iSloth

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by iSloth 11y ago
Indeed, v6 is on the todo list
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by iSloth 11y ago
Got fed up remembering the URL for subnet tool websites, and most are kind of rubbish, I like this one... hopefully others do as well :) Loads still to do, main one would be IPv6... However comments/ideas are always appreciated.
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Show HN: Simple Subnet Network Tool(subnet.im)
26 points by iSloth 11y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: Buying websites/projects?
2 points by iSloth 11y ago|0 comments
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by iSloth 11y ago
True, but generally affiliate programs are a one off commission at point of sale, where as the hosting is a reoccurring revenue that builds a business. Depends on what kind of time/effort your willing to put in, and if your trying to b
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by iSloth 11y ago
If it was mine, I'd be offering Minecraft hosting and using that blog base as lead generation...
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by iSloth 11y ago
Release it to a few users, and monitor their usage and feedback to gauge if it's better or not.
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by iSloth 11y ago
What about all the small prizes that you'd win as well?
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by iSloth 11y ago
Contact your web hosting provider, although they've probably noticed it before you have anyway. They'll have more info on who else to contact. The majority never get reported to law enforcement as they've got little methods t
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by iSloth 11y ago
You'll probably find that they're targeting one of Linodes customers rather than the actual Hosting company. As for the reason, it's normally trying to get money out of them, or just to take a website offline for a while (e.g
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by iSloth 11y ago
True, but every little helps, and I bet it improves productivity and concentration
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by iSloth 11y ago
I've put them in a few ISP's over the years, they do support multiple ASN's to be served from a single cluster so don't see any technology limitation there. The traffic requirements were around 2Gbps of peak Google traff
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by iSloth 11y ago
Just donated as well, great cause!
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by iSloth 11y ago
Any reason why the number 9? Where did the habit start from?
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by iSloth 12y ago
I'm aware of a load of hosting companies using the MaxMind service, you basically push them a load of information for a transaction and they reply with a risk rating. I've use it in the past a few times and it was fairly accurate
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by iSloth 12y ago
Currently about 10min each way by car, however our start and finish times are about 1 hour before most other companies, which means we miss rush hour otherwise this would be 30-40min. Even people that don't like early mornings seem to
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by iSloth 12y ago
Playing around with motorbikes is actually one of my hobbies, and I have some very nice and quite expensive Snapon tools which work wonders in the garage. However I'm certainly not going to suggest that changing your breakpads was done
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by iSloth 12y ago
Really don't understand the pure hatred that people have for PHP, I'm at network engineer and I don't have any desire to become a programmer because I love my job, however I've wrote some very useful applications that my
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by iSloth 12y ago
Go buy some cheap dedicated servers from places like OVH and create your own fairly simple CDN/Hosting. You could easily chop that cost by 70%+ Or is there anything specific in S3 feature that you need replicated?
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by iSloth 12y ago
Rewards (i.e. Grade/Salary) at the company are based on your perceived knowledge, value and skill within the company. Basically this boils down to the more vocal engineers get better rewards, even if that means taking credit for other
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Ask HN: Web designer for side project?
3 points by iSloth 12y ago|3 comments
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by iSloth 12y ago
A lot for the DayJob, unfortunately little more than nothing for side projects.
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by iSloth 12y ago
OVH.co.uk/OVH.us do a 40 thread server
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by iSloth 12y ago
On a market place like flippa that's killing any chance of a decent valuation, I'd work on getting it back up ASAP
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by iSloth 12y ago
Just for info your blog on an iPhone screen isn't great with that massive banner taking up most the screen.
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by iSloth 12y ago
Usernames are an identity or alias that is typically public and matching over a number of services; to increase security you should look at two factor authentication, and not crudely obscuring the username.
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by iSloth 12y ago
Google run a global reverse proxy style caching service "Google Global Cache", this is where they provide servers at no charge to ISP's and direct bandwidth heavy traffic to these machines for the ISP's IP ranges, typica
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by iSloth 12y ago
Subnet Cheatsheet (only home page works) - http://subnet.im Because I'm fed up with poorly designed alternatives that are out there and can never remember the URL's
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by iSloth 12y ago
If the load is caused by people actually wanting to buy a item from you like a Phone, or people wanting to use your product like Netflix, gMail etc, then downtime is a serious problem as your losing sales and/or damaging the product. E
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by iSloth 12y ago
I don't really see any alternative (yet) that can supply the functionality that the customers and business actually want, for example I like that I can add loads of things into a basket and then sort everything out when I'm ready

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