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ikoula limits panel requests on their dedicated servers for total only 15 per month
they includes reboot/netboot/netdiag/reset requests, totally only 15 are allowed per month
it is sick to know that they include "reboot requests" in the above list
hard reboot is just a basic operation when you server encounter errors/faults
it should be exclude out of the list
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lol
What do they charge for an additional reboot? One baguette?
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How many times do you need to reboot your server exactly?
Most of my uptimes are at 200+ days...
Did you ever troubleshoot issues on your server? Seems to be a no.
KS-LE has been reinstalled and reconfigured easily 10 times before I put it into prod.
Guess Im using mine for different purposes then. Maybe a few reinstalls at first but that's about it.
Your reboots have been doubled
I think we can all agree that we can forgive @Ikoula for this shitty restriction if they do another 50% recurring promotion
Considering how slow the shite panel is when doing reboots/reinstalls you're probably not worse off with this new rule
I second that !!!
I pretty much stay away from any provider that charges for reboots. That's overdoing it IMHO.
If you're hitting these limits, you might be a bad customer.
Power Reboot cost stress to disk
if you do reboots, smart log of disk will show its total.
What happen if a client get the server with the disk after you cancel.
Sure they come to LET to show the smart result with 1000s of power cycle
To be fair, if there is no KVM/IPMI they might be charging it since a tech may have to manually do those operations or something.
this is the normal loss, the custom paid for it
they dont give you any more chance to reboot or do anything else
the customer need issue a ticket to "beg for extra reboots",and in most cases, customers are refused to be given any more chances till next billing period
that is why it is sick
that's terrible. they should have at least charge something beyond 15 free reboots
I once didn't put RAM in well enough and after a couple of hours running unattended, the system crashed and started doing boot loops trying to restart itself. Power cycled a disk about 600 times in 12 hours before I had caught this.
Guess what happened?
Nothing. This is not a metric you should care about unless it's in the hundreds of thousands or something.
while true; do hdparm -Y /dev/sda; sleep 30; touch /root/fuckit; sleep 30; done
@minlearn user wont pay service to keep down.
Provider have rights to safeguard their hardware.
Even you colocate we care on power usage and hardware . None wish to abuse
When I recall it correctly, a reinstall of my Pi4 took easily 2-3 hours sometimes.
My guess, the imageserver or whatever they use, is/was overloaded.
It sounds like they don't want to throw money at the problem, rather they just add a simple limit for each server.
They may as well disable the panel altogether.
"Your server is working as long as you have SSH."
"It's your fault that you broke SSH."
"There's nothing I can do, it's Virtualizor bug!"
But what is the use case where this is actually a problem? Seriously, if you need 15 panel actions a month, you're definitely doing something wrong.
For your physical computer, how often are you physically pressing the "power" and "reset" buttons per month? Now, the server is 24/7 and doesn't sleep or need to be turned off at the end of the day and turned back on in the morning. You turn it on and leave it on.
The only reason I can think of is that you'd be hard locking up a server this much is if you were testing exploits on it.
So I ask again, what the fuck are you doing where 15 in a month is a limit you would reach?
He's testing cloning a machine. He's troubleshooting UAE's in Windows. He's building a new kernel module. He's trialing different variants of BSD to see which one he likes. Who cares?
I can understand if you're worried about the power button but the reset button doesn't power down any hardware. Who cares how many times you press it? I press mine randomly on my PC just so it doesn't forget who's in charge.
sounds so boomer-ish.
Nobody offers a blanket "do whatever the fuck you want" service and that's the point of ToS and company policies. IKoula obviously implemented this for a reason. There's several people above who suggest they're resource bottlenecked.
It hasn't been established whether this is human labour or not. If it is, 15 is excessive and IKoula doesn't want your business if you require more for whatever silly use case argument.
Can you give a scenario where a bad customer would require this? Genuinely interested, a valid one would change my opinion on my previous comment> @TimboJones said:
Development testing where you wipe the machine to test a different os for your app etc. Not saying there aren't others ways to probably get around this but I suppose it all depends on other factors like if one is able to run nested virtualization etc.
And of course this probably is not the usage for the majority of users but something I could see myself doing at some points.
15 reboots is about half the days in a lunar cycle. What the fuck do you need more reboots for with a dedicated machine? Use a virtual machine bruh. With raspberries I can imagine the SDcards wear with reinstalls and hard reboots for HDD, fans gives nice peak power consumption.
I bet @dane_doherty abused the fuck out of it and caused a mass grave of raspberries and smoking PDUs.
They use 16GB sdcards worth like 3$ each
15 reboots does sound silly under normal circumstances, but lol manual reboots.