As announced previously, Low End Talk Host Reps now have opportunities to post offers here at Low End Box during our weekly Host Rep Roundup Rodeo, called “HR3” for short.

This is the second HR3! Yaaay!! 🤩

However, no LET Host Rep has as yet taken advantage of this new opportunity to advertise their great deals! 🤦‍♂️

Host Reps, if you want free advertising on next week’s Third Low End Box HR3, please PM your offers to me, @Not_Oles, before midnight UTC next Tuesday, March 29.

In order to use in some not too unreasonable way my time and this free advertising space — both previously allocated to our LET Host Reps — I’m gonna comment on a few ads already posted on LET by @ezeth, @Dedispec, and @Ian-Dot_Tech.

OpenVZ 9 from @ezeth at Boomer.host

After this was written I, @Not_Oles, was informed that this offer unfortunately is sold out! I decided to go ahead and publish the offer anyway because the offer illustrates in a most perfect way both how low a Low End price can be and how interesting and different Low End setups can be.

At the top when I checked today’s LET was a fun fifty cent deal from Boomer.host.

Wow! Fifty cents per month would be dirt cheap hosting! But this deal is fifty cents for three months!

Here’s a little about the deal in @ezeth’s own words:

While this VM isn’t suitable for production I thought you might want to give it a try anyway. It’s only 0.5 USD for 3 months of hosting. That should be plenty of time to try it out. It’s based on OpenVZ 9 that was released last month. RHEL 9 is in BETA.

More specifically:

1 CPU
15 GB SSD Storage
0.5 GB RAM
1500 GB Monthly Transfer
500Mbps Network Port
1 Dedicated IPv4
OVZ7 / Virtualizor Control Panel
Automatic weekly backups an offsite location
ONLY $0.5 for 3 months of hosting!

Here’s what I saw (in Revese Color courtesy of Chrome’s Accessibility extension) when I followed the Order Link:

As of 4:36 a.m. UTC, Wednesday, March 23, @ezeth posted

Now it’s totally out of stock, and won’t be restocked. In fact, all our services are out of stock. I’ve redirected the page and linked to our upstream provider.

When I inquired, @ezeth told me, “It was a very popular offer. When it was in stock it got 1-2 orders every minute.”

Welp, looks like this offer is no longer available! :)

But it also looks like a fun project that a lot of people got to try! OpenVZ with RHEL 9 for only fifty cents for three months!

I saw @radi in the thread having bought one just for the lulz. Hello also to @Jason5545, who said his VM seemed to be working.

It will be interesting to see what @ezeth comes up with next!

Dedispec

Another offer that caught my attention was dedicated servers from Dedispec.

These offers are valid through March 29 or while supplies last. I liked the least expensive offer, about the same as I @Not_Oles am paying to colo my beautiful Darkstar:

Dual Intel Xeon 5520/5630 Custom Server
CPU: 2.13Ghz (or faster) – 2 Processors (8 Cores / 16 Threads)
Memory: 48GB DDR3 ECC
Storage: 1x 240GB SSD or 2TB HDD
Bandwidth: 100Mbit Port: 10TB/Month (A few may randomly be on 1Gbit ports, this cannot be requested though)
IPs: 5 Usable IPv4 (Additional IPs available)
Location: West Virginia (USA)

$35/month – PROMO CODE: LETBJ43D

As of Tuesday afternoon, Dedispec said:

So as of now there are 3-5 more units that would be 1Gbit :)

Looks like a good server offer from Dedispec!

@Ian_Got_Tech of Level One Servers

Wow! I just saw that @Ian_Bot_Tech has opened his new location in Tampa, Florida!

The lowest priced offer is:

FL-DS-1
1x Intel Xeon E5-2670v3 12 core 24 threads
128GB DDR4 RAM
1x 1TB SSD Storage
1Gbps Uplink
IPv4 /29 (5 usable IPs) + IPv6 /64 Subnet
30TB Bandwidth
Tampa, FL Location
DDoS Protection Via Path.net
$84.99/month
Add second 1TB SSD for $10/month

There’s also a second offer:

FL-DS-2
1x Intel Xeon E5-2699v3 18 core 36 threads
128GB DDR4 RAM
1x 2TB SSD Storage
1Gbps Uplink
IPv4 /29 (5 usable IPs) + IPv6 /64 Subnet
30TB Bandwidth
Tampa, FL Location
DDoS Protection Via Path.net
$99.99/month
Add second 2TB SSD for $20/month

For anyone who doesn’t know, my @Not_Oles’ beautiful Darkstar is very well colocated by Level One Servers in their Dallas Location. I wish Ian all the best in his new Florida location. Congratulations on the expansion, Ian!

Conclusion

Congrats to Boomer Host, Dedispec, and Level One Servers on their interesting offers on Low End Talk! Congrats to all our Low End Talk Host Reps on their new opportunity for free advertising here at HR3!

— El caballero @Not_Oles :)

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It seems only a moment since the day, fifty years ago, when I stood in a doorway watching yard after yard of printed paper full of ascii art scrolling out of a Teletype 33 surrounded by a bunch of laughing guys!

My Low End Adventures started here at LowEndBox, when just a few years back, I found the perfect deal on a dedicated server from OVH!

These days I own my own gorgeous antique server named Darkstar. She is colocated in Dallas, Texas USA at LevelOneServers.com.

Besides writing for LowEndBox, helping as a moderator at LowEndTalk and running Darkstar, I'm trying to learn a little about programming and networking.

All these years, and, still, so much more to learn! So many people here who can teach me!

It's very, very fun here on the Low End, isn't it? :)

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