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You know, this is the kind of of knowledge that we all like to have, but even then, all we have is your word (I don't have any reason to doubt it), what I…",{"value":64,"source":65,"evidence":66},"people choosing a VPS provider","inferred",[67,71],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"14246676","mysterydip","This is just what I needed! I'm downsizing from a colo and looking for just this sort of data. Vultr seems really appealing especially with the ability to upload my own iso (My…",{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"14246077","dijit","There's a VPS provider whom I am infatuated with[0] and I'd love an easy objective way to compare them with Amazon\u002FLinode. The only concern is that they only have 2 datacenters…",{"value":76,"source":55,"evidence":77},"Transparency and reproducibility in VPS comparisons, which the maker felt reviews lacked",[78,79],{"id":58,"by":11,"text":59},{"id":80,"by":11,"text":81},"14250811","Thanks! Very kind of you! Well, I would like to include more, in fact I would include Ligthsail for sure if they offered a datacenter in Europe. But to start something like this…",{"value":83,"source":55,"evidence":84},"More than two months in spare time",[85,88],{"id":86,"by":11,"text":87},"14255855","More than two months in my spare time. To collect the \"static\" information, and create the Ansible roles and python scripts to collect the \"dynamic\" info (the results from the…",{"id":80,"by":11,"text":81},[90,99],{"value":91,"source":55,"evidence":92},"Ansible",[93,96],{"id":94,"by":11,"text":95},"14247737","Thanks to you! Yes, there is always that possibility, is a question only of time, more tests implies more time to complete the full batch. And of course, more time to implement…",{"id":97,"by":11,"text":98},"14250682","That's a good idea, I suppose that would have to do the same with another tools like Apache libcloud or Ansible itself. I'll add this suggestion as an issue to the project. Thanks!",{"value":100,"source":55,"evidence":101},"Python",[102,105],{"id":103,"by":11,"text":104},"14248846","I understand you, but is more fair in the sense of comparing apples to apples if you are going to do one test of a kind. Currently all of this tests as a batch job take several…",{"id":86,"by":11,"text":87},"open_source","launched","solo",{"praise":110,"objections":127,"requests":147,"questions":167,"alternatives":182},[111],{"value":112,"source":113,"evidence":114},"Impressive, thorough work","commenter",[115,119,123],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"14245864","neom","I am not easily impressed when it comes to vps and cloud stuff, but this is very impressive. Kudos. Curious why you didn't include ec2?",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"14245953","gketuma","Nicely done.",{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"14245793","slitaz","Nice and thorough work!",[128,140],{"value":129,"source":113,"evidence":130},"Limited provider coverage, notably missing EC2, Lightsail, Hetzner, Joyent",[131,132,136],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"14247753","porker","Would love to see Joyent included. Silly pricing, hopefully performance that justifies it. https:\u002F\u002Fwww.joyent.com\u002Fpricing\u002Fcloud\u002Fcompute",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"14247707","HugoDaniel","It would be nice to include hetzner :)",{"value":141,"source":113,"evidence":142},"Skepticism about unlimited traffic claims",[143],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"14247795","notamy","> I have serious doubts about the OVH’s and Scaleway’s unlimited traffic, seems more marketing strategy than real to me (joe di castro). Anecdotal, of course, but I have an…",[148,153,160],{"value":149,"source":113,"evidence":150},"Add more providers such as Hetzner and EC2",[151,152],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},{"value":154,"source":113,"evidence":155},"Test multi-threaded performance as well as single-threaded",[156],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"14248112","RX14","I'm a little confused as to why comparing single-threaded performance (for scaleway) is more \"fair\". Surely you should compare both, to allow people to compare for…",{"value":161,"source":113,"evidence":162},"Add Terraform provider support comparison",[163],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"14247114","corford","Very nice. One other datapoint that could be useful for some: Terraform provider support (and how capable the provider is). 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The physical servers are by far the fastest obviously, but when looking at the VPS \u002F…",{"id":191,"by":192,"text":193},"14246693","halfeatenpie","Great start to a comparison review. I've used all the service providers available and these opinions include my historical experience with them (I've used all providers for many…",{"comments":195,"answered":35,"key":196},41,[197,198,201],{"id":61,"text":62},{"id":199,"text":200},"14253449","Linode seems to be working in a new version of their control panel, I hope that they do a great work, because for too much people the current one is a entry barrier, even when…",{"id":202,"text":203},"14251355","For me too, I think that is general, I 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