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Well, the control panel is SolusVM, so that can be set for English.
However, their web site and their client panel (for tickets, bills, etc.) are in German (but you can submit tickets in English).
Well, looks like they have received lots of order or they setup the server manually, since I am waiting for mine to be delivered...
the support is awesome. I have phoned them with my chingish accent at midnight (GMT +1). they handled my ticket really fast .
What really happened:
client: Hello. Can you help me with..
support: Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?
On a serious note PHPfriends have quite the reputation for having good support in the german community.
Please open a ticket, no need to order another server for this kind of upgrade
@all: Now this offer is really sold out
Thanks for the great feedback!
Best Regards,
Tim
Excellent many thanks done a ticket.
Now I regret not getting one
Sorry
But there will be new nice offers 
There is a quote in Chinese that goes: "得不到的东西永远都是最好的"
It is hard to translate in English, but the basic idea is "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence"
basically it means the opposite of "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush", i.e. what you are unable to get is worth more than that you have
Thanks, I believe the translation is good enough but not as elegant as in Chinese.
XIYAN SHITWEASEL
If it is able to be translated retaining its full meaning in the original meaning, it is not valuable at all.
得不到的永远在骚动，被偏爱的却有恃无恐
Please use english
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence"1
Please provide a translation next time.
This is a lyric from the song named "红玫瑰" (Red Rose), which shows the true colors of us as human beings.
The translation is roughly: "The things we can't have are the ones we want the most, but the things we already have are not being cherished."
This leads to the similar meaning to "The grass is always greener on the other side", which shows that human is greedy.
It is quite meaningful but we always make the same mistake.
Sometimes, though, it really is possible to miss a good VPS offer and to have regrets for a good reason.
I agree with this, but sometimes I ask myself, with the amount of money being spent on idling machines, I can pay for the same thing at regular price.
For example, the VPS is $2/m, which I idle for 3 months = $6 wasted.
The regular price is $3/m, although it is $1 more expensive, I am paying the same amount for 6 months.
That is, if you use it. But VMs are made to be idled, not used. Even 5year-olds knows that!
Yeah, I guess that there are two (related) issues: (i) VPS addiction and (ii) the feeling of regret after having missed a good VPS offer.
Most of us suffer from (i), which often leads to (ii).
My little point was merely that one could experience (ii) (for a good reason) in the absence of (i).
(But, yeah, most of us suffer from (i) as well!)
My view is that it depends on what your main work machine is. At least for me now, a used business class laptop is plenty of power. I just got one for USD200 (Lenovo 8GB RAM i5-4200U 12.5-inch touch screen). I could have dropped 1k USD for a new and much better machine but it will be underutilised for the most part, but if I use the 800USD difference on servers, that's a lot of many different servers to try, I am happy, the providers here are happy, the environment is happy (recycling used laptop and utilising existing machines already paid for by providers). So, I don't think I am suffering from VPS addiction; I am merely indulging in a very respectable hobby.
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OK.
For those with vnc issues I was able to connect from a windows machine using TightVNC
Just curious: those of you who purchased this service, did you set up a swap partition, and if so, with how much swap space, and why?
Initially, I set up a swap partition of 128 MB, but over the weekend, I decided to remove it because I feel that it's very unlikely that I would ever need it, and I wanted to be able to maximize the use of the disk space.
Ya never know when you'll need 10.01GB after all.
Or, for that matter, 10.02 GB.
NetBSD initially complained about the lack of a swap partition, so I had to tell him/her to be quiet.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0c bs=128M && reboot