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The Delimiter Slot Hosting experience
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I have exactly the opposite opinion
Delimiter says they did try to give my Express return shipment to an Express driver. But I just called Fedex and they told me that Express return shipments have to be given to Ground drivers. What.
(Edit: Fedex may have been confused as usual. Will call again.)
Lol, you'll get your drive in early July with the way the whole situation is going
Assuming it doesn't get lost in the process
probably it might help if you send them another SHIPPINGLABEL ;-)
It's hilarious to see how jaded @MarkTurner has become lol!
Sometimes a big bump. ;D
I would just schedule a fedex pickup for your label, that will make sure it goes out as long as they can hand it to them.
For a while I've been wanting to try something like this slot hosting thing with some provider, but I don't really have much faith in delimiter for a variety of reasons, none of which I think need to be voiced. Would be neat if some other reputable company did something like slot hosting too.
Screw big, you mean fucking gigantic.
FedEx the driver just set a package beside the rural road 500 feet from the house. Last month I had a return that after two weeks of trying to get them to actually do the pickup they had scheduled. I finally drove to the nearest shipping location and dropped off. A 40-mile round trip thanks to their incompetence.
On the slot hosting, if anyone else tries it expect waaaay higher prices.
Eh, not really. Just an old server with plenty of SATA (unless Delimiter is using some other method)? I thought about doing something similar a while back but I'd hate to deal with the bandwidth usage.
You mean GhettoServer, right?
Guess what Delimiter has one block over?
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/55+Marietta+St,+Atlanta,+GA+30303/US+Post+Office,+41+Marietta+Street,+Atlanta,+GA+30303/@33.7554436,-84.3906833,19.25z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x88f503812aa3c1c5:0xb1b941ae2f1fcaa6!2m2!1d-84.391066!2d33.755807!1m5!1m1!1s0x88f50386d6c99365:0x3e696108a111c20f!2m2!1d-84.3907383!2d33.7554452!3e2
Well unless you're close to the DC you'll have to cover remote hands charges. Or if you're thinking of filling the server then sending it in to be racked there's shipping and racking charges. Then you'll have the fallout from all of the you received it today at 7pm why isn't it active now at 11pm you're a scam people.
I would hate to see the bandwidth usages with the backups I've seen mentioned.
If you want the drive picked up and dropped off at a FedEx location, might be worth it to post the pickup and drop-off job at some place like TaskRabbit to save time. Since you've invested X hours into it, balance it vs. what you think you're worth per hour.
Could be the best $20 ever spent to just get the drive back sans more drama.
"need a VERY MOTIVATED, PATIENT individual to flatter, cajole, and poke around until package is on hand"
Soon, you will be asking for a "Committed, motivated burglar to break into office block in Atlanta and steal HDD"
Odd, I had created a label for a server being shipped out of dacentec and scheduled a pick up. Dacentec had the server ready a day early and gave it to the driver that day prior with no issues. Don't recall who the pickup was (express vs ground) but the label was through ground.
I agree with your statement however LET rules on prices does limit what kind of services you can offer. Yes I use OVH but prices it cost to run a UK node i wouldnt be able to afford to advertise on LET. I was a member years ago on another account I forgot about and price rules are the same as they was back then.
I know the name LET says it all but limits options for people.
That would be a post office for US mail.
US Mail != FedEx
Not really. There are plenty of hosts offering service in the UK. In fact I recently got one that costs just £10/year for 512MB RAM, 30GB RAID10, IPv4, and 1Gbps port from a reputable provider.
Prices go down, not up. That excuse doesn't really work anymore unless you're looking for major profit in which case this really isn't the market for you.
Its very rare you see UK providers and at that kind of price with UK prices I cannot see how you can be makin money off that giving people 100% of their resources 99% of the time.
But again price rules are the same since 2008 worlds a different place now even known their is more competition.
Dont get me wrong there are UK providers that got me questioning should move to them for their prices but its just such an expensive place to do hosting.
I'm too lazy to read this all, can I get a tl;dr?
Op requested a slot hosting from delimiter.
Op sent hard drive to delimiter after pre-paying for 3 months.
Delimiter receives hard drive but doesn't respond to tickets.
Thread is started:
Mark Turner post customers information and blames customer for short falls.
Mark Turner gets banned for this and other dickish moves by Amitz.
Mikeyur pulls product off the website and won't be selling it anymore.
Mikeyur is taking the time to send the hard drive back to the customer.
Mikeyur tries to send the hard drive, but FedEX doesn't accept package due to it not being a grounds truck.
Op makes a terrible refrence that US Mail is the same as FedEX in an irrelevant post about a post office being next to delimiter.
That script would do a really good movie
I pointed at the USPS because if Delimiter took USPS labels in addition to Fedex/UPS, I would have had the drive returned (still hypothetically) with 2-day shipping for $14 instead of $37 :-) USPS does free pickups during scheduled mail delivery, but if that failed, they'd have the struggle of crossing the street.
You can take a flight, and drive the rest of the way to Delimiter and get your drive back?