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GO HERE https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear
oops that was last year's invoice, try this 13580862 (client for 2 years now)
yeah.. try DM to @dustinc and he will personally help with whatever difficulties a customer may face with his vps or cpanel, not just answering pre-sales. Rest most of the providers would ask to open a ticket. Another exception is Francisco of buyvm. I really love when owners take personal interest in their customer's problems once sale is made. This ensures customers recommend them more and more to peers and clients. And thats the plus point in doing business with small compaines than corporations.
this 100%.. people seem "hate".. (maybe thats a strong word) on dustin.. I haven't been here very long and hes responded to me on multiple occasions in thread.
In addition, he was able to quickly me up with a purchase that was not currently available. Tried the ticket route first but he told me to just email his personal work email and then he went and made it happen in <5min. Now i wouldnt send an unsolicited email.. but he specifically asked me to do so
The fact that he probably has some "higher" tier clients given his comments about bare metal demand AND he still takes the time to talk to people about their tiny less than $20 VPS I think is a great selling point...
At some point, if their growth keeps going I think he is inevitably going to have more trouble being so involved (i think).. but I hope when/if that time comes, he has a good crew to keep that same level of service going.
No complaints about the actual performance i've been getting with my vps as well.
Good morning guys.
+1. He responds to all DMs and queries patiently. Its very rare to see that kind of response from providers.
+10
I have built up trust in him so I brought him more business from a client of mine.... also can I still get that sweet double @dustinc?
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Interesting. Why would they let you go negative?
Just adding to the above discussion, anyone can send custom requests directly to Dustin at [email protected]. He is just as active in replying to the emails as DMs here.
So the temp-closure was super effective? I guess yes in a certain way but I am gonna wait for dustin to respond with "giveaway incoming"..... Everything go chaos at that point.....
Hello, I would like to double the bandwidth.
Order: 8300792806
Thanks!
Guys, any good suggestions for a PHP opensource file manager with API support? Looking into filemngr now.
Hi. Could you get me double bandwidth.
Invoice #14758446
Thanks!
Use case? I might have something depending on what you say.
Very simple, infact, I will only use it as a container for temporarily uploading videos. Once the video is uploaded, the file will be deleted from the server.
Infact, since it's not a very complex use case, I am currently trying to setup an FTP server and use the ftp_ commands on PHP to do the uploading and delete and for public consumption during the upload, I will setup Nginx.
@dustinc double my bandwidth please!
Order Number: 9513089390
帳單 #14765292
thanks
Hi. I would like to double the bandwidth.
1、Order Number: 1102685154
2、Order Number:3625971839
Thanks!
Hmm ftp might be better choice or you can just create something in php it's not hard believe me. If you want you can also look at xbackbone
Invoice #14600904
我想将带宽增加一倍
I would like to double the bandwidth.
Invoice #8167989
thank you
Thanks for the suggestion. For now, I am just using the ssh2 extension on PHP, which seems to be working well enough for my use case. Will look into xbackbone later.
Shell exec is the easy way out... Reminds me when I ran dns tools on namesystem.org(no longer own this domain) the tools were dig, mtr, ping and whois coupled with a single php index file with shell exec....
Well, I haven't considered using plain shell_exec on php to achieve FTP uploads. But, since the ssh2 commands have almost everything covered in terms of sftp commands, I can easily scp in and unlink when required.
But, in your case, since you were directly accesing the native Linux apps on the server, yes, shell_exec is a wonderful tool. I have been using it for other purposes. Sometimes, I just couple shell_exec with php-cgi. I am weird that way
Well, I'm not sure that RackNerd is a small business anymore, but yes, I tend to believe that both @dustinc and @Francisco do take care of their customers - unfortunately though dustinc also does sales threads that (not only) IMO also harm the community and turn many users into bots. Also I'm still convinced that everything he does (wrt sales) is calculated as opposed to "sharing some of his wealth out of his good heart".
But again, one should try to see both sides and that's why I wrote my last post and why I'm not a RN / dustinc hater; I don't think he is an evil guy; he's just mercilessly sales and growth driven up to the point of abusing people as bots and thread bumpers - which basically forces other providers to do the same and such to devastate whole major regions of our community.
I wouldn't call RackNerd a small business anymore either, but one can credit that to said sales tactics. Is it a little aggressive and/or spammy at times? Yeah, probably, but the loyalty is strong due to amazing service, and customer care. I'm just missing where it actually hurts the forum when it is contained to one or maybe two threads? Is it an SEO thing, or is it just the fact that the thread is constantly being bumped to the top? I mean, it brings in a ton of traffic to LET. I'm genuinely curious, because I feel like I'm missing the plot. Initially I just thought people loved to hate on "Purple Daddy" as a running joke, but recent events have shown me otherwise.
I am gonna say this generally, hopefully for the last time. I had this exact conversation with ralf a week or so ago.
Most of us (I'd love to say all of us, but, some would call it ambitious) aren't under any illusion, as some claim. We all know RackNerd is a business and as a business, profits and sales take priority. Well, those are the only ways for a business to continue and grow.
Now, hear me out. At this point of time, RackNerd has atleast 3 giveaways I know of, with prize pool reaching around $3-4K - NY thread, Winter giveaway (LEB) and Provider thread. This is also not counting the BF thread, and the two other giveaways (TG and BF on LEB) that happened only 2 months ago, totally with a prize pool worth another $2-4K. Let's say, RackNerd spent atleast $6K on these giveaways alone in 3 months on a single community of people. I am not even gonna count the summer giveaway on LEB that happened a few months ago and the various random giveaways that happen on RN threads. Many of them have to be paid for (shipping and otherwise) directly from Dustin/RackNerd's pockets.
I am not ad expert, but even taking into account the competitive hosting market and its keywords on advertiser platforms, Dustin could have spent all that money on aggressively advertising RackNerd's services on one of these mainstream platforms and made double or triple the money he makes here, cause believe it or not, we are getting better practices through giveaways and the flash sale than the general public who don't know of these threads on LET. With an advertising budget that good, RackNerd could concentrate on competing with the big ones while charging low-mid premium rates for their VPS. But, no, he decides to spend that money here, treating some of us who could never afford many things in the prize pool with expensive gifts around the holidays.
Yes, many even after reading that would again say, RackNerd is still a business. And, I'd say, "No one is refuting that!" Well, since we are talking of business, let's talk about their service. Their service for a host that offers crazy cheap yearly recurring prices and yet is top notch in my opinion. For me, issues if any have been resolved or atleast addressed satisfactorily within 3-30 minutes, most of the time.
So, given all those reasons, I won't apologise for supporting my favourite business and its awesome owner, in any way I can. I'd love to see people hating to try the thread with an open-mind for some time. If they don't like it, they can always leave. But, if they love it, we always love more members chiming in. And, if you haven't yet tried RackNerd's services, please do give them a try. Dustin is always here to sort out troubles, i.e., if you are still unsatisfied with the ticket system response (would be rarest of the rare, imo).
So i joined here for black friday, never heard of the site before but was also looking for some new vps services. I dont know if it was a racknerd specific post or not that brought me here, but something about the deals brought me here..
To me it seems like the biggest problem is that you have a lot of "wasted" database space plus the deal threads are kinda forced on you constantly via the latest discussion page.
It took me forever to figure out how to navigate but now that i finally figured it out.. i see how you are kinda "forced" to see these threads so its not too easy to ignore.
I am of the opinion that, just like IRL, people should just be able to ignore what they dont care about and move on, but i think vanilla also doesnt give you a way to do that easily
Edit: Also want to say i was very confused upon joining about when people would come in here and talk about other happenings on LET. I thought it was all just a sales page
They should move off vanilla..
fixed, now it regirects to gallery
happens
i got 5$ worth of credits more, and disabled the API, it's view only now
unsure, dont care tbh
in total it costed my about 4-8 USD and few hours of work
unsure, im pay as you go customer... again ,my grandfather account is worth something
and for you all:
https://racknerd.thechemicalworkshop.com/download_endjanuary
due to laws. these are AI generated and have no royality and are public domain
however i would appreciate attribution if possible
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