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Which VPS providers should one keep an eye on for Black Friday?
muxiqinglang
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I’m a new Chinese user here on LET. I’m curious—which providers are you all hoping to see Black Friday deals from?
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Racknerd, greencloud and colocrossing are the ones I'm watching for this year.
Veloxmedia, charityhost
Depends on what you're after. I'm definitely on the lookout for cheap dedis—hoping OVH comes through with some good deals.
By the way, any other hosts likely to run similar promos? I only know Nuyek might have something coming up.
However, GreenCloud imposes CPU limits on its servers; if usage reaches 100% for 5 minutes, the system will shut down your instance—or even delete it entirely.
Onidel. Duh.
Deadpool
best deals me too
I don't recommend RackNerd. About two years ago, I had a terrible experience with their shared web hosting service. They advertised 50 GB of storage, so I uploaded a 20 GB MP4 video containing 10 hours of important internal processes from my company.
Around 15 hours later, my account was suspended. Their initial excuse was that I was storing copyrighted material without authorization, which was completely false. The video was simply a backup of important business processes belonging to my organization.
Once they realized their accusation was unfounded, they lifted the suspension but insisted that I purchase a VPS just to store that file, despite advertising 50 GB of storage with their shared hosting plan.
At that point, I immediately decided to leave RackNerd, but I never told them about my decision. I just wanted to walk away quietly because I didn't want their staff snooping through my organization's private data any further.
I'm currently using GreenCloud and GeorgeDataCenter, and I'm very happy with both providers. However, this Black Friday, I'm looking to try out some new providers for backup servers. Servarica, Netcup, and AlphaVPS are currently at the top of my list.
Onidel would be nice I may try them again,
Yeah every VPS provider has a fair-share policy, and I've pinned past 5 minutes, GC didn't take action provided you release those cores back.
greencloud already has some very nice deals , but i hope that also onidel, interserver, solidvps send some deals
Greencloud won't have a Black Friday.
You can have a eye one us.
What are you looking for? Our niche market is storage. Big storage
(but not VPS though)
They say the system will shut down if the total duration exceeds 5 minutes—and this doesn't have to be a continuous stretch. So, even if you release the core within that 5-minute window, you’ll still face a penalty if your cumulative time over a 24-hour period exceeds 5 minutes. I’m not sure if this is actually true, though.
https://green.cloud/terms-of-service.php
Every other VPS provider has similar policy which is close.
Hi @carlos001 -- Thank You for sharing your feedback. I do want to provide some clarification here, particularly regarding video content on shared hosting.
Restrictions on unrelated backups and video streaming are very common within shared hosting environments in the industry, and you'll find this to be quite the norm, be it with RackNerd or elsewhere. By the way, most of the other providers you've mentioned in your post focus on VPS hosting (not shared hosting), which is likely why your experience felt different there. Those same restrictions don't apply to our VPS services either, and backup storage and video streaming are allowed on our VPS product line.
Our Terms of Service specifically state:
It also states:
Legal video storage and streaming are allowed on our VPS and dedicated server product lines, which is why we recommend those services for this type of use.
Regarding your privacy concerns, we don't snoop through customers' files and have no interest in doing so. On shared hosting, these checks are handled by automated scripts on our shared hosting platform, and flagging a video file does not require our staff to watch it.
If you can share the original ticket number via DM, I'd be happy to review the correspondence, including the copyright concern you mentioned, though I realized this was more than 2 years ago (and we've since heavily improved our internal processes/procedures, and also hired on a lot more talent in the past 2 years as well).
As for VPS services -- our VPS services are unmanaged KVM instances. You control the operating system and software within your VPS, and we don't perform these shared hosting file checks inside customers' VPS instances.
By the way, quite a bit has changed with our shared/reseller hosting product line since you last used us. We've continued investing in this product line, including the introduction of our next-generation platform powered by Ryzen, NVMe, and CloudLinux 9. You can read more about that here.
As for our VPS product line, we've innovated there as well, including the recent launch of RackNerd ctrl, which has been very well appreciated and received by the community and our customers: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/221357/racknerd-launches-ctrl-a-proprietary-platform-built-for-ai-vps 👊
@dahartigan -- Let's goooo! Appreciate your continued support ever since our earlier days, hope you're doing great buddy
It's certainly been a while! I'm doing good, keeping very busy but thought I'd pop in here. I am looking forward to Black Friday for some stocking fillers
All the best mate!
How did you come to the conclusion that I was using that video.mp4 file for streaming?
The file was never downloaded, not even once. It was uploaded to a well-hidden location and was never played. It could just as easily have been a .bak or .zip file. The only reason I couldn't encrypt it was that I had run out of storage space.
As I explained to your support team at the time, the real reason was that my SSD was completely full, and I was planning to install a new 1TB drive as my primary drive. However, I needed to free up enough space to download the Windows ISO file and create a bootable installation drive.
That is why I temporarily uploaded that video file to my web hosting account: simply to free up enough storage space to download the Windows ISO. Instead, I ended up having my private files snooped through and getting banned. They eventually lifted the ban, but the damage had already been done. I quietly walked away.
This is the photo I uploaded to your support chat back then to demonstrate that the video in question was just one of the many video files I had stored on my PC.
You accused me of streaming, yet you never provided any evidence that I had played or streamed that file even once. You also accused me of copyright infringement, despite the fact that the data displayed on the screen was original work created by my own organization.
I'm a data scientist, and I was a bit traumatized by the snooping, as it involved my own research that I was working on. You've lost me as a customer forever.
Servarica for me
Hi @carlos001 -- I totally get it, and I appreciate you sharing your perspective. Shared hosting is generally intended for websites and their core functionality, and restrictions on unrelated backup storage are common throughout the nature of shared hosting across the industry. I know this goes back over two years ago, and a lot has changed since then in terms of our platform and internal processes. I'm here and happy to help if you'd like to discuss it further, but understand if you wish to leave it at that.
I have not yet looked into the specifics of your case as I don't have a ticket ID, but feel free to send me a DM any time. I'd be happy to personally review the ticket from 2 years ago, see what happened exactly, and see whether there's a goodwill gesture we can offer.
Whether you're a current customer or a past customer, that invitation is always there. I'm heavily involved in our operations, and no matter how much we grow or how many people join our team, anyone can always reach out to me directly. That's something I'm committed to maintaining