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I cancelled all my OVH servers, on the high end they are a ripoff and their internal network went to crap recently, it was faster to move files to another country than between 2 HG XXXL servers, go figure

I am currently testing the waters on offering 24 and 36 drive storage monsters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576796

any feedback is appreciated

Haven't finalized that yet, but cheaper than the small competition for storage servers

1gbit connection, 24 drive for €400/ month ex VAT no setup 10gbit connection, 24 drive for €800/ month ex VAT no setup

OVH are sold out for same and want €942 ex vat http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/hg_xxl.xml

Gorrilaservers in LA want $900 a month for similar

Thats pretty much all the competition on this high end with 24+ drives

When you have technologies like replication and warp drives and your federation is off colonising multiple planets in an area 8000 light years wide your civilisation is not worried about limited resources

interestingly enough in star trek they still have constraints on things like dilithium, and of course wars are waged over territories

lol @ title

PHPstorm is by far the best PHP IDE , the rest (Eclipse based shudder) are clunky and slow this on other hand is nice and fast and udpated often!

So JAVA is reborn because twitter changed to it? lol

The future is bitcoin or bitcoin type/derived currencies with a proof of network at their core

Tell that to my customers in EU who see 23% higher prices than nonEU, doing vat calculations and returns also adds time to my already busy workload.

It is also misleading and annoys customers when you show prices exVAT, it is you who gets blamed for this tax not the government or EU

Most of the competition who are outside of the EU dont have to worry about this VAT shit and can have lower prices hence shown to endusers

Hosting, I will ask Revenue for a ruling and a clarification.

Considering that the hard drives are likely to be made in China who is to say they dont already have a copy!

Oh they do pay some taxes, but rather insignificant amount when compared to the billions they launder thru' here.

And not just Google I believe Apple laundered north of 50 billion and only have a handful of employees here http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strate...

As a small business owner it sickens me with how these large companies can get away with so much here, ok granted they are creating jobs (badly needed) and have other positive effects on a sinking economy but having Revenue put a blind eye on these shenanigans while making life miserable for small companies is unfair.

What Europe needs is less bureaucracy and taxes, Here in Ireland i have to handover 23% (likely to be more in upcoming budget) in VAT on all EU sales!

Not only thats almost a quarter of your price gone in sales tax but, there is a quite abit of added work in remaining tax compliant

Of course if you are Google etc of this island you can just launder your money onto Bahamas or somewhere else warmer and barely pay any taxes

Paypal will kill it, PAYPAL are the absolute worst company in the world and terrible to for any new businesses who endup having their money "held" for ridiculous amounts of time, and no customer support.

My business nearly went under because of SHITPAL

how is that for an insight?

Good thing i stayed away from braintree, paypal be a perfect match for them considering both are shit

Over the last month I have cancelled all our servers in US, setting up a new one this morning in Amsterdam

One thing I am worried about is potential liability of having someone sueing us under data protection laws here in Ireland, claiming their data was inspected by US and we couldnt protect their privacy

Here in Europe we get to have data protection commisioners and strong laws on the subject unlike across the pond.

People getting rich of bitcoin are the enthusiasts who understand it and use it daily, like myself

Yes I did, I wasted time with braintree who didnt accept my hosting business (7 year company is high risk apparently) while stripe has no problems

actually looking at that list all card processors prohibit whats on that list, for example 2co one is very similar, and i doubt braintree would allow anything on it either

Yes you connect from your desktop to the server with Navicat

Also means you are more secure since PHPMYADMIN has a history of vulnerabilities and less to run on the server, so your database server can run mysql and nothing else (well maybe stunnel for encrypted connection to your app servers)

Why get involved?

Let them kill each other in the Middle East and show the world what "the religion of peace" is all about.

Navicat is infinitely more useful for mysql database administration, especially with the option to login via ssh

Having dealt with both Braintree and Stripe as a merchant

Braintree's business is not worth anything, they are neither innovative nor streamlined nor work as well as Stripe

That's Shitpal for you

Whoever approved this change at Google deserves to be fired, its a serious usability fuckup

Never mind got thru' to support, all is well now :)

Darragh any way to get in contact with you? emailed you last week with few questions in reply to your email from may

I think its not frameworks he has a problem with but JAVA itself, I came to the conclusions he arrived at a long time ago, JAVA doesnt save you time on large projects it makes you drown in needless bloat and abstractions and more worrying if working in a large team allows some members to float along easily. but hey its "an enterprise programming language" right?

No payments to banks in europe :(

I love Bitcoin, especially after being shafted by Paypal+Ebay

Anyone know any good bitcoin auction/selling sites? (i already use bitmit)

Anyone else thinks this is a start of slippery slope? Once enough people are using it any other form of login could be made illegal and "citizen sheep" can be tracked much easier by big brother NSA