RackNerd
racknerd.com · Compute, Storage · 8 records · JSON
- RackNerd Compute★ qualifiescard?cardDvolume-quotadisagrees
- RackNerd ComputecaveatcardcardDvolume-quotadisagrees
- RackNerd Computepaidemail?card?phoneDdisagrees
- RackNerd ComputepaidcardcardDvolume-quotadisagrees
- RackNerd ComputepaidcardcardDvolume-quotadisagrees
- racknerd Storagefails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
- RackNerd ComputedeadcardcardDvolume-quotadisagrees
- racknerd — as a storage provider Storagedeademail?card?Rdisagrees
RackNerd Compute
★ qualifiescard?cardDvolume-quotadisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-1gb-special says qualifies - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-1gb-special says card - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-4gb says qualifies-with-caveat - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says paid-only - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-specials says paid-only
| 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 |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | the disk persists while the annual plan is paid; the page read states no deletion policy for non-payment |
| 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 |
| Identity | card (placeholder) unverified: the order form was not entered. The cart was read to the configurator step, which is where a payment method would appear, and no card requirement, hold amount or accepted card type was stated on any page read today. Treat the card gate as unconfirmed rather than absent. |
| 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. |
| 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 | The cart was verified, not the checkout: cart.php?a=add&pid=952 is Cloudflare-walled to a plain curl (HTTP 403, 'Just a moment...') and the broker's default walk also fails on it, so it was read through a pinned rendering provider. 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 rung | documented price, shape and the cart total were read from the vendor's own pages today, 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' |
| Checked | 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24 |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence (5)
| 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 |
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"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",
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"stock": "in stock: the cart rendered a configurator rather than a sold-out notice",
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RackNerd Compute
caveatcardcardDvolume-quotadisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-4gb says qualifies-with-caveat - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-4gb says card - verdict:
compute/racknerd-1gb-specialsays qualifies, compute/racknerd-4gb says qualifies-with-caveat - verdict:
compute/racknerd-4gbsays qualifies-with-caveat, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says paid-only - verdict:
compute/racknerd-4gbsays qualifies-with-caveat, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - verdict:
compute/racknerd-4gbsays qualifies-with-caveat, compute/racknerd-specials says paid-only
| 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 |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | the disk persists while the plan is paid; annual prepay on the specials |
| Egress | 7 TB a month on a '1Gbps Network Port', stated as '7 TB Monthly Transfer' free_allowance: 7 TB |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 incumbent record carried m24h 5.0 and 3 vCPU / 4 GiB / 60 GB, which is confirmed. What the incumbent did not say is that 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 rung | documented shape and annual price quoted from the vendor's own specials page read today; the order link carries pid 954. |
| Checked | 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24 |
| Parsed numbers |
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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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},
"billing_model": "annual prepay",
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"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,
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"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.",
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"ipv6": "not stated on the specials card",
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"note": "none; it is a VPS"
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"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 or withheld values (2)
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RackNerd Compute
paidemail?card?phoneDdisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-1gb-special says qualifies - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-1gb-special says card - verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-4gb says qualifies-with-caveat - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-4gb says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says card - verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says card - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-specials says card
| 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 |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | not applicable |
| Egress | not stated |
| 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. |
| Binding | none no binding constraint identified |
| 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 |
| Evidence rung | documented |
| Checked | 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21 |
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 |
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"merged_note": "No storage VPS. The specials page lists five KVM plans, all SSD: 1 GB / 20 GB at USD 21.99/year, 2 GB / 35 GB at USD 35.99/year, 4 GB / 60 GB at USD 59.99/year, 6 GB / 100 GB at USD 89.99/year and 8 GB / 150 GB at USD 119.99/year, each on a 1 Gbps port with 3 TB to 20 TB of monthly transfer. The homepage offers 'VPS from $2.24/mo' and 'Dedicated servers from $139/mo'."
},
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"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",
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"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."
}
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"refund": "none by default, \"case-by-case\"; credit is ineligible"
}Unknown or withheld values (10)
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RackNerd Compute
paidcardcardDvolume-quotadisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-special says card - 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 - verdict:
compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-specialsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead
| 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 |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | the disk persists while the plan is paid; annual prepay on the specials |
| Egress | 20 TB a month on a '1Gbps Network Port', stated as '20 TB Monthly Transfer' free_allowance: 20 TB |
| 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. |
| Limits |
|
| Binding | volume-quota 20 TB a month is generous; the thing that disqualifies the row is price, not traffic. |
| 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. Recorded so the next session does not re-derive it: the shape is good (7 vCPU / 8 GiB / 150 GB / 20 TB) and the price is not. 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 rung | documented shape and annual price quoted from the vendor's own specials page read today; the order link carries a pid, so the SKU exists. |
| Checked | 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24 |
| Parsed numbers |
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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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"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.",
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"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/",
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RackNerd Compute
paidcardcardDvolume-quotadisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays 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 - verdict:
compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025says dead, compute/racknerd-specials says paid-only
| Free tier | no free tier; the smallest current special is USD 21.99 a year unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | the disk persists while the annual plan is paid; no deletion clock stated |
| 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 |
| Identity | card card or PayPal at signup; no hold stated on the order form |
| 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. |
| 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 rung | documented Page and cart both read today and they agree at USD 21.99 annually. This is a documented price for an orderable plan; no order was placed. |
| Checked | 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24 |
| 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 |
More fields (10)
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racknerd Storage
fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/racknerdsays fails-quota, storage/racknerd-as-a-storage-provider says dead
| 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 |
| Per-object cap | not recorded |
| Retention | not recorded |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Binding | none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Composes with | not recorded |
| Reliability | 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 |
| Notes | 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 |
| Evidence rung | reported |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (2)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.racknerd.com/kvm-vps | 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 |
| 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 |
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RackNerd Compute
deadcardcardDvolume-quotadisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
compute/racknerdsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - identity_kind:
compute/racknerdsays email, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says card - 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 - verdict:
compute/racknerd-8gb-annual-specialsays paid-only, compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025 says dead - verdict:
compute/racknerd-black-friday-2025says dead, compute/racknerd-specials says paid-only
| 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 |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | the disk persists while the annual plan is paid; no deletion clock 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 |
| 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. |
| Limits |
|
| Binding | volume-quota Availability. The store renders the Black Friday prices but every VPS and dedicated line reports zero available. |
| 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 rung | 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 |
| Checked | 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24 |
| 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.' |
More fields (16)
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racknerd — as a storage provider Storage
deademail?card?Rdisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/racknerdsays fails-quota, storage/racknerd-as-a-storage-provider says dead
| 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 VPS unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not recorded |
| Retention | not recorded |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Binding | none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Composes with | not recorded |
| Reliability | 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 |
| Notes | 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 |
| Evidence rung | reported |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.racknerd.com/storage-vps/ | 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/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)
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