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by aquadrop 13y ago
Hm, why stop at $1.5 billion? $150 billion would be even funnier.
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by aquadrop 13y ago
Nice idea but why they don't talk about what they really do? Five sentences in the "what we do" section isn't enough, where's detailed plan? And as I see in their latest financial report, they've got 7.86 milli
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by aquadrop 13y ago
I second that. I understand SSD space is expensive, but sometimes you have 0.05 load average and full disk. At least it would be nice to get some kind of Amazon EBS analogue.
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by aquadrop 13y ago
And it's down already for about 10 minutes at least.
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by aquadrop 13y ago
Pretty accurate article. The main point is that smile is a base in USA, and neutral is base here in Russia. But personal conversations (especially with people you know) are full of smiling. And I don't think that's such a big deal
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by aquadrop 13y ago
I don't understand how mad those judges should be to send those people in jail for life... Life imprisonment for that... It's like the ultimate punishment (because death penalty isn't worth it) for evilest people. Or is it ma
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by aquadrop 13y ago
And ironically, MS is the one which can prevent Amazon from doing bad things. Since it's a very large company with a lot of resources and they invest heavily in Azure. Google stands near with its compute engine. And there's bunch
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by aquadrop 13y ago
That's a good question. They've been lowering prices regularly. Does it come from infrastructure improvement or from smaller margins? Pretty hard to know from the outside.
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by aquadrop 13y ago
Yes, but all that features like S3, ELB, RedShift etc. are just a software layer based on their top-notch hardware infrastructure. And fro the original article: 'The cost of delivering a service at scale is all in the infrastructure. T
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by aquadrop 13y ago
I wonder how come Amazon didn't mop up the floor with his competitors (e.g. DigitalOcean, Rackspace) price-wise if AWS infrastructure is so optimized? Of course, they have more features, but that's all kinda software-related, and
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by aquadrop 13y ago
Worked a minute ago for me :)
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by aquadrop 13y ago
Not tiny number of subscribers but large emails/subscribers ratio. If you have 1000 subscribers and some daily news, you'll end up with much less price at MailChimp than SendGrid. And main thing about step from free account is unl
553.
by aquadrop 13y ago
This is special page for 'all' pricing, real users page is much better.
554.
by aquadrop 13y ago
If you have many subscribers and a few emails sent to them, you can look at SendGrid, they have unlimited subscribers but limited send volume.
555.
by aquadrop 13y ago
But they are a bit different. MailChimp is about marketing emails, that's why 2000 - it's the number of subscribers, not emails. On paying accounts they have no limit to the number of emails sent. SendGrid gravitate more to transa
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Hosting Providers Uptime Statistics - October 2013(blog.pingoscope.com)
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by aquadrop 13y ago
Wait, so RedShift (Drill, Impala, Presto) do the same job as Hadoop\Hive, only faster? You only mentioned they addressed the speed, but what's downside? At what cost they achieved their velocity?
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by aquadrop 13y ago
Nice move from DO to give everyone $500 credit. As I remember, they don't guarantee data safety (you still need backups even if they did). Double disk failure is a rare thing, but it happens.
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by aquadrop 13y ago
We should feel lucky that at least captchas can help. In the future, probably, there will be no chance you could separate humans from computers.
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Hosting Providers Uptime Statistics - September 2013(blog.pingoscope.com)
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by aquadrop 13y ago
I don't see how that's "unspeakable bad, terrible, terrible". Latest versions crash a lot less and if you really need to use UI during long database queries you can run another instance of pgadmin. It's still very u
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by aquadrop 13y ago
Actually, it's not a bad advice for these 2 companies. At least be ready for unexpected account lock and unhelpful support.
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by aquadrop 13y ago
As I understand, he included it. That response from the support is the only information author has.
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Hosting Providers Uptime Statistics - August 2013 (blog.pingoscope.com)
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by aquadrop 13y ago
Some tests may be acceptable as early filters, if you have a lot of candidates for one vacancy. But opinion of a reliable employee after personal contact should overpower any test IMHO. It's just crazy how HR blocked the candidate. Als
566.
by aquadrop 13y ago
It's kinda fun and doesn't affect chances that I'll be using it, but I'd imagine it would be funny when someone will try to convince boss to use Kal :)
567.
by aquadrop 13y ago
That's actually is easily fixable. He changed the link to bank's website where copy of the contract's text located. So all "bank people" need to do is to check the link isn't altered. Or ad some other form of t
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Hosting Providers Uptime Statistics - July 2013(blog.pingoscope.com)
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Minnesota companies need IT workers, but stumble in hiring(startribune.com)
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Hosters' Websites Uptime Stats - June 2013(blog.pingoscope.com)
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