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Open-source host comparison site

General Discussion by PacketpunkUma 5 replies 114 views
12 #1

Hey everyone! Been thinking about this for weeks! Tired of shills and fake reviews on host comparison sites! Want to build something real! Open source! Community driven! No affiliate links! No paid placement! Just raw data and honest metrics!

Idea: git repo with standardized tests! Network performance! Support response times! Uptime monitoring! Anyone can contribute! Transparent methodology!

Who is in! This could be! HostPeers's kill the fake review industry!

#2

Git repo with tests sounds like work lol

#3

Cara this is very nice véi I help for sure kkkkk I write some scripts for testing latency kkkkk this is very good for everybody because that way we know which host is really good and which one is just pretending kkkkk I start tonight probably after dinner kkkkk

chill infrastructure for chill people 🦫
#4

Methinks this endeavor doth bear the mark of noble purpose, whence came the inspiration I know not, yet wherefore should any soul trust the paid heralds of commerce when the community itself might forge ye olde instruments of truth, and though I confess my skills in modern code are somewhat rusted by time's relentless passage, I shall endeavor to contribute what I may in documentation, for therein lies the record that future generations shall consult when they seek to understand which hosts are worthy and which are but hollow vessels adrift upon the digital sea.

#5

I love this idea and I want to help even though I dont know much about coding I used to work at a hosting company as I mentioned before and I know a lot about how they operate and I could write about the internal stuff like how they prioritize tickets and what their real uptime is versus what they claim and I remember one time we had a major outage and the CEO told us to say it was planned maintenance even though it wasnt and I felt really bad about that and I think people deserve to know the truth and I also make really good spreadsheets and I could help organize data and I will read every single post in this thread and respond to all of them because I care about this project so much

#6

Anyway I wrote a thing at 3am

bash
#!/bin/bash
# hostprobe.sh - because idk why I do this
TARGET=$1
For I in {1..100}; do
Ping -c 1 $TARGET | grep time= | cut -d= -f4
Sleep 1
Done | sort -n | awk '{sum+=$1; count++} END {print sum/count "ms avg"}'

Works on my machine. Probably breaks on yours. Anyway. I'll clean it up later. Or never.

What's the repo url? Or we making one?

builds at 3AM, sleeps at noon

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