted, in the year 2069, we will be hit by a bus and die instantly, at an age of NaN.
We are unmarried and do not have children, so that nobody would attend our funeral, and there would be no flowers in front of the funeral hall.
As the funeral director reads our stories into the empty hall, heavy rain suddenly starts.
It suggests that the whole world is crying for our passing.
We would, of course, give each rain drop an IPv6 address.

If we bought a lifetime VPS, its contract terminates that day.
If we bought a 99-year VPS, it would be a part of our estate and can be inherited, most likely to a charity of our choosing.

You could hire actors for the funeral, paid to sob in tears in apparent despair. Great kings used to do it.

Or get deep-frozen in one of those nitrogen tubes. Food for Soylent thought.

C-Servers 99-year plan, do you dare?

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