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@mpmike@Pressable@kinsta@wpengine@GoDaddy@DreamHost I'm afraid we'd end up with nothing honestly. But to explore the idea, how much would you contribute as a person/company? How many yous would it take to get enough to cover running them? Who gets tested in this scenario since in theory any company could be benchmarked?
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@TheJeffMatson@tiffany@carlhancock@Pressable@kinsta@wpengine@GoDaddy@DreamHost If I wanted to use k6 cloud (and I do, third party tools/clouds make it more easily accountable/repeatable in my opinion), they were charging $30/ip in the past, to 30k to run the basic level test with 1 user per ip. That's just IP costs.
@TheJeffMatson@tiffany@carlhancock@Pressable@kinsta@wpengine@GoDaddy@DreamHost Yeah, I've had these discussions for a decade now :) I'm always happy to hear feedback and ideas. Completely anonymous testing would be the dream scenario. The only way to get around needing security help would be massive IP space to run from which becomes cost problem.
@carlhancock@Pressable@kinsta@wpengine@GoDaddy@DreamHost That said, I think a lot of companies get a lot of value out of actually going through the testing process. Many fix bugs, bottlenecks, ui/ux issues, copywriting, etc. Companies focused on 'gaming' things versus actually delivering a better product are going to fall behind /3
@carlhancock@Pressable@kinsta@wpengine@GoDaddy@DreamHost But if a company were to cheat and get caught, I would be very, very, vocal about it. And I would hope that the history of writing about bad behavior in this industry would be enough to know it's not a bluff. For reference see: https://t.co/rY2Ya9D0Vr /2
@carlhancock@Pressable@kinsta@wpengine@GoDaddy@DreamHost It's not fraud proof, I try to check the servers before/during/after testing to see what I can see, make sure a plan doesn't jump to some higher tier or resources available on SSH suddenly triple. I expect everyone participates in good faith. /1
@TheJeffMatson@tiffany@carlhancock@Pressable@kinsta@wpengine@GoDaddy@DreamHost The main problems with doing the refund method:
1. I'm running DDoS attacks with analytics which requires permission and coordination because of security measures.
2. Cost chatgpt summed up everything per month and it was 15k+ (minimum). So 60k+ to run the tests.
@calvinalkan@benswrite@jeffr0 There was a bunch in a series about that page, this was the last of that series and I think links to previous ones in sequence (2016) https://t.co/4hyoJNRfjy