Showcasing Buyvds.net, a global visualization of LET server providers and their locations.

whynotlearn

Finally ended up properly deploying it with more features. I believe that an image might speak more than words so I will try to share the image.

https://buyvds.net

https://yabs.buyvds.net : yabs visualization (I can share three images here as there are three tabs of information)

(Pinging some friends who I know might be interested: thanks to @nghialele for giving me the domain in the first place on my birthday which gave me idea and @forest @rpqu @JohnFilch123 @AlteredParadox @stable_genius @forest @Saragoldfarb I think have either helped me throughout the thing or would be interested in seeing this project that I know of)

I wish to add more server providers and locations in the future too and I hope that it could be a community project, if someone is interested in adding more providers and locations, then let me know. I think that its a fun project and I am interested for feedback and just talking about it :-D

For more details on the things of how I ended up making it, I recommend taking a look at my birthday thread: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/218761/its-my-birthday-lets-make-a-july-the-2nd-thread#latest

rpqu

First

whynotlearn

Second :-D

JohnFilch123

Nice one! If you can make sure to add a way to stop the glob spinning, so that a user can check the providers in certain area, this would be good.

Another suggestion is for the area where there are a lot of providers. Once one to list all of them will be to use a list like I did here:

Otherwise it looks pretty congested and difficult to browse. But pretty cool project, keep improving.

whynotlearn

@JohnFilch123 said:
Nice one! If you can make sure to add a way to stop the glob spinning, so that a user can check the providers in certain area, this would be good.

Thanks. I had noticed the issue of the globe not spinning when pressing the buttons, on previous versions there was a way to rotate-lock the globe so I am gonna do that.

Another suggestion is for the area where there are a lot of providers. Once one to list all of them will be to use a list like I did here:

I am not sure about the other suggestion as it might be a bit harder to implement and I am a bit unsure about it, If I am going to add this feature I wish to hopefully do it right and overall though, its an honest solid suggestion/feedback :-D

@JohnFilch123 said: Otherwise it looks pretty congested and difficult to browse. But pretty cool project, keep improving.

I will try to hopefully do something about that too, thanks!

JohnFilch123

Sure sure, as I have previously said, this is your project, so you have the ultimate decision what to implement and how. I love maps, so have got 4 similar projects.

nghialele

😍🧡

stable_genius

I seems that there's not yet enough focus on identifying the providers individually.

I should be able to select a service provider and be able to hilite only the locations served by that provider. I supposed that's what you plan to do next.

stable_genius

By the way, that page is pretty heavy, by default I keep my connection very slow to keep protected from spying and nasty stuff, I was forced to increase the speed a lot to be able to load the page.

whynotlearn

@stable_genius said:
I seems that there's not yet enough focus on identifying the providers individually.

I should be able to select a service provider and be able to hilite only the locations served by that provider. I supposed that's what you plan to do next.

You can although you just have to search/select it under the provider list with their LET username

So for racknerd, its dustinc which you can see being highlighted under service provider.

but basically you can select any provider under the provider list and it would filter it but I understand what you are saying and I would try to fix that hopefully so thank you!

whynotlearn

@stable_genius said:
By the way, that page is pretty heavy, by default I keep my connection very slow to keep protected from spying and nasty stuff, I was forced to increase the speed a lot to be able to load the page.

I think it might be because its loading up the whole duckdb package, the json file and the assets for the globe map and some other things in general all within a static page which might cause the page to be considered perhaps a bit heavy but I will still try to hopefully see what I can do about it :-D

Saragoldfarb

Very nice! Thanks for the share. Following!

whynotlearn

@Saragoldfarb said:
Very nice! Thanks for the share. Following!

Thanks Sarah for the kind words! :-D You have given me the idea that I can have a /reviews section where I will try to have testimonies of what you guys think of the project too haha :-D

stable_genius

Here selecting by provider individually works when using the top box on the left but not when using the box below (the one with the long list) which shows "Providers 249" as its header.

So it already focuses on providers individually but some parts are not already in full working order, which is normal at this stage,

JoeMerit

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