ridruejo

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by ridruejo 15y ago
The ultimate budget VPS is an Amazon instance. You can be relatively sure that it is not going to go under. You can run one free micro instance ( http://aws.amazon.com/free/ ). You can scale as needed easily, both in terms of file system an
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Blockbuster has nothing to do with this. That was a failure in the traditional sense. I never argued that somebody is "too big to fail". The parent poster argued that if Dropbox failed, it would not be a big homerun. What I argued is that e
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Early stages of a business in this context is way earlier than what you are referring to. We are talking the stage that YC gets involved: usually just the founders, working out of their apartment / garage. That is not, as you argue, the sam
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by ridruejo 15y ago
One thing to consider is that the users will expect support in that language as well. This may be much less of an issue for a game or mobile app, but much more for a SaaS offering for example.
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by ridruejo 15y ago
At this stage it cannot "fail" in the traditional sense. Even if it enters a downward spiral, at any point in time it could be sold for the user base alone (and the price would still likely to be bigger than Heroku)
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by ridruejo 15y ago
A cofounder is most critical a factor in the early stages of a business. Apple and Microsoft were already established companies to a larger degree when the cofounders left
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by ridruejo 15y ago
I like Shopify, but they are going to be feeling a lot of competitive pressure from Magento Go SaaS offering, which is still in its infancy but has the full weight of eBay behind it and provides a migration to "regular" Magento if the store
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by ridruejo 15y ago
I think you need to distinguish here different kind of systems. a) Deployment of 'standard' applications like Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, etc. It makes sense to automate it once and let people "self service" In this case either the sysadmi
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Having faced a similar dilemma in the past back when I was an student, the advice I got was that any kind of royalty-based agreement could easily get me screwed depending on how it was structured (and the company likely has more experience
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by ridruejo 15y ago
I see a lot of negative comments, but I actually think it is quite interesting that they are targeting Windows/ Azure. There are situations in which the platform to deploy the apps has been decided higher up in the organization (that can be
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by ridruejo 15y ago
You can give it a quick try using Bitnami (its free, I am one of the developers) http://bitnami.org/stack/piwik It includes Piwik and all of its dependencies (Apache, MySQL, PHP) into a single, easy to use installer, vmware vm or amazo
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Not exactly the same, but you can use BitNami and the AWS free tier (disclaimer, I am a developer) to deploy Wordpress with one click http://bitnami.org/stack/wordpress#cloudImage
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by ridruejo 15y ago
You can also take your AWS images and run them on Eucalyptus. Amazon also has some initial support for exporting to VMWare. In any case, there will always be a certain degree of lock-in, but it should not be at the image level. You can alwa
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by ridruejo 15y ago
A lot of the backend infrastructure can likely be reused, and by using javafog.com, rubyfog.com and so on, they can keep each brand/site independent without confusing end-users.
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BitNami Cloud Tools for Amazon Released(blog.bitnami.org)
5 points by ridruejo 15y ago|0 comments
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by ridruejo 15y ago
If you really need the money, then a good compromise may be to go work for another startup for 12-18 months. You will get a meaningful salary (depends on the startup, but it should at least cover your basic expenses and allow you to save a
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Can't wait to see what iBama will look like :)
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Not exactly the same, but BitNami provides ready-made Django AMIs http://bitnami.org/stack/djangostack
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Plenty of YC companies make money. If you are referring specifically to the ones in the article, many of them are in the initial stages of building the company. Unless you are a consulting company it is not easy to make money from day 0.
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by ridruejo 16y ago
Yes, it is common practice. Sometimes they accidentally publish some of this obituaries, which leads to some embarrassing situations :)
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by ridruejo 16y ago
As far as I know that cannot be done with standard Amazon tools
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by ridruejo 16y ago
If they use reserved instances, it should be even less than that. They still need to control abuse in terms of bandwidth, etc. and that is the difficult part.
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BitNami Cloud Hosting Launched(aws.typepad.com)
3 points by ridruejo 16y ago|0 comments
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by ridruejo 16y ago
This is great news, and it is certainly going to put increased pressure on existing platform vendors running on top of AWS to differentiate themselves. Amazon continues to climb up the stack :)
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by ridruejo 16y ago
It's in the readme ;) http://bitnami.org/files/stacks/rubystack/2.1-0/README.txt
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by ridruejo 16y ago
Yes, RubyStack includes Git as well
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by ridruejo 16y ago
RubyStack also has virtual machine and Amazon EC2 versions. RubyStack also supports Linux and Mac, though it seems support for that is planned for RailsInstaller as well.
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by ridruejo 16y ago
The comparison to chess is spot on. I used to play competitive chess when I was younger and I currently compete in bjj. One interesting book on the relationship between martial arts and chess is the Art of Learning http://www.amazon.com/A
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by ridruejo 17y ago
It is JRuby based, so it is compiled to Java bytecodes. It is packaged using a BitRock custom stack that is a superset of BitNami JRuby Stack.