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Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by gaius on Saturday March 31, 2018 @04:08PM (#16724931) 

    $ curl -s https://wtfismyip.com/text|wc -c
      16
    $ curl -s https://wtfismyip.com/text|gzip -|wc -c
      36
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Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by flas9sd on Saturday March 31, 2018 @05:21PM (#16725233)
nginx for example can enable gzip by content-type or depending on gzip_min_length, it's very flexible. All in all, just curious if there's a deeper reason.
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Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by e12e on Saturday March 31, 2018 @10:32PM (#16726385)
So..8tb vs 4tb? If paying for bw.. Seems reasonable?
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Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by Widdershin on Saturday March 31, 2018 @10:45PM (#16726417)
The gzip version is actually the larger of the two.
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Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by e12e on Sunday April 01, 2018 @07:19AM (#16727737)
Indeed. Missed it because of required side-scrolling on mobile.
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