@VirMach as usual, hit me up if you need an experienced webdev to look into your system, and even do some simple testing to discover potential issues before it is in production. I cannot guarantee I can commit a lot of time due to BF preparation but I can help whatever I can. (You know where to contact me for fast reply)
Notification might be better with something like this to lower the cognitive load:
83% OFF - $25, 3C, 2.5G, 30G, 10T, Amsterdam
75% OFF - $9, 1C, 384M, 20G, 1.5T, Phoenix
Most people who actually need to subscribe to notification knows exactly what they are looking at.
Frontend
New UI - Slight improvements on the page you'll be seeing. More reliably updated data, looks nicer. You'll be able to see things like estimated percentage off compared to an equivalent priced primary line of services of our website.
Notifications - Text to speech alerts, notification sounds, notification cards. You can disable audio, notification cards, or filter notifications based on a specific location, minimum specifications, maximum price, and minimum percentage off.
Improved Processes - These will be described better on the backend section. More likely for plans to properly show as sold out, not letting you order close to a switch, better identification of the type of deal you ordered and SKUs.
I am really curious about the UI and would be interested to see the final design, and provide comments or even design suggestion if you are open to it - Heck, I can also just fix the CSS if you want to.
Demand Based Pricing - Periodic changes in pricing that detects a plan's popularity to help bring the price closer to the supply/demand curve. This mostly means prices will lower and make bad deals more desirable instead of being stale and just taking up a slot for a really long time. This also means though that you can feel extra good being one of the first to get a popular deal since the price will increase, and stabilizes some bottlenecks on those plans in combination with other systems.
This is really interesting, looking forward to see it happening. I feel like you are building a system where even big e-commerce don't have, it could be a very interesting experiment to try out, especially there's always thousands or more users trying to get deals on VirMach, the sample data size could be useful.
Notifications - Improved notifications backend, that better grabs updates as they're received and ensures everyone gets the same level of updates, regardless of caching client side. Everything is handled much more efficiently and less likely to break. Refreshing the page should be less necessary but if you refresh, it'll actually get it fixed instead of causing additional problems that it could have caused in the past from excessive refreshing.
This has always been an issue and I am quite curious how you ensures everyone get same level of updates. At my company we have to spread out notification in a few minutes because there's just too many subscribers/users.
New Major Feature - The sale will now run three simultaneous flash deals at the same time that can have independent timers. They have the ability to run with their own independent timers. The main idea here was that we can reduce the bursts of orderings and creations as well as disappointing plans. Plans rotate out less quickly but since there's three, you will have a similar flow of total plans. There's now a higher chance of there being a plan you like at any given time.
You mean now I can practise my ADHD by staring on VirMach flash sale system every 15 seconds?
Price Locks - We haven't raised prices and don't plan on it, but it's definitely reaching a point where the concern is there specifically for these specials, if we're going to give the absolute best prices. If you absolutely want a guarantee that the price will be locked for a period of five years, there will be a $10 one time fee. I'd only recommend getting this if you get an insane deal you're keeping indefinitely that looks like it's below IPv4 and colocation costs.
At the price VirMach is selling at, I don't think I can expect much, but a $10 per account to price lock for 5 years sound reasonable for me.
Demand - This gets calculated in 30 minute intervals currently. I wanted to do it more frequently but that could end up being a nightmare until we have a better warning system in between pages for price changes (this is actually something being worked on -- update, this has been worked on and completed) It goes based off how many have been sold in 30 minute chunks, how many 30 minute chunks are left over, quantity left over, and so on (update -- timer has been kind of changed.) It's not perfect and it'll probably be fine-tuned a lot. The demand based pricing system locks you in at the price you purchased, whether it increases or decreases later. It could end up being what makes some "okay" deals into great ones if no one buys them. This system is also built in a way where it can technically interact with the other parts and end a sale early (but this hasn't been implemented, it might later into the sale -- update, I think it has been implemented to the point where we'll move forward with it.)
What if you can also add a "Thumb down" feature or something, user can mark something as good/bad and you get some instant user feedback. Of course there might be false positive but then it is a nice experiment and you can tune your algorithm based on that
@VirMach either way good to see wall of text and the hardwork that is being placed. All the best in the upcoming BF!
食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.
@VirMach said: The system may try to adjust for this by giving less cores thenTHAN in Amsterdam as well.
Need multi-IP deals again (avec rDNS of course).
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural. It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
@VirMach so that's why you were away for so long and not frequent.
The wall of text of wall of text of the wall of text to compose.....
Looking forward to it.
PS. I liked the feature of thumbs down that @FAT32 proposed... which you can use to your advantage and show the user the same or worse deals to that user. How dare the user down vote the VIRBOT...
Not interesting at all. Don’t buy the VPS, as there’s a high probability of idling and data loss. Virmach may terminate your service at any time without reason, lock your data, and then charge you for support.
I have been terminated two 5 years+accounts and lose all the data.
no doubt Virmach has best prices but not sure if anything has been mentioned on support/uptime wise, what i see is there will be even less support replies moving forward.
the bills are coming in now so crazy specials are no longer sustainable. huge churn incoming (i think it will be for the better), will be exciting to see how big this event goes from the sidelines.
@bmoto said:
GIVEAWAY !
Free to well know LES member who has a use for it.
AMSD026, 4 core 3950X, 4.05 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 2TB data, 3 IPv4, $20.70 /yr, renews Dec 24th, 2024
I'll be paying the transfer fee so I get to pick who gets it.
Comment or DM me if interested.
Gift it to @FAT32, with the condition that she hosts the Black Friday megathread on LES instead of LET.
We accept Karma donations for the last flan. 🍮 affbrr
@bmoto said:
GIVEAWAY !
Free to well know LES member who has a use for it.
AMSD026, 4 core 3950X, 4.05 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 2TB data, 3 IPv4, $20.70 /yr, renews Dec 24th, 2024
I'll be paying the transfer fee so I get to pick who gets it.
Comment or DM me if interested.
This giveaway is on hold, as the transfer option is no longer available in the billing panel. @virmach are transfers no longer allowed ?
Or can I raise a ticket to give this VPS to @localhost
@bmoto said:
GIVEAWAY !
Free to well know LES member who has a use for it.
AMSD026, 4 core 3950X, 4.05 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 2TB data, 3 IPv4, $20.70 /yr, renews Dec 24th, 2024
I'll be paying the transfer fee so I get to pick who gets it.
Comment or DM me if interested.
Gift it to @FAT32, with the condition that she hosts the Black Friday megathread on LES instead of LET.
WOW! I would donate my left nut to @FAT32 if he would host Black Friday Megathread here, instead of LET.
@bmoto said:
GIVEAWAY !
Free to well know LES member who has a use for it.
AMSD026, 4 core 3950X, 4.05 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 2TB data, 3 IPv4, $20.70 /yr, renews Dec 24th, 2024
I'll be paying the transfer fee so I get to pick who gets it.
Comment or DM me if interested.
Gift it to @FAT32, with the condition that she hosts the Black Friday megathread on LES instead of LET.
WOW! I would donate my left nut to @FAT32 if he would host Black Friday Megathread here, instead of LET.
i would buy him an expensive Starbucks drink disguised as coffee.
@localhost said: Free to well know LES member who has a use for it.
Damn! I missed that one. :'(
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural. It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
@bmoto said:
GIVEAWAY !
Free to well know LES member who has a use for it.
AMSD026, 4 core 3950X, 4.05 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 2TB data, 3 IPv4, $20.70 /yr, renews Dec 24th, 2024
I'll be paying the transfer fee so I get to pick who gets it.
Comment or DM me if interested.
This giveaway is on hold, as the transfer option is no longer available in the billing panel. @virmach are transfers no longer allowed ?
Or can I raise a ticket to give this VPS to @localhost
@bmoto said:
GIVEAWAY !
Free to well know LES member who has a use for it.
AMSD026, 4 core 3950X, 4.05 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 2TB data, 3 IPv4, $20.70 /yr, renews Dec 24th, 2024
I'll be paying the transfer fee so I get to pick who gets it.
Comment or DM me if interested.
This giveaway is on hold, as the transfer option is no longer available in the billing panel. @virmach are transfers no longer allowed ?
Or can I raise a ticket to give this VPS to @localhost
A lot of functions that were in any way buggy have been removed and they're being reworked. For the time being, if a function we used to have is no longer there, you'd revert to requesting it how we used to do it back in the dark ages, which is a manual request/ticket.
We might either process it or tell you to wait for the function to return. It doesn't mean it's disallowed.
Some functions that are currently in this state:
IP changes
Migrations
Term changes
Service transfers
Bandwidth overage purchases (maybe)
If it's not a complex transfer, and your account doesn't have any issues on it, then I'd process it manually for the usual $3 semi-automated fee instead of the $10 manual fee. It might take a little longer though, probably up to a week.
@bmoto said: Darn that was fast a shame. @localhost AlwaysSkint should have received the transferred VPS
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural. It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
Price Locks - We haven't raised prices and don't plan on it, but it's definitely reaching a point where the concern is there specifically for these specials, if we're going to give the absolute best prices. If you absolutely want a guarantee that the price will be locked for a period of five years, there will be a $10 one time fee. I'd only recommend getting this if you get an insane deal you're keeping indefinitely that looks like it's below IPv4 and colocation costs.
How will this price lock work for those of us with existing special BF deals? Doesn't apply--old specials are lifetime and never going away? Does apply--old specials will need to do the $10 price lock to avoid losing them in the future? Doesn't apply--$10 price lock is only for the upcoming specials, and old specials are on thin ice, subject to price increases?
We're going to launch the beta test soon. We'll likely ease into it and if it gets out of control we'll figure it out as we go. If the beta test goes well, the beta sale will continue running into the official black friday sale. Otherwise it may end early, or anything in between such as it being paused and restarted.
The sweet spot for participating unless you really want to help find issues would probably be a couple days after launch. That's also when we'll finish cleaning up most nodes to where generations will occur more smoothly. There's a lot of fine-tuning that's still left over but we're going to just launch it so we have some time to actually do the public beta test. I definitely would not recommend anyone participating unless they're used to the VirMach masochist experience.
Price Locks - We haven't raised prices and don't plan on it, but it's definitely reaching a point where the concern is there specifically for these specials, if we're going to give the absolute best prices. If you absolutely want a guarantee that the price will be locked for a period of five years, there will be a $10 one time fee. I'd only recommend getting this if you get an insane deal you're keeping indefinitely that looks like it's below IPv4 and colocation costs.
How will this price lock work for those of us with existing special BF deals? Doesn't apply--old specials are lifetime and never going away? Does apply--old specials will need to do the $10 price lock to avoid losing them in the future? Doesn't apply--$10 price lock is only for the upcoming specials, and old specials are on thin ice, subject to price increases?
Old plans don't have a guarantee, but there's also no current intention on raising prices. Newer plans don't have a guarantee, but there's also no current intention on raising prices. However, if it happens for whatever reason, having the price lock would officially exclude you from such a change. I do not know what things will look like 5 years from now though, so this is just a different way of communicating the same policy and providing an option to guarantee it.
If there's significant inflation, significant power cost increases, significant IPv4 cost increases, and/or we end up in a scenario where all our customers are just $8 a year special offers, and we really need to increase prices because there's no other way, then it obviously would have to be considered. There's no current indication this will ever happen, but in my head, the percentage chance of it occurring has gone up higher than virtually zero, to where I feel obligated to mention it and begin having some sort of official policy in place in the form of the price lock optional addon for anyone who absolutely wants that peace of mind. I believe I first began thinking of the possibility more for the first time a little while after COVID times and I've spoken about it here and there. This is just the next step: making customers very aware of the possibility by having an option there that reminds them of the possibility, with an option to remove that possibility.
Comments
What about migrations?
@VirMach as usual, hit me up if you need an experienced webdev to look into your system, and even do some simple testing to discover potential issues before it is in production. I cannot guarantee I can commit a lot of time due to BF preparation but I can help whatever I can. (You know where to contact me for fast reply)
Notification might be better with something like this to lower the cognitive load:
Most people who actually need to subscribe to notification knows exactly what they are looking at.
I am really curious about the UI and would be interested to see the final design, and provide comments or even design suggestion if you are open to it
- Heck, I can also just fix the CSS if you want to.
This is really interesting, looking forward to see it happening. I feel like you are building a system where even big e-commerce don't have, it could be a very interesting experiment to try out, especially there's always thousands or more users trying to get deals on VirMach, the sample data size could be useful.
This has always been an issue and I am quite curious how you ensures everyone get same level of updates. At my company we have to spread out notification in a few minutes because there's just too many subscribers/users.
You mean now I can practise my ADHD by staring on VirMach flash sale system every 15 seconds?
At the price VirMach is selling at, I don't think I can expect much, but a $10 per account to price lock for 5 years sound reasonable for me.
What if you can also add a "Thumb down" feature or something, user can mark something as good/bad and you get some instant user feedback. Of course there might be false positive but then it is a nice experiment and you can tune your algorithm based on that
@VirMach either way good to see wall of text and the hardwork that is being placed. All the best in the upcoming BF!
食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.
Just to prove that I do read it.
Need multi-IP deals again (avec rDNS of course).
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
@VirMach so that's why you were away for so long and not frequent.
The wall of text of wall of text of the wall of text to compose.....
Looking forward to it.
PS. I liked the feature of thumbs down that @FAT32 proposed... which you can use to your advantage and show the user the same or worse deals to that user. How dare the user down vote the VIRBOT...
My god
Not interesting at all. Don’t buy the VPS, as there’s a high probability of idling and data loss. Virmach may terminate your service at any time without reason, lock your data, and then charge you for support.
I have been terminated two 5 years+accounts and lose all the data.
no doubt Virmach has best prices but not sure if anything has been mentioned on support/uptime wise, what i see is there will be even less support replies moving forward.
the bills are coming in now so crazy specials are no longer sustainable. huge churn incoming (i think it will be for the better), will be exciting to see how big this event goes from the sidelines.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I agree with FAT32's suggested condensed format for notifications, also easy for scripts to parse.
With all 9.99 german vpses sucked to death, i am curious too
@Virmach are you rolling out a new generation of servers for this offer?
The first party without MJJs.
VirMach: Customer’s Service cannot use more than 10% of the monthly allocated bandwidth in under twenty-four (24) hours.
https://virmach.com/terms-conditions/#aup
$10 for price lock, what about location lock fee?
VirMach: Customer’s Service cannot use more than 10% of the monthly allocated bandwidth in under twenty-four (24) hours.
https://virmach.com/terms-conditions/#aup
VIIIIIIIIIIRRRMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH
The price is really tempting, but the stability is just too bad.
Black for Real
@VirMach Do you have time to reorganize the looking glasses? Most of them don't work anymore.
I think I found the issue.
GIVEAWAY !
Free to well know LES member who has a use for it.
AMSD026, 4 core 3950X, 4.05 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 2TB data, 3 IPv4, $20.70 /yr, renews Dec 24th, 2024
I'll be paying the transfer fee so I get to pick who gets it.
Comment or DM me if interested.
GIVEAWAY !
Free to well know LES member who has a use for it.
AMSD026, 4 core 3950X, 4.05 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 2TB data, 3 IPv4, $20.70 /yr, renews Dec 24th, 2024
Wow. I can take that
Gift it to @FAT32, with the condition that she hosts the Black Friday megathread on LES instead of LET.
We accept Karma donations for the last flan. 🍮 affbrr
This giveaway is on hold, as the transfer option is no longer available in the billing panel.
@virmach are transfers no longer allowed ?
Or can I raise a ticket to give this VPS to @localhost
WOW! I would donate my left nut to @FAT32 if he would host Black Friday Megathread here, instead of LET.
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i would buy him an expensive Starbucks drink disguised as coffee.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
How about we don't do one then?
The Yeti has left the building.
Why?
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Is this still a green forum, if there's no Black Friday megathread?
In that case, this forum may as well be renamed to the VirmAche forum.
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Damn! I missed that one. :'(
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
But we need more providers here on LES
食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.
There will be a BF Mega thread. If you want @FAT32 to do it and he is willing I will hand it over to him.
The Yeti has left the building.
Are they still a thing? I actually still have a couple of servers with them. Running kinda smooth... I mean, at $3/year 95% uptime is kinda ok.
Virmach has 10 years in business and still going.
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You guys got 4x resources then me with the same price ,makes me feel I should let go all my deals.
The only deals I care currently is the tokyo storage plan. A 500GB asia storage is rare in the market.
Action and Reaction in history
be prepared to pay $10 to keep it
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
it doesnt have to be either/or, it can be a collab as well.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
NYCB030 down for more than 12 hours now. Anybody else facing the issue?
Powerful AMD Ryzen VPS (aff)
With a complimentary YABS for all VPS plans by you…
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More than 17 hours and still down. Ticket created.
Powerful AMD Ryzen VPS (aff)
Give it up, this place is rotten.
I zoomed and saw it.
So, I got a ticket response in less than 2 hours and issue solved. Good work!
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vir vir
no BF for vir vir without Franky.
Please @VirMach give @localhost some hope.
A lot of functions that were in any way buggy have been removed and they're being reworked. For the time being, if a function we used to have is no longer there, you'd revert to requesting it how we used to do it back in the dark ages, which is a manual request/ticket.
We might either process it or tell you to wait for the function to return. It doesn't mean it's disallowed.
Some functions that are currently in this state:
If it's not a complex transfer, and your account doesn't have any issues on it, then I'd process it manually for the usual $3 semi-automated fee instead of the $10 manual fee. It might take a little longer though, probably up to a week.
@VirMach transfer request ticket #380497 has been submitted. Thank you for doing this manually.
EDIT: Darn that was fast. @localhost you should have received the transferred VPS.
PHXZ002 ?
LMFTFY
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How will this price lock work for those of us with existing special BF deals? Doesn't apply--old specials are lifetime and never going away? Does apply--old specials will need to do the $10 price lock to avoid losing them in the future? Doesn't apply--$10 price lock is only for the upcoming specials, and old specials are on thin ice, subject to price increases?
We're going to launch the beta test soon. We'll likely ease into it and if it gets out of control we'll figure it out as we go. If the beta test goes well, the beta sale will continue running into the official black friday sale. Otherwise it may end early, or anything in between such as it being paused and restarted.
The sweet spot for participating unless you really want to help find issues would probably be a couple days after launch. That's also when we'll finish cleaning up most nodes to where generations will occur more smoothly. There's a lot of fine-tuning that's still left over but we're going to just launch it so we have some time to actually do the public beta test. I definitely would not recommend anyone participating unless they're used to the VirMach masochist experience.
Old plans don't have a guarantee, but there's also no current intention on raising prices. Newer plans don't have a guarantee, but there's also no current intention on raising prices. However, if it happens for whatever reason, having the price lock would officially exclude you from such a change. I do not know what things will look like 5 years from now though, so this is just a different way of communicating the same policy and providing an option to guarantee it.
If there's significant inflation, significant power cost increases, significant IPv4 cost increases, and/or we end up in a scenario where all our customers are just $8 a year special offers, and we really need to increase prices because there's no other way, then it obviously would have to be considered. There's no current indication this will ever happen, but in my head, the percentage chance of it occurring has gone up higher than virtually zero, to where I feel obligated to mention it and begin having some sort of official policy in place in the form of the price lock optional addon for anyone who absolutely wants that peace of mind. I believe I first began thinking of the possibility more for the first time a little while after COVID times and I've spoken about it here and there. This is just the next step: making customers very aware of the possibility by having an option there that reminds them of the possibility, with an option to remove that possibility.