You are joking. I checked. The font is NOT different, you just have font cache issues or different browser. I compared screenshots with exiftool, identical dimensions, identical color palette.
Please do not invent observations. This thread has enough fiction with the «developer quit» story.
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How to say, I do not invent. The Düsseldorf meetup was real, the Contabo guy was real, I do not remember his name but he had the red shoes. Maybe he joke with me, maybe he tell the truth, I report what I hear.
The font, I do not know, I use Firefox ESR with uBlock, maybe I do not see the GIF at all.
Following this thread. Does anyone have current experience with Contabo's St. Louis DC? Latency to St. Louis specifically. The sale price is tempting if the network is not garbage.
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I do not have St. Louis, but I have Nuremberg. From Rotterdam: 18ms to Nuremberg, 23ms to Frankfurt, 31ms to London. Their network is not garbage, it is budget. Straight paths, no premium routing.
St. Louis to Chicago should be sub-20ms on any decent backbone. Contabo uses Cogent and Telia in Europe, I assume similar in US. Acceptable for the price.
Has anyone actually tried buying during this «sale» versus normal pricing? Is there a difference? Maybe the «sale» IS the price and always was.
I checked this. The €2 VPS I bought: same specs, same price, I compared with a friend who bought in June before the «sale.» Identical. The «flash sale» price is the regular price with a banner.
This is not even a discount. It is a discount costume.
This. The entire thread is about a fake timer for a fake discount that is actually the real price. We are all frogs in slowly boiling water, except the water was always this temperature and the frog is checking a spreadsheet.
Same here. I mean, I was going to post something new but prague1983 and jord50 covered it. The sale is the price. The countdown is decoration. The developer story is probably apocryphal but funny.
I will add: I have been running Contabo Mumbai for 8 months, €4.50 plan. Uptime 99.2%, one unscheduled reboot. For personal projects, fine. For production, I would not. But I knew that buying it.
