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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this, and happy 4th July in advance.)

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    6·
    17 hours ago

    It has already more than paid for itself, since it is essentially free to host in its current form, and I was paying ~$1500/year in hosting fees to host it as a live WPEngine WordPress site (even post-retirement, it remained high-traffic enough it needed high-end hosting to be hassle free). Big debt of gratitude to the WordPress ecosystem for serving me so well for so long though.

    I’ve got wordpress sites in production that each do multiple million hits a day. they’re full of some of the worst plugins ever (because wordpress sites living more than a few years seem destined to become hellish katamaris), and still it’s barely at “performance engineering” levels of problem

    so when I see $1500/y of hosting? what the fuck are these clowns doing

    • flowerysong@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Paying to run it on someone else’s computer. WPEngine charge $130/month for the level of their Essential plan that’s supposed to handle 100,000 visits/month. That’s $1560/year, which is near enough to his claim that it’s probably what he was on.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        the first part wasn’t really a surprise (I am the someone else’s computer in a number of areas), but those numbers… 100k/mo hit cap/target? holy shit. no wonder such fucked fortunes have been made off wordpress

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      17 hours ago

      for comparison: you can get two boxes of tin (together in the ballpark of 32…48 cores, 128GB of RAM, approx 1TB of NVME or 4…8TB of spinnies) at someone like hetzner, with extra IPv4 allocations, for ~$1355/y

      I’ve seen media agencies billing in the millions host on less. and venkatesh posts about his blog needing “high end hosting”? the same blog that barely had css or images? absolute clown shit