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Will delivery servers after 6.99e? I would take one 1TB.
I like the idea. Now add negative tips please.
I don't know all the very specifics of the law, but I think it would most likely be charged as a tax from the government as an "advantage in nature" (not sure of english here ;p)
I mean providing "goods" instead of "money" to an employee (like a salary or a prime) is not taxed the same way here, it would probably costs more to the company so we would have to lower the final revenue to our worker, which was not the point ...)
Mik
interesting sic (may I ask where you are from ?)
maybe we should find a better name for it but not sure what to use ... how would you present/name it ?
Mik
Been with Online.net for 1+ years now and I've been very happy with the support :-).
OK, I guess that makes sense, but still, it's weird finding a pulldown right there on the screen.
I was at the other side of that once. We did a huge amount of work to fix a customer problem (partly because one of our investors asked us to, heh) and they sent us a huge basket of food and chocolate and stuff afterwards... it must have cost a few hundred euros, and our whole staff enjoyed the goodies for a week or so
. That was a really crazy situation though, about 3 engineering days to fix an emergency that the customer had caused himself at another host when they were not even our customer. I personally pulled an all nighter during that :O.
We appreciated the customer's gesture very much, but we understood it was a special situation where we really went out of our way, doing a weird project on zero notice for no payment, that usually would have had a longer schedule and high consulting fees. For an ordinary issue we would have felt uncomfortable accepting anything.
Still I always appreciate good support, having done some of it myself and knowing what it is like. So I'll try to tip at least a little bit when there's something to be happy about
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That was the intended smartarsed response, actually.
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Oh no! They've sold all the servers including the payment processing ones!
Everything is sold out, i've never, ever, gotten a deal.
Hmm, I see ENT 1701.1 and several of the mWOPR and WOPR deals with some left in stock. WOPR 1701.4 is the fastest server in the whole promo (at 200 euro it better be fast) and there are some left in stock. All the cheap stuff is long gone though
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Managed to snag a LT 1701.1 and it was delivered with 2x2tb drives. No clue what to do with it though! I have a home server (R210 ii) that runs Plex connected to a DS1815+ for storage. Not sure I really need this server
I feel like the only user who actually got the advertised 1TB drives with the 1701.1
. If it had 2TB drives I could add a 1TB SAN slice for 10 euro and be at price parity with my Hetzner auction server.
I sometimes see posts offering to transfer these servers to other users, but I thought Online didn't allow that. Maybe there's some specific situations where it's allowed, or whatever.
I'm not sure what to do with mine either. I got it with the idea of spreading a computational workload from Hetzner but the network delay makes this a bit unpleasant.
If there's a way to transfer these things legitimately, I might conceivably be interested, as would plenty of other people here.
Transfer to me man. Haha..
I hate you
@ollietrex, it will work
cmon, get us some stock for the Western time
sell it to me
No, you aren't. Second rule of low end addiction club is 'no regrets'.
Never hesitate for an online.net sale.
If I hadn't, I'd be sitting on a stash of 1TB avoton dedis now
You could md raid a small % of the 1TB disks for os+apps and use the remaining non redundant disks as ephemeral volumes.
I plan to use one 750G volume for torrenting and another as intermediate pull backup location.
That's how I'm justifying trading up from an i5-3xxx kimsufi to a FAST Haswell E3. YMMV
Heh yeah, I mashed the buy button as fast as I could, remembering how the last sale sold out in 1 or 2 minutes. But the 1701-1 lasted several hours. The 1tb avotons went fast and I don't remember if I had any chance of getting one, but decided I didn't need it (don't need the avoton cpu, and as pure storage it cost more than various vps offers). I slightly regret not getting the ssd one, which was available for much longer so I could have easily gotten one or several. But I can always use Scaleway, and Scaleway even has a nice 3 euro/month dedi called the C1 (4 ARM cores, 2GB ram, and 50GB network SSD). I'll check the network speed between Scaleway and Online tomorrow, but I hope it's the full 1gbps.
The SAN slices are already raid-6 or raid-60 at the back end, so no need to md-raid them. That leaves me with 2x 1tb drives, currently md-raid but I might split them, maybe md-raid a small partition for active data, and remote-backup static files on the rest of the space.
I bought the 750gb ftp backup for 5 euro/mo ($7.74/TiB/mo) but don't know if I'll keep it (nice that it's right there on the LAN, but price isn't that great). If you don't buy the 750gb then you get 100gb for free, so you're really paying 5 euro for 650gb ($8.35/TiB). 100gb is enough to back up all my active data, copy it around between servers etc. The rest is static and I can figure out some other backup/fallback strategy. In fact a lot of it is redundant so with enough hacking, I could compress it by a significant factor.
Scaleway has an S3 object store called SIS which is 0.02 euro/GB except that new signups have been shut off for the past 1.5 years. If they ever re-open it, that's good for some things too.
If I had enough cash or need, I'd have gotten the ENT 1701.4 (2x E5-2620v2, 128GB ram, 2x 500GB SSD for 85 euro) but I figure that if I get a revenue project that needs it, I can pay the regular price. It would be a really good machine for some of the stuff I do.
I'd like it if Scaleway were more integrated with online.net and I get the impression they are working on that. So it will be cool to see what happens. I think I can glimpse the plan Online is pursuing and I like it.
Main new things I'd like to see from Online currently are:
backup space competitively priced with Hetzner (5 euro/TiB in 2TB chunks);
secure (sftp) access to the existing ftp backups (yes I know access is over the LAN but still...)
stop charging money to delete files on c14
allow prepayment of c14 storage independently of other stuff
bring Scaleway more into the Online ecosystem and deploy some faster Scaleway servers
maybe offer Online dedis with no internet connectivity (internal network only), for both security and cost reduction (Scaleway has this)
various minor tweaks and features that I'm sure they'll get around to.
Been refreshing that order page like a mad man hoping they'd release more/cancelled stock but guess not.
Seeing as how they couldn't replace my faulty server, but just refunded it... I doubt they will have more available soon.
Adding insult to injury they send me their marketing mail for the promotion right after they couldn't replace my faulty server.
If the rest of servers won't sell out till the end of month (so the special limited site will be still online) I'm sure they will add dropped servers.
Probably most of them will be the low budget SSD servers, as the ~150-170MB/s speeds aren't that great for SSD (didn't check the IOPS though).
Many folks, who take many of them, will drops their idle units on begin next month for sure.
you guys are talking about people dropping off their idle servers, and here I am still waiting for mine to boot up
That's the reason I'm done with online's specials. Whenever stuff breaks you're fucked. Never had these issues on their regular offerings though.
Have you tried to see what's going on there using their KVM over IP? Few of my servers did not boot, I had to go into BIOS and select the HDD in the boot devices list.
Does online.net still require photographic ID?
I'm a new customer. They didn't ask mine.
No, they asking to shoot short home porn movie on exchange
= the Microsoft version of Postfix gonzo?