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If you want to cut fees there are a huge number of options, from companies that charge 1% like https://www.redfin.com/about/one-percent-listing-fee I just learned about these guys, not unique but certainly a great option for saving on 3%, https://www.homebay.com/ they do it for a fixed cost.

But I get it... I have been in my house for the 10 of the worst real estate year but on paper, my head is above water however if I sell I loose money.

Opt out links I found -

Acxiom - https://isapps.acxiom.com/optout/optout.aspx

Experian - http://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/credit-education/...

DataLogix Holdings, Inc. https://www.datalogix.com/privacy/#opt-out-landing

Epsilon Data Management, LLC http://www.epsilon.com/consumer-preference-center

Equifax, Inc - https://help.equifax.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2/noInterce...

Fair Isaac Corporation http://www.myfico.com/policy/privacypolicy.aspx

Intelius, Inc. https://www.intelius.com/optout.php

LexisNexis Group http://www.lexisnexis.com/privacy/for-consumers/opt-out-of- lexisnexis.aspx

TransUnion Corp. http://www.transunion.com/corporate/business/datareporting/s...

Umm, brilliant thank you for this.

I ended up with a Dyn / Route53 configuration. We used libcloud to sync everything together. We also added the exported zone to Cloudflare but did not enable it.

We had actually planned for this, but in no way did we ever come close to your in depth testing. The @ Azure issue - thank you for uncovering this for the rest of us.

Pritunl - https://pritunl.com/ is an excellent and easy to deploy solution. It has AWS and Digital Ocean provisioning, extremely flexible and endlessly powerful. Free for a single server with unlimited users. The config files work with their client or OpenVPN clients.

+1000 for authy.

I guess that we hugged them too hard, connection error - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

So we now run a split view with DYN and AWS. My biggest issue with AWS is again they are a large attack surface, but also they don’t really play super nice with others and no DNSSec.

We are currently evaluating the Netflix denominator tools to spread DNS and sync our alternate providers.

My biggest problem during this outage was that I could not login to my registrar and make change to DNS directly - I had to login to DYN and ADD Route 53, it was impossible to remove DYN completely. And that's how we landed up with a split view.

NOW if anyone can tell me of a competitor for the Traffic Director product that works on Port 25 I'll be happy to consider a migration. Cloudflare has something in the works, but I’d really just like a DNS provider with a virtual load balancer that can handle my 250qps at a reasonable price.

I am extremely thankful for the robustness of SMTP.

I am a customer of a competitive product, where we have a cluster of servers on port 25 that need load balancing. Pretty simple setup - if port 25 goes down for more than 2 minutes remove from DNS until it comes back online.

It's been incredibly stable and robust and a real life saver if you have gear in multiple geographic data centers that are not all with one provider. The competitors cost for the service is incredibly cheap hen you consider what it does - but the BIG GOTCHA is you need to use their DNS in order to use the load balancer.

And we move about 350 queries per second so the bill is pretty high (for our sized company). The place that I should be able to get an immediate impact and huge savings is that Cloudflare does DNS for "free".

I should be able to pay a modest but competitive rate for their traffic manager, but with no QPS it will be huge.

I just spoke to sales in the UK and they don’t actually have a good definition of the product yet. No pricing and really did not have their questions to ask prospects yet.

That being said we are already using them for pseudo-Traffic Management services we have a script tied to Pingdom.com that updates DNS from the port monitoring and adds and removes records in just a few seconds.

Sending email this way is typically known as smart hosting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_host. It's a pretty reliable way of sending out email if your IP has a less than perfect reputation. In this instance less than perfect could be something completely out of your hands.

Are you an EC2 user, well there is a black list for those IP's. Are you on a residential connection or a dynamic IP... there is a black list for that also. So you may have a perfectly configured MTA with a pristine IP and still have delivery issues. Using a smart host is perfect in these situations.

It's been mentioned before but part of running your own mail server is the process of learning and tweaking things to your liking. I remember the days when you could run a server on your own home connection on port 25 without any issues - but those days are long gone. A crucial part of every sys admins journey historically has been setting up and configuring a personal use mail server.

You can always run a mail server at home on a port other than 25 and have an upstream email service deliver it to your alternate port.

So if you'd rather not deal with filtering your own spam, or would like a excellent smart host with SPF and DKIM - let me know.

I'll provide commercial spam filtering with backup MX or smart hosting services to any HN user for 50% off from duocircle.com - just message me... running your own is sort of a right of passage.

Is there something like this that that:

1. checks to see if there is a certificate issue for the domain

2. If yes, checks exp date, issuer and certificate file

3. Logs / triggers an event

4. If No, logs triggers an event

....becuse the entire fabric on the internet is based on the exchange of thing of "value".

Your email has value, and they'll exchange their hard work (software) for your information (valuable for marketing, and understanding their users)....

They should all be using http://www.leadactivate.com/ - it takes an inbound email and then places an inbound call to a phone number or multiple phone numbers and then uses text to speech to notify the agent about the call.

Typically used for sales, but it reduces response times down to about 20 seconds for inbound emails and leads.

Except it's not that site - https://fuc***.ru/ is where you can purchase these services.

duocircle.com

This is commonly known as a Joe Job - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job

Steps to mitigate.

1. Setup SPF immediately. You can validate your records here- http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html

You'll have to know who you send email through and their SPF record, but a quick googling of "provider name SPF" should get you what you need.

Depending on your DNS provider the results may be instant.

2. Filter those bounces keep them out of your inbox - it's going to take while until this clears up.

3. Make sure that YOU are not hacked, check the headers of the bounce back messages here - http://mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx

Ensure that your IP or hostname is not listed there. (This includes web servers that your domain is hosted on, apps that send on your behalf etc)

4. You can check to see if your domain is black listed - http://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx probably not...but worth a check.

TL;DR - I run one of the largest spam filtering companies in the world. Happens all day to clients...it's one of the reasons people switch to us.

Dennis you left the name of the Russian DDoS site in one of your images...you may want to consider cropping this.

Logentries.com for $1200 per month. I shifted to logstash and cancelled but it did not get processed.

Umm, you just found me $6000 that I have been over billed by one of the services that I requested deactivation....

1. Time to fix my accounting processes for this particular business 2. This is amazing!

How do you make money?

I ran an ISP that used trumpet, before Windows 95 and it was way better than my SLIP account. Donation already sent! Thank you.

I run a spam filtering company in AWS-Oregon and we are under a DDoS that is directed to some of our financial services clients...We know that our client is the target because the Russian team claims responsibility opened up a trouble ticket with us (not hosted in AWS) about 2 hours ago to let us know that they would DDoS us and the network.

I am sure it's just a coincidence :-)

Lumos Point of Sale | San Diego, CA | Sales / Marketing / Biz Dev

Fresh startup with a fully features and WORKING iPad point of sale with a integrated e-commerce engine that helps businesses sell online and in store from a unified database.

Funded. With a dev team in Toronto, sales and marketing in San Diego. Moving into kickass new office space soon. We are on a hiring spree.

http://www.lumospos.com brad (at) lumospos.com

So here is the interesting thing. I am an ACTUAL user of this type of software and a paying SUBSCRIBER to two different SaaS call tracking platforms. I run a marketing agency and have almost 200 clients using call tracking on the twilio platform.

Firstly - thank you! What an awesome contribution to the community. I cant comment on code quality or license attribution but I can tell you that it is an extremely valuable service.

I have not downloaded and installed your code, but I will - here is where I see the market need these days, and its far greater than just source attribution.

Google has done a great thing by encrypting searches, but it is terrible for website owners and marketers because it is so difficult to prove ROI.

The place that we use using this successfully is by using the UTM source information of a click to change the incoming phone number on the site using dynamic number insertion - this helps clients have a justifiable ROI to continue to use the service.

If you have questions about how I am using this, please feel free to let me know - but kudos to you on building and open sourcing it.

Yes, we are top ramen profitable and just hired out first full time sales person at the beginning of Febuary. The two owners are not taking any money right now, and we are dedicating it all to sales.

We help companies respond quickly to their inbound leads by routing using text to speech to route their text inquiries to phone calls. We have some national accounts that are using our products, that give us great feedback and call volume.

http://www.leadactivate.com

I don't want to state the obvious but just use a site like odesk or elance and have your freelancers join your team. Not only do you get protection for the work that gets done and a tremendous amount of reporting / accountability tools but they get the protection that if they do the work, they'll get paid.

It really cuts down the hassles and and questions that prevent most people from outsourcing and if you think about the 10% fee on oDesk you'll calculate it to be a minor surcharge on excellent productivity and accountability tools.

To give you an example, before India changed their payment rules about 4 years ago my vendors would tack on a 4% surcharge to paypal payments...and then India prevented payments over $500 so I switched to wire transfers that ended up costing me $40 per wire and about an hour per month per vendor to coordinate and verify.

I manage eleven outsourcers in six countries and I am the cheapest person that I know...and I still find a huge amount of value and protection by using these sites.

These are expiring today Feb 28th. I have emailed to everyone who requested one...

But here is a link to a list of the remaining codes that I have. If you use one, please mark down that you used it. If not allow the rest of the community to share.

There are going to be almost 30 codes in the list. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkJ0d72ZbljkdFh...

Enjoy.

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I could use your email address.

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My $.02 -

I handle quite a bit of PPC of clients using google adwords. There has been quite a bit of buzz about what policies to include to be compliant and I just extrapolated that if it's a requirement for Google when it comes to advertising it's not a bad thing to have on your site for other purposes.

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/adwords-gets-serious-abo...

I always configure a:

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