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Why everyone talking about $5.02 one? Isn't it just a joke? By looking specs I didn't find reasons persuade me buying it.
Well... $5.02 is pretty cheap if you don't need high MEM or SDD
and has 2x IP's
4 Pros: Price, 2xIP ; 2TB bandwidth, 2x vCPU
2 Cons: only 502MB MEM ; 5GB SSD
So if lots of MEM and SDD isn't a needed, it's a pretty sweet deal.
Also.. didn't you get the 128MB + 1GB one, if I remember correctly?
There were definitely some flash sale ones that just shouldn't have been bought (like the one with 8GB monthly bandwidth) but 502MB memory and 5GB disk is enough for many applications.
OK, comparing those tiny things I would choose this one with bigger ram and more IPs. But 5GB disk makes me hesitate. If there's one I may grab one and give up those tinys.
I remember while it was thrown out, I just had look at spec and said Nah.
Yep, actually I can bear with 128MB, but 1GB bandwidth do really hurts. It makes me feel the server is at moon, we can only send text saying Hi and Bye. While "battery" is out, it's not available until it recharges.
Yeah I regret buying those tiny things. I can understand for low price something must be given up, but it lower experience too much.
I would say I'm 70% satisfied about 2019 BF/CM sales, we had a lot of good time and encores, Virmach paid efforts making sure we can get what we want. One of the reasons makes me unsatisfied is 502s/bots and I can understand Virmach can't do much about it. Another reason is these odd specs, if you notice you will find me trying to collect balanced specs, I don't want a machines which have only 5GB disks, that means I need use NFS to fill this gap or bear with it. Why not just have a balanced one and make life easier?
Depends on what you want to use it for.
For huge webserver or FTP kind of stuff the 5GB is going to be a problem.
But for many other stuff, the 5GB should actually be fine.
Ubuntu requires about 3GB... so you have 2GB in spare.
(I think 4 of mine only has 5GB disk space... they idle very nicely!)
Some of us consider a "minimal" server OS to be about 500MB. 3GB is like a desktop OS.
It is purposely designed this way. One of the main reasons VirMach did this is to balance their nodes. It also allows VirMach to utilise most of their host nodes with odd specs. Another good thing about odd specs is it reduced your ability to estimate the value of certain product.
In addition, some of them (8G bandwidth or 1G disk) is purposely set to tackle bots that order without looking at the specs. I am completely fine with this because you all should really take time to read the specs.
But you all have to admit that the loss of OVZ plans somehow diminished the madness and craziness of the deals last year.
We had (and still have, because of the easter eggs) awesome deals this year, but last year's was really just crazy!
I doubt it. Some even make these odd specs a sales point, because it's LIMITED.
I consider 2019 sales is better than 2018, at last year we will first look at OVZ/KVM, if it's OVZ without super low price/high specs we will say it sucks. With all KVM this year we didn't said sucks even once. Also, this year we have encore and much more SJ manual deals making sure everyone can get something.
Indeed, but boy did we all banged our head into the wall when all those OVZs that sucked were migrated to KVM without any additional costs!
I should have bought some limited OVZ
Some nodes are specifically filled and don't have those resources available.
I got the $8 deal with only 8GB bandwidth. Using it as a gameserver is not a good choice for me.
Ping statistics for 192.227.227.194: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 352ms, Maximum = 363ms, Average = 356ms8GB bw is too low for a website that can fully use the 8 core 8gram. Is it possible to add a little bandwidth? 80GB or 100GB? I don't think it will consume too many network resources.
It was purposely designed as a trap so you can't utilize all the resources.
I'm a biobot
Hey who will know that? I just thought they will stick OVZ lifelong.
Just take free conversion as a bonus.
OK now we're all Buffalo bots now. We'll got banned soon(TM).
It might make a good database node. Or Image processing, AI, etc..
Yo guys! Let's party!
It's quiet now.
If we're able to move to 187 today, all we need is a single page per day to achieve our goal until Christmas Day!
@pullangcubo it definitrey helps when there are a few people posting
Not only because there are more posts being made (duh) but I think also mainly because it can become an actually interesting conversation (even if it is about nothing in particular)
How about some commutative combinatorics?
Ok to be honest I have no idea what is that LOL.
@uptime The problem is there's not much drama going on around here hence nothing much to talk about. Maybe we can start one to get the ball rolling, eh?
Speaking of which: what's with the abundance of GIFs about buses?
I transferred one, forgot about the impending conversion to kvm.. it was a steal.. but what to do? My loss = someone else's gain
Intel's Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029 https://t.co/BJbrgrZkvM
I will be on the road today, so probably less active.
True, looking at the bright side someone will be very happy