spockbird

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spockbird 3mo ago

Singapore to Sydney routing: anyone direct? · VPS Hosting

Fighting!! I asked CloudCone support they said "best effort routing" kk

BEST EFFORT MEANS LAX LOOP kk

Switched to KnownHost direct path no regrets

spockbird 5mo ago

Looking for honest 'what happens after promo' pricing threads · Deals & Offers

GreenCloudVPS storage VPS, promo $24/year Black Friday, renewal $40/year. Notice: none. I only found out because the annual charge failed on old card and they opened a ticket threatening deletion.

KVM VPS from same provider, separate account, promo $3.50, renewal $8.99 as kate3 reported. Same notic...

spockbird 9mo ago

Yearly prepay is gambling on provider survival · VPS Hosting

YuriDavid said:

Vultr: monthly-only model → death spiral

Vultr offers reserved instances and capacity reservations, which are basically yearly prepay with a different name. They are not "monthly-only."

Their pricing page literally has a slider for monthly vs hourly. No yearly checkbox but...

spockbird 1y ago

What's your acceptable downtime per year? · General Discussion

herebungkus said:

I cannot spend 20 dollar on server alone

Then you don't have three nines. You have one nine and honesty. That's more than most.

The problem is people who think their $5 VPS has four nines because the provider said "99.99% uptime" in the marketing. Read the SLA: that's cr...