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Just wanted to chime in to share my belief that generalizations are usually not always right/just.
In my case, my $4.75 / yr (not month) server was suspended with a reason of "1K+ SMTP connections". It wasn't me doing the spamming of course, so I appealed the suspension. I did get schooled a bit about being the VPS administration noob that I was (failing to install fail2ban, and not changing the hex-chars-only password that was initially assigned for that particular server at the time), but my service was still re-instantiated in a relatively short time (*).
So I did get (what I would call) fair treatment for a service that only earns them ~1/5 of yours.
Again, to be fair:
1). I'm not claiming you're wrong in your particular case. You may have 100% certainty for all the processes running on your server not over-using port 25, not being hacked, etc, and they may have misread logs, etc. I think it's not right to just classify them publicly as refusing you as customer based on your monthly earnings for them.
2). Other that letting that server get hacked, I have not really pushed their services (i.e. my idlers) to much of a limit to see their "bad side" if they have one for a customer like me...
(*) To be fair, there was some miscommunication with them passing me the new root password, so that process couldn't be as short as it could have been, but I was still happy that I was able to keep the server.
I expect the sh-t rolls down hill from the data center to Virmach to you.
Then sh-t rolls back uphill from you to VirMach, where it stops because VirMach has to keep the data center happy for obvious reasons.
See who is really in the middle of the sh-t here?
Off topic
Is normal mail traffic out of port 25 encrypted?
Can @VirMach prove user uses that port for mail abuse???
Side note on this, we noticed that people who did use Fail2Ban would usually be on bad settings that spiked their usage, especially on lower plans, so we are now monitoring pretty much all servers constantly for mass brute forcers. We tried to get ColoCrossing to add some firewall on their end since they could easily do it by measuring traffic over the port, but they essentially pretended that we were the only ones to receive constant bruteforces since (I guess) their network engineers don't understand how the internet works. We also couldn't get management to realize that it would benefit them.
Anyway, this has caught 250,000 IPs so far so and reduced the load as well. So even if people do fail to secure their servers, there's a little bit of something in the background.
Care to share the ticket ID so I can go over it here? I promise to go over it, even if we're wrong as long as you provide the ID. That way everyone can take a look for themselves as well since you seem to want people to know about it.
We have email limits in our ToS. We estimate the quantity of e-mails based on traffic over port 25. The datacenter will see high volume as spam automatically, which we disagree with, but their limits are much higher than ours so in any case you would have to send more than our limit for it the datacenter to consider it "spam" so it would still essentially be high volume per our AUP as well.
Our own scripts do not nullroute like the datacenter, but blocks port 25.
Woah, bad settings?! It's broken Fail2Ban [bug from 2015] that can't clear old entries and my SQLite database grow to like 500MB (few years, hell yeah!) and Fail2Ban was opening it every 10 seconds, increasing counters, saving and nuking the I/O.
btw. Got my cheap BF, no support services turned off for it. I investigated, fixed, said sorry in ticket and it's still working now - even to contrary popular believe here (LOL) wasn't slapped 2/10/25/50/100$ fee
I do not have
fail2banon any of my boxes.Anyone should be allowed to send packets to my box; it's their free speech rights.
Every day, hundreds of people are scanning my web server and trying SSH / Asterisk password.
I welcome them all.
My box would not respond, because it's my free speech right to not speak.
SSH is public key authentication only.
Asterisk has randomly generated passwords and $1 in the outbound calling account.
Postfix is uninstalled as part of my setup script.
Every month, I go to the server to delete the logs, when the disk is filled up again.
Do you need to expose port 25 to do outbound delivery?
If I use iptable to disallow external network, does it still work?
I don't transmit or receive emails from any of my boxes. People can send me voicemail by SIP telephone, which is received into Asterisk.
At the last moment, I decided to reverse the cancellation of one of my up-to-now unused @Virmach BF2019 boxes. It'll do fine as a slave nameserver and save an IP on one of my Proxmox servers. The consequences of no Virmach BF2020.
It would have been good to have got another multi-IP box this year. I asked sales if I could add some to a soon to be cancelled VPS but to no avail. Fair enough; I knew what I had purchased. Sales responded to my Ticket within a few hours, which is good in my book.
No gripes here!
(What about CM Flash sales only for exiting customers - don't get unless you ask? :-D )
I'm still salty there were never any Europe sales last years. I think at some point there was talk that it might happen later, but alas...
Oh fuck, you're the type of cunt who says "noob" about 20 times too many. Given the cry about $2/mo service, I'm guessing still living at home with mom?
Please post your ticket ID so we can see what kind of first class communications you've got there.
Dunno why we are having these arguments here. TBH. Either you love VirMach or you hate them. If you hate them you ain't gonna be buying their services anyway. And if you love them you aren't going to walk away just because someone says something.
I rather we just move on and get ourselves ready for 2020 BF Specials.
My Buys 2019 Black Friday, i just paid all invoices, i am very happy with Virmach, No Problems,
i also have a monthly, may add a few more.
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$97.27/yr - 1 GIGABIT
4 vCore
12288MB RAM
110GB SSD
SEATTLE, WA
12000GB Bandwidth
1 IP
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$25.83/yr - 1 GIGABIT
4x vCPU
2560MB RAM
20GB SSD
DALLAS, TX
1500GB Bandwidth
1 IP
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$26.31/yr - 1 GIGABIT
4 vCore
2816MB RAM
20GB SSD
SEATTLE, WA
2000GB Bandwidth
1 IP
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$25.22/yr - 1 GIGABIT
1 vCore
1024MB RAM
25GB SSD
ATLANTA, GA
1000GB Bandwidth
1 IP
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$14.15/yr - 1 GIGABIT
1 vCore
2944MB RAM
10GB SSD
LOS ANGELES, CA
3000GB Bandwidth
1 IP
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$14.72/yr - 1 GIGABIT
1 vCore
2560MB RAM
15GB SSD
BUFFALO, NY
2500GB Bandwidth
1 IP
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$7.00/yr - 1 GIGABIT
1 vCore
512MB RAM
15GB SSD
Atlanta, GA
1000GB Bandwidth
1 IP
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$5.00/yr
1 vCore
2048MB RAM
30GB SSD
Los Angeles, CA
400GB Bandwidth
1 IP
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I have 13 VPS idling hard with virmach. Looking forward to this year’s flash sale.
@VirMach Still pending after more than 10 hours.
Solution A:
Solution B:
Pick your poison.
You suck with managing VPS doesn’t mean I have to suffer with you. VirMach is a solid provider.
@VirMach
The $2 paid machine has been cancelled. Are you experiencing technical problems?
Looking forward to your Cyber Monday
Where do you collect all your GIFs
google.com
is it giphy.com ?
available to transfer Sir?
i'm interesting of $5/year
It's just so sexy
Not going to happen, Sorry.
I had 1 bf vps since last year? 6ram, 75ssd for $20+. Uptime is good with small wordpress site. I learn all my devops tools with it. About 235ms frm US to Singapore. Cant find fault n will renew this year.
Unless you're one of the first people to get that offer you weren't supposed to be able to order it anyway so if you somehow paid for it then you can contact us for a refund.