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Any opinions about lifetime VPS from Silicom
I stumbled upon this offer: https://silicomnetwork.com/lifetime-shared-hosting/
I usually do not love lifetime deals since it gives huge incentives for an exit scam.
Any outage data/experience with the host?
thx
Lifetime Silicom VPS
- Should I get it?86 votes
- yes18.60%
- no81.40%
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while that is not a VPS I'd say $12 would be fine if you could get 3-4 years of use out of it. question is - do you think you can get that much from that company?
How about a similar lifetime deal from our very own @MikePT?
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/188668/birthday-offer-lifetime-offers-shared-reseller-directadmin-de-sg-la-at/p1
maybe i can self plug this
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/175697/lifetime-myw-bf-deal-shared-hosting#latest
shared hosting is still running fine, api shows otherwise because api got ddosses.... -.-
All good here!
Not believing anything in lifetime product, it is just illogical.
Hello, is a shared hosting, not vps.
We have been offering services for more than 25 years, you can verify with archive.org
Okay, this is some big d energy.
I already have a oracle vps running for testing my torrent archive project. > @szymonp said:
I already have some oracle vps running, for the beginning of my hobby project (https://github.com/UnrelatedWorks/suitcase) I don‘t really need storage. I want to find out how many peers are necessary to still retrieve your suitcase.
sry, my fault. I looked at the capabilities of the German data centres and they mentioned vps and not shared hosting. So logically I assumed it’s a VPS with some addons on top.
That‘s a first good sign, but name and domain aren‘t everything. You cannot grantee that the company will be bought out.
You don’t have any disclosures of where your company is located, what the regulatory body is, who your spokesperson for GDPR request are etc…
Owncube has been around for 12 years and they have an uptime of 54.080% (insane!) the last 7 days. I almost went for a lifetime subscription there.
What about doing a 3 year plan for 5$ ?
Lifetime deals, are unsustainable from a company perspective, hence why Telegram finally went to actually "making money/profit". So eventually they will either scam and exit, or fold because they can't afford it anymore, or just start charging and either you leave or pay.
Usually, lifetime deals are used as an incentive to get market share, then it goes to paid and company says they can't afford it anymore. Be weary of the deal, only put something there you can afford to loose.
yes, thank you for confirming my doubts.
It's been quite a while since this thread is dead. So I bump the question again, shall we buy the Lifetime deals from Silicom? I once bought such deal and the company vanished in a year and I lost all the data. Plus, the speed was extremely slow most of the times and the company had the excuse of saying "Its a shared environment". SEO ranking of the websites hosted for my clients were badly impacted with the speed and downtime.
Seriously... For personal use i can even almost understand how such deals could have a certain appeal but for business use?? In an ideal world that would automatically make the person buying it responsible for any kind of problem that arises due to this crazyness because of gross negligence...
It's that horrible of an idea. Unless the person reselling those is basically doing unpaid charity work passing on such a setup is basically offensive and even then it's still pretty low to cheap out on something that's almost free anyways.
https://lowendbox.com/blog/gettings-started-with-directadmin-on-silicom-network-part-1-signup-and-setup/
https://lowendbox.com/blog/gettings-started-with-directadmin-on-silicom-network-part-2-wordpress-installed/
@silicomnet
Hello, is a shared hosting, not vps.
Dejavu moment?
it’s for personal use
Hello, is it a good deal or a scam?
coming back almost a year later, that's some dedication.
good deal buy it now
If you can get 5 years out of it, then it would be a good deal.
yeah that's always the problem with such deals. You can basically gurantee that it won't be "lifetime".
FYI: still haven't bought it.
There's a 100-year CD account paying 4.75% fixed annual interest.
If the hosting account normally costs $30/year, we can totally sell a lifetime package for $1000/once and use the interest income to cover the hosting cost.
When the 100-year CD matures, we are dead and so is the customer.
I bought a dirt cheap yearly hosting from Silicom and have had it multiple years. The uptime monitors I have report that it goes down almost daily.
Depending on your use case, that may be fine, but I wouldn't use it for anything available to the public where you remotely care about uptime.
Recent Uptime
02nd Aug 2024 97.6%
01st Aug 2024 100%
31st Jul 2024 99.18%
30th Jul 2024 98.79%
29th Jul 2024 98.83%
28th Jul 2024 100%
27th Jul 2024 99.17%
26th Jul 2024 100%
25th Jul 2024 98.36%
Server name? We monitor 24x7 servers. Check your site usage. Limit of shared hosting is 1 vcpu/1 gb ram. If you exceed the cloudlinux or cgroup limit, the site stops working.
Also some monitoring systems may give false positives because they are blocked by the firewall.
If you want to move your site to another server contact support.
I doubt it's just one server that's causing problems. Why would the firewall be blocking simple https request?
Do you offer a refund if the system stops working before my lifetime?
Something like CSF by default rate limits ICMP requests so if it is a ping monitor then it can often result in a false positive.
Our firewall blocks many "simple" requests, often because that IP address is making many simple HTTPS requests to different IP addresses
We had dealing with this guy as a customer.
Bought a service, creates payments disputes but in other threads here states that they will report people to fraud record for the exact behaviour he has shown.
Maybe need to be very careful