🎅🎄 LES Christmas Mega Thread: Santa Claws Edition! 🎄🎅

Kris · December 25

I wasn't sure if it was random with one post / point as an entry, or purely top 3, but with 36+ posts weighted an hour or two in, we had no chance.

Would have worked if it was random + one entry per user. Otherwise it'll go into a purple daddy frenzy thread.

I love a good giveaway, especially host_c, but I wasn't going to start to spam the board hard with replies and turn it Purple.

Was doing my best with medium effort memes and pics and thought that was heavy handed.

Hope everyone is relaxing and having a well deserved time of rest today.

imok · December 25

Cold flan is a good plan for the afternoon.

imok · December 25

We wish @FAT32 a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

jcn · December 25

@DataRecovery said:
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Blast! This is what I get for spending time with my family instead of LES.

Not_Oles · December 25

@imok said:

@Not_Oles said:

@imok said:

@imok said:
We wish @Not_Oles a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

@Not_Oles did you receive the netcup server in the US?

Yes!

Merry Christmas! 🎄⛄❤️🎁😀👍

They asked me to send a photo of something. Didn't do it

Did you try / can you still try the pay in advance option?

That's what I did.

The VPS seems to work well. I haven't done much with it yet. But I ran a Yabs and uploaded a few GB of files. Ran a few tests. Seems okay, really.

curiouswanderer · December 25

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YABS

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Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes
Processor  : AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 2 @ 3693.068 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 3.8 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 49.9 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-9-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP        : Interserver, Inc
ASN        : AS19318 Interserver, Inc
Host       : UAB Linama
Location   : Secaucus, New Jersey (NJ)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda3):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 446.94 MB/s (111.7k) | 766.73 MB/s  (11.9k)
Write      | 448.12 MB/s (112.0k) | 770.76 MB/s  (12.0k)
Total      | 895.07 MB/s (223.7k) | 1.53 GB/s    (24.0k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 994.58 MB/s   (1.9k) | 1.15 GB/s     (1.1k)
Write      | 1.04 GB/s     (2.0k) | 1.22 GB/s     (1.2k)
Total      | 2.04 GB/s     (3.9k) | 2.38 GB/s     (2.3k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 813 Mbits/sec   | 740 Mbits/sec   | 69.4 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 827 Mbits/sec   | 871 Mbits/sec   | 74.6 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 381 Mbits/sec   | 586 Mbits/sec   | 174 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 531 Mbits/sec   | 642 Mbits/sec   | 238 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 796 Mbits/sec   | 889 Mbits/sec   | 62.5 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 941 Mbits/sec   | 941 Mbits/sec   | 2.31 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 745 Mbits/sec   | 538 Mbits/sec   | 143 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 2254                          
Multi Core      | 4042                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9610145

YABS completed in 9 min 0 sec

imok · December 25

@Not_Oles said:

@imok said:

@Not_Oles said:

@imok said:

@imok said:
We wish @Not_Oles a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

@Not_Oles did you receive the netcup server in the US?

Yes!

Merry Christmas! 🎄⛄❤️🎁😀👍

They asked me to send a photo of something. Didn't do it

Did you try / can you still try the pay in advance option?

That's what I did.

The VPS seems to work well. I haven't done much with it yet. But I ran a Yabs and uploaded a few GB of files. Ran a few tests. Seems okay, really.

I pressed the button next to the one for prepay by curiosity and I wasn't able to revert back.

imok · December 25

We wish @Saragoldfarb a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Not_Oles · December 25

@imok said:

@Not_Oles said:

@imok said:

@Not_Oles said:

@imok said:

@imok said:
We wish @Not_Oles a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

@Not_Oles did you receive the netcup server in the US?

Yes!

Merry Christmas! 🎄⛄❤️🎁😀👍

They asked me to send a photo of something. Didn't do it

Did you try / can you still try the pay in advance option?

That's what I did.

The VPS seems to work well. I haven't done much with it yet. But I ran a Yabs and uploaded a few GB of files. Ran a few tests. Seems okay, really.

I pressed the button next to the one for prepay by curiosity and I wasn't able to revert back.

I know this idea is a little crazy, but, if you want, I could open a ticket with Netcup and vouch for you. I could ask how to revert to prepay.

imok · December 25

Actually, I've just sent the stuff for verification 😅

Not_Oles · December 25

Good luck! It's a nice VPS! I hope they give you one! Or five! Or however many you want.

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imok · December 25

We wish @DataRecovery a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

ZizzyDizzyMC · December 25

Hello LES,

I greatly appreciate the welcome back I got when I returned to LES with actual stock that wasn't all memes.

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New hardware teaser below for some high performance solutions. Planning on moving everything to something similar as time goes on. Only shortcut taken here is that to get this amount of performance on disk I had to forgo mirrored drives with zfs. Instead I'll have to look into hardware mirror or implement weekly backups so clients can take advantage of the full performance of the disks. Within reason of course. Never expected to get north of 700k iops at 4k! Feel free to chime in.

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Wed Dec 25 02:43:33 PM EST 2024

Basic System Information:

Uptime : 0 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes
Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor
CPU cores : 32 @ 5494.483 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 186.3 GiB
Swap : 8.0 GiB
Disk : 94.9 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.8.4-2-pve
VM Type : NONE
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/mapper/pve-root):

Block Size	4k (IOPS)	64k (IOPS)
Read	1.47 GB/s (368.4k)	2.24 GB/s (35.0k)
Write	1.47 GB/s (369.4k)	2.25 GB/s (35.2k)
Total	2.95 GB/s (737.9k)	4.50 GB/s (70.3k)

Block Size	512k (IOPS)	1m (IOPS)
------	--- ----	---- ----
Read	2.86 GB/s (5.5k)	3.15 GB/s (3.0k)
Write	3.01 GB/s (5.8k)	3.36 GB/s (3.2k)
Total	5.87 GB/s (11.4k)	6.52 GB/s (6.3k)

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:

user123 · December 25

@imok said:
We wish @user123 a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Merry Christmas, friend! Let us know if a 1200GB NVMe appears in your stocking.

user123 · December 25

@host_c said:
Morning fellas,

hope you all got what you wished for Xmas

Now, time to post the 3 lucky fellas that won the give-away ( and end the spamming here before @AuroraZero gonna kick my butt )

Congratulations !!!

@user123
@Linux
@localhost

I will send the codes + link shortly via DM

Also a big THX to @lukast__ for helping me set this up

Happy Xmas Guys!!!

Oh, sh*t, I actually won something?

Thank you!

GreenBoi · December 25

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blackeye · December 25

Did i missed the xmas deals ?

ZizzyDizzyMC · December 25

@blackeye said:
Did i missed the xmas deals ?

I posted mine above, I'm just super late cause I'm sick and woke up today and went to work. LES is pretty saturated with storage deals, though they're mostly not USA so that's what makes ours a bit unique at the price point.

I think you could expect more deals throughout the day and around new years. Nothing quite like black friday though unless we really deadpoolin'

imok · December 25

We wish @vyas a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

ZizzyDizzyMC · December 25

I wish @imok a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

imok · December 25

We wish @NameCrane a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Jingle bells out for @Harambe

FrankZ · December 25

@imok said:
Jingle bells out for @Harambe

That is somebody I really miss seeing around here.

imok · December 25

@FrankZ said:

@imok said:
Jingle bells out for @Harambe

That is somebody I really miss seeing around here.

Looking for an identity reveal?

Mason · December 26

HO HO HO!!

Santa's not done yet. Here he comes with a Steam Key giveaway to celebrate Christmas at LES. For the NEXT HOUR (until 2100 Eastern Time), you can claim a game on Steam if you meet the conditions below:

LES account is at least 1 month old -- let's say registered before 0000 UTC 01-DEC-2024.
Minimum of 5 comments or discussions on LES.
One key per person, first come first served.
Please only claim a key if you plan on playing the game yourself or are gifting it to a friend/family member.

List of Steam Keys up for grabs here [Google Doc].

I'll probably do this again once or twice before the New Year, so be on the lookout if you miss this round. I think I've been maintaining the list pretty well and diligently marking the claimed ones, but apologies in advance if any keys I sent are already claimed or don't work anymore.

WSS · December 26

@Mason needs to get laid for Christmas. Take all of his keys.

ZizzyDizzyMC · December 26

@Mason said:
HO HO HO!!

Santa's not done yet. Here he comes with a Steam Key giveaway to celebrate Christmas at LES. For the NEXT HOUR (until 2100 Eastern Time), you can claim a game on Steam if you meet the conditions below:

LES account is at least 1 month old -- let's say registered before 0000 UTC 01-DEC-2024.

Minimum of 5 comments or discussions on LES.

One key per person, first come first served.

Please only claim a key if you plan on playing the game yourself or are gifting it to a friend/family member.

List of Steam Keys up for grabs here [Google Doc].

I'll probably do this again once or twice before the New Year, so be on the lookout if you miss this round. I think I've been maintaining the list pretty well and diligently marking the claimed ones, but apologies in advance if any keys I sent are already claimed or don't work anymore.

Would love to claim tiny tina's wonderland if that's available. I own it, but a friend of mine does not and if I gifted them one we could play together.

SocksAreComfortable · December 26

@Mason said:
HO HO HO!!

Santa's not done yet. Here he comes with a Steam Key giveaway to celebrate Christmas at LES. For the NEXT HOUR (until 2100 Eastern Time), you can claim a game on Steam if you meet the conditions below:

LES account is at least 1 month old -- let's say registered before 0000 UTC 01-DEC-2024.

Minimum of 5 comments or discussions on LES.

One key per person, first come first served.

Please only claim a key if you plan on playing the game yourself or are gifting it to a friend/family member.

List of Steam Keys up for grabs here [Google Doc].

I'll probably do this again once or twice before the New Year, so be on the lookout if you miss this round. I think I've been maintaining the list pretty well and diligently marking the claimed ones, but apologies in advance if any keys I sent are already claimed or don't work anymore.

If it's still available, I'd love to claim Per Aspera ! Have seen it mentioned before by some of my friends, I play a lot of city-building/colony games and love sci-fi, so could be a fun combination.

AuroraZero · December 26

Okay Okay Okay I have the results you are all waiting for with bated breath!!!

The video winners are about to be announced!!!!

And @user123 you win this beauty:
@host_c
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2 GB DDR4 RAM
20 GB NVME Boot Drive
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Coming in second @mikho!!
And you win one of these beauties:
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1 IPv4 /64 IPv6.
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PM me for link and code.

Coming in third place @Linux !!!
You also win one of these beauties:
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4 GB RAM
30 GB NVMe
10TB on 1G port
1 IPv4 /64 IPv6.
Free for 1 year
PM me for link and code.

Coming in fourth @toumi111 !!!

You will receive one of these beauties from @rsk :
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512MB DDR5 RAM
10GB NVMe (PCIe 4.0)
500GB Bandwidth
10Gbit Port
1x IPv4 Address
/64 IPv6
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Coming in fifth @vyas !!!!!
You win of these beauties:
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1 vCPU
256 MB RAM
5 GB Storage
800 GB Bandwidth @10Gbps
1 Dedicated IPV6
in DE or NL
PM me for the information needed to get it setup!!

Coming in sixth @mikho !!!
You also win one of these beauties:
@AK_KWH
1 vCPU
256 MB RAM
5 GB Storage
800 GB Bandwidth @10Gbps
1 Dedicated IPV6
in DE or NL
PM me for the information needed to get it setup!!

Coming in seventh is @slownedstark !!!!
You also win one of these beauties:
@AK_KWH
1 vCPU
256 MB RAM
5 GB Storage
800 GB Bandwidth @10Gbps
1 Dedicated IPV6
in DE or NL
PM me for the information needed to get it setup!!

@Wonder_Woman wins for the best Christmas Avatar!!
Here she is folks!

You win one year of service for either Personal Blacklist Monitoring plan or Professional Uptime Monitoring plan (winner’s choice).

Those are winners for today folks. Congratulations to each and every one of them from Yeti Claws!!! Merry Christmas to you all and keep an eye on this thread there may be more freebies coming who can tell with Yeti Claws in the mix!!

Unixfy · December 26

@Mason said: Santa's not done yet. Here he comes with a Steam Key giveaway to celebrate Christmas at LES. For the NEXT HOUR (until 2100 Eastern Time), you can claim a game on Steam if you meet the conditions below:

This is awesome! Could I get Rebel Inc?

🎅🎄 **LES Christmas Mega Thread: Santa Claws Edition!** 🎄🎅

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🎅🎄 LES Christmas Mega Thread: Santa Claws Edition! 🎄🎅