Wow this is clever logic - I have been suspended for a service I had cancelled months ago with confirmations etc etc. Service should have cancelled automatically at end of period (yesterday).
Actually works in my favour for the aforementioned inaccessible Chicago server.
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).
If I remember correctly Virmach mentioned long ago, that the LowEnd / BF-CM deals only account for around 10% of the company's total income, so I don't think that alone will be a deadpool cause.
As long as the 'real' / full price clients are happy.
And I suspect that lately all time and priority went into fixing those and keeping them happy first (as would make sense to do).
With LowEnd customers being at the end of the line, which is admittedly sometimes an extremely long line and frustrating wait!
So if you are unlucky and have many or most of your services not working, of course you're going to be rightfully upset.
But I've been quite lucky with most of mine seeming to be working fine.
Like of my 20+ services in handful or more different locations, only 2 had/have problems, I think?
(I'll check my notes and also recheck current status, and then give exact stats, but think it was 90%+ of all of mine working fine.)
*results may vary
My main concern is that he as a person is ok, since I've always viewed him as an honest, caring, well intended person, despite all the chaos and drama that there might've been at times.
@arirang said: @JDMcPea How's going your production site? You still using them for production?
TLDR: Moved the site to Crunchbits, still rooting for Virmach
I ended up "temporarily" moving my main eCommerce site to Crunchy when the first outage hit the Chicago Virmach vps after about a month or so of uptime. It turned out only to be for a few hours but figured I'd wait a few days before moving it back- and days turned into weeks etc. and it's been up on Crunch since then. Someone had mentioned that search engines don't take kindly to sites that are constantly changing their IP addresses, took that into account.
Crunchbits has been near rock solid and they finally did their long awaited free upgrade for my "LES Gentleman's Special". But IMO Crunchbits is not Low End. They did some experimenting with offers and probably got burned but they are keeping their word to existing customers.
Have got a second specialized ecommerce site up on the Virmach Chicago VPS now. It gets almost no traffic. Overall it's been reliable with one caveat- lately at an exact certain time every few weeks or so the VPS sometimes shuts down and I have to reboot it through Virm control panel. It always boots up fine. The VPS is a "free for life 2GBNVME" so maybe it's a feature implemented to make sure am actually making use of it and not just idling. It also takes daily, weekly, and monthly backups from my other websites. Still very useful. My second Virmach $5 a year VPS is in Atalanta and has been reliable for a long time now. That's got a hobby site on it and is also used for the backups. Just renewed it last month.
Really hope Virmach is doing OK and his business plan is still viable. Have been rooting for him since the Great Separation back in the day. To me he seemed like the underdog fighting against near impossible odds but always managing to hang on despite everything. He made this forum fun and his frequent posts and Walls of Text posts gave me insight into the business aspect of running a company in this field, always found it educational and interesting even when I didn't understand much of it. And all the silly and stupid and fun threads and posts and comments and characters this all generated. Not too long ago he was posting about being in Japan to work on some servers in person- I know hosting is serious business and high dollar stuff but to me just the thought of the cost of a round trip plane ticket to Japan from USA not to mention the cost of hotels etc is crazy. Ongoing and never ending issues with trying to get networks straightened out, IP addresses, crazy hardware malfunctions, stupid data center employees, industry idiots, etc. etc. sometimes think there are actually people out there intentionally trying to cause problems. Possibly many of the issues occur simply because in order to offer Low End products you can't buy the top of the line services and hardware, and have to iron out the inevitable issues when they occur. I'm not counting Virmach out yet. I am however concerned that there could be new issues due to the insane stuff that's going on nationally here in the USA these days. Worried that could lead to the straw that broke the camel's back. Sure hope not. Wishing good luck to Virmach, hope he posts here again soon with updates.
@ZA_capetown said:
If I remember correctly Virmach mentioned long ago, that the LowEnd / BF-CM deals only account for around 10% of the company's total income, so I don't think that alone will be a deadpool cause.
This is indeed possible.
However, given reports from multiple nodes, I suspect the intermittent network outages plaguing Los Angeles for months appear to be a global issue affecting all users without exception. Virmach's deliberate or inadvertent neglect of this problem should be causing dissatisfaction among all users in Los Angeles.
Regardless, I hope everything works out for @VirMach
@ZA_capetown said:
If I remember correctly Virmach mentioned long ago, that the LowEnd / BF-CM deals only account for around 10% of the company's total income, so I don't think that alone will be a deadpool cause.
This is indeed possible.
However, given reports from multiple nodes, I suspect the intermittent network outages plaguing Los Angeles for months appear to be a global issue affecting all users without exception. Virmach's deliberate or inadvertent neglect of this problem should be causing dissatisfaction among all users in Los Angeles.
Regardless, I hope everything works out for @VirMach
Yes LAX is one of my 2 that's giving me problems, and that AMSD025 (I think?) one in Amsterdam that is totally down, is the other.
Luckily I only have 2 LAX (I think 1 in each of the 2 different LAX locations? - that were both idlers in my case)
I have no Tokoyo
And I asked all my Chicago to be migrated to AMS when the warning was given about CHI becoming problematic.
So the majority of mine are AMS and NYC which seem to be the 2 most stable locations.
So I might very well just have a very lucky combination of servers, that I don't personally feel the impact much.
Opposed to those that maybe mostly have in LAX and TYO where the problems are.
Curiously, whilst some time ago a web host node in LAX (not a VPS package) had a lot of trouble, now, except for short and currently rare instances of trouble, this node node has been stable for an extended period of time. An NYC VPS node has been solid for quite some time now. These are mostly "toys", so down time, while frustrating, has been largely reconcilable. It was the DNS update fiasco that was not. With this lengthy and ongoing absence, it does seem somewhat possible that a change may become unavoidable, but for now, I'm fine.
Who here still has free VPS from past BFCM events? I still have two.
Too bad I wasn't able to pay in time the other two which I also snagged years ago: a $1/year KVM and a $0.95/year OpenVZ which was later converted into KVM with upgraded specs.
@msatt said: I have been suspended for a service I had cancelled months ago with confirmations etc etc. Service should have cancelled automatically at end of period (yesterday).
I have seen this WHMCS bug before: if you cancel BEFORE the invoice is raised, WHMCS will mess it up.
🤡 "We can confirm that this is not an issue with any servers, network, or power equipment on our end." 🤡 "We have temporarily paused controls for this service as we are performing maintenance on the server." 🤡 "The servers are working, they are just not connected to the internet!" 🤡
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).
ATLZ027 also went down a few minutes ago. My freebie was on that node. ATLZ032 went down about 12 days ago. Cancelled that VM as it expires later this month. That's all I have left. I'll echo all the sentiments. It's been fun. There have been many LOL moments reading these Virmach threads for the last few years. Moving on to greener pastures and other {online} VPS providers.
My VPS on ATLZ006 is also down as of a few minutes ago. The VPS I have on ATLZ032 has been down for a month or so.
So nothing working for me in Atlanta, too bad it was a good location.
After hearing all these experiences, I am considering myself very lucky that my BF2018 has gone through three different cities (in LA right now), many FreeBSD versions and hardly any downtime whatsoever. I should have gone to Vegas instead.
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Wow this is clever logic - I have been suspended for a service I had cancelled months ago with confirmations etc etc. Service should have cancelled automatically at end of period (yesterday).
Virmach is NOT worth the risk.
Actually works in my favour for the aforementioned inaccessible Chicago server.
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).
If I remember correctly Virmach mentioned long ago, that the LowEnd / BF-CM deals only account for around 10% of the company's total income, so I don't think that alone will be a deadpool cause.
As long as the 'real' / full price clients are happy.
And I suspect that lately all time and priority went into fixing those and keeping them happy first (as would make sense to do).
With LowEnd customers being at the end of the line, which is admittedly sometimes an extremely long line and frustrating wait!
So if you are unlucky and have many or most of your services not working, of course you're going to be rightfully upset.
But I've been quite lucky with most of mine seeming to be working fine.
Like of my 20+ services in handful or more different locations, only 2 had/have problems, I think?
(I'll check my notes and also recheck current status, and then give exact stats, but think it was 90%+ of all of mine working fine.)
*results may vary
My main concern is that he as a person is ok, since I've always viewed him as an honest, caring, well intended person, despite all the chaos and drama that there might've been at times.
What is @VirMach is Jeff Bezos and this is just his hobby?
TLDR: Moved the site to Crunchbits, still rooting for Virmach
I ended up "temporarily" moving my main eCommerce site to Crunchy when the first outage hit the Chicago Virmach vps after about a month or so of uptime. It turned out only to be for a few hours but figured I'd wait a few days before moving it back- and days turned into weeks etc. and it's been up on Crunch since then. Someone had mentioned that search engines don't take kindly to sites that are constantly changing their IP addresses, took that into account.
Crunchbits has been near rock solid and they finally did their long awaited free upgrade for my "LES Gentleman's Special". But IMO Crunchbits is not Low End. They did some experimenting with offers and probably got burned but they are keeping their word to existing customers.
Have got a second specialized ecommerce site up on the Virmach Chicago VPS now. It gets almost no traffic. Overall it's been reliable with one caveat- lately at an exact certain time every few weeks or so the VPS sometimes shuts down and I have to reboot it through Virm control panel. It always boots up fine. The VPS is a "free for life 2GBNVME" so maybe it's a feature implemented to make sure am actually making use of it and not just idling. It also takes daily, weekly, and monthly backups from my other websites. Still very useful. My second Virmach $5 a year VPS is in Atalanta and has been reliable for a long time now. That's got a hobby site on it and is also used for the backups. Just renewed it last month.
Really hope Virmach is doing OK and his business plan is still viable. Have been rooting for him since the Great Separation back in the day. To me he seemed like the underdog fighting against near impossible odds but always managing to hang on despite everything. He made this forum fun and his frequent posts and Walls of Text posts gave me insight into the business aspect of running a company in this field, always found it educational and interesting even when I didn't understand much of it. And all the silly and stupid and fun threads and posts and comments and characters this all generated. Not too long ago he was posting about being in Japan to work on some servers in person- I know hosting is serious business and high dollar stuff but to me just the thought of the cost of a round trip plane ticket to Japan from USA not to mention the cost of hotels etc is crazy. Ongoing and never ending issues with trying to get networks straightened out, IP addresses, crazy hardware malfunctions, stupid data center employees, industry idiots, etc. etc. sometimes think there are actually people out there intentionally trying to cause problems. Possibly many of the issues occur simply because in order to offer Low End products you can't buy the top of the line services and hardware, and have to iron out the inevitable issues when they occur. I'm not counting Virmach out yet. I am however concerned that there could be new issues due to the insane stuff that's going on nationally here in the USA these days. Worried that could lead to the straw that broke the camel's back. Sure hope not. Wishing good luck to Virmach, hope he posts here again soon with updates.
I have joked before that I think he might be the Prince of Persia
(and that all this is just a hobby inbetween rolling in millions)
This is indeed possible.
However, given reports from multiple nodes, I suspect the intermittent network outages plaguing Los Angeles for months appear to be a global issue affecting all users without exception. Virmach's deliberate or inadvertent neglect of this problem should be causing dissatisfaction among all users in Los Angeles.
Regardless, I hope everything works out for @VirMach
Yes LAX is one of my 2 that's giving me problems, and that AMSD025 (I think?) one in Amsterdam that is totally down, is the other.
Luckily I only have 2 LAX (I think 1 in each of the 2 different LAX locations? - that were both idlers in my case)
I have no Tokoyo
And I asked all my Chicago to be migrated to AMS when the warning was given about CHI becoming problematic.
So the majority of mine are AMS and NYC which seem to be the 2 most stable locations.
So I might very well just have a very lucky combination of servers, that I don't personally feel the impact much.
Opposed to those that maybe mostly have in LAX and TYO where the problems are.
Curiously, whilst some time ago a web host node in LAX (not a VPS package) had a lot of trouble, now, except for short and currently rare instances of trouble, this node node has been stable for an extended period of time. An NYC VPS node has been solid for quite some time now. These are mostly "toys", so down time, while frustrating, has been largely reconcilable. It was the DNS update fiasco that was not. With this lengthy and ongoing absence, it does seem somewhat possible that a change may become unavoidable, but for now, I'm fine.
Who here still has free VPS from past BFCM events? I still have two.
Too bad I wasn't able to pay in time the other two which I also snagged years ago: a $1/year KVM and a $0.95/year OpenVZ which was later converted into KVM with upgraded specs.
I have seen this WHMCS bug before: if you cancel BEFORE the invoice is raised, WHMCS will mess it up.
🤡 "We can confirm that this is not an issue with any servers, network, or power equipment on our end." 🤡 "We have temporarily paused controls for this service as we are performing maintenance on the server." 🤡 "The servers are working, they are just not connected to the internet!" 🤡
ATLZ009 down - very unusual!
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).
ATLZ027 also went down a few minutes ago. My freebie was on that node. ATLZ032 went down about 12 days ago. Cancelled that VM as it expires later this month. That's all I have left. I'll echo all the sentiments. It's been fun. There have been many LOL moments reading these Virmach threads for the last few years. Moving on to greener pastures and other {online} VPS providers.
My VPS on ATLZ006 is also down as of a few minutes ago. The VPS I have on ATLZ032 has been down for a month or so.
So nothing working for me in Atlanta, too bad it was a good location.
I think I did a stupid thing, a VPS I had contracted was suspended today, hours ago I renewed it, but the service is still off HAHAHA.
After reading the previous comments, it seems that I am not the only one that the VPS is located in ATLZ007B.
New York is with RoyaleHosting[1]? ( 06:03:07 up 377 days, 7:46, 2 users, load average: 0.91, 0.41, 0.15 )
[1] https://royalehosting.net
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After hearing all these experiences, I am considering myself very lucky that my BF2018 has gone through three different cities (in LA right now), many FreeBSD versions and hardly any downtime whatsoever. I should have gone to Vegas instead.
So many nodes going down
Oh hell, I paid for an ATL renewal and ATLZ034 went down shortly after. Not great luck.
Sounds like all of ATL may be gone...