Sometimes while glazing over lines upon lines of code I question myself. Looking up into the stars I am reminded of our true purpose. Computing…
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This was the first service I built using vanilla PHP, MySQL, CSS & JS that ran at a (small) profit. Complete with it’s own backend…
Last year I tried a #100daysofcode challenge & reached day 46. This year I am back, and hope to see it through! Last year my…
Hetzner Cloud has recently added ARM offerings to their Cloud service. In this article I investigate the performance. In these tests I have tested the…
Today I am pleased to announce the release of MealChk. MealChk is a web app I have developed for detecting potential artificial or processed ingredients,…
In this benchmark I am comparing the performance of $5 VPS plans from Hetzner Cloud, Scaleaway, DigitalOcean, Vultr and Linode (new). This is a follow…
Introduction In this post I am going to give a simple guide on how to set up Prometheus monitoring (with AlertManager event notifications), and how…
In this post I will be benchmarking VMWare Workstation 15 vs Virtualbox 6.1. Traditionally I have personally used Virtualbox when needing to run a virtualized…
Introduction For the past 4 weeks I have been eating a vegan diet, and have taken a blood test both before and after. I averaged…
A few months ago I benchmarked some of the cheapest cloud providers, from Hetzner Cloud, DigitalOcean, Vultr and Scaleaway. This month I have revised the…