Show us your loot: Black Friday 'til Cyber Monday Edition ©

edited November 2020 in General

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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Comments

  • 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.

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  • 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)

    UK - London - KVM - SSD Cached
    4 CPU Cores (Equal Share) - E5v4
    2 GB Ram DDR4
    80 GB SSD Cached Disk space - 8 disk Enterprise SAS Raid 10
    2000 GB Bandwidth @ 1 gbit (shared) - DDOS Protected
    1 x IPv4 address
    1 x /64 IPv6
    Free direct admin
    €7.50 /3 months
    €15 /6 months
    €30 /year
    Use case: COD2 & COD4 Gameservers probably.

    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.

  • 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.

  • debaserdebaser OG
    edited November 2020

    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. :tongue:

    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:

    • 1x @exception0x876 Black Friday Special 8G KVM in FR that I am probably going to keep for life.
    • 1x @AnthonySmith 2GB KVM SSD special in UK with a couple of snappy E-2276G cores
    • 1x @LiteServer 4GB KVM in NL
    • 1x @LiteServer 2GB KVM in NL
    • 1x @RackNerd 4GB KVM in NYC that will be moved to NL soon™
    • 1x @VPSSLIM 4GB KVM in NL
    • 1x @cociu special 4GB KVM with 500GB SSD in NO.
    • 1x @hosthatch 6TB Storage KVM in NL
    • 1x @hosthatch 8GB KVM in NL
    • 1x @hosthatch 512M KVM during their Flash sale in Stockholm
    • 1x @hosthatch 250GB Storage KVM during their Flash sale in Stockholm
    • 1x @BharatB 4GB KVM in Mumbai as I needed something exotic in the mix

    PS: @hosthatch, Not gonna drop the older services. They still kick serious ass :wink:

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  • 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

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    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

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  • cybertechcybertech OGBenchmark King

    AlphaVPS ryzen 3900X 3GB 4vCPU in LAX
    Liteserver 4GB NVMe in NL

    I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.

  • @rommelr said:
    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

    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 ;)

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  • @lesbitso bench pls of Product: NVMe deal 8 GB - Zurich - CH

  • I'm a bad consumer. Didn't buy anything.

    Detailed info about providers whose services I've used:
    BikeGremlin web-hosting reviews

  • @Muffin said:
    @lesbitso bench pls of Product: NVMe deal 8 GB - Zurich - CH

    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...

  • @lesbitso said: 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) :'(

  • @life said:

    @TigersWay said:
    Still waiting for some APAC deal(s) :'(

    https://greencloudvps.com/billing/cart.php?gid=57

    Already customer, and they are great!! But thanks, that was a good idea anyway!

  • edited November 2020

    @TigersWay said:
    Still waiting for some APAC deal(s) :'(

    @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.

  • mikhomikho AdministratorHosting ProviderOG

    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.

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  • mikhomikho AdministratorHosting ProviderOG

    @rommelr said:
    waiting for mikho and abdullah nat bundles

    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.

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  • @chocolateshirt said:

    @TigersWay said:
    Still waiting for some APAC deal(s) :'(

    @cam have Singapore (OVH DC), 256MB OVZ7 with dedicated IPv4 start from $6/yr

    Didn't see @cam, but @mikho is the best on that "niche" B)

  • @mikho said:

    @rommelr said:
    waiting for mikho and abdullah nat bundles

    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.

    Mhhh! Hope hose requests go through! I'm always interested to see what you come up with B)

  • 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!

  • edited November 2020

    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

    @lesbitso said:
    hetzner.

    ... 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.

    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. ?

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  • ehabehab Content Writer
    edited November 2020
    • Time4vps : 4GB windows , 15€/y
    • Hosthatch : 16GB and other storage 1 TB , $60,$30/y

    thats all.
    i hope.

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