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- Free allowance
- A clearance list posted 2026-10-16 from an acquired fleet, billed monthly with no setup fee and a 1 Gbps unmetered fair-use port: a Dual Xeon Gold 6140 at 36 cores / 72 threads with 128 GB and a 480 GB SSD on a 10 Gbps port for USD 79.99; a Dual E5-2690 at 16 cores / 32 threads with 256 GB and 4...
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shaping'Unmetered' is qualified by fair use and the fine print says '1Gbps unmetered (fair use)' even on the 10 Gbps rows, so the port rate advertised and the rate enforced are not the same claim.
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-06checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
| Free tier | A clearance list posted 2026-10-16 from an acquired fleet, billed monthly with no setup fee and a 1 Gbps unmetered fair-use port: a Dual Xeon Gold 6140 at 36 cores / 72 threads with 128 GB and a 480 GB SSD on a 10 Gbps port for USD 79.99; a Dual E5-2690 at 16 cores / 32 threads with 256 GB and 4 x 300 GB SAS for USD 64.99; a Dual E5-2680 v2 at 20 cores / 40 threads with 128 GB, 16 x 600 GB SAS (9.6 TB raw) for USD 59.99; a Dual E5-2680 v2 with 128 GB and a 600 GB disk for USD 44.99; and a single E5-2450L at 8 cores with 32 GB for USD 29.99. Most configurations are limited to one or two units. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; kind not stated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-ip-shaping (binding) 'Unmetered' is qualified by fair use and the fine print says '1Gbps unmetered (fair use)' even on the 10 Gbps rows, so the port rate advertised and the rate enforced are not the same claim. source
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| Identity | card payment is by "Stripe/PayPal, standard fraud screening applies", so a card through Stripe or a PayPal balance is the rail, and the vendor's post names the processors only. The record does not state what the order form asks for, whether a card is required rather than PayPal, any hold or authorisation, whether debit or prepaid cards are accepted, or what the fraud screening checks |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | Seventy-two threads and a 10 Gbps port for USD 79.99 is USD 1.11 a thread-month, the lowest per-thread figure found, and it is the machine that makes a parallel compile or a bulk transfer finish without a cluster. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The battery of numbers also carries usual trap, since a 10 Gbps row and a 1 Gbps row are priced alike and the fine print describes every machine as 1 Gbps unmetered, so the port figure should be read as best case. The same post offers dedicated Mac minis at USD 109 for an M4 with 16 GB and USD 69 for a 2018 Intel with 32 GB. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/222165/big-ram-servers-raw-storage | 'Dual Xeon Gold 6140. 36c/72t. 128GB. 480GB SSD. 10Gbps. 1 IPv4 - $79.99' and 'Dual E5-2690. 16c/32t. 256GB. 4x 300GB SAS. 1Gbps. 1 IPv4 - $64.99' the post header prints the day and month without a year |
| 2026-10-22 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/222165/big-ram-servers-raw-storage | 'Dual E5-2680 v2. 20c/40t. 128GB. 16x 600GB SAS (9.6TB raw). 1Gbps. 1 IPv4 - $59.99' and 'Single E5-2450L. 8c. 32GB. 4x 600GB SAS. 1Gbps. 1 IPv4 - $29.99' the post header prints the day and month without a year |
| 2026-10-22 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/222165/big-ram-servers-raw-storage | 'All prices USD. billed monthly. bare-metal dedicated. 1Gbps unmetered (fair use). no setup fees. Test IP: 173.0.0.1. Phoenix, AZ' and 'Stripe/PayPal, standard fraud screening applies'; the operator describes itself as 'owner-operated out of Phoenix (Iron Mountain, Scottsdale, AZ)' the post header prints the day and month without a year |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "floor-price","free_tier_kind": null,"shape": {"cpu": "2x Intel Xeon Gold 6140","vcpu": 36,"threads": 72,"ram_gib": 128,"disk": "480 GB SSD","bandwidth_mbit": 10000,"traffic": "unmetered, fair use","price_usd_month": 79.99,"setup_fee_usd": 0,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field