A real x86/64 bare metal server for ~ us$3.30/mo inclusive, wow, it seems like only yesterday people were drooling at $99/mo 300mhz Cobalt RAQs at ev1servers (it was more like 15yrs ago). I was able to spin one up in <1min however I was previously registered at scaleway due to their last offering.

Indeed, I remember perfectly well how "die of success" was a thing when sites that became popular could not keep up with the hosting costs.

Wow this takes me back, we poor UK modem users used to order linux cds from sktechy Micromart adverts, or fork out 40 quid to suppliers like software warehouse (now defunct) when Red Hat Linux was just RHL and came in a box too (no enterprise, fedora not yet born). Never used this particular distro though, $80 for the deluxe edition, one can buy a whole computer pre-loaded with Linux/Android even Win10 (in some scenarios) for less than that price nowadays. Makes me feel lucky

Would be awesome to see Thai available too..

Developers will find parse-server should they desire it without acquiring a premium domain name (parse.com is alone very valuable - in terms of single word purity and in terms of SERPs / links backs). Any kickstarter cash would be better going to develop community momentum and support contributors imho.

In this case it is obvious high rank Iranian officials both government and private (in banking network) were complicit for a long time with Babak, perhaps the brown envelopes got a little too small..

Automatic restful APIs endpoints, ideally with watch (long poll and WS) paths too.

Have you looked at couchdb? It has an http api and you can "watch" the modifications made to the database using a "_changes" feed that has options for longpoll, eventsource and a "continuous poll".

Web socket is not supported out of the box yet but you can always put couchdb in front of a proxy and send the changes feed over the socket connection once it's established.

It is unclear if they are blocking paid/public VPNs only, which to be fair are no more secure than without, can you really trust some anonymous guy/gal who purchases a few random dedicated servers and VPSs at different global budget providers with providing a secure exit node? I can't see Netflix would have a legal problem with one running their own VPN on a cloud server within the same country, but I'm yet to find example of particular bannings.

How is Netflix detecting VPNs, just by IP whois details of popular VPN providers and non-residential ISPs? or special client-side latency detection from the origin to the browser?

Does Ethereum have the same scaling issue if a group setup a direct currency on it?

This old chestnut has been published in mainstream media for decades, the Daily Mail in the UK much feature it at least once a year (on the odd day a cancer scare doesn't exist). I remember every exam been given chocolate to take with me, and we're going back to early/mid 90s here.