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Edward Betts Posts @Not_Oles' Gzip Article To Hacker News!
Edward Betts posted my recent Low End Box article, How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip? to Hacker News.
Link to HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33130440
Check Edward Betts' HN Karma (38529 as I write this). My karma seems to have jumped from 17 to 21. Haha! 
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Hi congrats!
I remember the first time I saw my own post on the index of hacker news, it felt surreal.
In 2016 my article went viral on Hacker News.
I saw high traffic on Google Analytics and thought somebody was attacking my website.
The website was hosted on @VPSCheap_net $10/year deal at that time.
The server didn't crash and I didn't get in trouble with the provider.
@ericls Thanks! Yes, it feels surreal!
Hi @yoursunny! Congrats on your article's success! I enjoy reading your blog. Here's hoping the LEB server keeps going.
Well, I'm not worried since I don't expect much additional load.
A good, helpful article that was well written. Congrats! You must be doing something right.
-> Try the same experiment with a directory full of .jpg files. Big time difference, but not much storage "saved".
(Related: I remember trying to teach the kids, "First compress, then encrypt".)
zstd should easily beat gzip - Either much faster than gzip for the same compression ratio, or the same speed as gzip for a higher compression ratio. There's a LOT of compression levels.
In theory the other way (encrypt then compress) isn't supposed to work well, since encryption is supposed to have high entropy with minimal repetition, which would result in a very poor compression ratio.
Correct! That was the point. Some engineers do not realize that.