I think at this point it doesn’t matter if company sells you lifetime plan or 7$/yr one, it will work until they deadpool. None of that deals are sustainable.

with rising prices of RAM, CPU, Disk, and energy why would someone ever offer lifetime plan for cheap?, Yes, if someone offers 1gb ram, 1 cpu, 10gb disk, 1tb bandwidth for $2K for lifetime then that c

well, even in your own sig, you say 'life is short, be silly' - so perhaps you consider a lifetime offer to only last a short time.

when inflation is high ;ram, ssd, hdd, electricity, labour all prices increasing every month/year. I doubt all lifetime offers will last very long .

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How can you define lifetime.

Unfortunately, you only know if the lifetime deals were any good once they're over.

Sure. I would also be suspicious of lifetime cloud storage deals.

@Saragoldfarb does boloxmedia plan to introduce any lifetime plans?

Lifetime offers are always a risk, so my rule of thumb is always something like: Take the lifetime offer price, divide it down to yearly or monthly. See how long it would take for it to be "p

It can be. The question comes down to whether the host is reputable and what the price would be paying on a regular schedule (i.e., not lifetime).

as the title says, are they really a scam? like if you buy one today and maybe a few years/decades pass the company shuts down your "lifetime" vps is gone. I know "lifetime&

But we talk here about (nowadays) standard applications like VPN / media processing / encryption related stuff.

From Saigon: Sorry, you have been blocked, lazy to use VPN and break my current connectiond to multiple SSHs.

Debian. Well documented and just werks with anything I throw at it. Alpine for vps with <512mb ram though I could probably still use debian on them for my usecase (vpn/low traffic edge server).

I used to but Tor bitched to us about filtering ads. It was the same blocklist we used for VPN, was just ads, trackers and malicious (malware, known phishing, etc) URLs. I couldn't be bothered to setu

VPN Gateways, with support for Site 2 Site peering, VPC peering as well,

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To clarify, I am not asking for a lifetime guarantee. What I meant is simply a "clean on delivery" check. If I place the order and test it immediately upon delivery, and the assigned

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