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Francisco/BuyVM - question for you
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Hey @Francisco would a UK location be a possibility, or a pipe dream? :-)
Luna location plz.
Mars location by 2025 plz.
No, it's a sales tactic. Making your product scarce can reduce churn. Overselling has nothing to do with it.
somehow this sales “tactic” is not working for (or used by) other VPS providers
Google Translate doesn’t understand humour.
The "double bandwidth" tactic wasn't used by other providers for months. Not uncommon to see some techniques in use in a small number of providers.
There's a trade off to everything - being out of stock reduces churn, but increases the likelihood of someone going elsewhere as they can't buy from you. The double bandwidth thing gets more attention, both positive and negative.
I thought Luna location was covered by @yoursunny
Currently he is busy with his Antartica DC, maybe he will expand to Luna soon.
We do have a host in Luna node?
That lying bastard doesn't have servers on Luna. He should be banned.
This novelette predicts that we'll have a luna location someday:
https://yoursunny.com/t/2021/1302.8/
Not sure how it's a sales tactic when I'm dropping nodes pretty damn often
We sent 2 crates of servers to LUX (and gave birth to a new company meme) within 3 months of each other.
Vegas has had a steady stream of new nodes every month this year and NY is maxed out and requires we order more racks.
Miami went live in June and we'll probably send more once we market it more.
As for new locations, i've been floating the idea of Chicago but maybe it's too clogged of a location to join in. Australia will probably never happen. UK...maybe? Would have to study the market more and see how we'd do.
Right now we're focused on the ICANN accreditation for the new brand. Task #1 is buying the domain off this squatter so we'll see how many 0's I gotta put on this bid. Bastards.
Francisco
All I can think about is her... SWEET FRAN.
Francisco
Double bandwidth promotion is actually a lot different from artificial “out of stock” promotion. Less than 10% VPS customers actually use more than 20% bandwidth.
And, to be honest, artificial “out of stock” promotion is a bad idea.
I have been seeing BuyVM out of stock for over two years now. The in stock appears end of month and around 7th month.
BuyVM is actually in a “envious” state. Ask any VPS provider competitor.
Top four providers (in alphabetical order), in my opinion
The fastest single core VPS performance
HostCram (@shakib)
There are very few provider who clearly list
percentage core dedicated to the VPS
HostHatch and BuyVM are pretty transparent that way. Some vendors confirm in the private message (their interpretation of fair usage)
Integrity and Transparency are two most important aspects of quality, IMHO.
You rang?
Yes, we're working to start selling domains, but not just reselling someone else.
There's an opening in the market for it, especially with law of the land and all that.
Francisco
It's just a line that shouldn't be crossed 24/7. It remained the same even after migrating from Intel to Ryzen. Although Ryzen has more cores. Those Fran, with the same rented space, significantly increased the "scale of production".
Nevertheless, I must admit the fact that VPS have become noticeably faster, for the same money for the client.
The next Epik?
Chicago is very clogged, but it's clogged for a reason. I'm sure it would do well for you!
Franik™
What about other international locations, like somewhere in Asia-Pacific? There's already a lot of US locations... What value would a Chicago location add over the existing ones?
A Chicago location would be great. I need to start monitoring the Discord more, I had no idea that all this is happening. And complaints about stock will always be the case, unless Fran finally decides to flood his racks with a year’s worth of supply, lol, that might just work for a few days
I heard Chicago might be next.
Instead of Chicago, why not a more obscure location that you could somewhat normalize?
Not many providers in Luxembourg, which makes it a unique location that many use now because BuyVM is there.
I'd focus on seeking a location that is similar in that regards. Not super saturated, geographically unique and a place that is a bit more privacy friendly that would be better suited as a 5th location for anycast services.
Just my $0.02
Honestly I was thinking about a Swiss location if we wanted 1 more EU.
Push on the privacy side.
Francisco
South Africa has somewhat decent privacy & freedom of speech laws with somewhat of the infrastructure and would be totally unique with a niche.
Be more creative, Fran.
Under sea, in middle of nowhere. Sea servers only bound by international laws.
Southpole servers. Northpole servers by having a floating platform.
Dick is the limitation.
@Francisco kill the matrix/discord bridge(s) for the IRC. Those users are terrible. Just do it.
Edit: oh, and the BuyVM circlejerk is well and alive. BuyVM is overpriced for what you're getting, anyway.
And batshit insanely overpriced.
Francisco