I was curious how many machines does Virmach deploy/own? From virmach.app or virma.ch, sort of deal monitors, the entry has already upsoared to over 1,000. If in one batch Virmach released five or even ten, say on average, then it should have deployed or purchased over five thousand IPs, not to mention the existing customers/machines.
@aRNoLD said:
I was curious how many machines does Virmach deploy/own? From virmach.app or virma.ch, sort of deal monitors, the entry has already upsoared to over 1,000. If in one batch Virmach released five or even ten, say on average, then it should have deployed or purchased over five thousand IPs, not to mention the existing customers/machines.
A great expense/cost.
It's been speculated before that if VirMach went under, they would drag CC with them
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
Alrighty then - feel free to bring it over to the VirMach review thread (assuming this sort of transaction won't upset the delicate equilibrium of civilized behavior on this forum too much ...)
Might want to add the $3 fee VirMach charges to handle the transfer ... and maybe also paypal fees - so now you're up to about $20 to break even on the deal.
... which I suppose is still a decent price for 1 GB ram / 1 vcore / 20 GB SSD / 1 TB transfer. (Though I wouldn't be surprised if the CPU is clocked at 2.1 GHz and the SSD is - at the moment - seeing sequential write speed maybe not much more than 100 MB/s ...?)
Fair enough - if you was looking for headies, and beasters just won't do ... Still, one man's trash is another man's regs.
Seems like a decent chance someone might be interested to take it off your hands, sooner or later. (Then you can enjoy seller's remorse - which I'm guessing might be the better problem to have ... up to a point.)
I regret that I bought mxroute $10/year plan...before I bought $10/2 year plan. Should have known KILLER deals will come up later and robtake more money from you.
As for mikho's APAC NAT vpses, not yet.
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@lgsin said: I regret that I bought mxroute $10/year plan...before I bought $10/2 year plan. Should have known KILLER deals will come up later and robtake more money from you.
The $10/2 year plan had limitations that the $10/year plan didn't have
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
@lgsin said: I regret that I bought mxroute $10/year plan...before I bought $10/2 year plan. Should have known KILLER deals will come up later and robtake more money from you.
The $10/2 year plan had limitations that the $10/year plan didn't have
Also $10/year plan is of better value.
However, $10/2 year plan is more than enough for me. The price difference can be used to buy next LES location and I can claim a new territory.
Even if the price is nowhere near the other locations?
Yes, even if price is different from other locations and/or bandwidth policy is different from other locations.
I'd expect it to be much cheaper than amazon lightsail though. If the price is so high that nobody would be interested in, service shutdown(again) is just a matter of time.
@aRNoLD said:
I was curious how many machines does Virmach deploy/own? From virmach.app or virma.ch, sort of deal monitors, the entry has already upsoared to over 1,000. If in one batch Virmach released five or even ten, say on average, then it should have deployed or purchased over five thousand IPs, not to mention the existing customers/machines.
A great expense/cost.
I am quite certain the automated deals with custom configurations are a cost effective way to optimally reuse spare resources across nodes.
For instance, if an older node has seen a bunch of cancellations over the years, that will have likely freed up RAM, Storage space, CPU and IPs. Since non-sequential unused IPs from a slightly larger subnet are not usually routed to other Nodes, it'd be a smart thing to simply recycle them and provision spare resources by offering non-standard configurations as 'no-brainer' deals during BF/CM/XMAS in a manner that wouldn't negatively affect overall node stability and performance, while still being economically feasible.
You don't really think that Virmach would add a new node with 256GB of RAM but just toss in a couple of 240GB SSDs to create a handful of 'too good to pass' deals with 16GB RAM and 10GB storage each, do you? :P
So no more VirMach deals from you in the new year?
Probably not. I don't really have a use for them, and reselling at a loss to donate to charity takes a lot more effort than just giving the charity money outright. I Virmach, but time is a lot shorter than it used to be.
I am actually surprised I didn't buy more at the weekend, all I took was a box from @AnthonySmith, since I sold my hosting services all I have is that and a large DO box that I hastily moved a load of personal sites to and will need to find a more permanent home for.
I seen quite a few deals that were interesting but resisted. Often I found that buying from the majority of LE* providers around this time results in fairly shit performance so I tend to avoid most of them.
@Lee said:
I am actually surprised I didn't buy more at the weekend, all I took was a box from @AnthonySmith, since I sold my hosting services all I have is that and a large DO box that I hastily moved a load of personal sites to and will need to find a more permanent home for.
I seen quite a few deals that were interesting but resisted. Often I found that buying from the majority of LE* providers around this time results in fairly shit performance so I tend to avoid most of them.
A shitty dedi is almost always better than an oversold VPS when the provider doesn't manage it properly.
I wish I had jumped at that @Dedispec special, but I really don't care enough to do so because I don't really need tons of bandwidth anymore, and lack the care to actually do anything with it.
E: Ended up picking this beast up for work.
$29.84 /yr
VIRTUALIZATION KVM – 1 GIGABIT
WINDOWS WINDOWS AVAILABLE
RAM 6144MB RAM
CPU 2 vCORE
HDD 30GB SSD (RAID 10)
BANDWIDTH 4500GB BANDWIDTH
LOCATION BUFFALO, NY LOCATION
IPs 1 DEDICATED IPv4
It replaces one with similar specs and cost about $70/yr. Now I have two of them.
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
@lgsin said: I regret that I bought mxroute $10/year plan...before I bought $10/2 year plan. Should have known KILLER deals will come up later and robtake more money from you.
The $10/2 year plan had limitations that the $10/year plan didn't have
The limits were lifted on CM. The only limit now is the storage (the $10/yr still offer better price x specs).
@lgsin said: I regret that I bought mxroute $10/year plan...before I bought $10/2 year plan. Should have known KILLER deals will come up later and robtake more money from you.
The $10/2 year plan had limitations that the $10/year plan didn't have
The limits were lifted on CM. The only limit now is the storage (the $10/yr still offer better price x specs).
@lgsin said: I regret that I bought mxroute $10/year plan...before I bought $10/2 year plan. Should have known KILLER deals will come up later and robtake more money from you.
The $10/2 year plan had limitations that the $10/year plan didn't have
The limits were lifted on CM. The only limit now is the storage (the $10/yr still offer better price x specs).
Even for people that got the $5yr on BF (with the limits) had their limits lifted, according to the owner MXRoute.
I meant the $ 5/ year deal. Thanks I recall reading on LET that someone wanted to transfer their $ 15 plan to $ 5 one. Thinking of doing something similar. Have eight or ten accounts that are happily idling on last year's BF offer which I of course signed up for a year.
Lesson learnt- do not type while having coffee. When Sipping overrides typing, messages get posted incomplete.
Even for people that got the $5yr on BF (with the limits) had their limits lifted, according to the owner MXRoute.
I meant the $ 5/ year deal. Thanks I recall reading on LET that someone wanted to transfer their $ 15 plan to $ 5 one. Thinking of doing something similar. Have eight or ten accounts that are happily idling on last year's BF offer which I of course signed up for a year.
Lesson learnt- do not type while having coffee. When Sipping overrides typing, messages get posted incomplete.
Just remember, this plan is 2GB. The $10 is 25GB.
Also, to transfer your stuff, you'd have to do it manually, as they stated they wouldn't do any type of transfer from existing services to these new ones.
Indeed. Fortunately, all but one account only has the 'welcome' email that comes default. Might be painful to make changes for each account's DNS but that is one time.
I think the $ 15 plan is 100 GB - way overkill unless I want to email large files to myself from one account to another :-)
@Lee said:
I seen quite a few deals that were interesting but resisted. Often I found that buying from the majority of LE* providers around this time results in fairly shit performance so I tend to avoid most of them.
Yes. I had boxes that ran ok with providers that are massively popular during this period, and they are now stuttering with the influx.
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I was curious how many machines does Virmach deploy/own? From virmach.app or virma.ch, sort of deal monitors, the entry has already upsoared to over 1,000. If in one batch Virmach released five or even ten, say on average, then it should have deployed or purchased over five thousand IPs, not to mention the existing customers/machines.
A great expense/cost.
It's been speculated before that if VirMach went under, they would drag CC with them
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
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Gets me every year
A buyer's remorse for sale to make up for someone's Black Friday slow finger remorse.
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I think I might wait until CM next year instead of splooging both farthings on a Virmach IPv4-only box only to find better deals elsewhere.
Alrighty then - feel free to bring it over to the VirMach review thread (assuming this sort of transaction won't upset the delicate equilibrium of civilized behavior on this forum too much ...)
Might want to add the $3 fee VirMach charges to handle the transfer ... and maybe also paypal fees - so now you're up to about $20 to break even on the deal.
... which I suppose is still a decent price for 1 GB ram / 1 vcore / 20 GB SSD / 1 TB transfer. (Though I wouldn't be surprised if the CPU is clocked at 2.1 GHz and the SSD is - at the moment - seeing sequential write speed maybe not much more than 100 MB/s ...?)
Fair enough - if you was looking for headies, and beasters just won't do ... Still, one man's trash is another man's regs.
Seems like a decent chance someone might be interested to take it off your hands, sooner or later. (Then you can enjoy seller's remorse - which I'm guessing might be the better problem to have ... up to a point.)
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I regret that I bought mxroute $10/year plan...before I bought $10/2 year plan. Should have known KILLER deals will come up later and robtake more money from you.
As for mikho's APAC NAT vpses, not yet.
I have only bought a netcup „Black Pearl“ KVM and am very happy with the purchase. No regrets or hangover here.
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Don't worry, you'll have a full year to reconsider
“Technology is best when it brings people together.” – Matt Mullenweg
The $10/2 year plan had limitations that the $10/year plan didn't have
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
Also $10/year plan is of better value.
However, $10/2 year plan is more than enough for me. The price difference can be used to buy next LES location and I can claim a new territory.
@mikho pleeeease make Japan a LES location again
Even if the price is nowhere near the other locations?
“Technology is best when it brings people together.” – Matt Mullenweg
Yes, even if price is different from other locations and/or bandwidth policy is different from other locations.
I'd expect it to be much cheaper than amazon lightsail though. If the price is so high that nobody would be interested in, service shutdown(again) is just a matter of time.
I am quite certain the automated deals with custom configurations are a cost effective way to optimally reuse spare resources across nodes.
For instance, if an older node has seen a bunch of cancellations over the years, that will have likely freed up RAM, Storage space, CPU and IPs. Since non-sequential unused IPs from a slightly larger subnet are not usually routed to other Nodes, it'd be a smart thing to simply recycle them and provision spare resources by offering non-standard configurations as 'no-brainer' deals during BF/CM/XMAS in a manner that wouldn't negatively affect overall node stability and performance, while still being economically feasible.
You don't really think that Virmach would add a new node with 256GB of RAM but just toss in a couple of 240GB SSDs to create a handful of 'too good to pass' deals with 16GB RAM and 10GB storage each, do you? :P
//$0.02
Last BF, my wallet was raped in the deepness of itself.
This year, not really no.
I got 3x yearly VPS's, nothing big, about 30 bucks.
If i would skipped sleep, to expect good deals, of course I would regret it.
This year, was full of shit.
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Probably not. I don't really have a use for them, and reselling at a loss to donate to charity takes a lot more effort than just giving the charity money outright. I
Virmach, but time is a lot shorter than it used to be.
My pronouns are like/subscribe.
I am actually surprised I didn't buy more at the weekend, all I took was a box from @AnthonySmith, since I sold my hosting services all I have is that and a large DO box that I hastily moved a load of personal sites to and will need to find a more permanent home for.
I seen quite a few deals that were interesting but resisted. Often I found that buying from the majority of LE* providers around this time results in fairly shit performance so I tend to avoid most of them.
A shitty dedi is almost always better than an oversold VPS when the provider doesn't manage it properly.
I wish I had jumped at that @Dedispec special, but I really don't care enough to do so because I don't really need tons of bandwidth anymore, and lack the care to actually do anything with it.
E: Ended up picking this beast up for work.
$29.84 /yr
VIRTUALIZATION KVM – 1 GIGABIT
WINDOWS WINDOWS AVAILABLE
RAM 6144MB RAM
CPU 2 vCORE
HDD 30GB SSD (RAID 10)
BANDWIDTH 4500GB BANDWIDTH
LOCATION BUFFALO, NY LOCATION
IPs 1 DEDICATED IPv4
It replaces one with similar specs and cost about $70/yr. Now I have two of them.
My pronouns are like/subscribe.
This black friday I only got 4nats and a ipv6 storage.
9+8+12
I renew deals from last blackfriday which is much better.
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Ah, okay, good to see that at least one VirMach VPS was adopted by you this year
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
The limits were lifted on CM. The only limit now is the storage (the $10/yr still offer better price x specs).
Did I miss the link for this one? Care to share?
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Do you mean the $10/yr?
https://portal.mxroute.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=96
$5/yr
https://portal.mxroute.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=99
Even for people that got the $5yr on BF (with the limits) had their limits lifted, according to the owner MXRoute.
I meant the $ 5/ year deal. Thanks I recall reading on LET that someone wanted to transfer their $ 15 plan to $ 5 one. Thinking of doing something similar. Have eight or ten accounts that are happily idling on last year's BF offer which I of course signed up for a year.
Lesson learnt- do not type while having coffee. When Sipping overrides typing, messages get posted incomplete.
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Just remember, this plan is 2GB. The $10 is 25GB.
Also, to transfer your stuff, you'd have to do it manually, as they stated they wouldn't do any type of transfer from existing services to these new ones.
Indeed. Fortunately, all but one account only has the 'welcome' email that comes default. Might be painful to make changes for each account's DNS but that is one time.
I think the $ 15 plan is 100 GB - way overkill unless I want to email large files to myself from one account to another :-)
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Virmach 4cpu oh I have sinned
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14995624
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Yes. I had boxes that ran ok with providers that are massively popular during this period, and they are now stuttering with the influx.
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