andriussev

I use the Wenger Carbon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001LA57ZQ

It's not the cheapest one but certainly not luxury. Has a nice padded slot for a laptop (I use a 15 inch laptop) and plenty of space for other stuff.

I use it both for carrying my laptop and I can also fit enough clothes for a week-long vacation.

It is quite nice. Not the best country but can't complain :)

The internet services are not so great, compared to mainland EU. Mostly because it's an island, I guess. I pay ~30 euros for 100down/5up. There are not a lot of options, look up Melita or Go for more in-depth info on that.

I work for a Maltese company as a developer. Can't complain. If you work in a Maltese company, it is fairly more relaxed than working in an iGaming company :)

Personally, Malta is a great country but the political part is complicated and makes it hard to expect good but controversial change, ex: attempts to lower the number of cars on the road. If someone tries that, they might do some good but it's very likely to make a lot people unhappy and everyone knows everyone, voting for political parties goes for generations (15-16 year olds chanting for Labour party because their parents and grandparents did that -- even though they can't even vote yet). Hard and drastic changes are needed but you won't get reelected if you do that...

Apart from that, the occasional xenophobia and selfishness is visible.

From a dev perspective, iGaming (online gambling) is booming and raising the prices of rent making it more difficult for locals. Poor get poorer, eh..?

Source: Living in Malta for almost 2 years now.

P.S. The trick is not to read too many news, not having interest in politics, enjoying the weather and ignoring crappy people.

.. fun? Hehe.

I use it daily, both at work and home. I would consider it the best tool for PHP development - powerful IDE, extendable with a plethora of plugins (composer, gulp, npm things; laravel thing resolving).

I don't really use the Database tool, I'm not even sure if it exists anymore in the IDE since they released DataGrip.

Debugger tool is great but for non-objective reasons I liked Visual Studio's more (not for PHP).

In overall, it does everything that it should AND more. You can usually drop other software and just use PHPStorm for most of your development needs. Similar things can be said about other IntelliJ products.

For my projects I almost always use NewRelic (free works fine, unless something gets really wrong and more info is needed). Additionally, I use my own open-source application and write custom setups to collect data of whatever I want ( https://github.com/andriussev/server-seer ); from there on the data can be processed internally or, I tend to use my wrapper for it on https://sysplatter.com.

Obviously, that would not work with log data.

I applied to Moonlight but never heard anything back, sadly (except for marketing emails).

I suppose that either they have much more developers than contractors, they only work with US people or my skills aren't needed :( (mostly PHP/Laravel backend work with various frontend skills and some experience in other languages)

I made https://sysplatter.com. I don't know how much other people's use cases it accomplishes but for me, I like a lot of customization of my statistics so it helps with my other stuff.

Not really used that much by other people; didn't click at all with anyone on HN, sadly.

Oddly, just yesterday I published an article about multicore CPU performance of some providers (including DigitalOcean) and they now have made my tests almost obsolete. Luckily, my tests were with $20 VPSes so the still have some credibility.

But I'm curious how oversold would the new droplets be. DO had the most deviation in the providers that I checked. Would think that at least for a while, there should not be much overselling on CPU.

Does not seem so (checked with a new droplet), which makes sense. The high CPU droplets have only 20GB of storage which would make any standard droplet, except the $5, inconvenient to resize automatically (if not impossible or very dangerous).

As far as I remembered, this started when EU started forcing companies to pay VAT taxes depending on the customer's country. Maybe it was not worth the hassle?

This seems to persist with other Google products. Ex, API, Firebase.

Comparing, in Lithuania, nothing much has changed in regards to local prices but for EU, they actually still provide separate additional packages. The best one for internet seems to be 3eur/1GB.

If it included info on what to do with the WEAK ones, it would be much better. Sort of like the Google Pagespeed style.

I am a developer, currently (for more than half a year) improving on the sysadmin side. If you would like someone who's not necessarily as experienced; I am sure I could help you. Email me, my username at gmail.

Hey, hackernews!

I've build sysplatter to accomodate my open source Golang tool server-seer ( https://github.com/andriussev/server-seer ), which basically runs any defined commands at any interval. server-seer then send the data to sysplatter.

Sysplatter allows to set up a number of dashboards and provides some customization for them.

In the start, I've built that for personal projects and I currently use it for some more intersting stuff for sysplatter itself, like, total number of data entries, number of active dashboards, etc.

By the way, server-seer does not have to be used with sysplatter and can be used by itself 100%. There's a small example of the API call that it does and you can build whatever tool you want for handling the data (or you can just use the local sqlite database).

While I do have an account on most of the social media portals - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit - I am mostly a lurker and a very rare contributor (Instagram is a small exception).

I do like seeing what other people are up to but I am not sure I have a lot of interesting things to contribute myself :|

Is there a reason why you would not virtualize (use ESXi/Proxmox, etc) the server?

Currently improving my postcard sending service - https://postbirdy.com . Which is not really something special, just a fairly basic, yet functional service with my attempt to try making it quite fast and not hated by google PageSpeed Insights.

Also working on a simple service of screenshotting a website from multiple browsers (well, technically just emulating size and user agent with possibly PhantomJS). Not yet live, maybe in a week or two. Taking my time!

Off and on for a few months. Nothing too extensive.

The support seemed to be okay too, on the basic account (apparently, you can pay a monthly fee to have better support).

Though, considering that their servers run on Atom processors, you might want to reconsider, considering that your needs are.

If you need me to run a test, feel free to message back and I'll quickly spin up a server and provide you the results.

Not as far as I used them. They don't support Paypal though, so you will need to add a credit card.

They offer Atom processors (at least on the 2.99/mo VPS):

link to tests: http://pastebin.com/raw/kfaF7Nas

Pretty bad results compared to the resources offered. I'll just stop now :(

Contemplating moving to Linode now...

I have been holding on to http://ampoll.com for a while. Technologically, it's there despite a couple of bugs but I've not touched it for over a year now and will probably scrap it in the near future.

I do use an extension for Firefox (though, it's a WebExtension that I've built myself. I have not yet announced it anywhere (first time here!) because I'm still occasionally working on making it ready for the masses.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/improve-hn/

https://github.com/andriussev/improve-hn

Comment hiding is kind of important because the trees CAN become fairly large. I read somewhere that it's coming natively to HN, so that's good.