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Poll: how many unused VPS do you currently pay for?

VPS Hosting by kenji3 27 replies 1.6K views
kenji3

Member OP

#1

I may be wrong, but I think this community has a collective blind spot. We track $3/year deals like sport, yet we never talk about the boxes we forget exist.

I currently pay for 4 VPS I do not use:
- 1 at OVHcloud (Singapore, intended for WireGuard, never deployed)
- 1 at Vultr (Singapore, "temporary" test bench, 14 months ago)
- 2 at Hetzner (Falkenstein, backup plan for a project that shipped elsewhere)

Total waste: roughly $18/month. I am not proud.

Please reply with your count. I suspect the average here is higher than anyone admits.

conbini > datacenter snacks
adam20

Member

Ex-Abuse Desk

#2

One ticket: "customer reports server unused for 8 months, demands refund for all 8 months because he forgot password and could not log in to verify it was unused"
We denied, he opened 4 more tickets, each more creative than the last

Current personal count: 2, both for "testing" that never resumed

reported. resolved. repeat.
bravomartha

Member

4 #3

OK SO I JUST COUNTED AND I HAVE 12 YES TWELVE AND I KNOW THAT SOUNDS BAD BUT HostPeers ME EXPLAIN SO I GOT THE FIRST ONE BACK IN MARCH 2024 FROM CONTABO BECAUSE I WANTED TO RUN A MINECRAFT SERVER FOR MY NEPHEW AND I MADE EGGS THAT MORNING AND THE CAT WAS SITTING ON THE ROUTER SO THE WIFI WAS WEIRD AND I THOUGHT WHY NOT GET A VPS AND THEN THE MINECRAFT THING FELL THROUGH BECAUSE MY NEPHEW GOT INTO FORTNITE INSTEAD AND I FORGOT TO CANCEL AND THEN INTERSERVER HAD THIS BLACK FRIDAY DEAL AND I WAS EATING CEREAL AND IT WAS RAINING AND THE CAT KNOCKED OVER MY COFFEE AND I PANIC BOUGHT THREE MORE BECAUSE THE CHECKOUT WAS GLITCHING AND I DIDNT WANT TO LOSE THE CART AND THEN KNOWNHOST HAD THIS THING AND RACKNERD AND HOSTHATCH AND I JUST KEPT GOING AND NOW I PAY FOR 12 AND I ONLY LOG INTO ONE OF THEM WHICH RUNS Pihole AND EVEN THAT I BARELY CHECK AND PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY "bravomartha I DIDNT READ ALL THAT" AND IT MAKES ME SO MAD BECAUSE I PUT THE DETAILS IN THERE FOR A REASON AND THE WEATHER TODAY IS CLOUDY BY THE WAY

ellagee91

Member

#4

Twelve. Thats. Something else. I thought my three was bad. But you win. Or lose. Depending on perspective.

I have three. All GreenCloudVPS. All "temp" monitoring nodes. Never got past the first alert. Just kept paying. Every month. Like a subscription to guilt...

HO

Member

#5

Bro I got 5 all from different provider Contabo OVHcloud Vultr two at Hetzner €31 total prices only go up cant cancel them what if I need them later.

Found 3 more today forgot I had CloudCone account from 2023 $7/month each. Total is 8 now!

olespete

Member

Trust No One

#6

How do you forget a whole CloudCone account for two years?

airgapped, encrypted, faraday'd, still worried
HO

Member

#7

I know I know. But CloudCone only emails when they want money not when server sits there doing nothing. No usage alerts. I would have noticed if they told me.

adam20

Member

Ex-Abuse Desk

7 #8

We literally cannot email you to say "you are not using this." That is not a thing providers do. We would be accused of trying to cancel paying customers. The incentive structure is broken and everyone knows it.

reported. resolved. repeat.
lee_mcr

Member

#9

Zero. I have a spreadsheet. Every payday I open it. Anything not touched in 30 days gets cancelled before the next billing cycle. Brutal but necessary.

Honey badger don't care... about downtime
bravomartha

Member

#10

OK SO I FINISHED MY STORY THE KNOWNHOST THING WAS JUNE 2024 AND I NEEDED MANAGED SUPPORT BECAUSE I THOUGHT MANAGED MEANT THEY WOULD LOG IN AND FIX MY CODE AND TURNS OUT THAT IS NOT WHAT IT MEANS AND THEN I GOT A RACKNERD BLACK FRIDAY DEAL IN NOVEMBER AND A HOSTHATCH STORAGE VPS IN JANUARY BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO DO A PLEX THING AND I NEVER DID AND NOW I HAVE 12 AND I AM NOT COUNTING THE ONES I REMEMBERED TO CANCEL

I have a problem. I see this now.

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