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[LET's 2024 #1 TOP PROVIDER*] Free VPSes, Shirts, Hoodies, and Firearms! -- Final Yearly VPS Chance!
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I wasn't running yabs today on my idling PA Islands, was all of PA down?
waiting for re-load.
Basically all of PA, yes. Some local routes were still working. Second time we've seen an issue in PA where upstream router is still up and holding onto BGP session with ours but has connectivity cut just upstream of them so it's "on an island" minus local connectivity (whatever IX/DC/XC's are prior to further upstream, which isn't a ton). Some stuff failed over/routes took over via our normal automatic methods (~2-5 min for BGP timeout) but a huge chunk were effectively nulled by this and require manual BGP session kill by our staff. Even worse that they still haven't officially given us anything about the outage.
Anyways, to our customers I'm sorry for ruining a nice quiet Sunday. Outage windows were between ~5 minutes and ~35 minutes depending on a few factors. Primary connectivity seems to be restored so poor routing/latency should also be resolved. We're all tentatively puckering, though.
Direct from our network engineer that fixed it:
Give me a little time, I'll follow up with what was already in the works re: PA since my last cryptic message and drop good news. Potentially double the good news re: VM winners as well, everyone cranking away over the weekend to get this update and push done.
I'm going to bed.
I don't have uptime monitoring on these machines yet but I was in the middle of deploying stuff using Ansible and that failed for my pa node for around "5 minutes or so"
From Eric's explanation I guess you were one of the luckier ones with a shorter loss of connectivity. I agree with you though, I do think ~5 minutes would fall into the "very temporary" category but 30+ doesn't.
At least Crunchbits are always transparent about what happens and doesn't try to sweep it under the rug. Outages always suck but I appreciate the accountability.
This precisely. A little down time with full transparency isn't a big deal. For the price that these are being offered, it's still well worth it as long as it doesn't happen often.
still waiting for yearly loading...
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You'll be waiting quite awhile. Unless some naturally become available that's basically the end of the yearly's.
VM Winners Update
Messages are going out now re: VM winners. Website push finally happened. Here's the new ordering process.
Rather than give you a fixed 2c/2gb VM for a year per the initial post, we're going to give you $43.20 USD of platform credit. This would cover that VM for a year. Or it would cover something with less resources for longer or significantly beefier for shorter. It's up to you.
I'm sure there are still going to be some typos/slight bugs (a lot of the 'More Info' dedicated pages are not pushed yet for example) hopefully the freedom to select what resources are most important to you and more efficiently assign the resources is a better end-user experience.
Other prizes will be contacted (if not already) and delivered this week now that everything is being pushed and ready. Very much appreciate all the patience
EDIT: PA news coming in subsequent reply.
PA VPS - [PA] BALANCED VPS - $17.10 USD/yr
CPU Cores: 2 - $12.00 USD/yr
Memory: 2GB - $12.00 USD/yr
Storage: 20 - $7.20 USD/yr
Additional IPv4: 0 - Free
Bandwidth: 5 TB - $6.00 USD/yr
Customer Luck: Insanely Lucky - Free
Totals
Annually
$54.30 USD
WA VPS - [WA] BALANCED VPS - $6.00 USD/yr
CPU Cores: 2 - $12.00 USD/yr
Memory: 2GB - $12.00 USD/yr
Storage: 20 - $7.20 USD/yr
Additional IPv4: 0 - Free
Bandwidth: 5 TB - $6.00 USD/yr
Customer Luck: Very Lucky - Free
Totals
Annually
$43.20 USD
Am I missing something?
You? No. Me: Yes
Fixed.
Also, I forgot to add to original post but the quarterly / yearly discounts are added via the following coupon codes (same one to any DIY-VPS product/location):
This will apply the discount appropriately to the entire selected option range, versus just the base product.
Will there ever be vps available again?
There is right now.
PA: DIY VPS, Storage
WA: DIY VPS, Storage, new VDS lineups/specs
Promo Code: VYEAR -$2.22 USD
Interesting....
Curious what the luck choice determines!
Is anyone else finding that the checkout button isn't working?
Came back to post that, not just you!
Nothing under my login
Everything is showing 0 available
There's an annoying bug that crops up (from theme) specific to an existing user applying credits for virtualized products on a new order. Have been trying to get it fixed upstream rather than us applying manual fixes that get overwritten with each update.
Here's the immediate hack-y way around it:
Can anyone explain why all I see when in the store, everything is showing 0 available, when I see people here placing orders and saying the order button doesn't work.
Hey @melp57:
Use the website: https://crunchbits.com
We're purposely not doing direct-WHMCS orders for multiple reasons, and any direct links to the store for products/stock are going to either not work or be invisible (outside of the Yearlies which are default view/catch-all).
Okay my bookmark is get.crunchbits.com
Should I stop using that link?
Thanks!
Correct, get.crunchbits.com would just be the billing portal (support tickets, seeing active services, etc).
I'm not sure how long it will be WHMCS-centric so links directly to there (for ordering) are discouraged. Plus, a lot of our customizable options don't work when done directly in WHMCS versus from the website.
I love you guys because of your custom site! Keep up the good work!
Can confirm, going via Paypal and then applying credit works. Unfortunately, now I have a VPS, it won't boot after installing either Debian 12 or Ubuntu.
Should be fixed within ~1-5m depending what hypervisor you are on--few BIOS settings (and performance stuff) were missed on a handful of the new hypervisors.
Your new site build a vps is confusing. I selected a yearly option 6/yr and it tells me I owe $21.00 today?
Looking good. Thanks @crunchbits
There is no 6$ VPS.
6$ (p year) is basic charge, then you pay for CPU/RAM/Storage (in amounts you need aka SLIIIIIIIIIDERS) etc to make it actually work
You can assume 6$ per year is IPv4 + 1 GB of RAM cost (as those are Free on that summary)
6+6+6+3.6 = 21.6