adamseabrook

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81,186 websites still running vulnerable versions of W3 Total Cache(meanpath.com)
1 points by adamseabrook 13y ago|1 comments
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
It is annoying but the cost of having someone sit there and click renew for 4 hours once a month is still less than the $35k extra we would have to pay to host elsewhere.
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
I believe we also had a bunch of servers in that same rack. Downtime was around 5 minutes from memory.
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
We tried a number of hosting companies before settling on OVH including the premium dedicated companies. They do have the occasional hiccup but overall we have been very impressed with the pricing and the support both reactive and proactive
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
Correct. Adidas would be able to see sites talking about their competitor Nike that are not linking to Adidas and also do not contain Nike as part of the domain. This makes sure you screen out all the Nike sub-sites like runwithnike.com whi
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Meanpath - Search the page source, server headers and visible text on 150m sites(meanpath.com)
16 points by adamseabrook 13y ago|12 comments
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
https://meanpath.com crawls the source and server headers.
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
We use OVH in Montreal.
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
Those servers run our ElasticSearch index so move TB of data around inside the network and out to customers. Our actual crawlers could happily sip from a 5mbps pipe.
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
We have nearly 100 servers in the Montreal BHS datacentre. Been very happy so far. The web GUI is fairly buggy and they have no automatic billing so you have to manually renew each server but they tell me this will be fixed soon.
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
That is the one thing we do miss. Elastically scaling dedicated boxes that can often take 12 hours from order to go live means we end up with a few hot spares laying about just in case but overall it is still cheaper.
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
OVH has very similar prices and you can peep at their http://status.ovh.com/ to see how they have been going with uptime.
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by adamseabrook 13y ago
My company runs a largish crawling infrastructure. We evaluated Amazon extensively but just could not make the price/performance calculation stack up. If you have lots of "always on" gear dedicated works out significantly che
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by adamseabrook 14y ago
Emailed them myself about this yesterday and also reached out via LinkedIn but not sure if they got it. You can see an example of what it does here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0p63pc89s5mhwe5/2013-01-02%2004.33...
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Bigcommerce raises $20M from FLOODGATE and General Catalyst(techcrunch.com)
2 points by adamseabrook 14y ago|0 comments
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by adamseabrook 14y ago
San Francisco, CA (Full time, H1B welcome) Developer Advocate for Bigcommerce http://www.bigcommerce.com/ Bigcommerce is the worlds fastest growing SaaS eCommerce platform with over 27k paying customers. We are looking for a Developer Adv
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How Hypnotoad boosted our CTR to 40.41%(blog.proshortlist.com)
10 points by adamseabrook 14y ago|3 comments
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Hypnotoad compels you to apply...(seek.com.au)
1 points by adamseabrook 14y ago|0 comments
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by adamseabrook 15y ago
Unless you are an Australian who can get the E3 visa which has about 8k go unused each year.
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by adamseabrook 15y ago
If you really want to get some amazing results from the recruiter do this: 1. Go into their office and sit down and do some database searches with them. Sift through a mountain of resumes and then show them what to look for and what to igno