I've sent an email to @DediPath so they can ether confirm or deny the legitimacy of this reported closure.
I'll let everybody know when/if I hear back from them.
@Jab said:
So, what is the newest update on VirMach vs the-world-of-datacenters in Seattle?
Network status page updated with more information, but more importantly I'm thinking for tomorrow we could have the HVAC at QN LAX fail and then a grand finale by Friday, maybe have a government agency pull down our servers.
Damn, not looking forward to what happens tomorrow.
Wednesday = Seattle dead
Thursday = Dedipath dead
Friday = Asteroid takes out the rest of the data centers.
Friday = Asteroid takes out the rest of the data centers.
Hello, this is Friday. All of Virmach servers were seized by the FIBs (no, not FBI, the FIBs). Saturday your local police should be coming for you. See you all on Sunday
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Wait to see if Phoenix is still up when another Dedipath location goes down and try to migrate into the down location, see if your account explodes when VirMach looks at it.
Migrate button is not available for specials, and there are no locations to migrate to in the pull down box for non specials. I think this was disabled a little while ago.
Regarding Flexential locations we are working with Flexential and have a verbal that they will not be shutting down services and will work with our customers to accommodate colocation services and or equipment retrieval.
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Ouch, well I was going to just ignore my dedicated server and let Virmach sort out whatever when he got around to dealing with all the dedis, but I think I'm going to have to open a ticket for it and get ahead of whatever ticket mess ends up. Dedipath closure is painful, I've got more than a year paid up on my dedi
Hey @VirMach I guess that you're up to the eyeballs again with this Dedipath fiasco - Skitz are doing a refugee offering.
Just saying.
/jk
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
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I'm going to start providing updates here as we go, please note all these updates should be taken with a grain of salt, it hasn't fallen in place together to where we can make official announcements with confidence yet.
PHX is confirmed as close to 100% as possible safe, we've already spoken with Path. They stated they would not shut off services and are assisting us with moving to them directly.
Dedicated servers will receive an email very soon, we already winded down most of these but a few are left, we were going to continue those for another month as we split it off into multiple batches based on contract durations. We're going to wind up space for all dedicated servers so they can take backups as available, but probably only a dozen customers affected.
The majority of services were already backed up a month ago, pre-emptively in case something like this should occur. The backups are being updated and more thoroughly checked. I had a long wall of text written about all our plans that I decided not to post as it was very convoluted. As @Jab stated we're probably the best company you can be with right now as we have a lot of experience.
Need not panic, at the time my best guess is that everyone will be more cooperative than the first time we did something like this, and we have a ton of code prepared for all types of migrations everywhere. We also have some providers on standby that can provide us extra space, and we have extra servers, about 30 of them that we can deploy quickly. The most we're anticipating at this time would be up to maybe one day outage in emergency scenarios mostly related to switching over IPv4 blocks. Of course it could get worse in which case it'd go into loading from backups we have already taken or are updating/taking now.
Sorry for not updating you earlier, rest assured every hour spent since I woke up this morning has been dedicated to this situation and I definitely will be around for at least the next 2-3 days. We have a pretty good espresso machine at the office now.
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
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@VirMach said: PHX is confirmed as close to 100% as possible safe, we've already spoken with Path. They stated they would not shut off services and are assisting us with moving to them directly.
My free-forever NVMe2G is safe!
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@gritty said:
will the closure of dedipath affect Virmach's financial situation?
We'll have more money after the initial non-recurring extra costs incurred for the move. Most locations never got filled out because we didn't feel comfortable sending additional servers there for various reasons. And they increased IPv4 costs on us without much notice, so we'll be getting rid of the last remaining of about a dozen /24's with them. Dedipath was also charging us bogus overage fees which I don't know if I covered very well that they refused to refund, that didn't match monitors, so we'll no longer be paying those either.
Outside of obviously every negative thing surrounding such a move, the financials and everything else are technically quite positive. Forced consolidation to some degree, forced IP changes for those mentioned.
Speaking of which, my next update. Emails are going out for dedicated servers as mentioned soon and then for the approximately dozen servers that will also be getting IPv4 changes no matter what, we're going to attempt to emergency migrate those to nearest locations ASAP basically.
This may include any of the following: SJCZ001, SJCZ002, SJCZ003, SJCZ005, SJCZ006, SJCZ007, SJCZ008, SJCZ010, ATLZ002, SEAZ002, SEAZ005.
NYJ we have secured a new provider that's willing to assist us, it will look like possibly up to one day outage but depending on any grace period provided could be less and better done. We're waiting on Evocative's response still to give the go-ahead to move equipment. This location has the most servers and poses greatest difficulty in moving especially with a storage node being there so it's good we've been able to begin resolving this early on.
@VirMach said: NYJ we have secured a new provider that's willing to assist us, it will look like possibly up to one day outage but depending on any grace period provided could be less and better done. We're waiting on Evocative's response still to give the go-ahead to move equipment. This location has the most servers and poses greatest difficulty in moving especially with a storage node being there so it's good we've been able to begin resolving this early on.
Glad you were able to find someone so quickly for NJ
Also note, we haven't been selling new plans in any of their locations for several weeks now. This is another positive from multiple angles but I won't get too deep into it.
@Fritz said:
Should I move my BF-SPECIAL-2021 in NYC? @VirMach
I'd recommend you back it up of course as you would any crucial data at any time, but we won't be sending out any communication telling people to do that as we're already doing that and it's best any actions on the customer side is kept to a minimum to keep the nodes stable and running. With that being said, nothing so far to indicate a catastrophic scenario. Smooth sailing up until this point, if that changes everyone will hear about it immediately.
@VirMach said: NYJ we have secured a new provider that's willing to assist us, it will look like possibly up to one day outage but depending on any grace period provided could be less and better done. We're waiting on Evocative's response still to give the go-ahead to move equipment. This location has the most servers and poses greatest difficulty in moving especially with a storage node being there so it's good we've been able to begin resolving this early on.
Glad you were able to find someone so quickly for NJ
You should message me, I'll tell you all about it. An amazing LES member helped out.
Update for SJC and SEA - of course this can change but the current plan would be to consolidate these into one location. Sabey hasn't got back to us yet. Since San Jose does have mostly IPv4 blocks from Dedipath, the best course of action right now is what I discussed above. If we're able to move everyone to LAX, then it's possible that location may be at least temporarily discontinued.
Seattle we'd like to keep around and awaiting their response but also focusing on prioritizing everything for that in case of a disaster scenario. We have not yet secured any space here.
Atlanta will likely end up going to Miami, Chicago, and Tampa as a backup scenario. We should have enough space here to move everyone off and move them in from disaster backups if necessary. This location is Flexential, as is Denver which will likely be a retired location since there's not that many people there. Dallas will be kept as a location but we're still waiting for a response from Flexential on this one as well. We're still exploring colocation options for Dallas at this time.
Adding a note at the end here we've reached out to a company and waiting for further information. I don't want them to think we're no longer interested as they check the community, so for any location I just said above we're thinking about winding down, if that provider is able to help us out we'd much rather keep the location around.
(edit) We're getting into more vague territory here so I cannot stress enough, please do not take this as a finalized update.
@VirMach said: Update for SJC and SEA - of course this can change but the current plan would be to consolidate these into one location. Sabey hasn't got back to us yet. Since San Jose does have mostly IPv4 blocks from Dedipath, the best course of action right now is what I discussed above. If we're able to move everyone to LAX, then it's possible that location may be at least temporarily discontinued.
Seattle we'd like to keep around and awaiting their response but also focusing on prioritizing everything for that in case of a disaster scenario. We have not yet secured any space here.
Atlanta will likely end up going to Miami, Chicago, and Tampa as a backup scenario. We should have enough space here to move everyone off and move them in from disaster backups if necessary. This location is Flexential, as is Denver which will likely be a retired location since there's not that many people there. Dallas will be kept as a location but we're still waiting for a response from Flexential on this one as well. We're still exploring colocation options for Dallas at this time.
Adding a note at the end here we've reached out to a company and waiting for further information. I don't want them to think we're no longer interested as they check the community, so for any location I just said above we're thinking about winding down, if that provider is able to help us out we'd much rather keep the location around.
(edit) We're getting into more vague territory here so I cannot stress enough, please do not take this as a finalized update.
as is Denver which will likely be a retired location since there's not that many people there
it looks like the Denver vps will be opened to migration to other locations?
Dedicated server communication sent out, and refunds send out for those. Luckily only 6 people were affected as we already processed most of them earlier last month.
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I've sent an email to @DediPath so they can ether confirm or deny the legitimacy of this reported closure.
I'll let everybody know when/if I hear back from them.
I hope it's another account theft.
Answer received from @DediPath .
guys u have been Virmach-ed.
Virmach: fuck no, i have been dedipath-ed. i cannot catch a break!
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Damn, not looking forward to what happens tomorrow.
Wednesday = Seattle dead
Thursday = Dedipath dead
Friday = Asteroid takes out the rest of the data centers.
Hello, this is Friday. All of Virmach servers were seized by the FIBs (no, not FBI, the FIBs). Saturday your local police should be coming for you. See you all on Sunday
Please tell me this is not true
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So what locations will be affected?
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Why do I have so many vps on virmach , they are ideling anyways so who cares
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I have 10 VMs at VirMach in DediPath locations. I'll confirm if this is true for sure tomorrow.
I have 6 VMs, including the legendary (soon to be memories) FAT32 8888 special
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At work we also had few servers from dedipath good thing they were not in production
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I got 14 in those locations, but planning on only renewing 6 (1 in each location, except dallas since I have.. or had... 2 nice ones there)
I'm debating between paying $3 migration fee or waiting out 15 months of downtime on this free-forever NVMe2G in Phoenix.
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Wait to see if Phoenix is still up when another Dedipath location goes down and try to migrate into the down location, see if your account explodes when VirMach looks at it.
Migrate button is not available for specials, and there are no locations to migrate to in the pull down box for non specials. I think this was disabled a little while ago.
exciting times to be holding a Virmach deadpath vps.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Have to wait some months for all servers back or never.
I missed getting NVMe2G, but I can't remember what I forgot.
OMG... But:
So, in this case "partner" sink and we are save with Flexential?
So I only have 3 servers in DediPath NY.
Migration button on two, but loading empty dropdown.
help (-:
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
@VirMach already onto it?
Let's close all the tickets people and he will know that there's something wrong and come to check!
Good news - those severs only run tinyproxy + tailscale, they can go dead.
I will sue VirMach for my monies and buy a cheap RackNerd service.
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
Further dilemma for VirMach regarding DediPath with all his ongoing battles.
WE KINDA SAVED
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Ouch, well I was going to just ignore my dedicated server and let Virmach sort out whatever when he got around to dealing with all the dedis, but I think I'm going to have to open a ticket for it and get ahead of whatever ticket mess ends up. Dedipath closure is painful, I've got more than a year paid up on my dedi
Fuck my 4 of 6 are in DediPath location..
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Two of my servers show this:
Aren't they supposed to be in NY/NJ? Or is this just a case of incorrect IP geo location?
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My Seattle server shows up as Florida and it's definitely in Seattle, so I'd guess incorrect geoip.
Hey @VirMach I guess that you're up to the eyeballs again with this Dedipath fiasco - Skitz are doing a refugee offering.
Just saying.
/jk
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
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I'm going to start providing updates here as we go, please note all these updates should be taken with a grain of salt, it hasn't fallen in place together to where we can make official announcements with confidence yet.
PHX is confirmed as close to 100% as possible safe, we've already spoken with Path. They stated they would not shut off services and are assisting us with moving to them directly.
Dedicated servers will receive an email very soon, we already winded down most of these but a few are left, we were going to continue those for another month as we split it off into multiple batches based on contract durations. We're going to wind up space for all dedicated servers so they can take backups as available, but probably only a dozen customers affected.
The majority of services were already backed up a month ago, pre-emptively in case something like this should occur. The backups are being updated and more thoroughly checked. I had a long wall of text written about all our plans that I decided not to post as it was very convoluted. As @Jab stated we're probably the best company you can be with right now as we have a lot of experience.
Need not panic, at the time my best guess is that everyone will be more cooperative than the first time we did something like this, and we have a ton of code prepared for all types of migrations everywhere. We also have some providers on standby that can provide us extra space, and we have extra servers, about 30 of them that we can deploy quickly. The most we're anticipating at this time would be up to maybe one day outage in emergency scenarios mostly related to switching over IPv4 blocks. Of course it could get worse in which case it'd go into loading from backups we have already taken or are updating/taking now.
Sorry for not updating you earlier, rest assured every hour spent since I woke up this morning has been dedicated to this situation and I definitely will be around for at least the next 2-3 days. We have a pretty good espresso machine at the office now.
Hope to get over this difficulty soon...
will the closure of dedipath affect Virmach's financial situation?
LMFTFY (seeing as I recently let @FrankZ off with an erroneous 'then')
We have faith in ya! (Well, some of us.)
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural.
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My free-forever NVMe2G is safe!
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We'll have more money after the initial non-recurring extra costs incurred for the move. Most locations never got filled out because we didn't feel comfortable sending additional servers there for various reasons. And they increased IPv4 costs on us without much notice, so we'll be getting rid of the last remaining of about a dozen /24's with them. Dedipath was also charging us bogus overage fees which I don't know if I covered very well that they refused to refund, that didn't match monitors, so we'll no longer be paying those either.
Outside of obviously every negative thing surrounding such a move, the financials and everything else are technically quite positive. Forced consolidation to some degree, forced IP changes for those mentioned.
Speaking of which, my next update. Emails are going out for dedicated servers as mentioned soon and then for the approximately dozen servers that will also be getting IPv4 changes no matter what, we're going to attempt to emergency migrate those to nearest locations ASAP basically.
This may include any of the following: SJCZ001, SJCZ002, SJCZ003, SJCZ005, SJCZ006, SJCZ007, SJCZ008, SJCZ010, ATLZ002, SEAZ002, SEAZ005.
NYJ we have secured a new provider that's willing to assist us, it will look like possibly up to one day outage but depending on any grace period provided could be less and better done. We're waiting on Evocative's response still to give the go-ahead to move equipment. This location has the most servers and poses greatest difficulty in moving especially with a storage node being there so it's good we've been able to begin resolving this early on.
SJCZ001 first!
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Should I move my BF-SPECIAL-2021 in NYC?
@VirMach
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Hoping my locked NJ server will back then.
Glad you were able to find someone so quickly for NJ
Also note, we haven't been selling new plans in any of their locations for several weeks now. This is another positive from multiple angles but I won't get too deep into it.
I'd recommend you back it up of course as you would any crucial data at any time, but we won't be sending out any communication telling people to do that as we're already doing that and it's best any actions on the customer side is kept to a minimum to keep the nodes stable and running. With that being said, nothing so far to indicate a catastrophic scenario. Smooth sailing up until this point, if that changes everyone will hear about it immediately.
Replacement is already lined up for the location.
You should message me, I'll tell you all about it. An amazing LES member helped out.
Will do, sounds like an interesting story!
Update for SJC and SEA - of course this can change but the current plan would be to consolidate these into one location. Sabey hasn't got back to us yet. Since San Jose does have mostly IPv4 blocks from Dedipath, the best course of action right now is what I discussed above. If we're able to move everyone to LAX, then it's possible that location may be at least temporarily discontinued.
Seattle we'd like to keep around and awaiting their response but also focusing on prioritizing everything for that in case of a disaster scenario. We have not yet secured any space here.
Atlanta will likely end up going to Miami, Chicago, and Tampa as a backup scenario. We should have enough space here to move everyone off and move them in from disaster backups if necessary. This location is Flexential, as is Denver which will likely be a retired location since there's not that many people there. Dallas will be kept as a location but we're still waiting for a response from Flexential on this one as well. We're still exploring colocation options for Dallas at this time.
Adding a note at the end here we've reached out to a company and waiting for further information. I don't want them to think we're no longer interested as they check the community, so for any location I just said above we're thinking about winding down, if that provider is able to help us out we'd much rather keep the location around.
(edit) We're getting into more vague territory here so I cannot stress enough, please do not take this as a finalized update.
as is Denver which will likely be a retired location since there's not that many people thereit looks like the Denver vps will be opened to migration to other locations?
Dedicated server communication sent out, and refunds send out for those. Luckily only 6 people were affected as we already processed most of them earlier last month.
can we get new dedi offer once we get rid of Dedipath?
Yea man, that's absolute priority to deal with this moment.
Lovable drama, luckily I've abandoned vir and switched to OVH.
I'm wondering how long vir can hold on.
MicroLXC is lovable.
We have a pretty good espresso machine at the home now.
We have a pretty good espresso machine now.
in the Starbucks across the street
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