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by jbyers 18y ago
rimshot
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by jbyers 18y ago
As a startup, the more you constrain your target audience, how feature-heavy your product is, and how much money you spend building it, the more likely you are to find a market you can succeed in -- or fail quickly. Both are positive outco
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1. Create list syntax 2. ? 3. Profit
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When we evaluated cachefly last year, setting headers was not possible -- the files were just served with etags and whatever defaults cachefly servers had. You also had to upload files manually, no pulling files from origin servers automat
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Haven't tried simplecdn. This pricing seems at first glance to be too clever, but if they can do it, it's certainly less than any competitor I've seen. We use Panther Express ( http://pantherexpress.com ). More expensive, but not nearly a
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by jbyers 18y ago
Pingdom and Alertra. Alertra has had a perfect record for us for three years, meaning no false reports over that time (as far as we can tell). A bit more expensive, we use a single Alertra alert and multiple Pingdom alerts.
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haproxy and nginx are the best of the lot. Consider also ipvs for layer 4 load balancing. One question that will help decide how things are structured is SSL. If you need it, putting haproxy up front gives you a bit of trouble -- haproxy
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Multiple A records are OK, but used alone - i.e. not in combination with another load balancing strategy - they can be troublesome. A few years ago, we ran a fair volume of traffic (hundreds of req/s) across three A records for a site. Th
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by jbyers 19y ago
I agree with nearly every point you've made here, except that you're not considering cost. Remember that I said: "You might say this is overkill for a new startup, but when we can get all this for $50/year or less..." DNS is the most strai
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by jbyers 19y ago
It's nice work, congratulations! As someone else said, leveraging Blogger templates is a great idea. All PHP + MySQL? Curious to know if 'orgu' indicative of the target market, university groups? Or am I reading too much into those four l
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by jbyers 19y ago
Free: EveryDNS Paid: EasyDNS Looked at Neustar/UltraDNS, and while they were technically appealing, the pricing got out of hand for what we wanted.
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DNS is an easy service in isolation, but complex when your business demands it remains fast and reliable. This means you'll need the following, in no particular order: * servers in multiple data centers and close to your end customers * mu
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by jbyers 19y ago
Live and work in San Francisco, HN meetup sounds like fun. Happy to help with local logistics too, jbyers at gmail.
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"Participatory Narcissism" Never have so many syllables been used to incite so many about so little.
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Why are we bubbling up a year-old story?
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Good point, failing fast is success if you learn from it.
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Agree with yourself that you'll do whatever it takes to make it succeed. Otherwise, don't bother.
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by jbyers 19y ago
I'm sitting in SFO waiting on a four hour delay to JFK. That page made me laugh really, really hard.
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by jbyers 19y ago
For the love of teh internets, will people stop constructing sentences that end in "the next Google?"
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I recommend naming your startup "Essentialize", or some variation thereof.
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Don't even think about it. And tell them exactly why. The team will not survive the stresses of early startup life with this decision put off. It's going to be a hard discussion even now, just imagine how bad this will be with revenue co
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by jbyers 19y ago
Useless. There's no answer without describing what you're hosting. [edit]If the question is should you consider it, absolutely.[/edit]
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by jbyers 19y ago
This does the automatic iptables manipulation you're looking for based on inspecting netstat: http://deflate.medialayer.com/ That said, it's not really DDOS protection. It is good for blocking bad crawlers or misconfigured / casually mal
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by jbyers 19y ago
RHEL4, though the site's a few years old. Would do RHEL5 if it was today. Personally, I run Debian. But RedHat really does a good of not breaking stuff at the cost of less frequent updates.
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by jbyers 19y ago
Dvorak has outdone himself. This article has the highest ratio of fallacious arguments to sentences I've ever seen.
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SoftLayer always has specials running, and their salespeople are happy to work out competitive pricing on multiple servers. We don't get the reseller discount per se, but I don't think any of our boxes are at list price.
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We have more than a dozen boxes at SoftLayer, having started there in August 2006. They're smart, nice folks and they deeply understand what their customers are looking for in dedicated hosting. I've traded emails in the middle of the nig
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by jbyers 19y ago
If you're starting from scratch, consider puppet ( http://www.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/ ) as a cfengine replacement. cfengine is solid, but unless you've already mastered it, I think you'll find puppet is at least as capable and a
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Consider collectd ( http://collectd.org/ ). Unlike a lot of the usual suspects, collectd is a daemon that records the usual server health stats every 10 seconds into rrd files. After running it for two years on a few dozen systems, it's n
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by jbyers 19y ago
Maybe I'm reading this article wrong, but it strikes me that Scoble is unaware that lots of sizable startups don't own servers. What's the difference in this case between using ec2 instances and renting servers from a provider like Layered

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