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

plumberg · December 2024

@lovelyserver said:
That's all for today from me.
Goodnight everyone.
And Merry Christmas.

Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings ✨️

Stay warm and safe!.

cloud · December 2024

@beanman109 said:

🎅 Host-C Christmas Three Years Free VPS Giveaway! 🎅

Win a @host_c 2c4g VPS free for 3 WHOLE YEARS!

To enter just thank this comment & reply with MERRY-CHRISTMAS-HOST-C
Winner will be drawn in 12 hours from now from now at 01:00AM EST
Account must be created before the 1st of November 2024.
Account must have at least 20 non-spammy posts/comments before the 1st of November 2024.
A big big big THANKYOU to Host-C for these three servers in total to give away! Your Christmas generosity has helped make this thread just that bit better!

Goodluck everyone and Merry Christmas! 🎅

Full 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

MERRY-CHRISTMAS-HOST-C

plumberg · December 2024

@Saragoldfarb said:

Santa is real

HoHoHo

You got that right

So this giveaway is for which spec from @SilverCreek ?

plumberg · December 2024

@Saragoldfarb said:
Over 20 by the looks of it, not all new purchases though. I may have been using business funds this year so looking forward to meet up with my partner after Christmas

Damn
50% dedicated?
Awesome 👌

dev_vps · December 2024

The bad guyz are not taking a break even on the Christmas day .... 35k+ brute force attempts in just under three hours .... their data is being collected ....

Saragoldfarb · December 2024

@plumberg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

Santa is real

HoHoHo

You got that right

So this giveaway is for which spec from @SilverCreek ?

plumberg · December 2024

@dev_vps said:
The bad guyz are not taking a break even on the Christmas day .... 35k+ brute force attempts in just under three hours .... their data is being collected ....

Once data is collected what action you plan to take on them?

Even my server is hit ever so often and I usually cannot do much. Today it's x ip, the next instant it switches .

plumberg · December 2024

@Saragoldfarb said:

@plumberg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

Santa is real

HoHoHo

You got that right

So this giveaway is for which spec from @SilverCreek ?

Oh yeah 😎

Xytronix · December 2024

@dev_vps said:
The bad guyz are not taking a break even on the Christmas day .... 35k+ brute force attempts in just under three hours .... their data is being collected ....

Do you actively monitor this situation?

zGato · December 2024

@dev_vps said:
The bad guyz are not taking a break even on the Christmas day .... 35k+ brute force attempts in just under three hours .... their data is being collected ....

@MivoCloud a LET member is getting attacked by a customer of yours

dev_vps · December 2024

@plumberg said:

@dev_vps said:
The bad guyz are not taking a break even on the Christmas day .... 35k+ brute force attempts in just under three hours .... their data is being collected ....

Once data is collected what action you plan to take on them?

Even my server is hit ever so often and I usually cannot do much. Today it's x ip, the next instant it switches .

It is being fed to AI tool cortex for analysis. Especially the login id used and geo location correlation aspect.

I already got some of the ids used by LET so I presume their pc login id is retrieved from somewhere.

My advice is ... do not use any common id for windows/root id
use cryptic id like o2721938i

Xytronix · December 2024

@beanman109 said:

🎅 Host-C Christmas Three Years Free VPS Giveaway! 🎅

Win a @host_c 2c4g VPS free for 3 WHOLE YEARS!

To enter just thank this comment & reply with MERRY-CHRISTMAS-HOST-C
Winner will be drawn in 12 hours from now from now at 01:00AM EST
Account must be created before the 1st of November 2024.
Account must have at least 20 non-spammy posts/comments before the 1st of November 2024.
A big big big THANKYOU to Host-C for these three servers in total to give away! Your Christmas generosity has helped make this thread just that bit better!

Goodluck everyone and Merry Christmas! 🎅

Full 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

Unfortunately I am 9 days to late for your giveaways

dev_vps · December 2024

@zGato said:

@dev_vps said:
The bad guyz are not taking a break even on the Christmas day .... 35k+ brute force attempts in just under three hours .... their data is being collected ....

@MivoCloud a LET member is getting attacked by a customer of yours

I have seen more data like this ... provider most likely has no clue yet

Saragoldfarb · December 2024

@plumberg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@plumberg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

Santa is real

HoHoHo

You got that right

So this giveaway is for which spec from @SilverCreek ?

Oh yeah 😎

@SilverCreek is killing it this year. dig their style. One to keep an eye out for. Also very impressed with @ShockHosting . @Zappie is great, @CharityHost_org , awesome! @kuroit obviously and @host_c

I've been spoiled.

dev_vps · December 2024

@Saragoldfarb said:

@plumberg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

Santa is real

HoHoHo

You got that right

So this giveaway is for which spec from @SilverCreek ?

Congrats, @Saragoldfarb !!!

plumberg · December 2024

Regards,

FAT32 · December 2024

So did I missed anythingggg

FAT32 · December 2024

@emgh said: Unpopular opinion: $8-$12/yr for basic resources (sub or equal to 1gb ram basically) is kind of meh because it’s not a KILLER deal but it also doesn’t make the provider any money

Would you like to suggest some new value instead?

plumberg · December 2024

@dev_vps said:

@plumberg said:

@dev_vps said:
The bad guyz are not taking a break even on the Christmas day .... 35k+ brute force attempts in just under three hours .... their data is being collected ....

Once data is collected what action you plan to take on them?

Even my server is hit ever so often and I usually cannot do much. Today it's x ip, the next instant it switches .

It is being fed to AI tool cortex for analysis. Especially the login id used and geo location correlation aspect.

I already got some of the ids used by LET so I presume their pc login id is retrieved from somewhere.

My advice is ... do not use any common id for windows/root id
use cryptic id like o2721938i

Interesting idea. But unable to see what analysis one would do/ collect with this info. A bad actor is probably good enough to be blocked say permanently. But what else?

kvz12 · December 2024

@FAT32 said:

@emgh said: Unpopular opinion: $8-$12/yr for basic resources (sub or equal to 1gb ram basically) is kind of meh because it’s not a KILLER deal but it also doesn’t make the provider any money

Would you like to suggest some new value instead?

2.5 cores, 2.5GB of RAM, 25GB storage, 2.5GB port, 2500GBs bandwidth, $12 a year.

Saragoldfarb · December 2024

@FAT32 said:

@emgh said: Unpopular opinion: $8-$12/yr for basic resources (sub or equal to 1gb ram basically) is kind of meh because it’s not a KILLER deal but it also doesn’t make the provider any money

Would you like to suggest some new value instead?

7/7/7 at $7/y. Obvious.

cybertech · December 2024

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Saragoldfarb · December 2024

@kvz12 said:

@FAT32 said:

@emgh said: Unpopular opinion: $8-$12/yr for basic resources (sub or equal to 1gb ram basically) is kind of meh because it’s not a KILLER deal but it also doesn’t make the provider any money

Would you like to suggest some new value instead?

2.5 cores, 2.5GB of RAM, 25GB storage, 2.5GB port, 2500GBs bandwidth, $12 a year.

I like your thinking.

Edit: 2.5/y.

lala_th · December 2024

@dev_vps said:
The bad guyz are not taking a break even on the Christmas day .... 35k+ brute force attempts in just under three hours .... their data is being collected ....

What script are you using?

dev_vps · December 2024

@lala_th said:

@dev_vps said:
The bad guyz are not taking a break even on the Christmas day .... 35k+ brute force attempts in just under three hours .... their data is being collected ....

What script are you using?

powershell

zGato · December 2024

@SilverCreek 6/6/66. Just so yummy

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#                     v2024-12-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Tue Dec 24 05:48:33 PM EST 2024

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC-Rome Processor
CPU cores  : 6 @ 2799.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 5.6 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 65.9 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-28-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Bytefilter LLC
ASN        : AS1002 Bytefilter LLC
Host       : Veilios Hosting LLC
Location   : Santa Fe, New Mexico (NM)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda3):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 263.37 MB/s  (65.8k) | 979.23 MB/s  (15.3k)
Write      | 264.07 MB/s  (66.0k) | 984.38 MB/s  (15.3k)
Total      | 527.45 MB/s (131.8k) | 1.96 GB/s    (30.6k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 1.21 GB/s     (2.3k) | 1.27 GB/s     (1.2k)
Write      | 1.27 GB/s     (2.4k) | 1.36 GB/s     (1.3k)
Total      | 2.48 GB/s     (4.8k) | 2.64 GB/s     (2.5k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | busy            | 710 Mbits/sec   | 82.4 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 850 Mbits/sec   | 754 Mbits/sec   | 88.2 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 337 Mbits/sec   | 312 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 550 Mbits/sec   | 225 Mbits/sec   | 243 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 844 Mbits/sec   | 775 Mbits/sec   | 81.1 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | busy            | 823 Mbits/sec   | 19.2 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 751 Mbits/sec   | 763 Mbits/sec   | 144 ms

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 995
Multi Core      | 4776
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/23199104

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 1329
Multi Core      | 5215
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9597377

YABS completed in 14 min 40 sec

ralf · December 2024

Merry Christmas everyone in CET!

dev_vps · December 2024

@plumberg said:

@dev_vps said:

@plumberg said:

@dev_vps said:
The bad guyz are not taking a break even on the Christmas day .... 35k+ brute force attempts in just under three hours .... their data is being collected ....

Once data is collected what action you plan to take on them?

Even my server is hit ever so often and I usually cannot do much. Today it's x ip, the next instant it switches .

It is being fed to AI tool cortex for analysis. Especially the login id used and geo location correlation aspect.

I already got some of the ids used by LET so I presume their pc login id is retrieved from somewhere.

My advice is ... do not use any common id for windows/root id
use cryptic id like o2721938i

Interesting idea. But unable to see what analysis one would do/ collect with this info. A bad actor is probably good enough to be blocked say permanently. But what else?

I can’t disclose much beyond this … working on a cyber project with couple of university students

And I must admit … this young generation is very very smart

indiankesh · December 2024

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zGato · December 2024

These 2 giveaways are still running for a few more hours
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4192044/#Comment_4192044 (not 1 but 4 VPSs!)
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4192066/#Comment_4192066

No need to comment anything, it's too spammy. Reguarding (also known as thanking) the post is enough. + if you haven't participated in this thread before the GA, but your account is in a good standing, you're also eligible (I just want to avoid any sort of abuse since I will feel bad for the provider)

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