Is It Too Soon to Start Talking About BLACK FRIDAY? Nope!
Sep 18, 2026 @ 7:00 am
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Ten weeks from today, dear reader, is the most important day in the LowEnd calendar: BLACK FRIDAY!
It’s a day – really an entire weekend – of complete madness. You’ll see deals that will blow your mind. Prices you haven’t seen since last Black Friday and won’t see again until next Black Friday. Deals that people wait all year to jump on. Offers that come and go quickly as providers sell out.

We’ll be posting deals all weekend here, and of course there will be one of the legendary MegaThreads on LowEndTalk. That’s where you’ll find flash deals and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it deep-discount offers.
It all starts November 27. Mark your calendars!

raindog308 is a longtime community LETizen, 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, raindog308 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, raindog308 has a life-long love of German Shepherd Dogs, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, playing guitar, 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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