Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota here and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
AWS: you will pay. also, shit works. also, you get customer service.
Azure: youāre running Windows, you hate yourself, probably both
Google: you have transcended beyond such earthly requirements as ācustomer serviceā or āfunctions that donāt get deprecated in three yearsā
Hetzner: you run a herd of carefully groomed pets and not cattle
OVH: wot is dis āuptimeā ov which u speek
Oracle: lol
Some Guy LLC: I would rather sign up with Oracle
I guess thereās still DigitalOcean and Linode, the Azure and AWS of Some Guy LLC, respectively.
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Iāve been using DigitalOcean for years as a personal VPS box, and Iāve had no complaints. Not sure how well theyād scale (in terms of cost) for a site like this.
this is one part of the problem, yeah - pretty much all the VPS offerings are extremely painful cost-wise if you need chonky hosts
rootservers (or things off the serverbidding market) are way better bang for buck (i.e. my all-the-things gremlin box is dual-4TB 64GB i7-something, at ~38eur/mo)
I really, really hope they sort this shit out
Linode now brought to you by Akamai, the CDN that also exists, you know (itās not just CloudFlareont!)
Off the cuff I think (and would have to doublecheck) Akamai is probably bigger by a fair deal, theyāre just not nearly as loud
OVH is Some Guy LLC At Scale
and Google Cloud is Some Guy LLC At Scale At Scale
Azure is great and doesnāt require you to use Windows. I will not stand for such slander.
Also I love how literally no one can remember that IBM also has a cloud.
what kind of enterprise hell is your daily life, for you to enjoy such curses as azure? :D
I hosted a single Linux VM on the free studentās subscription and didnāt hate it.
AWS was a nightmare on the other hand. At least a VM on Azure is called an Azure VM and not Elastic Rubber Evolution 2: Blue Artemis Service.