All good things must come to an end. And while RackNerd has not officially announce when Black Friday pricing is going away, the clock is ticking!
I got an email from then on January 13th that said:
Our best Black Friday deals won’t be here forever! Inventory in some of our datacenter locations is already running low, and once capacity is gone, these deals won’t be returning — so now’s the time to secure yours.
So Jump on These Deals ASAP!
1 GB KVM VPS🔥
| 2.5 GB KVM VPS🔥🔥
| 4 GB KVM VPS🔥🔥🔥
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6 GB KVM VPS🔥🔥🔥🔥
| 8 GB KVM VPS🔥🔥🔥🔥
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And While You’re Here, Win Some Prizes!
RackNerd’s January giveaway is goes through the end of the month. You can win one of:
- RackNerd KVM VPS! 5 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, 10 TB Monthly Transfer – First Year FREE (renews @ $54.99/Year, no obligation)
- $50 RackNerd Account Credit
I Wanna Win!
Let’s go! Use code LASTCHANCE to get 10 extra entries. And be sure to come back every day for more entries!
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Where are the non-US locations? Full?
Thanks for the extra entries! Good luck everyone!
Just a FYI this is a report of the 6gb system. CPU is from Q3’13 and its using DDR3 RAM. I know we shouldn’t expect too much for these but still wanted to let you all know. Mostly its the SSD speed that are disappointing to me.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16264587
Sun Jan 25 06:47:37 PM PST 2026
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
CPU cores : 4 @ 2799.998 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 5.8 GiB
Swap : 3.0 GiB
Disk : 134.8 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Kernel : 6.12.43+deb13-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline
IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP : HostPapa
ASN : HostPapa
Host : ColoCrossing
Location : Ashburn, Virginia (VA)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
—— | — —- | —- —-
Read | 82.94 MB/s (20.7k) | 256.89 MB/s (4.0k)
Write | 83.16 MB/s (20.7k) | 258.24 MB/s (4.0k)
Total | 166.11 MB/s (41.5k) | 515.14 MB/s (8.0k)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
—— | — —- | —- —-
Read | 312.12 MB/s (609) | 362.03 MB/s (353)
Write | 328.71 MB/s (642) | 386.14 MB/s (377)
Total | 640.84 MB/s (1.2k) | 748.18 MB/s (730)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
—– | —– | —- | —- | —-
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 749 Mbits/sec | 178 Mbits/sec | 86.4 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 791 Mbits/sec | 824 Mbits/sec | 76.5 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 295 Mbits/sec | 173 Mbits/sec | 173 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 419 Mbits/sec | 540 Mbits/sec | —
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 775 Mbits/sec | 647 Mbits/sec | 52.3 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 869 Mbits/sec | 883 Mbits/sec | 6.82 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 628 Mbits/sec | 338 Mbits/sec | 176 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 426
Multi Core | 1300
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16264587
“I would like to have the bandwidth doubled. My Order ID is: 8980773652”
Hello, please double my bandwidth. My Invoice is #21936336. Thanks!