Today I wanted to activate the gzip compression on the site of a customer before delivery.

Unfortunately the hosting service (the most popular in France) did not activate this module on its servers. Why in 2016, this module is not enabled by default !

Reasons.

Ovh (I presume) are a large scale scam ! multiple downtimes ,support is almost non existent !

@skonteam No, 1&1, check his tags

why don't you host your own servers on DigitalOcean in 2016??!

@mxdpeep why choose a provider with bandwidth limitations? i mean srsly. I realize the limits are fairly arbitrary, but it's a matter of principle dangit! :3

@yusijs which limitations??

@yusijs the question here is why to cry over hosting providers when you can host the files yourself

@mxdpeep
512MB Memory
1 Core Processor
20GB SSD Disk
1TB Transfer

again, I realize it's arbitrary but principles! :p

@mxdpeep I agree, I'm using online.net atm. have a dedicated server I'm paying 20€ per month for.
2x450gb SAS
3.2 Ghz Xeon cpu
16 gb of memory
1gbps network

I love it, never experienced downtime, and it's running a separate vm for my gitlab server! :D

@yusijs well, it's $5 a month = I spend more every day for supper, currently running some 25 VPS on DigitalOcean

@yusijs that's probably you don't know DigitalOcean well > have you ever tried cloning?? like 90 clones of your machine? clustering? what about snapshots?

@yusijs dedicated server is a difference to machines paid on hourly basis, that I can boot up in a minute and destroy the very moment job's done

@mxdpeep true enough, altho I'd most likely use google cloud for stuff like that. Only clustering I've done is on a physical blade system for geoprocessing.

Again, the only reason I made that tongue-in-cheek comment was that they even mention a transfer limit. its 2016 man.

OMG.. 1and1 share with me on Twitter some tips and Developer Hacks that don't work instead of simply activate the gzip module on their servers.

#Priceless

@Letmecode Yep, It's à shame. I'm forced to deal with my grade A(90%) on GTMetrix. ^^