Post-BF (Buyer's Remorse Tuesday) VPS giveaway

ralf

Ummm, let's get back to the topic, OK?

_MS_

ralf

@ralf said: I'll be getting a source of randomness from the first beacon after Thursday 1 December 00:00 UTC (unix time 1641945600), will post further details once I've stolen it from @yoursunny figured out how to get it right

Haha, I managed to mess up the Unix time and nobody noticed! Date decided to use US locale, and so that date was actually 12th January 2022. The actual Unix time is 1669852800.

The cloudflare beacon seems to produce a new value every 30 seconds. The round at 10:49 UTC was 2479140, and the deadline is approximately 47580 seconds from then. I estimate another 1586 rounds will complete, so I expect to be using round 2480726.

I will use curl https://api.drand.sh/8990e7a9aaed2ffed73dbd7092123d6f289930540d7651336225dc172e51b2ce/public/2480726 to extract the beacon, and use the randomness field.

webkesh

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ LUCKY DIP

BlaZe

@ralf said:

Why is it so complicated?

You need to get some action see!

eurogirlsescort . com

isenganime

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

ralf

@isenganime said:
I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

Sorry, but the offer is only open to LES members whose account is older than 3 months and at least 10 non-spammy posts.

Dazzle

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

ralf

OK, the deadline has passed.

$ curl -w'\n' https://api.drand.sh/8990e7a9aaed2ffed73dbd7092123d6f289930540d7651336225dc172e51b2ce/public/2480726
{"round":2480726,"randomness":"5591e1fc8e241a24eecb0f07898d277968288c63fefc2c72e4d62c3269b6ef33","signature":"95879df58b75002f0670974743b1aae67eb0c7974818a9ded8c1923313898997cca3be82b337b5f8d5d735068f1940110197b82a108337d48f1244b862bec8e33e66624755ae1038dc6fb42dc343308b7a20cd6e84f9e3f1c8747200a4f0fb0c","previous_signature":"8169ff175f9e656d7a8c471ae984b9bfd01bbddff4a676a9d2ce46ffc4889eb623b885bf0519c17c99956249defc62f01146488e0e0085b7e4c2c7e2fbc8f34a6e13de597918401b7fe48976fdfcc9d5d2c6623ebe63e18f07b9cf6a1cab26d6"}

So the beacon is 5591e1fc8e241a24eecb0f07898d277968288c63fefc2c72e4d62c3269b6ef33

I'll work out the order and allocate the VPS instances tomorrow. I'm too tired and I'll get it wrong and miss someone out or something if I do it now!

Advin

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

ehab

@Advin said:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

Sanjue007

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

ralf

Eligible results:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ SERVER FACTORY

• contactwajeeh
• jmaxwell

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

• iaecm
• Dazzle

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ LUCKY DIP

• spiritlhl
• kheng86
• webkesh

The following bids were from users whose accounts were too new or had too few posts to qualify:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

• superyuluo

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

• dazar
• tssz2022

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

• isenganime

Some people tried an alternate strategy of currying favour:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ️RALF

• Jab
• ehab

I LOVE @yoursunny IPV9

• Ganonk

Someone just didn't read the rules and tried to bid on everything:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ LUCKY DIP

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ SERVER FACTORY

• gomi

And in an inception-esque move:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

• Advin

However, due to an unforeseen captcha slowing this entry down, it was submitted after the deadline and was therefore disqualified. Ironically, if it was on time, he'd have won his own server!

Beacon

$ curl -w'\n' https://api.drand.sh/8990e7a9aaed2ffed73dbd7092123d6f289930540d7651336225dc172e51b2ce/public/2480726
{"round":2480726,"randomness":"5591e1fc8e241a24eecb0f07898d277968288c63fefc2c72e4d62c3269b6ef33","signature":"95879df58b75002f0670974743b1aae67eb0c7974818a9ded8c1923313898997cca3be82b337b5f8d5d735068f1940110197b82a108337d48f1244b862bec8e33e66624755ae1038dc6fb42dc343308b7a20cd6e84f9e3f1c8747200a4f0fb0c","previous_signature":"8169ff175f9e656d7a8c471ae984b9bfd01bbddff4a676a9d2ce46ffc4889eb623b885bf0519c17c99956249defc62f01146488e0e0085b7e4c2c7e2fbc8f34a6e13de597918401b7fe48976fdfcc9d5d2c6623ebe63e18f07b9cf6a1cab26d6"}

So the beacon is 5591e1fc8e241a24eecb0f07898d277968288c63fefc2c72e4d62c3269b6ef33

First round

• I will choose the top 3 sorted results
• From these, where they have indicated a preference, the earliest in the sorted results will win their preferred server
• Anyone in the first 3 sorted results who expressed lucky dip will be given a server from those remaining, in the order Advin, HostCram, Server Factory
• Anyone who hasn't PM'd me within 24 hours will forfeit the server, and I'll choose the next lucky dip winner from the sorted list

$ BEACON=5591e1fc8e241a24eecb0f07898d277968288c63fefc2c72e4d62c3269b6ef33 ; for i in contactwajeeh jmaxwell iaecm Dazzle spiritlhl kheng86 webkesh ; do echo -n "$i-$BEACON" | sha1sum - |sed -e "s/-/$i/" ; done | sort | head -3
05e3dd391dfa31173a4944058db1eb5940cc1dbf  contactwajeeh
848a172a350cfdddce2194ed5339c70d0034826a  iaecm
a18b55dbccebbe471714fe22f789286487720a05  kheng86

• @contactwajeeh wins I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ SERVER FACTORY
• @iaecm wins I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN
• @kheng86 wins I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ LUCKY DIP
     because the other two are allocated, this defaults to I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

Please can you guys can make sure you have an account created in the control panel for the appropriate provider, and then PM me the email address you used to sign up so that I can raise the ticket for the transfer.

Hope you enjoy your servers, and sorry to everyone who missed out.

ralf

@Sanjue007 said:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

Also submitted after the deadline, and I didn't even notice as I was writing the results post. If it's any consolation, you wouldn't have been in the first 3 anyway.

ehab

currying favour

i read it as

curry flavour

iaecm

Thanks for your gift @ralf , failed to get similar spec during BF, but get it here. Just like life : )
And I'm going to use the email account registered during BF to receive it.

Nekki

@ehab said:
currying favour

i read it as

curry flavour

Curry is the best flavour.

ralf

@iaecm said:
Thanks for your gift @ralf , failed to get similar spec during BF, but get it here. Just like life : )
And I'm going to use the email account registered during BF to receive it.

Just sent them a ticket to request transfer. Here's the YABS while you're waiting: https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/112566/#Comment_112566

Jab

and now I realized that Astro had 8 cores and fuck me, I should have tried to get it :-D
Damn you ralf!

iaecm

@Jab said:
and now I realized that Astro had 8 cores and fuck me, I should have tried to get it :-D
Damn you ralf!

Yeah, at first I think it's the same as 4 cores / $7.99 BF spec. But when I read carefully, oh it's 8 core !! This one, definately .

ralf

@Jab said:
and now I realized that Astro had 8 cores and fuck me, I should have tried to get it :-D
Damn you ralf!

Doh! It was literally in the first OP!

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ️RALF

But you won something better than a server anyway!

ralf

@iaecm said:

@Jab said:
and now I realized that Astro had 8 cores and fuck me, I should have tried to get it :-D
Damn you ralf!

Yeah, at first I think it's the same as 4 cores / $7.99 BF spec. But when I read carefully, oh it's 8 core !! This one, definately .

It was the $15.99 BETA spec, but reduced to $11.99 for Astro's birthday.

Jab

Ah wait, it's BETA... so yeah, I was not interested >:D

Thanks ❤️ ralf!

dosai

MMMOOOAAARRR ❤️

kheng86

@ralf said:

Eligible results:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ SERVER FACTORY

• contactwajeeh
• jmaxwell

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

• iaecm
• Dazzle

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ LUCKY DIP

• spiritlhl
• kheng86
• webkesh

The following bids were from users whose accounts were too new or had too few posts to qualify:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

• superyuluo

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

• dazar
• tssz2022

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

• isenganime

Some people tried an alternate strategy of currying favour:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ️RALF

• Jab
• ehab

I LOVE @yoursunny IPV9

• Ganonk

Someone just didn't read the rules and tried to bid on everything:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ LUCKY DIP

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ SERVER FACTORY

• gomi

And in an inception-esque move:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN

• Advin

However, due to an unforeseen captcha slowing this entry down, it was submitted after the deadline and was therefore disqualified. Ironically, if it was on time, he'd have won his own server!

Beacon

$ curl -w'\n' https://api.drand.sh/8990e7a9aaed2ffed73dbd7092123d6f289930540d7651336225dc172e51b2ce/public/2480726
{"round":2480726,"randomness":"5591e1fc8e241a24eecb0f07898d277968288c63fefc2c72e4d62c3269b6ef33","signature":"95879df58b75002f0670974743b1aae67eb0c7974818a9ded8c1923313898997cca3be82b337b5f8d5d735068f1940110197b82a108337d48f1244b862bec8e33e66624755ae1038dc6fb42dc343308b7a20cd6e84f9e3f1c8747200a4f0fb0c","previous_signature":"8169ff175f9e656d7a8c471ae984b9bfd01bbddff4a676a9d2ce46ffc4889eb623b885bf0519c17c99956249defc62f01146488e0e0085b7e4c2c7e2fbc8f34a6e13de597918401b7fe48976fdfcc9d5d2c6623ebe63e18f07b9cf6a1cab26d6"}

So the beacon is 5591e1fc8e241a24eecb0f07898d277968288c63fefc2c72e4d62c3269b6ef33

First round

• I will choose the top 3 sorted results
• From these, where they have indicated a preference, the earliest in the sorted results will win their preferred server
• Anyone in the first 3 sorted results who expressed lucky dip will be given a server from those remaining, in the order Advin, HostCram, Server Factory
• Anyone who hasn't PM'd me within 24 hours will forfeit the server, and I'll choose the next lucky dip winner from the sorted list

$ BEACON=5591e1fc8e241a24eecb0f07898d277968288c63fefc2c72e4d62c3269b6ef33 ; for i in contactwajeeh jmaxwell iaecm Dazzle spiritlhl kheng86 webkesh ; do echo -n "$i-$BEACON" | sha1sum - |sed -e "s/-/$i/" ; done | sort | head -3
05e3dd391dfa31173a4944058db1eb5940cc1dbf  contactwajeeh
848a172a350cfdddce2194ed5339c70d0034826a  iaecm
a18b55dbccebbe471714fe22f789286487720a05  kheng86

• @contactwajeeh wins I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ SERVER FACTORY
• @iaecm wins I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN
• @kheng86 wins I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ LUCKY DIP
     because the other two are allocated, this defaults to I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

Please can you guys can make sure you have an account created in the control panel for the appropriate provider, and then PM me the email address you used to sign up so that I can raise the ticket for the transfer.

Hope you enjoy your servers, and sorry to everyone who missed out.

I feel so grateful that I won one of these! But thinking about it again, I feel the HOSTCRAM VPS is too high specs for me, I wouldn't be able to make full use of it. Would you please choose another winner? Sorry for the trouble

ralf

@kheng86 said:
I feel so grateful that I won one of these! But thinking about it again, I feel the HOSTCRAM VPS is too high specs for me, I wouldn't be able to make full use of it. Would you please choose another winner? Sorry for the trouble

No problem, I'm sure someone else will be happy to have it.

• If there are still unallocated servers (because multiple people had a preference for the same machines), there will be additional rounds for each unallocated server
• For each server, all those who expressed a preference for it, along with an equal number of people from the lucky dip pool, will enter a raffle and the top result after sorting using the string "$i-$srv-$BEACON" followed by SHA1 will win, where srv will be adv, hc or sf

There's nobody else who expressed a preference for HostCram, so I'll do a luck dip with everyone who remains:

$ BEACON=5591e1fc8e241a24eecb0f07898d277968288c63fefc2c72e4d62c3269b6ef33 ; for i in jmaxwell  Dazzle spiritlhl webkesh ; do echo -n "$i-hc-$BEACON" | sha1sum - |sed -e "s/-/$i/" ; done | sort |head -1
2fb6b14b3286281068672d54ddceae14d675b94f  webkesh

@webkesh wins I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

Please can you make sure you have an account created in the control panel for the appropriate provider, and then PM me the email address you used to sign up within 24 hours so that I can raise the ticket for the transfer.

Sanjue007

@ralf said:

@Sanjue007 said:

I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

Also submitted after the deadline, and I didn't even notice as I was writing the results post. If it's any consolation, you wouldn't have been in the first 3 anyway.

Ohhh...I wish i wasn't too late...

ralf

@contactwajeeh - Just sent them a ticket to request transfer. Here's the YABS while you're waiting: https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/112589/#Comment_112589

webkesh

@ralf said:

@kheng86 said:
I feel so grateful that I won one of these! But thinking about it again, I feel the HOSTCRAM VPS is too high specs for me, I wouldn't be able to make full use of it. Would you please choose another winner? Sorry for the trouble

No problem, I'm sure someone else will be happy to have it.

• If there are still unallocated servers (because multiple people had a preference for the same machines), there will be additional rounds for each unallocated server
• For each server, all those who expressed a preference for it, along with an equal number of people from the lucky dip pool, will enter a raffle and the top result after sorting using the string "$i-$srv-$BEACON" followed by SHA1 will win, where srv will be adv, hc or sf

There's nobody else who expressed a preference for HostCram, so I'll do a luck dip with everyone who remains:

$ BEACON=5591e1fc8e241a24eecb0f07898d277968288c63fefc2c72e4d62c3269b6ef33 ; for i in jmaxwell  Dazzle spiritlhl webkesh ; do echo -n "$i-hc-$BEACON" | sha1sum - |sed -e "s/-/$i/" ; done | sort |head -1
2fb6b14b3286281068672d54ddceae14d675b94f  webkesh

@webkesh wins I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM

Please can you make sure you have an account created in the control panel for the appropriate provider, and then PM me the email address you used to sign up within 24 hours so that I can raise the ticket for the transfer.

I have a hostcram account. Happy to have won something this cyberweek. Let me know @ralf if i can PM you ?

ralf

@webkesh said:
I have a hostcram account. Happy to have won something this cyberweek. Let me know @ralf if i can PM you ?

Yes, please PM me the e-mail address you use with HostCram.