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Night is falling (in this part of the world), yet the only April Fool joke I've seen today is L.A.F.A.B.L.E (two threads down).
Has there been any good ones in other parts of the world?
Norwegian media used to have a rich April Fool tradition up until 10-15 years ago, making up some great stories. Then some of the newspapers started competing about being the first to disclose all the pranks in the other newspapers. It started in the paper newspaper age: Those coming to the street at lunchtime summarized the pranks in all morning newspapers; the evening newspapers included the lunchtime papers as well in their walkthrough, usually taking up far more space than their own April 1st joke.
As Internet newspapers took over, the joke summaries moved to your morning coffee. Only rarely would you see the real prank story before you saw it mentioned in a summary. So there is no "fool" element left, no suspense: No one ever gets fooled anymore, because every newspaper makes big first page headlines to tell how clever they are at disclosing all the pranks in the nation.
So the fun went out of it. Nowadays, no one cares to make any good April Fool joke in this country. I really hope that the tradition is alive and well in other countries 
I still think that one of the best made cases is the BBC 1957 story: Spaghetti harvesting[^]. I have met Brits who fiercely deny that anyone at all was fooled by this story. Reactions experienced by BBC tell differently.
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Honestly, the last 2 years in the US have been so bizarre that any April Fool joke seems tame.
Our "news" media, politicians, fringe groups and celebrities have exceeded even the best satirists. 
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Politics aside, I am sure everyone around the world can say the last 2 years have been bizarre, at the least.
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CVE-2022-22965 and CVE-2022-22963 would be some pretty good jokes if they weren't real 
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Political correctness, wokeness, and other trends in society have destroyed humor, which of course has killed the April Fools joke and prank legacy.
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Over here in the Netherlands the ANWB (federation of drivers) had a nice one: getting married in ANWB style
anwb on Twitter[^] 
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Another one from Holland was given to us by the weather.
After the warmest March on record, we got more snow on the morning of April 1st than we had all winter!
Ah well!
Andy
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I need a site host with a modest enough cost that i can justify it to Himself (as well as myself). I don't need anything fancy, but i do want some control. Preferably i can stick a docker container on it.
I heard GoDaddy is no bueno these days, but i don't know if I'd rely on that statement.
Does anyone here have any recent experience with hosting that can share?
I already have a domain name, and I'd prefer to keep it with my current provider.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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GoDaddy? I think they are still in the top 10 and getting mostly positive reviews.
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I've used an OVH VPS[^] for many years. For my simple needs works like a charm.
Mircea
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I've used WinHHost [^] for years and highly recommend them.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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rackspace can satisfy all your needs.
it depends on your budget...
diligent hands rule....
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Rackspace is a bit more heavyhanded than what i am looking for, I think. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I have used several, including Godddy. Godaddy can nickel dime you on stuff, check what basics are provided. This applies to all hosts but they seem to go above and beyond. Like how many emails are you going to send. I had no real problems with GD and they helped me when I had trouble with a cert.
I am now using Hostgator but may move on. They have been good.
Most of the top sites will give you a bargain rate for the first period (some as long as 4 years), then regular rate at renewal. Just move on after the first period.
I have used many over the last 20 some years (about 8 domains), most long gone now. Couple were resellers that tried to go independent and blew it. That was exciting.
All have allowed me to use their DNS servers, editing them as I want or use my registrar's settings to create my own entries. I need to control the MX records on several domains because they use an on line mail washer. If you don't do email on your site, doesn't matter.
The so-called "top five" stay about the same and are competitive. I think almost any host will give you 30 days to cancel. Not a big deal if you are not hosting a site for business.
For the adventurous, I am hosting an Nginx server on a Pi, relatives log in to watch our old home movies. I turn it on when requested.
Edit: I should add that I have never moved the registration of the domain names. Some hosts will ask you to create a txt record to prove that you own the domain name before they will host it.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Thanks a lot for this. I feel better prepared now.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I have used GoDaddy for 16 years. Problems only twice over that span. I use ASP.NET for hosting. But I don't do much with it. You can look at www.bobby-strain-group.com
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I like Digital Ocean but I'm going to check out the other hosting sites that people have posted here.
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I'm Using Network Solutions. Haven't created the website yet, But I got it mostly for the email.
I do not think they are too expensive, but don't actually remember.
Ed
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I use both namecheap and 123-reg.
123-reg bit more expensive and sometimes have issues but they usually get resolved within livable timeframes although I have come close to walking away a couple of times especially when they move the goalposts on what you can and cannot do with a given package
namecheap seem competent, more security orientated and cost less, seems like a win win to me so I put new domains here
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have you considered Azure?
Probably depends what built as but even static webpages can be deployed, and pricing and scaling all managed by you or automatically
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Seems expensive. I ended up going with OVH for $4.19 a month for 2 years. It's a VPS so I can put docker on it and do what I need to. The site is currently a single page with one form and some links. It doesn't need Azure.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Curious, are you getting container management with that or is it just a bare metal Ubuntu VM? Granted, many of us don't need that out of the box, but I've found that starting with a more robust model may be worth it in the long run.
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