The Buyer's Remorse thread
If you have ever regretted a purchase, this is where you can share your remorse. Expected peak periods of this thread is during Easter and Black Friday/CyberMonday every year.
Anyone already regretting BF2019 purchases?
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I like my watch. Keep forgetting to use it, though.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
I got something from VirMach that I probably shouldn't have.
I also took RAD Web Hosting's $1/month deal without checking into them as much as I should have. Location was "Dallas/Phoenix" and I wanted Dallas but ended up with Phoenix. Also the fact that their bill is ~$180 discounted to $12 is a bit creepy. Not sure if I'll regret that one, time will tell. ETA: I already don't like that they plaster upsell advertisements all over the control panel.
Virmach. Regret because CC.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I regret for not getting enough sleep.
食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.
LOL. Same. I hate that I love it.
Also, I regret buying the car with the sunroof. I've used that thing maybe three times in ten years. Paid $3,000 premium for it (plus a couple other minor differences).
It's pronounced hacker.
Only remorse is not remembering to cancel an ultravps SSD 1GB kvm before contract date.
It seems billing date was Nov1 , and I needed to do it before Oct15.
I kinda assumed Bill date would be the date I purchased (BlackFriday 2016).
So, now I have to find a use for this. Reason for cancel: got the better 4GB SAS special in March.
Cancelled the SSD in LA as well, but keeping the AMS SAS
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I am going to spam this image again, a very accurate representation by Mr. Lovenstein
食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.
Transfer it? (if UltraVPS do that)
I regret kidding myself that I was not going to really bother this year and was badly prepared and picking an insane time to start this place.
Next year if we are still here I will make it easier for everything through THE POWER OF CODE!
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There were some deals that I almost bought; but could not or did not.
One had 50% off, others had varying between 40% and 50%.
This morning I remembered my (late) mother's words.
"If you buy, you save half the money, If you don't buy, you save the other half also"
So BF/CM concludes with only one regret- not applying the 10% off code on an $ 50 annual plan, rest of the money stays to be spent another day.
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This. I should have know about this quote earlier.
食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.
I regret not buying any more of Koofr's 1TB lifetime deal (the only thing I bought this BF)
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I don’t regret any of the things I bought........ yet.
“Technology is best when it brings people together.” – Matt Mullenweg
Nope. Still enjoying my watch.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
I regret buying 4pcs of 256 GB micro SD card 2 weeks before black friday... I could have saved $40 dollar if I waited just 2 weeks...
I have bought a dedi from hetzner. I regret no free setup
I believe in good luck. Harder that I work ,luckier i get.
nope
I had planned to get at most two VPSes, and I ended up with four.
But no serious regret. I'll "consolidate" in the new year. 
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
So no more VirMach deals from you in the new year?
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
I didn't buy any servers! I'm mostly happy about that. The one really intriguing one was the EUServ 10TB storage which is hard to match any other way. I kept thinking I have enough storage, but the EUServ wouldn't just have added to it, it would have let me consolidate and get rid of a bunch of more expensive stuff. But, I was put off by the slow speed reports.
On the other hand I bought $350+ of real-world stuff, about $200 of which was a specific shiny object that I probably shouldn't have bought (though not totally regretting). The other stuff I think was mostly good choices.
I wasn't even really tempted by Virmach even though some of the offers are nice. I have enough small vps, when I need another one temporarily I can spin up an hourly, there is still that free atlantic.net thing that I signed up for and can't use because the recaptcha stops me from logging in, and when I want to do something compute intensive I find dedis better than vps.
Yeah, that was my plan, too -- consolidate over a dozen small VPSes into one nice dedi. Now I still have a dozen idling VPSes, plus multiple idling dedis....
I didn't get many new servers this time, mostly just renewed BF deals from previous years. I'm still undecided whether it was better to renew my HostHatch 2.5TB in LA or switch to a 3TB in Chicago. I tracked VirMach's algorithmic deals for a bit, but was not tempted. I probably should have taken advantage of Anthony's top-up credit bonus; that counts as a regret.
Well, despite the setup fee, I hope that you will enjoy using it. Have you checked out some of the tutorials on our Community page?
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In theory, consolidating everything into one dedi makes good sense, but in practice, I find that I enjoy having and trying out different "flavors" of VPSes (esp. for different purposes), not to mention that the isolation of each VPS from the others comes for free. As long as the number of VPSes doesn't grow out of control and the costs remain manageable, I don't worry too much. (And there's always the rationale of supporting the low-end server market segment.
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"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
I will just use the money I didn't spend on ssd kvm, to add a EUR7/mo 480GB Datacenter SSD to my 22eur hetzner when I truly need the IOPS ?
HDD raid1 is pretty OK for single tenant selfhosted apps.
Thanks @Hetzner_OL Katie. Well doing extra 2 fillings is going To cover the setup fee for me so it is OK. Waiting for it.
I believe in good luck. Harder that I work ,luckier i get.
Well after all that vps regrets , no space for a dedi till next year.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Anyone wanna buy a $16.28 USD Annually Virmach VPS? :-o
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural.
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@AlwaysSkint - in Atlanta, or Chicago ...?
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I was curious how many machines does Virmach deploy/own? From virmach.app or virma.ch, sort of deal monitors, the entry has already upsoared to over 1,000. If in one batch Virmach released five or even ten, say on average, then it should have deployed or purchased over five thousand IPs, not to mention the existing customers/machines.
A great expense/cost.
It's been speculated before that if VirMach went under, they would drag CC with them
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
Atlanta
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
Gets me every year
A buyer's remorse for sale to make up for someone's Black Friday slow finger remorse.
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I think I might wait until CM next year instead of splooging both farthings on a Virmach IPv4-only box only to find better deals elsewhere.
Alrighty then - feel free to bring it over to the VirMach review thread (assuming this sort of transaction won't upset the delicate equilibrium of civilized behavior on this forum too much ...)
Might want to add the $3 fee VirMach charges to handle the transfer ... and maybe also paypal fees - so now you're up to about $20 to break even on the deal.
... which I suppose is still a decent price for 1 GB ram / 1 vcore / 20 GB SSD / 1 TB transfer. (Though I wouldn't be surprised if the CPU is clocked at 2.1 GHz and the SSD is - at the moment - seeing sequential write speed maybe not much more than 100 MB/s ...?)
Fair enough - if you was looking for headies, and beasters just won't do ... Still, one man's trash is another man's regs.
Seems like a decent chance someone might be interested to take it off your hands, sooner or later. (Then you can enjoy seller's remorse - which I'm guessing might be the better problem to have ... up to a point.)
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I regret that I bought mxroute $10/year plan...before I bought $10/2 year plan. Should have known KILLER deals will come up later and robtake more money from you.
As for mikho's APAC NAT vpses, not yet.
I have only bought a netcup „Black Pearl“ KVM and am very happy with the purchase. No regrets or hangover here.
Amitz, a very stable genius (it's true!) and Grand Rectumfier of the official LESLOS® (LES League of Shitposters).
Certified braindead since 1974 and still perfectly happy.
Don't worry, you'll have a full year to reconsider
“Technology is best when it brings people together.” – Matt Mullenweg
The $10/2 year plan had limitations that the $10/year plan didn't have
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
Also $10/year plan is of better value.
However, $10/2 year plan is more than enough for me. The price difference can be used to buy next LES location and I can claim a new territory.
@mikho pleeeease make Japan a LES location again
Even if the price is nowhere near the other locations?
“Technology is best when it brings people together.” – Matt Mullenweg
Yes, even if price is different from other locations and/or bandwidth policy is different from other locations.
I'd expect it to be much cheaper than amazon lightsail though. If the price is so high that nobody would be interested in, service shutdown(again) is just a matter of time.
I am quite certain the automated deals with custom configurations are a cost effective way to optimally reuse spare resources across nodes.
For instance, if an older node has seen a bunch of cancellations over the years, that will have likely freed up RAM, Storage space, CPU and IPs. Since non-sequential unused IPs from a slightly larger subnet are not usually routed to other Nodes, it'd be a smart thing to simply recycle them and provision spare resources by offering non-standard configurations as 'no-brainer' deals during BF/CM/XMAS in a manner that wouldn't negatively affect overall node stability and performance, while still being economically feasible.
You don't really think that Virmach would add a new node with 256GB of RAM but just toss in a couple of 240GB SSDs to create a handful of 'too good to pass' deals with 16GB RAM and 10GB storage each, do you? :P
//$0.02
Last BF, my wallet was raped in the deepness of itself.
This year, not really no.
I got 3x yearly VPS's, nothing big, about 30 bucks.
If i would skipped sleep, to expect good deals, of course I would regret it.
This year, was full of shit.
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Probably not. I don't really have a use for them, and reselling at a loss to donate to charity takes a lot more effort than just giving the charity money outright. I
Virmach, but time is a lot shorter than it used to be.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
I am actually surprised I didn't buy more at the weekend, all I took was a box from @AnthonySmith, since I sold my hosting services all I have is that and a large DO box that I hastily moved a load of personal sites to and will need to find a more permanent home for.
I seen quite a few deals that were interesting but resisted. Often I found that buying from the majority of LE* providers around this time results in fairly shit performance so I tend to avoid most of them.
A shitty dedi is almost always better than an oversold VPS when the provider doesn't manage it properly.
I wish I had jumped at that @Dedispec special, but I really don't care enough to do so because I don't really need tons of bandwidth anymore, and lack the care to actually do anything with it.
E: Ended up picking this beast up for work.
$29.84 /yr
VIRTUALIZATION KVM – 1 GIGABIT
WINDOWS WINDOWS AVAILABLE
RAM 6144MB RAM
CPU 2 vCORE
HDD 30GB SSD (RAID 10)
BANDWIDTH 4500GB BANDWIDTH
LOCATION BUFFALO, NY LOCATION
IPs 1 DEDICATED IPv4
It replaces one with similar specs and cost about $70/yr. Now I have two of them.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington