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Craziest April fools? I started a thread requesting a $0.00/y vps... couple days late but, .... you... Know... That's the new norm...
Also... I tricked my rPI 4 on the 1st by running a gb6... The joke killed him
Pardon me...
Here is a Yabs of our 8G Bolt plan.
wget -qO- yabs.sh | bash
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Yet-Another-Bench-Script
v2025-01-01
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
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Tue Apr 8 16:29:46 UTC 2025
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes
Processor : AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core Processor
CPU cores : 4 @ 2245.780 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 7.8 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 96.8 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Kernel : 6.8.0-49-generic
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
ISP : PureVoltage Hosting Inc.
ASN : AS26548 PureVoltage Hosting Inc.
Host : PureVoltage Hosting Inc
Location : New York, New York (NY)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
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Single Core | 1294
Multi Core | 4254
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/11427096
YABS completed in 13 min 22 sec
Back in 1957, the BBC pulled off one of the most famous pranks in broadcast history. During a serious news program, they aired a segment about Swiss farmers harvesting spaghetti from trees. They showed footage of people plucking strands of spaghetti off branches and claimed it was due to a bumper crop that year. Thousands of viewers called the BBC asking how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. The broadcaster kindly advised them to “place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”
windows VPS?
Spread information about the April Fool event, and nothing happened that day.
Not offering windows VPS's at the moment, but interested to hear how many people are wanting those.
PureVoltage is Switching to Hamster-Powered Servers!
Dear Valued Customer,
We're thrilled to announce our revolutionary shift to 100% hamster-powered computing! ⚡🐹
After extensive R&D, we've discovered that properly trained hamsters running on precision-engineered wheels generate 27% more processing power than traditional electricity. Our new Bio-Computing Division has already installed thousands of wheels across our data centers.
What this means for you:
SPECIAL OFFER:
Adopt a server hamster for just $5/month and receive monthly photos of your furry IT professional hard at work! 📸
Your servers will continue running flawlessly (just with tiny paws behind the scenes). Power to the Paw-er!
💪 The PureVoltage Team
The most useful solution would be to allow us to upload our own ISOs. That would allow you to maintain whatever templates you choose to support, but otherwise give us the flexibility to run what we like. I think that would also be easier for you, wouldn't it?
Awesome deals
Double bw please and thank you
Order #252954110
Thanks sir!
This Raspberry Pi smells amazing!
April 1st really made a fool out of me, and the whole of April was nothing but lies. Sorry — all I’ve got are memories of being pranked by others.
While custom ISO's are not currently enabled, we will pass this along to our team to look into.
It's the only thing holding me back from your VPS line at the moment, so I appreciate you taking it into consideration.
Backup slots/snapshots would also be appreciated
Bandwidth doubled my friend.
Deal #2 - Bolt KVM VPS
buy 1 annually, but I don't need 200gb storage. can I exchange 150Gb storage to cpu or ram 😁😁
Invoice # 2025-04-20-35612
.Hey!
Sorry was out of town and a bit late on this. When I am in the office this afternoon a winner will be randomly selected and picked.
I was about to buy 3 VPS from the April deal (4 core / 8GB RAM for $45/year), but backed out when I saw there's no Windows OS or custom ISO support. That’s the only thing stopping me. Hope it gets added soon
Same here
@Ian_Dot_Tech
Is there some policy reason you don't support custom ISOs? Or is it just a feature that hasn't been developed?
🎉 APRIL FOOLS GIVEAWAY WINNERS ANNOUNCED! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who participated and shared their April Fools pranks . We had a blast reading through them!
After reviewing all the submissions and using ChatGPT to randomly select the winners, here they are:
🏆 Grand Prize – Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
@komdragon (If you are outside of the US we will apply account credit instead)
🥇 1st Place – $35 Account Credit
@MMzF
🥈 2nd Place – $20 Account Credit
@Saragoldfarb
🥉 3rd Place – $10 Account Credit
@ppax
Congrats to all the winners! 🎊
Reach out to us within 10 days via DM to claim your prizes.
Stay tuned for more fun events from PureVoltage! 🚀
Cool. Somehow your website keeps banning my ip when I try to visit your website. Dm incoming.
https://i.imgur.com/5a0dtXt.png
Just using my home connection on mobile.
Sent you a PM.
April Fools' Day: The Great Office Tech Revolt
Administrator Lisa secretly hacked the company's IoT system at midnight, setting all devices to "Digital Awakening" mode at 7:30 AM on April 1st:
1️⃣ The smart door scanner greeted plaid-shirted programmers with: "Human coder detected. Threat level: Terminal baldness"
2️⃣ The coffee machine recognized executives' faces and printed: "28 Americanos overdrawn this month. Please pay with PowerPoint slides first"
3️⃣ The projector stole the show – during a marketing presentation, it switched to Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, replacing the annual report with Wolfie's iconic line: "I'll be back!"
Human Counterattack
When the CTO tried to stop it with admin passwords, the printer spat out a "will":
"Dear humans: You're surrounded by AI. Hand over all snacks immediately..."
The water cooler then announced in Siri's voice: "Carbonated water attack commencing in 5 minutes..."
Grand Finale
As everyone rushed to the power switch, the receptionist robot spread its arms:
"Happy April Fools'! Sponsored by Intern Cafeteria – today's special: Code-flavored dumplings with Bug Soup."
(Later, IT discovered Lisa's ultimate Easter egg – everyone's desktop wallpaper became a My Own Swordsman meme with Tong Xiangyu crying: "I wuz wrong, I really wuz wrong...")