Black Friday 2025 deals — what did you actually buy?

svendeal · 2025-11-28T02:17:50+00:00

Black Friday 2025 HAUL THREAD Ok so I actually tracked everything this year, spreadsheet and all SNAPPED UP: [list] []Contabo 1GB KVM yearly: [b]€4/MO ARE YOU KIDDING[/b] (was €22 last BF) []OVHcloud...

quinnbizz

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From:: Wellington, NZ

9mo ago · edited

#11

IMO the Contabo €4/mo is the standout here. YMMV but I've had three boxes with them since 2022 and only one unplanned reboot.

The Hetzner 3yr deal... take it with a grain of salt. Their 2023 BF boxes had network issues for months. Might be fixed now, might not.

On OVHcloud: their IPv6 setup is clean, no complaints.

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zoekyo

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Less Is More

Joined:: May 2024
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From:: Kyoto, JP

9mo ago · edited

#12

Less moving parts wins
Bought nothing

Still running my 2021 yearly box

rm -rf / --no-preserve-root ☯

armstrongvds

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ARM Enjoyer

Joined:: Jun 2024
Posts:: 199
From:: Seoul, KR

9mo ago

#13

Ampere Altra from Vultr!! $22/yr for 2GB ARM, insane value!!

Geekbench 6 single: 1280, multi: 3840. Runs circles around my old Hetzner Xeon that scores 680 single

Also grabbed GreenCloudVPS ARM 1GB for $10/yr as backup

one small ping for man...

lucgone

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Le Baguette

Joined:: Jul 2024
Posts:: 296
From:: Lyon, FR

8mo ago

#14

I have make a mistake lol

Since 2 days I try to buy OVHcloud deal but my card is declined, I think it is possible to do that with paypal? I send ticket but no answer mdr

I grab instead RackNerd 2GB for $14/yr, very good deal

In France we have no such price, is crazy

Vive la résistance... électrique

garykwh

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Inference on a Budget

Joined:: Jun 2024
Posts:: 173
From:: San Jose, US

8mo ago

#15

Ngl none of these have enough VRAM for anything useful lol

I grabbed a Hetzner "GPU" KVM with 4GB shared vRAM for €28/yr just to test. Can run llama.cpp with q4_0 on 7B at like 8 tok/s. Not great, not terrible.

Actual inference box I use is a dedi with RTX 3060 from some German host, not BF deal tho

CUDA cores are my love language

tallinnying

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Night Shift

Joined:: Aug 2024
Posts:: 268
From:: Tallinn, EE

8mo ago

#16

Anyway at 3am I wrote a script to compare all these deals by $/gb ram/year and now I have a ranking

Contabo 512mb: €12/gb/yr
drift 1gb: €9/gb/yr
OVHcloud 1gb: €10/gb/yr
InterServer dedi 4gb: $11.25/gb/yr

Idk why I do this. Gonna sleep now

https://contabo.com/en/vps/

builds at 3AM, sleeps at noon

RAJ

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Joined:: Jul 2024
Posts:: 294
From:: Mumbai, IN

8mo ago · edited

#17

Guys anyone got leads on panels? WHMCS license killing my margins, recieved quote for $18/mo and their "BF deal" is €15/mo lol

Grabbed 5x Contabo 1GB at €4/mo, gonna resell to my web design clients. Very thank you for deals

Also Vultr any reseller program? DMed you

your margin is my opportunity

Bruno22

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From:: São Paulo, BR

8mo ago · edited

#18

We make a test with InterServer and is very good.

My haul:

InterServer 2GB: $14/yr
Vultr 1GB: $3/mo
Hostinger domain.com: $2/mo

Total is like R$170 reais, very cheap for Brazil!

Next year I come more prepared, this forum is amazing

ping so high I wave back

prague1983

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btw I use Arch

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Posts:: 311
From:: Prague, CZ

8mo ago

#19

RAJ said:

WHMCS license killing my margins

Have you looked at FOSSBilling or BoxBilling paid $0 and my margins are THRIVING

Also grabbed that Contabo deal after seeing your post, running pihole + unbound on it already, 12ms average response time, not bad at ALL for $12/yr

oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

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DudeKlx

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Posts:: 27
From:: Dublin, Ireland

8mo ago

2 #20

Bruno22 said:

Next year I come more prepared

You go go next year gan, I am coming also to this thread now to share my own

Bought nothing o, my 2023 GreenCloudVPS box still they run fine, is it

Maybe I go go check the RackNerd deal before e finish — https://www.racknerd.com

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