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I searched through my wallet, but there was no $40. Well, I guess I have to give up this service! So, VirM***'s default explanation: The user abused the rented service, leading to the termination of the machine that cost the user a few to several dozen dollars, while the user lost hundreds of billions of dollars worth of precious time.
This is a joke, luckily I only run some low-resource software on it and have switched all logins to SSH keys. 
Thanks for sharing. People like you help many others here save our hard earned money from buying from Virmach (which I almost did). Good job!
Correct!
Pay $40.
About the same experience here.
I use it as a NS slave. About 350 MB (of only 512) free. But I'm running a trimmed down minimal BSD.
Inertia. I know that I can get similarly low-priced VPS elsewhere and even do have some, but my experience with @VirMach was and is surprisingly OK, modulo the unnerving IP changes. So, no real reason to leave them so far.
no u
Lol when was virmach recommended anyway?
The apt upgrade on my Virmach Debian 11 VPS broke things and required a OS reinstall.
Like 4 years ago when they had a cult like following like Hosthatch does now
Virmach could fix all downtime issues if he spent on it instead of creating whmcs promocodes that require a PhD degree to understand , but where is the fun in that
As some would like to call them Virm(ache) 😂
The Hannukah Mystery Box promotion was the epitome of Virmach insanity.
He has 10 years in business, trying to automate things as much as possible and reduce costs.
What Virmach does not understand is that many times his scripts do not work, generating the verb "virmached" precisely because he becomes active at Black Friday and New Year events, then slowly quality of service fades away until next big events - when history repeats with more flash sales. A service can stay down for months, with ticket opened and with provider getting no notification until some payment is done for support priority.
Such provider can not be recommended for production or anything serious. However, their services are somewhat usable for very light development, as long as the running applications don't trigger some limitation for a few minutes, or as long something wrong does not happen with the server not notifying the provider automatically.
If a server goes down, good luck trying to fix it. You're better off cancelling the service and wait for the next flash sale to order a new one. The time wasted on support tickets and on waiting for a fix is just not worth it, not even with paid premium support.
The market has changed and now people can get $7/year 1cpu 1GB ram VPSs from more providers.
$8.69 / year
There are still many virmache shills that would recommend it, like “muh server works fine, muh server costs only 7 virmasskisses so everything is fine” and so on.
We have doubled your ache.
Thanks for doing business with Virmach. 😂
I don't recommend it. (Feel free to check my posts)
Having said that, if it is working fine for me, then what else I am supposed to say about its performance.
ps -- just posted the YABS for $8.69 vps
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4265976/#Comment_4265976
virmach is such a shitty hoster and this answer are hilarious...hilarious fucked up
Oh I didn’t mean you in particular though
I'd say enjoy using it, but I guess you can't besides running apt update?
Running couple of Python bots for telegram
plus one “out of box” use case (using WebMin)
To be fair, it does say "you may reply to this to re-open it". If you feel neither of those options are fair, reply to the ticket and say so. I'm you probably won't get the result you want, but you definitely can still re-open it.
That said, just reading the ticket should be enough to know that you don't want your server re-instated. "Don't use so much RAM that you swap to disk" is so far being unreasonable that you should drop them immediately as a provider. You using 100% CPU for 2x 40 minutes (as per your graph) is excessive on a shared server, but if you can't use all the RAM you've been allocated and not allowed to swap to disk (which would look like any other IO), then they're not a provider you want to stay with.
Unless you paid a lot of money such that the $10 represents good value to move to LA or you really need the Tokyo location and you managed to get a huge bandwidth VPS that you really need, just be glad you got the message early and get out of there as fast as you can.
Virmach is shit
read the line (Sometimes this is not possible.) No, it cannot. And It's not about money at all; it's about me feeling offended. I don't want to suck his ball as I am the guy who pays him. I guess I am not the good customer he wants.
I would say this is not the single issue; it is just a trigger point for the distrust. I just want to leave now and publicly denounce what I consider to be blackmail. It's not a matter of right or wrong or to be fair, I'm just leaving my bad review to him.
Like I said in the first few comments, even if he released the vps, I wouldn't go back. In fact, I don't visit the green forums as much as I used to.
That's fair, you should do that.
I doubt it'll make any difference. He hasn't been here for 2 years ago, because he didn't like that people messaged him here after he did stuff like this on their tickets - which IIRC were mostly just questions about "hey I ordered this 6 months ago, what's the ETA" -> extra 2 week penalty, or "my server won't even boot and the control panel doesn't work" --> banned, etc.
The vast majority of people here wouldn't recommend him, and generally those that do caveat it with "but not with anything for production". Publicly denouncing him or whatever isn't going to change anyone's opinion.
Yeah, chalk it to a bad experience and move on.
I use for side projects with the understanding that vps can disappear anytime.
For me, it is like spot vm, but much better configuration and price-value as compared to one provider who is marketing spot VMs.
Did I get that right, u r paid till 7/4/26? Like for another full year and he suggests the option of staying suspended till then? @elliotc
Like I said, that's shame on me.
I can shame others who buy Virmached in the future by quoting this post and say "I warned you." I will have fun for this.