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Now I feel empty without that VirMach bell / flash deal
maybe, but this homework is still not completed
Maybe you can edit your script to trigger the sound every 15 minutes ?
Found another egg, put in the code, and broke the billing server "Error 522". Sorry guys
EDIT: Not a good egg.
Maybe they can get the billing machines hosted on Amazon AWS next year.
They can put it on buffalo, they have many machines there, don't they?
That is terribad.
Is virmach okay with chinese users trying to abuse the system? There's a xenforo site I run that just suddenly had a huge influx of chinese IPs hitting it, went from around 500 users/guests active per hour to 4000. It was fronted with cloudflare and I just put a rule in and it filtered all the chinese IPs out within a matter of minutes.
I assume they'll use proxies/vpns to try to bypass that but better than nothing.
Homework submitted, now that I can sleep, I still feel like I have too much energy. Where was this energy two hour ago ?
Are you sure you didn't make an error?
I'm guessing a business that is prepared to handle some of this kind of BS can do pretty well if they can deal with the traffic and transactions. It's definitely a delicate balance of risk vs. reward, but might work at scale.
purely speculation on my part, but it also might help if they're not exactly taking it personally (like a smaller provider caught by surprise might do ...)
"It's just business, man"
Getting the good customers (and being prepared to deal with the rest by any means necessary) sometimes could just make everything (maybe barely) worthwhile. Or so I would hope, at least.
I know I did and I even written it. But my brain is fried, there are no more compute.
Frankly I bought nothing much but rather spent most number of hours this year. Just realise one week passed that quickly.
Wish next year I will be the one enjoying instead
Or maybe I might not join also, time will tell 
Honestly though, I enjoy these flash deals partly because of the Captchas, 502s, and whatnots. It's as if we're doing a digital Hunger Games, battling for our survival for lowend deals!
@FAT32 I would like to gift you one. The last $2 flash deal 1536 Buffalo 2c/2g/20g SSD. Can I do that? Would virmach allow me to transfer it to you?
Thanks for that but dont worry
I would most likely idle that $2 anyway. You earned the best deal this BF because even I tried I cant get it too 😅
Not really sure how you guys did it without getting rate limited, sometimes it was an accident and suddenly have to wait 60 seconds
Guys, post some memes or share some benchmarks to make this thread to page 200!!
lol well it'll be idle in my account for a bit so if you come up with a use case for it, let me know.
For that last one I actually didn't think I got it. I made it all the way to the payment page, click PayPal checked the TOS box and clicked to confirm payment and the button text changes to "Please wait". Then I got the 5xx error multiple times. I only found out I got the $2 deal later when I went to remind myself of the specs of the other 5 I got and the $2 one was there with invoice pending payment. :shrug:
Yup, to all present here, post a benchmark of your flash deal haul!
I have one in Chicago but disk performance is a little bad at the moment so I'll wait for a few days for things to settle down first.
And post here if you uncover an easter egg so we'll all know what we're missing. Don't post the actual easter egg! Perhaps just a clue or a hint to guide the rest of us 😀
The 1st BF deal
1vCore, 768MB RAM, 15G SSD, 500GB Bandwidth, San Jose, CA - $7.68
My requested deal ...
2vCore 3 Ghz, 1024MB RAM, 15G SSD, 500GB Bandwidth @ 10gb, BUFFALO, NY - $8.95
Maybe VirMach shall apply some limits in next flash sale such as only users with a decent number of active services are qualified to buy. It may avoid such account sellings and make less auto script or bots to reduce 502 errors
Could you please give more hints about the easter eggs
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Still working at the weekend so do not have much time to digging so far
A 2018 classic the XIYAN SHITWEASEL
2vCore, 2048MB RAM, 10G SSD, 1000GB Bandwidth @ 10gb, Los Angeles, CA - $8.79
I like this idea a lot. It will also solve lots of multiple accounts issue.
I think there may be a few angles to consider
caveats:
benefits:
tl;dr: it's complicated ...?
The answer to most of the things is it depends. Maybe this rule only applies to really limited deals?
@FAT32 - for me (not really knowing either the big or little picture, just speculating in an abstract way) I would just say it seems worth some experiments. Ultimately I suspect @VirMach would like to get paid well for their work - though it may be possible that they have become just as hooked on the "fun" as many of us have.
So - if they can reduce the downside of some transactions while doing good deals on surplus resources with a preference for "known quality" customers (idlers lol) then that does sound like a win. (And it seems like they're inclined to do that in a general way - but it's a bit messy here ... If I had to guess, I'd say it's mainly for the lulz - justified to their accountants as "customer goodwill")
If somebody finds an egg then PM me first before using it so I can use it first and test if it is working properly. This way you will be assured of the quality of the egg.
So there are two easter eggs remaining to be found in this thread?
@alilet - I believe there is at least one in this thread ... involving the stability of commutative combinatorics, as it were