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I would be willing to sign off on that, the potassium is premium indeed. Not your typical LET pricing, but it's definitely good value. There are a lot of locations, and I'm only on Sydney.
Here's a bench.sh as it stands right now:
@dahartigan Love those APAC speeds. Their pricing probably isn't going to resonate with the low end market but if the currency is in AUD I think they will sell like hot cakes.
This is higher-end low-end, mid-range pricing. Premium enough to not be oversold, affordable enough to buy.
Fair enough. You do have to increase pricing a bit act as a firewall filtering malicious users.
Premium is premium for a reason :-) The catch is premium must be something better, even if it's just exclusivity or a brand.
Sustainable pricing is important. Don't get me wrong, I love a great cheap deal like the next LETer but some projects require the good silverware, the good exothermic potassium, so to speak.
Are we dealing with exothermic potassium here? Possibly, I haven't exposed it to water yet...
It would certainly be a fair analysis that our packages come at slightly more of a premium. However as dahar has accurately pointed out this is because we are providing a more reliable service without relying on over-selling machines.
We've been around a long time and plan to be around even longer - sustainable pricing is essential for this.
With this particular offer, we're giving the chance for anybody with a prominent website or a frequent poster on LET the chance for a free VPS that is of the highest quality. The only thing better than a cheap VPS is a free enterprise grade VPS.
Well, that is most certainly a model I can agree with. Pay peanuts, expect monkeys is what I observe happening most of the time, so please continue the sustainable model!
However, I think the free premium potassium VPS for links isn't a very good idea unless accompanied by quality content. Google doesn't seem to bother too much about link quantity and may even penalise if they detect link trading.
As @deank rightfully pointed out somewhere (I can't remember where), you want word-of-mouth from people, which naturally translates into better SEO over time (and you don't have to spend time and money scheming about it) as you receive constant flow of high quality writings endorsing your service by many people who enjoy your service.
Being an active participant on the popular forums is a much better way to improve sales without having to do link trading (make that a bonus). Google means little to me compared to say @dahartigan's honest words about his experience with your services. I would say let that link part come naturally (it seems to me that some people on the forum were a bit put off by that pitch even though you probably don't mean it in any nefarious way). Perhaps you can reach out to opinion leaders on hosting forums or ask your existing supporters to suggest other opinion leaders to give a free VPS to.
I don't mean to be overbearing but I trust @dahartigan's words so I don't want an excellent provider to shot himself in the foot unnecessarily.
The first change I'd make is stop using "we". Just say "I".
Should have put out a banging deal on Black Friday.
Self-labeled "opinion leaders" wont change the tide around here.
Prophecies from self-banging scolds.
Fantastic smart marketing operation, I wish you all the success you deserve!
Indeed, I hope that my request for my community with its 320,884 members will catch your attention
Thanks everyone for the kind words & suggestions. We look forward to working with those of you who have applied!
I applied for this VPS deal either the day of or the next day of the OP and it's a legit deal! I haven't had any issues with the connectivity or anything whatsoever.
There's absolutely no question that this is a legit deal, and quite generous too I think. I noticed that this has been posted before, so it's been an ongoing campaign for a while now. I'd encourage anyone who qualifies to reach out to them.
I'm planning to do something for the LET community shortly with the VPS I have been sponsored to give something for December
Mind running your latest favourite script on this (the benchmonster speedtest)? I am curious about how it compares with your SmartHost plex vps.
Good thinking 99, I'll report back when it's finished
Not sure what is with those network results though, it seems awfully slow. Perhaps there's some network congestion or something. You can see in my earlier bench.sh what the speed should look like.
@poisson
emailed. lets see what they have.
Ok I applied for a free VPS yesterday and they were very quick to reply. Even though I don't qualify because I dont have a website but I have plan to make one in near future. I explained my use case and plan to them and they were kind enough to give me Developer VPS free.
Very excited to put it to good use soon.
That's pretty awesome :-)
I am not getting the multicore Geekbench score too. It should be much higher than a single core considering there are 3.
I could probably try running it again later, after a reboot or something maybe. Would be curious to see if @alilet could test on his VPS?
Here's my 2 core, 2GB, London VPS bench. Everything is perfect except the network. Tagging @EvolutionHost as he may need to tweak some setting.
WTF is going on with that network lol, different datacenters apparently, that's a strange one. Let me know how the ticket goes (PM me if you wanna compare notes..)
Hey,
I'll definitely have our tech team check that out.
To get a true representation of the network speed maybe try downloading a 1GB test file with wget
Could this be result of getting DDOS? You also provide game server hosting which is a magnet for DDOS.
Did 1GB file download test and it was FAST!
@dahartigan , @alilet https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3035696/#Comment_3035696
It's definitely just an anomaly with the speed test. That's a relief..
The cores still don't make sense