@VirMach Is there any way to determine the exact processor model (e.g., AMD Ryzen 9 3950X) based on the VPS specs listed on the sale page? I'm wondering if the SKU code contains that information, or if there's another way to tell.
@Kaito said: @VirMach Is there any way to determine the exact processor model (e.g., AMD Ryzen 9 3950X) based on the VPS specs listed on the sale page? I'm wondering if the SKU code contains that information, or if there's another way to tell.
You buy it, install an operating system, and it tells you.
@Kaito said: @VirMach Is there any way to determine the exact processor model (e.g., AMD Ryzen 9 3950X) based on the VPS specs listed on the sale page? I'm wondering if the SKU code contains that information, or if there's another way to tell.
We can technically do that, but we don't want people to buy it because of a specific processor since there's too high of a chance (above 0%) of it potentially getting moved to some other node that's different and we would have to put a disclaimer and it'd just create confusion.
@Brueggus said:
Your network in OKC appears to be doing pretty good. I set up a Syncthing relay there and ran out of bandwidth in less than a week 😆
And we haven't even added Cogent yet! /s
Charter Communications, which operates under the Spectrum branding, is combining with its privately held rival Cox Communications, which it values at $34.5 billion including debt, the two companies announced Friday.
This could be interesting though if the FTC lets it go through.
Some updates on customer dedicated servers.
Lots of things happened, some good, some bad, some changes. We have more Epyc servers available as well. Wrapping everything up hopefully to where we have at least 10 to 20 dedicated servers ready. Every time I've tried to provide updates this week it's just turned into lots of rambling so I'll protect you guys from that and be vague.
Also, sorry the beta test has been uneventful. I didn't plan on this week going the way it did, it wasn't terrible, just lots of planning required for the next two or three cabinets so we can mitigate any potential delays. (Which is pretty funny, we have one server up with a handful of beta testers and already moving forward with plans for several more cabinets.)
@risturiz said:
Btw Club Miami/Tampa not coming back anytime? asking for a friend :-)
Possible, but sadly not currently plausible. Tampa, definitely not. Closest thing that was "maybe" anywhere close to here it needs to be in terms of pricing was about an hour away from Miami and not very good.
The real problem ends up being that we'd need to go big with it if we relaunch, and we can't even get a reasonably priced quote right now. Then, we don't have enough servers. Finally, we don't have enough customers. Unless "a friend" wants to rent out 20-30 servers?
@imok said:
dedis being ready? is it happening? is it happening?
It's a great moment because I'm working installing my Proxmox cluster (I should replace it with RPIs, that would be cheaper)
They'll begin to be ready this weekend, but I said that last weekend. You can take my word for it.
If you'd like more information:
More Details on Ryzen Dedicated Servers
Memory wasn't that highly available for these servers in the pricepoints we needed, and it looks like it's only gone up in price since. We still have enough for the current builds but I kind of have to "think ahead" for finishing out all the others. This means base memory amounts will likely be lowered, and we'll move toward more flexible memory additions with one-time setup costs. I've also been thinking about the best way to organize upgrades since a good number of people seemed interested. We can also do something cool with that, letting you upgrade at any time you want, you don't have to purchase it like that, so that way you don't waste money if you're going to idle it anyway.
Any previously discussed 32GB --> 16GB (Upgradeable to 32GB for one-time $25 setup fee, or 64GB for one-time $50 setup fee.)
Some other bad news on the lowest configuration before we get to the good news:
The $25/mo 4x1TB configuration is confirmed as being Ryzen 3500 now (we got these early, sorry.) This was already planned (was going to later move down to 2600 or 3500.) Due to how I've had to split up the configurations in some specific ways for the 5500 issues -- this also means you cannot upgrade the processor unless ASRock gets back to us with the BIOS update. We'll talk about CPU upgrades later in this post.
The 4x1TB configuration is going to be advertised a 2x1TB HDD, which means if two drives fail, they will not be replaced, but I'll probably replace it as long as we have 1TB drives left over (I mean by then maybe it'll just be 4x1TB and we'll buy more.) It's just not guaranteed.
Now some good news:
I cannot locate 500GB SSDs. I also have way too many 1TB SSDs. This means 4x500GB configuration is now confirmed 4x1TB but it will be advertised as 2x1TB, meaning if a drive fails, we will not replace it unless three drives fail (you're owed two.) This is for the early birds, later on it might actually end up being only 2x1TB as advertised or 4x500GB for future purchases as planned.
More good news on the 5500's:
I've added USB boards to these and that works for now until we hear back from ASRock on a BIOS update. Also, most of the 5500's we received was from one bulk seller who packaged them poorly which resulted in lots of bent pins. These are being sent back. If you purchase a server with 5500's and there's other issues, we'll likely have other processors to do a swap and this might end up being a free "upgrade" (in terms of benchmark performance.)
You'll also be able to upgrade CPU on these at any time, for the following prices, as long as it's supported. I'm putting that disclaimer in case there's compatibility issues (for example, 3500 won't initially be able to upgrade to 5500 as explained above.)
3600 - $50 one-time setup fee
5500 - $75 one-time setup fee
5600 - $100 one-time setup fee
3700X - $100 one-time setup fee
5700X - $125 one-time setup fee
3900 - $125 one-time setup fee
5800 - $150 one-time setup fee
You also get "credit" towards the above based on which CPU your configuration was sold as, if you decide to upgrade:
$25 credit for 3500
$50 credit for 5500
Disk upgrades are as follows, keep in mind if you have a configuration with a HW RAID controller, you cannot add NVMe:
+$100 one-time setup fee to upgrade to 2x4TB NVMe (from 2x2TB NVMe)**
+$75 one-time setup fee to upgrade to 4x3TB HDD (from 4x1TB HDD)
+$15 one-time setup fee per 1TB HDD (add one, not upgrade)
+$25 one-time setup fee per 3TB HDD (add one, not upgrade)
+$40 one-time setup fee per 1TB SATA SSD (add one, not upgrade)
**Huge disclaimer on this one though since I said you can upgrade at any time, only as long as we still have 4TB NVMe available. We'll likely purchase more, but if you ask when we're out and pricing on 4TB NVMe is high, we'll likely tell you to at minimum wait. Otherwise for this it's possible it may not be available if you're asking a year or two later. I'm trying to keep setup fees low, otherwise I'd have to price this at $300+ if we're going to guarantee availability. So for this one in particular it's best to purchase it ASAP if you want it, and don't wait.
More Ryzen changes:
We are getting rid of the $55 per month 64GB, 2x4TB NVMe option for now. However, it's possible to purchase the $45 per month option, then pay $150 one-time setup fee to upgrade to 64GB and 2x4TB NVMe. If we do proceed with this being offered monthly, we'll have an extremely limited quantity available and it may end up being an additional $10 a month as I'm planning on having that configuration have a better CPU as well.
Note on the 2x2TB NVMe configuration:
It will be advertised as 1x2TB, we will only guarantee one disk to work. Later on this may get switched over to actually being 1x2TB for future purchases (in which case we'll probably sneak in a free 3TB HDD for backups.)
More good news:
KVM will be included for free, as long as it works since it has not been tested. I haven't decided if this will be done automatically or has to be requested, I'll let you guys know. The free KVM will be "fair use" -- the KVM switch can only do so much, it's meant for emergency use only, otherwise it'll get clogged up.
Please do provide feedback on these changes, especially if you really hate something. And I'll reconsider, but keep in mind I did say everything was an estimate previously. And of course, all of this can change yet again.
More Details on Epyc Dedicated Servers:
These will be 128GB memory, that's how it's shaping up to be at the moment. We're still short on U.2 drives, we might temporarily do them as M.2 only and then add in a U.2 later (you'd get it for free, and then you also get a free M.2 in that case, you'll just have to be patient.) These are going to be limited on disk, only coming with 1x1TB U.2 NVMe as planned. So they're good for medium-high memory, being "relatively" newer versus dual E5, and medium-high processing power.
They're still planned to be $59 per month. Non-zero but small change they might be $69 per month for the sale instead but if that happens I'd likely bump it up to 256GB RAM or 2TB/2x1TB U.2 or throw in an M.2 NVMe (2TB or 4TB.)
More Details on E5 Dedicated Servers:
Originally these were going to just be dirt cheap since we had infinite power. Since we ended up changing those plans a bit with the cabinet split, and basically have other servers, and they're kind of in a state of disarray right now, I've purchased lots and lots of memory. They'll still be weird/not similar configurations but it'll look like this instead (originally was going to be 64GB RAM only.)
Dual E5-2620v1 to Dual E5-2690 v4, 64GB to 384GB RAM, 1x1TB SAS SSD but also could be up to 8x1TB SSD or 4x3TB HDD. We're basically going to "max" these out, whatever chassis and processor they are is what they are, but if they have more RAM slots, it'll be filled, if they have drive bays, they'll be filled. Will still start at $49 per month.***
We might have to see if we can create some type of auction script for these, I doubt we'll get to it, but if we do that'd be pretty cool to have it as some sort of VPS.Blackfriday type rotating deal for them since they'll be all over the place. Otherwise it'll be a blind grab bag with minimums advertised.
These will end up being the best if you want the cheapest price per GB memory (but likely DDR3, some may be DDR4 though, very few of them. So this is medium price, high RAM, low to high disk, low to medium-high processing power.
More Details on Dual Gold Dedicated Servers:
I've decided against them for the time being, it's almost no benefit over dual E5 of a later series. We'd be getting the oldest generation Golds so it's not really power efficient, it's technically lower benchmark than a Dual E5-2690v4, it's basically a dual E5. Whatever we have of these I'll likely just use for myself or VirMach in some way, or we might do some VPS specials on them still.
Speaking of which, we'll be using some of the Epyc nodes, same ones that get rented to customers as bare metal, and modifying them to add more memory and disk, and doing VPS deals on them. As well as IPv6 only deals on some E5's that are on the higher end. ***Keep in mind that does mean for the E5 grab bags, we've likely cherry picked out a few of the really good ones for ourselves. I don't want people ordering and expecting 384GB RAM and 8x1TB SSD. I guess we'll need to have some better plan for those E5's so it's not confusing. I'd do all of them as 384GB RAM, it's just not all of them have enough slots and not all our sticks are 32GB.
Future Ryzen Dedicated Servers
For finishing out all 88 of these, we're short a lot of specific little parts. I've been working on securing deals with suppliers to fill these gaps but it's important to understand it's mainly due to cost issues and disorganized inventory on my end. For example, I know we have a couple dozen heatsinks, but they're in a box somewhere, and heatsinks we used to get for maybe $20 in high quantities are $40-60 now. Supermicro is out of rails as per usual and whatever's left is price-gougers, etc. This doesn't affect current plans. We have enough for the planned early birds and the first cabinet (which was all that was originally planned anyway.)
I just want to make sure you guys are aware of that, if the servers get sold out, it might be a situation where we have 50 more servers that are "95% ready" but just missing one little thing that we have to wait on.
IPv6
I want to catch up on this before it turns into a meme. Hopefully I'll have some update for you guys soon, I know once VirtFusion is set up we'll definitely have it for that, but I mean for SolusVM and making sure dedicated servers also come with that.
Network Blend
I'm not adding Cogent into the blend yet. I'll likely wait until Cox Communications is ready before doing that. Or fix Dallas backhauling with Lumen first (so we can bring it back with Cogent, that's not going too well though, our customer success engineer or whatever his title is doesn't seem to understand what we're talking about, the WAN architect never showed up.)
I'm taking zero credit for this, it was a friend who's a network engineer, he got us peered with pretty much everyone.
As always, all of the above may change with no notice.
@VirMach said: The 4x1TB configuration is going to be advertised a 2x1TB HDD, which means if two drives fail, they will not be replaced, but I'll probably replace it as long as we have 1TB drives left over (I mean by then maybe it'll just be 4x1TB and we'll buy more.) It's just not guaranteed.
@VirMach said: +$15 one-time setup fee per 1TB HDD (add one, not upgrade)
So when I buy things I buy what I need. Would that mean I'd have to do two +$15 one-time setup fees to get all four "official" so they'd get replaced should they die in the future?
@skorous said: So when I buy things I buy what I need. Would that mean I'd have to do two +$15 one-time setup fees to get all four "official" so they'd get replaced should they die in the future?
Yours would be different I think you technically had dedicated servers with us before, and we also talked about a specific 4x3TB setup, right? So that'd be explicitly included. I'm just talking about the sale where people make the purchase through the official advertisement/purchase link.
EDIT -- To answer your question, no. We'd replace it for your configuration as long as it goes through me manually.
More heatsinks have been located. They were exactly where they were supposed to be, organized in a metal cabinet. I guess my brain just filtered them out like 30 times as being LGA1155 heatsinks since I see a ton of those every day.
@skorous said: So when I buy things I buy what I need. Would that mean I'd have to do two +$15 one-time setup fees to get all four "official" so they'd get replaced should they die in the future?
Yours would be different I think you technically had dedicated servers with us before, and we also talked about a specific 4x3TB setup, righ> @VirMach said:
@skorous said: So when I buy things I buy what I need. Would that mean I'd have to do two +$15 one-time setup fees to get all four "official" so they'd get replaced should they die in the future?
Yours would be different I think you technically had dedicated servers with us before, and we also talked about a specific 4x3TB setup, right? So that'd be explicitly included. I'm just talking about the sale where people make the purchase through the official advertisement/purchase link.
EDIT -- To answer your question, no. We'd replace it for your configuration as long as it goes through me manually.
Sorry, didn't process the "advertised as 2x1tb" properly. I was referring to regular people getting four drives in their server but for some reason thinking they knew they'd be getting them and wanting them all replaceable. I guess it's still a valid question since if I were in that situation I'd be building it as raid 10 so I'd want those drives replaced.
Apologies if that still doesn't make sense. I'm particularly incompressible today. Been rough.
@skorous said:
Sorry, didn't process the "advertised as 2x1tb" properly. I was referring to regular people getting four drives in their server but for some reason thinking they knew they'd be getting them and wanting them all replaceable. I guess it's still a valid question since if I were in that situation I'd be building it as raid 10 so I'd want those drives replaced.
Apologies if that still doesn't make sense. I'm particularly incompressible today. Been rough.
You make a good point. I'm just making sure I'm very careful in setting expectations. This becomes necessary since we're throwing on a lot of extra hardware on these builds without really "charging" for it if we're being honest. We just "have it" so there's no problem doing that since it'd be wasted anyway, I just can't guarantee additional liabilities past a certain point on them at special pricing, but as long as we don't get into a situation where we run out and have to buy more, it's not really a problem.
It's just me being me and worrying people for no reason like that time 3 to 4 years ago when I first started mentioning potential price increases and whatever else. I don't want people to feel wronged if we get into a very specific situation, and think it's important to communicate that beforehand.
EDIT -- As an example, we have a bunch of 2TB and 4TB NVMe SSDs that we couldn't reliably use for intense I/O spikes in combination with virtualization and specific kernel version. These should work fine for a single occupant dedicated server, but we still technically paid $250 to $450 a piece for these and they're still going to cost $140 to $250 a piece to replace. Since I know they're not the best, that's why I'm specifically giving two of them per server, otherwise it'd just be one. But if one fails, then we go back to the same situation where now there's only one and they're not the best. In this case, if we have another available and the customer requests it, I'd likely add in a replacement, but if we sold it as 1x 4TB NVMe, and we do not have a 4TB NVMe, I'd very much like to avoid being forced into a $250 purchase and would instead likely opt for offering to add in a 4TB hard drive for backups or another solution.
If we actually charged for these how we should be charging for them, and advertised it was 2x2TB NVMe with absolutely guaranteed replacement if one starts having problems, it wouldn't just be +$10/mo for 2x2TB NVMe, it'd realistically be something like +$40/mo but that's no fun.
@VirMach said: We are getting rid of the $55 per month 64GB, 2x4TB NVMe option for now. However, it's possible to purchase the $45 per month option, then pay $150 one-time setup fee to upgrade to 64GB and 2x4TB NVMe. If we do proceed with this being offered monthly, we'll have an extremely limited quantity available and it may end up being an additional $10 a month as I'm planning on having that configuration have a better CPU as well.
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@VirMach Is there any way to determine the exact processor model (e.g., AMD Ryzen 9 3950X) based on the VPS specs listed on the sale page? I'm wondering if the SKU code contains that information, or if there's another way to tell.
You buy it, install an operating system, and it tells you.
We can technically do that, but we don't want people to buy it because of a specific processor since there's too high of a chance (above 0%) of it potentially getting moved to some other node that's different and we would have to put a disclaimer and it'd just create confusion.
It's best to assume it's the worst one.
@VirMach, Thanks for the 2nd batch of migration to OKC.
hardware and network working fine just missing
Virtfuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusion
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
now using Virmach SJC to mount HostBRR US 500GB drive.
overkill but smooth AF
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I want Intel celeron based service, now
I'm planning to use ExtraVM to mount my Virmach 4TB drive.
Your network in OKC appears to be doing pretty good. I set up a Syncthing relay there and ran out of bandwidth in less than a week 😆
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Btw Club Miami/Tampa not coming back anytime? asking for a friend :-)
And we haven't even added Cogent yet! /s
This could be interesting though if the FTC lets it go through.
Some updates on customer dedicated servers.
Lots of things happened, some good, some bad, some changes. We have more Epyc servers available as well. Wrapping everything up hopefully to where we have at least 10 to 20 dedicated servers ready. Every time I've tried to provide updates this week it's just turned into lots of rambling so I'll protect you guys from that and be vague.
Also, sorry the beta test has been uneventful. I didn't plan on this week going the way it did, it wasn't terrible, just lots of planning required for the next two or three cabinets so we can mitigate any potential delays. (Which is pretty funny, we have one server up with a handful of beta testers and already moving forward with plans for several more cabinets.)
Possible, but sadly not currently plausible. Tampa, definitely not. Closest thing that was "maybe" anywhere close to here it needs to be in terms of pricing was about an hour away from Miami and not very good.
The real problem ends up being that we'd need to go big with it if we relaunch, and we can't even get a reasonably priced quote right now. Then, we don't have enough servers. Finally, we don't have enough customers. Unless "a friend" wants to rent out 20-30 servers?
dedis being ready? is it happening? is it happening?
It's a great moment because I'm working installing my Proxmox cluster (I should replace it with RPIs, that would be cheaper)
They'll begin to be ready this weekend, but I said that last weekend. You can take my word for it.
If you'd like more information:
More Details on Ryzen Dedicated Servers
Memory wasn't that highly available for these servers in the pricepoints we needed, and it looks like it's only gone up in price since. We still have enough for the current builds but I kind of have to "think ahead" for finishing out all the others. This means base memory amounts will likely be lowered, and we'll move toward more flexible memory additions with one-time setup costs. I've also been thinking about the best way to organize upgrades since a good number of people seemed interested. We can also do something cool with that, letting you upgrade at any time you want, you don't have to purchase it like that, so that way you don't waste money if you're going to idle it anyway.
Some other bad news on the lowest configuration before we get to the good news:
Now some good news:
More good news on the 5500's:
You'll also be able to upgrade CPU on these at any time, for the following prices, as long as it's supported. I'm putting that disclaimer in case there's compatibility issues (for example, 3500 won't initially be able to upgrade to 5500 as explained above.)
You also get "credit" towards the above based on which CPU your configuration was sold as, if you decide to upgrade:
Disk upgrades are as follows, keep in mind if you have a configuration with a HW RAID controller, you cannot add NVMe:
**Huge disclaimer on this one though since I said you can upgrade at any time, only as long as we still have 4TB NVMe available. We'll likely purchase more, but if you ask when we're out and pricing on 4TB NVMe is high, we'll likely tell you to at minimum wait. Otherwise for this it's possible it may not be available if you're asking a year or two later. I'm trying to keep setup fees low, otherwise I'd have to price this at $300+ if we're going to guarantee availability. So for this one in particular it's best to purchase it ASAP if you want it, and don't wait.
More Ryzen changes:
We are getting rid of the $55 per month 64GB, 2x4TB NVMe option for now. However, it's possible to purchase the $45 per month option, then pay $150 one-time setup fee to upgrade to 64GB and 2x4TB NVMe. If we do proceed with this being offered monthly, we'll have an extremely limited quantity available and it may end up being an additional $10 a month as I'm planning on having that configuration have a better CPU as well.
Note on the 2x2TB NVMe configuration:
More good news:
Please do provide feedback on these changes, especially if you really hate something. And I'll reconsider, but keep in mind I did say everything was an estimate previously. And of course, all of this can change yet again.
More Details on Epyc Dedicated Servers:
These will be 128GB memory, that's how it's shaping up to be at the moment. We're still short on U.2 drives, we might temporarily do them as M.2 only and then add in a U.2 later (you'd get it for free, and then you also get a free M.2 in that case, you'll just have to be patient.) These are going to be limited on disk, only coming with 1x1TB U.2 NVMe as planned. So they're good for medium-high memory, being "relatively" newer versus dual E5, and medium-high processing power.
They're still planned to be $59 per month. Non-zero but small change they might be $69 per month for the sale instead but if that happens I'd likely bump it up to 256GB RAM or 2TB/2x1TB U.2 or throw in an M.2 NVMe (2TB or 4TB.)
More Details on E5 Dedicated Servers:
Originally these were going to just be dirt cheap since we had infinite power. Since we ended up changing those plans a bit with the cabinet split, and basically have other servers, and they're kind of in a state of disarray right now, I've purchased lots and lots of memory. They'll still be weird/not similar configurations but it'll look like this instead (originally was going to be 64GB RAM only.)
These will end up being the best if you want the cheapest price per GB memory (but likely DDR3, some may be DDR4 though, very few of them. So this is medium price, high RAM, low to high disk, low to medium-high processing power.
More Details on Dual Gold Dedicated Servers:
I've decided against them for the time being, it's almost no benefit over dual E5 of a later series. We'd be getting the oldest generation Golds so it's not really power efficient, it's technically lower benchmark than a Dual E5-2690v4, it's basically a dual E5. Whatever we have of these I'll likely just use for myself or VirMach in some way, or we might do some VPS specials on them still.
Speaking of which, we'll be using some of the Epyc nodes, same ones that get rented to customers as bare metal, and modifying them to add more memory and disk, and doing VPS deals on them. As well as IPv6 only deals on some E5's that are on the higher end. ***Keep in mind that does mean for the E5 grab bags, we've likely cherry picked out a few of the really good ones for ourselves. I don't want people ordering and expecting 384GB RAM and 8x1TB SSD. I guess we'll need to have some better plan for those E5's so it's not confusing. I'd do all of them as 384GB RAM, it's just not all of them have enough slots and not all our sticks are 32GB.
Future Ryzen Dedicated Servers
For finishing out all 88 of these, we're short a lot of specific little parts. I've been working on securing deals with suppliers to fill these gaps but it's important to understand it's mainly due to cost issues and disorganized inventory on my end. For example, I know we have a couple dozen heatsinks, but they're in a box somewhere, and heatsinks we used to get for maybe $20 in high quantities are $40-60 now. Supermicro is out of rails as per usual and whatever's left is price-gougers, etc. This doesn't affect current plans. We have enough for the planned early birds and the first cabinet (which was all that was originally planned anyway.)
I just want to make sure you guys are aware of that, if the servers get sold out, it might be a situation where we have 50 more servers that are "95% ready" but just missing one little thing that we have to wait on.
IPv6
I want to catch up on this before it turns into a meme. Hopefully I'll have some update for you guys soon, I know once VirtFusion is set up we'll definitely have it for that, but I mean for SolusVM and making sure dedicated servers also come with that.
Network Blend
I'm not adding Cogent into the blend yet. I'll likely wait until Cox Communications is ready before doing that. Or fix Dallas backhauling with Lumen first (so we can bring it back with Cogent, that's not going too well though, our customer success engineer or whatever his title is doesn't seem to understand what we're talking about, the WAN architect never showed up.)
I'm taking zero credit for this, it was a friend who's a network engineer, he got us peered with pretty much everyone.
As always, all of the above may change with no notice.
Yeah, that post is more like true VirMach that we all know and love/hate, depends who you ask.
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
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You guys have AI now.
So when I buy things I buy what I need. Would that mean I'd have to do two +$15 one-time setup fees to get all four "official" so they'd get replaced should they die in the future?
Yours would be different I think you technically had dedicated servers with us before, and we also talked about a specific 4x3TB setup, right? So that'd be explicitly included. I'm just talking about the sale where people make the purchase through the official advertisement/purchase link.
EDIT -- To answer your question, no. We'd replace it for your configuration as long as it goes through me manually.
More heatsinks have been located. They were exactly where they were supposed to be, organized in a metal cabinet. I guess my brain just filtered them out like 30 times as being LGA1155 heatsinks since I see a ton of those every day.
Sorry, didn't process the "advertised as 2x1tb" properly. I was referring to regular people getting four drives in their server but for some reason thinking they knew they'd be getting them and wanting them all replaceable. I guess it's still a valid question since if I were in that situation I'd be building it as raid 10 so I'd want those drives replaced.
Apologies if that still doesn't make sense. I'm particularly incompressible today. Been rough.
You make a good point. I'm just making sure I'm very careful in setting expectations. This becomes necessary since we're throwing on a lot of extra hardware on these builds without really "charging" for it if we're being honest. We just "have it" so there's no problem doing that since it'd be wasted anyway, I just can't guarantee additional liabilities past a certain point on them at special pricing, but as long as we don't get into a situation where we run out and have to buy more, it's not really a problem.
It's just me being me and worrying people for no reason like that time 3 to 4 years ago when I first started mentioning potential price increases and whatever else. I don't want people to feel wronged if we get into a very specific situation, and think it's important to communicate that beforehand.
EDIT -- As an example, we have a bunch of 2TB and 4TB NVMe SSDs that we couldn't reliably use for intense I/O spikes in combination with virtualization and specific kernel version. These should work fine for a single occupant dedicated server, but we still technically paid $250 to $450 a piece for these and they're still going to cost $140 to $250 a piece to replace. Since I know they're not the best, that's why I'm specifically giving two of them per server, otherwise it'd just be one. But if one fails, then we go back to the same situation where now there's only one and they're not the best. In this case, if we have another available and the customer requests it, I'd likely add in a replacement, but if we sold it as 1x 4TB NVMe, and we do not have a 4TB NVMe, I'd very much like to avoid being forced into a $250 purchase and would instead likely opt for offering to add in a 4TB hard drive for backups or another solution.
If we actually charged for these how we should be charging for them, and advertised it was 2x2TB NVMe with absolutely guaranteed replacement if one starts having problems, it wouldn't just be +$10/mo for 2x2TB NVMe, it'd realistically be something like +$40/mo but that's no fun.
do the yearly payment(and whats the price)
Not yet?
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