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LowEndTalk is too High End these days
Hello LET,
do you think that there aren't many cheap servers?
I think so, and this is why I created this thread
9950X Ryzens are everywhere on Lowendtalk, and they aren't low end
7 $ / year deals are sold out in a minute, and that really infuritates me
Lowendtalk is not about potato servers and optimisation anymore. It is about scams, overselling and greed besides other things
IMO, Dedicated servers are pricey should not be as widespread on LET as they're now
I wanna hear your opinion about this
Btw, I am searching for a 2$/month VPS
384.cz
Greed
- Is LET's greed acceptable?121 votes
- Yes45.45%
- No54.55%
Comments
Did they even last for a minute?
does anyone know if there are still any $7/year VPS deals with high-end AMD CPUs like Ryzen or EPYC? Just curious if such offers still exist these days.
We've seen people transferring sub $10/year deals.
These were somewhat rare a few years back, and those who had them wouldn't have had the slightest thought of giving them up
I will be honest I don't like members with this type of attitude... can I ban this guy?
I am terribly sorry, please, do not ban me
I am very busy now but if this thread somehow still there when I am free I will criticise a bit
Honestly, it's probably because all of us have gotten used to seeing crazy deals so often, that it kind of shifted our perception on what counts as a 'good deal.'
Or, more likely, all of us are just broke.
Well, yes and no
Why no? Last generation Ryzens are cheaper than last generation or high frequency EPYCs
Why yes? Single core performance isn't lowend
overselling
The beast has awoken
Back in the day, lowend was $7 a month. High end was a $20 a month linode with similar specs.
give him a 7-day timeout or something so he can stop typing and start buying
no one owes him $7 deals.
They're all owed to me.
Dude... prices are directly influenced by resources.
If resources are expensive, services are expensive.
Let's just take power(electricity) as example. If those are getting expensive, Dell produces servers more expensively -> sells them more expensively -> the DC charges the provider more $ for the same 500W -> the provider sells VPS for 10$ instead of 7$ to account for both server purchase price and DC power price... and so on so forth.
Snowflake.
Insert witty banter here
Maybe because providers costs have gone up so much in recent years, $7 a year no longer covers the cost of IPv4 let alone the hardware, bandwidth and power costs.
Maybe is not greed, maybe it is people like you that have no idea what you are talking about when it comes to running a business. You joined here in May this year, do not really seem to have put much into the community but seem to demand providers run at a loss just to benefit you.
You don’t want overselling but you want VPS for 2$
Makes sense…. Oh common!
Super cheap deals always come to an end. Or in the worst, the dealpool comes.
See, first of all, as much as I can see, among the oldest threads that @raindog308 linked, they never actually talked about $7/year VPS but instead $7/month VPSs.
And also, about getting cheap $7/y dealz, the main issue isn't just about hardware but IPs, electricity, networking costs, etc.
About Ryzen 9950X being everywhere, that's actually not the case [yeah, they are there in large quantity, but people still sell Xeons, and there are in fact many more Xeon CPU VPS sellers].
About the $7/year being sold out in under a minute, it always will be. That's not an everyday price any host can afford [from what I know], so what they launch is either teeny tiny low profit or at a loss most of the time for them. So, obviously, people will try to grab them asap as they are rare.
LowEndTalk still has many threads for requests and seller threads advertising their offers. There are still people discussing many topics, and many threads where people are talking about optimisationz. And about potato servers -- well, currently on LET there's always a VPS for any amount people choose [not too extreme], so people generally can get their things done on whatever budget they set.
If you don't like a deal, just move on
7 dollars a year is 59 cents a month. its hard to imagine providing any service for such a small amount of money. nowadays a vps will usually start from 10 dollars a year and i think thats pretty generous with what youre getting.
@384_cz
I kind of get where you're coming from, but hey, there are quite a lot of really cheap - and still decent - promos/offers here on LET, which I obviously like.
I still remember when not so many years ago cheap usually translated to crappy. Nowadays though one can get really cheap and quite decent offers, often even well below $2/mo.
So, yeah, you are not completely off, but I suggest to focus on the good offers here!
It's just not as easy as it used to be to slap Ubuntu on those tiny <=512MB machines. Seriously, the kernel itself wants more RAM just to get going, which pretty much kills those old deals. Plus, things like YABS have really changed how we look at VPS performance.
You've still got a crowd here that's all about keeping things super lean, but honestly, a lot more people are just hunting for unsustainable dealz.
Personally, I'd snatch up a 768MB RAM VPS in a heartbeat, especially if it came with a dedicated 25% of a core. For my own needs, though, it'd absolutely have to include one IPv4 and a /64 of IPv6. A /64 is key because that's the smallest block that can be blacklisted, and I'd hate for my neighbors' issues to affect my IP range.
Still, can't say no to a great deal though!
You can get 3.5 yer year openvz server and you can go there and optimize apt because it fails to fork
But the $7/yr thing is a joke, it's humor. Yes sure now and then somebody drops a handful of units but they obviously can't make money on that shit. It's just part of the marketing budget. Kids these days.
okay stop yapping and give me 3$/y
I was going to say exactly that but you beat me to it! 😎
In response to the OP, I'm still finding good deals on LET, but then I have realistic expectations that are often exceeded.
Out of the 45 VPSs I have, only 2 of them are $7/yr deals. But ever yone of them is a great deal for the specs.
I see a lot of offers that aren't great deals, but I just move on and wait for the next one 🤷♀️
Servers can be both pricey and cheap. webnx sells a dedi in NYC for $200/m with 12TB nvme. This is pricey, but also cheap because their DC is in 60 Hudson and you'll never find a server with that storage in that DC for that price anywhere else. You won't even get that spec in Secaucus.
you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
I'm going to steal your ban hammer away so you can't ban no one, not even me.
Just you wait and see.