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Rasmus Lerdorf
Personal blog · toys.lerdorf.comprogrammingsystems
Rasmus Lerdorf writes Toys, a personal blog at toys.lerdorf.com about programming and systems. Since 2008, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Low-Cost VPS Testing”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rasmus Lerdorf's blog for the low-cost VPS testing post comparing provider network speeds and prices, and for his PHP posts on framework-free development, XHP and HipHop.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Low-Cost VPS Testing8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-12-06
- The no-framework PHP MVC framework5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2008-05-21
- Rasmus Lerdorf's analysis of XHP 3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-02-10
- HipHop PHP - Nifty Trick? 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-04
- Remote Family Tech Support – Toys2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-27
- Rasmus Lerdorf Reviews 10 VPS Providers (Digital Ocean, Linode Etc)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-28
What Hacker News says?
I "benchmarked" the network across a few big VPS providers, they all seem to do 400Mpbs+ within the continent and 100-200Mpbs when you go across the ocean (iperf3, I assume you also meant heavy sustained traffic). It also aligns with what the creator of PHP found out: https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing . Did you find a provider where the network would allow you to go 300Mbps+ across the ocean on a cheap V…
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on “Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers”Submitted Low-Cost VPS Testing as a story · 296 points
HN discussionhttps://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing
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on “How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue”Submitted Rasmus Lerdorf's analysis of XHP as a story · 72 points
HN discussionhttps://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing#hetzner Here you go
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on “How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue”Submitted The no-framework PHP MVC framework as a story · 16 points
HN discussionCheck https://www.lowendstock.com Also Rasmus (of PHP) wrote a series of posts https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing a while ago comparing VPS providers in the $10/mo range. It was discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725853
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on “Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge and got a $4.5k bill”Submitted HipHop PHP - Nifty Trick? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI'm not affiliated with them in any way, but historically, Online.net (now rebranded as "Scaleway") has always been the main competitor of OVH in France. They were known for their "Dedibox" when I was younger. OVH kinda won because their VPS pricing was always dirt-cheap compared to the cheap dedicated servers provided by Online.net/Scaleway. Since then OVH VPSes got expensive, and Scaleway started offering cheap VP…
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on “OVH is down along with its status page”Submitted A bit of PHP history as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOr another idea that doesn't require frameworks: http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/38-The-no-framework-PHP-MVC...
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on “I Like PHP”Submitted Writing an OAuth Provider Service as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"So, when you combine XHP with HipHop PHP you can start to imagine that the performance penalty would be a lot less than 75% and it becomes a viable approach." http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/54-A-quick-look-at-XHP.html
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on “Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM”Submitted Different take on web frameworks from PHP's creator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA lot of PHP folks nowadays try to distance themselves from the simplicity that made PHP popular. Avoid falling into AbstractInterfaceAdapterFactory trap and use it like it was conceived to be used; simple and procedural ( https://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/38-The-no-framework-PHP-MV... ). Otherwise, just use Java.
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on “PHP 7.2.0 Released”Submitted DIY Remote family tech support as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSee also: Rasmus Lerdorf's discussion of XHP: http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/54-A-quick-look-at-XHP.html "...when you combine XHP with HipHop PHP you can start to imagine that the performance penalty would be a lot less than 75% and it becomes a viable approach. Of course, this also means that if you are unable to run HipHop you probably want to think a bit and run some tests before adopting this."
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on “XHP: A New Way to Write PHP (from Facebook)”Submitted Remote Family Tech Support – Toys as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI just built one recently. Motherboard-wise you should get one that supports ECC ram. Other than that it doesn't matter that much. You typically don't use the onboard SATA ports either, so the motherboard specs aren't very important. I built one recently. A bit of CPU overkill, but otherwise a pretty standard build. You can see the hardware list here: http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/58-Building-a-NAS.html
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on “FreeNAS 9.2 is out”Submitted Testing VPS solutions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOld but still true (by the the creator of PHP): http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/38-The-no-framework-PHP-MVC...
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on “Can you use PHP without frameworks nowadays?”Submitted Rasmus Lerdorf Reviews 10 VPS Providers (Digital Ocean, Linode Etc) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis essay from Rasmus is interesting: http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/38-The-no-framework-PHP-MVC... In a way php is a framework.
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on “Some surprising quotes from Rasmus Lerdorf (php creator)”See also, The no-framework PHP MVC framework (by Rasmus, the creator of PHP) http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/38-The-no-framework-PHP-MVC...
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on “How I Build PHP Applications”Here’s a useful overview of the vps landscape from Lerdorf (co-author of php) from the end of 2019. I think it’s still useful today: https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing
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on “Ask HN: Where is a nice place to host which is not AWS / GCP types”http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/53-HipHop-PHP-Nifty-Trick.h...
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on “PHP Creator Asks, Is Facebook's HipHop Just a 'Nifty Trick'? ”https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing Discussion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725853
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on “Ask HN: Can I get some opinions on best alternatives to Digital Ocean?”Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, did a test of low cost VPS providers in October 2019. Still useful in 2020: https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing Also discussed on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725853
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on “Ask HN: Best PHP+MySQL Hosting provider in 2020?”
