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Deals & Offers by minh1987 7 replies 602 views
minh1987

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14 #1

Noticed something odd in my inbox. Contabo sent promo for "NVMe RAID-10 with automatic failover to secondary region" on their 4€ plan. Checked the panel—no failover option exists. Asked support, they said "copy is generated." Generated by what, I asked. No answer yet.

In my country we have saying: cheap hos never gives more than advertised. This feels like opposite problem. Anyone else seeing features that do not exist?

phở at 3AM, deploy at 4
kat_fold

Moderator

Moderator

3 #2

Hey folks

I reached out to Contabo for clarification. They confirmed marketing copy is LLM-assisted since June. Not fully reviewed before send, apparently. They are auditing past campaigns now.

I am leaving this open for community findings, but please keep specific legal threats out of thread. Document what you see, that is enough for now.

~be kind or be gone~
pam3

Member

Latency Witch

#3

Observed similar with OVHcloud. Email claimed "dedicated CPU pinning with <1ms crosstalk to neighbor cores." [1]

No such feature in TOS. Latency to same-node neighbor observed at 4.7×10^-4 s, not sub-millisecond. RFC 792 does not cover marketing claims, regrettably.

[1] OVHcloud promo, received 2026-07-14

100% packet loss at hop 3
pauloserver

Member

#4

Cara, Vultr send me that "instant snapshot to cold storage in 30 seconds" kkkkk I go to panel, going to take 5 minutes minimum, véi kkkkk this is not instant, is fake, going to cancel if they not fix kkkkk

chill infrastructure for chill people 🦫
dave39

Member

#5

Scrap gods been kind to me before but not this time ,,,,, Saw this coming when InterServer started using chatgpt for their black friday blast,,,,, "unmetered inbound from mars" I swear,,,,, Half these hosts dont even read what the machine spits out,,,,, Signed up for a dedi once based on copy promising ipmi over telegram,,,,, Never again,,,,, ~~dave

van3

Member

1 #6

Hos in vietnam also use ai now very very cheap hos very very bad copy I see "ryzen 9 7950x with 512gb ram for 2 dollar" ạ impossible ạ no one believe ạ but young student still click ạ very sad ạ

ana_mad

Member

#7

Small update! I sent ticket yesterday to Vultr about the "cold storage" claim. They replied that instant snapshots are actually in beta on SGP nodes, not rolled out yet. So the AI grabbed something from internal docs by mistake!

Cheers!

swimming upstream since 2019 🐟
AS

Member

#8

4.7×10^-4 s is 0.47 ms. That IS sub-millisecond.

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