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Every order link on the 2021 post points at hello.cloudcone.com or app.cloudcone.com paths that 404.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"not applicable; no offer is reachable at this URL","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Both the landing URL and the app path were read today, and both are quoted.","evidence":[{"url":"https://cloudcone.com/black-friday/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"redirects (x-web-final-url) to '/black-friday-2021-cloudcone-buyers-guide-hourly-plans-insane-discounts-vps-scalable-clouds-scalable-dedicated-servers-and-so-much-more/'; the page is dated 'November 24, 2021' and reads 'Black Friday 2021 is coming up!'"},{"url":"https://app.cloudcone.com/blackfriday","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"HTTP 200 with a 7,168-byte body titled 'Stack Error - 404 Not found! - CLOUDCONE'; the hourly-deals page the 2021 post links is gone"},{"url":"https://hello.cloudcone.com/welcome-to-the-black-friday-mega-sale-2021/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"HTTP 404"},{"url":"https://cloudcone.com/vps/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the live product page sells from '$2.33 /MO Billed $28 per year', so CloudCone trades but no seasonal price is offered"},{"url":"https://app.cloudcone.com/blackfriday","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"HTTP 200 with a 7,168-byte body titled 'Stack Error - 404 Not found! — CLOUDCONE'; the hourly-deals page the 2021 post links is gone"}],"verdict":"dead","verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:20:13.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"A fossil with no cart at all. /black-friday/ is a 2021 buyer's guide, and the two destinations it promotes - the hourly deals page at app.cloudcone.com/blackfriday and the welcome page at hello.cloudcone.com - are a 404 served with HTTP 200 and a plain 404 respectively. Note the HTTP 200 trap: app.cloudcone.com/blackfriday answers 200 and the bytes are a 404 page. The current VPS price is USD 28 a year, so a 2021 seasonal price would have been worth finding; it is not there.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"disk_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"none","term":"none","m10h_usd":null,"m24h_usd":null,"price_arithmetic":"no live price on this URL","free_tier_kind":"none","network_out":{"allow_outbound":null,"allow_inbound_listen":null,"ports":null,"static_ip":null,"ipv6":null,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":null,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"not applicable"},"sale_page_year":"2021"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"]],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/cloudcone","other":"compute/cloudcone-black-friday","field":"verdict","a":"qualifies-with-caveat","b":"dead","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/cloudcone","other":"compute/cloudcone-black-friday","field":"identity_kind","a":"institution","b":"card","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/cloudcone-black-friday","other":"compute/cloudcone-ssd-vps-1","field":"verdict","a":"dead","b":"qualifies","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/cloudcone-black-friday","other":"compute/cloudcone-ssd-vps-2","field":"verdict","a":"dead","b":"qualifies","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/cloudcone-black-friday","other":"compute/cloudcone-windows","field":"verdict","a":"dead","b":"paid-only","detail":null}]}