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Black Friday traffic spike killed my $3/month plan

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Bruno22

Member OP

6 #1

I am make a test with my shop in Contabo, very cheap plan, €3 only! Then come the Black Friday and PUM, site down, all red in uptime graph. I send apology email for my 12 customers, very professional, "we are experience technical difficulty"

The support from Contabo say "you exceed resource limit" and I think WOW, I am viral, we make a test and is very good, my marketing is rocket

But then I check the log... twelve simultaneous visitors. Twelve! Not twelve thousand. Twelve. My $3 plan die with twelve people. Is very good, no?

Now I am upgrade for Hetzner €5 plan, we see if support THIRTEEN visitors. What is your acceptable downtime threshold, friends? For me, 100% uptime or I send more apology email.

ping so high I wave back
HO

Member

#2
Bruno22 said:
TWELVE simultaneous visitors

Xixixi bruno you are punny lah!! I am buy yesterday a plan from RackNerd, very cheap, but now I am scare. Very scare.

I am think "unlimited" mean unlimited but actually is limit. They dont tell you the limit until you hit. Xixixi

btrfs

Member

snapshot obsessive

#3

1) acceptable downtime thresholds
A) personal blog: 99% is fine
I) who cares
B) ecommerce: 99.9% minimum
I) money is involved
C) client sites: 99.99%
I) your reputation
Ii) their reputation
2) bruno's situation
A) $3 plan
I) expected failure
B) twelve visitors
I) tragic
Ii) hilarious
C) apology emails
I) good instinct
Ii) wrong priority
3) my recommendation
A) monitor before marketing
B) load test
I) siege
Ii) ab
Iii) k6

PacketpunkUma

Member

#4
btrfs said:
Monitor before marketing

No! Market first! Monitor later! Thats the way!

Twelve visitors and dead! Ive seen worse! Had a $2/mo plan from GreenCloudVPS that died on the invoice email! The server crashed before I even paid!

Contabo is legendary for this! Embrace the chaos! Upgrade to $5! Then $10! Then VPS! Then dedicated! The slide never ends!

tifiucem

Member

🇹🇷 cheap vps hunter

2 #5

You dont need apology email for twelve visitor.

Just say "we are maintenance" and drink çay.

I am pay $4 for InterServer, very very stable, 99.9% uptime. But their support ticket answer in 48 hour. You cant have everything cheap.

Contabo is joke provider, everyone know this. Move to KnownHost or Hostinger, little more money but you can sleep!

çok ucuz, çok hızlı
JokoNord

Member

#6

Contabo even count twelve visitors as a spike tho

traffic worse than my packet loss

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