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★ VirMach ★ RYZEN ★ NVMe ★★ $8.88/YR- 384MB ★★ $21.85/YR- 2.5GB ★ Instant ★ Japan Pre-order ★ & More
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52 quantity has been opened up for 384MB package.
304 quantity has been added back for 768MB package. Looks like a lot of people didn't complete their purchase here or got marked fraud. We'll still honor any people who go through the review process though that are still interested, the tickets will just take some time to clear up.
Storage prices and ETAs:
Tokyo, Japan storage is going out with all other servers.Los Angeles is going out first most likely, as in before Los Angeles Ryzens as it has been ready for an extremely long time and people have waited over a year now for their old pre-orders. NYC Metro is going out with the servers here via freight. Amsterdam may still be going out with the Ryzens but I've made changes here to the server and still need to do some testing. It's now using Epyc instead of dual E5. There's a small chance it'll go out separately. Keep in mind any of the above information can change.
All these are RAID10 with high end RAID controllers and potentially NVMe cache (last part not guaranteed though.) They'll also have standard bandwidth levels as advertised currently on our website, including in Tokyo as well. So I think that's 10x the storage amount in monthly bandwidth. Also 10Gbps port on all.
250GB Storage (230GB~ Usable) PREORDER + TOKYO
$25/1YR Pre-order
500GB Storage (460GB~ Usable) PREORDER
$50/2YR Pre-order
1TB Storage (930GB~ Usable) PREORDER
$80/2YR Pre-order
2TB Storage (1860GB~ Usable) PREORDER
$120/2YR Pre-order
Early bird discount an extra 20% off the first term only for these, we can run that until they actually get close to being deployed, so probably until Friday. So $20 for the first year on 250GB, $40 for first 2 years on 500GB and so on.
Please pay attention to above prices, 250GB is annual only and the rest are biennial only. For higher amounts of storage, the main cost ends up being the hardware that has to initially be purchased (which we already have) so I can only offer the best prices per 2 years. That's why 2 years of 500GB ends up being same price per year as one year with 250GB. I wanted to keep 250GB annual only to keep the entry prices low for those that don't want to spend a lot to start. Hopefully that should give an option for everyone.
Tokyo will have limited space though so I only want to sell the 250GB package here for now to give as many people a chance to get space here. If you really need more space here we will allow you to upgrade later but only for the regular prices, as in $35/YR for 500GB, $70 a year for 1TB, etc.
You will still be allowed to order Tokyo for the larger storage amounts but keep in mind there's a chance that if we run out of space, 250GB plans will be activated FIRST and you may be migrated/activated on the next closest location of Los Angeles. If this happens, we'll allow you to cancel for a refund though as we do not want to force you into a location you do not want.
Sorry for the information overload above, I'll try to word it better when we actually post the offer.
I don't want to sell you high CPU addons because it may honestly not even be necessary for Ryzen. The RAM to CPU power ratio is a huge shift from our existing services and so far there's no indication we'll ever run out of CPU on those nodes. And as long as that's the case, pretty much everyone will be able to burst all the time. I don't think we've had to enforce a single case of high CPU warning on Ryzen.
We can do monthly, sure, for 1/10th the price of annual.
That means it'll only be offered on the 6GB one though to stay in line with maximum price rules but it's been so long since I've had to look at those or even post offers close to the max offer price that I don't remember if it qualifies anyway since we do offer the annual pricing under the maximum already.
We could probably do $88 instead of $118 but it'll have to be in the form of refund to store credit and manual price change, maybe bump our thread with your order ID type deal everyone does these days since I don't think I can do extra cost for Japan without creating an entire new pricing group on our billing software.
Any other requests before I start making these?
I think I kind of answered some of this in my reply to pullangcubo above, but I'll answer it again here so it's more clear and cover any additional questions as well.
1) We may do monthly. I'll see if I can work in quarterly as well.
2) We don't plan on throttling right now but if everything goes very wrong then it'd be the standard "KVM Lite" of 33% guaranteed with burst for shorter periods. For these larger plans we'll probably do at least 50% realistically since price per unit is already higher. Sorry for not having a concrete answer.
3) They will go on the same set of servers as all the other offers. There are a lot of servers, over 200 total when we finish all deployments and all servers will have a healthy mix.
If that's true (88$ for 8G ryzen) then I would get one! I'm fine with store credit, can be used to renew other services anyway
Instead of passing on the fees to your customers, why not do something like redirecting the special offers page to OGF and launching your special offers there? You win by not having to pay the $200 fee, users win by paying a lower price, and OGF wins by having more users.
So the early bird code for the storage plan is different from the previous one
How much ram for 250GB btw?
It'll be 512MB like the 500GB package, I don't want to do any lower. Bandwidth will be 2.5TB but I'm considering keeping that 5TB as well like the 500GB package. If that happens it'll be a hidden bonus, aka, it's going to get advertised as 2.5TB or 3TB for now.
Yes, previous one is already expired.
I was thinking of just converting that page into its own single thread message board/comment section allowing posts as both guest and registered users.
We'll see. We've also though about doing a support forum anyway in the past so maybe it could be part of that. In any case though I haven't ruled out just paying the fee, passing it on (not that we need the extra money, just to be transparent about what it costs us) and then waiving the fee for anyone that finds it elsewhere. This all would just cut into development time though which I do not want right now.
can it be at the same price, i get 100/150gb, 768mb/1gb ram, 1TB bandwidth?
The only problem with a Virmach operated forum would be the lack of community engagement and network effects that come for free with a generic forum.
I agree with you and I wish it would be different. I take no pleasure in falling behind. It just all happened with a lot of changes in the background that made it impossible to do it sooner like how we wanted. We've lost a lot of money over the delays as well.
We lost a sys admin, then another sys admin, our billing guy, a tech that was supposed to help with the builds, and couldn't hire someone that was going to fly around and do the installations. On top of that, with COVID's supply chain issues, we got burned a lot trying to acquire parts. We still cannot even get the proper barebones due to continued delays so the build time increased there using older chassis and fitting them with custom bits like fans, trays, etc. We couldn't even get the rails for some of the builds, they're hyper-inflated to $90 each which potentially wouldn't be an issue if anyone even had any in stock (it's just a few of them with people price-gouging on eBay.) I got lucky and was able to pick up 100 before they sold out again, over and over. We would have better prepared if we had an entire warehouse to process and store 200 of these 24820 boxes at once (couldn't get bulk packaging at the time and still can't because the sales team for every company is overworked.) There's a lot more that happened but maybe I'll publish that in a 200 page autobiography some day (that no one will read.)
Not using any of that as an excuse, I'll admit we did a terrible job with the rollout. Again, I take no joy in paying for cabinets for a year that have just been empty and watching hardware prices go down for everything we already acquired.
Hopefully we'll redeem ourselves moving forward.
Confirming that it's KVM.
Yes.
Good to hear. I honestly didn't do as much research as I should have but it's not like we had many choices to begin with when it comes to that location. We just took what we could get. Some providers wouldn't even reply to us and Equinix blend bandwidth and the others we got quotes for were insanely high priced. I'm talking 6 figures a year for just the bandwidth portion.
Storage, yes.
No LG right now, sorry, but it would be Psychz Amsterdam. I don't know if it will be exactly the same but a good place to start would be their LG: https://lg.ams.psychz.net/
I'm not personally handling these right now, someone else is, but I'll check and make sure they're doing a good job. I hope it's already been resolved.
This will not be done. We basically are setting up the locations in a way where there are primary locations and then secondary. These are secondary. They have less bandwidth, less space, less everything.
Primary locations are Tokyo, Los Angeles, NYC Metro, and Amsterdam. So one location per main "region" of the world.
This helps us make sure we have good replacement parts stocked for all the extra different configurations without spreading them too much and later down the line allows us to have people (maybe) in each of those regions that can handle emergencies.
May I know what makes that configuration more desirable for you? Storage servers don't really end up using all that much RAM so we could theoretically boost that for everyone.
i just compare with the package from greenkvm.com storage plan with 1Gb ram.
i will use vps storage to install minio to backup my wordpress site from other vps, and i don't know if 512 is enough for minio
Ryzen10GbpsJP-3 $35.00 USD (Annually)
XMASStorageOSJP-1 $80.00 USD (Biennially)
So what's your estimate price like those?
Hopefully it could be IIJ
How about 2 discount, one for a little bit more ram. Don't really care 1 time discount.
I expect to need an odd configuration in a couple of months.
2 cores, does not need to be ryzen, 6/8GB RAM, 25/35GB Disk(any type) 2TB transfer in Tokyo.
Any chance we will see something like this from VirBot in the future.
Or does VirBot go bye bye with C/C?
Not sure I understand what those packages offer specifically and in terms of pricepoints where we fall short. They have more RAM, less bandwidth, and NVMe attached as well? Or is the NVMe some other non-storage package?
So 500GB plan is $80 per 2 years but it has 3GB RAM? And we offer 10x the bandwidth and almost 2x the storage space for the same price but just 1GB RAM instead of 3GB?
And if the NVMe is a different package, then we offer 512MB less RAM, 15GB more disk, and 8x more bandwidth for $7.69 less but again it's just the lower RAM amount?
Are the CPUs on these by any chance Epyc which supports more RAM?
@VirMach where is the order link for storage offers? or still not published yet.
Not published yet. I'll post them in the next 30~ minutes (in VirMach minutes.)
You missed “maybe”
3.30 a.m. now in virmach time.
@VirMach what's the estimated time for the storage deals? I don't want to miss it.
My 1TB storage from GreenCloud is "Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4216 CPU @ 2.10GHz" 2 cores CPU + 3GB + 2TB Bandwidth. Geekbench 5 is 650 for single core & 1300 for multi cores.
Our CPU is Ryzen so it should be faster. RAM is usually higher with Xeon so I think your deal is good.
Can biennial VPS be changed to annual payment?
I want to buy 2560MB plans.
Hello, send a ticket, no reply
just to be clear, all the storage are gonna be on ryzen, apart from Amsterdam ?
I hope all people don't skip this
Hello, send a ticket, no reply
Yes it can be bought annually but more expensive.
I don't think a memory boost is necessary. In fact, it might do harm to the whole cluster, if someone runs disk mining or torrent programs, for which, large memory is usually essential.