$1,000 is a nice pile of dough, and you can do  a lot with it.

For example, if you shop at ServerHost, where you can get a 4GB VPS for only $33/year, that’s enough for 30 years of hosting!  Or get 30 VPSes for a year.

Or perhaps instead you are a bit more enterprising.  If you were to drop that $1,000 into a typical index fund inside a Roth IRA or your local equivalent when you’re 18, by the time you retire at 65, that’s $88,540.  That’s a nice little bonus when you hang up your spurs.

You could start a side hustle.  Build a home lab.  Get a guitar.  Take a trip.  Or give it to a worthy charity.

You can win that or other cool stuff in ServerHost‘s February giveaway.  Check out these prizes:

• 1x $1000 in cash!
• 1x iPad Mini!
• 3x LowEndTalk T-shirts!  (Final design TBD)
• 5x $50 ServerHost account credits!

But First…the Deals

ServerHost is calling this Black Friday 2.0, because this is Black Friday pricing!

Boost Your Chances of Winning!

Be sure to come back every day to enter – that’s another 28 entries!

And starting today, you can use code MOOLAH for an additional 10 entries!

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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.