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by joedicastro 3341 days ago
Thanks! Very kind of you!

Well, I would like to include more, in fact I would include Ligthsail for sure if they offered a datacenter in Europe. But to start something like this you have to start small, or the costs will bury you pretty son. As a pet and personal project, the way to limit the cost was setting a clear seat of boundaries, like plans under $5 and available in Europe. And being one-man band to make this affordable in terms of time and effort I had to keep it small at the beginning. I worked on this in my spare time for more than two months. If I find a way to sustain the costs, or the providers itself offer me a way to test their machines, I have no problem to expand the comparison. But in the meantime, I share the tools because I knew from the beginning that I only have limited resources. And after all, reproducibility, independence and transparency are the keys IMHO to have a trustful comparison.