Transfer - HostBrr 'Anniversary Flash-4 DE-EPYC' deal in Germany

Shot²Shot²
in Service Transfers

Transfering out a neat VPS 'Anniversary Flash-4 DE-EPYC' by HostBrr, before it expires (no use for it anymore, don't let it go to waste!)

Specs:
Location: Germany (I think it's now in the NTT DC in Frankfurt)
3 vCore AMD EPYC 9454P (actually 'AMD EPYC 9754')
12 GB DDR5 ECC RAM
100 GB NVMe Gen4 Storage
10000 GB Bandwidth @ 1 Gbps (actually a bit faster it seems)
1 IPv4 & IPv6/64
Renewal: 50 USD / 45€, next yearly bill on May 9, 2025
Nothing to complain about, great CPU.
Used only for compiling stuff and quickly processing big datasets, no nasty things.

Conditions: only good LES members registered for 1+ month; no fee asked, enjoy a free month and a half ^^

Howto: If not a HostBrr ustomer yet, simply open an account there (fake-order some stuff, create your account, cancel the order); I'll request the transfer outbound, then you'll request it inbound, and that should do the trick.

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  • DecicusDecicus OG

    I'll take it if it's still available :)

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    Website: thomassen.sh

  • cainyxuescainyxues

    @Decicus said: I'll take it if it's still available

    you just said this after only 1 minute of posting the transfer request :lol:

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  • DecicusDecicus OG

    @cainyxues said:

    show previous quotes

    you just said this after only 1 minute of posting the transfer request :lol:

    You have no idea how fast some people on these forums are with DMs :joy:

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    Website: thomassen.sh

  • Shot²Shot²

    The early bird catches the vps

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  • FreekFreek Senpai

    @Decicus, it's your lucky day. I have the exact same plan, which I’m also letting go of in a few days. To be honest, I had nothing but issues with it (quite a lot of steal), but it looks like they finally found the root cause:

    Dear client,

    We are reaching out that one or more of your services will be migrated on Sunday the 16th.

    The following IP Subnets are affected:

    188.40.253.168, 88.198.80.176, 88.198.82.x, 178.63.234.x, 178.63.187.x, 178.63.118.240, 178.63.169.72, 188.40.228.x, 188.40.176.x.

    Reason for migration

    We have for a while investigated sub-optimal performance on this system. While improvements has been made, we haven't been quite satisfied with the performance. It has since then come to our attention that the motherboard is defective. The sub-optimal performance stems from a hardware error in the PCIe slots causing degraded disk performance which increases the overall CPU load.

    As we had already planned a migration of this system we are pushing the date forward for this. We do apologize for the rather short notice on the migration, however we hear from the data center that they recently have experienced an increased amount of full failures of these motherboards. Instead of beginning with a hardware replacement that will cause downtime to only later migrate the system seems to be a worse solution than a rather imminent migration. Thus we will begin on a short notice.

    What will happen during the migration?

    We migrate clients VPS in batches. The migrations will begin at Sunday the 16th of March, at approximately 11 AM. During the migration the server will be shutdown. All data will be migrated so there will be no loss of data. However, as part of the migration your VPS will receive a new IP. You will receive this IP by e-mail when the migration has completed.

    We unfortunately cannot guarantee when all clients will be migrated, nor can we give a precise time where your specific server(s) will be migrated. It is likely it will last most of the day, however migration of single systems shouldn't take anymore than 30-60 minutes, depending on size of the disk.

    If you want to get your system migrated earlier than the scheduled time then please open a ticket at https://my.hostbrr.com and we can begin this at your convenience.

    Will the hardware change?

    Your system will be migrated to a equivalent hardware setup in a new datacenter, also utilizing AMD EPYC Genoa CPUs. As a upgrade, these servers utilize 10 Gbps connectivity for improved throughput on your server. We also expect a significant performance uplift as the hardware issue will no longer be present.

    Questions?

    If you have any questions then please reach out to us at https://my.hostbrr.com.

    Best regards,

    HostBrr

    However, since they’re giving me a new IP, I need to redeploy my application because it relies on hardcoded IP addresses (yeah, don’t ask—old stuff). So, I decided to ditch it. Luckily, I have everything fully automated with Ansible, so switching should be a breeze.

    Anyway, I’m personally not too impressed with Hostbrr. I know it's a beloved provider for many, but my experience was subpar. Support tickets often take days to get a response, and communication is generally lacking. For example, this urgent migration was supposed to happen yesterday, but I still haven't seen any updates. No email, no status page—nothing. I had to reach out myself, and their response was that it was delayed due to network congestion. I mean, at least send out an update email or set up a status page.

    Also, regarding my steal issue—I reported it multiple times. At first, they blamed it on crypto miners abusing the node, but in the end, it turned out to be a hardware issue. It took them almost a year to figure that out.

    Just my two cents.

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  • DecicusDecicus OG
    edited March 17

    @Freek said: @Decicus, it's your lucky day. I have the exact same plan, which I’m also letting go of in a few days.

    In case it wasn't clear, I did manage to snag the deal from Shot² :)

    @Freek said: Anyway, I’m personally not too impressed with Hostbrr. I know it's a beloved provider for many, but my experience was subpar. Support tickets often take days to get a response, and communication is generally lacking. For example, this urgent migration was supposed to happen yesterday, but I still haven't seen any updates. No email, no status page—nothing. I had to reach out myself, and their response was that it was delayed due to network congestion. I mean, at least send out an update email or set up a status page.

    HostBrr has its issues no doubt, but when the servers finally work, they - from my experience - work extremely well. Hardware are especially annoying (I did run into those issues with some monthly servers a while back, and did in fact end up cancelling them).

    The thing about support tickets sucks, but with LE providers that's just something I've accepted with one-man shows. Personally whenever I've opened a ticket, I haven't had to wait too long (at most a day or so), but I've also had good luck with not really any issues (except the few I mentioned earlier - my remaining 3 VPSes work great).

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    Website: thomassen.sh

  • Shot²Shot²

    My VPS (well, decicus' now =) ) was moved to the new location yesterday late in the evening; things went flawlessly afaict: new IP works, bandwidth hums, CPUs fry.
    I, too, noticed some minor 'steal' peaks in the past (resulting in a transient ~15% drop in data processing speed) - but it lasted only minutes, then perfs were back to normal. Nothing to shriek in terror, considering the type of service and price. With low-end one-guy providers, YMMV I reckon...

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  • Shot²Shot²

    Transfer completed (wow that was fast)

    /thread to close B)

    Thanked by (2)Decicus cainyxues
  • FrankZFrankZ ModeratorOG

    /thread as requested

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