Community provider ColoCrossing is running a fantastic giveaway for our community!

Whether you’re looking for a colocation partner, a dedicated server, or a virtual server, ColoCrossing has cheap, powerful solutions for you in Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, San Jose, or Seattle.  They also offer Cloud Metal servers, which combine the flexibility of virtual servers with the horsepower of dedicated cores.

To celebrate May the Fourth, they’re offering you the chance to win one of:

• GRAND PRIZE – 1 x Oculus Quest 3 – $499.99
• 3 x 55″ Fire TV – $249.99
• 2 x Yeti Cooler – $200
• 2 x SteelSeries USB Apex 5 Hybrid Mechanical Gaming Keyboard – $79.99
• 16 x $100 ColoCloud Credit (Toward VPS and Cloud Metal Servers)

That Cloud Metal offer is really interesting.  Used to be that the standard advice if you were doing anything compute-intensive was to get a dedicated server.  But those come with a bit more “physical layer” work and to get true core-to-core parity can be expensive.  With Cloud Metal you get dedicated cores, so you don’t have to worry the provider is going to suspend you for transcoding or crunching data.  And because you’re still in ColoCrossing’s virtual fabric, you’ll benefit from up-to-date CPUs.

ColoCrossing is your strategic and reliable colocation and hosting partner. Dedicated to uptime and service, ColoCrossing (a HostPapa company) has been serving our community and the broader internet since 2007.

If you haven’t read my in-depth review of my ColoCrossing dedicated server, check out parts one and two.

And if you’re in the mood for an awesome Oculus game, check out my take on Walkabout Mini Golf (and my daughter’s!)

Hey!  Listen!  How to Win!

Enter every day to boost your chances.  And keep an eye out throughout the LowEnd empire all this month for BONUS CODES that give you more free entries!

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.