Every year, once the dust settles from the Black Friday on LowEndBox and LowEndTalk, a familiar question starts circulating around the community:

So… what did you get?

Between the record-breaking views on our sister forum, LowEndTalk, countless flash deals, and enough F5 smashing to qualify as a cardio workout, 2025 was one of the busiest Black Friday seasons the LowEnd world has ever seen. And as always, the real fun is hearing what everyone actually walked away with: the cheap annual VPS, the plot-twist dedicated server, the impulse buys, the “I don’t need this but it was too cheap” commitments… all of it.

But deals weren’t the only thing flying around this season. Giveaways were everywhere too!

RackNerd’s Thanksgiving Giveaway: A Wild Start to the Season

Before Black Friday even hit, RackNerd kicked things off in November with a surprisingly large Thanksgiving giveaway right here on LowEndBox. If you missed it, here’s a recap of what they gave away:

• 1x Nintendo Switch 2 System
• 1x Alienware 27″ Gaming Monitor (AW2725DM)
• 1x Logitech G29 Driving Force Racing Wheel + Pedals
• 2x Logitech Brio 4K Webcams
• 5x $100 RackNerd Account Credits

If you’re thinking “that’s more like a Christmas giveaway than Thanksgiving”… yeah. Exactly.

And Now: The December Holiday Giveaway Is Live

As of the time I’m writing this post, RackNerd is running another giveaway on LowEndBox for December, and this one is just as loaded:

• 1x MSI GF63 Thin Gaming Laptop (15.6”, Intel i5-11400H, RTX 3050, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe)
• 1x ASTRO A50 Wireless Headset + Base Station
  
• 2x Seagate Portable 5TB External HDDs
• 10x RackNerd-branded SwissGear Backpacks
• 10x RackNerd Sweaters

You can join that one here right now:

👉 https://lowendbox.com/blog/racknerd-december-2025/

Meanwhile on LowEndTalk… the Party Isn’t Over

If you thought the giveaways stopped there, not quite.

RackNerd’s thread on our sister site, LowEndTalk, is still active and loaded with additional giveaways, updates, and the usual flood of comments:
👉https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/211640/trending-now-racknerd-s-black-friday-new-deals-new-locations-new-hardware-100-s-of-giveaways

It wouldn’t be Black Friday season on LET without at least one thread that manages to hit both “community hub” and “continuous scroll anxiety” at the same time.

Your Turn! What Did You Score?

Now that the smoke is clearing and we’ve all had some time to reflect back on things, we want to hear from you:

• What VPS or dedi did you grab?
• Did you stack a plan you didn’t need… but justified anyway?
• Did you win something from the giveaways?
• Did you go in thinking “I won’t buy anything this year” and then completely lose that battle?

Drop it in the comments below 🙂

I grabbed a nice PulsedMedia seedbox, expanded my LowEnd empire with some RackNerd VMs, and picked up a DediRock $6.85/year deal.

Half the fun of Black Friday is the deals… the other half is seeing what everyone else managed to snag.

And if you didn’t win anything yet? Then the good news is that December isn’t over. There are still giveaways running.

And knowing this community… more surprises may land before the year wraps. The best way to ensure you don’t miss out, is to keep an eye on both LowEndBox, and our sister site LowEndTalk.

Let’s hear your hauls!

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.