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Rules are rules, I said I just comment on what I see.
Seriously, where’s the fucking ego of yours coming from?
kekistan
Because you said you don't understand, yet it was pretty understandable to the rest of us. Plain as day posts explicitly talk about the last 12 page thread on this, he's right to point out there's no fucking helping you to understand.
@Falzo
I took a bit extra time to test disk configs plus the dedi itself, only a single run though because as I said I want to get those VDSs out to their users and I love to keep ETA.
Here you go, my observations:
Whatever, it is what it is (and I for one am not dancing in joy but neither am I unhappy with what we got for free).
When will the server be sent to the lucky winners? I can't wait to know the results
> @jsg said:
OK, the first VDSs (4 dedicated vCores, 8 GB memory, 50 GB drive + >= 300 GB storage, and a dedicated IP) are out.
I'll quite likely give away a few more, probably smaller ones but still with dedicated core(s), to users meeting my criteria.
Before anyone DM shouts "I want one": that node is old-ish (E5 v3) and by no means a speed-daemon, plus I configured it conservatively (safety was/is the priority, not speed). Connectivity is very good though (but limited).
I don't mean to be a dick, but what is the point of this thread anyway if you're doing secret giveaways to people you like? Why not just give them the vps and not make a @Verasel about it?
edit: Even the benchmarking I don't understand, except it's advertising the non-giveaways I guess? Does anyone care about benchmarks of vps on an old box that you're carving out vps for your friends on? What even is this man?
Uhm, I wanted to do it publicly and let almost everyone here (less than a hand full exceptions) have a fair chance - but sadly it wasn't possible.
That's probably a major reason for negative reactions, so I'll address it. NOPE, WRONG! I just so happened to get the dedi towards the end of @Verasel's thread which seems to have led some people here - incl. at least one admin - to falsely presume that I was merely acting as a Verasel go for. That is not the case!
I'll be perfectly honest: yes, I did and do like Verasel and by no means only because he gave me a free dedi. And yes, my giveaway thread was of course related to his thread, in which he said that he'll give me said dedi. But I did my thread simply because I independently and anyway wanted to give away a major part of that dedi ("share it with others"). I'd have done exactly the same if that server were provided by someone else and/or if Verasel's thread had gone differently.
Very simple: I wanted people interested in a free VDS to get a clear impression of what to expect.
And btw. Nope, those to whom I gave a free VDS are not my friends, they are LET users whose application I happened to remember and who plus-minus did fit my criteria (which were relatively loose). In fact, most of them I didn't even know before, nor had interacted with (as far as I remember).
Finally, my last comment (to which you responded) basically was a way of saying "sadly it didn't go as planned (due to thread closed or deleted) but I want both, to keep my word, and to do as I had planned (share the server)". And I did.
FWIW, I do not think that you are a dick.
Fair enough man, thanks for answering.