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If it's a NAT VPS you basically pay for an additional IP.
It’s not. It has a ipv4 included.
What the hell... this is definitely not a usual practice. 80/443 should never be blocked, and most unblock 25 after proper justification.
https://virmach.com/terms-conditions/#tab2
LOL @ "$25 Administration Fees".
I wouldn't touch such provider with a ten-foot pole.
There's no mention of charging to open ports here - or my eyes aren't working
Or does it just come under "Admin fees"
@Astro you got a screen/paste of them wanting to charge you?
My understanding is that current customers will not be charged any fees to have open port 80/443.
no should be included
Maybe a way to mitigate potential abuse on all those idle boxes with mail relays and wordpresses
with weak/default passwords from copy+pasted tutorials
https://ibb.co/1fhkKzz
The provider should not set up the firewalls blocking ports. If they do, then they should open the ports on receiving tickets without extra charges. If they charge for this, you should look for another provider.
Maybe Virmach is finally opening up a China location and the $5 would cover the admin fee for reviewing ICP recordals 😆
lol
And now imagine that you're not from LET but ordinary customer who purchased vps from this random hosting company just to find out that basic functionality is crippled and you can't host a website without additional payment
Now pay to unblock ssh port.
Then another for udp 53.. and so on..
If they're charging fees to open port 80 or 443, then shame on them. If they're charging fees to open port 25, that's fine.
I can't believe it's true, but virmach offers powerful hardware at a bargain price
Dont give them ideas
You mean bargain price excl. funny fees.
what in the actual summerhost we got going on here....
the end is nigh.
yoursunny summer host will never charge for opening ports on our IPv9 service, because IPv9 doesn't have the concept of ports to begin with.
Instead of ports, you just use a different address for each service.
It's same as telephone: you dial a different extension number for each desk.
To deal with VirMach, customers can download cloudflared to host websites via Argo Tunnel.
The web server makes outgoing connections to Cloudflare network, authenticated via certificates.
This requires neither an open port nor a public IP address.
How would one access the machine then
Console all the way!
If virmach decided to gatekeep even most basic functionality, we're doomed then.
@VirMach said he wanted to fly to each location and personally fix the servers.
Plane tickets aren’t free.
Business class is approximately 1/4 of your userbase worth of opening port 443, I reckon.
Understandable, Touching someone with a ten-foot pole might be hard. especially if the pole is made of metal and is thick. Could be heavy and not worth the effort when you can easily touch them using your hands.
Is it even true ?
I believe this host has tons of customers .
He also has a lot of flights.
Never seen that, though I've definitely seen a ticket required to open port 25. But, TBH, I don't hate the idea, if it means that the IP range will be cleaner from fewer spammers and clueless people who opened relaying.
That's ridiculous.
I don't think I've ever seen a provider charge to unblock 80 and 443.
What is it even supposed to achieve?
If it's to combat spammers/fraudsters, they'll just run HTTP servers on different ports and put the port in their links.
Unless they want everyone to use CloudFlare?