Am I the only one seeing some very weird kerning in the text on that site? Switching to my browser's reader mode makes the site more legible for me.
VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
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Re: VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
#12Wish they covered Scaleway!
I use Vultr, Digital Ocean, and Scaleway quite extensively, and my personal anecdote is the Scaleway, while gives a great bang for buck, comes with disk speed issues in their low priced servers.
Re: VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
#13Am I the only one seeing some very weird kerning in the text on that site? Switching to my browser's reader mode makes the site more legible for me.
no, because I disable webfonts like a normal person.
Re: VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
#14Are they all just AWS resellers?
It’s actually the opposite. AWS will run on top of other hosting providers for some services and regions.
That’s why you’re paying so much for AWS.
Re: VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
None of them are. There’s no way you could make money doing that in the VPS market especially with the ludicrous bandwidth costs at AWS. Most VPS providers rent rack space at large colocation facilities in multiple cities. In some cases they locate right next to major peering points for very good peering and very cheap bandwidth. Vultr in particular is massively underrated and is certainly good enough to use in produ…
Digital Ocean does offer managed Postgres with encryption in transit and at rest. I had a nice experience with their Postgres offering. They also have an S3 equivalent (spaces) and managed Redis.
nit pick: Spaces is not an AWS S3 equivalent -- compatibility matrix vs. S3: https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/spaces-api/#aws-...
Re: VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
#16Am I the only one seeing some very weird kerning in the text on that site? Switching to my browser's reader mode makes the site more legible for me.
There’s no kerning, it’s just monospace. Yes, monospace fonts are less comfortable to read prose in.
Re: VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Digital Ocean does offer managed Postgres with encryption in transit and at rest. I had a nice experience with their Postgres offering. They also have an S3 equivalent (spaces) and managed Redis.
nit pick: Spaces is not an AWS S3 equivalent -- compatibility matrix vs. S3: https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/spaces-api/#aws-...
It doesn’t have full feature parity, but as the post you shared says, they “aim for full interoperability with S3”. If you have an S3 client doing basic object storage stuff, it will work fine with Spaces.
Re: VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Digital Ocean does offer managed Postgres with encryption in transit and at rest. I had a nice experience with their Postgres offering. They also have an S3 equivalent (spaces) and managed Redis.
nit pick: Spaces is not an AWS S3 equivalent -- compatibility matrix vs. S3: https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/spaces-api/#aws-...
I think it’s fair to not call it equivalent because of that, but it’s also fair to acknowledge what is unsupported is pretty power user level stuff for the most part. I used spaces in s3 compatibility for a few use cases and never ran into the problem that what I was trying to do was unsupported. Granted I was not trying to do fancy things, but still.
Some examples of things that I used the S3 compat for that worked just fine:
- terraform backend
- velero backups
- log store for prometheus/promtail
- docker pull through cache
Re: VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
#19Would be interested in seeing Katapult thrown into the mix. They're more expensive but I've found them to be overall very good.