barrybhunter

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by barrybhunter 14y ago
Also sphinx as real-time indexes. You send data to sphinx (when you update it), and its indexed right away. The original disk-indexes (updated by a batch process is still available)
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by barrybhunter 14y ago
These services claim themselves to be a spam fighting tool. Ironically, they facilitate another time of spam. Forum and Comment spam. I'm definitely tracking a rise in the number of these types of services, used for posting comment spam - a
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by barrybhunter 14y ago
The problem I have with these sort of services (and its nothing specific to signalbox) - is seem to be aiming at the wrong market. Need to think bigger. For something like 100,000 records - in general a pretty standard instance of mysql can
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by barrybhunter 14y ago
A few more: http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/ http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ https://developers.google.com/fusiontables/ There are plenty more 'databases' in the cloud. Even ones just providing say a generic mysql instance, with a HTTP
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by barrybhunter 14y ago
Yes that's the sort of thing. But ideally that should be available without signing up. To get an idea of what is possible - ie is it worth even bothering to signup. Like I had no idea if supported geo-queries, and/or full-text queries. (see
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by barrybhunter 14y ago
Would be nice to be able to see the reference for the API. To know what types of queries are possible. get/set by key is probably there. But what sort of queries are possible is important consideration.
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by barrybhunter 15y ago
You can't make a CNAME on a naked domain. (well you can, but there are implications, like your MX records not working - so its not going to fly) So they either need their current DNS servers to be able to internally resolve the A records of