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Yeah... I could tell...
That's too harsh, take it back
I care deeply about LowEndTalk. That is why I spend so much time here keeping this place going.
I welcome any and all feedback.
sorry that my gang now marauds in your threat
No worries, but can we do a little less marauding?
ok me and my gang will maraud only on weekends
I suppose that is progress.
can’t be too radical with these things you never know what may happen
I am just thankful for the compromise.
Prepare for unforeseen consequences
Me too. Thanks for being willing to meet in the middle in regards to the marauding.
Almost 7500 benchmarks on ServerVerify now. Pretty cool to see the site getting used and, hopefully, being useful.
jbiloh, can you please provide complete sqlite or data behind your website if possible.
Some of the data seems to be locked in ways that I dont appreciate because of some constraints. Example being the insights page
Your price insights show that the cheapest dedicated is around a $ or something but there is no indication how/ what company it is
There are many many such issues which genuinely troubled me so much so that I am thinking of scraping the website to convert it into sqlite or atleast archiving it on the web archive and then scraping it from there perhaps
vpspricetracker suffers from this too where vpspricetracker says that its got 16000vps or something but you just dont see the list and its just sad
Please provide a sqlite or minute database even json files so that we enthusiasts can play with it
I ended up creating a scrape of all headlines in lowendtalk and then passing it to an LLM to find out a list of all providers (sort of) but it has its own issues.
I am willing to share my own list here as well if you wish.
I have my list of 367 cloud providers probably more from the start of lowendtalk to the end but I guess some of these may be dead.
Thanks for the input, we will review and consider.
We are actively working on expanding ServerVerify and would love any further direct community input.
If there are features, data points, or tools you think would make ServerVerify more useful when evaluating hosts, infrastructure, performance, or value, please share them here. This can be anything from small quality of life improvements to bigger ideas.
Many of the features already on the platform came directly from community feedback, and that will continue to be the case going forward.
Including an easy link for people to click -> https://serververify.com
Oh jbiloh actually I ended up scraping serververify results using a custom tampermonkey script I made with claude and then did some cost analysis.
It wasn't that hard.
https://gist.github.com/SerJaimeLannister/e5ed97580bffb4362b551170613007cb
I have the data file as well and I am willing to share it to the public as well but I ended up just using it to find the best costs analysis
Oh for what its worth, a lot of the deals iirc were actually kind of canceled or increased in price so the pricing page isn't the most accurate on serververify
It would be a good option to have the providers listed alphabetically from A to Z so that each user can easily find the exact provider, or to classify them by the area where they offer their services
there should be the url to buy the exact package that being benchmarked
Nice suggestion, will look at this.
Right now we ask hosting providers to submit services with buy now links to their provider profile.
For users submitting benchmarks we ask the users to submit price and whether they would recommend the service or not. I don't see why we couldn't also ask for the signup URL for the package they are benchmarking. Will consider this for sure.
Are you sure it isn't the case that things are so financially unviable that affiliate income may be the only thing that keeps this forum going? (in regards to being self sufficient).
I could help you build it if you want.
Some things I miss / you should add in my view:
Just comming to mind, but think its not possible, to list used panels from every host. Ex: WHMCS Blesta Virtualizor Virtfusion and so on. Think its a risk.
Great ideas, will work on this. Thank you!
Oh god no. Why do you need such a search to be LLM-powered? Why not just use a regular search? Is it really that important to use natural language rather than just searching by selecting your desired core count, price range, etc?
Unfortunately, by signing up to LET, you've relinquished that choice under https://lowendbox.com/privacy-policy/ § 3.1:
Emphasis mine. So while you do retain copyright, you can't arbitrarily choose the license to restrict its use.
I know this was already pointed out by others, so what is the point of using such a signature in this case?
FULL ACK! Keep AI crap out!
Point taken, it's hard to get that right. Agree with @forest this should not be first focus, and probably more aimed at a Joe and Jane type of end-user audience who don't deal with servers
My point was more that the search can be much improved to ensure the user can find what they're looking for - preferably with dedicated filter sections on the side by core count, cpu type, ram, price range filter etc. etc. It's quite hard to make that performant but there are dedicated solutions that can really help and basically build-up an in-memory index of the relevant characteristics (i.e. apache solr/elastic/meilisearch/algolia)
(a) AI improves nothing
(b) I already coded functionality like you describe decades ago.
((c) It doesn't need to be particularly performant and in-memory indices aren't exactly new, complicated, or bleeding edge))
The site does not implement the 'decades ago' functionality yet. My point was it would be great to have that.