Remember when we announced that RackNerd and AdminBolt were giving away 100 FREE VPS for a year, plus 20 lifetime AdminBolt licenses? Well, all 100 VPS instances have now been given away.

But apparently, 100 wasn’t enough!

RackNerd’s Dustin, better known as @dustinc on LowEndTalk, recently announced that the popular AdminBolt x RackNerd giveaway has now been extended, with:

• 50 additional VPS instances, each FREE for one year
• 10 additional lifetime AdminBolt licenses

That brings the giveaway to a total of 150 free VPS instances (with 1-year free AdminBolt licensing), and 30 lifetime AdminBolt licenses – wow! More servers, more winners, and another opportunity to see what AdminBolt is all about! Sounds like a very good reason to join the party over on LowEndTalk too!

What Does a FREE VPS Look Like?

The additional 50 VPS prizes come with the same specs as the original giveaway:

• 3 vCPU cores
• 4 GB RAM
• 60 GB SSD storage
• 7 TB monthly transfer
• 1 Gbps network port
• 1 dedicated IPv4 address
• Full root access
• RackNerd ctrl with AdminBolt one-click installation

If you’ve been curious about trying AdminBolt, having a free VPS to run it on certainly makes getting started easier. Install the panel through RackNerd’s ctrl panel, give it a spin, and share your experience with the community. The AdminBolt team is participating in the thread too, so it’s a good place to bring your questions and feedback.

AdminBolt Is Listening, Too

One encouraging part of this giveaway has been seeing the AdminBolt team actively engaging with the LowEndTalk community. They’ve been participating in the discussion, answering questions, and showing a willingness to hear constructive feedback. For a panel working to earn the hosting community’s trust, that’s a promising start.

The timing certainly helps. With cPanel/WHM and Plesk announcing another round of price increases, following years of continuing to increase licensing costs, there’s plenty of appetite for alternatives. “Another year, another price hike” is getting pretty old for providers trying to keep hosting affordable.

Security deserves attention as well. Both cPanel/WHM and Plesk have disclosed serious vulnerabilities this year, reminding administrators that an established name and a growing licensing bill don’t eliminate security concerns.

More competition and more choices are welcome here. Seeing a team show up, listen to users, and engage directly with the people trying its software gives us another reason to keep an eye on AdminBolt. This giveaway gives you a chance to try it yourself and help shape the conversation.

A Few Extra Surprises, Too…

Throughout the thread, Dustin has also been surprising community members with random $20 RackNerd account credit giveaways. Could there be more? We wouldn’t rule it out!

If you missed the first 100 VPS giveaways, here’s another chance. Read the opening post for the full details, watch for @dustinc’s latest posts on the LET thread, and follow the instructions for each round.

👉 Head over to the RackNerd & AdminBolt giveaway thread on LowEndTalk and join the fun!

raindog308

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.