I am opening this thread to discuss how we all see the gaming world in regards of games releases and the hype we put on them.

I want to start saying that our "hype" can be directly translated into "stress" to the developers, it is nothin new. We except something that requires years and years of development and testing in just few months. Let's stay that modern gamers doesn't have much patience like the old times.

For example, let's speak about Cyberpunk 2077. This game was surrounded by a HUGE hype but in fact has been an horrible launch. I am not going to blame the gamers because CD Projekt used gamers' hype to BOOST its sellings.

Nowadays we can see the results:

• Players are unhappy about the out-come of the Cyberpunk 2077. We put too much hype into this game, a lot of announced features has been removed and the game has been released in a un-finished state because gamers WANTED IT NOW.
  
• CD Projekt Red destroyed its reputation. CD Red received a lot of positives review with their previous game, The Witcher 3, but with CP 2077 they are getting fired from everywhere: SONY, GAME MAGAZINES, INVESTORS... They wanted to get the money before completing the game or they needed the money before to complete the game. Who knows. Nothing has been exposed YET.
  
• Developers are TIRED and STRESSED. They have to support multiple platforms and patch everyone of them differently. Moreover the crunching is getting worsen and worsen.
  

Just think about early 2000, game development wasn't that stressful. But nowadays we gamers are just a branch of idiots asking for incredible experience without thinking about the effort needed to make it.

Regards,
LightDestory.

Porkbun is having a "bye 2020" sale with some decent deals on new domain names: https://porkbun.com/event/bye2020


Some highlights:

• .xyz for .79$ USD first year
  
• .info for 1.94$ USD first year
  
• .com for 4.15$ USD first year
  

Today I had some time to catch up with my mail and found a mail from KnownHost which I missed somehow. From that mail I found out that cPanel is going to increase their prices AGAIN. Since the last price change didn't do much harm to their customer base it looks like our dear cPanel Co. has decided to milk their customers more. This time they have changed their pricing model from per-server pricing to a per-account. So if you have lots of cPanel accounts this gonna hit really hard. This probably effectively stop any cPanel based free hosting if there are any left.

So it will be like,

• For 5 accounts – $20/month
  
• For 30 accounts – $30/month
  
• For 100 accounts – $45/month + $0.20 for each additional account
  

It's little bit cheaper if you are partner with cPanel like for 5 accounts it's 12.50 for month and for 30 it's 30 etc. So if you run shared hosting this makes you just lost benefit you got from volume. Now volume makes you loose money. This gonna hit hard for shard hosting providers who used to pay just 12.30 per month per server.

Here is link to image of cPanel mail for their clients with the wonderful news.



I really hope DirectAdmin will make their panel better so many could migrate to them. I haven't used them for years so maybe they are better now. Don't like Pleak personally. I think they are over priced. I don't know if anyone posted about this before it's couple of months but I would like to hear from our sponsors that what they plan to do.

Hello folks,

I had recently started working on a new MyBB Theme called Modernize.

Here are few Pics so far:









Suggestions are always welcomed.
I was also looking forward to making it responsive and add a dark variant.

I thought to write this because There are so many reviews in the VPS section which are great but many missing few things which can make those posts very very valuable for Sponsors too. First of all we have to understand why these reviews are important and to whom. I think reviews are lot more important for Sponsors than for users and holders. Because that's  one of the few ways they can get a return for their investment here. It's holders duty to provide something worthy in return for the server you get to use without spending money. I won't say free since we do pay for it in a way. But it has to be something which has a value. I think I have told these in some other post too but i think it's better to do it in a dedicated topic. Also hope this will give some pointers for those who not sure how to write a proper review.

01. I think it's a common mistake here many just use only the VPS name in review title. Like VPS1 Review etc. It should be like SponsorName - VPSName - Review.  It's important for Sponsor to have their Brand Name in the title. Nobody knows VPS number outside the forum and Sponsor has no use in that either. Sponsor want these reviews to show up in Google search when someone search for the brand name. IMO, this is a must in a good view.

02. At the first paragraph of the post make sure you include Sponsor name in Bold letters along with Url to their site. This is very helpful for their brand name as well as add weight to their site SEO wise. If they have a staff member in forum then mention him or her too.

03. Talk about what are you doing in this server and how this vps work for whatever you task. Give your honest opinion about this. This is one of the most important parts of a review.

04. Benchmarks. Benchmarks are part of the review not the whole things. It's more for members than sponsors. Personally even I do benchmarks I don't post those if someone else has already posted it. It only matter if there is a difference.

05. It's great if you talk about what sponsor offers in their site and packages at end of the review. Provide a link to their package page.

06. Use word phrases like VPS Hosting, Web Hosting in your review when you can. Don't over do by using same word in too many places but there are plenty of related words to use.

Nothing hard to do here, but these would make your review appear in right places for right people.

Hello there, I was scrolling down on FB and i found out a video that there has been a new Variant of COVID-19 in UK, The video was so made weirdly i ignored it but when i started digging it up i actually think it is now scary though

The new variant has not been only found in UK but also in Netherlands , Belgium , Australia and many others, People have started to make memes and naming it "COVID 2.0 which is not funny though.  The UK Prime Minister also said that this new Variant may be upto 70% more transmissible than the old one. The new Variant is being called VUI-202012/01 "Variant Under Investigation". Many different countries have imposed ban on travelers from UK and have restricted all the flights real quick. The news says that the new variant is not deadly as the old one, But when COVID-19 started it was not deadly at first though every country thought it will only cause a flu and so, Are we at a huge risk now? If it spreads at a really quick rate then it would be matter of months it would spread globally. 

What would be your opinion on it? If anyone here who lives in UK i would also love to hear from him that what things you are getting to hear about this new Variant? 

Source : 
Source 1
Source 2

Regards,
sAmI

Hey there guys
I need one help. I want some suggestions regarding hosting provider. I need it for a association which is going to conduct olympiads. 
It will receive users from India(more than 50%) and some from foreign so basically I need a server with Indian Datacenter. Also the host should be reliable (no fake reviews). It should be cheap or atleast in mid range. Fast (ofc). Should handle atleast 5000 requests simultaneously. Also tell me for this I should go with Managed VPS hosting or shared hosting?

The reliable company which I know is resellerclub (has server in India)
I came to know that hostinger makes fake reviews and bluehost too makes fake one(read on reddit). So please guide me. If you all have any else company for recommendations then pls tell me

Completed

Due to the constant issues we have had with our current server node
we are currently migrating all VM's away from it to a newer server node we recently acquired to replace the aging one.
Therefore it is to be expected VPS's might be down while there migrating.

ETA: Unknown of Completion.
Downtime: Expected
Expected length of downtime: unknown due to it can vary due to network speeds.

Thank you for your continued patience & understanding in this.

VPS-9 is heart favorite VPS of P4V community, Here is a short review of my VPS-9 experience with this amazing VPS sponsored by "Virmach"


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Short introduction/Specifications
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Standard Information of container as per VPS Plans head:

Disk Space 100 GB SSD

RAM: 8 GB

IP Addresses: 1x IPv4

Virtualization - KVM

Monthly Traffic: 4 TB

Location:  US

Control Panel: Ask Admin " However if you said no CP, is much better" 

Connection: 1Gbps

Games servers: Allowed
Provided by: VirMach

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Review
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Benchmark Results:
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All information is got from "Yet-Another-Bench-Script" available on github.
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System Info
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Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Network speed (IPv4 only)

GeekBenchmark
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Okla Speedtest Results:

   

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Experience
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• I Never face any downtime or crash from day first to til now. 
  
  
• Never face any DDos Attack 
  
  
• Running very smoothly even not a managed VPS but i run it as a learner with the help of all forum experts. 
  

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Conclusion
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VPS 9, sponsored by Virmach, is a very powerful and valuable VPS, this VPS comes with no control panel, so if you don't want flood our poor @deanhills of support tickets you need to know how to use Unix-systems.
You can run almost everything on this VPS, just be a good user and respect Virmach ToS!

I want to end this review thanking:

• @Dynamo, as always, for creating Post4VPS community that allowed me to use this VPS;
  
  
• @deanhills, this time around I didn't open any support ticket but he is always there ready to reply;
  
• @HR & arsalahmed786 for supporting me always as a professional teacher; 
  
  
• Virmach for sponsoring this amazing VPS;
  

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So, did you read the latest news? No?
Don't be shy, I am here to tell you everything!

Let's do a small re-cap:

• CentOS is developed using as base RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) but doesn't give any support;
  
• IBM has recently aquired Red Hat
  

So, what happened?
If you have some time, you can directly read the official blog's artiche.

My summary:
CentOS 8 is going to be deprecated in favour of a new OS called "CentOS Stream", what changes? Everything. This new OS will not be based on RHEL and it will change it's behavior from downstream to upstream. So CentOS Stream is just a brother of Fedora. They are likely the same!

What CentOS 8's users liked was the immense stability of the system thanks to the RHEL base, but now this stability is not guaranteed anymore. So why I should use CentOS Stream and not Fedora? They are:

• Both upstream development
  
• Both rpm based
  
• Both compiled from the same source
  

IMHO: CentOS Stream is like Ubuntu flavors but Fedora-based.

What do you think about it?