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by quicksilver03 8y ago
Rugby is becoming more and more aware of this issue, with high-profile players forced into early retirement because of repeated concussions. It is too early to know what will be the long-term effect of those concussions on their health, but
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by quicksilver03 8y ago
A million times this. I'm about to tackle this issue at my current gig, and I won't have any on-call rotation with less than 4 people.
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by quicksilver03 8y ago
Agreed, MyFitnessPal is really aggravating to use and if that wasn't bad enough their food database is full of inaccuracies and mis-spellings. The app keeps on the phone a very small fraction of the total food database, that is only th
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by quicksilver03 9y ago
Dovecot has an excellent implementation of 2-way synchronization of mailboxes: run Dovecot on 2 different servers in different physical locations, set up MX records and a SMTP software on both servers and you have your HA solution.
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Second delay for domain security key rollover(icann.org)
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Up to 20M people could get broken internet in domain security rollover(domainincite.com)
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by quicksilver03 9y ago
If you have to learn how to perform a proper setup, you're a good candidate for the kind of managed services provided by a cloud-based solution. As long as you're aware that you're paying a sort of "ignorance tax" f
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Nearly Free Speech significant pricing updates(blog.nearlyfreespeech.net)
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Show HN: The Cloud Hosting Handbook(thecloudhostinghandbook.com)
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by quicksilver03 9y ago
That's bad, Btrfs has really grown on me, especially the ability to mix drives of different sizes in a RAID configuration. XFS is just not flexible enough, I don't like to be unable to shrink a partition once created. It looks lik
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by quicksilver03 9y ago
There are several options between "full cloud" and "building my own datacenter": for example, you can rent dedicated servers by the month, where you get all of the hardware power and you don't have to commit money u
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by quicksilver03 9y ago
The thread title should be changed to "Verelox allegedly wiped by ex-admin": we only know one side of the story.
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by quicksilver03 9y ago
It isn't by default, that's why DO calls it "shared private network" (their words, not mine). To secure internal traffic on DO you have to encrypt it, using for example something like tinc.
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Predicting AWS price reductions(thecloudhostinghandbook.com)
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Requiem(scalability.org)
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
Apart from the non-programmers bit, you're not wrong. I've been using the open source version on a project between 2013 and 2015 and it was exactly as you described: it essentially was a very convoluted and un-debuggable way of at
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
I've used http://lavagna.io for a while on my own servers, but recently I've started using and enjoying https://www.favro.com whose free version has less limitations than the free Trello version.
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
I would suggest a DO droplet since the learning curve is very small compared to the AWS services, the cost is predictable and they have a decent bandwidth allowance. If you want to compare for prices, just search for "VPS with hourly b
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
I'm on Free and I had to disable IPv6 because one of their routers was dropping about 60% of the IPv6 packets: GitHub, Google, Bitbucket took several minutes to load. As soon as I switched to IPv4 everything worked fine. I suppose that
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
I wrote a book to help boostrapped startups choose the best hosting solution: https://www.hostingforappdevelopers.com/ Promoting the book has been the major issue for me, which is probably why it hasn't sold as much as
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AWS Budgets Update – Track Cloud Costs and Usage(aws.amazon.com)
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
From the point of view of a spam filter, there isn't really any difference between a "transactional" (what a horrible name, but not your fault that the industry has adopted it) email and any other email. "Transactional&q
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
I wrote a book [1] using Leanpub, and their Dropbox-to-PDF workflow helped me seeing what the final result would look like while writing Markdown files. I was a little frustrated with the loss of control over formatting, but Leanpub was sti
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Leanpub starts charging $99 to create a book(leanpub.com)
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Serverless: Gatekeeping and Profit Margins(lethain.com)
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
It would be interesting to know if they're hiring specifically for this position or if they're moving people internally (I could be interested, by the way). I can't seem to find anything more specific than this article, howev
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
3yr reserved instances is something that baffled me when I was doing the research for https://www.hostingforappdevelopers.com . What reasons push people to pay upfront and to commit to a solution whose main benefit is elasticity
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
The backend is built with Oracle Commerce (ATG), the frontend with Play Framework (so Scala and Akka). Source: http://www.nurun.com/en/news/nurun-launches-redesigned-trans... plus private conversations with people
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QoS, Cost and Quotas(lethain.com)
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by quicksilver03 10y ago
At work we're using OVH for our production, we've been with them for several years. The key point is that the price-performance ratio is very difficult to beat, and it offsets the problems we've had. We've had very few h

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