@tonyapac said:
Node ATLZ033, what happened? It has been offline for a couple of weeks. @VirMach
He doesn't care my friend~
🤡 "We can confirm that this is not an issue with any servers, network, or power equipment on our end." 🤡 "We have temporarily paused controls for this service as we are performing maintenance on the server." 🤡 "The servers are working, they are just not connected to the internet!" 🤡
@msatt said:
7 VMs cancelled so far and will continue reducing. @bakageta I admire your stamina, but once you perfect a strategy for a downed VM, then what is the point of purchasing more VMs that will go down.
In the past, the VMs were at least useable for non-production stuff. They're less useful for that now, but out of my 5 virmach VPSs, all 5 are up, 2 with recently-spotty internet. It's not like "my vm has been down for months!" is the average, it just doesn't phase me if that happens to one. It helps that I'm not trying to run a static set of things, I'm spinning up something to test, getting satisfied with the implementation and fallback, implementing it elsewhere, and blowing them up, leaving the VPSs idle a lot. I don't need as many as I have, but the cheap price makes it easy enough to have enough idle to always have something usable for my needs.
The automation around dealing with issues is far from a "perfect strategy and done" kind of thing, though. It's not like you just set it up once and forget about it, everything works perfect with no adjustments. If that were the case, I'd be out of a job. If you care about more than manually intervening when there's a problem, you have to do the maintenance on your automation, otherwise you'll find none of it works when you actually need it.
@bakageta said: If that were the case, I'd be out of a job.
This is one of my lower-end Digital Ocean boxes-
$ w
17:33:47 up 951 days, 39 min, 1 user, load average: 0.28, 0.25, 0.27
KPatched, up to date, decent hosting, services restarted when necessary.
But still, my Virmach-
$ w
12:34:08 up 227 days, 8:36, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.09, 0.14
When it works (and you don't need intervention), it's great. When SHTF, you get to keep the fan, and whatever you can lick off of the blades.
I've stopped buying cheap-for-cheap-sake stuff, but I'll probably hold onto my remaining Virmach until they just stop working. I mean, I'm barely paying for the IP space rental.
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🤡 "We can confirm that this is not an issue with any servers, network, or power equipment on our end." 🤡 "We have temporarily paused controls for this service as we are performing maintenance on the server." 🤡 "The servers are working, they are just not connected to the internet!" 🤡
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In the past, the VMs were at least useable for non-production stuff. They're less useful for that now, but out of my 5 virmach VPSs, all 5 are up, 2 with recently-spotty internet. It's not like "my vm has been down for months!" is the average, it just doesn't phase me if that happens to one. It helps that I'm not trying to run a static set of things, I'm spinning up something to test, getting satisfied with the implementation and fallback, implementing it elsewhere, and blowing them up, leaving the VPSs idle a lot. I don't need as many as I have, but the cheap price makes it easy enough to have enough idle to always have something usable for my needs.
The automation around dealing with issues is far from a "perfect strategy and done" kind of thing, though. It's not like you just set it up once and forget about it, everything works perfect with no adjustments. If that were the case, I'd be out of a job. If you care about more than manually intervening when there's a problem, you have to do the maintenance on your automation, otherwise you'll find none of it works when you actually need it.
This is one of my lower-end Digital Ocean boxes-
KPatched, up to date, decent hosting, services restarted when necessary.
But still, my Virmach-
When it works (and you don't need intervention), it's great. When SHTF, you get to keep the fan, and whatever you can lick off of the blades.
I've stopped buying cheap-for-cheap-sake stuff, but I'll probably hold onto my remaining Virmach until they just stop working. I mean, I'm barely paying for the IP space rental.
My pronouns are like/subscribe.