RackNerd
racknerd.com · 9 records in Compute, Egress and tunnels, Storage · JSON
Records 9
- ★ qualifiesRackNerd (1 GB KVM VPS Special)USD 1.83/month
Computeno free tieridentity emailcard?limit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03disagrees
- caveatRackNerd, 4 GB KVM VPS (annual special)USD 5/month
Computeno free tieridentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
- paidRackNerd (compute/racknerd)
Computeidentity email?card?evidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22disagrees
- paidRackNerd, 8 GB KVM VPS (annual special)USD 10/month
Computeidentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
- paidRackNerd (specials)USD 1.83/month
Computeidentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
- paidRackNerd (1 GB KVM VPS)USD 0.6108/TB-month
Egress and tunnelsidentity email?card?limit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
- fails: quotaracknerd (Storage)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- deadRackNerd (black friday 2025)
Computeidentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
- deadracknerd — as a storage provider
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedchecked 2026-10-21disagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays email, compute/racknerd-4gb says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays email, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays email, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays email, compute/racknerd-specials says card - verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-1gb-special says qualifies - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says paid-only - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-specials says paid-only - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-4gb says qualifies-with-caveat
- Free allowance
- No free tier; the smallest plan on the specials page is USD 21.99 a year for 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD and 3000 GB a month
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- USD 1.83/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- emailcard unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quota3000 GB a month of transfer, then the port is shaped
- Evidence
- documented9 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | no free tier; the smallest plan on the specials page is USD 21.99 a year for 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD and 3000 GB a month unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | volume-quota 3 TB a month is generous for the shape, so the 20 GB disk is what a real workload meets first; there is no published overage price, only a shape. |
| Identity | email no payment field is on it. Whether a phone number is required is unverified: a phone input is on the form but carries no required attribute and its label is hidden, while the name and address fields carry one. Whether the checkout then asks for a card is unverified, because the cart's own checkout page returns an empty cart. No country limit is stated: the billing-address country selector runs from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. |
| Egress | 3000 GB a month on a 1 Gbps port, stated on the plan card as '3000GB Monthly Premium Bandwidth' free allowance: 3000 GB a month |
| Retention | the disk persists while the annual plan is paid; the page read states no deletion policy for non-payment |
| Interface | ssh KVM guest with root access and one-click apps in the vendor's 'ctrl' panel. |
| Tooling | Any SSH client; KVM, so its own kernel. |
| Composes with | Not a Q2 machine at today's price, but it is the reference point the annual-prepay market is measured against: USD 21.99 a year for 1 GB with a real IPv4 and 3 TB a month. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | What that establishes is that the link prices the advertised plan; it does not establish what payment methods the next step asks for. The other four rungs were read the same way and each priced its own plan: pid=953 USD 35.99/yr, pid=954 USD 59.99/yr, pid=955 USD 89.99/yr, pid=956 USD 119.99/yr. |
| Evidence note | documented price, shape and the cart total were read from the vendor's own pages, including the rendered cart at cart.php?a=add&pid=952 which shows '1 GB KVM VPS Special' and '$21.99 USD Total Due Today' |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 9
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted: '1 GB KVM VPS $21.99/year - 1 vCPU Core - 20 GB SSD Storage - 1 GB RAM - 3 TB Monthly Transfer' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted: '2 GB KVM VPS $35.99/year ... 8 GB KVM VPS $119.99/year' - the page's whole ladder, none of it under USD 12 a year |
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted: 'Can I renew a RackNerd VPS special at the same rate? Yes. These RackNerd VPS specials are lifetime recurring. You can renew at the same rate for as long as you decide to keep the service.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted: '1 GB KVM VPS' with '1 GB RAM', '20 GB PURE SSD RAID-10 Storage', '3000GB Monthly Premium Bandwidth', '1Gbps Public Network Port' and '$21.99/YEAR' |
| 2026-10-24 | my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=952 | the cart redirects to cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0 and renders the product '1 GB KVM VPS Special' with '$21.99 USD Total Due Today', agreeing with the page price |
| 2026-11-02 | my.racknerd.com/register.php | the register form asks for an email address and carries no payment field |
| 2026-11-02 | my.racknerd.com/register.php | the name and address fields of the register form carry a required attribute, and the form has no payment field |
| 2026-11-02 | my.racknerd.com/register.php | the billing address has a country selector, which lists Afghanistan through Zimbabwe |
| 2026-11-02 | my.racknerd.com/register.php | the street address is a required field of the register form, which has no payment field |
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| shape | {"vcpu": 1,"ram_gib": 1,"disk_gib": 20,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
|---|---|
| billing model | annual prepay |
| term | 12 months |
| m24h usd | 1.83 |
| m10h usd | 1.83 |
| price arithmetic | USD 21.99 a year divided by 12 = USD 1.8325 a month, paid once as USD 21.99 out of pocket |
| renewal usd | 1.8325 |
| first payment usd | 21.99 |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| payment methods | not read |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none; it is a VPS"} |
| renewal note | the vendor's FAQ states the specials are 'lifetime recurring' and renew 'at the same rate', which is the vendor's claim about the renewal rather than a printed renewal invoice |
| renewal evidence | www.racknerd.com/specials/ FAQ 'Can I renew a RackNerd VPS special at the same rate?' |
| signup url | https://my.racknerd.com/register.php |
| cart url | https://my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=952 |
| cart works | yes |
| price on page | USD 21.99/yr |
| price in cart | USD 21.99 Total Due Today |
| stock | in stock: the cart rendered a configurator rather than a sold-out notice |
| free tier kind | none |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-4gb says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays email, compute/racknerd-4gb says card - verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-4gb says qualifies-with-caveat - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-4gb says qualifies-with-caveat - verdict:
compute/racknerd-4gbsays qualifies-with-caveat, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - verdict:
compute/racknerd-4gbsays qualifies-with-caveat, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says paid-only - verdict:
compute/racknerd-4gbsays qualifies-with-caveat, compute/racknerd-specials says paid-only
- Free allowance
- No free tier; the specials ladder starts at USD 21.99 a year for the 1 GB rung
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- USD 5/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota7 TB a month of transfer
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | no free tier; the specials ladder starts at USD 21.99 a year for the 1 GB rung unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
|
| Binding | volume-quota 7 TB is generous; the row fails on the shape and on being exactly at the line rather than under it. |
| Identity | card the store is a WHMCS cart; no ID document or company is stated on the specials page. Card hold not stated: unverified rather than none. |
| Egress | 7 TB a month on a '1Gbps Network Port', stated as '7 TB Monthly Transfer' free allowance: 7 TB |
| Retention | the disk persists while the plan is paid; annual prepay on the specials |
| Interface | ssh full root SSH, KVM, the vendor's 'ctrl' control panel |
| Tooling | any SSH client; ctrl panel; custom ISO on request by ticket |
| Composes with | a cheap second box for batch work, or the annual-prepaid fallback when the monthly hosts change price |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | CHANGED in verdict, not in number. USD 59.99 a year / 12 = USD 4.999, which is exactly USD 5.00 a month: on the line, not under it, so it does not qualify as a sub-USD-5 row however the rounding is done. And the shape is 4 GiB, half the beefy bar. The 8 GB rung exists on the same page at USD 119.99 a year (USD 10.00 a month), so RackNerd's 8 GiB option is twice the line. Worst case exposure is 1.0x because the annual special is the published rate. |
| Evidence note | documented shape and annual price quoted from the vendor's own specials page read; the order link carries pid 954. |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted: '4 GB KVM VPS $59.99/year', '3 vCPU Cores', '60 GB SSD Storage', '4 GB RAM', '7 TB Monthly Transfer', '1Gbps Network Port', '1 IPv4 Address' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted for the lower rungs: '2 GB KVM VPS $35.99/year' and '6 GB KVM VPS $89.99/year' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted: 'Can I renew a RackNerd VPS special at the same rate? Yes. These RackNerd VPS specials are lifetime recurring. You can renew at the same rate for as long as you decide to keep the service.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted from the 4 GB card: '4 GB KVM VPS / $59.99/year / 3 vCPU Cores / 60 GB SSD Storage / 4 GB RAM / 7 TB Monthly Transfer / 1Gbps Network Port / Full Root Access / 1 IPv4 Address / KVM/ctrl Panel' with 'Order now' pointing at cart.php?a=add&pid=954 |
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted from the 8 GB card for comparison: '8 GB KVM VPS / $119.99/year / 7 vCPU Cores / 150 GB SSD Storage / 8 GB RAM / 20 TB Monthly Transfer' |
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| shape | {"vcpu": 3,"ram_gib": 4,"disk_gib": 60,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
|---|---|
| billing model | annual prepay |
| term | 12 months |
| m10h usd | 5.0 |
| m24h usd | 5.0 |
| price arithmetic | USD 59.99 a year / 12 = USD 4.9992 a month, rounded USD 5.00. It is on the line rather than under it. One payment of USD 59.99. It is a VPS on annual prepay, so no 730-hour multiplication. |
| out of pocket usd | 59.99 |
| renewal usd | 5.0 |
| renewal note | the specials page prices 'per year' with no promo end date, so the annual is treated as the recurring rate; no renewal sentence is published either way. |
| promo | no |
| port mbps | 1000 |
| ipv4 included | yes |
| ipv6 | not stated on the specials card |
| free tier kind | none |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none; it is a VPS"} |
| renewal evidence | www.racknerd.com/specials/ FAQ 'Can I renew a RackNerd VPS special at the same rate?' |
| signup url | https://www.racknerd.com/specials/ |
| cart url | https://my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=954 |
| worst case exposure x | 1.0 |
| worst case note | 1.0x on the published rate. The row fails on shape and on being at the line, not on exposure. |
| payment methods | not read: the specials page links to a WHMCS cart which was not opened. unverified |
| stock | in stock: the specials page renders an active 'Order now' link with a pid for every rung and no sold-out flag. Read at https://www.racknerd.com/specials/ |
| vat | prices quoted in USD with no VAT line |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
RackNerd (compute/racknerd)
ComputeSibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-4gb says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-specials says card - verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-1gb-special says qualifies - verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-4gb says qualifies-with-caveat
- Free allowance
- 1 GB KVM VPS at USD 21.99/year: 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD, 3 TB monthly transfer on a 1 Gbps port, 1 IPv4, full root, KVM.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 1 GB KVM VPS at USD 21.99/year: 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD, 3 TB monthly transfer on a 1 Gbps port, 1 IPv4, full root, KVM. The 2 GB plan is USD 35.99/year with 2 vCPU, 35 GB SSD and 5 TB. The FAQ states 'These RackNerd VPS specials are lifetime recurring. You can renew at the same rate for as long as you decide to keep the service', quoted. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; kind not stated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Binding | none no binding constraint identified |
| Identity | email (placeholder) unverified: no page stating the signup requirement was read; the record's evidence covers the KVM plan ladder (USD 21.99/year for 1 GB, USD 35.99 for 2 GB, USD 119.99 for 8 GB), the lifetime-recurring renewal FAQ, the datacentre list and a 404 at a guessed storage path. Whether signup needs an email, a card, a phone number or an ID document, and whether any hold is taken, is not stated. |
| Egress | not stated |
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | not established |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | no open question recorded |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.racknerd.com/specials | 1 GB KVM VPS USD 21.99/year with 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD, 1 GB RAM, 3 TB monthly transfer, 1 Gbps port, quoted as a plan card |
| 2026-10-22 | www.racknerd.com/specials | 2 GB plan USD 35.99/year (2 vCPU, 35 GB SSD, 5 TB); 4 GB USD 59.99/year (3 vCPU, 60 GB, 7 TB) |
| 2026-10-22 | www.racknerd.com/specials | 'Can I renew a RackNerd VPS special at the same rate? Yes. These RackNerd VPS specials are lifetime recurring', quoted from the FAQ |
| 2026-10-22 | www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps | '512 MB RAM | 1 vCore | 30 GB RAID-10 SSD | 500 GB @ 1Gbps | 1 Free IP | USD 26.99 /year', quoted from the plan table |
| 2026-10-22 | www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps | 'All plans include instant setup and an intuitive control panel with KVM virtualization' and locations including Los Angeles, Amsterdam, France, Dublin and Toronto, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.racknerd.com/specials | five plans quoted, the largest being '8 GB KVM VPS', '$119.99/year', '150 GB SSD Storage', '8 GB RAM', '20 TB Monthly Transfer', '1Gbps Network Port' |
| 2026-10-22 | www.racknerd.com/ | 'VPS from $2.24/mo', 'Dedicated servers from $139/mo', '20 datacenter locations'; no storage product is listed among the services |
| 2026-10-22 | www.racknerd.com/storage-servers | the guessed storage path returns a LiteSpeed 404, so there is no storage-servers page at that name |
More fields 3
| facets | {"class": null,"free_tier_kind": null,"shape": null} |
|---|---|
| benchmark | [{"plan": "2.5 GB KVM VPS (Black Friday 2024), 2 vCPU / 2 GiB","cpu_model": "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz","dedicated_or_shared": "shared","gb6_single": 943,"gb6_multi": 1633,"gb5_single": null,"gb5_multi": null,"source_url": "https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/yabs/racknerd-2c-2gb-20260810-24caad","source_date": "2026-08-10","rung": "reported","note": "Xeon E5-2690 v4 at 2.60 GHz. The $1.83 is the 1 GB annual special, not this 2 core plan; the list price of the 2c/1G plan is $17.99. Per-dollar figures for this row are indicative only."}] |
| refund | none by default, "case-by-case"; credit is ineligible |
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
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays email, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says card - verdict:
compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-specialsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says paid-only - verdict:
compute/racknerd-4gbsays qualifies-with-caveat, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says paid-only
- Free allowance
- No free tier; the specials ladder starts at USD 21.99 a year for the 1 GB rung
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 10/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota20 TB a month of transfer
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | no free tier; the specials ladder starts at USD 21.99 a year for the 1 GB rung unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
|
| Binding | volume-quota 20 TB a month is generous; the thing that disqualifies the row is price, not traffic. |
| Identity | card the store is a WHMCS cart; no ID document or company is stated on the specials page. Card hold not stated: unverified rather than none. |
| Egress | 20 TB a month on a '1Gbps Network Port', stated as '20 TB Monthly Transfer' free allowance: 20 TB |
| Retention | the disk persists while the plan is paid; annual prepay on the specials |
| Interface | ssh KVM with full root SSH, 'ctrl' control panel, custom ISO installs on request |
| Tooling | any SSH client; ctrl panel |
| Composes with | 7 vCPU and 8 GiB with 20 TB of transfer, but at USD 10.00 a month it is twice the line |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | CHANGED: this row does not belong in the under-USD-5 band. The 8 GB special is USD 119.99 a year / 12 = USD 10.00 a month, twice the line. The 4 GB rung is USD 59.99 a year = USD 5.00 a month, exactly on the line and with half the memory, so it fails the beefy bar too. RackNerd's real value is at 1-2 GB, not here. Worst case exposure is 1.0x because the annual special is the published rate with no promo end date, but that is irrelevant at USD 10.00 a month. |
| Evidence note | documented shape and annual price quoted from the vendor's own specials page read; the order link carries a pid, so the SKU exists. |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted from the 8 GB card: '8 GB KVM VPS / $119.99/year / 7 vCPU Cores / 150 GB SSD Storage / 8 GB RAM / 20 TB Monthly Transfer / 1Gbps Network Port / Full Root Access / 1 IPv4 Address / KVM/ctrl Panel' with 'Order now' pointing at cart.php?a=add&pid=956 |
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted from the 4 GB card: '4 GB KVM VPS / $59.99/year / 3 vCPU Cores / 60 GB SSD Storage / 4 GB RAM / 7 TB Monthly Transfer', pid 954 |
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps | the standard (non-special) ladder prices the same 8 GB shape at '$36.59 /month' with 6 vCPU and 220 GB, so the special is a 3.7x discount on the list |
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| shape | {"vcpu": 7,"ram_gib": 8,"disk_gib": 150,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
|---|---|
| billing model | annual prepay |
| term | 12 months |
| m10h usd | 10.0 |
| m24h usd | 10.0 |
| price arithmetic | USD 119.99 a year / 12 = USD 9.999, rounded USD 10.00 a month; one payment of USD 119.99. It is a VPS on annual prepay, so no 730-hour multiplication. The 4 GB rung is USD 59.99 / 12 = USD 5.00, exactly on the line. |
| out of pocket usd | 119.99 |
| signup url | https://www.racknerd.com/specials/ |
| cart url | https://my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=956 |
| renewal usd | 10.0 |
| renewal note | the specials page prices 'per year' with no promo end date, so the annual is treated as the recurring rate; no renewal sentence is published either way. |
| promo | no |
| worst case exposure x | 1.0 |
| worst case note | 1.0x on the published rate. The row fails on price, not on exposure. |
| port mbps | 1000 |
| ipv4 included | yes |
| ipv6 | not stated on the specials card |
| payment methods | not read: the specials page links to a WHMCS cart which was not opened. unverified |
| stock | in stock: the specials page renders an active 'Order now' link with a pid for every rung and no sold-out flag. Read at https://www.racknerd.com/specials/ |
| free tier kind | none |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none; it is a VPS"} |
| vat | prices quoted in USD with no VAT line |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
RackNerd (specials)
ComputeSibling records disagree:
- verdict:
compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025says dead, compute/racknerd-specials says paid-only - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-specials says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays email, compute/racknerd-specials says card - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-specials says paid-only - verdict:
compute/racknerd-4gbsays qualifies-with-caveat, compute/racknerd-specials says paid-only
- Free allowance
- No free tier; the smallest current special is USD 21.99 a year
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 1.83/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota3 TB a month of transfer on the 1 GB tier
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | no free tier; the smallest current special is USD 21.99 a year unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
|
| Binding | volume-quota Price, not capacity: the cart sells, but at USD 21.99 a year rather than the USD 10.60 the Black Friday store still advertises. |
| Identity | card card or PayPal at signup; no hold stated on the order form |
| Egress | 3 TB a month on the 1 GB tier, 5 TB on 2 GB, 7 TB on 4 GB, stated as Monthly Transfer free allowance: 3 TB |
| Retention | the disk persists while the annual plan is paid; no deletion clock stated |
| Interface | ssh root SSH, KVM/ctrl panel, one IPv4 |
| Tooling | any SSH client; the ctrl panel |
| Composes with | This is RackNerd's live price, and it is roughly double the 2025 Black Friday price for the same shape; it is the baseline a stale BF page has to beat. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | This row exists to price the fossil: RackNerd's Black Friday store advertises USD 10.60 a year for a 1 GiB machine and sells nothing, while the live specials page sells a smaller 1 GiB machine (20 GB rather than 25 GB of disk, 3 TB rather than 2000 GB of transfer) at USD 21.99 a year. The arbitrage the operator is looking for does not exist here. The cart also offers a biennial term at USD 43.98, which is the same per-year rate. |
| Evidence note | documented Page and cart both read and they agree at USD 21.99 annually. This is a documented price for an orderable plan; no order was placed. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | quoted: '1 GB KVM VPS $21.99/year - 1 vCPU Core, 20 GB SSD Storage, 1 GB RAM, 3 TB Monthly Transfer'; larger tiers at $35.99, $59.99, $89.99 and $119.99 a year |
| 2026-10-24 | my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=952 | the cart renders '$21.99 USD Annually' and '$43.98 USD Biennially' for the same plan, so page and cart agree |
| 2026-10-24 | www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/ | redirects to /specials/ (x-web-final-url), so the Black Friday landing path now serves current pricing |
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| shape | {"vcpu": 1,"ram_gib": 1,"disk_gib": 20,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
|---|---|
| billing model | annual |
| term | annual or biennial prepay |
| m10h usd | 1.83 |
| m24h usd | 1.83 |
| price arithmetic | USD 21.99 a year divided by 12 is USD 1.8325 a month, paid once. Biennial: USD 43.98 over 24 months is USD 1.8325 a month. |
| renewal usd | not published |
| free tier kind | none |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none; it is a VPS"} |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
RackNerd (1 GB KVM VPS)
Egress and tunnels- Free allowance
- No free tier. The 1 GB KVM VPS special is USD 21.99 a year: 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD, 1 GB RAM, 3 TB monthly transfer, 1Gbps network port, 1 IPv4 address, full root, deployable in multiple locations.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 0.6108/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quota3 TB/month on the 1 GB plan
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | No free tier. The 1 GB KVM VPS special is USD 21.99 a year: 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD, 1 GB RAM, 3 TB monthly transfer, 1Gbps network port, 1 IPv4 address, full root, deployable in multiple locations. The ladder goes to USD 35.99 (2 GB, 5 TB), USD 59.99 (4 GB, 7 TB), USD 89.99 (6 GB, 12 TB) and USD 119.99 (8 GB, 20 TB) a year. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 21.99 per year with 3 TB/month included |
| Limits | |
| Binding | volume-quota 3 TB/month is the ceiling on the cheapest plan; a 1Gbps port can move that allowance in hours, so the allowance fails first. |
| Identity | email (placeholder) unverified: the registration page asks for personal information and a billing address, and the individual fields were not rendered; the page read lists no payment method. |
| Egress | 3 TB monthly transfer on a 1Gbps port on the 1 GB plan; 5 TB on 2 GB, 7 TB on 4 GB. No overage rate is published on the pages read. free allowance: 3 TB/month included in the 1 GB plan |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: a virtual server, not an object store |
| Retention | not applicable: a live server, not stored bytes |
| Interface | ssh KVM guest with full root; the ctrl panel gives reboot, reinstall, console, firewall and one-click apps. |
| Tooling | ssh; ctrl control panel with an optional inbound network firewall; any daemon the KVM guest supports. |
| Composes with | The inbound firewall in ctrl is optional, so a guest with the one IPv4 address can accept inbound UDP and TCP; up to 100 IPv6 addresses are available on request in Los Angeles and France. |
| Reliability | No reliability event recorded on the pages read. |
| Notes | The IPv6 offer is a ticket request after the order, not a plan line: up to 100 addresses in Los Angeles and France, with more locations promised. The inbound firewall is optional. |
| Evidence note | documented The price, the allowance, the one IPv4 address, the optional inbound firewall and the IPv6-on-request line are vendor sentences read on 2026-11-03. Identity fields are behind the sign-up form. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | racknerd.com/specials/ | 1 GB KVM VPS at USD 21.99 a year |
| 2026-11-03 | racknerd.com/specials/ | the 1 GB plan includes 3 TB monthly transfer |
| 2026-11-03 | racknerd.com/specials/ | the plan lists a 1Gbps network port |
| 2026-11-03 | racknerd.com/specials/ | the plan lists one IPv4 address |
| 2026-11-03 | lowendbox.com/blog/racknerds-fall-giveaway-has-started-win-a | third-party post of the same ladder, USD 21.99 a year for 1 GB |
| 2026-11-03 | www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps | up to 100 free IPv6 addresses are available on request in Los Angeles and France |
| 2026-11-03 | www.racknerd.com/ctrl-control-panel | the control panel includes an optional inbound network firewall |
| 2026-11-03 | my.racknerd.com/register.php | the registration page asks for personal information and a billing address; individual fields were not rendered |
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| nat | not stated; one IPv4 address listed |
|---|---|
| ipv6 | up to 100 free IPv6 addresses on request after ordering, Los Angeles and France only |
| inbound | optional inbound network firewall in ctrl; no default block stated |
| udp | not stated; a KVM guest with root |
racknerd (Storage)
StorageSibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/racknerdsays fails-quota, storage/racknerd-as-a-storage-provider says dead
- Free allowance
- On the named list, checked, and there is no storage VPS product.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | On the named list, checked, and there is no storage VPS product. The whole KVM line is RAID-10 SSD with 30-75 GB disks; the cheapest 20 GB plan is $21.99/yr. The only big-disk offering is a unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps | the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-21 | www.racknerd.com/specials/ | cited as the basis of the rejection: On the named list, checked, and there is no storage VPS product. The whole KVM line is RAID-10 SSD with 30-75 GB disks; the cheapest 20 GB plan is $21.99/yr. The only big-disk offering is a |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "On the named list, checked, and there is no storage VPS product. The whole KVM line is RAID-10 SSD with 30-75 GB disks; the cheapest 20 GB plan is $21.99/yr. The only big-disk offering is a","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
|---|
Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field
RackNerd (black friday 2025)
ComputeSibling records disagree:
- verdict:
compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025says dead, compute/racknerd-specials says paid-only - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays email, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says card - verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - verdict:
compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-specialsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - verdict:
compute/racknerd-4gbsays qualifies-with-caveat, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead
- Free allowance
- No free tier; the Black Friday 2025 store lists annual plans from USD 10.60, all at zero availability
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota2000 GB a month of premium bandwidth on the 1 GB tier
- Evidence
- documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- checked 2026-10-24checked 2026-10-24 (live)
| Free tier | no free tier; the Black Friday 2025 store lists annual plans from USD 10.60, all at zero availability unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
|
| Binding | volume-quota Availability. The store renders the Black Friday prices but every VPS and dedicated line reports zero available. |
| Identity | card card or PayPal at signup; the LowEndBox post of 2025-11-28 lists PayPal, credit cards, Alipay, 30+ cryptocurrencies via Coinify and UnionPay. No hold stated. |
| Egress | 2000 GB a month on the 1 GB tier, 3000 GB on 2.5 GB, 6500 GB on 4 GB, stated as Monthly Premium Bandwidth free allowance: 2000 GB |
| Retention | the disk persists while the annual plan is paid; no deletion clock stated |
| Interface | ssh root SSH, KVM/SolusVM control panel, one dedicated IPv4 |
| Tooling | any SSH client; SolusVM panel |
| Composes with | A USD 10.60 a year 1 GiB VPS would be the cheapest orderable machine, if any of the five VPS tiers had stock. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The store still renders the 2025 Black Friday prices, which makes it look buyable, and it is not: every VPS and dedicated line carries '0 Available' and the pids return Out of Stock. The 2024 event is gone entirely - /BlackFriday/ now redirects to /specials/ at current pricing, and the pids from the 2024 page (923-927 are 2025; the 2024 equivalents did not resolve) return Out of Stock. So RackNerd is a fossil on both counts, but an unusually legible one: the price is still printed next to the stock counter that denies it. Not verified: whether stock ever returns to these SKUs. |
| Evidence note | documented the Out of Stock notice was read at the product URL itself in a browser render on 2026-10-24, not inferred from a stock counter elsewhere in the store |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | my.racknerd.com/index.php?rp=/store/blackfriday2025 | quoted: '1 GB KVM VPS (Black Friday 2025) 0 Available ... JUST $10.60/YEAR - WOW!!'; the same '0 Available' precedes the 2.5 GB ($18.66), 4 GB ($29.98), 6 GB ($44.98) and 8 GB ($62.49) tiers and all five dedicated lines |
| 2026-10-24 | my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=923 | quoted: 'Out of Stock' - the pid behind the 1 GB Black Friday 2025 tier |
| 2026-10-24 | my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=924 | quoted: 'Out of Stock' - the 2.5 GB tier |
| 2026-10-24 | my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=925 | quoted: 'Out of Stock' - the 4 GB tier |
| 2026-10-24 | web.archive.org/web/20251128161916/https://www.racknerd.com/ | the 2025-11-28 Wayback capture of /BlackFriday/ carries pids 923-938 and the same USD 10.60 to USD 62.49 prices, which is what fixes this store as the 2025 event |
| 2026-10-24 | my.racknerd.com/index.php?rp=store/blackfriday2025/1-gb-kvm- | the product page renders 'Oops, there's a problem...' and 'Out of Stock — The plan you selected is out of stock and not available for ordering at this time.' |
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| shape | {"vcpu": 1,"ram_gib": 1,"disk_gib": 25,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
|---|---|
| billing model | annual |
| term | annual prepay |
| price arithmetic | USD 10.60 a year divided by 12 is USD 0.88 a month, paid once. Not recorded as a live price because the tier has zero stock. |
| free tier kind | none |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none; it is a VPS"} |
| sale page year | 2025 |
| order links tested | 8 |
| order links out of stock | 8 |
| stock | out of stock, confirmed at the product URL: my.racknerd.com/index.php?rp=store/blackfriday2025/1-gb-kvm-vps-black-friday-2025 renders 'Oops, there's a problem... Out of Stock — The plan you selected is out of stock and not available for ordering at this time.' |
| cart works | no |
| price in cart | none: the cart refuses the plan with an Out of Stock notice |
| price on page | USD 10.60/yr |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/racknerdsays fails-quota, storage/racknerd-as-a-storage-provider says dead
- Free allowance
- Universally recommended on NodeSeek for cheap compute ('RN 14刀 20T流量') but they have no storage-VPS product line: /storage-vps/ and /storage both 404, and the homepage sells 'KVM VPS, AI…
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- checked 2026-10-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited)
| Free tier | Universally recommended on NodeSeek for cheap compute ('RN 14刀 20T流量') but they have no storage-VPS product line: /storage-vps/ and /storage both 404, and the homepage sells 'KVM VPS, AI… unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.racknerd.com/storage-vps/ | the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-21 | www.racknerd.com/storage | cited as the basis of the rejection: Universally recommended on NodeSeek for cheap compute ('RN 14刀 20T流量') but they have no storage-VPS product line: /storage-vps/ and /storage both 404, and the homepage sells 'KVM VPS, AI VPS |
| 2026-10-21 | www.racknerd.com/ | cited as the basis of the rejection: Universally recommended on NodeSeek for cheap compute ('RN 14刀 20T流量') but they have no storage-VPS product line: /storage-vps/ and /storage both 404, and the homepage sells 'KVM VPS, AI VPS |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "dead-service","why": "Universally recommended on NodeSeek for cheap compute ('RN 14刀 20T流量') but they have no storage-VPS product line: /storage-vps/ and /storage both 404, and the homepage sells 'KVM VPS, AI…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
|---|
Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field