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Summer has arrived
According to the calendar on https://guards.re , summer has officially arrived on LowEndTalk! 🏖️
Grab your popcorn, because summer hosting season means it is time for the annual low-end- circus.
Active Summer Host Features
- The bedroom special: a server running entirely on a dusty desktop tower under a teenager's bed, cooled by a single household desk fan.
- The master of disguise: a brand new provider that registered their domain exactly four days ago, where the frontpage confidently claims they have over 10 years of enterprise data center experience. If questioned, the patron provider would explain that they previously had a different brand serving only domestic customers.
- The infinite resource: a $1/year VPS that offers unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, and a 10Gbps port. It will be suspended for violating fair use when four users try to install WordPress at the same time.
- The magic backup: a premium tier offering fully automated, multi-region daily backups. The backups exist in the owner's dreams and will disappear as soon as they main server fails.
Already Deadpooled
- SalmonCloud Ltd (2025-Jul)
- ConfigServer (2025-Aug)
- Upstream Network Ltd / ZHNET (2025-Nov)
- Atomic Networks (2025-Dec)
- Lewis / Velox Media (2026-Jan)
Signs a Host Will Deadpool Before End of Summer
You can spot an unstable host early by asking the right technical and operational questions.
Watch out for these major red flags when looking at the dealz:
- They rent everything and own nothing: they will vanish when their hardware and IPv4 space bills come due.
- They charge a massive fee to buy a single extra IPv4: they have a limited network and cannot scale their operations.
- They completely ban custom ISOs on KVM plans: they are over-allocating their nodes and hiding a broken control panel.
- They do not list a real data center name or address: your data is probably located in a basement guarded by two very scary dogs.
- They lack a clear policy on persistent CPU and port blasting: neighbors will crash the infrastructure by July.
- They refuse to publish YABS benchmark data: they are hiding weak hardware that will melt under summer heat.
Good Luck This Summer
Are you looking to buy a server this summer?
Remember to use a credit card with excellent fraud protection, backup your data daily to an external drive, and never buy a lifetime plan unless you expect that lifetime to last about two weeks.
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What are you going to do this summer?
- What is yous strategy for picking a new summer VPS provider?45 votes
- Pick the one offering $1/year unlimited everything44.44%
- Choose the one ran by teenager on Discord24.44%
- Trust the 10-year old company with a domain registered four days ago13.33%
- Stick to providers that have survived for more than three weeks17.78%
- How are you going to protect your data from summer deadpools?45 votes
- Back up my files to Deep Atlanticc Storage35.56%
- Hope the host doesn't randomly delete the VPS during a migration31.11%
- Copy C: to D: on the same hard drive17.78%
- Trust the provider's 99.99% automated backups that don't exist15.56%
- What will you do when your server goes offline during a heatwave?45 votes
- Open 15 urgent support tickets17.78%
- Write a 1000-word drama thread generated by CharGBT24.44%
- Wait patiently for Daniel to wake up from under the floorboards35.56%
- Open a PayPal dispute for the $5 lifetime plan22.22%
Comments
This is the official $7 and below per year thread now.
Providers are welcome to post their special offers.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/218412/teracast-is-down-and-ghosting-customers-possible-exit-scam
looking forward unsustainable $1/year summertime offers. hell yeah!
Does 1EUR/yr count!?
Actually, my BolloxMedia is still running.
Now's my time to shine, let me whip out the dust-covered, thermal paste-crusted i5 9600k from wherever it is and list it as an i9 14900k with 96 slots
You can totally spoof that... /etc/pve/qemu-server/VM_ID.conf
args: -cpu host,model-id="Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900K"
And you can mount files on NVMe drive and advertise it as RAM to the guest...
args: -object memory-backend-file,id=ram-node,size=8G,mem-path=/mnt/nvme-storage/fake-ram.raw,share=on -numa node,memdev=ram-node
Calm down, Beastie Satan.
You could have left the em-dashes they don't occupy much space.
lol
3 out of 5 has discord
Come on now, there are a couple of country domain registries with Discord servers, too! ola.cv comes to mind! Wouldn't you trust your professional portfolio domain to a bunch of random kids from an African country on Discord?
Discord is a kind of a red flag and i feel in like 90% of cases deservedly so.
many said veloxmedia is down, but my uk instance is running after half a year, maybe I didn't get it at the lowest price so it's somehow sustainable.
Let me know about any unsustainable $1/year summertime offers
ChatGBT is ready to write my "honest" review.
Scorching sun 🔥🔥🔥
it s possibel
sounded like summersail xD
There is a dutch summertime saying; "Vrouwen bloot, handel dood"
rougly translated "Woman naked, no trade"
Since you somewhat liked my part 1 regarding HW trickery, here is part 2:
Hook iperf3 port range on the host, so all yabs tests will return 10Gbit:
Make a prerouting rule:
sudo iptables -t nat -F PREROUTING 2>/dev/null;
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 5201:5209 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.10.10.1;
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 5201:5209 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.10.10.1
Host our local iperf3:
sudo apt install -y iperf3
iperf3 -s -D
Add a Token Bucket Filter capped at 10G:
sudo tc qdisc add dev guest_VM_ID_NIC root tbf rate 10Gbit burst 1m
Poor MJJs will now get full 10Gbit served from your local node to any yabs server 😈
But, won't the ping looks sus?
No, pings go over ICMP, we only hook TCP/UDP.
Oops, yeah.
We need a Summerhost Megathread.
Guaranteed deadpool within 6 months, 69% uptime, no support, $1/year flash deals, $7/year regular pricing.
Open to all providers.
How evil! Did you happen to work with Volkswagen Group's TDI diesel engine team, by chance?