CrunchBits ending all yearly/promotion services
I woke up to this huge disappointment, I really love my crunchbit services and it is a shame they will be ending at the end of their billing cycle
Dear XXXX
We are reaching out to inform you of an important update regarding our Yearly/Promotional VPS plans. After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue this product line. This change is effective immediately for renewals, but we will honor all existing plans through their current paid terms. We understand that this may come as a disappointment to some of you, and for that, we sincerely apologize. While many of you have been wonderful customers, this product line has presented unique challenges. A significant portion of these plans have resulted in disproportionate abuse and support demands compared to our other offerings. Despite our best efforts, this has created an unsustainable situation as the problems continue to resurface and continue to remain and/or grow with time. The only alternative to this would be implementing strict KYC/identification policies and limitations on all customer accounts which we are absolutely not willing to do. This has been limiting our ability to focus on other improvements across our entire platform. We greatly appreciate your business and want to provide as smooth a transition as possible.Here are the options available to you:
Your Options:
Pro-Rated Refund & Early Cancellation
If you prefer to cancel your service now and receive a prorated refund please let us know by opening a ticket and we will issue a prorated refund from November 1, 2024 until your due date. Services will remain active until at least November 30, 2024. We understand the need for clarity and will do our best to assist with your transition if this option suits your needs.
Continue Your Service Until the End of Your Paid Term
If you'd like to continue using your VPS until the end of your prepaid term (no matter the length), we will fully honor the remaining time. To choose this option, you do not have to do anything. Additionally, we’re happy to offer a recurring discount to transition to one of our upgraded VPS products at the end of your term—or even sooner if you wish to move early with a prorated refund for the remainder of your time. Our DIY VPS lineup is competitively priced and may align with your needs, though there may be slight differences in specifications.
Additional Notes:
If your due date is before December 1, 2024, your plan will be automatically extended at no cost until December 1, to ensure fairness during this transition.
IPv4 Renumbering: Separately, and unrelated to just the Yearly plans, we will be renumbering all VPSs in the 38.0.0.0/8 IPv4 space. This is due to a recent AUP change by Cogent, which has created operational risks by threatening to revoke BGP sessions/announcements for unrelated and lawful content hosted in our separate completely non-Cogent facilities. To safeguard your rights and maintain stability, we have already secured new IP space and affected customers will be notified of migration details soon.
If your situation is unique or not well-covered by the options above, you should still open a support ticket and our team will do their best to assist you. We are open to helping you and finding a solution for our early supporters. We do value your business and the trust you’ve placed in us. While this was not an easy decision, we are committed to improving our services and ensuring that we can better meet the needs of existing and new customers moving forward and making sure our efforts are focused on supporting them rather than continually cleaning up messes left by abusers.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
Sincerely,
Eric Yingling
Crunchbits LLC
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Per option #2, open up a ticket and see what they'll offer for the transition.
Crunchbits stole our squats (it's deposited as account credits).
It's all @FatGrizzly fault https://crunchbits.rip/
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Sad. The Crunch crew figured out that the bad eggs can cause too many issues to make it worthwhile for them to cater to Low Enders. THAT'S why we can't have nice things. But am grateful at least to be paid up for a while:
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Thank you
I opened a topic over here as well with the statement just in case, didn't see this one until after.
The burden just became increasingly too much of the same abuse patterns, over and over. I don't want to go into too much gross detail, but the worst of the worst abuse originated from here because the barrier to entry was just too low. I don't want to start getting our ASN flagged (affecting all customers) or default blocked by other places like what has happened to some other providers.
We can continually stamp out the abusers one by one but I'll be pretty open and Frank (miss you) about it over here: it burns everyone out (esp over a promotional/fun product). Without a feasible way to truly stop them just coming right back while simultaneously also not continually ruining the experience for every other product stack this seemed like a better approach. I did consider just never restocking them, but I don't like the false hope (and daily tickets opened 'wen stock??!'). I am confident that level-headed and patient customers will come out ahead.
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it is a huge shame that there are bad apples, I have been really happy with my services and use them for legitimate things like a person should
I may see what you offer for Option 2 after I think about it some more.
Option 2 I choose you!
The Yeti has left the building.
Definitely sad to see this. Out of all my VPN nodes, this one has been the most stable by far, and is one I was hoping to keep for years.
Given the performance of mine, this part is the option I would like to consider -- my renewal date was back in August so paid up for a while anyway -- but I can't find those DIY VPS options on the site, or any current services to add in my account, actually. @crunchbits any link to the order page so we can look at those possibilities?
Crap! I have a week or so, to work out an alternative.
Getting ready for my next heart attack.
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
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It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
It'll be done via ticket as it's not going to be a fixed discount across the board, depending on which product you already had/etc. There are a few options you can decide from ranging from 'no price change' to 'slight price change' along with some other benefits.
EDIT: Forgot to add for clarity--it's related to why we've kept the DIY stuff out of stock, just making sure enough capacity is available for anyone that wants it.
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Sweet, thanks! Will put a ticket in and see what the options are.
sent a support ticket, I hope I can continue using your lovely service
Put a ticket in for my 4 services. Still have 2+ years left on 2 of them and like 8 months on the other 2 so I've got some time to decide but would be nice to have a plan early.
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FYI that link doesn't work
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Amazing affordable offers, stable and powerful VPS. Really sorry to hear this.
Maybe I should avoid cheap offers in future.
MicroLXC is lovable.
Crunchbits and Micronode refugee offers are up on https://vps.blackfriday/ for the next hours or so.
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RIP @crunchbits
may you find better heaven.
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Was to be expected... I left them earlier
apt mooThank you @crunchbits for the promo offers provided so far. These offers were great while they lasted.
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For clarity; you want us to raise a Ticket, for you to then provide an appropriate equivalent/alternative package?
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).
Yes, no, maybe, something like that.
Just open a ticket and see what they have to offer.
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
Low End Surprise! It will turn out to be an upgraded VPS on a different server for the same money. Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully. Won't know until put a ticket in which I'll definitely be doing when my current VPS term expires.
It is doubtful they will want to continue my current promotion and I am okay with it. I will put in a ticket after BF
The Yeti has left the building.
Wow.
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Opened a ticket. Wasn't disappointed
me either, one of my services is not able to be transferred to the new system as it is one of the 6GB chicken promos but my others are getting migrated some with upgraded ram maybe
Now I want something (IT-related) from @crunchbits too.
The services with discount code "FRANKZ" are not affected right? @crunchbits
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How many promo codes did he put out? I just remember the other one I used.
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I put in a ticket, I was indeed happy!
@crunchbits
RIP my
Brave EconomicsVM, it was predicting the future :-DHaven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
So is that the red pill or the red pill? Remember these are crunchy lands so no illusions here.
I moved all my websites to Carrd, and cancelled all my idlers.
Save the earth, don't idle.
They’re still in business and thriving. Just dropping the bad plan that brought in bad eggs the way I see it. They’re super affordable even without discount. I am very happy with @crunchbits service in general and find prices unbeatable. I refer clients and others to their site all the time and folks get skeptical because it’s a steal compared to the major cloud providers.
I’m ripping up your post in protest. Humorously.
I moved all my websites to Carrd, and cancelled all my idlers.
Save the earth, don't idle.
Purple pills for me the red give me diarrhea
The Yeti has left the building.
If I recall, that was only ever used on a VDS service. Not affected. Idea is to improve the rest of the lineup (directly and indirectly) but needed to take a moment to clean up the shed. This is only the [PROMO] tagged stuff, and for real users it's not even going away if they wish to keep it
. I just can't emphasize enough that it had become so insanely popular outside of our target groups that we'd have to deploy 250+ units at a time for 3-5 of you to be able to snag one here/OGF. Adding forced email verification, banning as many trouble-making IP ranges as we could find, slowly tightening everything up had (at best) marginal temporary improvements and would be circumvented eventually.
Every single other product did not have this issue at all. It's just the way things are now, and while I'd love to provide some more insane deals we really need to step back and find a method that keeps it where I'd want it to stay but doesn't also create a massive manual workload. That, and let the dust settle and people to calm down and realize their plans weren't cancelled, but upgraded.
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The power of FRANKZ will not be diminished.
HOLY SHIT!!!
WELCOME BACK!
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?Never lost hope. Poster still proudly hanging in datacenter where all the younger guys continually ask "hey, uhh.. who is that? why is he hanging on a server cabinet?"
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EDIT: You can always tell them that it is the guy that wrote this song ....
On second though maybe not.
Welcome home. Will we get details on your sabbatical?
OK now I gotta know even though my promo offer doesn't end until August. Ticket is IN!
@FrankZ posted in a Crunchbits thread first after coming back instead of VirMach?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?Big thank you to @crunchbits for keeping my VMs going while I was gone.
Also to @skorupion for .... well you know what for.
I have lots of
to give. So I believe it's fine to 
more than one.
I believe there are already a lot of tickets open, so I think I'll wait a bit before opening one. However, since many VPSs are likely to expire around August 2025, resulting in a surge of tickets, it’s probably better to open one before that, right?
Yeah go ahead, sooner is always better. We knew the surge was coming, already sent a pallet of frozen pizza and dr pepper to @skorupion
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