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Impatient? Maybe. Ungrateful? No. I was only asking for an update. 🙂
I'm in the next one in the queue.
Anyway, I submit my ticket 14h ago. No reply yet. Last time, it was around 12-18h I forgot
Some people might also be thinking that on Dart Day there was some Solitaire Championship organised between datacenters in US. But since when should one care about imaginary theories and assumptions? The event was fun and that is all that matters; besides we all know dedicated servers are assembled and provided manually afterwards.
If I ever start a hosting company I'm going to just ban sign-ups from certain parts of the internet to avoid the hassle of dealing with certain twattery.
Good point, problem is: they're also buyers. Many companies make lots of money precisely because some governments are oppressive towards their own citizens. If a government in some country establishes some great internet firewall, then trying to bypass that firewall generates awesome sales for datacenters in other countries which embrace more freedom. And here's the kicker: common people want to bypass that too, even though they are not tech savvy and maybe don't even have discipline; but one thing is for certain: they can't discuss badly about their own government due to reprisals — so they blame things on you when some aspects don't work according to their expectations.
I'm not trying to justify an MJJ in any way, shape or form. I am just trying to understand the psychological problems that drive such approach. When one hears about some cheap (bypass) cake offering a bit of (porn) freedom, they want it. In my opinion it is a mixture of issues and frustrations piled up on top of one another, all starting from control of governments and lack of freedom. If a common MJJ would have freedom, they would not even bother to grab a VPS or dedi, hence not pay for your hosting services.
It's actually very easy. Just use roaming esim. Oh no esim? Just use removable euicc.
If they were using it for VPN, surely they won't excessively abuse the service resource beyond networking capabilities.
It's just people like them exist in CNNIC address space. People outside that address space also could exhibit such behavior.
Exhibit A: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/217855/crunchbits-behavior
Cheating and entitlement is seemingly integral to some cultures. My university made it a point to never publish class rankings, but word somehow got around inside a certain community that I was regularly acing my courses. They asked me to write papers for them in various inventive ways (sometimes offering nudes for barter, sometimes asking for 'mentorship'). And then the MJJ-levels of entitlement would come out when I naturally refused (sorry, usenet has better nudes).
A few months ago I had the misfortune of picking up a parcel from a certain person of a certain background. He wanted to take a photo of my passport with his phone with document number visible. I told him that this would happen around the time Hell starts ordering antifreeze. He got royally indignant and started telling me how he operates a legitimate business and I shouldn't be coming in if I don't want to do business with him. I did tell him the pickup location wasn't my choice (the pickup location was the choice of another person of his same ethnicity who 'pretended' nobody was home, just pulled up, left a 'while you were out' card and drove off).
And that's not to mention their co-ethnics at the market pumping meat full of water before sale to overcharge you.
None of these people are trying to benignly find a firewall bypass while dealing with unexpressed frustration caused by a tyrannical government. This is just cheating for cheat's sake. Entitlement for entitlement's sake. Forgive me for making conclusions.
Right, their intention is impure thus it appears on their conduct
Anyway, another piece everyone should read
It's clear. I need to buy myself a forest and live by myself in a cave somewhere. The civilisation is becoming really complicated. Nothing is safe anymore; but hey, it's all for the safety of children.
Civilization is complicated. I mean, have you try to understand women, girls?
Children, terrorism that's what rulers said to justify law that shouldn't be passed under normal circumstances
I was wondering if there are any updates on the Houston VPS disk issue. Hopefully it can be resolved soon.
Wheres the promosssss?
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ur a bit late
Hey All-
First time poster, long time lurker...and recent survivor of DartDay 2026. I'm not sure (and want feedback to help me understand) but is this particular provider consistently overloaded and/or understaffed with minimal testing?
I wish I searched for reviews prior to making a few purchases but so far, out of 3 products only one was delivered and working.
Products:
1) I purchased a $250 dedicated box, assumed it would take a day or two to get powered up (that's what I'm accustomed to if they aren't instant dedis) but so far - nothing. No information, no IP assignment, no status. I see in the DartNode portal it's there under bare metal, but clicking the status just takes me to a ticket view...nothing about current provisioning status like it says.
2) I purchased a Ryzen VPS - it was delivered nearly instantly (yay) but attemping to upload a custom ISO has caused some kind of a loop or backend issue. It never times out, and as such won't let me re-attempt to upload or cancel what it believes is the upload in progress... Some kind of dashboard issue.
3) The good news, the free VPS is working...ironically.
Control Panel/Dashboard/Network:
There seems to be an issue several issues with the Dashboard and testing in general:
1) Attempting to setup rDNS shows a previous customer's rDNS entries when they had these IP allocated to them. I would think those would have been cleared.
2) Ticket status - one area of the dashboard shows open, another shows closed.
3) The stuck never ending ISO upload as described above
4) Support - two tickets opened since Wednesday, no response or result other than moving tickets to a different queue...follow ups go unanswered.
5) The order queue - I'm just going to say that was painful, no captcha or verification or anything to avoid bots....seems like that was a 11th hour project
6) Status Page - their status page doesn't seem to work, status.dartnode.com returns missing or blank information so I couldn't tell if there were known provisioning issues or outages..hence the tickets.
7) There's a lot of latency at least on the free VPS gateway... pinging it's gateway from the VPS is 100+ ms of latency. I don't know of its the node I'm on, or typically for a free VPS but there's an issue there (can't determine if its a known issue as the status page is down)
So this brings me to my main question - I've used AdvinsServers, OVH, ServaRica and others - and OVH was a bit slow in ticket handling but I've never experienced support like I have here with DartNode (or lack of). I read some comments here, and a lot of excuses and white knighting..but I would have thought they would have been properly staffed to support any influx of orders...given that they sched. the dartday date so its not like they didn't know of the possibility of a deluge of work heading their way.
I like the wholesale prices, I enjoyed the live streaming and jokes and banter, but I haven't been unable to use the products, receive the support and all the while, its not like these "lost days" are being automatically readded to my year subscription...they are just gone and that aggravates me the most.
I can't tell if this is more for hobbyists or sufficient for production use..the prices are similar to others so I assume its not just ran by hobbyists for hobbyists but am not 100% sure.
rant over...