LES CyberMonday perfect idling box
LES didn't have a special event for Black Friday, and I thought it's a shame that we are not having some fun, so I am proposing that as a community, we do something fun for CyberMonday!
Everyone is entitled to design their perfect idling boxes that he wishes to buy during CyberMonday. List the specs and what price you are willing to pay for each box (bonus: give it a fun name).
Providers can look at the list and decide if they want to grant the wish. It's a win-win for everybody: customers get a shot at customising what they really want and providers can meet that need with a surprise offer on CyberMonday!
If you think this is a fun idea, just post the write-up of your dream idling box!
Note: Don't be too greedy! If you want it to happen, make sure that you ask for something that the providers can reasonably deliver. 
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1vCPU (25%)
512MB RAM
10GB SSD
1TB bandwidth
KVM
1 IPV4
Location: Switzerland/Italy/Netherlands
$12 annual
Post the specs! Here's a sample:
1vCPU (15%)
256MB RAM
5GB SSD
0.3TB bandwidth
KVM/OpenVZ
Location: Switzerland
$12 annual
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The dentist wish
64GB RAM ECC4
2TB NVMe
Dedicated server
Location Germany
70€ monthly+ Free setup
1Gb
Dentistry is my passion
Baby Devil's CyberMonday
1vCPU (fair share)
666MB RAM
6666MB storage
666GB monthly bandwidth
6.66€ annually
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What's that phrase, "the devil makes work for idle VMs"
root@notty
2vcpu (20%), NVme, gigabit link, say 2 ram and a newish ubuntu image
Big fan of boxes that I can rebuild fast more than idle tbh.
(That def totally doesn't have anything to do with my go to troubleshooting strategy being nuke it from orbit)
1vCPU (AES-NI Enabled)
512MB RAM
10GB NVME
30TB bandwidth or 100Mbps unmetered
KVM
Location: any region in usa
Price: 2.50 USD monthly
Name: DataChurner
Dedicated
4 or more cores
8GB RAM
250 GB storage - HDD is OK
/29 IP
Location: East USA or Europe
$15 USD monthly
"Classic CM" or "Proxmox Pusher"
lowendinfo.com had no interest.
Wow, this is a really interesting idea! Let's design some fancy box
1vCPU
64MB RAM
1GB SSD or NVME
10TB bandwidth or 100Mbps unmetered
KVM
1 ipv4 + /64 ipv6
$2 - $5 annually (the lower the better
Name: Homunculus
If ipv4 is too hard under such budget, plz try nat ipv4 + /64 ipv6
some explain from wikipedia:
Here's mine:
EU Region
1-2vCPU
2GB RAM
100-200GB HDD
1TB Bandwidth
1IPV4
Price: Gimme some sexy annual deal.
Name: The old standard
DOS = HIGH?!?
I knew it was on something!
Take an old server box, stuff in 10TB+ of plain spinning disks, hook it up to a gigabit line, then give me a call.
The Inception Hosting €15/y box is a good choice.
https://inceptionhosting.com/limited-offers.html
I'm aiming for two different things. One is a failover server where I can easily spin up containers (so idle most of the time), and the other is a light-weight front-end for heavy DBs.
1vCPU (not that important)
4GB RAM
15GB HDD (SSD not so important)
500GB bandwidth
KVM
Location: flexible
$30/yr or €30/yr-ish type of range
1vCPU (not that important)
512MB RAM
5GB SSD (HDD probably OK too)
250GB bandwidth (less probably OK, more interested in good speed to the back-end)
KVM/OpenVZ
Location: NL/DE + UK + Dallas + Los Angeles
$5-10/yr range depending if KVM or OpenVZ.
(In fact, if Alpha VPS re-stock their €5/yr special I'd take that for DE + UK, although I'd rather pay a little extra and get KVM.)
Let's be honest. Any box is an ideal idling box.
This would have been it.
Oops. Talking of idling, I was given a free idler for a month last Cyber Monday as a joke.
I just logged into it. Still there...
Yeah this. Nothing short of 6 cores and preferably 4GB ram and more
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
1vCPU (AES enabled)
512MB RAM
10GB SSD
1TB bandwidth
KVM (ovz7 ok if tun/tap AND wireguard enabled)
1 IPV6 minimum
BGP default route peering (ipv6 only)
Location: Canada
Name: Maple-devil
The all seeing eye sees everything...
2/4/vCPU (50%)
4-8G RAM
40-60GB SSD
0.5+TB bandwidth
KVM/OpenVZ7
1 IPv4
Location: JP/US-LA
$30-40 annual
NickName: papajohns
An idle brain VM is the workshop of a lazy devil
I’m actually still looking for an NVMe VPS to idle the sh*t out of.
Somewhere in the range of 2 cores, 20GB storage, 2GB RAM. Preferably in NL/UK/FR. My real cyber Monday wish.
Why not
"I'll be back"
or
(better still)
"Hasta La Vista, Baby" ??
Goes well with the name, no?
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LEASTER-2017
64MB RAM
5G HDD
1xIPv4
$0/mo
(Thanks Virmach)
My pronouns are asshole/asshole/asshole. I will give you the same courtesy.
Pardon me sir but do you have a moment to hear about @liteserver ...?
May be a bit pricey for idling (discounted to €6/m for BF/CM) with 8 TB monthly traffic ...
Let's call it the LS NL NomNomNom PremIdler
Aka NVME-2G
And might also keep an eye on HostDoc and Inception for possible deals in the UK
Happy hunting!
HS4LIFE (+ (* 3 4) (* 5 6))
Well, in the latest Dark Fate, it is "I won't be back":(
The good doctor @HostDoc prescribed just what I needed. Now to find out what will get Doubled Up....
------------------------------------------------- nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh benchmark timestamp: 2019-12-02 12:31:16 UTC ------------------------------------------------- Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2136 CPU @ 3.30GHz CPU cores: 2 Frequency: 3311.958 MHz RAM: 1.9G Swap: 1.0G Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64 Disks: vda 15G HDD CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB 2.212 seconds CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB 3.756 seconds CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB 0.693 seconds ioping: seek rate min/avg/max/mdev = 54.0 us / 140.5 us / 4.67 ms / 86.7 us ioping: sequential read speed generated 25.1 k requests in 5.00 s, 6.12 GiB, 5.01 k iops, 1.22 GiB/s dd: sequential write speed 1st run: 1525.88 MiB/s 2nd run: 1335.14 MiB/s 3rd run: 1335.14 MiB/s average: 1398.72 MiB/s IPv4 speedtests your IPv4: 51.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx Cachefly CDN: 77.40 MiB/s Leaseweb (NL): 228.15 MiB/s Softlayer DAL (US): 17.41 MiB/s Online.net (FR): 279.67 MiB/s OVH BHS (CA): 29.51 MiB/s No IPv6 connectivity detected -------------------------------------------------Edit: and of course it's over 9000
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14990125
Doubled up to 4 gigs of RAM. Was secretly hoping for double storage, but quite happy with this too!
@cam's $1/yr NAT is my choice now
or VirMach's also $1/yr (couldn't get this one though)
Likewise @cam 's
Planning to put one a one page site screaming, "hey look I'm running on a $1 /yr VPS"
Nah too much work. Will let it idle
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the avoro special, 2 dedi vcore, 6GB ram. >2GBPS inbound.
excluding VAT and 10% discount code works out to be EUR 2,64 / mth.
They outdid themselves (4 eur last year on xmas)
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14992057
decent so far, noice
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.