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6x8TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD + 2x480G NVMe + 2.5Gbps Unmetered DEDICATED SERVER PRESALE! || Pulsed Media
PulsedMedia
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Pulsed Media MD Series; Storage Node Presale!
We are just building these now, coming to market shortly. This is for presale of limited number of initial nodes at a discount!
All the crucial hardware in stock, we are just finishing the engineering and testing for these units. This will take approximately 2 months at most, so all nodes should be delivered by 01/06/2025
We want to thank the community and offer a presale with heavy discounts to LET community and to see how these nodes behave!
Specs
Node 1
- CPU: Intel N100 4c/4t 3.40Ghz
- RAM: 16GB DDR5
- STORAGE, OS: 2x480GB NVMe RAID1
- STORAGE, BULK: 6x8TB 7200rpm SATA HDD
- NETWORK: 2.5Gbps Fair-Share Unmetered (w/ dedicated upgrade option!)
Price: 69.97€ Per Month, 59.97€/Mo paid quarterly, 49.97€/Mo paid annually.
Number available: 8
Node 2
- CPU: Intel N100 4c/4t 3.40Ghz
- RAM: 16GB DDR5
- STORAGE, OS: 2x480GB NVMe RAID1
- STORAGE, BULK: 6x12TB 7200rpm SATA HDD
- NETWORK: 2.5Gbps Fair-Share Unmetered (w/ dedicated upgrade option!)
Price: 99.97€ Per Month, 84.97€/Mo paid quarterly, 74.97€/Mo paid annually.
Number available: 2
Networking
2.5Gbps Fair Share means that we recommend sticking to about 50TB a month, but are not hard capped but soft cap; If there is issues on that cluster with congestion, or that network segment, then heaviest users will be capped, or told to upgrade or something. It's a manual and soft.
We also look at your whole fleet, if one of your nodes is using 200TB a month, but others sit idle. etc etc.
You can very cost effectively upgrade to Enhanced Fair-Use (~200TB) 12.99€/Month or Dedicated 2.5Gbps Port (No Limits Ever!) 39.97€&Month
All servers come with 1x IPv4 address, and no IPv6 (use tunnel). No addon IPs will be available.
Software Distros etc.
We are currently working, so base delivery as Debian 11 only right now. With these it's a bit special config so we might finally get proof of concept level templating out of the door for these (rather than deal with preseed configs etc.!).
Reboots, reinstalls only through ticketing right now.
Datacenter
These are housed in our own Helsinki Datacenter and on our own network. No, this is not Hetzner or anyone else. We run and operate our own Datacenter and network.
Refund Policy
Unlike normal dedis, this is presale so rules are better;
90days: Before delivery full refund back using the same payment method (Paypal. Crypto refunds not available, only credit when paid with crypto) OR credit your choice.
After delivery: If no fatal node issues (server works fine at expected level) None like other dedis, if it turns out this config sucks then 30 days refund to credit.
Delivery
Estimate by June 1st, 2025.
If delayed further than July 1st, 2025 we will add additional 50% extra service time once delivered (ie. if delayed by 2 months we add 3 months)
No payment for waiting period naturally, ignore if renewal invoices before delivery.
MD Series?
Discussion and original thread: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/184789/pulsed-media-miniservers-transcoding-servers-streaming-servers-nvme-1g-unmetered-from-29-99/p1
All MD Series nodes currently available: https://pulsedmedia.com/minidedi-dedicated-servers-finland.php
Extra Info
- Very Strong Privacy Policy
- Terms Of Service
- Datacenter Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Some latency metrics: 20ms DECIX, 36ms OVH, 38ms Online, 0.4-0.6ms Cloudflare, 31ms Leaseweb, 36ms Redstation (UK), 23ms Hetzner (DE), 23ms Serverloft/PlusServer
Payment methods
- Paypal
- Crypto (BTC, LTC, XMR, ETH, DOGE and many others.)
Why Choose Pulsed Media?
- Experience: Over a decade in the industry, providing smooth and reliable services.
- Happy Customers: Many have stayed with us for 5+ years, some even for over a decade!
Testimonials: Check out what our satisfied customers had to say below:
- "You run a magnificent service with a truly impressive uptime. I really appreciate the effort you put in to keeping alt this running and responding to tickets quickly." -R.L. / GB
- "Just wanted to say the new box seems pretty nice. Definitely a very noticeable improvement when I went to check it out for the first time today. Thanks!" -D.H. / USA
- "Just wanted to give positive feedback on the migration, it went as you communicated and I had limited downtime, now having much better performance. Well done guys !" -M.P. / Belgium
- "Thank you for the great no-nonsense service." -Anton V / India
- "Wow.. Congratulations...! That's a huge achievement and I am glad to hear that you are getting the word out there. The longevity of your service to your 12th year anniversary is a testament to the great services that is provided. Congratulations!" -Steven T. / Australia
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Comments
fair share unmetered = 50TB
damn almost checked out
altho €12.99 for 200TB aint bad ngl
fuck it i took one
recommended, some use 200TB but that segment happens to have no other heavy users so they got lucky. It's soft, not hard cap.
So the less others use, the more one can the one who needs it use.
Forgot to mention, due to how our bonus storage works for Seedboxes / Storage boxes, these count to that too!
This decision took you 4 minutes
This is a very weird choice. EOL on debian 11 was 7 months ago, EOL on debian 11 LTS is in a year and a half. Not great for security. What's stopping you from upgrading to debian 12?
You own your own datacenter, implement IPv6
it was already in my cart!
ditto. i know theyve had issues with templates/dont offer ISO but by 1 June you guys have to at least be offering Debian 12 so i can throw proxmox on this because dist upgrade is lmao
Just do dist upgrade. On the backend for these we still use noc-ps, and they still haven't released Deb12 stuff, so firmware is from Deb11 and some users report issues ...
We are working on replacing it all, but it takes time.
Doing dist-upgrade gives you the same end result ...
Regardless, direct Deb12 installs users report errors way too often, when dist-upgrade is 0 ...
We don't want to waste time with noc-ps and all the shenanigans etc. when we have clear path forward and know exactly how the system will be built. Any time spent now on wrestling noc-ps for ubuntu, centos, latest debian etc. is dev resources robbed from elsewhere, and it's a bottomless pit of wasted resources.
The less we waste resources, the faster we can bring an actually good solution (or these kind of new HW configs)
Small business woes tho, if we were large and could employ 10 people just to work on the preseeds on noc-ps, it wouldn't matter. But we are a small business and don't have 10 people working just on preseed/kickstart files.
Let's just say the way we plan to make these work eventually will be very efficient.
can i change billing cycle on delivery? i didnt feel like shelling out 900EUR months ahead
yes, just open a ticket and request it to be changed.
can i custom to 14 core cpu?
No.
We will add more models over time tho, so keep an eye open for new models.
Before someone claims IPv6 is unimportant for a seedbox -
In past 2 weeks, our private tracker seedbox has these traffic stats:
We can have these stats because the server is IPv6-only, while internal (connection to our house) and IPv4 are over tunnels.
We saw many IPv6 peers in qBittorrent, increasing our ratios.
Thanks for proving the point.
You did almost everything you could to favor IPv6, and it still loses out significantly.
You can use IPv6 tunnel if you want, and get IPv6 access. No one stops you from doing that.
Also this presale is not about seedboxes, it's a dedi. You can config whatever you want, we just won't supply you a /56 IPv6 subnet you can use to kill the whole switch and whole network segment because you want new IPv6 address for each new connection
(that's actually a real life scenario a fellow hosting company went through, causing significant downtime for their other customers, significant headache)
Dual-stack is the future.
When it makes business sense.
Waiting for that moment now 2+ decades.
It's easy enough to setup a tunnel, and that might be the way we roll it out on MD units to avoid all the caveats causing service disruption on hosting environments when straight to switches (exhausting lookup tables etc.).
Imagine if very expensive high end switches have trouble causing full rack downtimes when people use lots of IPv6 addresses ... imagine how the situation is when you aggregate 250 dedicated servers to single one ... When others report issues just having a few virtualization servers (1 rack, 4U nodes ...) ...
It's guaranteed downtime essentially, for what is 0.5-1.0% of traffic which could have traversed through IPv4 too. Since everyone needs IPv4 access.
Those very few who actually need IPv6 can setup a tunnel, trivial and fast. It is just the loud minority shouting on top of their lungs, just like certain other colorful groups.
Will you consider creating About 10-20 tb of vps Options?
Sounds like a you problem if you cannot properly deploy v6. At least just admit that, "I don't care enough, deal with it" rather than making it sound like v6 or the customers that want that are the issues.
I can't believe we need to say this, but a tunnel is not as same as a native connection. Imagine I start offering v6-only machines and said customers "oh, want v4? Just tunnel it bro, I am pro-v6 so I won't even offer v4"
We did nothing to favor IPv6.
qBittorrent runs in an LXC container that has both IPv4 and IPv6 on the same interface for MTU 1420.
The outer KVM machine is IPv6 only with IPv4 over tunnels, but it's not seen from qBittorrent.
This cannot happen with proper routed IPv6 setup.
For each customer server, the switch has 1 static route and 1 neighbor entry, regardless of how many addresses are in use.
Added extra info missing from the original post
Extra Extra Info
PulsedMedia has no money to fund these up front, so we're asking users to pay now so we can get the money to go to China and scrape the bottom of the barrel for the ewaste we use to build our servers. We need two months because we put the stuff on a boat and sail it back to Finland.
Datashed
The building we call the PulsedMedia datacenter is a shed with the door closed, along with portable AC cooling purchased from the local discount store. It has no brand, and might die at any time, but it works for now
Network
We give you a big server with lots of storage for torrenting (We are a seedbox, sorry, "Application hosting" provider after all) but we will cap yo azz as soon as you, or someone else on any one of the daisy chained switches you are on tries to use the service you've paid for.
Refund Policy
If you ask for a refund, our sales rep (who is also the owner, and netadmin, and sysadmin, and finance person) will call you a whiny b^%$# on our discord and make fun of you to the 5 other people on our discord server, and then go on long rants about why trying to serve the discount crowd is no longer part of PulsedMedia strategy, until we start a new sale thread on LET in two weeks time. If you use PayPal, we will not cancel the auto payment PayPal makes after we delete your PulsedMedia account, and will continue to take your money and claim it is not possible to see the payments you made to us, because it's too much work for us, so we will claim ignorance and use your money to buy beer.
Weak Privacy Policy
We will not honor our privacy policy and will not delete your account or anonymise your data when you request us to, unless you piss us off, then we will nuke your account without asking you.
Security Policy
We use end of life operating systems ONLY. Our severs are more wide open than Lily after her 100 person g@#gbang
Testimonials
Our testimonials are from users who were given free services, 5 years ago, so they're no longer with us and we nuked their accounts when they complained the price was too high after the free period expired
IPv6 Policy
We don't believe in IPv6. We will give you IPv4+
Can I ask what boards/machines you're using for this? I assume it's similar to my N100 NAS at home, just curious what box you've got where you can break out all the lanes for a SATA card, 2 NVMe's and the NIC.
No.
We currently offer no VPS at all, and none of MD series in that storage range, no current plans. This might change in future, but i have no ETA whatsoever.
@bkj and @yoursunny
You guys are talking about theory, while we operate actual infrastructure. This thing changes completely when you deal with the infrastructure. The example cited comes directly from a fellow hosting provider’s live operations (someone I personally know who runs a large network), experienced severe operational issues specifically due to IPv6 deployment.
Even transit providers at CTO level have directly instructed some of their clients to remove IPv6 from their infrastructure if they want stable operations. Real-world data and experience from the people who actually maintain large, operational networks matters far more than theoretical claims from vocal advocates who do not actually manage real production networks.
Our (my) job is to ensure network stability, reliability and cost-effectiveness; Maximizing value to our actual paying customers. The ROI simply is not there at this time.
@yoursunny your data is not neutral nor fully unbiased, but very likely having a strong bias. You have been a public IPv6 advocate for a long time with a ideological preference (censorship/anti-privacy arguments you made a long time ago -- which are completely the opposite of your public stance anti-censorship, pro-privacy).
It is very easy to bias traffic stats by just simply choosing torrents, networks, trackers etc. Just pick certain countries with CGNAT IPv4 + IPv6 native as common option ...
The example i provided about issues was from a well known VPS popular provider, i would not be surprised if either of you two might have even used their services.
More Importantly: Your argument is irrelevant for Pulsed Media's operational decisions. The reality on our user base is that demand for IPv6 remains extremely low, i think i've seen all of 2 tickets asking about it in the past year or two. Even some of our VPN provider customers simply stated about IPv6 "no problem, we'll just use a tunnel". They are an VPN service provider with nodes all across globe, and 2 different Finnish (at that point) Finnish providers alone ... And that was the ONLY VPN provider customer we have who even asked about it.
Ultimately, you are not responsible for running multiple datacenters, managing large scale live production environment nor maintaining business profitability.
There has been smaller providers asking from us transit offers as well, none of them has ever even asked about IPv6.
Another example; Just helped another datacenter from ground zero to production. Dedicated servers, colocation, VPS, even a Ceph cluster. Multiple redundancies, 2 separate transformers, UPS, super high end Chiller AC units (they were like north of 100k € for the large units if i understood correctly, then backup smaller unit). Guess how many IPv6 addresses do they have? Zero. Instead, they just acquired ~3000 IPv4 addresses. Why? Because these people have been running infrastructure operations for over 30 years, and understand IPv6’s real-world limitations and cost implications. This isn't ignorance or stubbornness; it's grounded pragmatic operational knowledge.
I personally used IPv6 when it was so fresh tunnels were your only option and just a few IRC servers supported it, i think it was a HE.net tunnel maybe? Probably late 90s.
When IPv6 becomes profitable and in-line with our core fundamentals (maximal value to end users, reliability) we'll support it. No sooner, no later. Right now it is way too marginal, and the very few who need it can use tunnels instead. It's not native, it's not direct, but it allows you IPv6 access.
Templates
Debian 12 partially works but has template issues; guaranteed future support but no exact ETA. Debian 11 is stable and immediately usable. Our priority is reliable hardware delivery first, software improvements later.
These need a bit of software work too, so hopefully the basic templating is ready enough by the time of delivery that Debian 12 is default and latest Ubuntu as an option.
Presale N100 Hardware
All hardware has already been bought and in inventory, the time needed is mostly for QA and finishing the design. Timeline is foremost for thorough real-world testing, qualification, final design verification, and ensuring reliability before deployment. We never ship untested, half-baked hardware to paying customers.
We did design this platform ourselves, custom hardware architecture entirely in-house ("mPlate" platform). We are in active expansion, the second datacenter is progressing. Electricians just completed wiring for first few racks, mains power hookup should happen very soon. First 100G DWDM Fiber link is installed by Elisa between Kerava and Helsinki, and first 100G Transit direct to Kerava has already been agreed upon. New routers just arrived last week!
These are happening right now, no aspirations or dreams. We have invested significant amount of capital, time and care in our hardware designs. We keep on chasing maximal value, reliability and stability -- stability of operations is our #1 concern always, and bringing our customers the best possible value offering. Not chasing everything a few minority users want for, but do the features which makes pragmatic sense, which adds to reliability and value to our whole customer base, more than the cost of said features.
I'll post some photos shortly of the hardware straight out of the lab and some extra details.
Here is straight from the lab some sub-component assemblies, fan modules AND power interface / power monitoring. (Actually now that i look at the photos i realize that power meter model is already outdated and will be superceded shortly). https://imgur.com/a/2PhwRhB
N100 Storage Prototype Photos
Couple photos from the lab: https://imgur.com/a/1Xz3KfX
These are the first units, and as you can see we are still using adhesives for some components. Next mPlate base version will have screw mounts.
We use N100 mITX motherboards, see the above photos.
They have built-in board 6x SATA controller.
The actual magic is in our platform which can accept anything in the mITX sizing spec, cooling, power monitoring. the mobos itself are very typical NAS motherboards.
Check the photos i just posted: https://imgur.com/a/1Xz3KfX
50TB is really manageable. i have a vps from a reputable provider with a 10Gbit connection and 3.96 petabytes / year for 48 euros per year.
Kerava Datacenter Construction Photos
Here is a few photos: https://imgur.com/a/gymCbR9
Key highlights;
Hope that you will run some promotion on Seedbox!!
You need to update your site regarding traffic. I know you're too lazy to edit HTML written in 2009, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal.
https://pulsedmedia.com/minidedi-dedicated-servers-finland.php
http://pulsedmedia.com/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=346
Ahh, ok. I saw those when researching my build, I think the cwwk or topton(?) NAS boards.
I take it they've been working well? I wasn't able to get one in a reasonable amount of time or price here, so went with one of the Asrock N100 models for my personal build and a m.2 to 6x SATA adapter
mind to share which provider it is ? and which service you have with them ?