Dartnode is too disappointing

totally_not_banned · 7:53AM

@Yachiyo said:
This was my worst shopping experience ever, bar none. I will never buy anything from them again.

You know what would be even better (and also would have saved you all the time waste and disappointment here)? Just not taking part in silly queuing games over a bunch of sad dollars. Discounts are nice, freebies are nice but there also needs to be a minimum level of self respect and some calculation if the juice is even worth the squeeze.

JasonM · 7:56AM

@Yachiyo said: This was my worst shopping experience ever, bar none. I will never buy anything from them agai

better then buy from racknerd, hostbrr, solidvps, greencloud.

AdamWilliam · 8:24AM

@tentor said:
Why do you continue to waste your time here? Just forget and move on.

😂

AdamWilliam · 8:27AM

@totally_not_banned said:

@Yachiyo said:
This was my worst shopping experience ever, bar none. I will never buy anything from them again.

You know what would be even better (and also would have saved you all the time waste and disappointment here)? Just not taking part in silly queuing games over a bunch of sad dollars. Discounts are nice, freebies are nice but there also needs to be a minimum level of self respect and some calculation if the juice is even worth the squeeze.

Promotions are supposed to be fun and exciting, but the way they’ve run this one is genuinely frustrating because it feels like an unfair competition.

dbadude · 9:16AM

yeah redirect to dev/null

totally_not_banned · 9:17AM

@AdamWilliam said:

@totally_not_banned said:

@Yachiyo said:
This was my worst shopping experience ever, bar none. I will never buy anything from them again.

You know what would be even better (and also would have saved you all the time waste and disappointment here)? Just not taking part in silly queuing games over a bunch of sad dollars. Discounts are nice, freebies are nice but there also needs to be a minimum level of self respect and some calculation if the juice is even worth the squeeze.

Promotions are supposed to be fun and exciting, but the way they’ve run this one is genuinely frustrating because it feels like an unfair competition.

cybertech · 9:30AM

@AdamWilliam said:

@cybertech said:
2026 new type of whining

You may need to see an ophthalmologist as soon as possible. That might help you regain your vision.

i see whining clearly. you need therapy. do you have therapy money?

AdamWilliam · 10:02AM

@cybertech said:

@AdamWilliam said:

@cybertech said:
2026 new type of whining

You may need to see an ophthalmologist as soon as possible. That might help you regain your vision.

i see whining clearly. you need therapy. do you have therapy money?

If you consider a factual statement to be a complaint, then your reading comprehension is so poor that you should go back to kindergarten and start with the alphabet.

stable_genius · 11:03AM

@nghialele said:

@layer7 said:
Hi,

mymymy that sounds quiet annoying. You have a lot of patience watching this race for 2h....

I would rather watch 2 hours of Fomula One race than this race

You can take a nap while watching Formula One but not while you wait in line so I'd rather watch formula One than wait in DartNode's line.

Formula One is a soothing sleep aid, the perfect background noise for a midday rest. I love it.

AdamWilliam · 11:08AM

@stable_genius said:

@nghialele said:

@layer7 said:
Hi,

mymymy that sounds quiet annoying. You have a lot of patience watching this race for 2h....

I would rather watch 2 hours of Fomula One race than this race

You can take a nap while watching Formula One but not while you wait in line so I'd rather watch formula One than wait in DartNode's line.

Formula One is a soothing sleep aid, the perfect background noise for a midday rest. I love it.

100% agree

stable_genius · 11:10AM

@totally_not_banned said:

@Yachiyo said:
This was my worst shopping experience ever, bar none. I will never buy anything from them again.

You know what would be even better (and also would have saved you all the time waste and disappointment here)? Just not taking part in silly queuing games over a bunch of sad dollars. Discounts are nice, freebies are nice but there also needs to be a minimum level of self respect and some calculation if the juice is even worth the squeeze.

Wise words, that's the reason I never apply to freebies.

Freebies tend to cause clutter and some of them require too much time being wasted.

AdamWilliam · 11:10AM

@stable_genius said:

@nghialele said:

@layer7 said:
Hi,

mymymy that sounds quiet annoying. You have a lot of patience watching this race for 2h....

I would rather watch 2 hours of Fomula One race than this race

You can take a nap while watching Formula One but not while you wait in line so I'd rather watch formula One than wait in DartNode's line.

Formula One is a soothing sleep aid, the perfect background noise for a midday rest. I love it.

What’s even funnier is that some people spent nearly a whole day in the queue, only to find out it was sold out when they finally got in. 😂

totally_not_banned · 11:17AM

@AdamWilliam said:

@stable_genius said:

@nghialele said:

@layer7 said:
Hi,

mymymy that sounds quiet annoying. You have a lot of patience watching this race for 2h....

I would rather watch 2 hours of Fomula One race than this race

You can take a nap while watching Formula One but not while you wait in line so I'd rather watch formula One than wait in DartNode's line.

Formula One is a soothing sleep aid, the perfect background noise for a midday rest. I love it.

What’s even funnier is that some people spent nearly a whole day in the queue, only to find out it was sold out when they finally got in. 😂

And all of this for potentially saving ~6€ per year.

nghialele · 11:19AM

Ok

nghialele · 11:46AM

@tentor said:
Why do you continue to waste your time here? Just forget and move on.

Crash out first move on later.

cybertech · 11:55AM

@AdamWilliam said:

@cybertech said:

@AdamWilliam said:

@cybertech said:
2026 new type of whining

You may need to see an ophthalmologist as soon as possible. That might help you regain your vision.

i see whining clearly. you need therapy. do you have therapy money?

If you consider a factual statement to be a complaint, then your reading comprehension is so poor that you should go back to kindergarten and start with the alphabet.

ok. i need therapy but i do not have therapy money.

tentor · 11:56AM

@nghialele said:

@tentor said:
Why do you continue to waste your time here? Just forget and move on.

Crash out first move on later.

Doesn't sound much "move on" to me

Carlin0 · 12:21PM

@AdamWilliam your queue has been doubled

AdamWilliam · 1:23PM

@totally_not_banned said:

@AdamWilliam said:

@stable_genius said:

@nghialele said:

@layer7 said:
Hi,

mymymy that sounds quiet annoying. You have a lot of patience watching this race for 2h....

I would rather watch 2 hours of Fomula One race than this race

You can take a nap while watching Formula One but not while you wait in line so I'd rather watch formula One than wait in DartNode's line.

Formula One is a soothing sleep aid, the perfect background noise for a midday rest. I love it.

What’s even funnier is that some people spent nearly a whole day in the queue, only to find out it was sold out when they finally got in. 😂

And all of this for potentially saving ~6€ per year.

That’s why I decided to stop wasting my time waiting in line. This isn’t something where patience will necessarily pay off.
Then I bought one from a guy🤓

AdamWilliam · 1:27PM

@Carlin0 said:
@AdamWilliam your queue has been doubled

In the end, I spent more $1.50 and bought one from a scalper who was using a script.Its totally worth to save my time🤓

DartNode · 3:54PM

We will be pausing the final hour of the sale. I would like to sincerely apologize for the technical issues people were facing. We have our Chief Engineer working on a fix and we want to give everyone a final chance to purchase what they couldn't during the sale. We will have an array of dedicated servers dropping including the infamous 99/year dedicates servers.

We will be pausing for 1 hour. And resuming full force to finish it off!

Join the stream for live updates and more giveaways to finish everything off!

https://twitch.tv/dartnodetv

zed · 4:22PM

@DartNode said:
We will be pausing the final hour of the sale. I would like to sincerely apologize for the technical issues people were facing. We have our Chief Engineer working on a fix and we want to give everyone a final chance to purchase what they couldn't during the sale. We will have an array of dedicated servers dropping including the infamous 99/year dedicates servers.

We will be pausing for 1 hour. And resuming full force to finish it off!

Join the stream for live updates and more giveaways to finish everything off!

https://twitch.tv/dartnodetv

would be really impressive if you delivered items people paid for, fuck off with this noise.

NotFoundException · 4:25PM

@zed said:

@DartNode said:
We will be pausing the final hour of the sale. I would like to sincerely apologize for the technical issues people were facing. We have our Chief Engineer working on a fix and we want to give everyone a final chance to purchase what they couldn't during the sale. We will have an array of dedicated servers dropping including the infamous 99/year dedicates servers.

We will be pausing for 1 hour. And resuming full force to finish it off!

Join the stream for live updates and more giveaways to finish everything off!

https://twitch.tv/dartnodetv

would be really impressive if you delivered items people paid for, fuck off with this noise.

You'll just have to wait for the queues, the system get's hardened against bots every few hours, so it might get worked off slowly.

I got most of mine already tho

zed · 4:38PM

@NotFoundException said: You'll just have to wait for the queues, the system get's hardened against bots every few hours, so it might get worked off slowly.

i chose to wait for the refund instead, if the relationship starts this way it's probably not going to be very fun.

NotFoundException · 4:41PM

@zed said:

@NotFoundException said: You'll just have to wait for the queues, the system get's hardened against bots every few hours, so it might get worked off slowly.

i chose to wait for the refund instead, if the relationship starts this way it's probably not going to be very fun.

I understand, for the price, I take the "risk" tho

AdamWilliam · 4:55PM

@DartNode said:
We will be pausing the final hour of the sale. I would like to sincerely apologize for the technical issues people were facing. We have our Chief Engineer working on a fix and we want to give everyone a final chance to purchase what they couldn't during the sale. We will have an array of dedicated servers dropping including the infamous 99/year dedicates servers.

We will be pausing for 1 hour. And resuming full force to finish it off!

Join the stream for live updates and more giveaways to finish everything off!

https://twitch.tv/dartnodetv

If we are not a loyal customer of yours, I don’t think anyone would be willing to sit in front of a computer for hours waiting.
But the result we received was very disappointing. After several hours of long waiting, what we got was that the product was already sold out.
Such a campaign is clearly unreasonable—people who genuinely want to buy it suffer and still cannot get it, while scalpers can easily purchase the designated products.
I sincerely hope you can learn from this experience and avoid holding similar promotional campaigns in the future. It is truly very frustrating and upsetting.
I was the first to point out that this mechanism was unreasonable, and as a result I received a lot of criticism from others, which left me feeling quite speechless.
Those people who blindly flatter you just to get free VPS are not helping your business development at all. You should focus your attention on paying users and seriously listen to their feedback.

webshanks · 6:38PM

And just look at what their support said on my ticket:

"I've looped in our Accounting team since they're best equipped to help with this. Someone from that team will be picking this up shortly — you should hear back within 168 hours.

Simo"

lylone · 8:22PM

@AdamWilliam said:

Fake line and worse event!
This is by far the most disappointing merchant and event I have ever experienced. I have been stuck on this page for almost two hours, and several of my friends are facing the exact same problem. Instead of moving forward in the queue, our positions keep getting pushed back. This is completely unacceptable. I strongly urge the community to remove this merchant from the event program and prevent others from having the same terrible experience.

Cheer up, mate. Seeing your screenshot of the queue line, I honestly think the server gods were actually doing you a massive favor. You should be glad you didn’t pass that checkout page.

I managed to battle through their broken system and grabbed an instance during the DartDay rush. Want to see what you "missed out" on?

Here is my fresh YABS disk benchmark on this node:

4k Mixed R/W: 1.6 MB/s (404 IOPS)
1m Mixed R/W: 45 MB/s

Yes, you read that right. 404 IOPS in 2026. Daniel gave us a beautiful 900Mbps network pipeline, but it seems he paired it with a hard drive stolen from an ancient TiVo. Doing apt update on this machine takes long enough to brew a cup of coffee.

If you are genuinely still disappointed and absolutely need a server with a great network pipe but the storage performance of a 90s floppy disk, I am more than happy to transfer my invoice/VM over to you via a support ticket.

Save yourself from the FOMO, you dodged a bullet here!

# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2026-05-11                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Wed Jun 17 07:20:56 PM UTC 2026

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 7 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2599.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 3.8 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 99.9 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-49-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Snaju Development
ASN        : AS399646 Snaju Development
Host       : Snaju Development
Location   : Houston, Texas (TX)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 1.61 MB/s      (404) | 14.18 MB/s     (221)
Write      | 1.64 MB/s      (411) | 14.70 MB/s     (229)
Total      | 3.26 MB/s      (815) | 28.88 MB/s     (450)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 16.31 MB/s      (31) | 21.39 MB/s      (20)
Write      | 17.68 MB/s      (34) | 23.63 MB/s      (23)
Total      | 33.99 MB/s      (65) | 45.03 MB/s      (43)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 827 Mbits/sec   | 190 Mbits/sec   | 101 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 854 Mbits/sec   | 643 Mbits/sec   | 111 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 689 Mbits/sec   | 320 Mbits/sec   | 196 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 699 Mbits/sec   | 419 Mbits/sec   | 222 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 881 Mbits/sec   | 469 Mbits/sec   | 37.9 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 906 Mbits/sec   | 601 Mbits/sec   | 39.0 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 823 Mbits/sec   | 336 Mbits/sec   | 139 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 830 Mbits/sec   | 462 Mbits/sec   | 101 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 845 Mbits/sec   | 664 Mbits/sec   | 111 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 600 Mbits/sec   | 152 Mbits/sec   | 196 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 698 Mbits/sec   | 439 Mbits/sec   | 222 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 882 Mbits/sec   | 905 Mbits/sec   | 37.8 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 896 Mbits/sec   | 535 Mbits/sec   | 38.8 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 811 Mbits/sec   | 328 Mbits/sec   | 139 ms

Running GB6 benchmark test... *cue elevator music*client_loop: send disconnect: Connection reset

zed · 8:49PM

lol

fifo · 9:07PM

Lol @lylone. At least yours got provisioned, mine is still in the "Waiting in provisioning queue..." since yesterday. I had the same issue during last year's sale too. Hopefully they fix things in time for my pre orders to deploy

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