Hello from BulkVM!
I’m excited to introduce BulkVM to the LES community!
We're all about providing scalable, affordable storage solutions. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, our team is spread across the US.
I oversee the day-to-day operations, and I’m looking forward to engaging with the community!
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Sorry, I can't read
Ahh no worries, we'll send a carrier pigeon with the details!
Associated with any other host(s)?
We're our own entity, but I do share rack space with @linveo in Arizona at PhoenixNAP.
How bulky are the VMs, compared to this person?
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They make that guy look like he skips leg day
i can help you with your pants only.
Whoa! Haha! Our expertise is in scaling up servers, not pants!
Please send the bulkiest one and make sure it's edible.
☰ Probably the best Black Friday storage offers — AMD EPYC VDSes with NVMe slices (ref) from 250GB to 4TB and 500GB–10TB SAN disk. ／ Big HDD storage VPSes (ref) from $2.42/month per TB. ／ Storage dedis and hybrid VPS (SSD + HDD) are there as well.
You want a Double Big Mac for the price of a small portion of fries?
Stop the planet! I wish to get off!
cmon, any 5TB Storage deals for 12.50$?
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ITS WEDNESDAY MY DUDES
There. Fixed that for you. 🫡
Stop the planet! I wish to get off!
forgot that time exists.
I did mean to say 3 months.
Free NAT KVM | Free NAT LXC | Bobr
ITS WEDNESDAY MY DUDES
Stop the planet! I wish to get off!
A combo meal? It's on the way.
boot drive is too small. at least 20G.
...And in 2024 (...?) 5TB RAID6 was finally low end(, with no need to learn Filecoin and accepting latency and no missing the legend of "unlimited google drive". How is it called actually when one paid that for years in advance without even using it, just trusting in google's consistency)
@BulkVM what are your host machines? HDDs, RAID, CPU.
And at $10 whats the guaranteed share and burstable share?
Assuming an old 4HE 80 core machine with 4x20cores/2TB DDR3 with only 12x1TB SSD Raid6 but a 4HE NAS with 60 drives in five RAID6 groups of 12x8TB, then we could still give 140 GB SSD per 5TB HDD and per 1 core or 2 hyperthreading cores and a guaranteed 24GB RAM and much more burstable. So your machines might rather be 2HE 2 x 20 cores, for 36 x $10 customers, with 36 x 6 HDDs NAS , 128GB ram and 6x512GB SSD? Or you might be maxing out some archival NAS with 1000+ HDDs?
@BulkVM https://www.abuseipdb.com/user/162842 looks good, any other references or linkedin?
What's going on?
Thanks for asking about our infrastructure! We're running on solid enterprise-grade hardware:
Just server-grade hardware doing what it does best. And no, we're not relying on some mythical "unlimited" Google Drive plan from the cloud's golden age (though who doesn't miss the nostalgia of infinite space? 😏)
Our $10/month Standard plan includes:
- 2GB guaranteed RAM
- 2 vCores fair share
- 15 GB SSD Boot Drive
- 5TB HDD storage
- 15TB monthly bandwidth + unmetered inbound
- 1-10Gbit networking
We keep it simple. Being storage-focused means no email ports or crypto mining, and definitely no sketchy "unlimited" cloud magic.
You won't be able to advertise this plan on LES, unless you discount the first month to $7.
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I do understand, @archivist asked about it.
hi @BulkVM thanks.
How many drives are in each RAID6? And what capacity
And how many customers will share one Dual Xeon E5-2630 v4? (if 1 physical core is the burstable/fair use maximum cpu share)
And i assume, even surprisingly rare (unique?) your offer is still pretty profitable, so that you might not want to ever raise the price? (Then i like to support a small and new service.
Only having to move will be no fun. Hetzner Storage Boxes cost 10% more including snapshots)
Didn't mean to assume it is google drive or anything
(just still wondering how i paid them for air. Plans ended with 0 bytes stored and no refunds. Was just assuming google won't)
@archivist,
Each RAID6 node consists of 12 drives, each with a capacity between 14TB and 20TB.
Regarding server allocation, we do not oversell our resources; once a server reaches its capacity, we do not add more clients to it.
Our pricing is designed to accommodate all budgets. While I can't promise that prices will remain the same indefinitely due to fluctuating datacenter power costs, we're committed to keeping them competitive for the time being.
Ha, let's hope we don't see Google Drive on killedbygoogle.com I do remember Web Hosting in Google Drive.
Hello BulKVM
Welcome and GLWS.
US is no good for me
hi! @BulkVM,
Not what i thought. So the cpu is (almost) dedicated? (If fully dedicated, then you won't call it "fair use"?) When the biggest possible difference between an average 80% and an average 10% CPU usage might be less than $0.4 electricity per month.)
(I assume in general every VM should come with two sets of specs. (the hardware(-fraction) and the a burstable multiplier allowed (the bigger the machine the better it averages out.) and what quota / timelimit /percentile might be applied to that multiplier)
Heya @Ganonk!
Thank you @WebUK!
Sorry @selalumenang, our main focus is in the US.
The reason I mention "fair use" is that while you get consistent access to the CPU resources, the CPU is not dedicated and the CPU usage falls under fair usage. The electricity cost difference you calculated is interesting, but not really the main factor in BulkVM's pricing model.
hi
@BulkVM sure, so how many customer-vCores are there per each Dual Xeon E5-2630 v4 server?
@archivist ... You joined a week ago and the only thread you've commented in is this one. A thread that you resurrected after it lay dormant for three months. You aren't by chance related to them somehow, are you?