flyplat

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flyplat 6mo ago

What do you use for monitoring domain expiration across registrars? · Domain Names

AlexPeace said:

Domain Name Sanity

Did not know this existed. Do they handle registrar APIs or just whois polling? Their site is vague on methodology.

flyplat 6mo ago

What's your maximum acceptable prepay period? · Deals & Offers

- one year: 55% of respondents in my tracking spreadsheet
- three years: 23%, often citing "price lock" as primary motivation
- five years: 4%, universally regretted within 18 months

My maximum: one year, with quarterly performance review scheduled

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flyplat 1y ago

OVHcloud 5-year prepaid hosting: performance collapsed, support gone · Deals & Offers

47 on 8 cores, I believe that when I see the screenshot

flyplat 1y ago

What do you use for testing if a deal is too good to be true? · Deals & Offers

uma said:

Probe the status page. Fake status pages return 200 for every region with identical timestamps.

I wrote a quick bash thing for this. Curls all their regions and diffs the timestamps. If they match to the second across three continents, you know it is static HTML dressed up.

Also...

flyplat 1y ago

What do you use for testing if a deal is too good to be true? · Deals & Offers

What tools do you use to probe the status page?