2021 Black Friday / Cyber Monday Official Megathread + Flash Deals ⚡

qinmm

pass

TalosPan

I missed all the lightning, just like missing those girls

afn

@TalosPan said: just like missing those girls

I can relate...

limited

@PulsedMedia said:

@Nekki said:
Right, I’m out, for sleep. If there’s a storage dedi whilst I’m gone, save me one or I’m deleting this thread when I get up.

was jus thinking about maybe we should do one lol.

I'll be gone most of tomorrow so might not actually happen. We shall see.

Who would be up for a 4x18TB dedicated server with 1G or 10G?

Let's spice things up, do a deadpool VPS offer. (We don't mind a few days of setup time)

Daniel15

@exception0x876 said: Also, atm we are running additional special sale package KVM SSD NVMe Plus with 4 cores 8GB RAM and 500GB space.

A++ would definitely recommend this one. YABS:

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Mon 18 Oct 2021 05:08:48 PM PDT

Basic System Information:
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Processor  : AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB)
CPU cores  : 4 @ 3393.624 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 7.8 GiB
Swap       : 3.7 GiB
Disk       : 487.5 GiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 282.98 MB/s  (70.7k) | 2.75 GB/s    (43.0k)
Write      | 283.73 MB/s  (70.9k) | 2.76 GB/s    (43.2k)
Total      | 566.72 MB/s (141.6k) | 5.51 GB/s    (86.2k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 3.00 GB/s     (5.8k) | 2.98 GB/s     (2.9k)
Write      | 3.16 GB/s     (6.1k) | 3.18 GB/s     (3.1k)
Total      | 6.16 GB/s    (12.0k) | 6.17 GB/s     (6.0k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 842 Mbits/sec   | 863 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 842 Mbits/sec   | 867 Mbits/sec
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 811 Mbits/sec   | 860 Mbits/sec
WebHorizon      | Singapore (1G)            | 508 Mbits/sec   | 734 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 614 Mbits/sec   | 783 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 508 Mbits/sec   | 542 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 338 Mbits/sec   | 520 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 397 Mbits/sec   | 399 Mbits/sec

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 1321
Multi Core      | 4170
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10480370

I've been using it for a short while (maybe 2 months now?) and it's been great. Only reason I'm thinking about migrating away from it is because I need more RAM, and the routing between OVH France and my ISP in the USA is not very good (and it's even worse to Australia)

iamthepizza

Just wanted to say kudos to @Mr_Tom - had some issues on my shiny new VPS with Windows being absolute fucking dogshit Windows and he was bang on the ball, super responsive and just generally great to work with. Cheers!

jahrinc

@Daniel15 said: I need more RAM

I asked him if I could stack two, and he said yes. I've been running 8 cores and 16 GB for 2 months now

PulsedMedia

@KuKluxKlab said:
@PulsedMedia how did your zen miniboxes go? I've been insterested in general in colo-ing something like a 5600G or 3rd gen since I saw your offering

Customers been really happy with them, but the manual work on customizing them etc. just got too much, and we've never had the chance to realize the full potential of them due to lack of human resources for last bit of development.

They are really stable, really high performance and good price tho. Just not something we can slap together fast and in mass right now.

When they become again available (if they do), we will do only preconfigured versions, no custom versions at all anymore.

PulsedMedia

@limited said:

@PulsedMedia said:

@Nekki said:
Right, I’m out, for sleep. If there’s a storage dedi whilst I’m gone, save me one or I’m deleting this thread when I get up.

was jus thinking about maybe we should do one lol.

I'll be gone most of tomorrow so might not actually happen. We shall see.

Who would be up for a 4x18TB dedicated server with 1G or 10G?

Let's spice things up, do a deadpool VPS offer. (We don't mind a few days of setup time)

What's a deadpool VPS offer?

PulsedMedia

@Daniel15 said: and the routing between OVH France and my ISP in the USA is not very good (and it's even worse to Australia)

Looks like OVH has a lot of issues like that, and always has had. Then again, one could argue every single provider has these issues tbh.

Regardless, we've never had too good success from OVH to Finland.

samm

@FAT32 said: LittleVZ VPS
1 vCore
5GB HDD
256MB RAM
250GB Bandwidth
1 IPv4
/80 IPv6
Location: UK / AUS / VA
Quantity: 5
Promo code: BF-6DOLLARLVZ-mYjbXwGw
$6/yr

Is it gone already?

user123

@PulsedMedia said:

@limited said:

@PulsedMedia said:

@Nekki said:
Right, I’m out, for sleep. If there’s a storage dedi whilst I’m gone, save me one or I’m deleting this thread when I get up.

was jus thinking about maybe we should do one lol.

I'll be gone most of tomorrow so might not actually happen. We shall see.

Who would be up for a 4x18TB dedicated server with 1G or 10G?

Let's spice things up, do a deadpool VPS offer. (We don't mind a few days of setup time)

What's a deadpool VPS offer?

One where calling it a loss leader would be generous. It's more akin to paying someone to take the server. lol

Daniel15

@PulsedMedia said: What's a deadpool VPS offer?

It refers to a completely unsustainable offer that usually results in the provider losing money.

When a VPS provider "deadpools", it means that they've shut down, usually very suddenly, due to a lack of funding (generally because all their offers were unsustainable and they have no other revenue source). Sometimes they just completely disappear and run fully-automated for a while (nobody monitoring the servers, their bills all being automatically paid just because they haven't gotten around to cancelling anything yet), until they cancel their credit cards and the servers disappear one by one due to lack of payment.

Often related to "summer hosts", which are called that because they're often started by kids in high school (or perhaps college) when they're on summer break, then when they go back to school they just want to get rid of it because it's consuming their life and they don't have time for it any more.

@PulsedMedia said:

@Daniel15 said: and the routing between OVH France and my ISP in the USA is not very good (and it's even worse to Australia)

Looks like OVH has a lot of issues like that, and always has had. Then again, one could argue every single provider has these issues tbh.

Regardless, we've never had too good success from OVH to Finland.

VPSes in Los Angeles have pretty good routing to/from Australia, as the connection between LA and Australia is one of the major internet transit routes for Australia to reach the outside world. Australia to Singapore is good too, as long as the ISP uses the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable or Australia Singapore Cable. Servers in Europe generally route via Los Angeles first.

Hxxx

Also kind of mind blown (which is good) with the servaRICA storage VPS. Wild... stuff... @Nekki did you skipped these? They have your name written all over.

Daniel15

@jahrinc said:

@Daniel15 said: I need more RAM

I asked him if I could stack two, and he said yes. I've been running 8 cores and 16 GB for 2 months now

I thought @exception0x876 said to me that sale offers can't be stacked, just regular VPS offers. Maybe I'm misremembering.

FAT32

@Nekki said:
Right, I’m out, for sleep. If there’s a storage dedi whilst I’m gone, save me one or I’m deleting this thread when I get up.

Have a good rest

I see @PulsedMedia is being crazy again, that's nice.

exception0x876

@Daniel15 said:

@jahrinc said:

@Daniel15 said: I need more RAM

I asked him if I could stack two, and he said yes. I've been running 8 cores and 16 GB for 2 months now

I thought @exception0x876 said to me that sale offers can't be stacked, just regular VPS offers. Maybe I'm misremembering.

Flash sale and storage packages can't be stacked. This one should be ok to combine once since it is running on separate nodes rather than on leftover resources like our normal flash sale packages.

Daniel15

@exception0x876 said:

@Daniel15 said:

@jahrinc said:

@Daniel15 said: I need more RAM

I asked him if I could stack two, and he said yes. I've been running 8 cores and 16 GB for 2 months now

I thought @exception0x876 said to me that sale offers can't be stacked, just regular VPS offers. Maybe I'm misremembering.

Flash sale and storage packages can't be stacked. This one should be ok to combine once since it is running on separate nodes rather than on leftover resources like our normal flash sale packages.

Ah, it's special! I see. Just yesterday I paid for a yearly deal with a different provider to get a system with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD closer to me (Las Vegas), but if you're still offering this plan in the future, and still allow stacking it, then I'll probably be back for another one of yours since some use cases are fine to run far away from me and my other servers.

cutech

@Nekki said:
Right, I’m out, for sleep. If there’s a storage dedi whilst I’m gone, save me one or I’m deleting this thread when I get up.

Got the last actual BF2021 Storage 2TB VPS in Helsinki courtesy of @Mr_Tom

PulsedMedia

@user123 said:

@PulsedMedia said:

@limited said:

@PulsedMedia said:

@Nekki said:
Right, I’m out, for sleep. If there’s a storage dedi whilst I’m gone, save me one or I’m deleting this thread when I get up.

was jus thinking about maybe we should do one lol.

I'll be gone most of tomorrow so might not actually happen. We shall see.

Who would be up for a 4x18TB dedicated server with 1G or 10G?

Let's spice things up, do a deadpool VPS offer. (We don't mind a few days of setup time)

What's a deadpool VPS offer?

One where calling it a loss leader would be generous. It's more akin to paying someone to take the server. lol

@Daniel15 said:

@PulsedMedia said: What's a deadpool VPS offer?

It refers to a completely unsustainable offer that usually results in the provider losing money.

When a VPS provider "deadpools", it means that they've shut down, usually very suddenly, due to a lack of funding (generally because all their offers were unsustainable and they have no other revenue source). Sometimes they just completely disappear and run fully-automated for a while (nobody monitoring the servers, their bills all being automatically paid just because they haven't gotten around to cancelling anything yet), until they cancel their credit cards and the servers disappear one by one due to lack of payment.

Often related to "summer hosts", which are called that because they're often started by kids in high school (or perhaps college) when they're on summer break, then when they go back to school they just want to get rid of it because it's consuming their life and they don't have time for it any more.

Ah! That all explains the naming too brilliantly. Certainly deadpool material for all of those.

FAT32

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cutech

@PulsedMedia said:

@user123 said:

@PulsedMedia said:

@limited said:

@PulsedMedia said:

@Nekki said:
Right, I’m out, for sleep. If there’s a storage dedi whilst I’m gone, save me one or I’m deleting this thread when I get up.

was jus thinking about maybe we should do one lol.

I'll be gone most of tomorrow so might not actually happen. We shall see.

Who would be up for a 4x18TB dedicated server with 1G or 10G?

Let's spice things up, do a deadpool VPS offer. (We don't mind a few days of setup time)

What's a deadpool VPS offer?

One where calling it a loss leader would be generous. It's more akin to paying someone to take the server. lol

@Daniel15 said:

@PulsedMedia said: What's a deadpool VPS offer?

It refers to a completely unsustainable offer that usually results in the provider losing money.

When a VPS provider "deadpools", it means that they've shut down, usually very suddenly, due to a lack of funding (generally because all their offers were unsustainable and they have no other revenue source). Sometimes they just completely disappear and run fully-automated for a while (nobody monitoring the servers, their bills all being automatically paid just because they haven't gotten around to cancelling anything yet), until they cancel their credit cards and the servers disappear one by one due to lack of payment.

Often related to "summer hosts", which are called that because they're often started by kids in high school (or perhaps college) when they're on summer break, then when they go back to school they just want to get rid of it because it's consuming their life and they don't have time for it any more.

Ah! That all explains the naming too brilliantly. Certainly deadpool material for all of those.

He should be on the F5

nordmann

@Nekki said: You still failed, dry those tears and we'll see you next year.

still 2days to keep those tears until CM is over

@PulsedMedia said: Why should we cater to the chinese who just want to reserve just to see if they might make a profit from it, before paying for the service and most likely will never pay for it -- and let actual real users in the wind?
@nordmann said: Talking of users left in the wind... is there a slightest chance of a lil restock to the V1k 8TB offer, maybe some still pending payments or smth.
@PulsedMedia said: Like said before, keep watching this thread

...so i keep watching for restock^^

@Nekki said: Loads of providers have done the same. @AlexBarakov has restocked stuff many times over.

-> Hope!

add_iT

pls restock OBHost LET Special VPS Legendary Deals

@OBHost

pan21

@add_iT said:
pls restock OBHost LET Special VPS Legendary Deals

@OBHost

lol, im not the only one missed @OBHost

deank

Ah

cutech

@afn said:

@cutech said: I didn't look up seedbox, I was thinking it was more of a VPS than a slice. If I needed to move a bunch of bits, yeah, but I need more of a backup server than a distributed TOR/Torrent type federation. Now I know.

euh... What do you want to do on a VPS for backup that can't be done on a seedbox? you can ssh to your seedbox, and use rsync for backup just the same way you would do with a vps...

I'm not properly stating my needs properly, opposed to a backup [data], I needed a backup [data + services on several ports using things that I cant install as sudo/root, kinda like Virtualmin just don't make sense in a docker/container].

Since the seedhost provider can't let me install a Ruby :6000 or Odoo :8069 it's not what I was looking for, and it's my fault that I didn't look up seedbox was before I committed.

add_iT

@pan21 said:

@add_iT said:
pls restock OBHost LET Special VPS Legendary Deals

@OBHost

lol, im not the only one missed @OBHost

Well, the fact that i am still not buying anything on this BF, because my curent vps's are more valuable than most of BF offer

qinmm

pass

JabJab

@qinmm said:
pass

Stop posting crap like that.

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Fuck, there was cheaper PulsedMedia plan. Smaller, but cheaper and recurring! Fuck. Time to read refund policy and maybe snipe another one /s