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Netcup Easter Egg Hunt 2022
I just noticed that Netcup announced their next Easter Egg Hunt: https://www.netcup-news.de/2022/04/06/ostern-2022-steht-vor-der-tuer/
It'll start on Sunday, April 17th. at 08:00...
Google translate of the announcement:
Easter 2022 is just around the corner
April 6th, 2022, Category: News
The Easter Bunny just hopped past us. He quickly revealed to us that he will be hiding lots of Easter eggs with great surprises and promotions on our website again this year.
On Sunday, April 17th, the Easter Bunny will be handing out lots of virtual Easter eggs on our website. Anyone who finds one of the hidden Easter eggs can order the special offer it contains from us. As soon as an Easter egg has been found, the Easter Bunny hides the Easter egg somewhere else on our website a little later. In this way you can constantly find new Easter eggs on our website. Please note that for reasons of fairness, the Easter egg hunt is only possible on the desktop version of the website and on larger tablets.
Experience has shown that particularly popular offers are quickly sold out. You should therefore start looking for Easter eggs early in order to discover all the offers in good time. There are many great hiding spots - the Easter eggs can hide on any netcup website!
Attention SPOILER alert! The Easter Bunny has already given us a small preview of the campaigns:
Web hosting from 0.99 euros / month Domains from 0.14 euros / month Root server from 9.99 euros / month VPS greatly reduced vLANs greatly reduced IP addresses greatly reduced Surprise MerchandiseThe Easter campaign starts on Easter Sunday, April 17th. at 08:00 o'clock . The promotional products are available while stocks last or until April 24, 2022, 11:59 p.m.
We answer the most frequently asked questions in advance in our FAQ about the Easter campaign , since the high demand can lead to longer waiting times for our support.
Have fun and good luck with the Easter egg hunt!
Your netcup team
Do you guys think there will be some interesting stuff?
I find it weird that they make a price hike to lower demand to then offer stuff at a discounted rate.
Let's see what they offer and how much stock there is; and share links to the interesting pages when the hunt will start!
Comments
You beat @Falzo in creating the first Netcup Easter Egg Hunt thread this year.
Congratulations.
for the real cheap stuff it will be heavily limited I guess. also maybe they combine the ressources in a way (cpu+ram+disk) that it isn't so attractive to e.g. FLUX people.
could also be, that they hope, those guys are not aware anyway of them running such promos and they most likely had planned such event quite some time upfront, including preparing the needed ressources for it.
gonna be interesting in any case to see what they have to offer.
You are probably right, as they do this kind of sale every year, and plans are in limited amount, they know what they'll sell the hardware they'll need upfront.
I also assume that users on this kind of specials are "better" customers than FLUX one (i.e. they use less resources, don't fill the nodes too quickly, some VPSes are kept idle or are barely used...).
Will it be a cup with their name or a Johann again? Or was this Beer opener Christmas only?
lol that's me. Have 2 RSes from Easter, both idling and YABSing occasionally.
current cheapest rs 9 euros... egg hunt start from 9.99 lol. They need to make 6-7e one. sure they usually bump up stats on these during hunt, but could have one with lower stats, for cheap. like 2vcpu and 4gbram, or current 4vcpu and 8gb ram at discounted price, like 7e instead of 9e. It is so neat to have 2.5 gbit line. had a blast with their rs server from last year egg hunt.
It felt weird for me too, lol.
no one knows... they had these notebooks too in the last sales if I remember correctly.
but, just for you:
I wish they would have mouse pads, or even cell phone cases.
@Falzo How much do they sell those at? Any regional restrictions?
to be honest I don't remember... I think it was something like 1-2 € or so including postage. and afaik yes, this was available rather international - though I dunno about very exotic locations or postage with those.
Started:) there are interesting domain, webhosting and VPS offers but I didn't find root server that I search.
Yeah. Not many RS there has been some though. You can track them on the egg tracker if you want, less fun than browsing their website but more efficient: https://camelus.eu/netcup/
Very nice thanks for the link! What language where it written? Python, Nodejs? Avesome site.
No, actually the egg tracker is fun!
The backend is node. But it doesn't work as well as it used to... not sure yet what they changed.
there is the netcup cup also floating around, but the tracker didn't catch it so far, as it seems. I'd guess you need to update the library of pages it crawls, maybe some urls change or have been added? not sure...
that one is not too shabby:
essentially VPS1000 with two more cores and 80GB more disk...
@alvin you referenced the VPS L somewhere... do you still remember what page you found that egg on? I feel like buyin' one just because LOL
how to catch this?
https://www.netcup.de/vserver/ - Right now Gone
so the general idea is that you find the right egg on the right page in the right moment.
afaik works only on desktop browser and german pages...
only if you click on the egg by yourself you'll get a sessionid to actually be able to order, so posting links diesn't help.
it's quite difficult this year, because the more rare eggs like these VPS things seem to appear not so often and for not so long. on top they made it more difficult to even see the eggs, because of the colors...
might be worth to collect a list of pages where the rare eggs like the VPS promos appear.
I read over on another dealz page, that there is also a smaller one at ~5€, though it appears to be nearly the same as the regular offer in that range.
which then leaves the Rootserver S to be found. afair that's the RS 1000 but with doubled disk as well.
that explains why ive been on the site all day....only on my mobile!
insert flp table.gif
F5 https://camelus.eu/netcup/ until you see VPS Ostern M reappear
The only one that they seem to sell in high numbers is their "RS Eggspert" monster, sadly for us LET cheapos.
Noticed this as well, eggs are more difficult to see, sometime it's right there in front of our eyes but with a color so similar to the background...
okay, finally found it:
egg appeared here: https://www.netcup.de/professional/softwareentwicklung/
to buy or not to buy 😅
what do you mean? is there an option not to buy more VPS?!
why I am getting only domain, vLan, and webhosting offers?!!!
I put in my cart, but seems it does not stay there for 15 minutes like in past times. because I didn't buy directly but posted here in between it was gone only few minutes later, probably after the eggs cycled again.
so you beat me to it in buying. however... why does it say 12,20 on your order page? different VAT/EU country?
yes, they adjust the VAT
look what you made me do:
to be fair I am bit disappointed on how the ten vcores scale for multi core scores, but let's see how this evolves over the next few days. servers right now probably are kinda busy with deployments and new clients benching the hell out of it and so on...