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Can you leave me one of your VPS in your will
I have no idea if this is possible. I know about auctions and transfer fees and conditions, but leaving a VPS in a will might be more of a legal burden and a legal cost with lawyers.
In theory one could avoid solicitors by opening a ticket with the provider beforehand stating that I agree to leave a specific storage VPS to be transferred to you after my death — but even then one has to prove towards the provider that I actually died and I don't try to take advantage of free transfer from the provider by faking death, nor that you might try to claim my stash illegally without me actually dying.
And then, there's the issue of what if you murder me on purpose, while knowing full well the ticket number from the provider to claim my stash. This complicates things even further because it could lead to imprisonment, which then begs the important question: how will you get to enjoy it in prison?
That's really worded beautifully if I may be honest?
DinoDildos
I'll leave you my @VeloxMedia vps.
Dibs on your megathread tag.
Oh hell, why not?
Email in SPAM folder since November 2024 that didn't autodelete or be cleared? Or check it after the provider told you?
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Ban OP for this email shenanigans. This isn't incompetence, it's malice.
Ain't nobody got time for this shit.
I 💯 agree
Well Sherlock, I take it that you are not aware of email retention policies which allow keeping spam for many years. In my case it is 3 years.
If you want to dig deeper with me as Watson: here is more info: This crunchbits account is linked to my gmail id which, since has a full storage, I have setup a forwarder. That forwarder forwards all gmail emails to a company email id. On the company email id (support by Google workspace) I have email retention policy which allows spams to remain intact for 3 years.
It's people like you who encourage shitty behavior from providers - for you the providers are godlike and customers are a filth who can be blamed for anything on earth.
Instead of getting the greed in check, which allowed them to create alluring packages, they are blaming thousands of customer together - that's ridiculous to say the least.
And people like you support them just because you might yourself be a provider.
Who will think of general public? You want to create a provider centric forum where public is banned just because you find some self-constructed defect in the given argument?
This really should not be blamed on crunchbits. It appears they sent the email a long time ago and provided a solution. I recall that last time they sent this email, someone complained on LowEndTalk about why it was sent to them. I think this service provider is quite good based on my experience.
See https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4735446/#Comment_4735446
In short, Hosts sells cheap goods -> people of all kinds purchased -> certain users make tickets disproportionately -> wastes resource more than the value of the goods -> hosts decide to discontinue because it became more expensive to maintain than expected -> everyone lose
> Low cost plan + low-maintenance user -> profit
> Low cost plan + high-maintenance user -> loss
Is it illegal to choose their customer? Well, that'd require lawyers
You're talking in absolute/always. Rubbish hosts and rubbish users exist, and they could be the 1st and 2nd party in the contract.
Again, would you blame hosts that already provides service for thin margin for raising costs because their cost structure doesn't permit price adjustment once every 5-10 years?
Nope, wrong again. Crunchbits was extremely clear, several times, that not all users were abusers. They stated it over and over that a part of the userbase was very abusive, not all users.
Also, they gave the "good users" a lot of options. I guess I was one of the good users, because I just listened to what they said and I still have my vps on the original plan.
It is very obvious that you are very butthurt by this, but it is really not Crunchbits fault. They could have just terminated the plan and kicked out every single user, because contrary to what you are trying to claim this was never a lifetime plan.
Instead, they put in a shitload of time and effort to try to find a solution for the good users, time that most certainly put them in the loss for years considering what these plans costs. Definitely not a case of greed in any way, if there was any kind of greed involved they would have simply terminated every single user because I can guarantee you that they will never make any kind of profit at all on those plans.
On the contrary how retarded do you need to be to think that one client not reading an email that went to spam 2 years ago is enough to classify a host as having "shitty behaviour"
Shame on you
Any deals to celebrate? @crunchbits
I took the deal; they never delivered OR answered my ticket, and now I see my account is erased from their website
man i wonder what else is in your spam folder
Ohh. btw...What was the solution provided? Please enlighten.
My dude has spam email retention policy set to 3 years, but no policy for making sure servers are online or paid(?). Seems like something somewhere went wrong.
Are you owned any money from Crunchbits after that server was cancelled or the billing period just ended and you forgot to renew it aka you expected some e-mails that never came?
Providers can stop offering products - if it's done after the billing period that is kinda normal and fully expected? Sure, there is some extra work to re-setup different server, but you signed up for (example) yearly contract and it just ended.
crunchbit and its owner are shady as fuck. i wouldnt host anything critical with them
Companies really need to start clarifying what kind of “lifetime” they mean.
Bug lifetime? - 4-12 Months
Human lifetime? - 70–80 years.
Summer host lifetime? - Sub 3 months
Huge advocate for companies listing the actual lifespan on these lifetime offers.
Most seem to have life expectancy of a gas station phone charger.
I'm happy to be corrected, but I think OP made that shit up - I'm 90% sure Crunchbits has never sold lifetime deals
Any person with more than 2 brain cells will understand that a service like VPS can't be provided on any "lifetime" basis, unless you paid like 1k$+ for it upfront or something.
Who is gonna cover the electicity, hardware replacements, IP rental, support?
This is not a Windows 10 license.
confirm
https://crunchbits.rip/
This was not a lifetime in any way, shape or form. Crunchbit has never sold any lifetimes, that was something op pulled out of his ass.
The name of the plan was "PROMO Yearly" and Crunchbit terminated it at the end of the billing term, it's pretty obvious that it was never a lifetime so I have no idea how op came to that conclusion.
Lifetime VPS can exist as an initial investment in the provider, while the provider bets on technology evolving and price per computing power becoming cheaper over time. The whole business goes bad when price of technology and electricity goes up, instead of down.
With this in mind, would one have bet 7 years ago that we would go through pandemic, war financing, economic sanctions, AI affecting hardware, all of this in just 7 years? And all of this still keeps going today with no end in sight, but a huge depression in the horizon. Nobody would be crazy enough to make lifetime plans now, unless they're scammers, but back then and even after pandemic people were hopeful we would go back on growing economically in order to live long and prosper.
Back on topic: Crunchbits never offered lifetimes on LET from what I remember.
None of my next paragraph applies to crunchbits, as people have said that this was not a lifetime deal.
I agree that anyone who buys a lifetime package is making a mistake. That doesn't mean the provider is off the hook for selling it. Any provider that sells a lifetime deal and then cancels it later deserves to be absolutely roasted.
My spam folder has 600 000+ unread messages, feel free to take a dive in.