(Virtual) Server Pricing

04 Tuesday Jun 2019

My goto services:

Digital Ocean Special sauce: Incredible UI/UX, super fun to use. I’ve stopped thinking about it anymore, I just go to DO. Downsides: Many (probably most?) of the IPs are blacklisted for email. Most aren’t great exits for VPN services either for the same reason. CLI tool (doctl has pretty shit UX though)	$5/GB of RAM
Linode	$5/GB of RAM
OVH Special sauce: The lowest cost option, but it’s Canada and Europe only. No SE Asia, no USA.	$1.68/GB of RAM Yep it’s 66% cheaper than everyone else.
Vultr Special sauce: awesome plans with $2.50 for a node with IPv6 only, 512Mb RAM	$5/Gb
Amazon LightSail Special Sauce: oh well, it’s the IBM of servers, so I might as well document it here: They have this clone of Digital Ocean, called LightSail, that s3cks, obvs. It’s the same price $5/Gb (same as Linode/DO/Vultr). Available in a few more locations than most of the above (incl. Mumbai; Digital Ocean has Bangalore).	$5/GB of RAM

Prices as of June 5, 2019. I may update this page someday, but then again I may not 🙂 Bookmark if you’re adventurous (ctrl + d, or cmd + d)

My ‘goto’ SpeedTest Services

13 Saturday Apr 2019

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Fast.com: Provided by Netflix, this runs on the same server and infra that Netflix runs on. So it’s a good check of Netflix speed and whether your ISP throttles connections to Netflix. Also few ISPs are optimizing (faking) results to fast.com as yet (because it’s not trivial to do so without also making all of Netflix faster)…

proof.ovh.net: OVH is by far the cheapest and probably the best hosting / colo / dedicated server provider in the world. How fast you can get to OVH servers is a good proxy for general internet speeds. (France, Canada, Singapore, Sydney). Mostly you just need to check speeds to the USA/Europe/Singapore/Australia.

speedtest-cli: Much easier to use than the advertisement laden, anti-user speedtest.com site. Easier to script too 😀

brew install speedtest-cli ripgrep #mac
sudo apt install speedtest-cli #ubuntu

#List all servers
speedtest-cli --list

#Test with 3 random servers
for server in `speedtest-cli --list | rg -i 'India\b' | cut -d')' -f1 | sort -Ru | head -n3`; do speedtest-cli --server $server; done

Online IDEs

09 Tuesday Apr 2019

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tools

#Frontend

Codepen.io: Great for CSS, though it does support React, JS, HTML & Pug
#frontend

For just frontend deployment, see

now.sh
netlify
fly.io (think CF workers but better developer experience)
cloudflare workers

Codesandbox.io: Think webpack + vscode as an online IDE
#frontend

#Fullstack (include a VM/Container for development)

Glitch.com
#fullstack, #millenial, #awesome, #secrets

Glitch + Fly.io is very fly!

Repl.it
#fullstack, #secrets, #paid-for-private-repls

Has secrets (.env file that is only accessible by repl owner)

Runkit
#backend

The best way to hack nodejs

Codeanywhere, $8/mo

Stackblitz:
VSCode in the Cloud

#secrets = .env file that is only accessible by repl owner

Archived

C9.io: Was really nice, but it’s been bought by Amazon; not free anymore, unless you use AWS 😭

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Top Extension Categories

09 Tuesday Apr 2019

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(From IE Edge Chromium Store April 2019)

Adblockers and password managers
Education
Social and entertainment
Shopping
Productivity
For developers

Cloud Storage Pricing 7/Apr/2019

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Provider	Storage	Per Year
Google Drive	2TB	$ 100
iCloud	2TB	$ 120
Dropbox	2TB	$ 200
B2	2TB	$ 120
Mega	1Tb	$ 144
pCloud	2TB	$ 100
OVH SYS	2TB	$ 360
DreamObjects (DreamHost)	2TB	$ 600
OneDrive	1TB	$ 70
MediaFire	1TB	$ 30

Notes:

2TB is the sweet spot for me; YMMV.
iOS does not seem to search Google Drive like it does Dropbox
Google’s One (https://one.google.com/) may make Google’s offering more attractive
Google does a lot of rate-limiting apparently
Microsoft is giving you Office 365 (which you’d have to pay for anyways) with the 1Tb
pCloud: I’d trust Google over pCloud… and Drive is searchable, has an excellent API and is probably supported by a lot more tools and services.
iCloud: The worst by far in terms of performance; sync is slower than molasses from India. And they ($AAPL) don’t care. With Google Photos, iCloud’s limited advantage of deep integration with iOS Photos is not as relevant.
MediaFire: No search;

Also see https://rclone.org/

Gmail iOS URL Schemes

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Open specific message

googlegmail:///cv=13eafcee7cc82901/accountId=1&create-new-tab

Open compose message

googlegmail:///co?subject=<subject text>&body=<body text>&to=

For Google Inbox use inbox-gmail:/// instead of googlemail:///

macOS Productivity Apps every dev needs!

10 Monday Sep 2018

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Window Management/Misc Util

Spectacle, Free, Open Source
BetterTouchTool, Donationware
Magnet , Mac App Store, about $2.

Winner: BetterTouchTool

Really good window management; shortcuts to dock windows to left/right half (or quadrants, or top/bottom) of screen. Having said that Spectacle does some stuff very well, like hitting the ‘dock right’ shortcut twice makes a window use the right third then right half then right 3/4ths etc. Magnet can dock windows on drag (i.e. drag to top of screen to make a window full screen).

BTT does not come batteries included, so you have to make your own shortcuts and assign window management operations to them. There’s a community forum for sharing presets but it’s still a chore. Also BTT can do Touchbar based Window Management (though I’ve not found that very useful; and I hate the touchbar anyways).

Application Launcher / Search Everywhere

Alfred, Freemium

Better spotlight, including deep integration with Google / Gmail / Drive and other custom searches (via plugins). Really good, no competition here.

Note Taking

OneNote, Free, Proprietary

~~The best note taking app out there. Period.~~ I’d say Apple Notes is now the best note taking app out there, because it’s so fast and has great integration with iOS & macOS. The web version is not too shabby either. It’s not very cross platform though and if you thousands of notes (as I do) sync breaks every now and then.

~~ScreenHero~~ (now owned/murdered by Slack)

CleanMyMacX (http://twidex.com/2rcfFj4), Freemium

Itsycal, Freemium

Developer Tools

PHPStorm

Visual Studio Code

Homebrew,

Homebrew packages/bottles:

brew install php swaks htop telnet ffmpeg mysql pstree aria2 pv q jq autojump keychain nmap readline node redis beanstalkd ripgrep rsnapshot wget rsync bzip2 git xz yarn speedtest-cli parallel composer go sqlite curl grep sshfs coreutils