CrunchBits ending all yearly/promotion services

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  • @FrankZ said:
    Big thank you to @crunchbits for keeping my VMs going while I was gone.
    Also to @skorupion for .... well you know what for.

    Double penet......?????? :open_mouth:

    I believe in good luck. Harder that I work ,luckier i get.

  • @crunchbits said:

    @tototo said:
    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

    Thanks, I've opened a ticket (but I won't post the ticket number here because it's not cool).

  • I also opened up a ticket and can very gladly report that they did not disappoint with their transition plan and will happily continue using this and the other services we have had. That pallet of frozen pizza and Dr. Pepper was definitely worth it. Thank you for the great service!

  • @crunchbits said:

    @tototo said:
    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

    Where is MINE!!!!!

    The Yeti has left the building.

  • Hi @crunchbits - I really appreciate the promo you gave me last year, I waited patiently for it in the Discord room. Hopefully you can offer me something to sweeten this year's black friday mood a little. Thanks

    Ticket #PGN-002096

  • @FrankZ said:

    @crunchbits said:

    @FrankZ said:

    @terrorgen said:
    The services with discount code "FRANKZ" are not affected right? @crunchbits

    The power of FRANKZ will not be diminished.

    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?"

    EDIT: You can always tell them that it is the guy that wrote this song ....

    On second though maybe not.

    I actually have not heard this before. This is actually quite nice, thank you @FrankZ. Added to my spotify favorites (and thats a small list of what I tolerate to repeat)

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  • My ticket has gone unanswered for five days.

  • edited November 2024

    It's the simple low end launch strategy.

    1. Offer an unsustainable deal and cram as many users as you can onto your limited nodes.

    2. Add more nodes from the overselling activity and or a few rented IP blocks.

    3. Retain customers willing to pay a premium and run the churn machine all over again.

  • edited November 2024

    @techdragon said:
    It's the simple low end launch strategy.

    1. Offer an unsustainable deal and cram as many users as you can onto your limited nodes.

    2. Add more nodes from the overselling activity and or a few rented IP blocks.

    3. Retain customers willing to pay a premium and run the churn machine all over again.

    Disagree. I never use those providers long term - most of them end up deadpooling us. They are also usually pretty bad providers, I do not see those ones advertising on this forum.

    @sayyiku said:
    My ticket has gone unanswered for five days.

    It is the holiday season, they also have a large backlog of tickets. I also submitted my ticket today based on feedback I got so I expect them to get back to me probably next week honestly. They will get back to you way before me.

    I moved all my websites to Carrd, and cancelled all my idlers.
    Save the earth, don't idle.

  • FrankZFrankZ ModeratorOG
    edited November 2024

    @techdragon said:
    It's the simple low end launch strategy.

    1. Offer an unsustainable deal and cram as many users as you can onto your limited nodes.

    2. Add more nodes from the overselling activity and or a few rented IP blocks.

    3. Retain customers willing to pay a premium and run the churn machine all over again.

    It does not seem like a pump and dump to me.
    Below is one row of racks in their WA DC.
    Seldomly do pump and dump operations have this many racks, or such top notch personnel.
    Just saying.

  • Think before you accuse.

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  • Anyways this was just a clever bait and switch, I guess they will audit the tickets better and only allow people who are good this time who knows

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  • Fall from Grace

  • how to update?

  • JabJab TOP Member 2027

    @bigfish said:
    how to update?

    Right click and select "Update".

    Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.

  • edited November 2024

    @FrankZ said:

    @techdragon said:
    It's the simple low end launch strategy.

    1. Offer an unsustainable deal and cram as many users as you can onto your limited nodes.

    2. Add more nodes from the overselling activity and or a few rented IP blocks.

    3. Retain customers willing to pay a premium and run the churn machine all over again.

    It does not seem like a pump and dump to me.
    Below is one row of racks in their WA DC.
    Seldomly do pump and dump operations have this many racks, or such top notch personnel.
    Just saying.

    It's a Wyoming company. Nothing is verifiable.

  • @codelock said:
    Anyways this was just a clever bait and switch, I guess they will audit the tickets better and only allow people who are good this time who knows

    What bait-and-switch? This was a tax on people who can't read and follow directions.

  • @skorous said:

    @codelock said:
    Anyways this was just a clever bait and switch, I guess they will audit the tickets better and only allow people who are good this time who knows

    What bait-and-switch? This was a tax on people who can't read and follow directions.

    Sorry I should have phrased it better I mean it was a bait for people who can't read , bait them out to cancel

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  • @codelock said:

    @skorous said:

    @codelock said:
    Anyways this was just a clever bait and switch, I guess they will audit the tickets better and only allow people who are good this time who knows

    What bait-and-switch? This was a tax on people who can't read and follow directions.

    Sorry I should have phrased it better I mean it was a bait for people who can't read , bait them out to cancel

    Yea, I think it's because the promos they made were meant for only LES/OGF. It seems like most of those customers were good, but then it got shared outside of LES/OGF in places where the trouble customers were. Those customers are the ones that are all upset because they just started rumors based on bad translations to their language.

  • @techdragon said:

    1. Retain customers willing to pay a premium and run the churn machine all over again.

    Don't know how you're calling getting a better CPU, NVMe storage and a bump in RAM for the same price as before as "paying a premium" but okay.

    cum laude bongineering

  • @beanman109 said:

    @techdragon said:

    1. Retain customers willing to pay a premium and run the churn machine all over again.

    Don't know how you're calling getting a better CPU, NVMe storage and a bump in RAM for the same price as before as "paying a premium" but okay.

    All is well in the end.

    I moved all my websites to Carrd, and cancelled all my idlers.
    Save the earth, don't idle.

  • NeoonNeoon OG
    edited November 2024

    @huntercop said:

    @beanman109 said:

    @techdragon said:

    1. Retain customers willing to pay a premium and run the churn machine all over again.

    Don't know how you're calling getting a better CPU, NVMe storage and a bump in RAM for the same price as before as "paying a premium" but okay.

    All is well in the end.

    Yea true, got the upgrade to, at this point, nothing can't beat that 6$/y machine anymore.

  • edited November 2024

    @Neoon said:

    @huntercop said:

    @beanman109 said:

    @techdragon said:

    1. Retain customers willing to pay a premium and run the churn machine all over again.

    Don't know how you're calling getting a better CPU, NVMe storage and a bump in RAM for the same price as before as "paying a premium" but okay.

    All is well in the end.

    Yea true, got the upgrade to, at this point, nothing can't beat that 6$/y machine anymore.

    Not even ks A? 🤣

    But yeah it is the best vm I own right now

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  • @codelock said:

    @Neoon said:

    @huntercop said:

    @beanman109 said:

    @techdragon said:

    1. Retain customers willing to pay a premium and run the churn machine all over again.

    Don't know how you're calling getting a better CPU, NVMe storage and a bump in RAM for the same price as before as "paying a premium" but okay.

    All is well in the end.

    Yea true, got the upgrade to, at this point, nothing can't beat that 6$/y machine anymore.

    Not even ks A? 🤣

    But yeah it is the best vm I own right now

    If it ever gets delivered yes.....

  • edited November 2024

    @Neoon said:

    @codelock said:

    @Neoon said:

    @huntercop said:

    @beanman109 said:

    @techdragon said:

    1. Retain customers willing to pay a premium and run the churn machine all over again.

    Don't know how you're calling getting a better CPU, NVMe storage and a bump in RAM for the same price as before as "paying a premium" but okay.

    All is well in the end.

    Yea true, got the upgrade to, at this point, nothing can't beat that 6$/y machine anymore.

    Not even ks A? 🤣

    But yeah it is the best vm I own right now

    If it ever gets delivered yes.....

    Well I think some delay around BF / Holidays is reasonable. Our service was never interrupted either so I can’t complain.

    I moved all my websites to Carrd, and cancelled all my idlers.
    Save the earth, don't idle.

  • The network has became unstable, I am guessing someone is not happy and decided to DDoS :(

  • @dgc1980 said:
    The network has became unstable, I am guessing someone is not happy and decided to DDoS :(

    According to crunchy a fiber cut.

  • too bad to see that now.and hurry to open a ticket.I hope to stay and continue to use this excellent service.

  • @Neoon said:

    @dgc1980 said:
    The network has became unstable, I am guessing someone is not happy and decided to DDoS :(

    According to crunchy a fiber cut.

    I have not seen any announcements on the website?

    DM us for private tracker invite.

  • @terrorgen said:

    @Neoon said:

    @dgc1980 said:
    The network has became unstable, I am guessing someone is not happy and decided to DDoS :(

    According to crunchy a fiber cut.

    I have not seen any announcements on the website?

    Disckord

  • JabJab TOP Member 2027
    edited November 2024

    @terrorgen said: I have not seen any announcements on the website?

    You did not?
    https://crunchbits.com/network/status
    https://uptime.crunchbits.net/status/public

    90% of my screen is this announcement.

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  • @Jab said:

    @terrorgen said: I have not seen any announcements on the website?

    You did not?
    https://crunchbits.com/network/status
    https://uptime.crunchbits.net/status/public

    90% of my screen is this announcement.

    Ah shoot. Must have missed them

    DM us for private tracker invite.

  • @crunchbits said:

    @tototo said:
    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

    Opened a ticket a week ago but still haven't get any reply... have this surge gone?

  • @terrorgen said:

    @Jab said:

    @terrorgen said: I have not seen any announcements on the website?

    You did not?
    https://crunchbits.com/network/status
    https://uptime.crunchbits.net/status/public

    90% of my screen is this announcement.

    Ah shoot. Must have missed them

    How? Just...how?
    I was more like "AAAAHHH, why did my entire screen turn yellow?" and then had to scroll for two minutes to get to the actual webpage below the status message. How did you miss that? I'm not even mad, just impressed. :lol:

  • edited November 2024

    @matcha said: have this surge gone?

    I don't think so. :) I received a response pretty quickly 9 days ago, but that was it (the ticket is still open). :)
    Things are more time-demanding because many of those transactions are too old to be refunded automatically and require manual intervention.

  • @matcha said:
    Opened a ticket a week ago but still haven't get any reply... have this surge gone?

    Probably working through the backlog. My open ticket hasn't been touched in a week, so it look like it's not just you.

  • @Mumbly said:

    @matcha said: have this surge gone?

    I don't think so. :) I received a response pretty quickly 9 days ago, but that was it (the ticket is still open). :)
    Things are more time-demanding because many of those transactions are too old to be refunded automatically and require manual intervention.

    Yep, you're correct. Anything that was too old to automatically refund from our panel is being batched--but it's simply manually sending the calculated refund out as a PayPal payment like you would do to for any random p2p PayPal transaction and then logging it and entering back into the billing system as a refund so our records aren't a complete mess EOY. About to do a big chunk today again.

  • Curious, what kind of abuse and support demands?

  • @rcy026 said:

    @terrorgen said:

    @Jab said:

    @terrorgen said: I have not seen any announcements on the website?

    You did not?
    https://crunchbits.com/network/status
    https://uptime.crunchbits.net/status/public

    90% of my screen is this announcement.

    Ah shoot. Must have missed them

    How? Just...how?
    I was more like "AAAAHHH, why did my entire screen turn yellow?" and then had to scroll for two minutes to get to the actual webpage below the status message. How did you miss that? I'm not even mad, just impressed. :lol:

    I don't go around and hunt for service status... got larger fish (in the form of a two year old) to fry

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  • No response more than 10 days.

  • @arirang said:
    No response more than 10 days.

    Wait another two years then cancel. I would it would serve them right!

    The Yeti has left the building.

  • @AuroraZero said:

    @arirang said:
    No response more than 10 days.

    Wait another two years then cancel. I would it would serve them right!

    Little disappointed, I don't care although.
    For me and them, it's a liite money.

  • @AlwaysSkint said:
    @crunchbits
    For clarity; you want us to raise a Ticket, for you to then provide an appropriate equivalent/alternative package?

    I did. You made me a good offer but never answered the ticket or delivered. The service was terminated, and the second ticket was already closed. Good job!

  • I noticed one of my services had been cancelled, it was one they said I would not be able to renew due to the configuration of it. but I have just noticed that ALL my services have been set to cancel without the option to renew and without any notification

  • edited September 2025

    @dgc1980 said:
    I noticed one of my services had been cancelled, it was one they said I would not be able to renew due to the configuration of it. but I have just noticed that ALL my services have been set to cancel without the option to renew and without any notification

    They'll be extending the duration of these services until they're migrated to newer hardware. Just make sure to poke them days before they expire just in case, to prevent accidents. But they haven't been silently cancelled with the intention of getting rid of you. It's just an... interesting way to handle servers to be processed.

    EDIT: Just for clarification, so far they've been extending the duration of these services, free of charge. You're not even being billed at the moment.

  • @JeDaYoshi said: They'll be extending the duration of these services until they're migrated to newer hardware. Just make sure to poke them days before they expire just in case, to prevent accidents. But they haven't been silently cancelled with the intention of getting rid of you. It's just an... interesting way to handle servers to be processed.

    they have not even contacted us to let us know about this, so I have lost one service without notification, nothing important was on it, because I already stopped using it last year when they said they would not renew that one, but I noticed all my services have been set to cancel. it has rubbed me the wrong way :( I will wait until there is a few months left on them if the system has not been updated I will migrate them to a new provider. the usage of what are almost minimal for a reddit bot to assist with moderation and a very small website.

  • edited September 2025

    @dgc1980 said:
    so I have lost one service without notification, nothing important was on it, because I already stopped using it last year when they said they would not renew that one

    I'd have expected this one, because again, they told you they'd not renew it. Unfortunate that WHMCS doesn't notify you right before a service is going to be cancelled.

    All non-migrated yearlies are on cancellation status, but they're not actually cancelling them. I guess they did it so you aren't billed for the time being.

  • @JeDaYoshi said: but they're not actually cancelling them

    they did actually cancel this one. I have 2 3GB ending at the start of 2026 that are the ones I am actually utilizing I hope they do not actually cancel.

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