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by easp 18y ago
You need to bound the problem before you can figure out whether S3 makes sense. * How many new files do you expect to have uploaded every month? * How many files do you expect to be deleted every month? * What's the average file size? *
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by easp 18y ago
Yes, and it's partitioned out the Wazzooo.
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by easp 18y ago
Indeed, I did just that. I moved all my wordpress installations over to a $10 account with webfaction. I considered a VPS, but dropped that idea quickly. I wasn't interested in being a sysadmin, and I didn't have to worry about shoehorni
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by easp 18y ago
It seems best suited for small, focused applications that are developed quickly and expected to live hard and die young (lots of traffic for a short amount of time). I can also imagine applications that designed for the user to be able to i
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by easp 18y ago
Did you read the part where they said this was the third or 4th iteration of their DB backend? Or maybe I read that somewhere else. Point being, experience will come.
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by easp 18y ago
You really think a site the scale of Facebook just pulls the latest version of mySQL and deploys it? I think even smaller sites like Smugmug put new releases through extensive testing before deployment. It seems to me that pulling the sou
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by easp 18y ago
Well, putting aside the fact that you are pretty much wrong (servers are cheap, power, cooling, etc, not so much), keep in mind too that their initial pricing may not have been profitable, or may even have been at a loss because what matter
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by easp 18y ago
A few things other people don't seem to be mentioning: 1. RAM prices can be quite volatile, while hosting prices generally are not. Hosts may have taken lower margins back when their RAM costs were higher that they are now trying to recoup
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by easp 18y ago
<i>Also, it's not startup funding is a better use money than college. A down payment on mortgage, money for travel, or even just an outright grant of cash is a better way of giving your kid a head start in life than sending them to
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by easp 18y ago
For most private schools (and the more prestigious public schools), the only people who pay list price are those most able to pay it. Working class and even squarely middle-class kids will generally qualify for significant amounts of need-b
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by easp 18y ago
I don't see the point in wasting time and money on a super-easy major. Or is the idea that this is a trick to get parental support and student loans to help finance living-expenses while working on the startup?
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by easp 18y ago
On the one hand, I think too much emphasis is placed on going to the one best college -- for most students, there is likely more than one good fit. On the other hand, the cost of doing campus visits is going to be a tiny part of the cost of
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by easp 18y ago
Why should he be worrying about what some hiring manager thinks if his goal is to found a startup when he gets out of college? How much are customers going to care where he went to college? Some potential investors and employees might car
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by easp 18y ago
If a student needs their self confidence built, then maybe this makes sense. Otherwise, though, the people who disagree with you are wrong, and probably second rate in their own right (I'm only half joking). For me, having great profs wh
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by easp 18y ago
It's hard to measure the brand value of an Ivy League diploma. There have been studies that show that ivy league grads earn more than grads of other schools, but their controls haven't been very good. Earlier in the decade though, there wa
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by easp 18y ago
It doesn't seem like it has propagated through their CDN yet, I get the updated page every few page views. In the meantime though, its been copied to here: http://hotiphoneapps.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/apple-releases...
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by easp 18y ago
I should have looked at your site before writing :) The travel guides look like they fill the niche of the blog wiki idea I suggested, and they'd be perfect spots for a little advertising & affiliate stuff.
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by easp 18y ago
First, take a good look at usage patterns on your site. What % is from repeat users? How often do repeat users return, on average? What % is from search referrals? What % is from referrals from other sites? What search terms are popular?
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by easp 18y ago
1. How do you know that the foundation of this article is wild? 2. Have you read the article? It's a thought experiment. It's meant to provoke thought and discussion. He's asking people to consider and share what they would do if gas h