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Possible flaw in Media Temple's holiday blowout sale

wdqwdq Member
edited November 2012 in General

So I just checked Media Temple's website to check for any black Friday sales and I found that they are running a holiday hosting blowout sale. Essentially the sale is three free months of hosting for any of their (dv), (gs), or (ve) servers.

After a little bit of looking around I saw that the deal applies to even their larger 16GB VPS plans. Even more interesting is if you switch to a yearly plan and look back at the pricing you'll see that it's still $0.

So in other words you can get a 16GB VPS from Media Temple for $0 for your first year. Just make sure to cancel before the year is over and you'll be set.

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  • kamalnasserkamalnasser Member

    Yeah, too bad it requires a credit card =/

  • AmitzAmitz Member

    You surely informed them about this. Didn't you?

  • blackblack Member

    They're not going to honor $10,000 worth of hosting.

  • wdqwdq Member

    @Amitz I sent them a message on Twitter, but I'm still waiting for a reply.

  • gubbytegubbyte Member
    edited November 2012

    I don't want to accidentally leave a -$10k dent in my credit card.

    Edit: Tried it with invalid card details, surprisingly went through. I hope they don't disable it ;_;

    root@ve:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         17899          9      17890          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:          9      17890
Swap:            0          0          0
root@ve:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vzfs             477G   36M  477G   1% /
/dev/simfs            477G   36M  477G   1% /tmp
/dev/simfs            477G   36M  477G   1% /var/tmp
tmpfs                 8.8G     0  8.8G   0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                 8.8G     0  8.8G   0% /dev/shm
root@ve:~#
  • wdqwdq Member
    edited November 2012

    "It's 3 mos free so you're not getting charged today, but you will get charged for the yea after the 3 mos is up. *SC"

  • lele0108lele0108 Member

    Yup, took my fake CC details, activated my server.

    :3

  • kamalnasserkamalnasser Member

    Wait, fake CC details work?

  • gubbytegubbyte Member

    @kamalnasser said: Wait, fake CC details work?

    The ones I got from fakenamegenerator.com worked for me.

  • AsadAsad Member

    Interesting.. cheers @wdq

    Mediatemple are pretty shit though IMO. God damn hosting for hipsters.

  • gubbytegubbyte Member

    @wdq said:

    3 months is good enough!

  • KrisKris Member

    @kamalnasser said: Wait, fake CC details work?

    Probably just checks that the card using the Luhn algorithm, and in 3 months, they'll sort things out.

  • Dragoon0309Dragoon0309 Member

    I'm in for one!

  • KrisKris Member
    edited November 2012

    Used a real CC, I'd still try them for 3 months.

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    So you guys need hosting that you have no intention of paying for in 3 months...why?

  • KrisKris Member

    @jarland said: So you guys need hosting that you have no intention of paying for in 3 months...why?

    Why does a bear shit in the woods?

  • darknessendsdarknessends Member

    They holded on my order ! And I did it with a valid order actually.

  • unusedunused Member

    Shame on you guys.

  • DamianDamian Member

    I suppose it's only a matter of time before the "omfg they cancelled my order without notice!" or the "they want $10,000 now!" cries appear.

  • gameongameon Member

    I've used my card (real cc) , gonna try them out. Was anyways looking for a solid node for an upcoming project, if its worth the money will defnitly consider continuing

  • darknessendsdarknessends Member

    They are asking me a ID proof, did any of u guys were asked same for? ?

  • gubbytegubbyte Member
    edited November 2012

    @darknessends said: They are asking me a ID proof, did any of u guys were asked same for? ?

    Nope.

    root@ve:~# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null | bash
CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5620  @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores : 16
CPU frequency :  2400.144 MHz
Total amount of ram : 17899 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime :   2 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 16.3MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 19.7MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 14.8MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 5.91MB/s
Download speed from Linode, London, UK:
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 23.5MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 11.3MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 12.9MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 26.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 88.4MB/s
I/O speed :  258 MB/s
  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran
    edited November 2012

    @gubbyte said: Nope.

    Pretty decent network they've got. People take shots at them all the time because of their pricing, but if they can back it with good hardware on a good network, more power to them. Less clients at a higher price gives you more opportunity to build relationships with your clients.

  • wdqwdq Member

    http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/11/23/rzgZc5Eu19a3Jhv7

  • KrisKris Member

    @wdq said: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/11/23/rzgZc5Eu19a3Jhv7

    How long did activation take? Used a real address & CC and been around an hour.

  • darknessendsdarknessends Member

    Awesome !! Got one from them, I ll try for one more :)

  • gubbytegubbyte Member

    @Kris said: How long did activation take? Used a real address & CC and been around an hour.

    It took me eight minutes from signing up till the server got activated.

  • darknessendsdarknessends Member

    Kris, they sometimes flag users and asking them for IDs, I have sent mine, and asked the live support to provide me, they did it for me. Tell the live support, they ll ask u to verify. So verify yourself for them

  • wdqwdq Member

    @Kris

    I used my real address/CC and it took within ten minutes. No charges or anything yet. Once the setup finished I switched over to a fake card and removed my actual one.

  • darknessendsdarknessends Member

    E5620's with 16 cores - still 4000 unixbench ?? Fishy ?? aint it.

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