@Ympker said:
Btw, @rubenmdh what are you running on your dedis?
Nothing too fancy, currently sharing it with a few friends to selfhost a few apps such as Vaultwarden, Piped, Shlink... plus a few personal websites, all running Proxmox. I used to hammer the CPU doing some AV1 transcodes (it worked surprisingly well) but that's on a hiatus right now.
I can confirm on site support within their FFM facility was quick during my disk replacement.
@Ympker said:
Btw, @rubenmdh what are you running on your dedis?
Nothing too fancy, currently sharing it with a few friends to selfhost a few apps such as Vaultwarden, Piped, Shlink... plus a few personal websites, all running Proxmox. I used to hammer the CPU doing some AV1 transcodes (it worked surprisingly well) but that's on a hiatus right now.
I can confirm on site support within their FFM facility was quick during my disk replacement.
Thanks for the feedback! Cool stuff
Yeah, it makes sense that replacements are faster with their own staff.
My Finland VPS is LXC, my Germany "Rootserver" is KVM. Seems like my LXC now also becomes KVM
Nice upgrade. I wonder how that will reflect the pricing though. Will the "cheaper" former lxc-line just disappear? If not, what will be the difference between vServer and Rootserver if both are KVM?
My Finland VPS is LXC, my Germany "Rootserver" is KVM. Seems like my LXC now also becomes KVM
Nice upgrade. I wonder how that will reflect the pricing though. Will the "cheaper" former lxc-line just disappear? If not, what will be the difference between vServer and Rootserver if both are KVM?
I'd say they will probably merge both. There is no real difference now, other than marketing gimmicks imo.
It's not like a lot has changed anyways, their Windows and FreeBSD VPS were already using KVM, of course. So it was just a matter of time.
I wonder if anything happened to 'force' them to make the move to full KVM.
My Finland VPS is LXC, my Germany "Rootserver" is KVM. Seems like my LXC now also becomes KVM
Nice upgrade. I wonder how that will reflect the pricing though. Will the "cheaper" former lxc-line just disappear? If not, what will be the difference between vServer and Rootserver if both are KVM?
I'd say they will probably merge both. There is no real difference now, other than marketing gimmicks imo.
It's not like a lot has changed anyways, their Windows and FreeBSD VPS were already using KVM, of course. So it was just a matter of time.
I wonder if anything happened to 'force' them to make the move to full KVM.
That's also my guess, but that would also mean that the (significantly cheaper) LXC product will disappear altogether with lifetime vps now starting at 150€ish instead of at 79€ish (LXC).
Probably they noticed KVM is the way to go. Might also mean we always get slower os updates now, because LXC supported Ubuntu 22/24 months ahead of KVM which was still at 20.04 EOL. However, you can use netboot to install latest with kvm
My Finland VPS is LXC, my Germany "Rootserver" is KVM. Seems like my LXC now also becomes KVM
Nice upgrade. I wonder how that will reflect the pricing though. Will the "cheaper" former lxc-line just disappear? If not, what will be the difference between vServer and Rootserver if both are KVM?
I'd say they will probably merge both. There is no real difference now, other than marketing gimmicks imo.
It's not like a lot has changed anyways, their Windows and FreeBSD VPS were already using KVM, of course. So it was just a matter of time.
I wonder if anything happened to 'force' them to make the move to full KVM.
That's also my guess, but that would also mean that the (significantly cheaper) LXC product will disappear altogether with lifetime vps now starting at 150€ish instead of at 79€ish (LXC).
Probably they noticed KVM is the way to go. Might also mean we always get slower os updates now, because LXC supported Ubuntu 22/24 months ahead of KVM which was still at 20.04 EOL. However, you can use netboot to install latest with kvm
Or they also probably realized they can share resources just like they did with LXC, since ballooning is enabled by default on all Root Servers (set to less than half of your purchased RAM ) and CPU resources the same way too.
My Finland VPS is LXC, my Germany "Rootserver" is KVM. Seems like my LXC now also becomes KVM
Nice upgrade. I wonder how that will reflect the pricing though. Will the "cheaper" former lxc-line just disappear? If not, what will be the difference between vServer and Rootserver if both are KVM?
I'd say they will probably merge both. There is no real difference now, other than marketing gimmicks imo.
It's not like a lot has changed anyways, their Windows and FreeBSD VPS were already using KVM, of course. So it was just a matter of time.
I wonder if anything happened to 'force' them to make the move to full KVM.
That's also my guess, but that would also mean that the (significantly cheaper) LXC product will disappear altogether with lifetime vps now starting at 150€ish instead of at 79€ish (LXC).
Probably they noticed KVM is the way to go. Might also mean we always get slower os updates now, because LXC supported Ubuntu 22/24 months ahead of KVM which was still at 20.04 EOL. However, you can use netboot to install latest with kvm
Or they also probably realized they can share resources just like they did with LXC, since ballooning is enabled by default on all Root Servers (set to less than half of your purchased RAM ) and CPU resources the same way too.
Which is misleading, considering their email explicitly implies "dedicated resources":
But I guess they could always say: "You are entitled to use all your allocated resources. We are just provisioning them elsewhere while you are not using them."
My Finland VPS is LXC, my Germany "Rootserver" is KVM. Seems like my LXC now also becomes KVM
Nice upgrade. I wonder how that will reflect the pricing though. Will the "cheaper" former lxc-line just disappear? If not, what will be the difference between vServer and Rootserver if both are KVM?
I'd say they will probably merge both. There is no real difference now, other than marketing gimmicks imo.
It's not like a lot has changed anyways, their Windows and FreeBSD VPS were already using KVM, of course. So it was just a matter of time.
I wonder if anything happened to 'force' them to make the move to full KVM.
That's also my guess, but that would also mean that the (significantly cheaper) LXC product will disappear altogether with lifetime vps now starting at 150€ish instead of at 79€ish (LXC).
Probably they noticed KVM is the way to go. Might also mean we always get slower os updates now, because LXC supported Ubuntu 22/24 months ahead of KVM which was still at 20.04 EOL. However, you can use netboot to install latest with kvm
Or they also probably realized they can share resources just like they did with LXC, since ballooning is enabled by default on all Root Servers (set to less than half of your purchased RAM ) and CPU resources the same way too.
Which is misleading, considering their email explicitly implies "dedicated resources":
But I guess they could always say: "You are entitled to use all your allocated resources. We are just provisioning them elsewhere while you are not using them."
I have a full ticket with them about that, and that they ended up disabling ballooning for me.
These are some quick screenshots (can post it fully, I don't mind, will probably end up making a thread because they got me super fucking mad)
That's just a bunch of bullshit (Proxmox enables ballooning by default, yeah, but the minimum RAM is always set to the same RAM you set to the VM, so effectively, 0 balloons of RAM can be made )
Preventing the load of the balloon module on the kernel is also forbidden for what it seems (although they messed up a few times in the ticket and some of their staff told me no, and some of them told me yes)
So effectively, all of their VMs have shared resources (except Storage), including RAM, which is just insane. I have never seen a provider ballooning RAM between VMs in my life, except probably the obvious Contabo-like ones
Right now only announced for game servers and VPS. Availability on lifetime services is unknown.
It's interesting they have upgraded from an almost 10yo platform to a fairly recent and powerful one, Ryzen 9000, that is. If they release a lifetime dedi with a Ryzen chip, you bet I will grab it asap and YABS it
Right now only announced for game servers and VPS. Availability on lifetime services is unknown.
It's interesting they have upgraded from an almost 10yo platform to a fairly recent and powerful one, Ryzen 9000, that is. If they release a lifetime dedi with a Ryzen chip, you bet I will grab it asap and YABS it
Ryzen chips are gonna be nice Hopefully they'll make it to Lifetime deals. How many lifetime dedis do you have with them again?
@Ympker said: Ryzen chips are gonna be nice Hopefully they'll make it to Lifetime deals.
but there is no info on the type of cpu you will get when ordering LTDs, or is there?
For KVM VPS it shows the cpu model during order process (you can choose standard or "premium" cpu), for lxc not. Someone wrote they were gonna also move lxc to kvm, so maybe we'll soon have cpu info for all.
Right now only announced for game servers and VPS. Availability on lifetime services is unknown.
It's interesting they have upgraded from an almost 10yo platform to a fairly recent and powerful one, Ryzen 9000, that is. If they release a lifetime dedi with a Ryzen chip, you bet I will grab it asap and YABS it
Ryzen chips are gonna be nice Hopefully they'll make it to Lifetime deals. How many lifetime dedis do you have with them again?
I have two.
2640v2 / 64GB / 500 GB SSD
2680v2 / 128GB / 2x 500 GB SSD <-- this one with extra IPv4
They have been working really well and are remarkably stable. I can't complain other than the lack of IPv6.
Right now only announced for game servers and VPS. Availability on lifetime services is unknown.
It's interesting they have upgraded from an almost 10yo platform to a fairly recent and powerful one, Ryzen 9000, that is. If they release a lifetime dedi with a Ryzen chip, you bet I will grab it asap and YABS it
Ryzen chips are gonna be nice Hopefully they'll make it to Lifetime deals. How many lifetime dedis do you have with them again?
I have two.
2640v2 / 64GB / 500 GB SSD
2680v2 / 128GB / 2x 500 GB SSD <-- this one with extra IPv4
They have been working really well and are remarkably stable. I can't complain other than the lack of IPv6.
Good news for you guys with VPS within FFM datacenter! Newer CPU models are coming soon. Really hoping for my VPS to get migrated. Hopefully they'll send a notice beforehand.
@rubenmdh said:
Good news for you guys with VPS within FFM datacenter! Newer CPU models are coming soon. Really hoping for my VPS to get migrated. Hopefully they'll send a notice beforehand.
Fingers crossed. However, I'd assume the vps with no fixed cpu model (= former lxc) will be upgraded first as kvm vps were separated in standard/premium cpu with fixed models. Unfortunately, my lxc is in Finland and my KVM in Germany That said, they said lxc wil be migrated to kvm, soo.. is it time to buy cheap lxc before they remove it from the store and only offer (more expensive) kvm?
They also seem to have ditched aurologic completely in Eygelshoven. Subnets are now in AS206996 with PletX as upstream (another SkyLink wrapper basically)
Some subnets remain in aurologic (AS30823) tho, including Finland.
On a side note, they've finally added the option for users to select if they want ballooning or not in their VMs (what technically was against their ToS previously, as I was told in tickets)
@zgato said:
Just received this, check your emails people
I have also received it. As in my previous updates, 2+ years in, the lifetime root server has been the perfect self-hosting lab machine for me.
Unfortunately, didn't receive an upgrade notice (yet) for my rootserver, but I guess it's only the German LXC servers that get upgraded as they had no fixed cpu when ordering. My lxc is in Finland though :S
But happy for you guys @zgato@sgheghele The lifetime vps have been great value for me so far, too
@zgato said:
Just received this, check your emails people
Yep mee too.
One of the reasons for getting vServer instead of root server was that vServer is not tied to particular hardware. Over lifetime provider needs to updgrade the hardware and vServer will ride on it.
@zgato said:
Just received this, check your emails people
Yep mee too.
One of the reasons for getting vServer instead of root server was that vServer is not tied to particular hardware. Over lifetime provider needs to updgrade the hardware and vServer will ride on it.
Yup, that was also one of my reasons for LXC. But also got a KVM. New vps I buy will be lxc (or the equivalent with no fixed cpu, since all vps now will be kvm apparently).
Maybe I'll add another vps on Black Friday Sale to the collection
After two years, my lxc now is at like 1,45€ish/mo (70€/48) and my KVM/Rootserver at 3,10€ish/mo (150€/48). Gets cheaper by the month. ROI is good on these vps
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
Reinstalling LXC converts it to KVM?
Ballooning basically shares your VM RAM with the host node, and thus, can be used by other VMs too. I can see a good intention (considering KVM usually has a big overhead over the max RAM you assign the VM) but can be used for mass overselling, and they could very well be using swap for very high load situations where they really oversold a lot while they balance between nodes.
I don't know, up to you to trust them or not. I personally fought to have that option and well, they seem to have added it, so I personally kept ballooning enabled since I don't mind my idlers giving some RAM to other VMs
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
Reinstalling LXC converts it to KVM?
Apparently so (when reinstalling it showed "migrating to KVM" in the progress bar):
Still waiting though:
Ballooning basically shares your VM RAM with the host node, and thus, can be used by other VMs too. I can see a good intention (considering KVM usually has a big overhead over the max RAM you assign the VM) but can be used for mass overselling, and they could very well be using swap for very high load situations where they really oversold a lot while they balance between nodes.
I don't know, up to you to trust them or not. I personally fought to have that option and well, they seem to have added it, so I personally kept ballooning enabled since I don't mind my idlers giving some RAM to other VMs
Ah, thanks for the info Will enable it, too. Got some idlers
FYI: Seems like locations now also have different DDoS Protection:
Sooo, my (former) lxc vps got stuck during the migration/reinstall process to Ubuntu 24. Tried reinstalling various times before popping a ticket. That said, the support installed the VPS for me within a couple of hours, so props again to the quick and helpful support team, who are really fast and always happy to help. For a lifetime product that's awesome to see
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
--
As a side note, I just spinned up a new LXC instance and it was deployed on KVM, but still rocking a E5-2680 v4. Guess I am not lucky
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
--
As a side note, I just spinned up a new LXC instance and it was deployed on KVM, but still rocking a E5-2680 v4. Guess I am not lucky
But it has the chance to get a newer cpu model, because unlike the the kvm products it hasn't a specific cpu in the description that is assigned to it.
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
--
As a side note, I just spinned up a new LXC instance and it was deployed on KVM, but still rocking a E5-2680 v4. Guess I am not lucky
Same here. Still on xeon. Though I got email specifically saying that vps will be upgraded to epyc. So will happen sometime I expect.
@Ympker said:
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
--
As a side note, I just spinned up a new LXC instance and it was deployed on KVM, but still rocking a E5-2680 v4. Guess I am not lucky
Same here. Still on xeon. Though I got email specifically saying that vps will be upgraded to epyc. So will happen sometime I expect.
To be honest it's pretty awesome that our lifetime vps will get new hw (eventually) free of charge. I can wait a bit :P
I know am late to the discussion, but thought I'll join the party anyways.
My lifetime VPS was moved to the AMD one on 15th July. And couple of days later it was moved to KVM. Disk performance is still the same, nothing impressive. But pretty happy with the free upgrade. It was idling for all these years... I may now put it to some use. 🙂
My US rootserver is still on the older intel xeon stack.
I thought I had bought one of these two years ago ...I guess not. I am looking now at the baseline Helsinki offer at 86.90euros currently. Does anyone know if they would care if one shared private Linux ISOs (or at least reverse-proxied that traffic through that VPS)?
@hornet said:
I thought I had bought one of these two years ago ...I guess not. I am looking now at the baseline Helsinki offer at 86.90euros currently. Does anyone know if they would care if one shared private Linux ISOs (or at least reverse-proxied that traffic through that VPS)?
A German Provider might not be the best choice for private linux isos. That said, if they are encrypted and remain on your server, I guess they might be your private backups.
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Nothing too fancy, currently sharing it with a few friends to selfhost a few apps such as Vaultwarden, Piped, Shlink... plus a few personal websites, all running Proxmox. I used to hammer the CPU doing some AV1 transcodes (it worked surprisingly well) but that's on a hiatus right now.
I can confirm on site support within their FFM facility was quick during my disk replacement.
Thanks for the feedback! Cool stuff
Yeah, it makes sense that replacements are faster with their own staff.
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Seems like they're converting their LXC line into KVM now
https://x.com/zaphosting/status/1923419819673550932
@Ympker is yours LXC?
My Finland VPS is LXC, my Germany "Rootserver" is KVM. Seems like my LXC now also becomes KVM
Nice upgrade. I wonder how that will reflect the pricing though. Will the "cheaper" former lxc-line just disappear? If not, what will be the difference between vServer and Rootserver if both are KVM?
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
I'd say they will probably merge both. There is no real difference now, other than marketing gimmicks imo.
It's not like a lot has changed anyways, their Windows and FreeBSD VPS were already using KVM, of course. So it was just a matter of time.
I wonder if anything happened to 'force' them to make the move to full KVM.
That's also my guess, but that would also mean that the (significantly cheaper) LXC product will disappear altogether with lifetime vps now starting at 150€ish instead of at 79€ish (LXC).
Probably they noticed KVM is the way to go. Might also mean we always get slower os updates now, because LXC supported Ubuntu 22/24 months ahead of KVM which was still at 20.04 EOL. However, you can use netboot to install latest with kvm
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Or they also probably realized they can share resources just like they did with LXC, since ballooning is enabled by default on all Root Servers (set to less than half of your purchased RAM
) and CPU resources the same way too.
Which is misleading, considering their email explicitly implies "dedicated resources":
But I guess they could always say: "You are entitled to use all your allocated resources. We are just provisioning them elsewhere while you are not using them."
I have a full ticket with them about that, and that they ended up disabling ballooning for me.
These are some quick screenshots (can post it fully, I don't mind, will probably end up making a thread because they got me super fucking mad)
That's just a bunch of bullshit (Proxmox enables ballooning by default, yeah, but the minimum RAM is always set to the same RAM you set to the VM, so effectively, 0 balloons of RAM can be made
)
Preventing the load of the balloon module on the kernel is also forbidden for what it seems (although they messed up a few times in the ticket and some of their staff told me no, and some of them told me yes)
So effectively, all of their VMs have shared resources (except Storage), including RAM, which is just insane. I have never seen a provider ballooning RAM between VMs in my life, except probably the obvious Contabo-like ones
Hello, just another quick update. Apart from the already announced v4 CPU models made available like a month ago:
New ones have appeared:
Looks like they are finally getting Ryzen chips:
https://zap-hosting.com/en/blog/2025/07/amd-ryzen-9-9950x-is-coming-to-zap/
Right now only announced for game servers and VPS. Availability on lifetime services is unknown.
It's interesting they have upgraded from an almost 10yo platform to a fairly recent and powerful one, Ryzen 9000, that is. If they release a lifetime dedi with a Ryzen chip, you bet I will grab it asap and YABS it
Ryzen chips are gonna be nice
Hopefully they'll make it to Lifetime deals. How many lifetime dedis do you have with them again? 
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
but there is no info on the type of cpu you will get when ordering LTDs, or is there?
For KVM VPS it shows the cpu model during order process (you can choose standard or "premium" cpu), for lxc not. Someone wrote they were gonna also move lxc to kvm, so maybe we'll soon have cpu info for all.
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
I have two.
2640v2 / 64GB / 500 GB SSD
2680v2 / 128GB / 2x 500 GB SSD <-- this one with extra IPv4
They have been working really well and are remarkably stable. I can't complain other than the lack of IPv6.
Sounds great
Thanks for the update!
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Good news for you guys with VPS within FFM datacenter! Newer CPU models are coming soon. Really hoping for my VPS to get migrated. Hopefully they'll send a notice beforehand.
Fingers crossed. However, I'd assume the vps with no fixed cpu model (= former lxc) will be upgraded first as kvm vps were separated in standard/premium cpu with fixed models. Unfortunately, my lxc is in Finland and my KVM in Germany
That said, they said lxc wil be migrated to kvm, soo.. is it time to buy cheap lxc before they remove it from the store and only offer (more expensive) kvm?
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
They also seem to have ditched aurologic completely in Eygelshoven. Subnets are now in AS206996 with PletX as upstream (another SkyLink wrapper basically)
Some subnets remain in aurologic (AS30823) tho, including Finland.
On a side note, they've finally added the option for users to select if they want ballooning or not in their VMs (what technically was against their ToS previously, as I was told in tickets)
Just received this, check your emails people
I have also received it. As in my previous updates, 2+ years in, the lifetime root server has been the perfect self-hosting lab machine for me.
Unfortunately, didn't receive an upgrade notice (yet) for my rootserver, but I guess it's only the German LXC servers that get upgraded as they had no fixed cpu when ordering. My lxc is in Finland though :S
But happy for you guys @zgato @sgheghele
The lifetime vps have been great value for me so far, too 
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
I got the same email this morning about my lifetime LXC VPS in the US!
Yep mee too.
One of the reasons for getting vServer instead of root server was that vServer is not tied to particular hardware. Over lifetime provider needs to updgrade the hardware and vServer will ride on it.
Yup, that was also one of my reasons for LXC. But also got a KVM. New vps I buy will be lxc (or the equivalent with no fixed cpu, since all vps now will be kvm apparently).
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Got the same email this morning! Looks like my Finland LXC will be getting a nice boost.
Maybe I'll add another vps on Black Friday Sale to the collection
After two years, my lxc now is at like 1,45€ish/mo (70€/48) and my KVM/Rootserver at 3,10€ish/mo (150€/48). Gets cheaper by the month. ROI is good on these vps
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Lol, just when I wanted to reinstall my LXC vps to get KVM.
Did you guys enable Ballooning? What is it again?
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Reinstalling LXC converts it to KVM?
Ballooning basically shares your VM RAM with the host node, and thus, can be used by other VMs too. I can see a good intention (considering KVM usually has a big overhead over the max RAM you assign the VM) but can be used for mass overselling, and they could very well be using swap for very high load situations where they really oversold a lot while they balance between nodes.
I don't know, up to you to trust them or not. I personally fought to have that option and well, they seem to have added it, so I personally kept ballooning enabled since I don't mind my idlers giving some RAM to other VMs
Apparently so (when reinstalling it showed "migrating to KVM" in the progress bar):
Still waiting though:
Ah, thanks for the info
Will enable it, too. Got some idlers 
FYI: Seems like locations now also have different DDoS Protection:
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Sooo, my (former) lxc vps got stuck during the migration/reinstall process to Ubuntu 24. Tried reinstalling various times before popping a ticket. That said, the support installed the VPS for me within a couple of hours, so props again to the quick and helpful support team, who are really fast and always happy to help. For a lifetime product that's awesome to see
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
I think they did some housekeeping changes to prepare for the migration, even though their webpage still lists v2 Xeons as vCPU for selection.
Regarding the DDoS protection, it has indeed changed to a different provider. They've been doing tests in the last few weeks.
In my case, it has proven to be problematic with Wireguard and Geneve tunnels. They had to whitelist the endpoint IP for me. In any case, support has always been helpful and professional, so props for that.
--
As a side note, I just spinned up a new LXC instance and it was deployed on KVM, but still rocking a E5-2680 v4. Guess I am not lucky
But it has the chance to get a newer cpu model, because unlike the the kvm products it hasn't a specific cpu in the description that is assigned to it.
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Same here. Still on xeon. Though I got email specifically saying that vps will be upgraded to epyc. So will happen sometime I expect.
To be honest it's pretty awesome that our lifetime vps will get new hw (eventually) free of charge. I can wait a bit :P
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
I know am late to the discussion, but thought I'll join the party anyways.
My lifetime VPS was moved to the AMD one on 15th July. And couple of days later it was moved to KVM. Disk performance is still the same, nothing impressive. But pretty happy with the free upgrade. It was idling for all these years... I may now put it to some use. 🙂
My US rootserver is still on the older intel xeon stack.
Got an email that my vps will be migrated to epyc today. Still waiting to happen ...
I got it a few days ago and still not a single VM migrated
Will ticket to ask I guess.
Nevermind, a random box I had with zap credits got the upgrade, i'm so sad
AMD EPYC 7763
YABS of the VM (forgot to post)
Have got it upgraded now.
model name : AMD EPYC 7763 64-CoreBrief outage due to switch malfunction.
You can redeem a 10€ voucher for the next 48 hours:
sorry-for-that-eghThanks! Redeemed it
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Moar money, 10€ voucher for the next 48 hours:
NETWORK0725I don't know if they invalidated the previous one. This one was sent within the explanation email.
According to zap discord there was a screenshot posted about about rental and lifetime dedicated server getting amd options.
I'm still waiting for mine to be upgraded to EPYC...
I must still be "in the coming days" almost a month later
Same here :S
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I thought I had bought one of these two years ago ...I guess not. I am looking now at the baseline Helsinki offer at 86.90euros currently. Does anyone know if they would care if one shared private Linux ISOs (or at least reverse-proxied that traffic through that VPS)?
A German Provider might not be the best choice for private linux isos. That said, if they are encrypted and remain on your server, I guess they might be your private backups.
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Seems like Finland VPS are all re-located to Germany location. Finland location is unfortunately being discontinued.
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