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  • @tridinebandim said:
    what where when why(fomo) whichone how much

    Tokyo, NVMe1G, 90% off

    食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.

  • @dyfkz1l said:
    @VirMach Sir, can I apply for a 90% discount code, love you 3000 <3

    You don't apply for one, it's an auto generated code by @FAT32 and you have a chance to get anywhere from 60% to 90% code which VirMach has no control over.

  • @DanSummer said:

    @dyfkz1l said:
    @VirMach Sir, can I apply for a 90% discount code, love you 3000 <3

    You don't apply for one, it's an auto generated code by @FAT32 and you have a chance to get anywhere from 60% to 90% code which VirMach has no control over.

    What should I do when I don't get the 90% off code @FAT32 ?

  • edited November 2023

    @Flying_Chinaman said: Until next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-11-27 08:56 EST
    Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -Pn
    Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 3.61 seconds
    

    Not done yet, it is a recycled MJJ IP,
    take my $3, greedy nerd!
    What is courtesy IP change?

    @tulipyun said: What should I do when I don't get the 90% off code @FART32 ?

    Nag him until next BF

    Ontario Dildo Inspector

  • @Jab said:
    Was it somewhere hidden in specification that LET code it will charge the card even if you have credits on site... or just my fucking WHMCS decided to go funny on me? I wanted to buy with credits, I had credits selected, it went to saved card.

    RIP MY FOOD MONEY /s

    also autogenerated hostname really shows my true state, I am TidyMortified :D

    also thanks VirMach for another cheap-as-fuck (as I got -90% [thanks FAT32 for rigging it]) IPv4. However I once again ended on FFME001 and 5/7 are out of my reach :D

  • @tulipyun said:

    @DanSummer said:

    @dyfkz1l said:
    @VirMach Sir, can I apply for a 90% discount code, love you 3000 <3

    You don't apply for one, it's an auto generated code by @FAT32 and you have a chance to get anywhere from 60% to 90% code which VirMach has no control over.

    What should I do when I don't get the 90% off code @FAT32 ?

    Cry? :)

  • @DanSummer said:

    @tulipyun said:

    @DanSummer said:

    @dyfkz1l said:
    @VirMach Sir, can I apply for a 90% discount code, love you 3000 <3

    You don't apply for one, it's an auto generated code by @FAT32 and you have a chance to get anywhere from 60% to 90% code which VirMach has no control over.

    What should I do when I don't get the 90% off code @FAT32 ?

    Cry? :)

    It was @VirMach who lost a chance to take my money. What do I have to cry about? B)

  • @FrankZ said:
    OGF is running a Virmach flash deal up to 90% off https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3798283/#Comment_3798283
    Tokyo is available with regular support.

    Is this still active? I don't see anything there.

  • JabJab TOP Member 2027

    Scrooooooooooooollllllllllllllll, it's there - could be on another (next) page too, Vanilla is funky for me there.

    Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.

  • FrankZFrankZ ModeratorOG
    edited November 2023

    @mockingbird said:

    @FrankZ said:
    OGF is running a Virmach flash deal up to 90% off https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3798283/#Comment_3798283
    Tokyo is available with regular support.

    Is this still active? I don't see anything there.

    Seems to have bumped to the top on page 245

  • @FrankZ said:

    @mockingbird said:

    @FrankZ said:
    OGF is running a Virmach flash deal up to 90% off https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3798283/#Comment_3798283
    Tokyo is available with regular support.

    Is this still active? I don't see anything there.

    Seems to have bumped to the top on the next page 245

    Thanks. I got a 60% coupon... But the prices on the landing page are so high!

  • edited November 2023

    @mockingbird said: I got a 60% coupon

    If Chinaman got 60%, Chinaman would by a 512MB Tokyo, not bad value as proxy
    But Pope's holy peanuts, I got 90% coupon, so I bought 4GB Tokyo

    Ontario Dildo Inspector

  • @Flying_Chinaman said:

    @mockingbird said: I got a 60% coupon

    If I got 60%, China would by a 512MB Tokyo, not bad value as proxy
    But I got 90% instead, so I bought 4GB Tokyo

    Virmach had a $10/year promotion yesterday so the value isn't there. I'm just wondering if https://virmach.com/black-friday-cyber-monday/ is going to be updated or not. A flash deal would be nice. @VirMach - please comment.

  • @mockingbird said:

    @Flying_Chinaman said:

    @mockingbird said: I got a 60% coupon

    If I got 60%, China would by a 512MB Tokyo, not bad value as proxy
    But I got 90% instead, so I bought 4GB Tokyo

    Virmach had a $10/year promotion yesterday so the value isn't there. I'm just wondering if https://virmach.com/black-friday-cyber-monday/ is going to be updated or not. A flash deal would be nice. @VirMach - please comment.

    Will flash deals be returning?
    Flash deals are not ready yet.

  • edited November 2023

    Any neighbor at Tokyo 037, 038 and 002S?


    Cum'on the CPU steal bump on 037 is as ridiculous as Tokyo storage
    @VirMach how many lads have cramped in, got oversold like old E5 days?
    Don't you say it is due to the thermal issue again

    Ontario Dildo Inspector

  • I'm not the only one polishing the F5-button by repeated presses while glued to the status of their Mystery Box Product/Service page, am I ?

  • Got a 90%, wasn't planning on grabbing more services but I guess I'm in for an nvme4g. At least if my mystery box luck sucks I'll have this to fall back on.

  • edited November 2023

    @virmach any chance paying for additional storage from blackfriday pricing for existing service?

  • TYOC007 offline again? @VirMach

  • Rats! Didn't get 90% :(

  • I was hoping to receive a 90% discount coupon, but I only got a 60% one. :'(

  • JabJab TOP Member 2027

    Fri, 24 Nov 2023 03:51:00 -080 Update -- new hardware has arrived. Technician will arrive at datacenter soon to complete the hardware swap.

    WOOOOOOOOOOO?

    Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.

  • @Flying_Chinaman said: Don't you say it is due to the thermal issue again

    Turns out it's due to thermal issues but this one flew under the radar because it also has such low CPU utilization that it's not normally noticed, only in bursts.

    @Flying_Chinaman said: @VirMach how many lads have cramped in, got oversold like old E5 days?

    I can move you to a much emptier, very nice node outside of Tokyo if you prefer. Just let me know. I'll even give you our very exclusive 3% flying chinaman discount.

  • JabJab TOP Member 2027
    edited November 2023

    @VirMach said:

    @Jab said:
    Was it somewhere hidden in specification that LET code it will charge the card even if you have credits on site... or just my fucking WHMCS decided to go funny on me? I wanted to buy with credits, I had credits selected, it went to saved card.

    RIP MY FOOD MONEY /s

    also autogenerated hostname really shows my true state, I am TidyMortified :D

    also thanks VirMach for another cheap-as-fuck (as I got -90% [thanks FAT32 for rigging it]) IPv4. However I once again ended on FFME001 and 5/7 are out of my reach :D

    So, I've just logged into panel to check network status and I see that my credits have been used on the last order... that also charged my card. I was sooooooo ready to came here to throw some big words toward you - CHARGEBACK, SCAM, VirMach, MJJ, CHICKEN, POEM etc... but then I see my card payment was cancelled by merchant and I my funds were returned.

    If you did it manually many thanks, but I was only joking about food, I could still afford some pasta and sausages!
    If you didn't do it manually then just headsup that WHMCS is going nuts again.

    WOOF WOOF

    Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.

  • @tridinebandim said:
    @virmach any chance paying for additional storage from blackfriday pricing for existing service?

    Probably not, but at some point in time we might sub-categorize specials based on disk amount categories and then let you upgrade to some standardized plans optionally. I assume for most people the pricing won't be as good as what they got though. These standardized plans would also unlock some paid features though such as migrations and maybe support.

    So for example 0GB to 20GB might get marked as 20 sub-category, 21GB to 35GB as 35, 36GB to 50GB as 50, and so on, and you'd be able to upgrade to any of the standardized plans with at least that much disk. Of course you could be left in a situation where the standardized plan offered potentially has less memory, bandwidth, or CPU.

  • JabJab TOP Member 2027
    edited November 2023

    @VirMach will you tell us (after everything) if selecting Mystery Location had any play on VM received or we need to gather data now and crowdsource it? :D
    I went with number 9 because it said Europe, duh.
    Select Location: Mystery Location 9 - Hey remember two of these are EU

    Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.

  • HeyImCluelessHeyImClueless Retired
    edited November 2023

    I'm new around here- so I'm curious. With DC issues (colon dumping and the other vendor going out of business, IP issues from multiple vendors, service consolidates/trasfers, shipping issues, remote hands issues, overwhelmed ticket support, china issues, thermal paste issues, low staff issues; why on earth would anyone buy virmach services?

    And why wouldn't virmach
    1. restrict china
    2. stop allowing transfers
    3. buy his own IP space so he wouldn't get randomly dumped
    4. reduce footprint until he could handle the operation

    Seems people buy virmach for the entertainment of what will go wrong next

  • @Jab said: I went with number 9

    i went with 2, because it said ams or ger i dont remember

  • @Jab said:
    @VirMach will you tell us (after everything) if selecting Mystery Location had any play on VM received or we need to gather data now and crowdsource it? :D
    I went with number 9 because it said Europe, duh.
    Select Location: Mystery Location 9 - Hey remember two of these are EU

    I'm really hoping it does and that Number 6 is Frankfurt... which I have reasons to think I might've figured it out... if it's not... then bummer, I'll be rather sad

  • JabJab TOP Member 2027

    So 2,6,9 is Frankfurt. /s
    Anyone selected anything else for Frankfurt? :D

    Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.

  • I guess I'll also be ok with 6 being Amsterdam... but then you'll be sad... so we're hoping for 9 being Amsterdam and 6 being Frankfurt :p

    Lol btw, there's another (more credible) reason why I think (hope) 6 is Frankfurt... other than it saying: "Los Angeles? New York? Frankfurt? " in the description :p

  • I want a EU one, but I left all 3 purchases as the default one thinking they were all random :(

  • @ZA_capetown said: "Los Angeles? New York? Frankfurt?

    i may have choose this one

  • @tridinebandim said:

    @ZA_capetown said: "Los Angeles? New York? Frankfurt?

    i may have choose this one

    At random? Or hoping for Frankfurt? Or one of the others?

  • hoping for frankfurt and hoping these 3 location is better for eu, there must be a reason 3 of them in one line

  • @tridinebandim said:
    hoping for frankfurt and hoping these 3 location is better for eu, there must be a reason 3 of them in one line

    Well... the reason might've been to confuse and trick us? :o

    New York would be the next best for EU, after Frankfurt and Amsterdam... but... Los Angeles not so much :s

  • @HeyImClueless said:
    I'm new around here- so I'm curious. With DC issues (colon dumping and the other vendor going out of business, IP issues from multiple vendors, service consolidates/trasfers, shipping issues, remote hands issues, overwhelmed ticket support, china issues, thermal paste issues, low staff issues; why on earth would anyone buy virmach services?

    And why wouldn't virmach
    1. restrict china
    2. stop allowing transfers
    3. buy his own IP space so he wouldn't get randomly dumped
    4. reduce footprint until he could handle the operation

    Seems people buy virmach for the entertainment of what will go wrong next

    For someone that claim they're new, you seem to have all the talking points.

    I buy it because it's one of the best value for money despite what you may think.

    Most, of the issues they ran into can happen to any provider (cloudflare comes to mind), all the issues are well documented by them and they're always honest about it.

  • I wish @VirMach will give a flash deal to those who've been waiting for months for their M/C work, aka DALZ007 customers.

  • @tenpera said:
    I wish @VirMach will give a flash deal to those who've been waiting for months for their M/C work, aka DALZ007 customers.

    I'm sure there's a 1c/128MB/5GB flash deal with your name on it.

  • @skorous said:

    @tenpera said:
    I wish @VirMach will give a flash deal to those who've been waiting for months for their M/C work, aka DALZ007 customers.

    I'm sure there's a 1c/128MB/5GB flash deal with your name on it.

    Sigh, I'm finally (trying) to let go of my $3.60 = 256MB and the $4.95 = 384MB ones... but I still have a couple of days left to uncancel the cancellations... so not sure whether I'll be able to stay strong... addiction is bad :-/

  • @DanSummer said:

    @HeyImClueless said:
    I'm new around here- so I'm curious. With DC issues (colon dumping and the other vendor going out of business, IP issues from multiple vendors, service consolidates/trasfers, shipping issues, remote hands issues, overwhelmed ticket support, china issues, thermal paste issues, low staff issues; why on earth would anyone buy virmach services?

    And why wouldn't virmach
    1. restrict china
    2. stop allowing transfers
    3. buy his own IP space so he wouldn't get randomly dumped
    4. reduce footprint until he could handle the operation

    Seems people buy virmach for the entertainment of what will go wrong next

    For someone that claim they're new, you seem to have all the talking points.

    I buy it because it's one of the best value for money despite what you may think.

    Most, of the issues they ran into can happen to any provider (cloudflare comes to mind), all the issues are well documented by them and they're always honest about it.

    I lurked for a while and actually read much of the thread

  • @tenpera said:
    I wish @VirMach will give a flash deal to those who've been waiting for months for their M/C work, aka DALZ007 customers.

    Knowing Virmach I'm hoping for some surprise for those that stuck it out... like a doubling resources or something of the likes 🍀

  • Is there an expiration date on this coupon?
    I don't need anymore US locations now that Seattle is out of the cards (or am I remembering wrong here?)
    Would be looking to wait for Tokyo to come back in stock. With all the random outages I've seen over the past few months, I think a backup would be in order.

  • I think everyone who bought a mystery box needs to be prepared for the five stages of grief. Statistically speaking with what's known on you end:

    There's only a 1/10 chance you get the location you want.
    Based on the 6 previews shared, there's only a 1/6 chance of getting a service above 4GB memory.

    @ZA_capetown said: Well... the reason might've been to confuse and trick us?

    Here actually I'll begin to crush everyone's hopes and dreams now.

    Locations for mystery box revealed. Mystery box placed out of stock. For locations 2 through 10, I'm going to do random number generator in this order (this isn't the order, it's the order they get drawn) -- PHX, SJC, ATL, AMS, NYC, FFM, MIA, CHI, TPA. So the number it lands on in that location order is the location # the location gets tied to basically.

    Note added later: these are final, regardless of whether I messed up the random numbers.

    • Location 1: Los Angeles, CA
    • Location 2: Amsterdam, NL
    • Location 3: Tampa, FL
    • Location 4: Atlanta, GA
    • Location 5: Frankfurt, DE
    • Location 6: NYC Metro, NJ
    • Location 7: San Jose, CA
    • Location 8: Chicago, IL
    • Location 9: Phoenix, AZ
    • Location 10: Miami, FL

    Logs:

    First number drawn was 9.
    Second number drawn was 9, since this was already used it was repeated: 7.
    Third number drawn was 7, since it was already used it was repeated: 4.
    Fourth number drawn was 2.
    Fifth number drawn was 2, since it was already used it was repeated: 7. Repeated: 6.
    Sixth number drawn as: 9, since it was already used it was repeated: 7. Repeated: 4. Repeated: 4. Repeated: 9. Okay I'm starting to think this wasn't the best way of doing this. Repeated: 5.
    Seventh number drawn was: 10.
    Eight number drawn was: 2. Repeated: 9. Repeated: 6. Repeated: 7. Repeated: 8.
    Ninth number drawn was: good thing my brain realized there was only one left, 3. This is where I ended up confusing myself and realized I need to trace back from the logs.

    @dgc1980 said: I want a EU one, but I left all 3 purchases as the default one thinking they were all random

    :#

    This was the only one clearly labeled different than the others as a primary location. I mean you are right that Amsterdam counts as a primary location, it just doesn't have the highest level of availability. Putting all your eggs in the default basket didn't pay off. I do feel bad but no that bad since it was basically indicated as such as status.virm.ac exists. CTRL+F "NYC" is 25 results, CTRL+F "LAX" is 31 results. I even mentioned it in a comment somewhere here, but this was the original relevant text from the mystery box post:

    Or if you just want to make sure you get activated in one of our primary locations that has the highest level of availability, consider leaving it on the default selected box.

    Actually I do feel bad since it was probably going to be NYC and therefore at least a little bit closer to Europe, not literally on the other side of the globe.

    Anyway, I feel like I've equally upset everyone with these location picks so you may now have a group therapy session or get the pitchforks out.

    @HeyImClueless said:
    I'm new around here- so I'm curious. With DC issues (colon dumping and the other vendor going out of business, IP issues from multiple vendors, service consolidates/trasfers, shipping issues, remote hands issues, overwhelmed ticket support, china issues, thermal paste issues, low staff issues; why on earth would anyone buy virmach services?

    And why wouldn't virmach
    1. restrict china
    2. stop allowing transfers
    3. buy his own IP space so he wouldn't get randomly dumped
    4. reduce footprint until he could handle the operation

    Seems people buy virmach for the entertainment of what will go wrong next

    I think you answered yourself in your first paragraph. I suppose some people see the fact that a low-end provider somehow made it through colon dumping as you say, a provider going out of business, multiple vendors giving us IP issues, having to do service consolidations/transfers, shipping issues, remote hands issues, as well as other events you listed... as a good thing. Because anyone else would've probably just stolen their money and ended services abruptly/gone out of business.

    For your other specific points on why we wouldn't do the following:

    1. restrict china

    China isn't one person. It's not fair to just disallow up to 1.4 billion people from using our services just because of where they live.

    1. stop allowing transfers

    Then it'd be worse, bad unofficial transfers that look like account hacks/multi-account which we disallow. They wouldn't just stop occurring. And we generally support the idea of transferring services instead of banking on people never using it for the remainder of the term if they don't want it.

    1. buy his own IP space so he wouldn't get randomly dumped

    We don't have 3 million dollars. I don't know if you could tell that by our pricing and quantity of servers on our status page or not, and the cost of our specials, and the current IPv4 prices.

    1. reduce footprint until he could handle the operation

    The footprint of the operation had nothing to do with this, we were theoretically understaffed since before all the events you described occurred and handled it fine. Footprint could have been smaller and most of the issues you described that actually contributed to whatever you see as a negative consequence of the operation not being "handled" would still be there. If a provider goes out of business, then that still affects customers. If IPv4 has issues, that still affects customers. Sure maybe it'd reduce it a little bit but it still occurs. Reducing footprint unnaturally would bring its own set of business challenges. By trying to do that to a significant degree in a short period of time, we might get stuck sinking more time into that and upsetting even more people.

    @theloafingone said:
    Is there an expiration date on this coupon?
    I don't need anymore US locations now that Seattle is out of the cards (or am I remembering wrong here?)
    Would be looking to wait for Tokyo to come back in stock. With all the random outages I've seen over the past few months, I think a backup would be in order.

    If you mean the OGF one, then this isn't OGF so I wouldn't normally discuss it here but just in case it wasn't posted there clearly, then it's meant for cyber monday, so after cyber monday, it's gone. If you're lucky maybe Tokyo would return today. I don't know if it will or not, more people ordered it than expected as usual and it wasn't originally going to be included but was mainly as there was no good immediate solution and I figured we'd keep it running until there were too many orders and there were. I have to make sure we have enough space to at least bring back the small number of people waiting on TYOC038 outage resolution and some space to keep the location open until it's restocked. If that's evaluated and there's some extra space then it could be placed back in stock before your coupon expires. I'd say 20% chance.

  • JabJab TOP Member 2027

    Famous VirMach move - wall of text.

    Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.

  • edited November 2023

    @Jab said:
    Famous VirMach move - wall of text.

    You guys have ChatGPT now, it can summarize for you but it could result in many important words being lost. I'd recommend asking it if it has any specific information about what's relevant to you.

  • @VirMach ETA on flash offers please?

  • JabJab TOP Member 2027

    @mockingbird said:
    @VirMach ETA on flash offers please?

    FFS at least read some of the text above :D

    Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.

  • but but but...

  • Location 5: Frankfurt, DE

    I selected this location because I like the number 5. I am a genius.

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