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I'm also a big fan of WhatBox. I don't use them anymore, but they were really great. The server is fast, reliable, and great for Plex. Their support is also fantastic. They also have some of the best documentaton out there.
Can confirm that only torrent upload counts for bandwidth.
If one user can mess up things this badly, you need a better software stack. If your servers are shared without containerization (which it sounds like they are), individual users should be jailed/chrooted such that their actions can never affect other users, and each user should have disk quota properly configured such that they can't fill the disk. Ideally everything writable should be in the homedir, meaning /tmp in the jail could be /home/..../tmp/ or something similar on the server.
Or perhaps use unprivileged LXC containers with everything set up and ready to go. Containerization ultimately leverages chroots (among other things), might as well isolate them properly.
Yeah, I agree with you... I think PulsedMedia are one of those providers that try to reduce overheads and cram more people onto the servers by just using regular shell accounts rather than any sort of containerization.
My pulsed media account has worked perfectly for my use case. I don't plan on doing anything retarded so i'm not worried.
@PulsedMedia always has been a shitty provider and a shitty character in general in my eyes.
Shit happen.
That's no excuse. If you tell users to "install apps yourself", don't blame them when they screw up or don't know what they're doing. You're just shifting your own incompetence onto someone else. It's just another way of saying, "you have to install/configure this app in a very specific way but I'm too lazy to do it for you. Good luck and pray I don't ban you for messing up."
Reading all of that reminds me BuyVM second guy, forgot his nickname.
Which charged 10 usd or like that (i do not remember. it was many years ago) for banning me. Literally.
The whole story were about lags / and awful network (which after years they officially confirmed and switched to something more stable).
Instead of helping resolving the problem - got ban, and charged for money.
Why do I wrote all of that?
Because by watching how the guy answering, i have almost zero doubts that the guy is the same as the second admin in BuyVM, forgot his name.
Same style, same formatting, same PMS passive-agressive answers. WEW.
Time go past, but some behavior not changed... Why need to be so aggressive and rude?(
Aldyric?
yea. I think yes.
I noticed rude behavior from A U from PulsedMedia from a seedbox I gor for a few months as well,
but that was a genuine issue... Spamming global syslog with your GBs of metadata is not a welcome behavior on a seedbox I guess?
You can say anything you want about PM, they're not known for being the nicest around, but buyVM, wtf happened?! Do you have a link to a thread about that incident? (if you opened one back then) BuyVM and Francisco have always been above perfect for a provider (except for their annoying fraud detection system when placing orders).
Well let me tell you, they're surely not. Where the hell do you get that confidence and "almost zero doubt" from? A U from PM has nothing to do with BuyVM.
@afn it was bad cop good cop situation in those years. Aldryic C'boas was a bad cop. Nothing to be upset or agument about after so many years
not upset, just curious (which is why I asked if they happened to open a thread back then)
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Fran was always smart, calm, nice guy. Aldryic on the other hand was a company watchdog. Not always nice, friendly and so on.
It was just a role, nothing personal. Unless you ask Maounique. This guy have a memory of an elephant. Then it gets personal
Fran, Aldryic, Karen, …
They were just roles.
BuyVM is operated by an AI that is designed to maximize profits.
There are no humans behind the operation.
This shouldn't be possible to do.
We're all just roles in a large simulation anyway 🤷
Yet again, we have met the son of anton branches... Where this will end?
It's a very polarizing subject. It looks to me by looking at this thread and others that people either love PM or hate it, not much in between. What is in your opinion the best alternative to PM at this price point?
I dunno, my opinion is almost neutral. PM is fine for its price point, and I think those who want a higher quality service should pay for that privilege. People are always going to complain about cheap services, and while those complaints are nice to know and are genuine complaints, a certain amount of it kind of just comes with the territory.
But I don't love them, I just think they're fine. I don't have any of their services currently, though I have in the past.
A lot of the providers named in this thread (Whatbox, Ultra) will give you higher quality service and support at an appropriately higher price.
Options at this price point? Not really much in the realm of seedboxes, PM is the cheapest that I know of. To get that price elsewhere you'd have to grab a storage VPS or similar and set up all the seedbox logistics yourself (And hope your provider is okay with it, or mask your activities somehow if you feel it necessary)
There's not really anything better at this price point if you need a provider that allows publics + gives so much bandwidth (transit is expensive, especially if you want good peering!) You could use a storage VPS but most of the time you will be suspended for I/O abuse, or just run out of bandwidth. Storage VPS are designed for backups, seedboxes for constant I/O. You could look at seedbox.io, whatbox, ultra.cc, etc but they will all be more expensive and often will be stricter about the bandwidth you'll be allowed to use, and none of them allow the use of public trackers. People are just extremely entitled and expect the world from a $4/m seedbox, I've had a slot for a while and it works perfectly fine. Some things could be better, but for the price I have 0 reason to complain.
This is worst experience that i've ever had (i manage toxic communities, and i know how bad things can be, but this case were surpricely much worst).
Francisco after around as far as I remember few years chat with me, and we resolved all of the issues.
My post above, not about current situation in BuyVM, but about that some shit happened in the same manner like PulseMedia treat customers long time ago with BuyVM second guy, and this is awful experience, and should not be like that. Need to chat / answer with people gently and respect, and not searching for abusers / enemies everywhere and treat customers as a trash, or resource.
Not exactly impressive customer care from PulsedMedia.
There are serious problems with pulsedmedia, such as poor customer service, rude suspensions and even deletion of accounts, you are not the first nor the last to have such a bad shopping experience. Give up pulsedmedia.
Are you are the one acting rude towards them? Their service is very cheap and you still complain ?
So you are saying that we can't be rude towards them because their service is very cheap? The OP of this had their account deleted and suspended. He got bad customer service that wouldn't help him and terminated his account. They claimed he didn't want to work with them to fix error. That was not the case.
I haven't seen any tickets from him, not even a single screenshot. So not really sure what happened. Going to just assume as an average entitled user.
Before you assume anything, scroll up and go through the full discussion and also check the review section for this particular provider.