Would you be interested in temporary servers?
Hello,
I tend to purchase a lot of servers, but I also tend to cancel some. For example, I might rent out a 5950X 128GB server from some hosting provider but end up cancelling it after a few months due to me not needing it anymore. The servers that I cancel usually have some time left on them.
So, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in "temporary" servers. These would be servers that only last a few weeks. The advantage of this is that I would be able to offer them at a very low cost.
Pricing would be something like this:
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
64GB DDR4 Memory
2 x 4TB SATA SSD
1 Gbps @ 30TB
Located in United Kingdom
$50 for 2 weeks
Intel Core i9-9900K
128GB DDR4 Memory
3 x 1TB NVMe SSD
1 Gbps Unmetered
Located in Germany
$15 for 2 weeks
Intel Core i7-2600
16GB DDR3 Memory
4 x 4TB SATA HDD
1 Gbps Unmetered
Located in Germany
$10 for 2 weeks
Edit: No, I'm obviously not abusing Hetzner's return/refund policy. If I were to be doing that, my account would be banned. I can provide proof that these would be/are servers that I simply don't need anymore. I've been mostly downscaling my servers with Hetzner/UKServers which is why they are listed as examples.
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Nope. I am not generally interested in services from questionable sources.
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Questionable?
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Anything "temporary" is questionable. Those who dare offering them, questionable itself.
I've seen some do data mining on such services, so no.
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It would be a bare metal service, KVM/IPMI access provided. It would be nice to at least make a little bit of money from powerful servers that would otherwise be idling until they're ultimately cancelled, and these would be sold under my provider.
I don't have any malicious intentions
What if I were to just transfer them for a small fee? I believe some providers would be OK with transferring the remaining time over to another customer before they just get cancelled.
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Sure, sure, I simply do not trust anyone, especially it's a one-man show.
If I need temp servers, I am going to order an ordinary service from a company and do it discreetly without making a fuss.
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how about free trial ?
Yeah, I can get on with 2 weeks of free trials.
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Its a good idea to try the beast. Thank you for that.
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Yeah, it's awesome Advin has decided to offer some free trials for us in this harsh trying times.
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Hi @Advin -- If you ever want to transfer servers that you still have, but that you are trying to get rid of, you can also check out the "Marktplatz"/Marketplace in our customer forum. There's some information about that here: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/general-information/server-transfers-between-robot-customers/ --Katie
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How about hosting giveaways?
Katie, you know we love you, but if you take free stuff from us, we will revolt!
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Definitely interesting concept. Would be mostly good for compute intensive stuff but I kinda feel like you would need to give advanced notice of like a week+ before going up for sale.
Recommended hosts:
Letbox, Data ideas, Hetzner
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Just was an example, though I have this one available for transfer:
Intel Core i9-9900K
128GB DDR4 Memory
2 x 1TB NVMe SSD
1 Gbps Unmetered
Located in Helsinki
I can transfer it for $10, has until March 16th
Haha maybe
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