Hey you lovely people! Since I got myself a shiny dedi over the weekend (ironically not with a BF discount), I now have a few VPS that I no longer need and wanted to offer them here rather than at OGF. Mostly because there's a better chance it'll go to someone who won't abuse it.

Cost

• Technically free, but next time you see someone in need, help them out; perhaps you could give a homeless guy a few bucks or buy them a coffee, or donate a small sum to your favourite charity, give something to your local food bank or clothes bank, whatever, just be nice to someone
• Pushups are not a valid form of payment for these servers

The following severs are available:

AdvinServers (Astro Special) - $11.99 /m

renewal due 18 December 2022

Randomized CPU (8 vCores) (Ryzen 9 5950X fair share)
32GB DDR4 ECC Memory
250GB NVMe/SATA SSD
8TB Bandwidth (1 Gbps)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Advanced DDoS Mitigation
$11.99/month
GB5 score: 5659
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/102078/#Comment_102078

HostCram KVM-3C - $21 Quarterly

renewal 26 December 2022

3 vCPU Core (i9-11900K) (fair share)
3 GB DDR4 RAM (Dedicated)
70 GB NVMe SSD Storage
3 TB INAP Bandwidth @ 1 Gbps Port
1 Dedicated IPv4
$21 Quarterly / $84 Yearly (Recurring)
Note that this is NOT the Black Friday offer - it's a bit more expensive, but has more SSD
Also note that you have to cancel at least 5 days before renewal
GB5 score: 4190
Location: Dallas, TX
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/179962/killer-core-kvm-3c-21-quarterly-windows-4g-10-month-hostcram-llc-i9-11900k-in-dallas-tx/p1

Server Factory AMD RYZEN™ S - € 39,50 /6m

renewal 29 December 2022

CPU: 1 Core / 2 Threads (Ryzen 9 5950X, 2 dedicated threads)
RAM: 8 GB
STORAGE: 100 GB
UPLINK: 1 Gbit/s
UNMETERED INCOMING TRAFFIC
Outgoing Traffic: 8 TB per month
IPv4: 1
IPv6: /64 Subnet
79,00 € 39,50 € / semi-annually exclusive VAT, if you are from the EU, VAT applies
GB5 score: 1565
Location: Dronten, NL
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/3957/50-off-ryzen-epyc-vds-nl-alipay-btc-cc-pp-unmetered-incoming-traffic/p1

Rules

• Only open to LES members whose account is older than 3 months and at least 10 non-spammy posts
• Please only claim a server if you are genuinely interested in continuing the service and want to give it a couple of weeks to test, or if you missed out on the original offer
• If you just want something to abuse for a couple of weeks, please don't bid. If you just want to scalp it, definitely do not bid. All these providers are excellent, and they deserve more respect
• I have contacted @Advin, @mxmla and @Shakib respectively for permission to do a transfer
• Maximum 1 win per person
• You have until Wednesday 30 November 23:59 UTC to state your interest
• Winners will be determined using @yoursunny style beacon rather than first come, first served
• If you win, you need to have an account registered with the provider, and PM your email address with 24 hours so that I can raise a ticket for the transfer

How to claim

• Post ONE of the following messages in this thread
  # I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ LUCKY DIP
  # I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN
  # I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM
  # I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ SERVER FACTORY

Determining the winner

• 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
• It seems the NIST beacon is still broken, it'll take longer for me to work out which round of the CF beacon I'll need, but I'll update before the deadline, once I've figured it out
• I'll be using this command line to choose the winner: BEACON=xxxxxxx ; for i in user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 ; do echo -n "$i-$BEACON" | sha1sum - |sed -e "s/-/$i/" ; done| sort (but substituting xxxxx and user1 etc) and using the top results
• I will choose the top 3 sorted results
• From these, where they have indicated a preference, the earliest in the sorted results will win their preferred server
• Anyone in the first 3 sorted results who expressed lucky dip will be given a server from those remaining, in the order Advin, HostCram, Server Factory
• If there are still unallocated servers (because multiple people had a preference for the same machines), there will be additional rounds for each unallocated server
• For each server, all those who expressed a preference for it, along with an equal number of people from the lucky dip pool, will enter a raffle and the top result after sorting using the string "$i-$srv-$BEACON" followed by SHA1 will win, where srv will be adv, hc or sf
• The lucky dip candidates will be taken from the sorted results in the first round in order, and will only be entered into one lucky dip round, unless there aren't enough, in which case the list will wrap around
• I hope to announce the results around noon Thursday 1 December 12:00 UTC, assuming I haven't made it so complicated for myself that I completely fail
• 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

Why is it so complicated?

Choose one:

• Beats me
• I didn't want to do any work this morning, so I made up these stupid rules instead
• I wanted to make sure that people who specifically wanted one of the servers had a reasonable chance of getting it
• I wanted to make sure that people who chose lucky dip also had similar odds of winning as those who chose a particular server