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I built a simple tool to filter and compare all RackNerd plans
zhangjunjie
Member
in General
Hey guys,
I've been using RackNerd for a while, but tracking down all their different promos (Black Friday, New Year, random specials) and comparing specs was getting pretty annoying. You usually have to dig through old threads just to find the right promo link.
To make things easier, I compiled almost all of their active plans and built a simple filter page:
https://www.vpsvs.com/rn?lang=en
You can quickly sort by price, RAM, storage, or bandwidth. It makes finding a specific setup (like a cheap node for Nginx, or something with decent RAM for a small K3s/Docker setup) a lot faster.
Comments
don't like that the filters reset on f5, is that intentional?
As a VPS provider one perhaps should question their direction in life, when people need an entirely separate tool to make sense of their website.
I'm not trying to hate on RN, but at least half the stuff that shows up on this site if you filter by "in stock" is ridiculously priced.
You should add filter ranges for CPU in some way so I can say "2 or more cores" instead of saying "yeah i want a VPS with exactly 3 cores"
also locations should be multi-filterable
Probably should have [aff] indication.
Yeah, they updated their pricing recently and now their stuff is way more expensive.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely improve this in a future update.
Not intentional, it's just pure frontend filtering right now. I'll get this fixed up later.
It looks like all the sales are inactive which I think is a first. Or at least it's the first time I've noticed, I guess.
Probably should also add non aff links.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/137719/lowendtalk-community-rules/p1#thingswehate
Pages for permanent limited-time sales like https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/ and https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/ seem to be gone now. I suspect it's part of a strategy shift in response to rising costs over the past few years.
their dc02 is out of stock
My bad, I completely overlooked that. I was going to update the post and add non-aff links, but it looks like the time window to edit has passed and I can't find the edit button anymore. I'll definitely keep this in mind for next time.
Dustin is so sorry you had such a difficult time finding older, cheaper offers that were not disabled. Dustin went ahead and disabled those so now you don't have to look through old sales anymore!
Thanks, Barbara.
You can still buy a dual L5520 for 180 bucks a month though.
be really neat if your tool did all colocrossing+resellers, not just racknode. like how rn isn't showing any active sales right now, where else can i go for ultra cheap cc boxes?
just a thought!
Is it hosted on a racknerd server?