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Provider Poll 2024 - Choose your favorite providers and win from our prizes worth more than $5,000!
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Provider Poll 2024 - Choose your favorite providers and win from our prizes worth more than $5,000!

FAT32FAT32 Administrator, Deal Compiler Extraordinaire
edited February 2 in Announcements

Hi everyone! It's time to vote for your favorite providers again. This is a great opportunity for providers to claim the "Top Provider" tag, while our active members stand a chance to win fantastic prizes sponsored by all the fantastic providers!



Important

Requirements to vote:

  1. Your account must have been created on or before 31 Dec 2024 (EST).
  2. Your account must have at least 10 posts, spread across at least 2 threads, made between 1 Jan 2024 00:00 and 31 Dec 2024 23:59 (EST, inclusive).
  3. Providers can vote, but not for themselves (the same applies to Host Reps).

Rules for voting:

  1. You get 3 votes.
  2. One vote per provider (Providers with multiple brands are considered as one).
  3. You can vote fewer than 3 times if you wish.
  4. This year, you get 1 additional vote for the "Most Stable Provider" specifically for providers that have been in business for more than 5 years.
  5. Voting will end on 3 Feb 2025 11:59pm (EST).
  6. Your vote for "Most Stable Provider" will also count as a regular vote.

Voting Template:

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Most Stable:



Featured Prizes

  • Host-C - 1 x KVM VPS (Promo VPS Nimitz Class - 4vCPU, 4GB, 40GB NVMe, 10TB HDD, 24TB@1Gbps + Unmetered@100Mbps) in Romania for 1 year, renews at $90/yr by @host_c
  • PulsedMedia - 10 x 75€ PulsedMedia Account Credit in EUR by @PulsedMedia
  • RackNerd - 1 x Stream Deck MK.2 – Studio Controller, 15 macro keys, trigger actions in apps and software like OBS, Twitch, ​YouTube and more, works with Mac and PC by @dustinc ⭐ [*1]
  • RackNerd - 1 x Z-Edge 27-inch Curved Gaming Monitor 16:9 1920x1080 240Hz 1ms Frameless LED Gaming Monitor, UG27P AMD Freesync Premium Display Port HDMI by @dustinc ⭐ [*1]
  • RackNerd - 1 x Movie Projector, SMONET 1080P HD Projector 7500L Home Projector Video TV Projector Mini Portable LED Projector Outdoor Indoor Wall Compatible with TV Stick Laptops PC PS5 HDMI USB by @dustinc ⭐ [*1]
  • Terabit - 2 x $150 Cash via PayPal by @SilverCreek
  • Terabit - 2 x 100Mbps GRE Tunnels on in-house mitigation engine with premium transits (NTT, GTT, RETN, Arelion, Lumen, Cogent, and over 150 PNIs) for 1 year, renews at $130/m by @SilverCreek ⭐ [*2]
  • Terabix - 1 x GL-iNet Flint 2 Wi-Fi 6 AX6000 Router (GL-MT6000) by @Terabix
  • Verasel - 10 x $50 Crypto of user's choice with no fees by @Verasel



Prizes

(In alphabetical order)



Notes

  • Most providers require you to pass the fraud check or meet additional terms if you are selected as the prize winner.
  • IDs will be assigned based on the alphabetical order of the list above.
  • If the number of voters is less than the number of prizes, some voters will receive more than one prize (refer to the algorithm).
  • Each eligible voter can only receive 1 featured prize.
  • Special thanks to the moderators for helping to count the votes. :)
  • Providers can still add prizes by sending me a PM with the details or commenting in the private thread.
  • We reserve the right to disqualify providers or members found to be manipulating the results.

Additional terms

  • *1 - Free shipping within the US on physical items; if outside of the US, the equivalent value will be issued as RackNerd account credit. If a winner is outside the US and has a parcel forwarding service, we’ll coordinate with them.
  • *2 - The winner must have their own ASN and IPv4 ranges, and must be able to certify with RPKI, IRR, and LOA.



Algorithm

To ensure the fairness of the lottery, here is the hash of the MAGIC_SEED that will be used for selection: 0b1c7e9823bd062db710e0bf923756b6a70ae756b620ffdb66ac746bc13a2b5b (SHA256).

const seedrandom = require('seedrandom');

// Those values are just an example
const MAGIC_SEED = 'Seed';
const ALL_USERS = ['UserA', 'UserB', 'UserC'];
const HIGH_VALUE_PRIZE_COUNT = 3;
const PRIZE_COUNT = 5;

// Find winners
const rng = seedrandom(MAGIC_SEED + '_' + ALL_USERS.length + '_' + HIGH_VALUE_PRIZE_COUNT + '_' + PRIZE_COUNT);
let allWinners = [];
let prizeLeft = HIGH_VALUE_PRIZE_COUNT + PRIZE_COUNT;

while (prizeLeft > 0) {
  let winners = ALL_USERS.map((user) => ({ username: user, rand: rng() }));
  winners.sort((a, b) => a.rand - b.rand);
  winners = winners.slice(0, prizeLeft);
  winners = winners.map((selected) => selected.username);
  allWinners = allWinners.concat(winners);
  prizeLeft -= winners.length;
}

// Output
console.log(allWinners);

If you have any doubts, you can check out last year's provider poll (2023):

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