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[LET's 2024 #1 TOP PROVIDER*] Free VPSes, Shirts, Hoodies, and Firearms! -- Final Yearly VPS Chance!
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Is it possible that not everyone is contacted yet? 🥲
It's 99.995% possible that no one is contacted yet.
Far better to do it right and do it well, wise choice in this situation! Carry on, test that baby until you are 100% happy, and don't worry about impatient people. A periodic update is all that is needed!
Rigorous.
FAT32 WE LOVE YOU!
I don't mind waiting at all and I'd rather you guys do what is best to keep everything up and running. I just wanted to check and see if it was worth waiting before I move my things over from my old provider since I have until the 27th. I didn't intend to come across as impatient, I just wanted to know if PA would be ready and if not then I would have moved to WA for the time being.
PA is eastern front
WA is western front
No, you didn't come across that way at all. At least not to me (and didn't intend to imply that, btw)--was just giving an update and mass quoting anyone that had asked/replied.
We're looking on track to send out the notifications this evening, and then we can continue with the prize winner contact plan.
Yeah no I didn't think you meant that, I just don't want to seem impatient especially since you guys have other things to deal with and I am more than happy to wait. If PA wasn't going to be available before the 27th then I would have transferred everything over to WA but I might as well wait if PA is going to be ready before then. This saves me from having to change things and it also saves you guys from having to transfer my data between data centres (not sure how complicated that is but I imagine it would be easier to do a quick swap from WA to PA instead of having to do a data transfer).
Anyway, I appreciate the clarification and all of the hard work that you guys do to offer these services to us LET users.
@FAT32 WE LOVE YOU!
It's ready
See below for copy of e-mail that should be slowly working it's way out to everyone.
Dear LET,
Friendly Greetings! We have exciting news for you regarding your Yearly SSD VPS plan. We're offering you the opportunity to physically relocate your VPS to our new Allentown, PA location (Looking Glass) if it better serves your needs.
Here's what you need to know:
To proceed with the relocation process, please visit this guide for detailed steps on how to request the relocation. If you do not wish to relocate, ignore this message and continue happily using your VPS
We're here to assist you as needed. If you have any questions or need further assistance, don't hesitate to reach out to our support team via the ticketing system or via #help in our Discord.
Thank you for choosing us as your hosting provider, we really do appreciate your business.
Best,
Crunchbits Staff
Tempting to relocate, yet I'm a bit hesitating. If everyone goes out for a walk, wouldn't it be empty back in WA?
Nah, there are a lot of them in WA and majority likely want the West coast for a specific reason. I just know there were some people on the fence and being able to be on the Eastern US was a much better fit for them. We won't continue building this product out due to the concerns outlined in a previous post, so it was a way to get people in and put them where they want to be while also allowing me to get a bit of a gauge on demand.
@crunchbits, I requested moving on Jan 16th, and it's been "on hold" since,
Ticket #PYS-662578, do I have to open another ticket as described in your email?
No, just reply with the message from the wiki to the same ticket to make sure everything is understood/covered.
Yay! Allentown was a lot better for me, totally excited for the move. Thanks!
Stupid question from a VPS newbie, hopefully valuable for others too.
I managed in the past few weeks to get Debian set up and a control panel installed, and a complex forum community installed on top of that, and it is somehow(!) working perfectly.
It appears that my hope that the "backup slot" on WA would be restorable to PA either by Crunchbits or me was misplaced.
So it's fresh install of Debian in PA, add the control panel from scratch, then try to restore forum software and data from a backup I first download to my own PC? Or stick with WA to be safe? Or do I misunderstand what "data loss" means in this context?
It's a good question, I expected some edge-cases along these lines. The long version:
The backup slots are local to the datacenter you're in (using an internal non-public network). Those are specifically more of a "oh crap I messed that up, let me restore from yesterday" type of snapshot. If you messed something up 4 weeks ago and didn't realize it while taking daily snapshots, your snapshot will also be useless. Definitely not a disaster recovery plan or solution. You should still be backing your VPS up elsewhere/by other means without a doubt--even if you just download a backup every few days locally.
Aside from that, we can do 2 things:
1. Leave your current system live, spin up your PA instance and let you copy the data straight across while both instances are live for a period (~few days before we'll check back in).
2. Look at assisting you in taking and restoring a backup via ticket as it's a good excuse to exercise our staff and take a thoroughly documented approach for Wiki purposes while also helping you.
Both options are going to be a bit more involved and thus somewhat delayed. The existing approach is mainly to get the bulk of customers who were waiting to deploy or who don't care about recreating their VM quickly from a backup on their own. We're unable to migrate the data across our internal ICX fiber between sites due to IPv4 changes and how the back-end software works. It would get into a really ugly situation of having to trick the hypervisor into thinking it has IPv4 addresses available that it does not and likely causing a whole slew of unforeseen problems.
Thanks for the generous and super-fast offer of help. I could write a book about what I have learned the past few weeks about various Linux distros, PHP extensions, control panels, importing data into MySQL databases and how finicky forum software can be.
Throughout, my Crunchbits 4.5 "island" has been superfast, allowing me to start over from scratch within a minute or two as I bungled through innumerable random combinations to ultimately achieving a working forum with several thousand message threads.
I have no real urgency for my project (it's working great) moving to PA, other than the coolness factor of being some milliseconds closer to my primary audience, as well as having my "bits" sit nearby the place where I grew up.
For the moment I'll live vicariously through others' reports of their cross-country moves, and maybe when I have more free time I'll create a ticket. Thanks again! Go Crunchbits!
but, you would not sunsetting WA location, aren't you?
No they aren't... It's just that they are expanding to PA. And offering free transfer for certain plans if you are interested.
@crunchbits just a question aside: the left over that will publicly sold, will that be in PA or WA? I would like to get another vm just to have the same number of VMs in both locations, so I want to know how many to move now.
Not sure if this is the way to go when it comes to redundancy, but if anyone has a better idea I will be happy to learn ( my knowledge is limited about these stuff, hopefully nobody will laugh
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Is nested virtualization enabled?
I'm sure someone will correct me if I am mistaken but I believe so, yes.
Yes it is
PA server is snappy and fast as spokane one. Thanks @crunchbits.
Can you share YABS for PA?
PABS and WABS
Hi
Is it possible to get a new coupon code for the e3 deal please? Thanks