@lowendmeow said: THank you merry Christmas! Will there be any christmas promos?
Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
At the moment, we’re not running any Christmas promotions. We decided to focus our time on resolving ongoing backup API issues, as ensuring service reliability is more important to us than announcing new offers that could be affected by the same problems.
Once everything is fully stable, we’ll revisit new promotions and service announcements.
@lowendmeow said: THank you merry Christmas! Will there be any christmas promos?
Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
At the moment, we’re not running any Christmas promotions. We decided to focus our time on resolving ongoing backup API issues, as ensuring service reliability is more important to us than announcing new offers that could be affected by the same problems.
Once everything is fully stable, we’ll revisit new promotions and service announcements.
that makes sense I'm glad you're focusing on sustainability!! That's what I thought but didn't hurt to check. Best of luck with the migrations
@lowendmeow said: THank you merry Christmas! Will there be any christmas promos?
Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
At the moment, we’re not running any Christmas promotions. We decided to focus our time on resolving ongoing backup API issues, as ensuring service reliability is more important to us than announcing new offers that could be affected by the same problems.
Once everything is fully stable, we’ll revisit new promotions and service announcements.
that makes sense I'm glad you're focusing on sustainability!! That's what I thought but didn't hurt to check. Best of luck with the migrations
Thanks 🙂
By the time we’re done, we’ll probably call this phase the “December 2025 HOST-C PURGE” 😄
Stuart actually started calling it that, so credit where credit is due — and honestly, he’s kinda right.
Small update on the backup situation
Backups are getting done — they always were — but they weren’t showing up in the panel. We’ve now traced this back to the core issue.
When we upgraded the provisioning module from v3.x to v4.x (about 6 months ago), everything went by the book except for one thing:
in the database, some backup locations (destination servers) ended up duplicated or even triplicated.
As a result, every backup job was physically executed correctly, but when it tried to write the record back to the database, it hit the classic
“duplicate shit exists, aborting” error — so nothing appeared in the UI.
We’re currently fixing this without doing a full wipe of settings or causing downtime, and I’m confident we’ll have it sorted shortly.
And yes… right after that, we move on to the next fuckup 😅
The IPv6 migration — from stateless to fully routed IPv6.
What we have now works, but it doesn’t scale anymore — at least not in my vision — so that change is unavoidable. ( As Thanos said "INEVITABLE" )
Backups for some services are already visible in the user panel.
While not all services are fully fixed yet, progress is ongoing and we are steadily getting there.
During debugging, we also identified additional issues which have already been resolved. However, some remaining fixes will require a complete power-off and power-on, not only of individual services, but also of entire nodes.
Unfortunately, there is no safe way around a full shutdown for these changes. We attempted yesterday to apply part of the fixes without taking services fully offline; however, this approach proved unreliable and ultimately forced us to reboot a node. Based on this outcome, we have decided to proceed with a properly planned and controlled maintenance window to avoid unplanned disruptions.
📅 Scheduled Full Maintenance – January 31, 2026
Given the requirement for a full power-off, we will also take this opportunity to perform a major platform upgrade. As a result, we are scheduling a complete infrastructure maintenance on January 31, 2026.
This maintenance will include the following major items (and a few smaller related fixes):
CPU configuration adjustment to resolve a performance-impacting flag
(issue discovered on 02-01-2026)
Final implementation of API Panel communication
(work started in December 2025)
Upgrade of Proxmox VE from version 8.4 to 9.1
Firmware updates on hardware controllers within the Scale Gen 2 platform
Various firmware updates on networking devices
⏱️ Expected duration
This will be a long maintenance window:
Proxmox upgrade alone: approximately 4–6 hours
Remaining work (controller and networking firmware updates) involves slow, sequential processes
Total estimated duration: 8–12 hours
Most of the smaller fixes are already prepared and only require node reboots. The firmware updates on controllers and networking equipment are the most time-consuming part of this maintenance.
🔒 Client Area Access
To avoid accidental power-on or management actions during the maintenance window, access to the client area will be temporarily restricted for the duration of the maintenance.
Further updates will be posted as we get closer to the maintenance window.
HOST-C Team
PS: "We appreciate your patience and understanding" - I know I have said this before a few lot of times, I know downtime is not something you want, and it is something that we as a hosting company definitely do not wish fore, unfortunately there are processes that require to take offline the server/appliance/device.
@Neoon; @AuroraZero and others that have services with us, please announce your customers also.
Backups for some services are already visible in the user panel.
While not all services are fully fixed yet, progress is ongoing and we are steadily getting there.
During debugging, we also identified additional issues which have already been resolved. However, some remaining fixes will require a complete power-off and power-on, not only of individual services, but also of entire nodes.
Unfortunately, there is no safe way around a full shutdown for these changes. We attempted yesterday to apply part of the fixes without taking services fully offline; however, this approach proved unreliable and ultimately forced us to reboot a node. Based on this outcome, we have decided to proceed with a properly planned and controlled maintenance window to avoid unplanned disruptions.
📅 Scheduled Full Maintenance – January 31, 2026
Given the requirement for a full power-off, we will also take this opportunity to perform a major platform upgrade. As a result, we are scheduling a complete infrastructure maintenance on January 31, 2026.
This maintenance will include the following major items (and a few smaller related fixes):
CPU configuration adjustment to resolve a performance-impacting flag
(issue discovered on 02-01-2026)
Final implementation of API Panel communication
(work started in December 2025)
Upgrade of Proxmox VE from version 8.4 to 9.1
Firmware updates on hardware controllers within the Scale Gen 2 platform
Various firmware updates on networking devices
⏱️ Expected duration
This will be a long maintenance window:
Proxmox upgrade alone: approximately 4–6 hours
Remaining work (controller and networking firmware updates) involves slow, sequential processes
Total estimated duration: 8–12 hours
Most of the smaller fixes are already prepared and only require node reboots. The firmware updates on controllers and networking equipment are the most time-consuming part of this maintenance.
🔒 Client Area Access
To avoid accidental power-on or management actions during the maintenance window, access to the client area will be temporarily restricted for the duration of the maintenance.
Further updates will be posted as we get closer to the maintenance window.
HOST-C Team
PS: "We appreciate your patience and understanding" - I know I have said this before a few lot of times, I know downtime is not something you want, and it is something that we as a hosting company definitely do not wish fore, unfortunately there are processes that require to take offline the server/appliance/device.
@Neoon; @AuroraZero and others that have services with us, please announce your customers also.
Thank you for the heads up man I have currently added it to the que to go out next week.
Dear Customer,
We’re writing to inform you about an upcoming change to the lifecycle timeline of your service.
Due to recent and significant increases in hardware replacement costs, maintaining this specific legacy product line beyond its current lifecycle has become unsustainable and is now posing an operational risk. To avoid unexpected disruptions and to operate responsibly under current market conditions, we need to adjust the previously announced end-of-life date.
What’s changing
The original planned end-of-life date was April 2027
The updated end-of-life date is now 30 April 2026
Customers whose current billing period extends beyond 30 April 2026 will receive a pro-rated refund for any remaining unused service time from 30 April 2026 until the original contract end date.
Transition details
To ensure a smooth and predictable transition:
Your service will be allowed to renew one final time on a monthly billing cycle only, regardless of any previous yearly payment terms.
After this final monthly period, the service will be gracefully terminated.
No further renewals will be possible beyond that point.
Customers who do not wish to continue until the end-of-life date may cancel the service at any time from the client area, and it will not renew again.
What this means for you
This change gives you time to:
plan a migration,
move data or services elsewhere,
or reach out to us if you need temporary assistance during the transition.
We understand that changes like this are never ideal. This decision was made with careful consideration, as we believe it is better to responsibly retire certain services than to risk a situation where they can no longer be properly maintained.
Optional migration path (for Pioneer 5TB customers)
For customers who wish to continue with us beyond the end-of-life date, we offer an optional migration to our current-generation Xeon Scalable Gen 2 platform under current terms and pricing.
PX-1C2R5T – Storage 5TB (Xeon Scalable Gen 2)
1 vCPU (Xeon Scalable Gen 2)
2 GB DDR4 RAM
20 GB NVMe (OS disk)
5 TB HDD storage add-on (RAID60)
4K IOPS @ 1.5K, up to 1 GB/s RW
1× Dedicated IPv4
IPv6 /64 available upon request via ticket
1 Gbps port (best effort)
18 TB included traffic
Pricing:
$33 / quarter
$60 / semi-annual (discounted billing option)
Please note: this migration option represents a new service on a different platform and is not a continuation of the legacy product. Migration is entirely optional, and customers are free to choose the solution that best fits their needs.
If you have any questions or need clarification regarding your specific service, billing, refunds, or the migration option, our support team is available and happy to help.
Thank you for your understanding and for being a valued customer, regardless of the option you choose.
Kind regards,
HOST-C Support Team
Storage by Design
LinuxFreek.com — Thank you for your attention to this matter
@AuroraZero said: New fetish? I don't get this many emails from the Nigerian Prince let alone you usually.
Well honestly that was one of the hardest e-mails I sent out for a long time.
I know some people won’t care about the reasoning, and that’s fine, everyone is free to make their own decision.
But the timeline is clear and final, no delays or other on that matter.
30 April 2026 is the end-of-life date. On 01 May 2026, the services will be powered off and the rack will be returned to the datacenter as agreed.
I can go into detailed numbers and specifics, but most people won't give 7$ dime, so, it is what it is.
I hear ya man I recently had to discontinue Japan because of upstream disappearance. It kills me to have to do it but, unless I can find reliable upstreams there is no sense in duck waddling.
Dear Customer,
We’re writing to inform you about an upcoming change to the lifecycle timeline of your service.
Due to recent and significant increases in hardware replacement costs, maintaining this specific legacy product line beyond its current lifecycle has become unsustainable and is now posing an operational risk. To avoid unexpected disruptions and to operate responsibly under current market conditions, we need to adjust the previously announced end-of-life date.
What’s changing
The original planned end-of-life date was April 2027
The updated end-of-life date is now 30 April 2026
Customers whose current billing period extends beyond 30 April 2026 will receive a pro-rated refund for any remaining unused service time from 30 April 2026 until the original contract end date.
Transition details
To ensure a smooth and predictable transition:
Your service will be allowed to renew one final time on a monthly billing cycle only, regardless of any previous yearly payment terms.
After this final monthly period, the service will be gracefully terminated.
No further renewals will be possible beyond that point.
Customers who do not wish to continue until the end-of-life date may cancel the service at any time from the client area, and it will not renew again.
What this means for you
This change gives you time to:
plan a migration,
move data or services elsewhere,
or reach out to us if you need temporary assistance during the transition.
We understand that changes like this are never ideal. This decision was made with careful consideration, as we believe it is better to responsibly retire certain services than to risk a situation where they can no longer be properly maintained.
Optional migration path (for Pioneer 5TB customers)
For customers who wish to continue with us beyond the end-of-life date, we offer an optional migration to our current-generation Xeon Scalable Gen 2 platform under current terms and pricing.
PX-1C2R5T – Storage 5TB (Xeon Scalable Gen 2)
1 vCPU (Xeon Scalable Gen 2)
2 GB DDR4 RAM
20 GB NVMe (OS disk)
5 TB HDD storage add-on (RAID60)
4K IOPS @ 1.5K, up to 1 GB/s RW
1× Dedicated IPv4
IPv6 /64 available upon request via ticket
1 Gbps port (best effort)
18 TB included traffic
Pricing:
$33 / quarter
$60 / semi-annual (discounted billing option)
Please note: this migration option represents a new service on a different platform and is not a continuation of the legacy product. Migration is entirely optional, and customers are free to choose the solution that best fits their needs.
If you have any questions or need clarification regarding your specific service, billing, refunds, or the migration option, our support team is available and happy to help.
Thank you for your understanding and for being a valued customer, regardless of the option you choose.
Kind regards,
HOST-C Support Team
Storage by Design
Is it the new price for legendary pioneer VPS ? (~ x2 )
no, new price is for today list prices minus a big discount.
That is a new product.
You have there 2.2 USD / TB. all that for a raid 60 Platform and Xeon Scale Gen CPU.
Same math went to the Nimitz 10TB, but there there is a monthly payment option to as the value is higher.
Both of them have a discount on the semi-annual payment.
Yes but if i'm not mistaken it was initially $45/year. We are talking about $120 / year now.
not saying it's a bad deal, but that's still a pretty big gap.
I mean, cpu does not matter much for most people for storage instance.
Anyway, I don’t have this VPS anymore. It was reliable while it lasted.
@jqr said:
Got the email too. It's understandable, but unfortunate.
I was hoping to ride it out for the year, hoping the hardware situation would stabilize.
So did we sincerely, yet, the $$ for RAM and some DRIVES last week made me reconsider. It is too much of a gamble from my point of view, we have too many customers to "risk" this, it would not be very wise from where I am standing. I also aspect another energy price hike in the coming moths.
@remy said: Yes but if i'm not mistaken it was initially $45/year. We are talking about $120 / year now.
not saying it's a bad deal, but that's still a pretty big gap.
I mean, cpu does not matter much for most people for storage instance.
True to for most, untrue for us, as 12 bays will not do what 24 do IO wise, there is a limit to witch I can push those nodes. Also, their efficiency is of 2015.
Fully populated E5-V4 they max out ~430W
Scale Gen 2 on the worst day ~740W, 640W average.
2xR730XD = 4U so i can have the same capacity to sell as a R740xd2
1xR740XD = 2U - also, here i can have 3x8 drive setup in raid 60 that makes a ton of sense technically when you use 18+ TB drives. ( rebuild times )
And a lot more, CPU BW is 2x of E5-V4, and I can go all day with this.
One more aspect was the renewal price asked for the rack housing the E5-V4, that was, ~x2
DDR4 is not cheap for the past moths, ain't seeing a decline soon, and even if so, not to what it was in early 2025 for the moment.
DRIVES, well, same issue
All the above in the mix, well, NO.
If RAM and DRIVES would remained at the end 2024 early 2025, I would had no issues to subsides them till April 2027, with the new variables..... well, nop. ( and none of you would )
So this is only for those with Pioneer and Nimitz that did not take the upgrade offer last year right? Those that upgraded would not have any changes right?
@curiouswanderer said: So this is only for those with Pioneer and Nimitz that did not take the upgrade offer last year right? Those that upgraded would not have any changes right?
@curiouswanderer said: So this is only for those with Pioneer and Nimitz that did not take the upgrade offer last year right? Those that upgraded would not have any changes right?
Precisely, luck you
Nice. I see my plan is Pioneer XNova and it does not have any changes.
@AuroraZero said: I hear ya man I recently had to discontinue Japan because of upstream disappearance. It kills me to have to do it but, unless I can find reliable upstreams there is no sense in duck waddling.
What are you looking for there? Can maybe throw some suggestions.
@AuroraZero said: I hear ya man I recently had to discontinue Japan because of upstream disappearance. It kills me to have to do it but, unless I can find reliable upstreams there is no sense in duck waddling.
What are you looking for there? Can maybe throw some suggestions.
Nothing atm to tbh I am concentrating on the move to lxc from openvz. After that is through beta then I will concentrate on fixing and maybe expanding.
@AuroraZero said:
Nothing atm to tbh I am concentrating on the move to lxc from openvz. After that is through beta thæn I will concentrate on fixing and maybe expanding.
Wasn't OpenVZ deprecated in 201x?
I speak fluent sarcasm and broken logic. | I would agree with you, but thæn we’d both be wrong.
@AuroraZero said:
Nothing atm to tbh I am concentrating on the move to lxc from openvz. After that is through beta thæn I will concentrate on fixing and maybe expanding.
Wasn't OpenVZ deprecated in 201x?
Probably but when you get handed a platform and then dumped and you have to reverse engineer everything yourself and live and shit post and everything, things tend to get let's just say messy. No that is not the right word for it ahhh fuckstickingassgobliningwreckedassholestesticulartortioningwonderful!!!! Actually it was 2024, just opened beta on the lxc conversion.
P.S. @host_c tell Stewart to stop having sex with my vps yesterday it ping ponged like a kid with a yo yo he scared it to death!!!
@AuroraZero said:
Nothing atm to tbh I am concentrating on the move to lxc from openvz. After that is through beta thæn I will concentrate on fixing and maybe expanding.
Wasn't OpenVZ deprecated in 201x?
Probably but when you get handed a platform and thæn dumped and you have to reverse engineer everything yourself and live and shit post and everything, things tend to get let's just say messy. No that is not the right word for it ahhh fuckstickingassgobliningwreckedassholestesticulartortioningwonderful!!!! Actually it was 2024, just opened beta on the lxc conversion.
P.S. @host_c tell Stewart to stop having sex with my vps yesterday it ping ponged like a kid with a yo yo he scared it to death!!!
Eh.... what?
I speak fluent sarcasm and broken logic. | I would agree with you, but thæn we’d both be wrong.
@AuroraZero said:
Nothing atm to tbh I am concentrating on the move to lxc from openvz. After that is through beta thæn I will concentrate on fixing and maybe expanding.
Wasn't OpenVZ deprecated in 201x?
Probably but when you get handed a platform and thæn dumped and you have to reverse engineer everything yourself and live and shit post and everything, things tend to get let's just say messy. No that is not the right word for it ahhh fuckstickingassgobliningwreckedassholestesticulartortioningwonderful!!!! Actually it was 2024, just opened beta on the lxc conversion.
P.S. @host_c tell Stewart to stop having sex with my vps yesterday it ping ponged like a kid with a yo yo he scared it to death!!!
@imok said:
I establish arroz con leche (rice pudding) as the dessert of this thread.
Expect more news on the weekend.
Arroz doce in some non-hispanic latin american country....
Ah, finally someone using the original cinnamon. I always see people use the "thicker" bark cassia cinnamon (Chinese cinnamon) and not the original thin bark ceylon cinnamon...
I speak fluent sarcasm and broken logic. | I would agree with you, but thæn we’d both be wrong.
I wish to announce that, as of today here on LES, @HOST_C_Padawan is joining the team and will be handling promotions and keeping in touch with you guys whenever I'm unavailable. ( yeah I know, I am kinda absent....... )
Lately we managed to get some pretty nice implementation projects, and they require a lot of my attention. Unfortunately a day has only 24 hours and it turns out I don't have enough hours to do everything myself, so I decided to expand the team.
I'm confident he will take good care of all of you. I just ask that you have a little patience with him at the beginning. His English skills are still fairly basic, so there will be a healthy amount of translation software involved in your conversations for a while. That probably means a few funny mistakes here and there. ( I will underline "few" here )
Please don't beat the crap out of him during the first week... the second week is a different story.
To kick things off, @HOST_C_Padawan will be posting his first promotion announcement tomorrow (if I remember correctly). Let's see how it goes!
Comments
Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
At the moment, we’re not running any Christmas promotions. We decided to focus our time on resolving ongoing backup API issues, as ensuring service reliability is more important to us than announcing new offers that could be affected by the same problems.
Once everything is fully stable, we’ll revisit new promotions and service announcements.
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
that makes sense I'm glad you're focusing on sustainability!! That's what I thought but didn't hurt to check. Best of luck with the migrations
Thanks 🙂
By the time we’re done, we’ll probably call this phase the “December 2025 HOST-C PURGE” 😄
Stuart actually started calling it that, so credit where credit is due — and honestly, he’s kinda right.
Small update on the backup situation
Backups are getting done — they always were — but they weren’t showing up in the panel. We’ve now traced this back to the core issue.
When we upgraded the provisioning module from v3.x to v4.x (about 6 months ago), everything went by the book except for one thing:
in the database, some backup locations (destination servers) ended up duplicated or even triplicated.
As a result, every backup job was physically executed correctly, but when it tried to write the record back to the database, it hit the classic
“duplicate shit exists, aborting” error — so nothing appeared in the UI.
We’re currently fixing this without doing a full wipe of settings or causing downtime, and I’m confident we’ll have it sorted shortly.
And yes… right after that, we move on to the next fuckup 😅
The IPv6 migration — from stateless to fully routed IPv6.
What we have now works, but it doesn’t scale anymore — at least not in my vision — so that change is unavoidable. ( As Thanos said "INEVITABLE" )
Fun times ahead 🚀
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Updates
Backups for some services are already visible in the user panel.
While not all services are fully fixed yet, progress is ongoing and we are steadily getting there.
During debugging, we also identified additional issues which have already been resolved. However, some remaining fixes will require a complete power-off and power-on, not only of individual services, but also of entire nodes.
Unfortunately, there is no safe way around a full shutdown for these changes. We attempted yesterday to apply part of the fixes without taking services fully offline; however, this approach proved unreliable and ultimately forced us to reboot a node. Based on this outcome, we have decided to proceed with a properly planned and controlled maintenance window to avoid unplanned disruptions.
📅 Scheduled Full Maintenance – January 31, 2026
Given the requirement for a full power-off, we will also take this opportunity to perform a major platform upgrade. As a result, we are scheduling a complete infrastructure maintenance on January 31, 2026.
This maintenance will include the following major items (and a few smaller related fixes):
⏱️ Expected duration
This will be a long maintenance window:
Proxmox upgrade alone: approximately 4–6 hours
Remaining work (controller and networking firmware updates) involves slow, sequential processes
Total estimated duration: 8–12 hours
Most of the smaller fixes are already prepared and only require node reboots. The firmware updates on controllers and networking equipment are the most time-consuming part of this maintenance.
🔒 Client Area Access
To avoid accidental power-on or management actions during the maintenance window, access to the client area will be temporarily restricted for the duration of the maintenance.
Further updates will be posted as we get closer to the maintenance window.
HOST-C Team
PS: "We appreciate your patience and understanding" - I know I have said this before a few lot of times, I know downtime is not something you want, and it is something that we as a hosting company definitely do not wish fore, unfortunately there are processes that require to take offline the server/appliance/device.
@Neoon; @AuroraZero and others that have services with us, please announce your customers also.
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Thank you for the heads up man I have currently added it to the que to go out next week.
The Yeti has left the building.
😉
We accept Karma donations for the last flan. 🍮 affbrr
I knew that will get your attention
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Just received this email:
LinuxFreek.com — Thank you for your attention to this matter
And there is a mail sent out for the 10 TB Nimitz E5-V4 also.
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
New fetish? I don't get this many emails from the Nigerian Prince let alone you usually.
The Yeti has left the building.
Well honestly that was one of the hardest e-mails I sent out for a long time.
I know some people won’t care about the reasoning, and that’s fine, everyone is free to make their own decision.
But the timeline is clear and final, no delays or other on that matter.
30 April 2026 is the end-of-life date.
On 01 May 2026, the services will be powered off and the rack will be returned to the datacenter as agreed.
I can go into detailed numbers and specifics, but most people won't give 7$ dime, so, it is what it is.
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
I hear ya man I recently had to discontinue Japan because of upstream disappearance. It kills me to have to do it but, unless I can find reliable upstreams there is no sense in duck waddling.
The Yeti has left the building.
Is it the new price for legendary pioneer VPS ? (~ x2
)
@remy
no, new price is for today list prices minus a big discount.
That is a new product.
You have there 2.2 USD / TB. all that for a raid 60 Platform and Xeon Scale Gen CPU.
Same math went to the Nimitz 10TB, but there there is a monthly payment option to as the value is higher.
Both of them have a discount on the semi-annual payment.
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Yes but if i'm not mistaken it was initially $45/year. We are talking about $120 / year now.
not saying it's a bad deal, but that's still a pretty big gap.
I mean, cpu does not matter much for most people for storage instance.
Anyway, I don’t have this VPS anymore. It was reliable while it lasted.
Got the email too. It's understandable, but unfortunate.
I was hoping to ride it out for the year, hoping the hardware situation would stabilize.
It's pronounced hacker.
So did we sincerely, yet, the $$ for RAM and some DRIVES last week made me reconsider. It is too much of a gamble from my point of view, we have too many customers to "risk" this, it would not be very wise from where I am standing. I also aspect another energy price hike in the coming moths.
not saying it's a bad deal, but that's still a pretty big gap.
I mean, cpu does not matter much for most people for storage instance.
True to for most, untrue for us, as 12 bays will not do what 24 do IO wise, there is a limit to witch I can push those nodes. Also, their efficiency is of 2015.
Fully populated E5-V4 they max out ~430W
Scale Gen 2 on the worst day ~740W, 640W average.
2xR730XD = 4U so i can have the same capacity to sell as a R740xd2
1xR740XD = 2U - also, here i can have 3x8 drive setup in raid 60 that makes a ton of sense technically when you use 18+ TB drives. ( rebuild times )
And a lot more, CPU BW is 2x of E5-V4, and I can go all day with this.
One more aspect was the renewal price asked for the rack housing the E5-V4, that was, ~x2
DDR4 is not cheap for the past moths, ain't seeing a decline soon, and even if so, not to what it was in early 2025 for the moment.
DRIVES, well, same issue
All the above in the mix, well, NO.
If RAM and DRIVES would remained at the end 2024 early 2025, I would had no issues to subsides them till April 2027, with the new variables..... well, nop. ( and none of you would )
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
So this is only for those with Pioneer and Nimitz that did not take the upgrade offer last year right? Those that upgraded would not have any changes right?
Best and friendliest hosts Host-C , Hostbrr aff.
Precisely, luck you
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Nice. I see my plan is Pioneer XNova and it does not have any changes.
If anyone wishes to take the new offer, just reply via ticket and we’ll take care of the migration from our side.
Also, I see a lot of people suddenly discovered the July and August 2025 offer 😅- now you woken up, nice.
, fine, but 8 moths too late.
Just to clarify: that promo ended in 2025 and can’t be provisioned anymore. ( SkyCluster XNova, Pioneer XNova and Nimitz CVN-68 )
Today options are:
For the Pioneer -> PX-1C2R5T - Storage 5TB
For the Nimitz -> PX-2C4R10T - Storage 10TB
And that is it.
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
It is never that's it ..... Never!!!!
The Yeti has left the building.
Waiting for services in US.
Lima, Peru would be better but i'm sure that's impossible.
If you wait a bit Peru should become US soon, the upgrade is rolling out starting from the north of the continent
Happy customer at AlexHost, AxusHost, Bakker-IT, Host-C, Ionos, Veesp + NanoKVM ftw.
We are a part of China already. Anyway, with any of them we would have decent DCs in a few years.
What are you looking for there? Can maybe throw some suggestions.
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Find some crude oil , get annexed
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So this is a reminder to myself (and a very public reminder at that!)
Occasionally peek out of the rock.
Renewed in November, now I see the EOL Message. No emails received about this.
Glad I read !
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No email received either
Happy customer at AlexHost, AxusHost, Bakker-IT, Host-C, Ionos, Veesp + NanoKVM ftw.
I live an hour away from an oil-producing area.
I only see gringos going to the beach, not spreading freedom, yet.
Nothing atm to tbh I am concentrating on the move to lxc from openvz. After that is through beta then I will concentrate on fixing and maybe expanding.
The Yeti has left the building.
Wasn't OpenVZ deprecated in 201x?
Probably but when you get handed a platform and then dumped and you have to reverse engineer everything yourself and live and shit post and everything, things tend to get let's just say messy. No that is not the right word for it ahhh fuckstickingassgobliningwreckedassholestesticulartortioningwonderful!!!! Actually it was 2024, just opened beta on the lxc conversion.
P.S. @host_c tell Stewart to stop having sex with my vps yesterday it ping ponged like a kid with a yo yo he scared it to death!!!
The Yeti has left the building.
Eh.... what?
Exactly
The Yeti has left the building.
Happy customer at AlexHost, AxusHost, Bakker-IT, Host-C, Ionos, Veesp + NanoKVM ftw.
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“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
F: For the Pioneer -> PX-1C2R5T - Storage 5TB
Arroz doce in some non-hispanic latin american country....
The river runs towards the sea, but the sea is never full...
Ah, finally someone using the original cinnamon. I always see people use the "thicker" bark cassia cinnamon (Chinese cinnamon) and not the original thin bark ceylon cinnamon...
I wish to use this opportunity to say Happy Easter to all.
May you spend time with your loved ones, family and friends. ( or as you see fit
)
CHEERS!!!!!!!!
HOST-C
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Happy Easter to you!
I believe in good luck. Harder that I work ,luckier i get.
While not a promo sale you most wish for, I would recommend you check your e-mails by tomorrow, important stuff regarding your services.
Cheers!
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
oh no, already losing millions in anticipation of my v6 gw changing!
Millions????.... ahhh,that is old
new way is
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Hy there folks
I wish to announce that, as of today here on LES, @HOST_C_Padawan is joining the team and will be handling promotions and keeping in touch with you guys whenever I'm unavailable. ( yeah I know, I am kinda absent.......
)
Lately we managed to get some pretty nice implementation projects, and they require a lot of my attention. Unfortunately a day has only 24 hours and it turns out I don't have enough hours to do everything myself, so I decided to expand the team.
I'm confident he will take good care of all of you. I just ask that you have a little patience with him at the beginning. His English skills are still fairly basic, so there will be a healthy amount of translation software involved in your conversations for a while. That probably means a few funny mistakes here and there. ( I will underline "few" here
)
Please don't beat the crap out of him during the first week... the second week is a different story.
To kick things off, @HOST_C_Padawan will be posting his first promotion announcement tomorrow (if I remember correctly). Let's see how it goes!
THX fellas, and see you soon.
Cheers!
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
I expected more maintenance, it's like a month without any kind of maintenance notifications, this is no like host-c we know.
Are you guys struggling due to temps in Europe?
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
lol, I can fix the maintenance part if you wish so
.....
Yes, it is kinda HOT at 38-43 Celsius ( 100 to 109 F for those on the wrong metric system
)
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”