I came looking for Chicken and I found Octopus [BFCM 2024]

Hallo, long time no post..

The last Friday of November (Black Friday) and the next monday (Cyber Monday) LowEndTalk and LowEndSpirit always create a mega thread which some providers create black Friday and Cyber Monday sales.

Every year i tried join that BF CM sales, but unfortunately i got no luck in 2023.

But

in 2024, i got chances to bought some limited offers,

Like:

• mxroute - mail hosting plan

Storage: 25GB
Domains: Unlimited
Email Accounts: Unlimited
Outbound limit (per email address): 300/hour
Quantity: 30
$10/3yr

• prohosting24 - vps

https://prohosting24.de/blackfriday

4C/16G/200GB at 4€/m (very limited 🥺)
6C/24G/300GB at 7,45€/m
8C/32G/400GB at 9,95€/m

Plus 20 % for free on top on all account top ups until cyber monday!

• and lastly; the legendary Virmach with their un·sus·tain·a·ble offers ✨

Virmach BFCM 2024

This isn't my first time to buy VPS (Virtual Private Servers) from Virmach. In 2020 i've bought a small chicken (sometimes we call VPS a chicken 😂)

BF-SPECICAL-2020

1 cores
768 MB
15 GB SSD
1 IPV4
1.46TB Bandwidth

for Only $4.51 USD/year

Literally; only $4.51/year in 2020.

So this year, i visited their exclusive Black Friday VPS Sales page:

They are rotating 3 VPS offers which something like this:

83% OFF*
OFFER #1063
$
40.63
PER YEAR

    VIRT
    KVM
    RYZEN SKU# V0M-XD
    RAM
    5632MB
    DDR4 RAM
    CPU
    4 Core
    CPU vCORE
    HDD
    90GB
    SSD (NVMe)
    BANDWIDTH
    12800GB
    BANDWIDTH
    IPs
    1 IPv4
    DEDICATED IPv4

    0h 11m 19s

ORDER NOW
82% OFF*
OFFER #1061
$
9.72
PER YEAR
$10.23

    VIRT
    KVM
    RYZEN SKU# V02-00
    RAM
    1536MB
    DDR4 RAM
    CPU
    1 Core
    CPU vCORE
    HDD
    30GB
    SSD (NVMe)
    <span>BANDWIDTH</span>
    1536GB
    BANDWIDTH
    IPs
    1 IPv4
    DEDICATED IPv4

    0h 10m 46s

ORDER NOW
82% OFF*
OFFER #1064
$
20.21
PER YEAR

    VIRT
    KVM
    RYZEN SKU# V03-X2
    RAM
    3584MB
    DDR4 RAM
    CPU
    2 Core
    CPU vCORE
    HDD
    80GB
    SSD (NVMe)
    <span>BANDWIDTH</span>
    2048GB
    BANDWIDTH
    IPs
    1 IPv4
    DEDICATED IPv4

1h 12m 6s

I'm also check their offer thread in LowEndSpirit, maybe they also have give extra discount or maybe puzzle trick to get a coupon. The puzzle is about to find a coupon in some enigma chiper text that given from Virmach staff to LES members.

I literally don't know about enigma decrypt; Vigenère cipher. But i tried to participate as possible, because that was nearly the end of Cyber Monday event.

Some members tried to decrypted it, and few hours later, a member with username Wonder_Woman tried to analyzed and to help us find a coupon. We decided to bruteforce a coupon code together by list of random text that was given from him/her. 😂

Some codes like this:

LZ[A-Z]FSRAU
PTWAPT[A-Z]K
[A-Z]QJCKUPK
[A-Z]REMOGAR
VF[A-Z]BUVPI
T[A-Z]YAUZUO
F[A-Z]SGLUQT
LW[A-Z]ASJQZ

and... until the last minutes of given time by Virmach staff. We still didn't have luck.

VirMach turns out to be a good guy, again and again. They give that 50% recurring code off for free by Private Message (PM) to participants in LES at that time 😆

So I checked again what VPS they offered to in their sales page at that time; i found this:

Offer #1020
SKU: RYZEN SKU# V02-XD
1 cores
1776MB RAM
720GB NVMe Storage
8 IPv4
20480GB Bandwidth
NYC METRO
$37.50 per YEAR

and then i decided to bought... only $18.75 per year to get that vps.

I call this vps as Octopus / Baby Kraken.🐙 Octopus have 8 legs as this VPS have 8 IPV4 😎

Until now i don't know what to do to that VPS; Maybe for backup purpose and some experience with that 8 IPs.

I came looking for chicken and i found octopus.

Thank you for reading ~