@zgato said:
Just received this, check your emails people
I have also received it. As in my previous updates, 2+ years in, the lifetime root server has been the perfect self-hosting lab machine for me.
Unfortunately, didn't receive an upgrade notice (yet) for my rootserver, but I guess it's only the German LXC servers that get upgraded as they had no fixed cpu when ordering. My lxc is in Finland though :S
But happy for you guys @zgato@sgheghele The lifetime vps have been great value for me so far, too
@zgato said:
Just received this, check your emails people
Yep mee too.
One of the reasons for getting vServer instead of root server was that vServer is not tied to particular hardware. Over lifetime provider needs to updgrade the hardware and vServer will ride on it.
@zgato said:
Just received this, check your emails people
Yep mee too.
One of the reasons for getting vServer instead of root server was that vServer is not tied to particular hardware. Over lifetime provider needs to updgrade the hardware and vServer will ride on it.
Yup, that was also one of my reasons for LXC. But also got a KVM. New vps I buy will be lxc (or the equivalent with no fixed cpu, since all vps now will be kvm apparently).
Maybe I'll add another vps on Black Friday Sale to the collection
After two years, my lxc now is at like 1,45€ish/mo (70€/48) and my KVM/Rootserver at 3,10€ish/mo (150€/48). Gets cheaper by the month. ROI is good on these vps
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
Reinstalling LXC converts it to KVM?
Ballooning basically shares your VM RAM with the host node, and thus, can be used by other VMs too. I can see a good intention (considering KVM usually has a big overhead over the max RAM you assign the VM) but can be used for mass overselling, and they could very well be using swap for very high load situations where they really oversold a lot while they balance between nodes.
I don't know, up to you to trust them or not. I personally fought to have that option and well, they seem to have added it, so I personally kept ballooning enabled since I don't mind my idlers giving some RAM to other VMs
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
Reinstalling LXC converts it to KVM?
Apparently so (when reinstalling it showed "migrating to KVM" in the progress bar):
Still waiting though:
Ballooning basically shares your VM RAM with the host node, and thus, can be used by other VMs too. I can see a good intention (considering KVM usually has a big overhead over the max RAM you assign the VM) but can be used for mass overselling, and they could very well be using swap for very high load situations where they really oversold a lot while they balance between nodes.
I don't know, up to you to trust them or not. I personally fought to have that option and well, they seem to have added it, so I personally kept ballooning enabled since I don't mind my idlers giving some RAM to other VMs
Ah, thanks for the info Will enable it, too. Got some idlers
FYI: Seems like locations now also have different DDoS Protection:
Sooo, my (former) lxc vps got stuck during the migration/reinstall process to Ubuntu 24. Tried reinstalling various times before popping a ticket. That said, the support installed the VPS for me within a couple of hours, so props again to the quick and helpful support team, who are really fast and always happy to help. For a lifetime product that's awesome to see
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
--
As a side note, I just spinned up a new LXC instance and it was deployed on KVM, but still rocking a E5-2680 v4. Guess I am not lucky
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
--
As a side note, I just spinned up a new LXC instance and it was deployed on KVM, but still rocking a E5-2680 v4. Guess I am not lucky
But it has the chance to get a newer cpu model, because unlike the the kvm products it hasn't a specific cpu in the description that is assigned to it.
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
--
As a side note, I just spinned up a new LXC instance and it was deployed on KVM, but still rocking a E5-2680 v4. Guess I am not lucky
Same here. Still on xeon. Though I got email specifically saying that vps will be upgraded to epyc. So will happen sometime I expect.
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
--
As a side note, I just spinned up a new LXC instance and it was deployed on KVM, but still rocking a E5-2680 v4. Guess I am not lucky
Same here. Still on xeon. Though I got email specifically saying that vps will be upgraded to epyc. So will happen sometime I expect.
To be honest it's pretty awesome that our lifetime vps will get new hw (eventually) free of charge. I can wait a bit :P
I know am late to the discussion, but thought I'll join the party anyways.
My lifetime VPS was moved to the AMD one on 15th July. And couple of days later it was moved to KVM. Disk performance is still the same, nothing impressive. But pretty happy with the free upgrade. It was idling for all these years... I may now put it to some use. 🙂
My US rootserver is still on the older intel xeon stack.
I thought I had bought one of these two years ago ...I guess not. I am looking now at the baseline Helsinki offer at 86.90euros currently. Does anyone know if they would care if one shared private Linux ISOs (or at least reverse-proxied that traffic through that VPS)?
@hornet said:
I thought I had bought one of these two years ago ...I guess not. I am looking now at the baseline Helsinki offer at 86.90euros currently. Does anyone know if they would care if one shared private Linux ISOs (or at least reverse-proxied that traffic through that VPS)?
A German Provider might not be the best choice for private linux isos. That said, if they are encrypted and remain on your server, I guess they might be your private backups.
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I have also received it. As in my previous updates, 2+ years in, the lifetime root server has been the perfect self-hosting lab machine for me.
Unfortunately, didn't receive an upgrade notice (yet) for my rootserver, but I guess it's only the German LXC servers that get upgraded as they had no fixed cpu when ordering. My lxc is in Finland though :S
But happy for you guys @zgato @sgheghele
The lifetime vps have been great value for me so far, too 
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
I got the same email this morning about my lifetime LXC VPS in the US!
Yep mee too.
One of the reasons for getting vServer instead of root server was that vServer is not tied to particular hardware. Over lifetime provider needs to updgrade the hardware and vServer will ride on it.
Yup, that was also one of my reasons for LXC. But also got a KVM. New vps I buy will be lxc (or the equivalent with no fixed cpu, since all vps now will be kvm apparently).
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Got the same email this morning! Looks like my Finland LXC will be getting a nice boost.
Maybe I'll add another vps on Black Friday Sale to the collection
After two years, my lxc now is at like 1,45€ish/mo (70€/48) and my KVM/Rootserver at 3,10€ish/mo (150€/48). Gets cheaper by the month. ROI is good on these vps
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Reinstalling LXC converts it to KVM?
Ballooning basically shares your VM RAM with the host node, and thus, can be used by other VMs too. I can see a good intention (considering KVM usually has a big overhead over the max RAM you assign the VM) but can be used for mass overselling, and they could very well be using swap for very high load situations where they really oversold a lot while they balance between nodes.
I don't know, up to you to trust them or not. I personally fought to have that option and well, they seem to have added it, so I personally kept ballooning enabled since I don't mind my idlers giving some RAM to other VMs
Apparently so (when reinstalling it showed "migrating to KVM" in the progress bar):
Still waiting though:
Ah, thanks for the info
Will enable it, too. Got some idlers 
FYI: Seems like locations now also have different DDoS Protection:
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Sooo, my (former) lxc vps got stuck during the migration/reinstall process to Ubuntu 24. Tried reinstalling various times before popping a ticket. That said, the support installed the VPS for me within a couple of hours, so props again to the quick and helpful support team, who are really fast and always happy to help. For a lifetime product that's awesome to see
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
--
As a side note, I just spinned up a new LXC instance and it was deployed on KVM, but still rocking a E5-2680 v4. Guess I am not lucky
But it has the chance to get a newer cpu model, because unlike the the kvm products it hasn't a specific cpu in the description that is assigned to it.
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Same here. Still on xeon. Though I got email specifically saying that vps will be upgraded to epyc. So will happen sometime I expect.
To be honest it's pretty awesome that our lifetime vps will get new hw (eventually) free of charge. I can wait a bit :P
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
I know am late to the discussion, but thought I'll join the party anyways.
My lifetime VPS was moved to the AMD one on 15th July. And couple of days later it was moved to KVM. Disk performance is still the same, nothing impressive. But pretty happy with the free upgrade. It was idling for all these years... I may now put it to some use. 🙂
My US rootserver is still on the older intel xeon stack.
Got an email that my vps will be migrated to epyc today. Still waiting to happen ...
I got it a few days ago and still not a single VM migrated
Will ticket to ask I guess.
Nevermind, a random box I had with zap credits got the upgrade, i'm so sad
AMD EPYC 7763
YABS of the VM (forgot to post)
Have got it upgraded now.
model name : AMD EPYC 7763 64-CoreBrief outage due to switch malfunction.
You can redeem a 10€ voucher for the next 48 hours:
sorry-for-that-eghThanks! Redeemed it
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Moar money, 10€ voucher for the next 48 hours:
NETWORK0725I don't know if they invalidated the previous one. This one was sent within the explanation email.
According to zap discord there was a screenshot posted about about rental and lifetime dedicated server getting amd options.
I'm still waiting for mine to be upgraded to EPYC...
I must still be "in the coming days" almost a month later
Same here :S
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
I thought I had bought one of these two years ago ...I guess not. I am looking now at the baseline Helsinki offer at 86.90euros currently. Does anyone know if they would care if one shared private Linux ISOs (or at least reverse-proxied that traffic through that VPS)?
A German Provider might not be the best choice for private linux isos. That said, if they are encrypted and remain on your server, I guess they might be your private backups.
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.