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The same vendor's earlier sale listed an Intel Xeon E3-1240 with 16 GB, a 1 TB SSD, 10 TB of bandwidth, a 1 Gbps port and a /30 IPv4 at USD 178.08 a year, which is USD 14.84 a month, and a Xeon E3-1270v6 with 64 GB and a 1 TB SSD at USD 49.88 a month.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.colocrossing.com/","read_on":"2026-08-07","notes":"kind not stated"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.colocrossing.com/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.colocrossing.com/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"'dedicated servers starting at just $25/month! And that's with 32GB of RAM, 1TB of disk, and 40TB of bandwidth', in Los Angeles or Buffalo, AMD or Intel; the post also states 'ColoCrossing is a HostPapa brand'","metered":true,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://lowendbox.com/blog/colocrossings-dedicated-server-sale-features-systems-as-low-as-25-month-los-angeles-and-buffalo/"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"32 GB and 40 TB of transfer for USD 25 is the cheapest published 32 GB shape, and it composes with a cheap VPS as the front end because the port is only 1 Gbps.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"40 TB a month on a 1 Gbps port is the first published limit that a serving workload would reach; the port alone would move about 320 TB a month at line rate.","source":"https://www.colocrossing.com/"}],"limits_note":"40 TB a month on a 1 Gbps port is the first published limit that a serving workload would reach; the port alone would move about 320 TB a month at line rate.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"40 TB a month on a 1 Gbps port is the first published limit that a serving workload would reach; the port alone would move about 320 TB a month at line rate.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.colocrossing.com/dedicated-servers/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the URL redirects to a blog article headed 'Dedicated Servers for the FinTech and AdTech Industry' with no price table, so no vendor price could be read directly"},{"url":"https://lowendbox.com/blog/colocrossings-dedicated-server-sale-features-systems-as-low-as-25-month-los-angeles-and-buffalo/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'dedicated servers starting at just $25/month! And that's with 32GB of RAM, 1TB of disk, and 40TB of bandwidth', in Los Angeles or Buffalo, AMD or Intel; the post also states 'ColoCrossing is a HostPapa brand' [re-read 2026-10-22]"},{"url":"https://lowendbox.com/blog/black-friday-colocrossing-obliterates-previous-price-points-annual-dedicated-servers-under-15-month-plus-cheap-vps-offers/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Intel Xeon E3-1240 - 16GB RAM - 1TB SSD Storage - 10TB Bandwidth - 1Gbps Port - /30 IPv4 - Location: Buffalo - $178.08/year' and 'Intel Xeon E3-1270v6 - 64GB RAM - 1TB SSD - 40TB Bandwidth - 1Gbps Port - $49.88/month' [re-read 2026-10-22]"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"New record: no colocrossing file exists in dossier/compute. The rung is `reported` because the vendor's own dedicated page is a marketing article with no price table and the only dated numbers come from LowEndBox, which is a third-party deals site quoting the vendor's sale. The CPU model of the USD 25 machine is not stated anywhere I could read, so it is null: a reader who needs the generation should assume nothing. The annual figure of USD 14.84 a month is a 2024 sale and is recorded to show the shape of this vendor's discounting, not as a current price. ColoCrossing being a HostPapa brand is the reliability fact that matters in a lane where the usual failure is an operator that disappears.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"floor-price","free_tier_kind":null,"shape":{"cpu":null,"vcpu":null,"threads":null,"ram_gib":32,"disk":"1 TB","bandwidth_mbit":1000,"traffic":"40 TB a month","price_usd_month":25,"setup_fee_usd":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":32,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":40,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/colocrossing","other":"compute/colocrossing-cyber-monday","field":"verdict","a":"paid-only","b":"dead","detail":null}]}