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      elegast @mlnews
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      The Storage instances are also Sold Out

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        scottalanmiller @elegast
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        @elegast said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

        The Storage instances are also Sold Out

        They were not long ago, as well. Then they added more and had a lot available. Then they sold out again. I think that Vultr is growing a lot faster than they had forecasted and they are struggling to get new hardware racked and stacked fast enough to handle the demand.

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          scottalanmiller @elegast
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          @elegast said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

          The Storage instances are also Sold Out

          They are saying one to two weeks. If you go into their Storage VMs list and click on the location you want, they will offer to email you when more VMs are available.

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            Alex Sage
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            As I feared:

            Hello Aaron,

            Thank you for your interest in our $2.50 'sandbox' plan. We do suggest that you consider our $5.00 plan (we recently doubled resources available at a cost of $0.007/hour).

            Why is this awesome plan sold out? This boils down to supply and demand.

            Will this offer ever return? Signs point to 'probably, someday' but definitely not within the days ahead. Think weeks/months from now instead. If/when this happens, availability will likely be limited. Please consider visiting/refreshing https://my.vultr.com/deploy periodically (requires valid account login).

            Best Regards,

            Katie
            Vultr.com

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              scottalanmiller
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              Wow, can't believe that they did it for such a short period of time. That was REALLY short. I get that it doesn't make a lot of financial sense for them, but it was unique and important, I think.

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                JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                Wow, can't believe that they did it for such a short period of time. That was REALLY short. I get that it doesn't make a lot of financial sense for them, but it was unique and important, I think.

                I think they were just overwhelmed by the demand for it and they did not have enough infrastructure to keep it up.

                The $5 plans are still better though too.

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                  scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                  @JaredBusch said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                  Wow, can't believe that they did it for such a short period of time. That was REALLY short. I get that it doesn't make a lot of financial sense for them, but it was unique and important, I think.

                  I think they were just overwhelmed by the demand for it and they did not have enough infrastructure to keep it up.

                  The $5 plans are still better though too.

                  Oh yeah, they didn't just offer $2.50 plans, they improved their entire lineup. In fact, other than one jump box in a sea of other systems, I didn't care to get any of those tiny systems. They are too small for my workloads, so I really didn't care. I like them for quick spin up, test and spin down systems, though. And I like knowing that they are there 🙂

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                    scottalanmiller
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                    I agree, I bet people just bought those in droves and caught them off-guard.

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                      StrongBad
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                      That's probably true. At that price anyone and everyone likely was picking them up just to learn things. The cost of creating and destroying them is probably too high.

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                        travisdh1 @StrongBad
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                        @StrongBad said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                        At that price anyone and everyone likely was picking them up just to learn things. The cost of creating and destroying them is probably too high.

                        The cost to create or destroy an instance should be so tiny, shouldn't involve a person at all, most likely it's the running out of resources due to popularity.

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                          StrongBad @travisdh1
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                          @travisdh1 said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                          @StrongBad said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                          At that price anyone and everyone likely was picking them up just to learn things. The cost of creating and destroying them is probably too high.

                          The cost to create or destroy an instance should be so tiny, shouldn't involve a person at all, most likely it's the running out of resources due to popularity.

                          Requires IOPS and system provisioning to handle maximum loads. There is a bit of CPU consumer as well. That's why the spin up isn't instantaneous, it's actively doing things for thirty seconds or so.

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                            travisdh1 @StrongBad
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                            @StrongBad said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                            @travisdh1 said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                            @StrongBad said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                            At that price anyone and everyone likely was picking them up just to learn things. The cost of creating and destroying them is probably too high.

                            The cost to create or destroy an instance should be so tiny, shouldn't involve a person at all, most likely it's the running out of resources due to popularity.

                            Requires IOPS and system provisioning to handle maximum loads. There is a bit of CPU consumer as well. That's why the spin up isn't instantaneous, it's actively doing things for thirty seconds or so.

                            While true, the cost to have that happen should be tiny.

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                              StrongBad
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                              Should be, but doesn't take much to make $2.50 not worth offering.

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                                Reid Cooper
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                                And then there is billing overhead, too.

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                                  BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                                  Wow, can't believe that they did it for such a short period of time. That was REALLY short. I get that it doesn't make a lot of financial sense for them, but it was unique and important, I think.

                                  It's also possible as you and I found out that that isn't really the case.

                                  AKA, the front line people don't always know what is going on.

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                                    Alex Sage
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                                    For those of you still looking for ultra cheap VM's for testing:

                                    Unmetered Dedicated KVM Slice Servers from BuyVM

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                                      jyates @Alex Sage
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                                      @aaronstuder

                                      @aaronstuder said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                                      For those of you still looking for ultra cheap VM's for testing:

                                      Unmetered Dedicated KVM Slice Servers from BuyVM

                                      I find it hard to trust anyone who claims to offer free Microsoft Windows Server.

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                                        travisdh1 @jyates
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                                        @jyates said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                                        @aaronstuder

                                        @aaronstuder said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                                        For those of you still looking for ultra cheap VM's for testing:

                                        Unmetered Dedicated KVM Slice Servers from BuyVM

                                        I find it hard to trust anyone who claims to offer free Microsoft Windows Server.

                                        Yeah, nothing free about it, that'd be a "bring your own license" model. Does Microsoft even offer a $10/month license of some sort? Anything that could drop the price point of the license alone?

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                                          Alex Sage @jyates
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                                          @jyates said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                                          @aaronstuder

                                          @aaronstuder said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                                          For those of you still looking for ultra cheap VM's for testing:

                                          Unmetered Dedicated KVM Slice Servers from BuyVM

                                          I find it hard to trust anyone who claims to offer free Microsoft Windows Server.

                                          I use them for linux testing... so I am not worried about that 😉

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                                            travisdh1 @Alex Sage
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                                            @aaronstuder said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                                            @jyates said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                                            @aaronstuder

                                            @aaronstuder said in Vultr $2.50 Instances Sold Out:

                                            For those of you still looking for ultra cheap VM's for testing:

                                            Unmetered Dedicated KVM Slice Servers from BuyVM

                                            I find it hard to trust anyone who claims to offer free Microsoft Windows Server.

                                            I use them for linux testing... so I am not worried about that 😉

                                            I've been renting an entire server for a home lab currently, so I've got more capacity than time I can get projects rolled out.

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