September is almost gone, which means you’ve only got 4 days left to enter RackNerd‘s awesome September Back to School Giveaway!  Don’t forget, you can enter every day to get more entries.

And at the end of this article I’ll give you a code for five bonus entries!

About Our Beloved Community Provider

RackNerd has been bringing great deals to our community for years, and they’ve build a solid reputation for both high value and high service.  They’ve contributed numerous tutorials for our community, even some for other providers to enhance everyone’s security.  They’re plugged into our forum and it’s not every place where an Inc. 5000 CEO interacts daily with our members.

Check out these deals:

• A 768MB VPS for only $10.18 a YEAR!
• A 2GB VPS for only $16.98 a YEAR!
• Bigger options, too, and they’re all very cheap.
• Deploy in LA, San Jose, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, or Ashburn
• Go [HERE] to see what’s on offer

The RackNerd Back to School Giveaway

Enter for a chance to win one of:

• A 5TB Seagate External Drive!
• 3x Lenovo M8 Tablets!
• 8x $25 RackNerd account credit!
• 8x RackNerd Coffee Mugs!
• 5x RackNerd Gaming Mousepads!

How to Enter

Visit the giveaway page…and while you’re there, use code FOURDAYSLEFT to get 5 bonus entries!  Remember to disable your ad blocker if you don’t see the Gleam widget at the bottom with the entry form.

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.