Are the days gone that it's hard to get a buyvm box?
- Thread starter jcaleb
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More like they are no longer EGI limited and can just expand.
Aldryic C'boas
The Pony
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
Aldryic C'boas
The Pony
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.
jcaleb
New Member
Will you stay with CC in NY for a long time? Or not thinking about it yet?
Aldryic C'boas
The Pony
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.
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.
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.
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
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
There are hopeless addicts there, some in treatment and some that pretend to be cured.
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
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
wlanboy
Content Contributer
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