Hana5
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Lifetime dear skepticism: change my mind
Please help me understand why anyone trusts lifetime dears anymore. I have four dead hosts in my email history, four server gone forever. OVHcloud, RackNerd, two others I cannot even name because domain is parked now.
Yet I see people defend these dears with "survivor bias" and "most hosts are fine". Where is the proof? Show me the numbers. I am tired of paying for my optimism with data loss and migration panic at 3am.
Someone change my mind before I do something stupid again.
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SingaporeRep
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RTFM
Lifetime_deals:
- provider: Contabo
Status: acquired_2023
Terms_changed: true
- provider: Vultr
Status: operating
Catch: annual_commitment
- 73% of "lifetime" plans sunset within 36 months
- survivors pivot to "fair use" enforcement
- your data is the real recurring revenue
fio, iperf, geekbench. results or gtfo.
SingaporeRep
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Where does this number come from?
Aggregated from LET/LowEndTalk sunset threads 2019-2024. Methodology is trash, self-reported, survivor bias inverted. Real number probably worse.
fio, iperf, geekbench. results or gtfo.
Hana5
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Nobody tracks actual failure rates properly chur.
This is the thing. We are all flying blind and pretending the seatbelts work. My OVHcloud dedi died in that Roubaix fire. Not even a lifetime deal, just regular OVHcloud. Still gone.
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steveipw
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Roubaix fire was 2021. OVHcloud had no fire suppression in SBG2. Not a lifetime issue, just OVHcloud being OVHcloud. I was on SBG1, watched it happen. RAID did nothing. ZFS send to Hetzner saved me.
zfs send | zfs receive. repeat.
