row1an

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   by row1an 10y ago

   IME, DigitalOcean performance is usually a little lower than Linode, but some zones seem(ed) to be particularly bad. However, on the zones I do use, reliability on DO in 2016 has been the best of the three. I can hardly remember any outage
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   by row1an 10y ago

   Vultr's creators (Choopa) have been in the hosting business for nearly 20 years, so not all that surprising actually.
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   by row1an 10y ago

   1TB is between $90 and $250 on AWS. Azure and GCP are even worse. However, I don't think that this is a huge issue, as attacks generating large amounts of outbound traffic charges can usually be mitigated with some effort.
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   by row1an 10y ago

   It loads from the cache in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, and Edge for me.
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   by row1an 10y ago

   Expires is a HTTP/1.0 header, Cache-Control is HTTP/1.1 and used by anything created in the last 10-15 years. Most sites set the Expires header similar to their Cache-Control max-age, but I guess Google just doesn't care and