Top 10 Reasons Black Friday on LowEndBox is Better Than Black Friday at Wal-mart
Nov 08, 2021 @ 12:00 am
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10. If nature calls while you wait, it’s not a Wal-mart bathroom answering.
9. No awkward discussions about politics, Martians, or the lizard men that secretly run everything at 1am with strangers standing in line next to you.
8. You can stay seated the whole time. Heck, you can even lay down. Naked, if you want.
7. No one ever caught COVID-19 from LowEndBox.
6. You can get a pizza delivered and eat it while shopping at LowEndBox.
5. No need to burn data. Go ahead, stream Netflix while you shop!
4. There’s weather and other icky stuff out there.
3. The warm holiday glow that is rekindled this special time of year won’t be blown up by some JERK in his mother-bleeping SUV who SELFISHLY took the last @#-^@!$! parking spot in the WHOLE DAMN PARKING LOT!!!1!!
2. You don’t need to mask up.
1. They don’t even sell VPSes at Wal-mart.

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.
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