Order the year special when 1 vCPU and 20 GB of SSD are enough and you will keep the year. Order the monthly Intel 1 GB card when you want 2 vCore and 50 GB of RAID-10. Type 15OFFDEDI on a dedicated-server order. On 7 October 2026 that code is not part of the VPS price.
Prices and the code line are the ones printed on RackNerd's pages on 7 October 2026. The specs page keeps the full Intel, Ryzen, and specials ladders. The review is the buy-or-skip page.
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A cheap RackNerd number is not one server. The specials page sells a 1 GB KVM VPS at $21.99 a year: 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD, 3 TB, a 1 Gbps port, 1 IPv4, full root, and a KVM/ctrl panel. The Intel KVM page sells a 1 GB row at $17.99 a month: 2 vCore, 50 GB RAID-10 SSD, 1 TB at 1 Gbps. Multiplying that monthly sticker by 12 gives $215.88. That figure is arithmetic on $17.99. It is not the price on the specials card, and the specials card does not have the RAID-10 disk.
The same specials FAQ says "These RackNerd VPS specials are lifetime recurring. You can renew at the same rate for as long as you decide to keep the service." Keep that sentence on the specials. The Intel monthly rows print one price and do not print it. The promotions header on the specials page says the deals are while available, so a card can leave the page.
| Order | Billed price | Machine on that card |
|---|---|---|
| Specials 1 GB | $21.99/year | 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD, 3 TB, 1 Gbps |
| Intel 512 MB | $26.99/year | 1 vCore, 30 GB RAID-10 SSD, 500 GB, 1 Gbps |
| Intel 1 GB | $17.99/month | 2 vCore, 50 GB RAID-10 SSD, 1 TB, 1 Gbps |
$21.99 / 12 = $1.8325 and $26.99 / 12 = $2.249166.... Both quotients are arithmetic. The specials card bills $21.99 for the year. The Intel 512 MB row bills $26.99 for the year. Rounded to the cent, $2.249166... is $2.25, which is the figure on the home card. The home card is that 512 MB row, not the 1 GB special.
Use the 1 GB special for a small site, a bot, or a lab box that fits in 20 GB of SSD and 1 vCPU, and that you intend to keep. The storage word on the card is SSD. The card does not say RAID-10 and it does not say NVMe. The location line says deploy in multiple locations and does not list cities. The Intel city list does not transfer to this card.
The specials FAQ says "A RackNerd VPS special is an unmanaged KVM VPS." You get full root, and that answer names ctrl for power, reinstall, console, one-click apps, and the ctrl Network Firewall. You install and patch the operating system. A custom ISO, on that page, goes through a support ticket. Match the disk line in the cart to 20 GB SSD before you pay. There is no automatic refund once payment is received. That rule is in the last section.
Use the Intel 1 GB row when the job needs 2 vCore and 50 GB, and you want a monthly bill instead of $21.99 up front. The Intel page says "All of our VPS's are powered by PURE SSD's in RAID-10, delivering fast performance with redundancy!" That sentence is this ladder. The processors are described as latest Intel Xeon processors, with no model number on the page. The same page lists Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Ashburn, Amsterdam, France, Dublin, and Toronto. IPv6 on this page is up to 100 free addresses upon request in Los Angeles and France, by a ticket after the order. Those cities and that IPv6 pair are not printed on the specials cards.
The Ryzen page also prints $17.99 a month on a 1 GB row. That row is 1 vCore and 15 GB NVMe, on AMD Ryzen 3900X, not the Intel 50 GB RAID-10 disk. Read the disk line. The specs page has both ladders.
The terms allow Docker, Docker Compose, LXC/LXD, Kubernetes, and K3s when they do not create or expose a separate virtual machine and do not require nested hardware virtualization. Nested virtualization, including running another VPS platform inside the KVM server, is not permitted unless RackNerd approves it in writing. The monthly table prints one price per row and does not print a second renewal figure. Read the checkout total for the term you select.
15OFFDEDI is a dedicated-server code. The banner on the specials page, read 7 October 2026, says "Save 15% off for life on all dedicated servers using promo code: 15OFFDEDI". Enter it where a dedicated order asks for a promo code. The VPS button on this page does not include it, and putting it on a VPS click does not turn the $21.99 card or the $26.99 card into a discounted VPS.
A 7 July 2020 announcement still on the site says the launch discount is a 15% recurring discount on AMD Ryzen dedicated servers, and the order links in that post include the same code. The 2026 banner names dedicated servers. The 2020 post names AMD Ryzen dedicated servers. Read the cart total after you enter the code. The monthly figures in that 2020 post stay on that post. The dedicated-server category is the plain link for that order.
The terms say VPS usage should stay within fair share and not be abusive to disk I/O or CPU. If you need dedicated resources and want to max them out, the same paragraph recommends a dedicated server. That is the job for this code: a machine you intend to run hard, not a 20 GB special you are trying to stretch. Fair share on a VPS is a separate rule from the transfer number on the card.
Manage the VPS in ctrl. The specials card prints KVM/ctrl Panel. On 22 September 2026, LowEndTalk account dustinc, flair Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran, wrote that RackNerd had moved away from SolusVM, that SolusVM had been retired, and that existing and new customers were on ctrl. A 2023 Los Angeles notice told customers to open SolusVM at nerdvm.racknerd.com to see a node name. That notice is a past renumber. Do not follow it for a server you order now. Log into ctrl with the client-area credentials. The same 2026 post says a custom ISO is mounted by the team after a ticket, and that you can unmount it in the panel afterward.
In November 2025, LowEndTalk account WyvernCo, with no host flair, wrote about one Seattle special. Google DNS anycast, on that VM, treated the IP as being in China. The poster reported 19 ms to 8.8.8.8 against an expected 1 ms. Those times belong to that machine. The post says a support reply treated the geolocation request as outside the unmanaged plan. A later comment from dustinc said he had not reviewed that specific case, was not sure which ticket it was, and was willing to look. The same comment says Seattle has hundreds of IPv4 ranges. If your own box does this, switch the resolver the way that poster did (that post used Cloudflare DNS to reach a US address for Google services) and open a ticket with the prefix and the answer Google returned. One special in 2025 is not a line on the current card.
If a service was on Los Angeles DC-02, the address may already have changed. On LowEndTalk, account sh97, flair Member, Host Rep, posted a notice whose maintenance date is Thursday, 21 May 2026. That date is before this page. The notice says "Will my IP address change? Yes." The reason in the same answer is that DC-03 uses a different upstream at 1200 W 7th St, so the old DC-02 address cannot be kept. The post says plan resources stay the same, data stays on the hardware being moved, and the new address arrives by email after the VPS is back online. Update DNS to the address in that email. The post says no ticket was required before the window.
Order the year special for a small always-on box that fits in 20 GB SSD and 1 vCPU. Order the Intel 1 GB monthly card for 50 GB of RAID-10 and 2 vCore on a monthly bill. Order a dedicated server, and type 15OFFDEDI there, when the workload is the one the terms point at a dedicated machine. Skip the special when the app needs the 50 GB RAID-10 disk. Skip the monthly Intel card when the price you wanted was $21.99 for the year. The terms say "Refunds are issued on a case-by-case basis since by default no refunds are provided once payment is received." Back the server up before you cancel. A planned cancellation needs five days of written notice in the client area before the renewal date. Services in contract on that same policy need seven days of written notice, and the terms say an early termination fee is determined case by case if you cancel before the contract term is satisfied. The data on the server is removed when the service is cancelled. The terms page opened on 7 October 2026 does not print a sales-tax line. The amount to pay is the checkout total.
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No. On 7 October 2026 the specials page banner says the code is 15% off for life on all dedicated servers. A 7 July 2020 announcement says the launch discount is 15% recurring on AMD Ryzen dedicated servers, and that post's order links include the same code. Enter it on a dedicated-server order. The VPS buttons on this page do not carry the code.
The Intel KVM page's 512 MB row is $26.99 a year: 1 vCore, 30 GB RAID-10 SSD, 500 GB at 1 Gbps. Dividing 26.99 by 12 is 2.249166... of arithmetic. Rounded to the cent, that is $2.25, the figure on the home card. The row bills $26.99 for the year. The $21.99 a year special is a different machine.
No. The Intel 1 GB row is $17.99 a month for 2 vCore, 50 GB RAID-10 SSD and 1 TB at 1 Gbps. Multiplying 17.99 by 12 is 215.88, and that product is arithmetic, not the specials price. The specials 1 GB card is $21.99 a year for 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD and 3 TB. The Ryzen page also prints $17.99 a month on a 1 GB row, and that row is 1 vCore and 15 GB NVMe. Read the disk line and the year or month unit before you pay. The specials FAQ says those specials renew at the same rate for as long as you keep the service. The Intel monthly rows print one price and do not print that sentence.
In November 2025, LowEndTalk account WyvernCo, with no host flair, wrote that a Seattle special's IP was geolocated to China by Google DNS, and reported 19 ms to 8.8.8.8 against an expected 1 ms on that VM. Those times are that poster's. The same post says a support reply treated the request as outside the unmanaged plan. A later comment from dustinc said he had not reviewed that specific case, was not sure which ticket it was, and that he would look. If your own Seattle box does this, try another resolver the way that poster did, and open a ticket with the prefix and what Google returned. It is not a line on the specials card.
Quoted sentences are from the RackNerd pages and the host-rep post below, read on 7 October 2026. Forum links are other people's reports. Buttons go through /go/rn-use-top/ and /go/rn-use-bot/ and do not include 15OFFDEDI. URLs in this list are plain links.