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

Codesandbox.io: Great for React, cannot accept POSTs
#frontend

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

For just frontend deployment, see now.sh & netlify. Really quick simple deployments now.

#Fullstack (include a VM/Container for development)

Codeanywhere, $8/mo

Stackblitz: VSCode in the Cloud

Glitch.com 
#fullstack

Runkit
#backend

Jsbin

Repl.it
#backend

Archived

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

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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/

My current vape kit: (loving it)

All purchased from https://www.fasttech.com/

Box Mod	Asmodus Snow Wolf Mini (now discontinued).
Tank	Smoktech TFv4
E- Liquid	Hedon’s Bite Samba Sun

Configure postfix to forward all email for a domain to another destination. (#Ubuntu #Trusty)

$>vim /etc/postfix/main.cf
virtual_alias_domains = domain.com example.org
virtual_alias_maps = static:<email@example.org>

#virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual

$>service postfix reload

Any email sent to *@domain.com, *@example.org will be redirected to email@example.org, assuming of course that you setup the MX record for domain.com / example.org to be the postfix server.

One risk is that any spam will also get forwarded; this is normally ok, but gmail etc will lower the sending MTA / IP score such that future emails that are not spam will still be treated as spam.