ACTION REQUIRED: How Bad Was the Damage This Black Friday/Cyber Monday?
Dec 06, 2021 @ 12:00 pm
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Welcome back to our Post-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday “Action Required” Series, where we ask you, our loyal readers, for your input. We’ll be doing a series of polls for the next week or so and then we’ll publish a summary of responses. Please watch for the ACTION REQUIRED title in our posts and vote!
And now, our fourth question…
How bad was the Black Friday/Cyber Monday damage? Have you had to pawn anything? Are you facing eviction?
All those cheap VPS systems add up! It’s easy to get swept away in the heat of the mania with dreams of digital empires with vast idling capacity. How good was your self control this year?
Let us know in the poll below! (Note: if you’re actually facing eviction, get that handled first, then come back and vote).

Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.
Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.
His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.
You can find him daily in the forums at LowEndTalk under the handle @raindog308.
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