At Stanislav’s request, here’s my review of the test-month during which I had my blog up on a Rockchip he helpfully provided within his rack at Coloco Inc., USA. I did not take his offer to write this instead of paying for the month of service and I also preferred and insisted – again – to pay for this service 1, as I think that any service used should be paid for in the end, one way or another. Or at the very least, I’d rather pay for what I use. Beyond that though, as he asked specifically for a review, I’m happy to do this for him.
My experience having my blog hosted on Stan’s Rockchip was very smooth from a technical point of view: he transferred my blog from Pizarro promptly and totally painlessly for me, in the best way possible really – all I had to do was to switch the IPs and then start everything on the new machine. Some measurements of speeds from/to various locations I already provided in an earlier article and I won’t repeat them. Throughout the whole month, there was only one blip – an instance when I couldn’t access my blog – but so short-lived that I didn’t even get the time to complain about it or indeed let Stanislav know at all. I have a knack of stepping in exactly at the right time to catch things and people on the wrong foot otherwise but I really don’t have any complaints about this. For all the time otherwise, everything remained online and accessible and without any technical degradation of service that I could notice in any way.
Despite recent TMSR tribulations and the exposed rift in which No Such Labs fell to its death, I had initially all intentions of keeping my blog where it was, on Stan’s Rockchip, as there wasn’t any pressing need to move it, nor any specific problem with it being there as such, nor indeed any real trouble moving it at a later point whenever needed. It’s a personal blog after all, not a business venture such as Minigame and as a result it can very well stay hosted in a friend’s rack, why not. But then Stanislav complained in his chan of too many customers already:
asciilifeform: currently just under half the avail. wattage already spoken for. folx who are waiting, if wait long enuff, will find that train is full.
…and went on to add his quotes to my otherwise as-plain-as-possible words:
asciilifeform: diana_coman: ‘no complaints’ but ‘not right thing’… aite, ‘customer always right'(tm)(r) .
Your mileage might vary and I don’t claim mine here to be objective at all – quite on the contrary, in this particular case for once, I’m letting it stand precisely at its most extremely subjective end and I choose for once to cut it out precisely on the line that works with *least effort* from me 2. And so I choose to walk away for now and avoid dealing again with this sort of unexpected communications and not-business-but-not-quite-sure-if-really-friends-either service. As I previously said already publicly that I don’t have otherwise any complaints from a technical point of view but I also don’t have at all any certainty from an interaction & communications point of view, I’ll simply preserve here the same words for easy access and completeness:
diana_coman: asciilifeform: I haven’t forgotten about that, it’s still somewhere on the list (though I’m not sure there is a lot *new* to say there); re service my main understanding as you pointed out is that you already have too many customers and moreover you anyway find me [http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/asciilifeform/2019-11-21#1002657][rather incomprehensible or a bothering-customer] so it is what it is.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-17 13:21:23 asciilifeform: currently just under half the avail. wattage already spoken for. folx who are waiting, if wait long enuff, will find that train is full.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-21 12:05:26 asciilifeform: diana_coman: ‘no complaints’ but ‘not right thing’… aite, ‘customer always right'(tm)(r) .
snsabot: Logged on 2019-11-20 19:47:57 diana_coman: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/asciilifeform/2019-11-17#1002484 – I will make one space more empty on that train so that nobody else loses out; thank you asciilifeform for the service, I don’t have any complaints with it really and I would still prefer to pay for this month that I used it.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-17 13:21:23 asciilifeform: currently just under half the avail. wattage already spoken for. folx who are waiting, if wait long enuff, will find that train is full.
diana_coman: if things change in the future and you have availability + looking for customers (me included), I’ll happily use the service, yes.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i in fact have 500 watt of capacity yet-unsold, fwiw. and diana_coman was a++ customer, is welcome to return any time, if she finds that the offerings meet her needs / at agreeable price.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: at the current rate (somewhat surprised there was interest) — will likely buy the full tower w/ 20A & 1G/s in 2020.
diana_coman: asciilifeform: you know, from your communications and approach otherwise, I couldn’t and can’t really tell so the only thing I can reasonably do is to wait and see.
I sincerely wish that Stan’s communications turn into reliable once – and when that happens, I’ll gladly use the service. I also wish for him that the rack service truly takes off and morphs into a business that can give him otherwise the financial support and free time he is looking for.