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somik · January 1

@bozolover99 said:
and I was just starting to think of trying this, can't be as bad as contabo?

Well, give it a try. What's the worst that could happen?

I mean, there is the saying, "No pain no gain!"

imok · January 1

mbk · January 2

I renewed 8 serves.

1 is down, 7 are idling.

I am ok. I am fine.

Seekerzero · January 3

@toneyhowell02 said:
Node STOR.NYC-B004S.VMS offline from November 17th. Appeared for a few hours on December 5 and went offline. Maybe there is information what is happening at all? Tickets are not answered. Paid priority support and did nothing, it just hangs in anticipation.

Same here, have no idea what is going on.

imok · January 3

New year, not virmach yet

imok · January 4

It's pudin time

somik · January 4

@imok said:
It's pudin time

@Putin has entered the chat

msatt · January 4

Happy to say thats another VM cancelled - was working fine but no point just waiting for it / @VirMach (the company) to die.
What a waste, Soheil should have sold the company if they could not cope. I am sure the company assets (customers) are diminishing and bills increasing. The company cannot continue in this mode.

fluttershy · January 4

end of an era I guess, just dropped everything above $10/year.

AlwaysSkint · January 4

I wondered if he was just taking a break from all the abuse etc. here but..
It ain't looking good, for sure.
I just hope that he is healthy and something nasty hasn't happened.

imok · January 5

@imok said:
It's pudin time

localhost · January 5

@imok said:

@imok said:
It's pudin time

Yum

risturiz · January 5

@imok said:

@imok said:
It's pudin time

Chocolate pudin + Galleta Maria = Best desert ever

imok · January 5

@risturiz said:

@imok said:

@imok said:
It's pudin time

Chocolate pudin + Galleta Maria = Best desert ever

This is vanilla and chocolate pudin, with vanilla cookies inside. From what I've read, Maria it's like a vanilla cookie, so that's good.

imok · January 6

Virmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssaaaaaaaaassaaaaaaaaaach

tuc · January 6

@imok said:
Virmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssaaaaaaaaassaaaaaaaaaach

It's overrrrrrrrr

imok · January 6

@tuc said:

@imok said:
Virmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssaaaaaaaaassaaaaaaaaaach

It's overrrrrrrrr

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

haynhat · January 7

SJCZ008 has entered sleep mode and forgotten how to wake up.

tulipyun · January 7

@haynhat said:
SJCZ008 has entered sleep mode and forgotten how to wake up.

They are not asleep, but dead!

flips · January 7

I still have prepaid credits, so I guess I will just have to watch them slowly be eaten for autorenewal of non-working services …

WSS · January 9

Got an SMS at about 2am that my last Virmach VPS went down so I got ready to remove it from Hetrix to not fuck my overall metrics.

$ uptime
 15:48:28 up 294 days, 11:48,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.01

Came back 3 minutes later, no downtime. Someone must have unplugged the Ethernet to test a janky hub.

imok · January 9

My storage VPS came back to life a couple of minutes a few days ago 😄

JoeMerit · January 10

how much revenue has everyone lost from San Jose being down?

imok · January 10

A lot of zeros

yoursunny · January 10

@JoeMerit said:
how much revenue has everyone lost from San Jose being down?

We don't have San Jose, but we have Los Angeles.
We are losing millions because it runs our trading software that automatically buys stocks.
The software could have bought 1000 shares of NVIDIA a decade ago.

WSS · January 10

@yoursunny said:

@JoeMerit said:
how much revenue has everyone lost from San Jose being down?

The software could have bought 1000 shares of NVIDIA a decade ago.

I'm still not sure if you are actually hilarious, or if we are mortal enemies.

Wonder_Woman · January 10

@WSS said:

@yoursunny said:

@JoeMerit said:
how much revenue has everyone lost from San Jose being down?

The software could have bought 1000 shares of NVIDIA a decade ago.

I'm still not sure if you are actually hilarious, or if we are mortal enemies.

imok · January 10

I need some uptime

vyas · January 10

@imok said:
I need some uptime

Thats what she said last night

Fritz · January 11

Both of my virmach have good uptime.

NY 308 days
LA 92 days

But I think to let it go.

tulipyun · January 11

@Fritz said:
Both of my virmach have good uptime.

NY 308 days
LA 92 days

But I think to let it go.

My three VPS instances are also exceptionally stable:

LA daily downtime: 4%
SJC daily downtime: 100%
Tokyo daily downtime: 100%

Fritz · January 11

@tulipyun said:

@Fritz said:
Both of my virmach have good uptime.

NY 308 days
LA 92 days

But I think to let it go.

My three VPS instances are also exceptionally stable:

LA daily downtime: 4%
SJC daily downtime: 100%
Tokyo daily downtime: 100%

ROFL.

sh97 · January 11

San Jose has been dead since 2025-12-18, almost a month.
VirVir, where art thou?

VirMach · January 11

@sh97 said:
San Jose has been dead since 2025-12-18, almost a month.
VirVir, where art thou?

Same reason as before and it's been upsetting me but there's nothing I can do at the moment but wait for a response. We've received one response over the last 3 weeks.

I'm just logging in to let everyone know they should not be worried about me and I apologize for making you worried. I'll come back here full time once it feels appropriate. I'm not abandoning you guys or our customers and things that are within my direct control should start improving soon to some level as I begin to (finally and hopefully) catch up.

I'll try to touch on everything else I remember with a couple sentences each:

There are definitely several nodes down but the majority's San Jose. Other nodes have been quickly fixed where possible. Atlanta is the most affected location. Los Angeles was initially some carrier issues and then switch issues which I'm trying to wrap up.
I apologize to anyone who I've disappointed, especially from this community (such as @msatt)
Tickets have an unfathomable backlog so I'm just confirming what everyone's suspected, tickets have been currently abandoned.
We didn't do Black Friday as a result of the long-running tradition of not trying to do anything if it even feels like a cash grab or adds to the workload at a critical time
Oklahoma is still alive and well. It's still not a priority, and I'm excited for it to be a priority again. The routing issue here can be immediately fixed by removing Cox Communications, I've just wanted to do it "properly" after communicating with them which hasn't happened yet. Beta testers will get a "reset" on their due dates as if they've received the beta period for free.
"What about [insert server name or insert my issue] and why no updates?" We'll get into this later with a wall of text, maybe. I already have several pages of thoughts I've been saving for when I'm back, if I decide to post it.

I hope everyone's doing well, once again, I am doing well and I do not want you guys to think anything happened to me. This doesn't mean I'll be back immediately, but soon™

imok · January 11

Today I woke up at 3 a.m. out of nowhere. “Again at this hour? Maybe something happened,” I thought, with that illusory truth effect from movies.

Then I logged into LES and… @Virmach came back. Welcome back, fellow LESbian. Happy to know you’re alive or not in jail.

But honestly, it does worry me that I woke up at 3 a.m. There was a time when I did it at 3 or 3:03 or 3:30 or 3:33. What a curious brain. I only remember that those weren’t very good days.

Kris · January 11

Glad to hear from you and that all is well @VirMach !

@VirMach said: Oklahoma is still alive and well. It's still not a priority, and I'm excited for it to be a priority again. The routing issue here can be immediately fixed by removing Cox Communications, I've just wanted to do it "properly" after communicating with them which hasn't happened yet.

That would explain some weird issues with updates or some locations outbound, glad to know OKC still on the map!

tetech · January 11

Username FrankZ
Joined September 2020
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Last Active January 9

tulipyun · January 11

Welcome back, Virmach.

I've cancelled the cancellation request for the SJC VPS, hoping it will return to normal before its expiry date.

Do not forget that TYOC007 remains in extended downtime. As you have not mentioned it, it is still on the cancellation list.

However, the OKC server was cancelled last month due to routing issues. I do hope @Virmach will provide me with a new one in future.

PS：Virmach returned after two months and 29 days, yet he still failed to break his previous record of being offline for three months.

msatt · January 11

@VirMach not sure I should be specially singled out but apology accepted thank you.
Two VPS on AMSD018 down for maintenance for 4 months so far and you just left us :'(

May be cheeky to ask but why not - how about a donation of a dedi to FOSSVPS (as compensation for everyone) ?
Those affected by your absence could have free access which we would manage? As long as people behave themselves and are long standing non spammy on LES I would drop the strict open source development requirement.

cybertech · January 11

@msatt said:
@VirMach not sure I should be specially singled out but apology accepted thank you.
Two VPS on AMSD018 down for maintenance for 4 months so far and you just left us :'(

May be cheeky to ask but why not - how about a donation of a dedi to FOSSVPS (as compensation for everyone) ?
Those affected by your absence could have free access which we would manage? As long as people behave themselves and are long standing non spammy on LES I would drop the strict open source development requirement.

he cant guarantee uptime of that dedi though

msatt · January 11

@cybertech said: he cant guarantee uptime of that dedi though

True but at least we can guarantee a service if it is running.

AlwaysSkint · January 11

Yay! He lives!
Welcome back @VirMach

[Set a sensible target of x amount of Tickets per day. Just a thought.]

Jab · January 11

New Year, New Me VirMach.

Welcome back, glad you okey, that is all I needed to know.

imok · January 11

Where is @FrankZ?

Crab · January 11

Happy New Year Virmach and FrankZ and welcome back!

risturiz · January 11

Cancelled 19 / Suspended 4 / Active 5 ... I think was a good move to liberate (free) IP xD

yoursunny · January 11

@imok said:
Where is @FrankZ?

Hiding in fear of getting banned for multi-account violation.

@tetech said:

Username FrankZ
Joined September 2020
Visits 3,984
Last Active January 9

animeiscool · January 11

Welcome back @VirMach. I've recently been checking LES in the hopes that one of these days you might show back up.

bmoto · January 11

For Immediate Release

Virmach confirms: "Not dead yet !"

DanSummer · January 12

Welcome back! this feels so good... it's like finding a lost relative well and alive after a long search

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