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Card hold not stated: unverified rather than none.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"twenty 8 GB SKUs were enumerated with their prices, shapes and stock counters from the vendor's own specials page today; every one reads 0 available and the product page returns an explicit Out of Stock body.","evidence":[{"url":"https://cloud.colocrossing.com/index.php?rp=/store/specials","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the Singles Day card: 'Singles Day 8GB RAM Special / Starting from $44.44 USD / Annually / 4 vCPU / 8GB RAM / 165GB SSD Space / 1 x IPv4 / 40TB Bandwidth / 1Gbps Port Speed' followed by '0 Available'"},{"url":"https://cloud.colocrossing.com/index.php?rp=/store/specials","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the Spring Special card: '8GB RAM Spring Special / Starting from $55.00 USD / Annually / 4 vCPU / 8GB RAM / 165GB SSD Space / 20TB Bandwidth', followed by '0 Available'"},{"url":"https://cloud.colocrossing.com/index.php?rp=/store/specials/8gb-ram-spring-special","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the product page body: 'Oops, there's a problem... ## Out of Stock. We are currently out of stock on this item so orders for it have been suspended until more stock is available.'"},{"url":"https://cloud.colocrossing.com/aff.php?aff=132&pid=116","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the affiliate link for pid 116 redirects to /index.php?rp=/store/specials/singles-day-8gb-ram-special and renders the same 'Out of Stock' body, so the pid the forum thread cites is also closed"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:30:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"NEW PROVIDER, and the clearest dead end of the session. A LowEndTalk thread cites USD 44.44 a year for 8 GB / 4 vCPU / 80 GB / 40 TB, which would be USD 3.70 a month. The vendor's own specials page carries twenty 8 GB SKUs at USD 39.99 to USD 75.00 a year, including three at USD 39.99 (USD 3.33 a month) and four at USD 44.44. Every single one reads '0 Available', and a product page returns an explicit 'Out of Stock ... orders for it have been suspended until more stock is available'. So the prices are real, published and unusable. I enumerated all 93 plans in the specials store and not one has a non-zero stock counter, which is either a store-wide sellout or a template default; the product page's explicit Out of Stock body is what settles it, and I relied on that rather than on the counters alone. VERDICT: 'paid-only' rather than a qualification, because a row that cannot be bought is not an offer — the DediRock lesson applied one step further. Worst case exposure is moot while nothing can be bought. Worth re-checking: these are restocked periodically, and the shapes are the best in the band if they return.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":4,"ram_gib":8,"disk_gib":165,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"annual prepay on the 8 GB specials; monthly on the older ones","term":"12 months on the USD 39.99 and USD 44.44 SKUs","m10h_usd":3.33,"m24h_usd":3.33,"price_arithmetic":"USD 39.99 a year / 12 = USD 3.3325 a month, the cheapest 8 GiB price found in the band. USD 44.44 a year / 12 = USD 3.70. USD 55.00 a year / 12 = USD 4.58. It is a VPS on annual prepay, so no 730-hour multiplication. No conversion needed: the page prices in USD.","out_of_pocket_usd":39.99,"signup_url":"https://cloud.colocrossing.com/index.php?rp=/store/specials","cart_url":"https://cloud.colocrossing.com/index.php?rp=/store/specials/8gb-ram-spring-special","renewal_usd":"not published","renewal_note":"not published: the specials cards price 'Annually' with no renewal sentence. Whether the annual recurs at the same price is unstated.","promo":false,"worst_case_exposure_x":null,"worst_case_note":"not computable: no renewal is published and no SKU can be bought, so there is no exposure to price, only the absence of stock.","port_mbps":1000,"ipv4_included":true,"ipv6":"not stated on the card","payment_methods":"not read: every 8 GB product page returns the Out of Stock body before a payment step. unverified","stock":"out of stock: every 8 GB SKU reads '0 Available' and the product page body reads 'Out of Stock ... orders for it have been suspended'. 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