The Mystery Box #1 has not been unveiled yet, so nobody knows what they got yet.
oh i thought it was instant provisioning
I personally think the first one is pretty mild. When I say mild I mean "safe" feeling. And I guess I feel comfortable describing all of the mysteries, just from a "safety" perspective. When i say "safe" .. I guess I should elaborate on this too, I mean you'd look at it and go "oh, cool I guess" versus "oh but I didn't want that" or "I can't believe VirMach did that to me" or "holy crap."
From Mild to Insane. (Mild --> Medium --> Medium-High --> High --> Wild --> Insane)
Day 1: Mild
Day 2: Medium
Day 3: High
Day 4: Wild
Day 5: Medium-high
Day 6: Medium-high
Day 7: Insane
Day 8: Insane/Wild
Disclaimer: this is just how I would describe them after glancing at them for 30 seconds. My perception could be wrong. Mild to Insane is only from a risky and imbalanced type perspective. "Insane" is the only one that introduces some obvious negatives but it will be opt-in (you decide.) And "wild" means possibility of getting no gift/small gift. "Insane" does NOT mean the best.
Disclaimer #2: this is also where I say all you're getting is a 1GB instant provisioned service. Not to confuse you but because that's all that is promised and the ONLY thing you should be making your purchase decision based on.
Disclaimer #3: I confused myself with Wild and Insane. They could basically be interchanged to some degree or wrong, one of them is what I said it is in terms of getting nothing. I don't remember.
If anyone wants to cancel/refund to store credits their day 1 deal so they can purchase another day's deal after the above information was disclosed, if they purchased it before it was posted, just make a ticket before the reveal. Place a cancellation request and make a ticket, it'll be terminated.
I just got candle #1 🕯
And only now see the post of mild... I'll have to re-read it a couple of times to figure out if that's a good thing or bad thing in the greater context
@VirMach said:
If anyone wants to cancel/refund to store credits their day 1 deal so they can purchase another day's deal after the above information was disclosed, if they purchased it before it was posted, just make a ticket before the reveal. Place a cancellation request and make a ticket, it'll be terminated.
Lol nooooooo, I'm going to pretend I didn't see that, so I don't have to overthink things again.
(I'm determined while I say this, but knowing I'm probably anyways going to re-read and then re-think and then still not know!)
@VirMach said:
If anyone wants to cancel/refund to store credits their day 1 deal so they can purchase another day's deal after the above information was disclosed, if they purchased it before it was posted, just make a ticket before the reveal. Place a cancellation request and make a ticket, it'll be terminated.
Lol nooooooo, I'm going to pretend I didn't see that, so I don't have to overthink things again.
(I'm determined while I say this, but knowing I'm probably anyways going to re-read and then re-think and then still not know!)
I feel like if I say anything else it'll make you overthink it even more rather than making it clearer. So I'll go ahead and try to clarify further of course.
It's just boring (to me.) It's one of the easier ones for me to process. A universally inoffensive change occurs. It does potentially become more valuable, just not in the way you might think. There's also two different things that can happen. There will be other mysteries that you might personally think would have been better, but everyone who didn't like their mystery or have no use for it will have wished they would have just got this one instead.
@VirMach Will the mystery also change the service location? Or will I keep my location (especially if for Tokyo) while getting the mystery modification?
@sanvit said: @VirMach Will the mystery also change the service location? Or will I keep my location (especially if for Tokyo) while getting the mystery modification?
There's no location based mystery. I wanted to add one in as an "optional" mystery but I decided against it since it would be universally hated and help no one (including me, since I'd have to transfer it.)
@imok said:
I don't get it. I purchase a service with the low specs but I get some mysterious specs?
You buy it and immediately get exactly what you buy (the 'low specs') and at the location you selected.
But then after the 'reveal', there may or may not be, some mysterious extra surprise upgrade specs added/upgraded...
It could either be something you'll really love and make it way better, or something you'll be meh about
But it won't end up with less than those minimum 'low specs' you bought.
So worst case scenario is, you get the 1GB mem, 25GB ssd, 1 core, 2TB bw for 2 years @ $18.88
So basically you have to decide what you think a good price would be for those specs, for 2 years, and then subtract it from $18.88 ...and that is in effect the amount $'s you are "gambling" with, to possibly get (one of the) best of the 8 possible upgrade outcomes.
Edit: one of the lucky wild/insane upgrades might be an extra 1,200GB NVME "for free" (kidding, I guess that'll be highly unlikely, but... who knows?)
@ZA_capetown said: So basically you have to decide what you think a good price would be for those specs, for 2 years, and then subtract it from $18.88 ...and that is in effect the amount $'s you are "gambling" with, to possibly get (one of the) best of the 8 possible upgrade outcomes.
If I were a customer, I would personally be purchasing this deal even if it didn't come with any bonuses. It's probably the most standard/most popular size of VPS for $18.88 per two years. For comparison, our purple competitor is currently providing that for $22.08 on Intel E5's (I assume.) And about the same price on our flash deals if you average out the 1GB ones and having to wait for it to be available for the location you require (but of course it could also end up being a few dollars cheaper or a little more disk.)
And then if I were VirMach and knew what I knew, I would personally be buying a few of them in all eight days as these have really good idling per dollar potential.
@ZA_capetown said: Edit: one of the lucky wild/insane upgrades might be an extra 1,200GB NVME "for free" (kidding, I guess that'll be highly unlikely, but... who knows?)
Theoretically possible but if everyone purchased all the quantities available on all days, then the odds of that are about 0.02% so virtually won't happen. So something like 1 in 1000 or buy all 400 available plans across all days to boost your odds to 40% for only $7,552.
Okay for real though if someone did buy all of them for $7,552 -- assuming they require all the resources -- it would end up being a hell of a deal.
Wonders if the brat will get the obligatory Male Genital Mutilation as punishment for the broken candlestick (missing a protrusion/candle). Just a thought.
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).
I see gambling is back! I will take a look tomorrow what drama is happening this time and why people that decide to gamble are mad they are not winning big because it happens in every damn movie!
I could even buy one tomorrow if this will be still online as scrolling past some post I see VirMach changing his mind few times already 😂
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
First deal revealed soon. Also I might either reveal a clue about one of the upcoming deals or confirm whether or not the first deal will be repeating in any way, as it may be helpful since everyone seemed to only be focused on one potential category of mystery.
Oh did I say soon? I meant now.
Half the services get half price on recurring. The other half get half the amount paid returned to store credits. These will be done in order from oldest to newest purchase, and flip. So first paid order gets half recurring price (and no credit), second gets half back in store credits (and no change on recurring price) and so on.
That's how I have it written on the list. So this means about 50% chance of getting $9.44 store credit (one time) or about 50% chance of getting no store credit but if you decide to renew it, then it's only $9.44 for future renewal(s.) This is the only mystery to explicitly modify pricing (in terms of total amount paid or paid in the future) out of the eight. Other mysteries won't really be similar.
This has been placed out of stock. Once I finish modifying these services, you'll know which of the two you got (and then next day's deal will be released.)
And here's your sneak peak on one of the seven upcoming mysteries.
Candle #?? - ████████████ an opportunity to ███████████████████████ if desired █████████████████████
██████████████████████████████████████ into any of the ███████████████████████████████████ From ████████ to ████████ with odds ███████████████████████████████ pick a number ████████████████████
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ chance ██████████████████████
Actually I'll do another one too. Keep in mind redacted spaces aren't one to one for words but guesstimates.
Candle #?? - ██████████████████ that match ████████████████████ would have been ██████████████████
Okay this is too fun since it doesn't really reveal much. Here's another.
Candle #?? - █████████████████████████ Anything goes ████████████ not worse ████████████
And another.
Candle #?? - ██████ flip ███████████ two of ███████████████████ twice ████████████████████ no change.
I believe at least one of the mysteries will require participation for anything to occur, and if that day's mystery is the one that's involved, I'll likely provide a warning beforehand.
@Neoon said: @VirMach how about you join the IRC to drop deals?
Maybe one day I'll randomly join under an unsuspecting name to provide a coupon code. Now you'll also have to constantly monitor the IRC for the next several years.
@Neoon said: @VirMach how about you join the IRC to drop deals?
Maybe one day I'll randomly join under an unsuspecting name to provide a coupon code. Now you'll also have to constantly monitor the IRC for the next several years.
No, not gonna do that, I have been dissappointed by @gigahost a bunch of times in the LET BF thread.
I'm still confused. Where is the actual order link? The only one I see close to it on the Christmas page has a slightly lower price and the plan shows up as OOS.
@user123 said:
I'm still confused. Where is the actual order link? The only one I see close to it on the Christmas page has a slightly lower price and the plan shows up as OOS.
@VirMach I only see the Candle #2 for a brief moment, and it disappears. Maybe some kind of timezone coding issue?
Shows fine on my phone, but not working on my laptop (even on Chrome guest mode)
@user123 said:
I'm still confused. Where is the actual order link? The only one I see close to it on the Christmas page has a slightly lower price and the plan shows up as OOS.
@VirMach said: The first page is just confusing at this point. Christmas sale is over and Hannukah sale is 1GB now. If @FrankZ has the time and desires, Christmas portion should be moved down and Hannukah portion changed from having eight copy pastes of candles to just one and it says 1GB, 1 Core, 25GB SSD, 2TB BW.
Late to the party, but the requested changes have been made.
Please verify and let me know it I missed anything.
Well after all my procrastinating I wanted to support @VirMach just that little bit more - I bought a mystery - I don't know why, I definately need help. Now I have 10 servers that can cause me hassle at any time.
@msatt said:
Well after all my procrastinating I wanted to support @VirMach just that little bit more - I bought a mystery - I don't know why, I definately need help. Now I have 10 servers that can cause me hassle at any time.
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I am probably dumb. So is it like mystery boxes will have minimum as advertised (1g) and a but more may be sprinkled here and there?
I personally think the first one is pretty mild. When I say mild I mean "safe" feeling. And I guess I feel comfortable describing all of the mysteries, just from a "safety" perspective. When i say "safe" .. I guess I should elaborate on this too, I mean you'd look at it and go "oh, cool I guess" versus "oh but I didn't want that" or "I can't believe VirMach did that to me" or "holy crap."
From Mild to Insane. (Mild --> Medium --> Medium-High --> High --> Wild --> Insane)
Disclaimer: this is just how I would describe them after glancing at them for 30 seconds. My perception could be wrong. Mild to Insane is only from a risky and imbalanced type perspective. "Insane" is the only one that introduces some obvious negatives but it will be opt-in (you decide.) And "wild" means possibility of getting no gift/small gift. "Insane" does NOT mean the best.
Disclaimer #2: this is also where I say all you're getting is a 1GB instant provisioned service. Not to confuse you but because that's all that is promised and the ONLY thing you should be making your purchase decision based on.
Disclaimer #3: I confused myself with Wild and Insane. They could basically be interchanged to some degree or wrong, one of them is what I said it is in terms of getting nothing. I don't remember.
If anyone wants to cancel/refund to store credits their day 1 deal so they can purchase another day's deal after the above information was disclosed, if they purchased it before it was posted, just make a ticket before the reveal. Place a cancellation request and make a ticket, it'll be terminated.
Could we get a sneak peak of those Insane plans?
I just got candle #1 🕯
And only now see the post of mild... I'll have to re-read it a couple of times to figure out if that's a good thing or bad thing in the greater context
Either way, may all your candles burn brightly
Lol nooooooo, I'm going to pretend I didn't see that, so I don't have to overthink things again.
(I'm determined while I say this, but knowing I'm probably anyways going to re-read and then re-think and then still not know!)
I feel like if I say anything else it'll make you overthink it even more rather than making it clearer. So I'll go ahead and try to clarify further of course.
It's just boring (to me.) It's one of the easier ones for me to process. A universally inoffensive change occurs. It does potentially become more valuable, just not in the way you might think. There's also two different things that can happen. There will be other mysteries that you might personally think would have been better, but everyone who didn't like their mystery or have no use for it will have wished they would have just got this one instead.
@VirMach Will the mystery also change the service location? Or will I keep my location (especially if for Tokyo) while getting the mystery modification?
There's no location based mystery. I wanted to add one in as an "optional" mystery but I decided against it since it would be universally hated and help no one (including me, since I'd have to transfer it.)
Money or the box candle?
Box! Candle! I'll stick to the box candle! Thanks
I don't get it. I purchase a service with the low specs but I get some mysterious specs?
I was unsuspended, but I still see 768M. Is this for new orders, trying to avoid ticketing in.
Thanks for clarifying things and keeping the fun going.
You buy it and immediately get exactly what you buy (the 'low specs') and at the location you selected.
But then after the 'reveal', there may or may not be, some mysterious extra surprise upgrade specs added/upgraded...
It could either be something you'll really love and make it way better, or something you'll be meh about
But it won't end up with less than those minimum 'low specs' you bought.
So worst case scenario is, you get the 1GB mem, 25GB ssd, 1 core, 2TB bw for 2 years @ $18.88
So basically you have to decide what you think a good price would be for those specs, for 2 years, and then subtract it from $18.88 ...and that is in effect the amount $'s you are "gambling" with, to possibly get (one of the) best of the 8 possible upgrade outcomes.
Edit: one of the lucky wild/insane upgrades might be an extra 1,200GB NVME "for free"
(kidding, I guess that'll be highly unlikely, but... who knows?)
@VirMach -
Will I be receiving Chanukah gelt tonight?
If I were a customer, I would personally be purchasing this deal even if it didn't come with any bonuses. It's probably the most standard/most popular size of VPS for $18.88 per two years. For comparison, our purple competitor is currently providing that for $22.08 on Intel E5's (I assume.) And about the same price on our flash deals if you average out the 1GB ones and having to wait for it to be available for the location you require (but of course it could also end up being a few dollars cheaper or a little more disk.)
And then if I were VirMach and knew what I knew, I would personally be buying a few of them in all eight days as these have really good idling per dollar potential.
Theoretically possible but if everyone purchased all the quantities available on all days, then the odds of that are about 0.02% so virtually won't happen. So something like 1 in 1000 or buy all 400 available plans across all days to boost your odds to 40% for only $7,552.
Okay for real though if someone did buy all of them for $7,552 -- assuming they require all the resources -- it would end up being a hell of a deal.
Can you offer $7552 as a one time courtesy credit to see how this would look like?
Wonders if the brat will get the obligatory Male Genital Mutilation as punishment for the broken candlestick (missing a protrusion/candle). Just a thought.
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).
what locations have ipv6 ?
ams and tokyo (some are available).
Feeling very tired, let's call it a day.
I see gambling is back! I will take a look tomorrow what drama is happening this time and why people that decide to gamble are mad they are not winning big because it happens in every damn movie!
I could even buy one tomorrow if this will be still online as scrolling past some post I see VirMach changing his mind few times already 😂
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
@VirMach how about you join the IRC to drop deals?
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Private message your service's IP address.
I can PM my email to you so you can add the 1200GB NVMe server
First deal revealed soon. Also I might either reveal a clue about one of the upcoming deals or confirm whether or not the first deal will be repeating in any way, as it may be helpful since everyone seemed to only be focused on one potential category of mystery.
Oh did I say soon? I meant now.
That's how I have it written on the list. So this means about 50% chance of getting $9.44 store credit (one time) or about 50% chance of getting no store credit but if you decide to renew it, then it's only $9.44 for future renewal(s.) This is the only mystery to explicitly modify pricing (in terms of total amount paid or paid in the future) out of the eight. Other mysteries won't really be similar.
This has been placed out of stock. Once I finish modifying these services, you'll know which of the two you got (and then next day's deal will be released.)
And here's your sneak peak on one of the seven upcoming mysteries.
Actually I'll do another one too. Keep in mind redacted spaces aren't one to one for words but guesstimates.
Okay this is too fun since it doesn't really reveal much. Here's another.
And another.
I believe at least one of the mysteries will require participation for anything to occur, and if that day's mystery is the one that's involved, I'll likely provide a warning beforehand.
New mystery is live.
Maybe one day I'll randomly join under an unsuspecting name to provide a coupon code. Now you'll also have to constantly monitor the IRC for the next several years.
No, not gonna do that, I have been dissappointed by @gigahost a bunch of times in the LET BF thread.
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I'm still confused. Where is the actual order link? The only one I see close to it on the Christmas page has a slightly lower price and the plan shows up as OOS.
Possibly browser cache? Refresh this page:
https://virmach.com/black-friday-cyber-monday/
I am probably blind, at the end of christmas deals I see
CTRL+SHIFT+R and not a regular refresh. It should look like this:
Well, Ctrl + Shift + R didnt work.
Had to use my better half's phone to see this. Guess my laptop/ mobile are to be thrashed now.
Thanks
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@VirMach I only see the Candle #2 for a brief moment, and it disappears. Maybe some kind of timezone coding issue?
Shows fine on my phone, but not working on my laptop (even on Chrome guest mode)
Will the bank give me some money to play the Virmach games?
I did but not help.
Is it ok if using this https://billing.virmach.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=268 ? @VirMach
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Strangely, it didn't work for me. Even with forcing cache refresh, all I see are the Christmas offers. No mention of Hanukkah offers or candles.
Tip: To beat deep caching (doesn't matter what layer) add a useless variable:
https://virmach.com/black-friday-cyber-monday/?x=30
It fixed it for me.
Hmmm maybe Quic.Cloud is caching to aggressively?
This worked for me as well. Thank you!
glad it helped! it's stopped many fisticuffs with chrome and myself.
Throw anything on the end ?fixed=yes, anything will do.
Webserver will ignore it, cache will see it as a new page and 'miss' ensues.
Late to the party, but the requested changes have been made.
Please verify and let me know it I missed anything.
oh btw, I did take one. $15.88/2Y in SJC.
Hopefully, this is my last purchase xD
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Well after all my procrastinating I wanted to support @VirMach just that little bit more - I bought a mystery - I don't know why, I definately need help. Now I have 10 servers that can cause me hassle at any time.
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this is definitely by your choice then!
although the boxes this year sounds much better
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.