Alright, working on adding IPv6 to dedicated servers next. Wish me luck.
I should learn IPv6. Oh man why'd I forget IPv6 exists when doing the "fancy" configurator, now I have to go back and work it in. Wait a minute no I don't, that's the beauty of everyone just getting a /56
Instead of working on IPv6, I spent the last 2 hours making a pizza, cinnamon rolls, and finally fixing the RAM stick visualization bug. Oh my god it was so frustrating but I'm happy now, had something to do with trying to assign a checkmark to the first slot (which broke visualization for the stick) and then breaking all the rest of the code from not realizing that.
@Jab said:
Anyone have a 8GB+ VPS in Europe NL that wants to give up/donate?
My Windows + Browser is struggling on 4GB
Why do you only have 4GB memory? I have 64GB and my Windows + Browser is struggling.
Okay, I've finally figured out the formulas to do the pricing in a way that makes sense and have it "work" for the sale, with the configurations and pricing ending up close enough to our original intended prices for the sale. I'm not going to share the precise pricing but it'll be within +/- $5 of below. Let me know if you guys notice anything you think should be adjusted.
These would be the early birds as mentioned like... I don't know probably three months ago at this point.
All come with 1 IPv4 on shared subnet and /56 IPv6. Plus KVM access, fair use/honor system or whatever policy I mentioned.
All come with 30TB monthly bandwidth unless I decide to change it, counted both ways. Later on we might switch it to one direction bandwidth counting quietly (wait is that what it's even called or did I just make that up?)
Compared to original plan:
@VirMach said:
A ) $25/mo - Ryzen 5500*, 16GB RAM, 4x1TB HDD (Can optionally upgrade to 4x3TB HDD) w/ a 500GB SSD snuck in as optional boot drive?
B ) $35/mo - Ryzen 5500, 32GB RAM, 4x500GB** SSD (Can optionally upgrade to 4x1TB SSD)
C ) $45/mo - Ryzen 5500, 32GB RAM, 2x2TB NVMe (Can optionally add up to*** 4x hotswap disks)
D ) $55/mo - Ryzen 5500, 64GB RAM, 2x4TB NVMe (Can optionally add up to*** 4x hotswap disks
So here's the general comparison:
A ) 3500 instead of 5500, and potentially 500GB NVMe instead of SATA as available, similar price
B ) 3500 instead of 5500, already upgraded to 4x1TB SSD instead of 4x500GB, similar price
C ) 3600 instead of 5500, one less NVMe, swapped with same size SATA SSD or slightly larger HDD, $5 to $10 lower price.
D ) 3700X instead of 5500, one less NVMe, swapped with 2x 3TB HDD, $5 lower price
There's currently a couple 5500 builds in testing currently, likely will not be included in the sale, but looks like:
Ryzen 5500, 16GB RAM, 1x1TB NVMe - $25/M [Note: likely won't be included in sale]
Ryzen 5500, 32GB RAM, 1x2TB NVMe - $30/M [Note: likely won't be included in sale]
Ryzen 5500, 32GB RAM, 2x2TB NVMe - $40/M [Note: likely won't be included in sale]
Those will be whatever they end up being though and might end up being sold as lemons if I can't iron everything out, in that case the prices will likely drop by a bit and probably go "minimum specs" route for everything and just lowest price.
@AlwaysSkint said:
I'll take the dregs: Any CPU with H/W virtualisation, 8GB RAM, 500GB (whatever) and /29, for a cut-price deal.
You have no idea what capabilities I have to meet your requirements at a low price and still manage to disappoint you, while wasting my time, our power, and colocation space in the process.
That sounds more like a black friday thing, maybe we'll do a dedicated server flash sale by the time I finish coding it out in 2027, 2028.
@VirMach said:
That sounds more like a black friday thing, maybe we'll do a dedicated server flash sale by the time I finish coding it out in 2027, 2028.
Sounds like it's time to start planning on a VirMach take on hetzner auctions!
I've added this to the invoice as you requested. Keep in mind it goes alongside same term, if that's not what you expected let me know, I won't be able to switch the IPv4 portion to monthly but you can move down to /29.
Paid. OMG what have I done?
I'm going to eat more rice for a few months. I won't be able to have healthy meals because of Virmach.
I'm going to be a fat guy.
@VirMach said: These would be the early birds as mentioned like... I don't know probably three months ago at this point.
@imok said: I'm going to eat more rice for a few months. I won't be able to have healthy meals because of Virmach.
I always end up being the healthiest when I have rice. I'm pretty good at making it with certain dishes, but it takes too much effort. I'd rather make servers. The servers don't burn if you forget about them. Sometimes.
@imok said: I'm going to eat more rice for a few months. I won't be able to have healthy meals because of Virmach.
I always end up being the healthiest when I have rice. I'm pretty good at making it with certain dishes, but it takes too much effort. I'd rather make servers. The servers don't burn if you forget about them. Sometimes.
I have a rice cooker so I can forget I'm cooking the rice and nothing happens. Actually if it gets crunchy, I like it better. We, Peruvians, eat a lot of rice.
Maybe that's why I'm getting fat.
OK I'm hungry now, I'm going to prepare some rice.
Edit: rice has been canceled. I don't have garlic.
@imok said: I'm going to eat more rice for a few months. I won't be able to have healthy meals because of Virmach.
I always end up being the healthiest when I have rice. I'm pretty good at making it with certain dishes, but it takes too much effort. I'd rather make servers. The servers don't burn if you forget about them. Sometimes.
I have a rice cooker so I can forget I'm cooking the rice and nothing happens. Actually if it gets crunchy, I like it better. We, Peruvians, eat a lot of rice.
Maybe that's why I'm getting fat.
OK I'm hungry now, I'm going to prepare some rice.
Edit: rice has been canceled. I don't have garlic.
@VirMach said: By the way, you had a dedicated server with us in the past and talked about wanting something, right? You should DM me with what you want as it'll be your best chance to get what you want at a good price during the "beta" for dedicated servers.
@VirMach said:
That sounds more like a black friday thing, maybe we'll do a dedicated server flash sale by the time I finish coding it out in 2027, 2028.
Sounds like it's time to start planning on a VirMach take on hetzner auctions!
A whole VirMach style project for it would take forever, but I think I could do a system where the prices just drop automatically and specific available server configurations are listed with timers, price drops, and discounts applied, and I think I could do it in a neat way where it doesn't end up needing a bunch of different products to be set up.
It kind of falls in line with everything I'm doing anyway, it would potentially not take long to also add.
I spent a good amount of time since yesterday switching over to Linux. I finally snapped, too many specific things related to Windows went wrong simultaneously. It was getting so bad I thought I might need new hardware, nope, all fixed with Linux. Other expected bonuses of my CPU not always being at 50-70% usage, file manager actually opening within 2 seconds and not freezing.
So just overall taking a bit longer to do everything as I remember I have to set up another specific application to do what I'm trying to do, almost done.
When I say "today" I mean for my current awake/sleep cycle, so before I go to sleep.
Firmware updates for RAID controllers finally happening today
IPv6 for dedicated servers finally happening today
The IPv4 subnet intended for dedicated server subnets has been ordered, will likely be ready tomorrow, then it has to go to Cox for approval via an official form (yes, they refuse to use RADb.)
The E5's got delivered today so I'll also be checking that out and start racking them if the new cabinets are also ready.
Sure, I know I have at least one photo where I asked my friend if they liked my cable management, and this is someone who has no idea how servers work or what they were looking at so they just changed the subject.
Any other photos, for now just imagine really old Supermicro SC813 chassis with hotswap bays in the front, but I'll take some more photos once I go down to the datacenter "today" actually you know what I'm going to get ready now since it's already past midnight.
I was just getting myself distracted again working on the server configuration page while I was creating USBs for the RAID controller flashes. My thought process went something like "let me figure out what's a good Rufus alternative for Linux, oh I probably should also get a nice text editor too for when i'm work on wrapping up the configuration page. Oh no, WinSCP is for Windows, it's right in the name, what do i use for that? Where's my USB to SATA connector?" Then I found my USB to SATA connector, and I remembered I'm trying to copy off an M.2
@VirMach said: Sure, I know I have at least one photo where I asked my friend if they liked my cable management, and this is someone who has no idea how servers work or what they were looking at so they just changed the subject.
This hits way too close to home.
PS: Thanks for the pics, loving this journey and the 3700X!
Everything looks normal, on our end. As in the switch is up, not overloading, technically has data over the period, didn't log an outage for some reason. Looks healthy, nothing lost power. No alerts from the datacenter, by the time I started trying to fix it, looks like it returned. Doesn't look like an attack, our monitoring system looks weird, if I recall correctly this means heavy packet loss (it has data over a period but... yeah I don't know how to describe it, just one of those things.)
I'll look into it a bit more just to see what happened, but I think we're in the clear.
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Alright, working on adding IPv6 to dedicated servers next. Wish me luck.
I should learn IPv6. Oh man why'd I forget IPv6 exists when doing the "fancy" configurator, now I have to go back and work it in. Wait a minute no I don't, that's the beauty of everyone just getting a /56
Anyone have a 8GB+ VPS in Europe NL that wants to give up/donate?
My Windows + Browser is struggling on 4GB
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
https://lowendspirit.com/uploads/editor/gi/ippw0lcmqowk.png
Instead of working on IPv6, I spent the last 2 hours making a pizza, cinnamon rolls, and finally fixing the RAM stick visualization bug. Oh my god it was so frustrating but I'm happy now, had something to do with trying to assign a checkmark to the first slot (which broke visualization for the stick) and then breaking all the rest of the code from not realizing that.
Why do you only have 4GB memory? I have 64GB and my Windows + Browser is struggling.
Because RAM expensive on Ryzens, at least this is what I heard, multiple time out of this guy called VirMach.
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
https://lowendspirit.com/uploads/editor/gi/ippw0lcmqowk.png
i think there are 2 virmach's -- one who just ate Pizza's and one that locked in datacenters! which one did you speak with=?
3 virmach's - frankz, who is likely the bipolar part of locked in datacenter virmach.
Why you all forget about VirBot!?
Bots have feelings too!
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
https://lowendspirit.com/uploads/editor/gi/ippw0lcmqowk.png
Bot lives Matter
Okay, I've finally figured out the formulas to do the pricing in a way that makes sense and have it "work" for the sale, with the configurations and pricing ending up close enough to our original intended prices for the sale. I'm not going to share the precise pricing but it'll be within +/- $5 of below. Let me know if you guys notice anything you think should be adjusted.
These would be the early birds as mentioned like... I don't know probably three months ago at this point.
All come with 1 IPv4 on shared subnet and /56 IPv6. Plus KVM access, fair use/honor system or whatever policy I mentioned.
All come with 30TB monthly bandwidth unless I decide to change it, counted both ways. Later on we might switch it to one direction bandwidth counting quietly (wait is that what it's even called or did I just make that up?)
Compared to original plan:
So here's the general comparison:
There's currently a couple 5500 builds in testing currently, likely will not be included in the sale, but looks like:
Those will be whatever they end up being though and might end up being sold as lemons if I can't iron everything out, in that case the prices will likely drop by a bit and probably go "minimum specs" route for everything and just lowest price.
I'll take the dregs: Any CPU with H/W virtualisation, 8GB RAM, 500GB (whatever) and /29, for a cut-price deal.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh)
You have no idea what capabilities I have to meet your requirements at a low price and still manage to disappoint you, while wasting my time, our power, and colocation space in the process.
That sounds more like a black friday thing, maybe we'll do a dedicated server flash sale by the time I finish coding it out in 2027, 2028.
Sounds like it's time to start planning on a VirMach take on hetzner auctions!
Paid. OMG what have I done?
I'm going to eat more rice for a few months. I won't be able to have healthy meals because of Virmach.
I'm going to be a fat guy.
Or I should move all my services into Virmach servers.
I always end up being the healthiest when I have rice. I'm pretty good at making it with certain dishes, but it takes too much effort. I'd rather make servers. The servers don't burn if you forget about them. Sometimes.
any 2C3G45GB for $6.70
with 99.99% uptime
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I have a rice cooker so I can forget I'm cooking the rice and nothing happens. Actually if it gets crunchy, I like it better. We, Peruvians, eat a lot of rice.
Maybe that's why I'm getting fat.
OK I'm hungry now, I'm going to prepare some rice.
Edit: rice has been canceled. I don't have garlic.
Flan
Always flan
i just realized 3700x has bigger cache then 5500,also the threads and geekbench score
DMed
A whole VirMach style project for it would take forever, but I think I could do a system where the prices just drop automatically and specific available server configurations are listed with timers, price drops, and discounts applied, and I think I could do it in a neat way where it doesn't end up needing a bunch of different products to be set up.
It kind of falls in line with everything I'm doing anyway, it would potentially not take long to also add.
I spent a good amount of time since yesterday switching over to Linux. I finally snapped, too many specific things related to Windows went wrong simultaneously. It was getting so bad I thought I might need new hardware, nope, all fixed with Linux. Other expected bonuses of my CPU not always being at 50-70% usage, file manager actually opening within 2 seconds and not freezing.
So just overall taking a bit longer to do everything as I remember I have to set up another specific application to do what I'm trying to do, almost done.
When I say "today" I mean for my current awake/sleep cycle, so before I go to sleep.
The E5's got delivered today so I'll also be checking that out and start racking them if the new cabinets are also ready.
@VirMach Can we get some pics of the new hardware.
Sure, I know I have at least one photo where I asked my friend if they liked my cable management, and this is someone who has no idea how servers work or what they were looking at so they just changed the subject.
Any other photos, for now just imagine really old Supermicro SC813 chassis with hotswap bays in the front, but I'll take some more photos once I go down to the datacenter "today" actually you know what I'm going to get ready now since it's already past midnight.
I was just getting myself distracted again working on the server configuration page while I was creating USBs for the RAID controller flashes. My thought process went something like "let me figure out what's a good Rufus alternative for Linux, oh I probably should also get a nice text editor too for when i'm work on wrapping up the configuration page. Oh no, WinSCP is for Windows, it's right in the name, what do i use for that? Where's my USB to SATA connector?" Then I found my USB to SATA connector, and I remembered I'm trying to copy off an M.2
@VirMach Is that a VirMach IO shield?
This hits way too close to home.
PS: Thanks for the pics, loving this journey and the 3700X!
Anyone else with a San jose server down?
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh)
yeah
Maybe native IPv6 getting deployed. /s
Whole of SJ fubar'ed an hour ago.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh)
Everything looks normal, on our end. As in the switch is up, not overloading, technically has data over the period, didn't log an outage for some reason. Looks healthy, nothing lost power. No alerts from the datacenter, by the time I started trying to fix it, looks like it returned. Doesn't look like an attack, our monitoring system looks weird, if I recall correctly this means heavy packet loss (it has data over a period but... yeah I don't know how to describe it, just one of those things.)
I'll look into it a bit more just to see what happened, but I think we're in the clear.
Anyone still having specific issues?
@VirMach
(Now back, displaying nearly flat lines, for the duration.)
Downtime: 1 hr 24 min
https://status.virm.ac/ showed the outage - not loading just now.
https://ibb.co/JjtjDrgQ
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh)