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Provider Poll - HY1 2020
Hi everyone, it is the time for provider poll again! A chance for providers to get the "Top Provider" tag and for the members to get free prizes
Try not to discuss in this thread so it makes our life easier when counting votes. (Small discussions / compliments are fine, long discussion will be moved to another thread)
Important
Requirements to vote:
- Your account must be created before 1 Jun 2020.
- Your account must have at least 5 posts spread between at least 2 days in between 1 Jun 2019 and 1 Jun 2020 (inclusive).
- Providers can vote, but not for themselves (the same goes for Host Reps).
Rules for voting:
- You get 3 votes.
- One vote per provider (Some providers with multiple brands are considered as one).
- You can vote less than 3 times if you want.
- This time, you get 1 additional vote for provider that is NOT a Top Provider yet. (This is to give more opportunity to the non-top providers).
- Voting will end on 21 Jun 2020 11:59pm (EST).
Voting Template:
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Best Non-Top:
Prizes
- vServer.site - 5 x Small LXC vServer IPv6 only (1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 50GB HDD, Traffic incl) for 3 month [1-5]
- NexusBytes - 1 x KVM VPS-2G for 6 months [6]
- NexusBytes - 2 x KVM VPS-1G for 3 months [7-8]
- Limitless Hosting - 10 x XS DirectAdmin Shared Hosting in USA/EU for 1 year [9-18]
- Limitless Hosting - 5 x Small DirectAdmin Reseller Hosting in USA/EU for 1 year [19-23]
- LunaNode - 20 x $50 Account Credit (Toronto only, credit expires on 1 July 2021) [24-43]
- LetBox - 15 x $15 Account Credit [44-58]
- Xsltel - 1 x VPS (2GB RAM, 130GB HDD, 1 IPv4, 1TB @ 1Gbps, Hetzner - Finland) for 3 months [59]
- Xsltel - 3 x VPS (1GB RAM, 65GB HDD, 1 IPv4, 500GB @ 1Gbps, Hetzner - Finland) for 6 months [60-62]
- LowEndBox - 10 x $15 Account Credit (on ANY provider that is present in LET before 1 Jun 2020) [63-72]
- SmallWeb - 5 x 1GB DirectAdmin Shared Hosting for 1 year [73-77]
- SmallWeb - 1 x £15 Account Credit (Credit expires after 1 year) [78]
- Hostodo - 5 x 1GB RAM NVMe KVM VPS in Las Vegas/Miami for 1 year [79-83]
- WebSound - 5 x cPanel Mini Web Hosting in UK for 1 year [84-88]
- TetaHost - 10 x Pico DirectAdmin Web Hosting in Germany for 1 year [89-98]
- TetaHost - 10 x Pico DirectAdmin Web Hosting in France for 1 year [99-108]
- TetaHost - 2 x VDS1 KVM VPS for 3 months [109-110]
- HostWebis - 2 x Basic cPanel Shared Hosting for 1 year [111-112]
- HostWebis - 2 x Basic Reseller Hosting for 6 months [113-114]
- HostWebis - 2 x Essential KVM VPS for 3 months [115-116]
- HostWebis - 2 x Basic Dedicated Server for 1 month [117-118]
- HostWebis - 2 x $50 Account Credit (Credit expires after 1 year) [119-120]
- GreenCloudVPS - 3 x NVMePromo-1 KVM VPS for 1 year [121-123]
- HostEONS - 2 x OVZ1 VPS in LA/NY for 1 year [124-125]
- HostEONS - 2 x KVM1 VPS in LA/NY for 1 year [126-127]
- HostEONS - 2 x Shared1 cPanel Web Hosting for 1 year [128-129]
- MyW - 5 x 2GB DirectAdmin Shared Hosting for 1 year (Renews at €9.99/yr) [130-134]
- IllyHosting - 5 x KVM VPS 1 for 3 months (Renews at €3.95/m) [135-139]
- IllyHosting - 5 x cPanel Basic Shared Hosting for 1 year (Renews at €2.95/m) [140-144]
- HostNamaste - 5 x OpenVZ-256 in Jacksonville/France for 1 year (Renews at $20/y) [145-149]
- HostUS - 5 x 768MB OpenVZ 7 VPS in 7 US/EU locations for 1 year [150-154]
- HostUS - 5 x 1GB Ryzen KVM VPS in LA/Dallas for 6 months [155-159]
- HetrixTools - 3 x Professional Uptime Monitoring for 1 year worth $99.95/y each [160-162]
- HetrixTools - 1 x Business Uptime Monitoring for 1 year worth $199.95/y [163]
- RackNerd - 5 x 1GB KVM VPS for 1 year (Renews at $20/y) [164-168]
- RackNerd - 5 x cPanel Shared - 30GB for 1 year (Renews at 50% off monthly) [169-173]
- SunshineHost - 5 x NZ$12 Account Credit [174-178]
Notes:
- Most providers require you to pass the fraud check if you are selected as the prize winner
- IDs are used by lottery selection algorithm (see below)
- In the case where the number of voters is less than the number of prizes, some voters will get more than 1 prize (refer to the new algorithm)
- Special thanks to the mods on helping to count the votes
- Providers can still add prizes by PM me the details or comment in the private thread
To ensure the fairness of the lottery, this is the hash of the MAGIC_SEED
that will be used for selection: ec80440b08a22f48e6233c31ce168d0e604b9227f8b6295ba8101a74ebed2d56
(SHA256)
const seedrandom = require('seedrandom');
// Those values are just an example
const MAGIC_SEED = 'Seed';
const ALL_USERS = ['FAT32', 'hawc', 'hzr', 'JackH', 'jbiloh', 'jcaleb', 'Jord', 'Nekki', 'netomx', 'Nick', 'PieHasBeenEaten', 'raindog308', 'trewq'];
const PRIZE_COUNT = 5;
// Find winners
const rng = seedrandom(MAGIC_SEED + '_' + ALL_USERS.length + '_' + PRIZE_COUNT);
let allWinners = [];
let prizeLeft = PRIZE_COUNT;
while (prizeLeft > 0) {
let winners = ALL_USERS.map((user) => ({ username: user, rand: rng() }));
winners.sort((a, b) => a.rand - b.rand);
winners = winners.slice(0, prizeLeft);
winners = winners.map((selected) => selected.username);
allWinners = allWinners.concat(winners);
prizeLeft -= winners.length;
}
// Output
console.log(allWinners);
Sponsors
Thanks to all the sponsors for this provider poll!
If you have any doubt, you can check out the last provider poll (2019):
Comments
Best Non-Top: PHP-Friends - @PHP_Friends
Best Non-Top: LunaNode
Non-Top provider: RackNerd - @dustinc
Non-Top: UltraVPS - @UltraVPS
HM: Hetzner, Netcup, First-Root, Hosthatch, Avoro, PHP-Friends, Leaseweb, Arubacloud, leapswitch, GreenCloudVPS ...
Oh go on then:
Non TP. SkylonHost - @FHR
Hmm...
Best Non-Top: HetrixTools - @HBAndrei
Best Non-Top: InceptionHosting
(Would love to also fit HetrixTools and Gullos Hosting in this list. These are all top notch, including the "Best Non-Top", so hope that's a positive vote and not to say they're not good/top quality ...)
Regards 🤙
HetrixTools -> @HBAndrei
Best Non-Top: WisHosting - @exception0x876
Non-top: @PHP_Friends
1.Aliendata - @AlienData_Josh
2.Clouvider - @Clouvider
3.BuyVM - @Francisco
1.LetBox @key900
2.Nexusbytes @seriesn
3.Hostodo @Hassan
Best Non-Top: Hetrixtools @HBAndrei
Best Non-Top: LunaNode
Best Non-Top: ExtraVM
The non-Top provider: GCoreLabs
Best Non-Top: Hetrix Tools @HBAndrei
Honorable mentions: @VirMach as usual, Lunanode @perennate, @Hivelocity, DirectAdmin @DA_Mark and Blesta
Great job!
Non-top: lunanode
Non-top vote : SpryServers @SpryServers_Tab
HetrixTools
Hetzner
OVH
Non-Top provider: greencloudvps
RackNerd - Top spammer, best co-op
BuyVM - Top memes
ColoCrossing - Best co-op
HostNamaste - Best co-op
Three Michaels
1. ExtraVM @MikeA
2. SmallWeb @SmallWeb
3. MyW @MikePT
Best Non-Top: HetrixTools @HBAndrei