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VirMach · July 13

Still having issues even in HBA mode, and now I'm quite upset. It seems like some operating system(s) decided to just disable the hardware, like the device ID. I don't even think Windows has ever done something like that? That's a thing now? Probably all RHEL based version 8 and up (Alma and Rocky too.)

They specifically went out of their way to drop it even though it would otherwise "work."

Now I can't trust them not to just do the same thing with other HBAs or controllers. There's a difference between something not working because it just doesn't work and doing it this way. I mean I could "technically" do a workaround, by building custom kernels.

Trying to decide if I want to just give up on them and avoid sunk cost fallacy. I might just switch gears over to the E5's at this point. Either way, magic 8 ball says "oh my god, it's another weekend and you're STILL not doing the sale?"

VirMach · July 13

@Wonder_Woman the 1TB HDDs are SAS which means above issue. That's what's holding up your build at this point. Let me know what you actually want via DM to see if we can make that work instead, or did you specifically want 4x1TB HDD?

cybertech · July 13

looks like you have no affinity with RAID!

Wonder_Woman · July 13

@VirMach said:
@Wonder_Woman the 1TB HDDs are SAS which means above issue. That's what's holding up your build at this point. Let me know what you actually want via DM to see if we can make that work instead, or did you specifically want 4x1TB HDD?

DM'd. Sounds like you need to take those cards out back and...

Jab · July 13

Is anyone still keeping track of vps.blackfriday website?
Kinda interested if there was anything 8+ GB of RAM last few days - should I keep an eye on it or out of luck?

skorous · July 13

@Jab said:
Is anyone still keeping track of vps.blackfriday website?
Kinda interested if there was anything 8+ GB of RAM last few days - should I keep an eye on it or out of luck?

I randomly drop in to see what's there. Biggest I've seen has been 6GB iirc.

VirMach · July 13

@Jab said:
Is anyone still keeping track of vps.blackfriday website?
Kinda interested if there was anything 8+ GB of RAM last few days - should I keep an eye on it or out of luck?

I'm surprised it's still running. The old system used to break and need a nudge every other day. I know I joked about this before but I legitimately forgot how to turn it off though, like I'd need to sit down for a bit to turn it off "properly."

qps · July 13

@VirMach said: Probably all RHEL based version 8 and up (Alma and Rocky too.)

We went through this and I think ElRepo has packages to re-enable the cards. kmod-megaraid_sas I believe. It's been a while since I had to work on one of these.

sh97 · July 13

@Jab said:
Is anyone still keeping track of vps.blackfriday website?
Kinda interested if there was anything 8+ GB of RAM last few days - should I keep an eye on it or out of luck?

Did see a few dropping, I track it on telegram.
Might be worth to keep an eye

Jab · July 13

God damn things exists, even in Europe, but eeeh, need cheaperrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

@VirMach any coupon for 40% off vps.blackfriday prices deal? ^.-

imok · July 13

@Jab said:
@VirMach any coupon for 40% off vps.blackfriday prices deal? ^.-

Why not 60%?

Jab · July 13

@imok said:

@Jab said:
@VirMach any coupon for 40% off vps.blackfriday prices deal? ^.-

Why not 60%?

Because 6 is part of number of the beast and I am nice guy!

sh97 · July 14

@Jab said: @VirMach any coupon for 40% off vps.blackfriday prices deal? ^.-

yea, can we have some flash discounts before the bot is sunset?

VirMach · July 14

@sh97 said:

@Jab said: @VirMach any coupon for 40% off vps.blackfriday prices deal? ^.-

yea, can we have some flash discounts before the bot is sunset?

Right now I see it trying to sell a 1GB VPS with 50GB disk and 2 IPv4 for $9.82 per year, with a profit margin of about -10% if we assume the product was just 2x IPv4 addresses, and your proposal would mean we instead need to reduce that to -50% and then of course subtract out other costs.

What I likely need to do instead is remember to adjust the pricing to where it needs to actually be instead to have some profit margin. Soon.

sh97 · July 14

@VirMach said:

@sh97 said:

@Jab said: @VirMach any coupon for 40% off vps.blackfriday prices deal? ^.-

yea, can we have some flash discounts before the bot is sunset?

Right now I see it trying to sell a 1GB VPS with 50GB disk and 2 IPv4 for $9.82 per year, with a profit margin of about -10% if we assume the product was just 2x IPv4 addresses, and your proposal would mean we instead need to reduce that to -50% and then of course subtract out other costs.

What I likely need to do instead is remember to adjust the pricing to where it needs to actually be instead to have some profit margin. Soon.

Sometimes there are some bangers under $10 with 2 IPs. Crazy stuff xD

Jab · July 14

AMSD016 exploded or it's jsut me?!

eliphas · July 14

@Jab said:
AMSD016 exploded or it's jsut me?!

https://ibb.co/d0Vv9Xgv

Can't say. Looking a little... different than the others on status.virm.ac
Mine is on AMSD014 and alive.

Jab · July 14

I clicked boot, it's back!
But tailscale is not working and I can't RDP :F

EDIT: Decided to reboot it again so maybe it will re-connect aaaaaaaaand it's not rebooting.
HELP

I clicked reboot and broke whole node!
What prize did I win?!

// or VirMach working on it actively and jsut forgot to lock control earlier and I had lucky timing? :-D

Welp time to sleep, good night @VirMach have an easy fix I hope.

localhost · July 14

Oops

Its on me

Messed up announcement of 1.1.1.1

Now things should come back soon

Jab · July 14

hey wtf, I booted Windows, I started my shit it worked for like 15 minutes and it exploded again.

I guess now I will wait for some confirmation that AMSD016 is actually fixed, lmao

VirMach · July 14

@Jab said:
hey wtf, I booted Windows, I started my shit it worked for like 15 minutes and it exploded again.

I guess now I will wait for some confirmation that AMSD016 is actually fixed, lmao

Overloaded then came back on its own after crashing. Abuser suspended. Or at least one of them (@localhost)

Jab · July 14

So yeah, I was thinking this means it's fixed.
It's not. It died again.

I guess it's time to script my services to startup rather than do it manually, lmao.

Now I am really really going to sleep, good night

cybertech · July 15

boooooooom

VirMach · July 15

@Jab said:
So yeah, I was thinking this means it's fixed.
It's not. It died again.

I guess it's time to script my services to startup rather than do it manually, lmao.

Now I am really really going to sleep, good night

Temporary side effect of the mass suspension combined with everything coming back online, looks like virtualization software crashed after a spike then stabilized 30~ minutes after your message.

imok · July 15

Started a restore job from my Proxmox Backup Server running in my storage VPS.

Hopefully this thing does not eat too much resources and I don't get banned.

It's going to take a bit:

progress 1% (read 2147483648 bytes, zeroes = 86% (1866465280 bytes), duration 13 sec)
progress 2% (read 4294967296 bytes, zeroes = 48% (2097152000 bytes), duration 143 sec)

VirMach · July 15

Okay nice I’ll finally be warm soon.

Jab · July 15

I think VirMach is drunk, those servers are tilted.
There is one extra server in the middle cage!!11on1oNEoneoen!1oneone you need to buy two more, OCD.

CACHE cluster? Two cache cluster? The fuck you are going to run there ^.-

VirMach · July 15

@Jab said:
I think VirMach is drunk, those servers are tilted.

You tilt them in it said so on the manual.

There is one extra server in the middle cage!!11on1oNEoneoen!1oneone you need to buy two more, OCD.

CACHE cluster? Two cache cluster? The fuck you are going to run there ^.-

Caching heat, they’ll run in silent mode until thermal limit, then I’m going to cluster them together to where they run stress-ng synced to an ambient temperature sensor if my Bluetooth is near.

The cabinet not labeled as a cluster is just going to be 1U blanks so the hot aisle stays hot.

Edit — unless anyone wants to rent them to idle or whatever.

Jab · July 15

Seems like a very sophisticated heater!

it must be expensive

I can help with covering the cost.
A little. Like 7$ a year little.

^.-

VirMach · July 15

Storage server is ready. I'll likely deploy our lone beta tester to it tomorrow as I'm getting tired and still want to try to maybe ... oh wait it's 5:53PM, I was going to add in a few more things before heading out at 4PM. Hmm how'd that happen

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