RackNerd's Fall Giveaway Has Started! Win a Meta Quest 3, a Synology NAS, a Gaming Monitor and More!

dustinc

@ikunlala said:
A Meta Quest 3 would be a nice upgrade from my current setup, and the Synology NAS is tempting for my blog backups. Count me in.

Hi @ikunlala -- A Quest 3 upgrade would be sweet and I'd put that Synology to work on blog backups too! Good luck w/ the giveaway

dustinc

@tigerxu said:
Thanks to RackNerd and the LET team for organizing this!i'm in.

Hi @tigerxu -- You’re very welcome! We always have a good time putting these together and giving back to the community

dustinc

@Cura4ka said:
Let’s go

Hi @Cura4ka -- Let's goooo! Good luck with the giveaway

dimaraia

Thanks for the giveaway, this would be perfect for my little Discord bot and the wiki I run for friends.

dustinc

@WilliamOr said:
too expensive. I miss 2024's RackNerd deals.

Hi @WilliamOr -- I hear you! We had some pretty wild deals in 2024. We’ll keep doing our best to put together amazing deals with solid performance and value

dustinc

@batra said:
where's the deals 10$ /y ?

Hahaha, those $10/year deals were a steal! They're a lot harder to pull off with the hardware market, where it is today. If you've still got one, I'd hang onto it

We're doing our best to deliver the best value possible - and you can find the current specials at: https://racknerd.com/specials/

dustinc

@linuxglobe said:
Thanks, Racknerd!

You're welcome! Good luck with the giveaway

dustinc

@dahartigan said:

@starryheavens said:
@dustinc Did RackNerd cancel their 11.11 sale this year, or are they holding off for Black Friday

I'm thinking at this stage there won't be an 11.11 sale from RackNerd this year. I'm hopeful for Black Friday still..

Hi @dahartigan -- To be transparent, our current specials have been selling quite well. I'm still pushing to see if we can put something together for LET, for Black Friday. We always enjoy giving back around here, and it's a tradition I'd love to keep going. Stay tuned

dustinc

@ba796 said:
Something to put under my tree this Christmas.. all wrapped up pretty with Racknerd's generosity

Love this

dustinc

@Saragoldfarb said:

Thank you @dustinc ! You've been too generous!

Hi @Saragoldfarb -- Awesome, you're very welcome! Glad the swag made it to you. Appreciate you sharing a pic with us, let's gooo!

#RackNerdGang

dustinc

@bear666 said:
Racknerd 2025 promo is crazy. Looking forward to a comparable promo this year!

We're working on it In the meantime, check out our specials at https://racknerd.com/specials/

dustinc

@dimaraia said:
Thanks for the giveaway, this would be perfect for my little Discord bot and the wiki I run for friends.

Hi @dimaraia -- You're welcome! A Discord bot and a wiki sounds like a fun little setup. Good luck with the giveaway

girlhao7

Count me in, would love to play around with remote access for Home Assistant and my personal site on this.

zed

@dustinc said:

@zed said:

@dustinc said:

@zed said:
i'm generally a fan of rn but i'm not paying 22 bucks for a hostpoop ip blocked by half the internet, nope.

Ayoooo! Respectable, I fist bump you.

If you ever need something, I'm here for deals [email protected]

im not leavin or anything, but the hostpapa ips really genuinely suck man. im sure you guys have considered your own ips and decided it wasnt worth the $$ or something?

Thank You @zed -- we actually have a decent amount of our own IPv4 space directly from ARIN, and do have some customers deployed on these ranges. Most recently, we acquired a new /22 (ARIN direct allocation). We frequently lease IPv4 space from our upstream providers, and other IP leassors as well so we can keep deploying infrastructure as demand grows, without waiting on more direct allocations, as to not slow down the flow.

I totally get the past stigma, though I can honestly say things have cleaned up quite a bit since HostPapa/Managed.com acquired ColoCrossing. Overall service, quality, and reputation have improved significantly, and it’s been a net positive for us and our customers.

As such, I’m curious, are you still running into any actual issues today? I’m not counting services built for residential users (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) not working, since that’s pretty much expected with any larger datacenter ASN. If there’s something else, please send me a message, and I'll take a look.

there are just lots of web properties that block as36352 outright and since they're dc ips anyway those sites/properties don't have any reason to ever revisit the decision, it's forever.

but yes i run into issues possibly almost daily as i use these vps as web proxies. genuinely not uncommon i hit a website that i can't access until i switch to a non-cc proxy. it's a speedbump not a dealbreaker, but it's still annoying!

it's even on my pre-sale list now for new hosts "show me your test ip so i can make sure you're not using hostpoop addresses".

not really something for you to fix but since you asked..

zhang3789

Appreciate the giveaway, I'd love a box for messing with game servers and Nextcloud.

dustinc

@zed said:

@dustinc said:

@zed said:

@dustinc said:

@zed said:
i'm generally a fan of rn but i'm not paying 22 bucks for a hostpoop ip blocked by half the internet, nope.

Ayoooo! Respectable, I fist bump you.

If you ever need something, I'm here for deals [email protected]

im not leavin or anything, but the hostpapa ips really genuinely suck man. im sure you guys have considered your own ips and decided it wasnt worth the $$ or something?

Thank You @zed -- we actually have a decent amount of our own IPv4 space directly from ARIN, and do have some customers deployed on these ranges. Most recently, we acquired a new /22 (ARIN direct allocation). We frequently lease IPv4 space from our upstream providers, and other IP leassors as well so we can keep deploying infrastructure as demand grows, without waiting on more direct allocations, as to not slow down the flow.

I totally get the past stigma, though I can honestly say things have cleaned up quite a bit since HostPapa/Managed.com acquired ColoCrossing. Overall service, quality, and reputation have improved significantly, and it’s been a net positive for us and our customers.

As such, I’m curious, are you still running into any actual issues today? I’m not counting services built for residential users (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) not working, since that’s pretty much expected with any larger datacenter ASN. If there’s something else, please send me a message, and I'll take a look.

there are just lots of web properties that block as36352 outright and since they're dc ips anyway those sites/properties don't have any reason to ever revisit the decision, it's forever.

but yes i run into issues possibly almost daily as i use these vps as web proxies. genuinely not uncommon i hit a website that i can't access until i switch to a non-cc proxy. it's a speedbump not a dealbreaker, but it's still annoying!

it's even on my pre-sale list now for new hosts "show me your test ip so i can make sure you're not using hostpoop addresses".

not really something for you to fix but since you asked..

Hi @zed -- Gotcha, appreciate you explaining what you're seeing. If a site is blocking AS36352 outright, even an IP from our own space would hit the same block if we announce it on that ASN. As someone mentioned earlier, we do have options on other ASNs, including in France.

The occasional CAPTCHA comes with the territory on datacenter IPs, though I can see how having to switch proxies that often would get old. i.e. I tried out TorGuard for my personal VPN when traveling and ran into similar speedbumps across different sites, and they had multiple locations/ASNs. You might have better luck with a smaller ASN on a particular site, and that can change whenever the site admins update how it filters datacenter traffic. For us, it's a balance between giving folks options and choosing networks we can count on long term.

If there's a specific site you'd like me to look into, feel free to send it my way and I'll see if there's someone we can reach out to. Netflix, Discovery+, Hulu etc are for example tougher since they set their own policies around VPN and datacenter traffic. Appreciate the feedback either way

dustinc

@girlhao7 said:
Count me in, would love to play around with remote access for Home Assistant and my personal site on this.

Hi @girlhao7 -- That's a fun use! Glad you're in, and good luck

dustinc

@zhang3789 said:
Appreciate the giveaway, I'd love a box for messing with game servers and Nextcloud.

Hi @zhang3789 -- Nextcloud is a popular one with our VPS customers. Always nice having a box to keep your files in sync and mess around with a game server or two. Good luck with the giveaway 👊

dimaraia

Thanks for putting this together, running a tiny Discord bot and a wiki for friends would be fun on this.

WilliamOr

@dustinc said:

@WilliamOr said:
too expensive. I miss 2024's RackNerd deals.

Hi @WilliamOr -- I hear you! We had some pretty wild deals in 2024. We’ll keep doing our best to put together amazing deals with solid performance and value

I hope there will still be some good-value packages available this year.

techtaxittv

@dustinc appreciate the hard work. I have about 5 servers currently with RN. I let my $10.99 go years ago and wish I had kept it now for basic usage. I'm needing a new vps with about 140gb space/6cpu/6-8gb ram currently for a database server. picked up a $25 year option with 2core(Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8268)/35gb/4gb ram to use for my canary / beta testing. Hoping RN/LET has a great deal very soon or I'm gonna have to go with what's out there.