pauldi

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   by pauldi 15y ago

   Unfortunate typo in title but I can vouch for scalr. Used it since the early paid beta. Compared to the likes of rightscale it's a bargain. Alongside all the expected things like ami creation and cluster (aka farm) configuration the scripti
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   by pauldi 15y ago

   Have never written a whole book but back in the day I contributed a number of chapters to various Wrox books on ADO.NET. Glad I did it but the Wrox editorial process was a bit of a shambles and it showed up in many of their books at the tim
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   by pauldi 15y ago

   I integrated http://saasy.com/ . It seems a bit pricey compared to other options but they handle things like charge backs and locale specific tax. Whether that justifies the higher commission rate is debatable. Some things I didn't like ab
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   by pauldi 15y ago

   Have you tried geonames? I've not specifically used it for the US but that kind of information is in there for other countries. Only drawback of using geonames is that it can be a bit of effort getting what you want out of their feed. This
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   by pauldi 15y ago

   Having used OpenX for several years I wouldn't recommend it. We used both the (free) hosted version and also hosted it ourselves. Either way it had a habit of hanging for no apparent reason. This didn't seem related to site load though, som