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So a 512mb slice is in the works?
Nope, $3.50/month is where we'll stop.
128MB KVM's will be depooled once we have slices everywhere. As of right now they come out to like $3.00/month or so, so going to $3.50/month shouldn't break any banks.
The 128MB OpenVZ's will still be available since people still like them for small projects. They'll likely get another round of upgrades in the future whenever old nodes get repurposed. Some SSD's are quite likely. It's also possible we end up just giving them a space upgrade on the SATA drives since we get people always nagging wanting a super cheap storage. Then again, maybe we should just make a $3.50/month storage.
Francisco
I'm using my 128MB OVZ as my mailserver. I think the price/resources is super useful. Add mountable volumes to them at $0.0XX/GB and they become even more useful.
I got up at 2 in the frackin' morning to get my 128 so it better stick around...:-)
Ah, nostalgia. Was BuyVM the first with the $15/yr 128?
OpenVZ's + that is a clusterfuck waiting to happen. I think we'd be better off just giving a one off diskspace bump to all 128MB's. Maybe a 4x - 5x space bump.
There was another provider before us (RackVM maybe?) that did a $10/year plan as a cash grab to try to pay their bills to OVH. That obviously caught fire and burnt to a crisp. As far as I know we were the first and one of the last of the old guard that offers them.
Most everyone else has gone belly up, stopped offering them, or offers something similar on a very limited basis due to IP costs and the likes. Fairly sure @mitgib still offers something around that price point and I count him as part of the old guard.
Francisco
Something at the back of my head says they weren't, but I'm struggling to think who it was...
There was something at $10/year or so that was from UptimeVPS or someone like that, but the $15/year price point is what we coined. To be fair though UptimeVPS was the most hilariously scammy operation i'd seen in a long time and no one believed me when I was screaming it all over LEB/LET.
Francisco
Actually, 25/yr is 2/month ...
Fair, but not everyone will pay yearly
Francisco
Thanks all for your input. I will try them both.