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i havent had much time to check the forum. I am sorry.
Let me explain you.
I was deploying 5x HP C7000 with 16 Blades HP Gen8/9/10 in this week, total 80 blades and delivered 54 of this dedicated servers to customers.
And no this are not this dedicated servers listed on the thread - as those where already ready, racked for deploy.
And some servers are always making problems on first setup until they fixed. I was picking them up by myself at supplier, racking switches, config switches.
Get the dc guys help me to rack this heavy pieces, config VC Modules, config OA. One enclosure not working Modules, so had to dissassemble and unrack again, fix and rack again.
Then some orders i made at the supplier (30min drive from the dc) where screwed and delayed, this, that... no internet some blades, even the VC Module has assigned the network profile correctly. And a whole other. Standard life in hosting Business. Always Problems somewhere
some of this setup blades in the other rack are still blinking yellow... its more work then someone outside can imagine... I say this because reading some users Posts they think i do nothing the whole day or i have alot of time.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1t-381wrEJY?feature=share
(this are 32 blades, 2x of those c7000s said above)
And then general work. All kinds, inquires, tickets, administrative work. Few days ago we got informed about maintenance on the dark fiber path to NIKHEF Amsterdam we use for our GTT links, so i had to test also redundancy and check if router will use skylink transit when dwdm to Amsterdam go dead - which will happen this night, read https://hostslick.com/clients/announcements/84/Dark-Fiber-Maintenance-on--Thursday-May-8-2025.html
About the sale
from the 63 orders of this thread, ive delivered first 21.
It might take some more time for some orders indeed because i havent heard from the other supplier yet about the other part of HDD shipment.
I Think though this might be all solved arround monday/tuesday. Tomorrow is friday, ... weekends we all know nothing happens.
If i dont hear today end of the day i will order hdds elsewhere.
please note this was a pre-sale, so other then the Servers itself,the hdds were just ordered when amount of orders determinated.
I thought i will have this in time but i was wrong, sorry. The week before i started this promo even, there was alot of silence
Now alot of work came. But i assure i do work on it,
Very sorry for the delay
For best results, if pre-sale servers are not delivered by Tuesday please update. Don't leave us in the dark to draw our own conclusions.
Also, whoever has one deployed please do us a good service and post a yabs.
This is why you want to promise 14 business days instead of a hard deadline. That gives you a lot more time to deal with unexpected events. And if you deliver earlier then the customers will be happy!
To the 21 lucky fellas who got delivered early: WHERE IS MY YABS!?
i will make one later
random hardware porn from last days during the wait time
@HostSlick I can't find my order, or even the ticket I raised. What's going on?
Have other brothers encountered this problem?
@HostSlick didn't expect such a lengthy response. Glad it's just a technical/delivery problem, and not something different/severe (e.g. health related)
Keep up the good work! I'd rather have some delayed functional server than future unplanned maintenances or downtimes, especially for this price/performance ratio
Mine is still available as "Status pending".
Thanks for providing info about the delay.
@HostSlick Will you extend the end date of the service by one week for the customers that were not yet deployed, or we just lost one week time of service without compensation?
@HostSlick, could you please take a moment to check your PM when you get a chance?
Good offers! @HostSlick
I know that Germans need to specify the sexual preference in every job offer. Such as "I'm looking to hire a tech support guy person he they need to be a male who has sex with males" and such.
Good luck putting up with that.
In conclusion, you don't know what you're talking about.
Gender-neutral words for professional job titles don't exist in Germany, however you're not allowed to discriminate in job listings whatsoever. Same for every developed country in the world, as it should be.
You definitely don't state who you desire your employees to fuck nor ask them who they fuck. The only thing that matters is how they assist the company and directly relevant information.
But all of that distracts from the reality that @HostSlick couldnt afford to hire Western talent and the bigotry was easier for him.
Indian call centers may close 43 tickets but they will close tickets without resolving them properly, since they are only obsessed with boosting their “tickets closed” count as their performance metric. My work’s “IT support” is simply an Indian call center and they repeatedly ask “can I close this ticket” every minute regardless if the matter is solved or not. Only when we get a hold of an IT person in the USA do problems actually get fixed.
My family is part Indian and they also hate Indian call centers so I’m not being racist. A spade is a spade no matter it’s origin or whatever. At the end of the day, you get what you pay for. That golden rule never changes.
Of course i cant. Im a very small business with almost arround 500 Servers only. I make after all Costs only 17-25k Profit per Month after all Costs and taxes and need to throw some or Most into new Hardware. I dont feel like i can Take The responsibility for someone and his Family yet. So hiring a company for Outsourcing to solve a Problem is The Most easiest indeed.
The Juniper MX960 i bought October example. This device all alone with line cards was 30k just to meet demand in future to handle loads of Traffic.
Now we have 3x100G GTT and another Juniper QFX running in nikhef in Addition besides Datacenter upstream
Also Racks are full, and i Need to make Money next months to reinvest so i can buy even more Servers when i go and take another full row of Racks, so i can buy loads and loads more.
Then when i have loads , i can make more more more to be able to Invest into newer Hardware in Bulk.
But there is alot of much smaller then me. Do you think they do this fulltime on their own? No. I can tell you Bunch of names which have a fulltime job besides their Hosting. Basically alot are side Business.
I Myself i am self employeed since a year now. I also had a fulltime job Still.
Im trying to make the best i can to build up something.
You are right in this. Many people here on LET think Providers make shit tons.
Its not that easy as someone Imagine.
I also Need to eat. Living expenses.
Maybe after second row of Racks are filled can hire Western people and pay properly
Then you should increase your prices to above deadpool tier. €60 a year for 5 TB of storage makes you little money, so why even offer it? Do €70 or €80? That’s still a decent price while also providing cash flow to keep your business running. People want cheap deals but also want the provider to remain in business.
Sometimes it’s too expensive to be cheap, and there have been many previous hosts that offered way too cheap deals only to vanish the next day, hence the antagonism here.
Your price should reflect the cost of the service plus a margin to pay your salary and cover future investments in your business. There are people willing to pay higher prices for quality service.
Yes correct, service time starts on Delivery. Thus being said its getting reset
Can DM me oder ID/Transaction ID/Account whatever to Check?
Done
Yes i can also Quote that one with 10G Port and 25tb.
Otherwise we also have 1gbit Ports which are now Unmetered, No fair use, truly Unmetered
I will reach out shortly
Im looking to hire Tech Sisters @Calin
You mean Tech Sissies.
Germans have this custom of sending lots of selfies with their resume... could be a good or a bad thing.
You are hired!
That's kind of hot in a bizarre world kind of way
just to kind of echo on this, i would 100% pay more than this for this product. possibly he is selling himself short, not sure how others feel but demand was high and this sold out. if he's scraping by and selling out then he's doing the customers here a massive favor and even sort of charity at that point
I already miss you sending DMs. Thanks a lot!
So to be clear it’s a week past the delivery date and we don't have a single confirmed delivery or benchmark.
A couple of stories and pictures, though. Go figure.
wait for YABS first