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by tothrowaway 4y ago
I didn't realize you were getting that many requests per second. That's quite remarkable when you only have 18 app cores available. In my experience, you're lucky if you can get Django to service a request in 10ms. So I'
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Can you share more details about what the 4 HAProxy servers are doing? I run a SaaS too, but on a single beefy machine handling web and DB stuff. I'm curious what I'm missing out on not using HAProxy in front.
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
OpenResty (Nginx + LuaJIT) can help you limit the damage of unsophisticated DDoS attacks like these. I keep a count of the requests-per-second I'm getting in each nginx worker. I also set a special cookie for every response from the up
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by tothrowaway 5y ago
The cars, trucks and motorcycles with booming exhaust pipes are insufferable. I despise hearing them revving by. I feel like I'm crazy for how much it bothers me. But then I read a story about a man shooting a driver who was just revvi
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by tothrowaway 5y ago
It sounds like your project could have been an ideal "lifestyle" business. Going from 0 to 1 employee must have been a big step. How did you decide to hire your first employee (and what did early employees do)? And congratulations
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by tothrowaway 5y ago
I occasionally receive application layer DDoS attacks generating around 20k requests per second (where typical legitimate traffic is 100 r/s). So nothing huge, but enough to cause problems for ordinary Django/Python applications l
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by tothrowaway 5y ago
I would love a "Backblaze of user generated content". The existing players in the market are way too expensive (likely because they run off the cloud cartel and pass along their bandwidth tax). Basic image handling isn't too
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by tothrowaway 5y ago
I had to respond since I didn't want Namecheap to remove my business from the internet. The response from the support agent was: """ The preceding report appears to have been sent to you in error. Please accept our apolo
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Beware HN: The rise of weaponized "abuse" reports
241 points by tothrowaway 5y ago|26 comments
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
I'm at OVH as well (in the BHS datacenter, fortunately). I run my entire production system on one beefy machine. The apps and database are replicated to a backup machine hosted with Hetzner (in their Germany datacenter). I also run a t
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
If a rich person shorts Intuit stock, spend $5-10 million developing a really slick tax program, and releases it for free, could they break even? They could make it a charity, and the $5-10 million would be tax deductible on top of it. At t
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
> it probably won't be cost-effective for most vendors to gather and collate this documentation, as well as answering these questions, just like it's not worth it to ink a custom contract on a smaller deal, where legal fees alo
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
Health insurance premiums are deductible for self-employed people (and 2%+ S-corp shareholders): https://www.irs.gov/publications/p535#en_US_2019_publink1000...
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
I hear Mercury is an alternative. I didn't have any luck signing up with them though (they refused me service for the bizarre reason that I couldn't provide the EIN registration form I got from the IRS a decade ago).
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
The Fastmail web interface currently hijacks the clipboard and "helpfully" appends the URL to your clipboard anytime you copy text from a link. It's absolutely maddening. Aside from that, I have no complaints about their serv
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
This has been submitted to HN before, but I was inspired to post it again after encountering the digital equivalent of it in one of Fastmail's "features".
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A collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects(theuncomfortable.com)
2 points by tothrowaway 6y ago|1 comments
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
resvg - https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg The developer also produced an incredibly useful SVG test suite comparing various libraries https://razrfalcon.github.io/resvg-test-suite/svg-support-ta.
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
> As of January 11, 2021, we’re planning to make a change to our API so that ACME clients will, by default, serve a certificate chain that leads to ISRG Root X1. Ouch. So anyone who wants to support older devices 3 months from now needs
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
Are you using the older (and simpler) synchronous "Charges" Stripe API? Many non-US payments require a text message for verification by the card holder. Using the asynchronous "Payment Intents" stuff should fix that. I r
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
I tracked my productive time down to the minute for 4 years when I was working for a consulting company. I could do 4-6 hours of actual programming work in a 9 hour time span. Any more than that, and I was exhausted. I'm a solo dev now
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
You'll probably get 10 different answers here too. I use uwsgi in emperor mode. I have a Makefile that runs a few SSH commands on production to clone my git repo at a specific commit, builds a virtual environment from requirements.txt,
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
FWIW, I also got an unexpected notice that a PayPal debit card is being shipped to me.
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
I have a great story about generating word searches. I once got an angry email from a superintendent at a school district in Washington state using my algorithm. He said 'the generator inserted the phrase "killanigger" in t
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
I hate the smell too. I commented to a friend that coffee smells like canned tuna. She thought I was making it up, and Googled it. Turns out, I'm not the only one: http://thefrenchexit.blogspot.com/2012/02/why
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by tothrowaway 6y ago
If you don't mind sharing, what kind of insurance policy did you obtain? It's surprising to hear an insurance product would cover your legal fees for something like this.
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by tothrowaway 7y ago
Anyone looking for a challenging read should consider Milton Friedman's book "Capitalism and Freedom". It's short, but very dense. He covers topics like a negative income tax (which you've heard of) and ideas you&#x
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by tothrowaway 8y ago
When you sign up, you grant the service the limited power of attorney to login as you. Typically a POA needs to be witnessed and/or notarized. I'm not sure how they're getting around that.
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by tothrowaway 8y ago
For simple recordings, I use https://screencast-o-matic.com
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Ask HN: Solopreneurs, experience with health ministries as health insurance?
1 points by tothrowaway 8y ago|0 comments

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