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Are the days gone that it's hard to get a buyvm box?

jcaleb

New Member
I miss those times that I need to wake up at 4am in the morning, Manila time, just to get a taste of buyvm. Usually the 128's and 256's are gone in few minutes.

Is it just too much competition now and too many choices?
 

jcaleb

New Member
Ohhh, is it just because of EGI bw they cant add nodes? And people are just waiting in line for cancellations?
 

Aldryic C'boas

The Pony
More like they are no longer EGI limited and can just expand.
This, a thousand times this.  Now that we're out from under EGI's shady limiting, we can actually grow our network (and our deployments).  Now granted, NY stock still remains scarce, primarily because we're not all that willing to put any more hardware with CC.  Thankfully, sales still do fairly well (40-70 orders a day when I have stock open), and we still have a good deal of fresh hardware from the last buildout that's waiting to be filled.  Once things calm down again (Stallion2/etc), we'll fire up the daily restocks again :p 
 

Aldryic C'boas

The Pony
Ohhh, is it just because of EGI bw they cant add nodes? And people are just waiting in line for cancellations?
tl;dr - we had 2gbit with EGI, and learned (the hard way) that they were quietly limiting us to less than half of that.  My suspicion is that they SEVERELY oversell to CN VPNs, mailers, etc; and the rest of the clients have to suffer for it.  For over a year, it simply wasn't worth building any new nodes simply because we knew that we didn't have enough transit for them.
 

Aldryic C'boas

The Pony
Will you stay with CC in NY for a long time? Or not thinking about it yet?
For now, unless there are some MAJOR changes (which are pretty much guaranteed not to happen), we don't have any plans to stay with them past our contract expiry.  That's still some time off, so we've not spent much time discussing it in earnest, aside from general grumblings of how displeased we are about being lied to.
 

jarland

The ocean is digital
I think some people might have been waiting for LV move to level out too, but that's just an external observation and you know how those go...perception doesn't account for much of reality.
 

Aldryic C'boas

The Pony
Heh, aye, that's part of it as well.  We almost doubled our node capacity coming to Vegas.. and have added a half-dozen storage nodes, KVM nodes, and a bunch of new OpenVZ nodes since then.  Kinda worried us at first when sales slowed down.. but we've pretty much figured now that this is 'normal', and we've never really had the availability for normal stock before.

Of course, then you had the fairly recent RAM ratrace (and I cannot roll my eyes hard enough at those clowns) that undoubtedly accounted for a good bit of our slower sales.  But now that people are starting to see that when you buy 2GB for 5$ you get less quality than McDonalds "BBQ" (and especially with CVPS repeatedly dropping the ball, and the Solus scares), things are picking up again.
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Power has been pretty stable now too. Network great, even from East Texas.
Network will improve greatly once the new router is in place and Rob finally gave us an RFO on the power stuff.

We have added more nodes but that's mostly because we don't know what Stallion 2 will bring. We don't know if it'll cause a sudden big rush for people or what.

Yes, it's hard to compete against hte $5/m for 2GB plans but that's expected. There are many people that don't care about the extra features we include and simply want to save a couple bucks. Those people are been realizing that those cheap boxes can be prone to being rm'd, though.

I never liked having to enforce the limits we did but we always had something biting our ass with EGI. Network issues & power in FMT. Network issues in the 2nd half of our time with coresite.

We'll continue to roll new features with stallion that will, hopefully, have us competing closer to Linode than what the LE communities bring.

Francisco
 

Holoshed

New Member
I actually remember waiting up to get a BuyVM vps and I still use it for different needs. Though it may be easier for people now, I still enjoyed the thrill of the hunt back when. Other than the infamous move to NV I never had any real issue with mine.
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
I actually remember waiting up to get a BuyVM vps and I still use it for different needs. Though it may be easier for people now, I still enjoyed the thrill of the hunt back when. Other than the infamous move to NV I never had any real issue with mine.
And that's where the difference is between us and most of the others. A lot of people 'collect' LEBs like they're hockey cards but don't actually do much with them. There's a thread on these forums of 'what do you do once you buy an LEB?' and there was countless replies that were honestly 'It sits idle'.

Francisco
 

maounique

Active Member
And that's where the difference is between us and most of the others. A lot of people 'collect' LEBs like they're hockey cards but don't actually do much with them. There's a thread on these forums of 'what do you do once you buy an LEB?' and there was countless replies that were honestly 'It sits idle'.


Francisco
Well, what are you expecting from a forum about LEBs :p There are hopeless addicts there, some in treatment and some that pretend to be cured.
 

kaniini

Beware the bunny-rabbit!
Verified Provider
tl;dr - we had 2gbit with EGI, and learned (the hard way) that they were quietly limiting us to less than half of that.  My suspicion is that they SEVERELY oversell to CN VPNs, mailers, etc; and the rest of the clients have to suffer for it.  For over a year, it simply wasn't worth building any new nodes simply because we knew that we didn't have enough transit for them.
Ouuuuuuch.  I remember that from when I had servers with lightwave.net which were using EGIHosting.  You can imagine how well that policy impacted DroneBL...
 

Aldryic C'boas

The Pony
And that's where the difference is between us and most of the others. A lot of people 'collect' LEBs like they're hockey cards but don't actually do much with them. There's a thread on these forums of 'what do you do once you buy an LEB?' and there was countless replies that were honestly 'It sits idle'.


Francisco
Yeah, I've gotta admit, when we ask someone what they do with their BuyVM and the response is "Moved our production stuff to it", that gives one hell of a raging ere sense of pride :p
 

wlanboy

Content Contributer
we don't have any plans to stay with them past our contract expiry
Please carefully choose your next location. LV is not a good option for EU clients. If you abandon the north/east area I have to (don't want to) leave.

"Moved our production stuff to it", that gives one hell of a sense of pride
Second that. You are one of three providers where I commit important things to.
 

Francisco

Company Lube
Verified Provider
Please carefully choose your next location. LV is not a good option for EU clients. If you abandon the north/east area I have to (don't want to) leave.

Second that. You are one of three providers where I commit important things to.
Personally I don't see us closing the Buffalo location short of CC tripling our price or something. If we ever 'moved' it, it would be moved to NJ or actual NY.

What is more than likely to happen is we'll just open a 2nd East coast location, as well as a Europe location. Europe is postponed some, though, because of all the projects going on.

Francisco
 
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