@VirMach said:
I did check out the dark mode, it just fills in our entire site as dark mode due to the way the elements work when adding the modal on our site. So imagine if the entire page's background turns dark as well.
Minimally, you can try to change this config for now and it should be fine:
darkMode: true,
withCssBaseline: false
The baseline is needed when you use it in a completely blank / static HTML page because some CSS needs to be reset. However, since you are using it in an existing project, you can set it into false.
I will try to release a V1.1 to fix other small issues with the UI
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@VirMach said:
I did check out the dark mode, it just fills in our entire site as dark mode due to the way the elements work when adding the modal on our site. So imagine if the entire page's background turns dark as well.
Minimally, you can try to change this config for now and it should be fine:
darkMode: true,
withCssBaseline: false
The baseline is needed when you use it in a completely blank / static HTML page because some CSS needs to be reset. However, since you are using it in an existing project, you can set it into false.
I will try to release a V1.1 to fix other small issues with the UI
Yeah I already figured that actually, I'll be honest when I opened the JS file I almost had a heart attack but the other stuff I understood, and I don't know if it's just the weird caching but I tried purging everything and it still went dark. Here, let me just do that now so you can see.
@VirMach said: Speaking of which, it looks like the new SolusVM version finally prevents some of this at least directly on the site by saying there's a pending operation. Anyone else notice it?
I was pretty sure you just set longer/forced(?) timeouts for this in code as it still makes no sense - I can click Shutdown, wait few seconds, got a successful prompt has been shutdown, status will change to Offline and I still can't reinstall system for next X seconds because "in use" despite every other earlier sucessful
@VirMach said: Yeah something weird going on with that, I'm trying to figure it out with our developer but he's not getting anywhere with it. Has to be some recent modification, I disabled a few things
Can confirm it still happen like 21 hours ago - took my money from card, showed 500 on index.php?rp=/invoice/number/process, but then e-mails showed up, invoice was in Invoices, my money was added.
also grrrrrrrr@FFFME004 work you piece of server.
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@VirMach said:
No, like 2 or 3 or 30 years ago when we first wanted to do this Ryzen stuff. Google forms.
Uh, sounds vaguely familiar and I usually respond / participate in things but I honestly can't remember for sure either way lol
If it asked for like account info and you still have the info I can tell you the email or whatever. I remember a couple things wanting affiliate id and something else over the years. And then the crazy copy & paste BF where i basically didn't sleep and like wore out ctrl c and v keys lol
@VirMach said:
Yeah I already figured that actually, I'll be honest when I opened the JS file I almost had a heart attack but the other stuff I understood, and I don't know if it's just the weird caching but I tried purging everything and it still went dark. Here, let me just do that now so you can see.
Yay I saw it now, but I just found some other weird issues, those are the bugs need to be fixed:
The template used a very generic CSS selector .ekit-wid-con p that breaks the style for all my text
The template again used a very generic CSS selector .ekit-wid-con a:hover that breaks the style for my button
The select box dropdown scroll-lock is locking the wrong scrollview (should be the modal one instead), causing the scroll to loss focus
Support modal by default so you don't have to use the one by the template
Will let you know once I am satisfied with the outcome
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I still can't get over how he did this so quickly and it actually looks nice meanwhile we'd probably spend way too long on it, and probably actually never do it. I liked his dark mode but it was turning the whole page dark. Configure button.
I can't get to 100 GB disk space, it jumps between 99 and 101
I still can't get over how he did this so quickly and it actually looks nice meanwhile we'd probably spend way too long on it, and probably actually never do it. I liked his dark mode but it was turning the whole page dark. Configure button.
I don't think we can see it as the page offers are unclickable and just show "coming soon", or am I missing something ?
Weird caching, have to CTRL+SHIFT+R on Chrome or on incognito.
Incognito tab, nothing shows up.
CDN cache purge may be necessary.
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@VirMach said:
Edit: shared info with infplus or "virmach.me" on 07/25/2022.
Found affiliate related to this and closed although it seems like they were already flagged and are using multiple affiliate accounts already flagged. It means your account @aiexo is owned by this site that was used or whoever self-referred so another problem added to it.
It mean the VPS is irretrievable?
I bought the VPS from someone last week, I can the history if needed.
Quote what I said that made you think the outcome would be different for you specifically. If you bought VPS from someone else it doesn't seem like you stated that in your appeal, or did you state it here? Show me relevant info I've asked like 3 times now or I can't help you.
Please check again #323202
Added information about the purchase
Thank you
Information is helpful, we may offer you something in return if it leads to finding someone not already flagged. Looking into it now.
(edit) Other thing you provided seems like how you decided NOT to proceed previously though and didn't take our final offer to admit it yet until today.
Sorry,
Since you did not respond to my inquiry (whether to initiate a Ticket for feedback), I am not at liberty to open a Ticket .
There is a difference in understanding through the translation software conversion, thanks for being willing to communicate.
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Hi, @VirMach, Has any progress in the investigation?
I would like to know what is the situation for me:
1. has somemore I can do about this?
2. continue waiting investigat
3. the VPS cannot be restored
Thank you.
I am sorry for the interruption.
Can you take a look at this feedback? @VirMach
@VirMach
Certainly like the "Customize your plan",
Just wanted to say I just renewed this equivalent (not certain about disk type, so may be rust) with terrahost for 55 Euros per year.
Just FYI
@msatt said:
Certainly like the "Customize your plan",
Just wanted to say I just renewed this equivalent (not certain about disk type, so may be rust) with terrahost for 55 Euros per year.
Nice deal for that spec. Trouble in matching it though, it's a renewal.
With the crazyness of the world and costs these days, i really think people need to hang on to their old deals they like and not expect to match/beat them with any providers. Margins are shrinking so much that some increase just has to be passed on really. That's why I held on to my older deals I like that prob can't be matched now with the bump to Ryzen, I don't think we'll see the same sort of specs for the price until the world sorts itself.
That being said, even a 1 or 2 core Ryzen is still waaay better than low end older intel offerings so newer packages can still be very nice, just not as easily compared.
@msatt said: @VirMach
Certainly like the "Customize your plan",
Just wanted to say I just renewed this equivalent (not certain about disk type, so may be rust) with terrahost for 55 Euros per year.
Just FYI
Wow, that must be a pretty special deal from them - that much RAM and storage isn't far off that per month on their website
@ahnlak said:
Wow, that must be a pretty special deal from them - that much RAM and storage isn't far off that per month on their website
Sometimes providers get loopy in the middle of the night on a BF sale and offer crazy deals they probably kick themselves for the next day eyes Virmach Not that anyone here would have ever done that
@Daevien said: Nice deal for that spec. Trouble in matching it though, it's a renewal.
@ahnlak said: Wow, that must be a pretty special deal from them - that much RAM and storage isn't far off that per month on their website
Agreed this is a great deal and certainly not suggesting that Virmach should try to match - just background info.
The deal was originally 50 Euros and increased by 10% for this renewal. It was also @terrahost taking on existing customers from.....(not sure I dare say this).... hostsolutions.ro
It is an excellent reliable VM.
@aiexo You seem to always show up when @Virmach has wandered off to beat a server into submission or something. Looking at the quote history, it looks like you have a ticket number and hadn't accepted some sort of offer until just before VIrmach's last post.
I'm assuming then that the ticket is still #323202 and not updated yet from Virmach's side since you are asking for an update? (Just trying to narrow it down so they can check it easier)
@Daevien said: @aiexo You seem to always show up when @Virmach has wandered off to beat a server into submission or something. Looking at the quote history, it looks like you have a ticket number and hadn't accepted some sort of offer until just before VIrmach's last post.
I'm assuming then that the ticket is still #323202 and not updated yet from Virmach's side since you are asking for an update? (Just trying to narrow it down so they can check it easier)
Yes, there is no update for ticket #323202.
I couldn't get an update on ticket #323202, soI am here again.
I'm sorry if my actions have caused you trouble, but I do want to know how it should be resolved in the end. I paid a lot of money for the VPS from a scalper and I have been unable to contact the scalper, if the VPS cannot be restored then I have nothing.
I've been here for a while, I still hope if there is some way to solve?
@FAT32 / @VirMach some feedback don't you think there should be a way to manually enter values or slider should have "levels" in its current state it is very hard to make it a specific value
Fuck input, just add arrows left/right, so you pick 156GB manually via slider and then adjust that 6GB by arrows clicking 6 time left if you really that cheap. [I would!]
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@aiexo said:
Yes, there is no update for ticket #323202.
I couldn't get an update on ticket #323202, so here I am again.
I'm sorry if my actions have caused you trouble, but I do want to know how it should be resolved in the end. I paid a lot of money for the VPS from a scalper and I have been unable to contact the scalper, if the VPS cannot be restored then I have nothing.
I've been here for a while, I still hope if there is some way to solve?
Thank you for response to my feedback.
As I am not an employee, there really isn't much more I can do or say except to suggest you make sure you did provide all the information requested in the ticket and say that @virmach should be around sometime today now that he's been tagged and there aren't a ton of new comments for him to read.
This is the unfortunate part of dealing with scalpers, they really don't care about either side, just about getting their money. And why you should always deal directly with companies.
@codelock said: @FAT32 / @VirMach some feedback don't you think there should be a way to manually enter values or slider should have "levels" in its current state it is very hard to make it a specific value
It was noted before by someone about the manual method, so may be in the process of being done
@Jab said:
Fuck input, just add arrows left/right, so you pick 156GB manually via slider and then adjust that 6GB by arrows clicking 6 time left if you really that cheap. [I would!]
Actually, i was able to do that before and just verified it now in Firefox at least. Click on a bar and then arrow keys with adjust.
@aiexo said:
Yes, there is no update for ticket #323202.
I couldn't get an update on ticket #323202, so here I am again.
I'm sorry if my actions have caused you trouble, but I do want to know how it should be resolved in the end. I paid a lot of money for the VPS from a scalper and I have been unable to contact the scalper, if the VPS cannot be restored then I have nothing.
I've been here for a while, I still hope if there is some way to solve?
Thank you for response to my feedback.
As I am not an employee, there really isn't much more I can do or say except to suggest you make sure you did provide all the information requested in the ticket and say that @virmach should be around sometime today now that he's been tagged and there aren't a ton of new comments for him to read.
This is the unfortunate part of dealing with scalpers, they really don't care about either side, just about getting their money. And why you should always deal directly with companies.
Thank you, Daevien.
Since I couldn't buy these VPS by myself in flash sales, I bought it form scalpers under my greed.
@msatt said: Just wanted to say I just renewed this equivalent (not certain about disk type, so may be rust) with terrahost for 55 Euros per year.
Let's check my @terrahost equivalent
60 euro / year and it should be 30TB not 20TB bandwidth, but I don't fucking use even 300GB per month so let's bring it to 'sane value' of 1TB
and then VirMach still cheaper
I guess priorities and different pricing for different resources
But yeah, this is special-special-special, limited to few on new years thread iirc, it is a fucking amazing steal-deal!
Only problem [for me, but good for terrahost ] - I am mostly idling
Oh, on top of that it's fucking AMD Ryzen 9 5950X with 1600 GB5 CPU score for single core.
It's a very fucking steal that I will most likely never let go.
On the other hand my most powerful-amazing-deal-VirMach snipe is 4 cores (Ryzen! ), 4 GB RAM, 42GB NVMe and 1TB band (which is plenty, plenty for me) is like 25$/EURO for a year, so even doubling [and resources] that it still would be cheaper than terrahost [ok, except band that I never use, but everyone has different needs] ;')
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where do you guys find that slider? all i can see in https://virmach.com/special-offers/ is coming soon button, already refresh & changed browser, but still can't find.
@netrix said:
where do you guys find that slider? all i can see in https://virmach.com/special-offers/ is coming soon button, already refresh & changed browser, but still can't find.
You hard refresh until it shows up, CTRL + SHIFT + R or whatever your browser has there.
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@netrix said:
where do you guys find that slider? all i can see in https://virmach.com/special-offers/ is coming soon button, already refresh & changed browser, but still can't find.
You hard refresh until it shows up, CTRL + SHIFT + R or whatever your browser has there.
still can't find it with mobile browser (Chrome & Firefox). maybe desktop only?
@netrix said: still can't find it with mobile browser (Chrome & Firefox). maybe desktop only?
I don't think so, you probably have no idea how to do hard refresh on mobile :P
and probably depends what CF backend you hit? VirMach need to clean that URL from CF panel I guess
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@fluttershy said:
I got all excited, but guess I'll have to wait for that order button to function. Looks like some great deals coming up though!
Same, I got excited and clicked order before reading the rest of the thread, only to get the out of stock. Oh well, as soon as it goes live I know what I'm getting:
@fluttershy said:
I got all excited, but guess I'll have to wait for that order button to function. Looks like some great deals coming up though!
Same, I got excited and clicked order before reading the rest of the thread, only to get the out of stock. Oh well, as soon as it goes live I know what I'm getting:
Killer deal there for sure! I'll probably be grabbing some storage VMs for a few projects (VirCDN anyone?)
@Daevien said: I and others tried to help him. We didn't say the issues hadn't been ongoing, he literally didn't tell us what his issues were at all in any detail. He gave us nothing but rage and then said he did a chargeback.
He said he'd had a lot of downtime and gotten poor ticket response, and in his rant's first few words, he complained about VM doing BF offers instead of fixing existing problems. Lots of us have had downtime and those us who have been around for a while understand that this happens all the time at the low end, when someone is trying to be a VM host with barely enough resources to operate day to day when stuff is running smoothly. When stuff breaks there are cascading failures, and here there was massive account abuse, DC issues, hardware issues, having to bug out of CC, some drama with IP addresses, etc.
It sounded to me like Drizbo wanted what the rest of us want: 1) resolution of his immediate problems, though we all (including Drizbo I think) understood that VM is overstretched and stuff suffers; and 2) some kind of indication that the problems are temporary and that VM is heading back towards stability. Solving Drizbo's immediate problems while setting the stage for new ones isn't that big a help from that perspective. And if the long downtimes and slow ticket handling are caused by overwork, then making BF offers would seem to invite even MORE overwork.
It did seem to me a month or two ago that Virmach was in no position to be making new offers, with so much stuff out of commission and so many users hanging. The VM's are working better now so maybe BF is survivable, I don't know, I'm not that invested in it, but I can understand. Doing BF seems to go against catching up with the workload, but it's not my call to make. I would say that from out here, the backlog does seem likely to be smaller than it was in the past. I had months of downtime on multiple VM's and got a $1.25 account credit. I appreciated the gesture, but really, the idea of a server is that it is online more than a home PC would be, and that didn't happen.
Not sure what else you think we could or should have done at that point.
Drizbo might have felt more reassured if Virmach had announced something like "we're not doing BF this year because we're still trying to recover from a series of big outages in mid-2022, and put better abuse controls in place after we got hammered in the last offer. We're going to concentrate on getting our systems and network running properly again and finishing off our backlog. We hope to have some amazing offers for you on Valentine's Day in a few months, after everything is fixed, since we love you all". That's about preventing recurring problems, not just patching up the immediate ones.
I appreciate the amount of work and madness Virmach has gone through to keep this stuff afloat and I hope it works out. I do see a pattern in the low end world where a provider gets overstretched, scrambles like mad to pull out of a spiral, and sometimes succeeds but not always (think Hostsolutions). Promotional offers centered around multi-year prepaid plans in particular are often a sign of trying to relieve immediate financial pressure, by taking on long term obligations which will keep incurring costs long after the payments are spent. And of course that contributes to the spiral.
I'm not the one under the gun here so from a user perspective I try to be serene about the outcome (if I really depended on this stuff I wouldn't use low end services in the first place). From a LES member and tech worker perspective I try to be supportive of Virmach but also to not delude myself about where things seem to stand.
@Jab said: Can confirm it still happen like 21 hours ago - took my money from card, showed 500 on index.php?rp=/invoice/number/process, but then e-mails showed up, invoice was in Invoices, my money was added.
I had the same problem 2-3 days ago when I added fund to my account. Logged back in and the fund was added. Seems its been going on for few days.
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Minimally, you can try to change this config for now and it should be fine:
The baseline is needed when you use it in a completely blank / static HTML page because some CSS needs to be reset. However, since you are using it in an existing project, you can set it into
false.I will try to release a V1.1 to fix other small issues with the UI
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@Daevien wait did you by any chance participate in the Ryzen survey a long time ago?
Yeah I already figured that actually, I'll be honest when I opened the JS file I almost had a heart attack but the other stuff I understood, and I don't know if it's just the weird caching but I tried purging everything and it still went dark. Here, let me just do that now so you can see.
Uh, maybe? I don't really remember which is the "ryzen survey" to be honest lol. The recent one for the free 2g vps?
No, like 2 or 3 or 30 years ago when we first wanted to do this Ryzen stuff. Google forms.
I was pretty sure you just set longer/forced(?) timeouts for this in code as it still makes no sense - I can click Shutdown, wait few seconds, got a successful prompt
has been shutdown, status will change toOfflineand I still can't reinstall system for next X seconds because "in use" despite every other earlier sucessfulCan confirm it still happen like 21 hours ago - took my money from card, showed 500 on
index.php?rp=/invoice/number/process, but then e-mails showed up, invoice was in Invoices, my money was added.also grrrrrrrr@FFFME004 work you piece of server.
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I was more like
location surveythanRyzen survey.Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
Uh, sounds vaguely familiar and I usually respond / participate in things but I honestly can't remember for sure either way lol
If it asked for like account info and you still have the info I can tell you the email or whatever. I remember a couple things wanting affiliate id and something else over the years. And then the crazy copy & paste BF where i basically didn't sleep and like wore out ctrl c and v keys lol
Yay I saw it now, but I just found some other weird issues, those are the bugs need to be fixed:
.ekit-wid-con pthat breaks the style for all my text.ekit-wid-con a:hoverthat breaks the style for my buttonWill let you know once I am satisfied with the outcome
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Hello all
I can't get to 100 GB disk space, it jumps between 99 and 101
Maybe I should add an input box also...
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Incognito tab, nothing shows up.
CDN cache purge may be necessary.
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You can use the arrow keys btw
It took me a few hard refreshes and two browsers to get it to show up
I got all excited, but guess I'll have to wait for that order button to function. Looks like some great deals coming up though!
I am sorry for the interruption.
Can you take a look at this feedback? @VirMach
Thank you.
@VirMach
Certainly like the "Customize your plan",
Just wanted to say I just renewed this equivalent (not certain about disk type, so may be rust) with terrahost for 55 Euros per year.
Just FYI
Get your FREE VPS if you develop Open Source software
Nice deal for that spec. Trouble in matching it though, it's a renewal.
With the crazyness of the world and costs these days, i really think people need to hang on to their old deals they like and not expect to match/beat them with any providers. Margins are shrinking so much that some increase just has to be passed on really. That's why I held on to my older deals I like that prob can't be matched now with the bump to Ryzen, I don't think we'll see the same sort of specs for the price until the world sorts itself.
That being said, even a 1 or 2 core Ryzen is still waaay better than low end older intel offerings so newer packages can still be very nice, just not as easily compared.
Wow, that must be a pretty special deal from them - that much RAM and storage isn't far off that per month on their website
Sometimes providers get loopy in the middle of the night on a BF sale and offer crazy deals they probably kick themselves for the next day eyes Virmach Not that anyone here would have ever done that
I can always tell when BF is coming up; just getting my renewal notices arriving in my mailbox
Agreed this is a great deal and certainly not suggesting that Virmach should try to match - just background info.
The deal was originally 50 Euros and increased by 10% for this renewal. It was also @terrahost taking on existing customers from.....(not sure I dare say this).... hostsolutions.ro
It is an excellent reliable VM.
Get your FREE VPS if you develop Open Source software
@aiexo You seem to always show up when @Virmach has wandered off to beat a server into submission or something. Looking at the quote history, it looks like you have a ticket number and hadn't accepted some sort of offer until just before VIrmach's last post.
I'm assuming then that the ticket is still #323202 and not updated yet from Virmach's side since you are asking for an update? (Just trying to narrow it down so they can check it easier)
What's your favorite pizza topping? Mine's pepperoni and olives.
I know I shouldn't, but I'm trying to square that with "I've opened a dispute on Paypal".
Ok, enough feeding, back to beer n bed.
The @drizbo rant and associated comments can now be read in the Rants section.
I don't think that's a valid pizza topping
You need a new pizza parlour.
Yes, there is no update for ticket #323202.
I couldn't get an update on ticket #323202, soI am here again.
I'm sorry if my actions have caused you trouble, but I do want to know how it should be resolved in the end. I paid a lot of money for the VPS from a scalper and I have been unable to contact the scalper, if the VPS cannot be restored then I have nothing.
I've been here for a while, I still hope if there is some way to solve?
Thank you for response to my feedback.
@FAT32 / @VirMach some feedback don't you think there should be a way to manually enter values or slider should have "levels" in its current state it is very hard to make it a specific value
Want free vps ? https://microlxc.net
Fuck input, just add arrows left/right, so you pick 156GB manually via slider and then adjust that 6GB by arrows clicking 6 time left if you really that cheap. [I would!]
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As I am not an employee, there really isn't much more I can do or say except to suggest you make sure you did provide all the information requested in the ticket and say that @virmach should be around sometime today now that he's been tagged and there aren't a ton of new comments for him to read.
This is the unfortunate part of dealing with scalpers, they really don't care about either side, just about getting their money. And why you should always deal directly with companies.
It was noted before by someone about the manual method, so may be in the process of being done
Actually, i was able to do that before and just verified it now in Firefox at least. Click on a bar and then arrow keys with adjust.
Find scalper, sue!
Find scalper, tell his mother what kind of shit he is.
Find scalper, break his.... laptop.
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HINT: 99.99999% (data straight from ass, of course) mobile phones/tablets does not have physical arrow keys.
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Ahh, didn't realize you meant actual physical arrows on the interface, sorry. I usually don't browse forums on mobile devices, too much of a pain
Where did my message go?
Anyway, dicks and balls on pizza are the best.
Thank you, Daevien.
Since I couldn't buy these VPS by myself in flash sales, I bought it form scalpers under my greed.
T_T
If I could find him … i will
Let's check my @terrahost equivalent
60 euro / year and it should be 30TB not 20TB bandwidth, but I don't fucking use even 300GB per month so let's bring it to 'sane value' of 1TB
and then VirMach still cheaper
I guess priorities and different pricing for different resources
But yeah, this is special-special-special, limited to few on new years thread iirc, it is a fucking amazing steal-deal!
] - I am mostly idling
Only problem [for me, but good for terrahost
Oh, on top of that it's fucking
AMD Ryzen 9 5950Xwith 1600 GB5 CPU score for single core.It's a very fucking steal that I will most likely never let go.
On the other hand my most powerful-amazing-deal-VirMach snipe is 4 cores (Ryzen!
), 4 GB RAM, 42GB NVMe and 1TB band (which is plenty, plenty for me) is like 25$/EURO for a year, so even doubling [and resources] that it still would be cheaper than terrahost [ok, except band that I never use, but everyone has different needs] ;')
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where do you guys find that slider? all i can see in https://virmach.com/special-offers/ is coming soon button, already refresh & changed browser, but still can't find.
You hard refresh until it shows up, CTRL + SHIFT + R or whatever your browser has there.
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still can't find it with mobile browser (Chrome & Firefox). maybe desktop only?
I don't think so, you probably have no idea how to do hard refresh on mobile :P
and probably depends what CF backend you hit? VirMach need to clean that URL from CF panel I guess
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Same, I got excited and clicked order before reading the rest of the thread, only to get the out of stock. Oh well, as soon as it goes live I know what I'm getting:
Killer deal there for sure! I'll probably be grabbing some storage VMs for a few projects (VirCDN anyone?)
FFME004is alive!Downtime: 13 hr 58 min
Seconds_Behind_Master: 45131
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He said he'd had a lot of downtime and gotten poor ticket response, and in his rant's first few words, he complained about VM doing BF offers instead of fixing existing problems. Lots of us have had downtime and those us who have been around for a while understand that this happens all the time at the low end, when someone is trying to be a VM host with barely enough resources to operate day to day when stuff is running smoothly. When stuff breaks there are cascading failures, and here there was massive account abuse, DC issues, hardware issues, having to bug out of CC, some drama with IP addresses, etc.
It sounded to me like Drizbo wanted what the rest of us want: 1) resolution of his immediate problems, though we all (including Drizbo I think) understood that VM is overstretched and stuff suffers; and 2) some kind of indication that the problems are temporary and that VM is heading back towards stability. Solving Drizbo's immediate problems while setting the stage for new ones isn't that big a help from that perspective. And if the long downtimes and slow ticket handling are caused by overwork, then making BF offers would seem to invite even MORE overwork.
It did seem to me a month or two ago that Virmach was in no position to be making new offers, with so much stuff out of commission and so many users hanging. The VM's are working better now so maybe BF is survivable, I don't know, I'm not that invested in it, but I can understand. Doing BF seems to go against catching up with the workload, but it's not my call to make. I would say that from out here, the backlog does seem likely to be smaller than it was in the past. I had months of downtime on multiple VM's and got a $1.25 account credit. I appreciated the gesture, but really, the idea of a server is that it is online more than a home PC would be, and that didn't happen.
Drizbo might have felt more reassured if Virmach had announced something like "we're not doing BF this year because we're still trying to recover from a series of big outages in mid-2022, and put better abuse controls in place after we got hammered in the last offer. We're going to concentrate on getting our systems and network running properly again and finishing off our backlog. We hope to have some amazing offers for you on Valentine's Day in a few months, after everything is fixed, since we love you all". That's about preventing recurring problems, not just patching up the immediate ones.
I appreciate the amount of work and madness Virmach has gone through to keep this stuff afloat and I hope it works out. I do see a pattern in the low end world where a provider gets overstretched, scrambles like mad to pull out of a spiral, and sometimes succeeds but not always (think Hostsolutions). Promotional offers centered around multi-year prepaid plans in particular are often a sign of trying to relieve immediate financial pressure, by taking on long term obligations which will keep incurring costs long after the payments are spent. And of course that contributes to the spiral.
I'm not the one under the gun here so from a user perspective I try to be serene about the outcome (if I really depended on this stuff I wouldn't use low end services in the first place). From a LES member and tech worker perspective I try to be supportive of Virmach but also to not delude myself about where things seem to stand.
I had the same problem 2-3 days ago when I added fund to my account. Logged back in and the fund was added. Seems its been going on for few days.