Avoid Virpus VPS

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨synnackk@deathscroll.p3nguin.org⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Figured I would hopefully save others from the annoyances I’ve had with their service. I experienced daily high packet loss to both my VPS and their website, including the control panel (greater than 50%, typically). The control panel was broken and couldn’t tell me the status of my VPS. When I asked for a root cause and fix for the packet loss issue the “senior admin” response to both of these issues is “It’s intermittent and under control”. It’s still happening daily, so not really under control. They never even addressed the control panel issue.

I decided it was best to just give up on it, and requested a refund a few days ago after experiencing the same issue every day for 3 days after my purchase. I’m still waiting for a response to that request, 4 days later.

Avoid Virpus like the plague.

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dallen@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Did you ever find the missing packets?

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- synnackk@deathscroll.p3nguin.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I guess the pigeons they use for L1 got distracted or eaten by cat?
  
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  - toastboy79@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    oh ipoac someday you will shine again
    
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  - AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Should have used 2549 for the QoS.
    
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chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I tend to recommend sticking with more reputable providers, even if it means a couple of dollars extra on a recurring basis. Way too many kiddie hosts popping up, trying to make a quick buck during spring break/summer and then fail to provide adequate services when it actually comes time to provide service.

It may also be a good idea to check LET/WHT before committing into paying longer than month-to-month term with a provider.

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- synnackk@deathscroll.p3nguin.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They’ve actually been around a long time, I used them 10ish years ago and never really had any trouble. Wanted to do some testing with some stuff and saw they had a pretty decent deal for what I was looking for. Their page was working fine at the time, so didn’t think twice. Lesson learned!
  
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halm@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
First I’ve heard of Virpus but thanks for the heads up. More than 50% packet loss does not sound like a working infrastructure, much less one that should be marketed to consumers.

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fart_pickle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Don’t want to be a devil’s advocate but can you provide something more than “I’m offended”? Let’s say issue ticket(s), status page links, other people complaining, etc?

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- synnackk@deathscroll.p3nguin.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Try running pings to virpus.com, had the same issue to my VPS public IP:
  
  From Atlanta GA PING virpus.com (208.67.20.36) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from virpus.com (208.67.20.36): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=85.4 ms ^C — virpus.com ping statistics — 11 packets transmitted, 1 received, 90.9091% packet loss, time 10116ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 85.416/85.416/85.416/0.000 ms
  
  From San Jose, CA (apparently the DC I was in is in LA) RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:XXXXXXXXXXXX#ping 208.67.20.36 count 20 verbose Tue Jun 25 16:01:42.027 UTC Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 20, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 208.67.20.36, timeout is 2 seconds: Request 0 timed out Request 1 timed out Request 2 timed out Request 3 timed out Request 4 timed out Request 5 timed out Reply to request 6 (13 ms) Request 7 timed out Reply to request 8 (13 ms) Request 9 timed out Reply to request 10 (13 ms) Reply to request 11 (13 ms) Reply to request 12 (12 ms) Reply to request 13 (13 ms) Request 14 timed out Request 15 timed out Request 16 timed out Reply to request 17 (13 ms) Reply to request 18 (13 ms) Request 19 timed out Success rate is 40 percent (8/20), round-trip min/avg/max = 12/12/13 ms
  
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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
CA	(SSL) Certificate Authority
IP	Internet Protocol
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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