If you’re new to the LowEnd world, you might never have heard of our annual Black Friday event, so let me give you the skinny.

• Amazon Prime Day? Amateurs.
• Wal-Mart doorbusters? Nice try.
• Waiting in line starting at midnight so you can grab a deal at 7am?  You can if you want to, but you can shop here at LowEndBox from the comfort of your couch.

Black Friday is an utterly insane period where providers blast our community with amazing deals.  VPS systems for a dollar a year.  Storage VPSes for pennies per GB.  Crazy-cheap shared hosting deals.  It’s no exaggeration to say that we have people who only shop one day a year, and then enjoy those glorious deals until the next Black Friday.  I still have a $1/year VPS I’ve been renewing since 2020.

OK, so you want to get in on the deals.  Here’s a quick guide:

1. Between now and Black Friday: Jump into the LowEndTalk thread to share with providers what you are looking for this season!
2. When BF comes, camp on LowEndBox because we’ll be posting offers throughout that period (Thursday through Cyber Monday!)
3. And there will be a LowEndTalk thread as well, where deals come fast and furious!

It’s a fun time to interact with the community and of course it’s also a great time to save money!  See you in about 7 weeks.

raindog308

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.