All I want for Christmas is... DEALS! - [2024 Christmas Megathread]

beanman109

@DP said:

@plumberg said:

@DP said:

@plumberg said:

@DP said:

@emgh said:

@DP said:
Waiting for Ho Ho Host-Claus to drop some $4/year NVMe VPSes with IPv4.

Bruh I said $3 something

Then you come up here and say $4

It’s this behaviour that makes it possible for providers to come here offering their $90/mo Celeron VPS

basilisk# grep Proc yabs
Processor  : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU  N3050  @ 1.60GHz

Prem NUC

You colocated this or home?

Home

Sweet. What ya use it for?

AdGuard, VPN, nothing hard core.

i'll guard your ads anyday

plumberg

@DP said:

@plumberg said:

@DP said:

@plumberg said:

@DP said:

@emgh said:

@DP said:
Waiting for Ho Ho Host-Claus to drop some $4/year NVMe VPSes with IPv4.

Bruh I said $3 something

Then you come up here and say $4

It’s this behaviour that makes it possible for providers to come here offering their $90/mo Celeron VPS

basilisk# grep Proc yabs
Processor  : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU  N3050  @ 1.60GHz

Prem NUC

You colocated this or home?

Home

Sweet. What ya use it for?

AdGuard, VPN, nothing hard core.

So soft core eh?

beanman109

@emgh said:
MY I T S WANT $3/yr IIIII PEEEE VEEEE FOOO

didn't onidel give you exactly this

_MS_

DP

@plumberg said: obligatory Yabs pls

# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2024-06-09                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Sat 07 Dec 2024 12:41:09 AM +08

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 27 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU  N3050  @ 1.60GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 1797.497 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 7.2 GiB
Swap       : 976.0 MiB
Disk       : 467.4 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-33-amd64
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : 
ASN        : 
Host       : 
Location   : 
Country    : 

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda2):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 68.02 MB/s   (17.0k) | 134.17 MB/s   (2.0k)
Write      | 68.19 MB/s   (17.0k) | 134.88 MB/s   (2.1k)
Total      | 136.22 MB/s  (34.0k) | 269.05 MB/s   (4.2k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 174.57 MB/s    (340) | 197.85 MB/s    (193)
Write      | 183.85 MB/s    (359) | 211.02 MB/s    (206)
Total      | 358.42 MB/s    (699) | 408.88 MB/s    (399)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | busy            | 319 Mbits/sec   | 184 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 398 Mbits/sec   | 493 Mbits/sec   | 196 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 183 Mbits/sec   | 190 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 489 Mbits/sec   | 634 Mbits/sec   | 8.67 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 343 Mbits/sec   | 229 Mbits/sec   | 180 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 307 Mbits/sec   | 430 Mbits/sec   | 236 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | busy            | busy            | 352 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 182
Multi Core      | 332
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9279201

YABS completed in 46 min 16 sec

Last run.

emgh

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:
MY I T S WANT $3/yr IIIII PEEEE VEEEE FOOO

didn't onidel give you exactly this

Yes

But I’m not happy with a single one

_MS_

plumberg

@DP said:

@plumberg said: obligatory Yabs pls

# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2024-06-09                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Sat 07 Dec 2024 12:41:09 AM +08

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 27 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU  N3050  @ 1.60GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 1797.497 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 7.2 GiB
Swap       : 976.0 MiB
Disk       : 467.4 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-33-amd64
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : 
ASN        : 
Host       : 
Location   : 
Country    : 

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda2):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 68.02 MB/s   (17.0k) | 134.17 MB/s   (2.0k)
Write      | 68.19 MB/s   (17.0k) | 134.88 MB/s   (2.1k)
Total      | 136.22 MB/s  (34.0k) | 269.05 MB/s   (4.2k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 174.57 MB/s    (340) | 197.85 MB/s    (193)
Write      | 183.85 MB/s    (359) | 211.02 MB/s    (206)
Total      | 358.42 MB/s    (699) | 408.88 MB/s    (399)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | busy            | 319 Mbits/sec   | 184 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 398 Mbits/sec   | 493 Mbits/sec   | 196 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 183 Mbits/sec   | 190 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 489 Mbits/sec   | 634 Mbits/sec   | 8.67 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 343 Mbits/sec   | 229 Mbits/sec   | 180 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 307 Mbits/sec   | 430 Mbits/sec   | 236 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | busy            | busy            | 352 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 182
Multi Core      | 332
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9279201

YABS completed in 46 min 16 sec

Last run.

Sweet.
Thank you.
I amnsure it will serve it's purpose for another couple years.

ralf

@emgh said:

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:
MY I T S WANT $3/yr IIIII PEEEE VEEEE FOOO

didn't onidel give you exactly this

Yes

But I’m not happy with a single one

beanman109

@emgh said:

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:
MY I T S WANT $3/yr IIIII PEEEE VEEEE FOOO

didn't onidel give you exactly this

Yes

But I’m not happy with a single one

fair my last girlfriend said the same thing to me

maverick

ralf

emgh

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:
MY I T S WANT $3/yr IIIII PEEEE VEEEE FOOO

didn't onidel give you exactly this

Yes

But I’m not happy with a single one

fair my last girlfriend said the same thing to me

Wow you had one of those?

How was it?

beanman109

@emgh said:

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:
MY I T S WANT $3/yr IIIII PEEEE VEEEE FOOO

didn't onidel give you exactly this

Yes

But I’m not happy with a single one

fair my last girlfriend said the same thing to me

Wow you had one of those?

How was it?

the sex was great everything else not so much

donli

I just bought something from host-c for $4. I wonder what it was.

beanman109

@donli said:
I just bought something from host-c for $4. I wonder what it was.

weeks upon weeks of fun trying to figure out how ipv6 works!

emgh

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:
MY I T S WANT $3/yr IIIII PEEEE VEEEE FOOO

didn't onidel give you exactly this

Yes

But I’m not happy with a single one

fair my last girlfriend said the same thing to me

Wow you had one of those?

How was it?

the sex was great

Wow I’ve always wanted to try having that

mandala

@beanman109 said:

@emgh said:
MY I T S WANT $3/yr IIIII PEEEE VEEEE FOOO

didn't onidel give you exactly this

Pretty much what's in my mind when it comes to Onidel.

plumberg

@beanman109 said:

@donli said:
I just bought something from host-c for $4. I wonder what it was.

weeks upon weeks of fun trying to figure out how ipv6 works!

Bonus points if isp doesn't support ipv6

Like mine... that promised it like Colocrossing does for ipv6 for the longest time

o202

@beanman109 said:

@donli said:
I just bought something from host-c for $4. I wonder what it was.

weeks upon weeks of fun trying to figure out how ipv6 works!

6 is more than 4, so must be better, right?

_MS_

emgh

@beanman109 said:

@donli said:
I just bought something from host-c for $4. I wonder what it was.

weeks upon weeks of fun trying to figure out how ipv6 works!

To find out you can only communicate with 6 % of the internet, hence IPv6

It’s basically a LAN

beanman109

okay i give over giveaway in 1 min

lovelyserver

@beanman109 said:
do u guys like what i did with the place

imagine they did something crazy like give me a vps that was free for three years to giveaway aha..

Spoil him, maybe we get more deals

beanman109

@host_c Christmas VPS Giveaway #1

Next up on the Christmas giveaways is a free Host-C VPS with 2 Cores, 4GB RAM, 80 GB NVME Storage oh and it's free for the first 3 years. YES FREE FOR THREE YEARS (with an option to renew after 3 years)

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To enter just thank this comment and reply with your own way of saying THANKYOU HOST-C (can be anything like simply typing THANKYOU HOST-C or you could pick an image, a gif, whatever you want)

Keeping the same entry number rules from the previous giveaways, users will gain multiple entries (up to a max of 3) in the giveaway based on the age of your LET account and post/comment history. (DO NOT COMMENT MULTILPLE TIMES TO ENTER - THIS WILL NOT CHANGE YOUR ENTRIES)

1 entry for LET members with an account age of more than 1 month
2 entries for LET members with an account age of more than 1 year + 50 posts/comments
3 entries for LET members with an account age of more than 3 years + 100 posts/comments

I will draw the winner using random.org in aprox 12 hours from now (3:00AM EST) winner will be announced in this thread and I will also comment 10 minutes prior to closing the giveaway.

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I'd also like to give my own absolutely huge thankyou to @host_c for providing this and two other free VPS to give away to the LET community over this Christmas season, Merry Christmas Host-C to you and yours! 🎅 ❤️

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Full VPS Spec for those curious:

2 vCPU Xeon CPU V4
4 GB DDR4 RAM
80 GB NVME Storage
1 Dedicated IPV4 IP
1 Dedicated /64 IPV6
Port Speed 1 GBPS
2TB Internet Traffic, 50 MBPS after depletion

_MS_

plumberg

@beanman109 said:
okay i give over giveaway in 1 min

ralf

@o202 said:

@beanman109 said:

@donli said:
I just bought something from host-c for $4. I wonder what it was.

weeks upon weeks of fun trying to figure out how ipv6 works!

6 is more than 4, so must be better, right?

emgh

Thank you Host-C

I’ll use the VPS as a VPN when I hack the CIA

tfgp99

THANKYOU HOST-C