VirMach tests Black Friday system
This post has been edited by MMMM on November 19, 2024 at 15:29. https://vps.blackfriday System is in alpha testing mode. Do not place an order. Policy changes and clarifications will cause some of our support methods to change, and some new exclusions (including both official and unofficial ones) will become available for purchase. Some of these may be unpopular, so this might be the only time I can guarantee their resolution (and during this early phase, I'll listen to feedback). I don't want anyone to buy these additional products, so if you don't buy them, it converts into (1) possible price increases that are reasonable but you're not obligated to renew, (2) your inability to transfer these specific types of discounted items purchased after 2024, (3) limited support could start enforcing itself like you created a ticket we don't cover, which may never get responded or closed, (4) absolutely do not expect changes to your IP address or anything else. This is written in stone until we absolutely have to follow our instructions (like maintaining as we move to another node or block), and (5) no matter what, there's always going to be a chance that the system will try to enforce a higher price. The system won't actually increase prices or plan costs right now, but if we really want to provide the best price to those special deals, it will eventually reach the point where we care about those. If you want to ensure that the price is locked in for five years, pay $10 once. Only when you get an infinite term crazy deal do I suggest getting this, because it looks cheaper than IPv4 and host services cost. (6) Transfer and AUP - These two are related. Whenever there's a transfer, especially for these special deals, the risk will increase, meaning that the next person who gets it isn't necessarily as nice as the original customer. Due to the lower costs of these plans, they tend to receive more abuse reports over their lifetime, and it seems unlikely that they would ever pay any termination fees because they aren't worth it compared to the costs of the plans themselves. It includes handling spam and other forms of abusive use, up to a certain level. This also unlocks the ability to make transfers for service purchases. Each year, you need to spend $5. I think this will be one of the less popular changes, since people generally prefer transferring services between each other. That doesn't mean I can't make exceptions, so if you've been with us for a long time, we might still be (depending on how we judge abuse) tolerant towards abusive behavior and allow you to transfer the plan without purchasing this option. But... Without this option, you can't guarantee something. (7) Enable IP Change Tool - Now included with these special deals. In fact, we're reworking the IP change system right now, so if it's not completed before the formal sales end, it could be removed as an option. This almost feels like an optional choice, just paying $10 once for random IP changes. For some customers, it will happen very quickly, because some of these special deals might receive six paid IP changes in their lifetimes. (8) Support and Changes - This is an option that allows standard support levels to be obtained using non-special plans. We used to be very lenient with support, but I'm not sure how long we can keep supporting those who ask for a lot of requests for support while keeping it reasonable. The second part of this is "changes", meaning we'll officially offer the possibility of buying these special deals, such as being able to use the service modification button (extra purchase) or asking for changes. You can access these buttons or change levels, but we decide what happens automatically, so it's immediately "no" for them. One important thing to note is changing your plan location to Tokyo. (9) Pricing Example/Overview - As described above, pricing has been greatly improved, but I'd like to understand its philosophy and meaning. We definitely won't go for high-priced bad transactions, but the system can't really achieve this either, but it does try to compensate for any extra pricing. There's an increase in the percentage of crazy and reserved transactions, meaning there's usually less space for such transactions, which should be the case given the passage of time. (10) Location - The way pricing works, location is more important. We know which locations use more resources, so we have more resources left. Host services' costs apply somewhat to location, so this means, for example, Amsterdam's backend has power pricing fees (which impact CPU heavy plans' pricing more.) The system tries to adjust through offering fewer cores than Amsterdam does. For Tokyo, this ultimately produces the most significant impact. It means that Tokyo plans will naturally generate less bandwidth and higher memory expenses (but cheaper CPUs) than the rest. Not all of these options are checked, and prices will adjust based on our progress. (11) Resources - Provided resources match the above pricing. This means, if the plan's costs exceed all resource levels, it will adjust its potential resources, making it worthwhile rather than biased towards some people. Very high CPU and memory are possible, but they're often rounded off or discarded. There are more strange "throw away" resource levels. I've seen the highest CPU core roughly around 4 and the highest memory around 8 GB. The highest disk is around 500 GB and the highest bandwidth is around 40 TB. We first tested the system and then set limits as backups, in case it decided to randomly generate a plan with 18 cores. (12) Quantity - It was done in a more strict manner. It aims to minimize quantity and maintain conservatism, ensuring that we don't sell too many units on a single node. I've seen it generate the highest number of around 100, but this happened on a completely empty node without production, and the resource level was extremely low (for example, total memory adds up to about 80 GB.) (13) Demand - Currently calculated every 30 minutes. I'd like to do it more frequently, but this ends up becoming a nightmare until we have better price change warning systems between pages (which is actually happening -- updating, this is already happening and completed.) Based on demand pricing will lock you in to the price you bought regardless of whether it goes up or down. If nobody buys them, it will eventually turn good deals into great deals. The building style of the system is also possible to interact with other parts and terminate sales in advance (which hasn't been implemented yet, but it will likely enter sales later.)
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