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Markahost’s VPS Reinstallation Charges: New Practice or Turkey-Specific Trend?
I recently encountered an interesting situation with my VPS hosting provider, Markahost. They are now charging for re-installing the operating system (OS) on virtual private servers (VPS) via the control panel. I’m curious whether this is a new industry practice or specific to Turkey?
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netboot.xyz is your best friend.
I've never heard, nor seen providers charging for it, however, if you reinstalled too many times maybe there's a hidden cap.
I reinstalled the VPS three times since purchasing it one week ago, the third was the last free lol
Blatant scam. Run away.
I have loads of cheap servers and none of the providers charge for reinstallls from the console....but if any of them ever do then I'll take it as a sign they're heading to deadpool and migrate my services
Lol, they’re asking almost $4 for each system reinstall after the limit
No problem at all, closed. Markahost, Turkey - NO GO
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Basic System Information:
Uptime : 3 days, 22 hours, 12 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz
CPU cores : 2 @ 2700.000 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 3.9 GiB
Swap : 2.0 GiB
Disk : 58.9 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Kernel : 5.15.0-105-generic
VM Type : VMWARE
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline
IPv4 Network Information:
ISP : Markahost Telekomunikasyon VE Ticaret Limited Sirketi
ASN : AS207279 MARKAHOST TELEKOMUNIKASYON VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
Host : Markahost Telekomunikasyon VE Ticaret Limited Sirketi
Location : Küçükçekmece, Istanbul (34)
Country : Turkey
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda2):
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It is probably specific to some of the dirt cheap vps providers out of Turkey. When I used markahost, they had a limit to how many times you were able to reinstall. Once I hit the limit, I opened a ticket and they responded and reset it pretty quickly at no cost. You can't expect much when you are paying about $3/m for 4 core and 6gb ram VPS.
But I do agree, it's stupid to even have a limit or charge for it. They should just increase the price monthly to include reinstallation fee.
Reinstall fee seems like a big folly to me... it's like going to a restaurant and paying for the chair you sit on, in addition to the food. They'll lose customers for sure, as there are plenty of other options out there.
There's no words to say how retarded that is.
Refund immediately and just ddos is 24/7 until they go out of business.
That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever online and I've seen a lot of weird shit.
Definitely not normal to charge for re-installation, as said, get out of there.
Lol, I visited the Turkish local r10 dot net forum, and it seems that most companies are imposing restrictions on re-installations. Additionally, they are levying extra charges beyond two installations per month. This appears to be a common trend in Turkey.
You'd think that but i've had plenty of tickets from people asking if there's a reinstall limit. Its gotta be going on somewhere.
Francisco
I have quite a few providers in mind who limit the number of reinstallations per month.
If this measure is in place, then there must be some guys who do it so many times that it has an impact on node performance.
With KVM, there's often a way around this limit.