Show us your loot: Black Friday 'til Cyber Monday Edition ©
So, while most BF2020 deals have been encountered now, I'm curious to see what people were able to grab... And that might give me inspiration what to look out for on Cyber Monday.
I'll start:
Provider: UltraVPS.eu
Product: SAS-Special-1 - NL
Specs: KVM / 2 CPU cores / 4 GB RAM / 100 GB SAS Storage / 5 TB Transfer
Price: € 33,6 / yr excl. VAT (€ 8,40 for 3 months)
Goal: Personal Seafile & Gitea server
Provider: alwyzon
Product: KVM Server S - NL
Specs: KVM / 1 CPU core / 2 GB RAM / 20 GB SSD Storage / 5 TB Transfer
Price: € 20 / yr excl. VAT
Goal: Idle?
Provider: Free Range Cloud
Product: Black Friday 2020 Chicken - Amsterdam - NL
Specs: KVM / 1 CPU core / 2 GB RAM / 45 GB SSD Storage / 5 TB Transfer
Price: $ 19.98 / yr ($ 9.99 for 6 months)
Goal: Idle?
Provider: vServer.site
Product: 1GB KVM VPS - DE
Specs: KVM / 1 CPU core / 1GB RAM / 5 GB SSD Storage / 1 TB Transfer
Price: € 8,5 / yr excl. VAT
Goal: Idle?
Provider: HostHatch
Product: NVMe deal 8 GB - Zurich - CH
Specs: KVM / 2 CPU core / 8 GB RAM / 40 GB NVMe RAID-10 / 5 TB Transfer
Price: $ 30 / yr
Goal: Idle?
Oh almost forgot:
128MB NAT bundle (3 for the price of € 5 / yr) from Ant!
Soo, show your loot!
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eventhough i spent time looking at offers in LET and here, i grabbed nothing.
because my heart is always looking at hetz AX41
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Yeah, I really enjoy hetzner.
Their VPS pricing is good too! Fast network (for me at least), API and scalability. Got a "Jitsi Meet" coming up with 30+ video stream participants? API call to upgrade those RAMs and CPU's to the max (16 cores, 32 rams)...
Conference done? Downgrade to 1 core 2 GB RAM again.
I bought nothing yet
Though, I am considering picking up one of Hosthatch's box in all 15 locations. Would be great for BGP.
I was tempted by all the 1 core / 1GB (or 2GB) RAM plans for 10-20 USD a year, but then again I have no real use case for them. I need at least 2 cores 2GB RAM, so I figured to save the money and put it towards 1 or 2 good offers.
So far I've snatched @AnthonySmith 's Flash Sale:
Provider - InceptionHosting (I've been an on/off client of Ant since 2014... time flies)
And of course the 128MB NAT bundle (3 for the price of € 5 / yr) from Ant as well. Probably going to use them for personal VPN (and for the extra raffle ticket hehe).
I'm still looking for something in the APAC region, so I'm closely watching @Abdullah @hosthatch . Additionally I need another VPS in US with DDOS protection. @SoftShellWeb 's offer looks nice so far.
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I grabbed two of Liteserver's 4GB NVME VPS, mainly for small gameservers for me and friends.
Got a 512 slice from @Francisco, no deal on this but the specs and prem provider were right.
If @cam has any more dollar NATs I'd love to pick up another two to idle them, but I was too late to get the stock of 8 that were released.
Nothing, apart from some flash deals I didn’t see anything that was far better than some deals I’ve already got in the rest of the year.
Grabbed Letbox's NJ Ryzen 3TB box, for backups and storage ofc
Oh man, quite a lot that I will probably get around to testing over the next month or so. Will be keeping the good ones and unceremoniously dropping the turds.
Most of these VMs will be replacing aging HDD / SSD OVZ and KVM boxes that I have with some providers for years - replete with old-ass, under performing and vulnerable Intel CPUs and drives that are just slow by current standards.
Anyway, here is some stuff that I bought so far:
PS: @hosthatch, Not gonna drop the older services. They still kick serious ass
gullo , Nat 256MB/5GB $3/yr
hosterlabs, ipv6 2GB/30GB $8/yr
inception, Nat bundle 128MB/2GB $5/yr
waiting for mikho and abdullah nat bundles
idling hosts from : MrVM , Ramnode , WebHorizon , Wishosting , Gullo , Hostens , Inception , Hosterlabs , Xinix , Virmach
Only bought @liteserver 2GB NVME for my friends. Still waiting APAC deal tbh
AlphaVPS ryzen 3900X 3GB 4vCPU in LAX
Liteserver 4GB NVMe in NL
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/2158/the-ultimate-lowend-spirit-bf-cm-mayhem-free-free-and-more-free-big-dollah-giveaway looks like @mikho got something for ya
Nexus Bytes Ryzen Powered NVMe VPS | NYC|Miami|LA|London|Netherlands| Singapore|Tokyo
Storage VPS | LiteSpeed Powered Web Hosting + SSH access | Switcher Special |
@lesbitso bench pls of Product: NVMe deal 8 GB - Zurich - CH
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I'm a bad consumer. Didn't buy anything.
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Hosthatch has a special order method for this deal. I'm waiting for my support ticket to be handled, probably on Monday. I'll post the YABS as soon as I get it...
Ahhh, understood, thought it was available already. Thanks. I'm new.
Still waiting for some APAC deal(s) :'(
https://greencloudvps.com/billing/cart.php?gid=57
https://greencloudvps.com/billing/cart.php?gid=57
Already customer, and they are great!! But thanks, that was a good idea anyway!
@cam have Singapore (OVH DC), 256MB OVZ7 with dedicated IPv4 start from $6/yr
⭕ A simple uptime dashboard using UptimeRobot API https://upy.duo.ovh
⭕ Currently using VPS from BuyVM, GreenCloudVPS, Gullo's, Hetzner, HostHatch, InceptionHosting, LetBox, MaxKVM, MrVM, VirMach.
Not much hosting related.
This is what was my ”premium” buy this year.
Was 3749kr
Got it for 2678kr
Yeah, thats Swedish Kronor. Do the exchange conversion yourself.
“Technology is best when it brings people together.” – Matt Mullenweg
I have 2 more ”requests” out in the wild, if I get acceptance on those to before the endo of today, there will be a pre-order bundle on CM.
“Technology is best when it brings people together.” – Matt Mullenweg
Didn't see @cam, but @mikho is the best on that "niche"
Mhhh! Hope hose requests go through! I'm always interested to see what you come up with
I wonder why seriesn's sales were not that sweet as many people and I expected
No 50% off, nothing like that! I'm sad!
Ah yes, the 'Crawl of Shame' thread I was planning to create.
I had decided to wait until Monday when all the players were done with their mating dances.
However, I succumbed to just this one.
Product: Hosthatch NVMe deal 8 GB - Amsterdam
Specs: KVM / 2 CPU core / 8 GB RAM / 40 GB NVMe RAID-10 / 5 TB Transfer
Price: $
30$27/yr (loyalty discount)Goal: Cloudron instance probably
Ooh. This is something I didn't think of. I shall try this out sometime when the 24gb of idle ram on my auction dedi isn't enough.
I cancelled a 4yo scaleway E3v3 dedi (freeing up 24 euro ;2xfailover IPs were expensive).
So, net-net I've cut back monthly spend by $25. One dedi from a quality provider is enough for almost anyone.
Edit: dropped a 4gb ultravps idler too when I realized I was still in cancellation window until tomorrow. ?
thats all.
i hope.
I am afraid I went a bit overboard this year... unexpected, didn't want to spent any money (though usually allow myself a budget of ~200€ , just in case)
2c/2G/2TB storage servarica CAN $48/y
2c/2G/40G SSD clouveo AMS 17.5€/y
4c/2G/80G SSD inceptionhosting LON 7.5€/q
2c/8G/40G NVME hosthatch NYC $30/y
2c/8G/40G NVME hosthatch LON $30/y
1c/4G/2TB storage hosthatch CHI $40/y
probably getting another 2/4/100 SAS special from ultravps in AMS (~33€/y) and pre-ordered a special deal with VM Specialist for NYC & LON (2x40€/y) ;-)
so I am already about 100€ short on the budget, but on the other hand I'll consolidate on some older services... I will... probably. ?♂️
I also had some existing services upgraded to this years terms free of charge with f.i. freerangecloud and again hosthatch - much appreciated as existing customer, thank you!
also finally made a shortcut in xshell:
?
And I bit again... Couldn't resist the dealz...
Gullo, a storage NAT VPS:
1Core, 512MB,OpenVZ,250GB HDD, 500GB Transfer, Finland, $16/yr
Ofcourse, most NAT VPS can be used "normally", atleast HTTP, when putting CloudFlare in the middle:
https://hosting.gullo.me/plugin/support_manager/knowledgebase/view/5/nat-ipv4-how-can-i-host-a-website/4/
0.5GB KVM LA 7.5$/y Hostdo
0.5GB KVM LA 8.0$/y anyNode
0.5GB KVM BU 5.0€/y AlphaVPS
0.5GB KVM NL 6.00€/y Clouveo
1.0GB KVM US 0.50$/m Dataideas
1.0GB KVM DE 9.00€/y vserver.site
1.0GB KVM NL 12.00€/y Alwyzon
1.0GB KVM US 12.00$/y SpartanHost
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5.00$/y NullRoute
However, I also did renew:
1.0GB KVM BU 12.00€/y AlphaVPS
1.0GB KVM NL 12.00€/y Naranjatech
1.0GB KVM US 1TB 12.00$/y serverica
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Lack of sleep and Coffee usage, sleep per day 4-6 hours.
Hostdo + anyNode are already working hard to keep this repo https://github.com/Ne00n/Offers up to date.
Free NAT KVM | Free NAT LXC
Not a specific Black Friday deal, but snagged this from @exception0x876:
"KVM HDD Plus US"
2 vCPU cores Xeon E5 2660
Unlimited CPU cores 2.7GHz Turbo
8GB ECC RAM
200GB HDD RAID-5 (SSD boost)
Windows Server 2019
Unmetered 250Mbps bandwidth
1 IPv4
Private networking
DDoS protection
Location - Oregon, USA
$7.99/mo. USD
Cheap dedis are my drug, and I'm too far gone to turn back.
Where you found 15€/y ? Have you an link ?
it was on page 31 on the other site.
Not on Black Friday but I also got this on 11/11:
Now that I take a good look at them, I feel like a total cheapskate...
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cheapskate .... don't worry about it ... most don't want to count more than $7
How do you mean are the offer gone ? Can you give me an link ?
i checked its out of stock you can see here
oh my....added a Hosthatch 8GBram NVMe VPS in LAX
not sure what for, but at $30 its gonna be an excellent idler.
retiring all virmach related services. clean cut byebye.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
AlphaVPS - Ryzen 3900X 4v Core 3GB RAM @ LAX
SpartanHost - 4GB E5v3 KVM VPS @ Seattle
WebHorizon - Shared-5G @ Singapore
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Hosthatch AMS -
2 CPU core/8 GB RAM /40 GB RAID-10 NVMe/5 TB bandwidth/$30 per yearI only renewed a few servers that are actually in use from last BF.
Good.
Free NAT KVM | Free NAT LXC
I picked up 14 VPS at HostHatch - about $158/year.
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Bought:
Renewed:
⭕ A simple uptime dashboard using UptimeRobot API https://upy.duo.ovh
⭕ Currently using VPS from BuyVM, GreenCloudVPS, Gullo's, Hetzner, HostHatch, InceptionHosting, LetBox, MaxKVM, MrVM, VirMach.
No VPS. Was hoping to rightsize some idling nexus stuff but that didn't materialize.
Got the 2 year protonmail bundle.
Linkage? I was looking for a displayport kvm that can do 4k@60hz but it's such a minefield. It's all 4k@30hz