@tridinebandim said:
did you honor any of this offer, should i pay the invoice? @AK_KWH
2GB KVM Texas Promo Setup Fee $18.00 USD
2GB KVM Texas Promo - 6q5b4uty.khanwebhost.com (21/10/2024 - 20/10/2025)
Number Of IP's: 1
Operating System : ubuntu-22.04-x86_64 $0.00 USD
No, they didn't honor my purchase of a subscription. Initially my account showed that the recurring cost was $0 on an annual billing cycle. Several hours later after deploying the KVM, they took it upon themselves to change the recurring cost to $18 without notifying me. I'm not sure if they were expecting me to notice right away either. When I opened a ticket with them, they indicated that the promo pricing was a mistake and that they don't offer lifetime deals. Since they weren't going to honor the deal, I cancelled my subscription and got a full refund.
saw the change myself and figured it was probably a mistake. oh well, did seem a little too nice
@tridinebandim said:
did you honor any of this offer, should i pay the invoice? @AK_KWH
2GB KVM Texas Promo Setup Fee $18.00 USD
2GB KVM Texas Promo - 6q5b4uty.khanwebhost.com (21/10/2024 - 20/10/2025)
Number Of IP's: 1
Operating System : ubuntu-22.04-x86_64 $0.00 USD
No, they didn't honor my purchase of a subscription. Initially my account showed that the recurring cost was $0 on an annual billing cycle. Several hours later after deploying the KVM, they took it upon themselves to change the recurring cost to $18 without notifying me. I'm not sure if they were expecting me to notice right away either. When I opened a ticket with them, they indicated that the promo pricing was a mistake and that they don't offer lifetime deals. Since they weren't going to honor the deal, I cancelled my subscription and got a full refund.
Thanks for pointing this out, I probably would not have noticed otherwise. I had eventually gotten an invoice (when I first tried is when the order process was having issues) and just paid it. I went into my services now and noticed that it does list a recurring $18 fee. I do understand that "lifetime" is not always sustainable, but it just wasn't what was listed when I signed up for the service initially. Khan's service is usually pretty good, though, so I'll just use this for a year and see if it's worth renewing when it comes time for it.
@tridinebandim said:
did you honor any of this offer, should i pay the invoice? @AK_KWH
2GB KVM Texas Promo Setup Fee $18.00 USD
2GB KVM Texas Promo - 6q5b4uty.khanwebhost.com (21/10/2024 - 20/10/2025)
Number Of IP's: 1
Operating System : ubuntu-22.04-x86_64 $0.00 USD
No, they didn't honor my purchase of a subscription. Initially my account showed that the recurring cost was $0 on an annual billing cycle. Several hours later after deploying the KVM, they took it upon themselves to change the recurring cost to $18 without notifying me. I'm not sure if they were expecting me to notice right away either. When I opened a ticket with them, they indicated that the promo pricing was a mistake and that they don't offer lifetime deals. Since they weren't going to honor the deal, I cancelled my subscription and got a full refund.
Thanks for pointing this out, I probably would not have noticed otherwise. I had eventually gotten an invoice (when I first tried is when the order process was having issues) and just paid it. I went into my services now and noticed that it does list a recurring $18 fee. I do understand that "lifetime" is not always sustainable, but it just wasn't what was listed when I signed up for the service initially. Khan's service is usually pretty good, though, so I'll just use this for a year and see if it's worth renewing when it comes time for it.
I thought about it, but their network speeds were all over the place. Initially I couldn't get my download/upload speeds to go above 400Mbps, so I had to open a ticket to get them to investigate. They were able to make some adjustments on their end which got my download speeds to reach up to 2Gbps, but the upload speeds still struggled to reach 1Gbps. I think during all my tests, I reached near 1Gbps in upload speed only a couple of times. Most of the time it was closer to 500-750Mbps.
Prior to jumping on this deal, there was another promo I was checking out that cost $28.28 for four years (recurring). It's difficult to beat $7.07/year. The specs were similar to the offering from Khan. I benchmarked the CPU in the promo from Khan and the other provider, and the CPU used in Khan's build is a bit better. The Geekbench score of the CPU from Khan reached just above 700, while the CPU score from the other provider was just over 600. The network speeds from the other provider are more stable (also 1Gbps) and they offered 20TB of bandwidth (Khan only offered 1TB bandwidth). Khan's promo offered 20GB of SSD storage but I actually received 50GB. Not sure if that was a mistake or not. The other service offered 32GB of high availability storage. Both offered 2GB of RAM.
The locations were different as Khan's KVM is located in Dallas and the other one was located in New York, but to me it didn't make much difference. The other provider's data centre is around 500 miles (800 km) further but the time it took to reach both data centres from my location was similar. In the end I went with the better deal, since I'm only setting up a small service on it. As I said before, it's difficult to beat $7.07/year.
@WeirdG said:
I thought about it, but their network speeds were all over the place. Initially I couldn't get my download/upload speeds to go above 400Mbps, so I had to open a ticket to get them to investigate. They were able to make some adjustments on their end which got my download speeds to reach up to 2Gbps, but the upload speeds still struggled to reach 1Gbps. I think during all my tests, I reached near 1Gbps in upload speed only a couple of times. Most of the time it was closer to 500-750Mbps.
Prior to jumping on this deal, there was another promo I was checking out that cost $28.28 for four years (recurring). It's difficult to beat $7.07/year. The specs were similar to the offering from Khan. I benchmarked the CPU in the promo from Khan and the other provider, and the CPU used in Khan's build is a bit better. The Geekbench score of the CPU from Khan reached just above 700, while the CPU score from the other provider was just over 600. The network speeds from the other provider are more stable (also 1Gbps) and they offered 20TB of bandwidth (Khan only offered 1TB bandwidth). Khan's promo offered 20GB of SSD storage but I actually received 50GB. Not sure if that was a mistake or not. The other service offered 32GB of high availability storage. Both offered 2GB of RAM.
The locations were different as Khan's KVM is located in Dallas and the other one was located in New York, but to me it didn't make much difference. The other provider's data centre is around 500 miles (800 km) further but the time it took to reach both data centres from my location was similar. In the end I went with the better deal, since I'm only setting up a small service on it. As I said before, it's difficult to beat $7.07/year.
Yeah $28.28 for every 4 years is amazing. Is that deal still active? NY would be a great location for me actually, have been looking for a cheaper East Coast USA VPS for a wireguard node.
Realistically, if it's gonna cost me $18/year, the location suddenly becomes more important. Texas is not ideal for any of my uses (but the calculus is different for a lifetime vs. recurring lol) but I will see about the speeds. I have two yearly services with Khan that are NAT-based and super cheap (offhand I think one is 5/year and the other 7/year). They get...100ish Mbps consistently I would say, though sometimes can peak higher. Of course, 5/year behind NAT is also a different value proposition entirely, lol.
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saw the change myself and figured it was probably a mistake. oh well, did seem a little too nice
Thanks for pointing this out, I probably would not have noticed otherwise. I had eventually gotten an invoice (when I first tried is when the order process was having issues) and just paid it. I went into my services now and noticed that it does list a recurring $18 fee. I do understand that "lifetime" is not always sustainable, but it just wasn't what was listed when I signed up for the service initially. Khan's service is usually pretty good, though, so I'll just use this for a year and see if it's worth renewing when it comes time for it.
I thought about it, but their network speeds were all over the place. Initially I couldn't get my download/upload speeds to go above 400Mbps, so I had to open a ticket to get them to investigate. They were able to make some adjustments on their end which got my download speeds to reach up to 2Gbps, but the upload speeds still struggled to reach 1Gbps. I think during all my tests, I reached near 1Gbps in upload speed only a couple of times. Most of the time it was closer to 500-750Mbps.
Prior to jumping on this deal, there was another promo I was checking out that cost $28.28 for four years (recurring). It's difficult to beat $7.07/year. The specs were similar to the offering from Khan. I benchmarked the CPU in the promo from Khan and the other provider, and the CPU used in Khan's build is a bit better. The Geekbench score of the CPU from Khan reached just above 700, while the CPU score from the other provider was just over 600. The network speeds from the other provider are more stable (also 1Gbps) and they offered 20TB of bandwidth (Khan only offered 1TB bandwidth). Khan's promo offered 20GB of SSD storage but I actually received 50GB. Not sure if that was a mistake or not. The other service offered 32GB of high availability storage. Both offered 2GB of RAM.
The locations were different as Khan's KVM is located in Dallas and the other one was located in New York, but to me it didn't make much difference. The other provider's data centre is around 500 miles (800 km) further but the time it took to reach both data centres from my location was similar. In the end I went with the better deal, since I'm only setting up a small service on it. As I said before, it's difficult to beat $7.07/year.
Yeah $28.28 for every 4 years is amazing. Is that deal still active? NY would be a great location for me actually, have been looking for a cheaper East Coast USA VPS for a wireguard node.
Realistically, if it's gonna cost me $18/year, the location suddenly becomes more important. Texas is not ideal for any of my uses (but the calculus is different for a lifetime vs. recurring lol) but I will see about the speeds. I have two yearly services with Khan that are NAT-based and super cheap (offhand I think one is 5/year and the other 7/year). They get...100ish Mbps consistently I would say, though sometimes can peak higher. Of course, 5/year behind NAT is also a different value proposition entirely, lol.
tokyo nat is off?