I'll be placing this out of stock early today as well, let's say in 15 minutes. With the PHXZ004 migration, everything else, as well as this one being ordered more and it being more time consuming to process, and needing sleep, I think now would be a good time to start on them.
Originally was going to purchase one in AMS and one in Tokyo, but the 127% surcharge (for this deal) on Tokyo is pretty rough without knowing the specs. In the end I just went with one in AMS to replace my current one that's being sunset in January. Hope this doesn't come bite me later
Okay before I reveal what the mystery is, two big disclaimers. (1) It will be done exactly how it's described which means a lot of chance is involved in this one so do not get your hopes up, and (2) there's a chance that it would have been lower but I will not be reducing it if that occurs, once they're done I'll announce it so you'll know for sure if yours was one of those or if it just hasn't been processed yet, since they would look the same. Probably don't look at it until I say I'm done otherwise the suspense may end up being excruciating.
Specifications that match what VPSBLackFriday Flash Deal would have been on the node you landed on. If it's lower, it stays the same.
Now some further clarifications as I'm sure there will be questions:
This is what it would have been and not what's currently displayed on the website. It means I'll be processing the math in the same way or close to the same way the system would be churning them out. They will be closer to the manual deals since they're being done manually. My brain has a good idea of exactly what I would have put for your node, so it won't just be resources divided by whatever quantity, it may receive multipliers if for example my brain says that would have been a better fit than smaller plans.
It is based on the node you landed on so I'll be processing them in batches with matching nodes. This means if someone landed on the same exact node as you, both of you will be getting the same specifications.
For "if it's lower" if any portion of it is higher, you'll be getting the difference added for that specification, not just that if it's lower at all or generally then it'll stay the same.
If there's any disputes on the fairness of what was generated, and every person who landed on the same node agrees (it could just be you) I'll allow you to request I look at it again. The request may be accepted or declined, and if it's accepted, I'll look through logs specifically for the most recent suggested plan for that node instead and using that, whether it's lower or higher.
@theloafingone said:
Originally was going to purchase one in AMS and one in Tokyo, but the 127% surcharge (for this deal) on Tokyo is pretty rough without knowing the specs. In the end I just went with one in AMS to replace my current one that's being sunset in January. Hope this doesn't come bite me later
If anyone bought Tokyo I think they'll end up being very pleased with the outcome. Not guaranteed, but based on how they generally tend to be on the larger size. They'll be on average much larger than the ones (for Tokyo) because Tokyo has specific code in the automation that tries to make it smaller since that's preferred for that location and I'm doing these manually. Location matters a lot for this mystery, but for any super crazy one it will just be ending up on a weird lopsided node probably. We'll see!
So for this one I think it'll actually be more fun if I post the offers by node. This way you'll know if I'm working on it sooner and know exactly whether or not yours got done and what it was. I'll post them as if they're flash sales, so you'll also get to see the price I would have put on it (keep in mind again if it's lower specifications I won't actually be reducing anything and the pricing posted here has nothing to do with your service's actual price. I'll be presenting the mock price as per two years.)
They'll go in clusters of nodes from oldest to newest orders.
Offer CANDLE #3
SKU: SJCZ007
3 cores
2900MB RAM
120GB NVMe Storage
1 IPv4
3072GB Bandwidth
SAN JOSE, CA
$57.62 per 2 YEARS
P.S. I may or may not reuse some of these as actual custom flash deals since I'm already doing the work.
Next up... okay this one is one I would have normally skipped because it's low on resources but I'll proceed as if I have to do it, I'm not sure how it'll end up. For reference this last sold at $8.74 a year on December 23rd or so and the specs were 1GB memory, 1 Core, 20GB disk, 2.5TB bandwidth and 2 IPv4 which is weird because it's low on IPs, I guess it's lower on other things or it broke the script with a weird edge case. It actually divided it by 3 which I won't be doing but at the same time this is after it already sold some of the remaining space. Let's see what it ends up looking like I guess (ohh I see why it gave multiple IPs.) I'm actually evaluating these exactly as I would, this is definitely a tricky one. Yeah, it's taking too long. I'm deferring it for now.
Offer CANDLE #3
SKU: NYCB028
?? cores
?? RAM
?? NVMe Storage
?? IPv4
?? Bandwidth
NYC METRO
?? per 2 YEARS
This deal is pretty wild in all honesty, which makes me worried about the upcoming ones you actually listed as "wild". I was actually going through in my head what you could possibly mean by "difficult to process" while still not having any downsides. Now it all makes sense.
@VirMach said: There's was a secret prize if you collect all eight days. I feel like no one's able to do it anymore as I don't remember seeing someone order day one and two, so I feel safe saying that now.
I ordered one and two, but three is out of stock, so looks like you're safe.
@VirMach said:
So for this one I think it'll actually be more fun if I post the offers by node. This way you'll know if I'm working on it sooner and know exactly whether or not yours got done and what it was. I'll post them as if they're flash sales, so you'll also get to see the price I would have put on it (keep in mind again if it's lower specifications I won't actually be reducing anything and the pricing posted here has nothing to do with your service's actual price. I'll be presenting the mock price as per two years.)
They'll go in clusters of nodes from oldest to newest orders.
Offer CANDLE #3
SKU: SJCZ007
3 cores
2900MB RAM
120GB NVMe Storage
1 IPv4
3072GB Bandwidth
SAN JOSE, CA
$57.62 per 2 YEARS
P.S. I may or may not reuse some of these as actual custom flash deals since I'm already doing the work.
This would have been great, but of course I drew SJCZ008 so .....
Offer CANDLE #3
SKU: SJCZ020
2 cores
3076 RAM
20GB NVMe Storage
1 IPv4
4096GB Bandwidth
SAN JOSE, CA
$41.10 per 2 YEARS
I can't see which node I'm on because trying to load the Solus page for the very first time led to this immediately after I clicked the box to simply see the captcha:
Error 1015 Ray ID:
You are being rate limited
What happened?
The owner of this website (solusvm.virmach.com) has banned you temporarily from accessing this website.
So, when I saw your SJCZ007 specs, I got excited because I thought it was the only SJC node. But, I now see SJCZ020 specs in my account.
The main gambling I do is buying Virmach mysteries lol.
Pretty good lucky streak in San Jose. Alright now it's @FrankZ let's see if it continues. Uhoh, memory not looking good but lots of IPs. This is going to be a weird one. Oh right I know what I'd do in this situation. Yep looks like the system did something on a similar plan recently.
Offer CANDLE #3
SKU: SJCZ008
4 cores
3536MB RAM
240GB NVMe Storage
2 IPv4
6144GB Bandwidth
SAN JOSE, CA
$83.82 per 2 YEARS
Another San Jose, will we get a dud? Nope doesn't look like it. After all these I'm definitely not going to feel bad for the first 512MB 10GB we hit. Okay, all out of San Jose.
Offer CANDLE #3
SKU: SJCZ002
3 cores
3328MB RAM
150GB NVMe Storage
1 IPv4
8192GB Bandwidth
SAN JOSE, CA
$51.61 per 2 YEARS
@VirMach said:
Pretty good lucky streak in San Jose. Alright now it's @FrankZ let's see if it continues. Uhoh, memory not looking good but lots of IPs. This is going to be a weird one. Oh right I know what I'd do in this situation. Yep looks like the system did something on a similar plan recently.
Offer CANDLE #3
SKU: SJCZ008
4 cores
3536MB RAM
240GB NVMe Storage
2 IPv4
6144GB Bandwidth
SAN JOSE, CA
$83.82 per 2 YEARS
Back to Miami. Okay this server has a ton of IP addresses and is pretty empty, someone is about to finally have a bad day. Oh it's still working out to be pretty okay. I think this one was @Kris
Is that the worst one we've had so far? I guess it looks bad in comparison. I really wasn't thinking this through when I made this a mystery, I'll tally the ROI on all of them when we're done.
@VirMach said:
Back to Miami. Okay this server has a ton of IP addresses and is pretty empty, someone is about to finally have a bad day. Oh it's still working out to be pretty okay. I think this one was @Kris
@VirMach Do you have many nodes in San Jose where the name suggests it is a Seattle node? I was finally able to access Solus (through my Virmach control panel) and it says my node is SEA-Z010.
I've looked up the IP in three different free ip2geolocation tools and got three very different answers: Brooklyn, NY; Tehran, IR; and Virginia. Attempt #4 said Brooklyn, NY.
I can't YABS it because VNC shows it's stuck in a kernel panic and rebooting isn't fixing it. lol
Chicago. This might end up being the weirdest one so far I actually have no idea. We had a bunch of high IP deals on it and now it's out of IPs and everything almost completely. Okay hmm... I know I just said almost out of IPs but somehow this makes the most sense. Nope, okay deferring this one as well, too weird and taking long.
Offer CANDLE #3
SKU: CHIZ030
?? cores
??MB RAM
??GB NVMe Storage
?? IPv4
??GB Bandwidth
CHICAGO, IL
?? per 2 YEARS
@user123 said: @VirMach Do you have many nodes in San Jose where the name suggests it is a Seattle node? I was finally able to access Solus (through my Virmach control panel) and it says my node is SEA-Z010.
I've looked up the IP in three different free ip2geolocation tools and got three very different answers: Brooklyn, NY; Tehran, IR; and Virginia. Attempt #4 said Brooklyn, NY.
I can't YABS it because VNC shows it's stuck in a kernel panic and rebooting isn't fixing it. lol
Our first Amsterdam and first real disappointment of the night. Oh I feel bad doing this, I thought I wouldn't feel bad but... okay I know what I'll do. This is one of the nodes that's part of the upcoming changes in Amsterdam I described some pages ago on another thread. I'm going to pretend as if those changes already went through, because otherwise this node has 130 free IPv4 and @msatt would get nothing. That would technically be better for us anyway and I should probably code something out for this type of upcoming big change for the auto deals too. It's still not too great but you might get some boost. Okay nope. Hmm... I guess all the deals that have sold on this node have been pretty much the same small plans as a result of ...
Give me more time to come up with more excuses and reasoning to try to make this good, deferring.
@user123 said: @VirMach Do you have many nodes in San Jose where the name suggests it is a Seattle node? I was finally able to access Solus (through my Virmach control panel) and it says my node is SEA-Z010.
I've looked up the IP in three different free ip2geolocation tools and got three very different answers: Brooklyn, NY; Tehran, IR; and Virginia. Attempt #4 said Brooklyn, NY.
I can't YABS it because VNC shows it's stuck in a kernel panic and rebooting isn't fixing it. lol
Power off, reinstall.
Thanks . I got this when I originally tried, but it loaded and reinstalled after.
Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.
We can’t connect to the server at vps.virmach.com.
YABS is running now and says the location is Los Angeles, so I really don't know where my server is. My best guess is...somewhere in the continental USA?
@user123 said: YABS is running now and says the location is Los Angeles, so I really don't know where my server is. My best guess is...somewhere in the continental USA?
Probably Iran.
@sanvit said:
Is candle 4 not available yet? Or is it a cache issue? And will the price change after 2 yrs?
@user123 said: YABS is running now and says the location is Los Angeles, so I really don't know where my server is. My best guess is...somewhere in the continental USA?
Probably Iran.
@sanvit said:
Is candle 4 not available yet? Or is it a cache issue? And will the price change after 2 yrs?
@VirMach said: Give me more time to come up with more excuses and reasoning to try to make this good, deferring.
Okay I've figured it out. It turns out that this node has way too many IP addresses, and I'm completely flipping my logic. We're selling plans based on how they are now, not how they might be, and it has 130 of them. That's so many. We'll never be able to sell all of them so there's only one thing we can do here since the resources are otherwise so low per IP.
@VirMach said:
Pretty good lucky streak in San Jose. Alright now it's @FrankZ let's see if it continues. Uhoh, memory not looking good but lots of IPs. This is going to be a weird one. Oh right I know what I'd do in this situation. Yep looks like the system did something on a similar plan recently.
Offer CANDLE #3
SKU: SJCZ008
4 cores
3536MB RAM
240GB NVMe Storage
2 IPv4
6144GB Bandwidth
SAN JOSE, CA
$83.82 per 2 YEARS
I visualized this description of the VPS as the sorting hat in Harry Potter deciding which house to place @Frankz's VPS in.
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Because you were joking and it's actually a simple '12x CPU/RAM/Disk/BW(@10Gbps) & 90% discount price'. 🤞
Maybe @VirMach could colo with MzunguHosting's Antarctica server for that.
To the contrary, they'll all buy hundreds of them, get pissed when it's NOT APAC, and then DDoS Virmach for weeks.
New location in Israel ✡
I'll be placing this out of stock early today as well, let's say in 15 minutes. With the PHXZ004 migration, everything else, as well as this one being ordered more and it being more time consuming to process, and needing sleep, I think now would be a good time to start on them.
Originally was going to purchase one in AMS and one in Tokyo, but the 127% surcharge (for this deal) on Tokyo is pretty rough without knowing the specs. In the end I just went with one in AMS to replace my current one that's being sunset in January. Hope this doesn't come bite me later
Alright, third day sale is over.
Okay before I reveal what the mystery is, two big disclaimers. (1) It will be done exactly how it's described which means a lot of chance is involved in this one so do not get your hopes up, and (2) there's a chance that it would have been lower but I will not be reducing it if that occurs, once they're done I'll announce it so you'll know for sure if yours was one of those or if it just hasn't been processed yet, since they would look the same. Probably don't look at it until I say I'm done otherwise the suspense may end up being excruciating.
Now some further clarifications as I'm sure there will be questions:
If anyone bought Tokyo I think they'll end up being very pleased with the outcome. Not guaranteed, but based on how they generally tend to be on the larger size. They'll be on average much larger than the ones (for Tokyo) because Tokyo has specific code in the automation that tries to make it smaller since that's preferred for that location and I'm doing these manually. Location matters a lot for this mystery, but for any super crazy one it will just be ending up on a weird lopsided node probably. We'll see!
so what you're saying is...
its mystery.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
So for this one I think it'll actually be more fun if I post the offers by node. This way you'll know if I'm working on it sooner and know exactly whether or not yours got done and what it was. I'll post them as if they're flash sales, so you'll also get to see the price I would have put on it (keep in mind again if it's lower specifications I won't actually be reducing anything and the pricing posted here has nothing to do with your service's actual price. I'll be presenting the mock price as per two years.)
They'll go in clusters of nodes from oldest to newest orders.
P.S. I may or may not reuse some of these as actual custom flash deals since I'm already doing the work.
Next up... okay this one is one I would have normally skipped because it's low on resources but I'll proceed as if I have to do it, I'm not sure how it'll end up. For reference this last sold at $8.74 a year on December 23rd or so and the specs were 1GB memory, 1 Core, 20GB disk, 2.5TB bandwidth and 2 IPv4 which is weird because it's low on IPs, I guess it's lower on other things or it broke the script with a weird edge case. It actually divided it by 3 which I won't be doing but at the same time this is after it already sold some of the remaining space. Let's see what it ends up looking like I guess (ohh I see why it gave multiple IPs.) I'm actually evaluating these exactly as I would, this is definitely a tricky one. Yeah, it's taking too long. I'm deferring it for now.
Ok so we'll need a degree in LowEndMaths to be able to decipher this.
This deal is pretty wild in all honesty, which makes me worried about the upcoming ones you actually listed as "wild". I was actually going through in my head what you could possibly mean by "difficult to process" while still not having any downsides. Now it all makes sense.
It only means one thing. Get ready for some
going to bed..
We intensely dislike paying before knowing what's being purchased.
Hence, we boycott candles.
We accept Karma donations for the last flan. 🍮 affbrr
Denise Richards looks a lot like Fairuza Balk here.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
I ordered one and two, but three is out of stock, so looks like you're safe.
Plot twist: @VirMach candle #4 surprise is a free IPv6 /64 for all locations.
Yeah - because that won't be abused by their clients.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
Damn, look at you calling sunny out like that.
Just came back after a long hiatus and forgot VirMach had moved to LES! I'm missing out!
you missed the most complicated day of Hanukah deal.
today's will be WILD though
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/200980/#Comment_200980
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Missed yesterday's $1.2B Mega Millions lottery, so this is the second best thing.
This would have been great, but of course I drew SJCZ008 so .....
Oh phew, I ordered day 1 and day 3. Just to figure out what day 3 was. Can't wait to see what today's buyers got!
wow so all who bought miami will get that?
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I can't see which node I'm on because trying to load the Solus page for the very first time led to this immediately after I clicked the box to simply see the captcha:
So, when I saw your SJCZ007 specs, I got excited because I thought it was the only SJC node. But, I now see SJCZ020 specs in my account.
The main gambling I do is buying Virmach mysteries lol.
Pretty good lucky streak in San Jose. Alright now it's @FrankZ let's see if it continues. Uhoh, memory not looking good but lots of IPs. This is going to be a weird one. Oh right I know what I'd do in this situation. Yep looks like the system did something on a similar plan recently.
Unless someone is on SJCZ020 with me. :P
Another San Jose, will we get a dud? Nope doesn't look like it. After all these I'm definitely not going to feel bad for the first 512MB 10GB we hit. Okay, all out of San Jose.
Back to Miami. Okay this server has a ton of IP addresses and is pretty empty, someone is about to finally have a bad day. Oh it's still working out to be pretty okay. I think this one was @Kris
Is that the worst one we've had so far? I guess it looks bad in comparison. I really wasn't thinking this through when I made this a mystery, I'll tally the ROI on all of them when we're done.
Nice, i got 2c/2.5/60/2TB for $9.76 :-)
@VirMach Do you have many nodes in San Jose where the name suggests it is a Seattle node? I was finally able to access Solus (through my Virmach control panel) and it says my node is SEA-Z010.
I've looked up the IP in three different free ip2geolocation tools and got three very different answers: Brooklyn, NY; Tehran, IR; and Virginia. Attempt #4 said Brooklyn, NY.
I can't YABS it because VNC shows it's stuck in a kernel panic and rebooting isn't fixing it. lol
Chicago. This might end up being the weirdest one so far I actually have no idea. We had a bunch of high IP deals on it and now it's out of IPs and everything almost completely. Okay hmm... I know I just said almost out of IPs but somehow this makes the most sense. Nope, okay deferring this one as well, too weird and taking long.
Power off, reinstall.
Got this one. Gotta admit, it’s a pretty sweet deal
Our first Amsterdam and first real disappointment of the night. Oh I feel bad doing this, I thought I wouldn't feel bad but... okay I know what I'll do. This is one of the nodes that's part of the upcoming changes in Amsterdam I described some pages ago on another thread. I'm going to pretend as if those changes already went through, because otherwise this node has 130 free IPv4 and @msatt would get nothing. That would technically be better for us anyway and I should probably code something out for this type of upcoming big change for the auto deals too. It's still not too great but you might get some boost. Okay nope. Hmm... I guess all the deals that have sold on this node have been pretty much the same small plans as a result of ...
Give me more time to come up with more excuses and reasoning to try to make this good, deferring.
Is candle 4 not available yet? Or is it a cache issue? And will the price change after 2 yrs?
Thanks
. I got this when I originally tried, but it loaded and reinstalled after.
YABS is running now and says the location is Los Angeles, so I really don't know where my server is. My best guess is...somewhere in the continental USA?
Edit: thanks for doing math to give us deals.
Probably Iran.
Trying to wrap these up first.
That would explain the 25GB disk
.
Is any IP space still HE TunnelBroker capable?
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
Okay I've figured it out. It turns out that this node has way too many IP addresses, and I'm completely flipping my logic. We're selling plans based on how they are now, not how they might be, and it has 130 of them. That's so many. We'll never be able to sell all of them so there's only one thing we can do here since the resources are otherwise so low per IP.
No idea what price I'd even put on this I probably wouldn't sell it somewhere between $32 and $57.38 per two years I guess.
I visualized this description of the VPS as the sorting hat in Harry Potter deciding which house to place @Frankz's VPS in.
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YABS on my @VirMach Candle #3 VPS. It is either in Iran or somewhere in the continental US. TBD. Nice CPU, though.