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Analytics. The most valuable thing that can come out of an early launch is insight as to what works and what doesn't. Where are users losing interest and not engaging?

There is one point that was missed in this post: promotion. Are you more likely to land a promotion in your current job, or are you more likely to find a another job that is also a promotion to a position that you have no experience in?

The IP address of a computer should never be known. It should be impossible to ping a computer directly. DNS servers should be the proxy who get requests and fetch data on behalf of a client. They cache and mask DoS attacks. Clients and user-facing machines only communicate with proxies

I think the problem is not that there is nothing better to do, is that there is no one to oversee you when you are doing your hobby

I think it's clear that almost all of the dark traffic is simply https sites. It's no necessarily apps, it can just be gmail...

Someone really should make it a default to pass the referrer even for https.

i'm just not going to watch videos there. i have other places i'm watching videos.

It's a little more complex when the site is not 100% static. Even a contact form requires a server.

But I do think there should be a good separation between html and admin backend. Security is only one reason. There are other very important reasons:

1. waste of resources. the machine that builds the html from the cms is completely idle for 99% of the time.

2. scalability. the html should be served from a storage server like S3 together with a CDN. there should be absolutely no downtime in viewing html as a result of overload.

the ideal system for small websites is a machine that is turned off by default, and when an admin needs to change something it is turned on (even if it takes a whole minute). After the changes are committed, the system creates html and sends to S3. For forms, comments, and dynamic things it's best to use third-party (like facebook comments and a billion forms services), or use a different small machine that captures user input (completely separate from the turned-off admin machine).

I'm just not going to sign up and watch videos from your site. It's just not going to happen. Sorry...

I think Google App Engine should be added

Me and my wife are working together on our new app (http://alephz.com). It's very early stage, and it's really just a side project for now, but I can see it's going well. I think the secret is to have a very clear separation of roles. For example, in our project I'm doing the technical stuff, and she writes the questions, and moderates the community.

Also, I think it's good for our relationship because we share the same hobby. I don't know how it's going to be when working together on something that isn't a side project, but a day job.

he may not fire me on the spot, but he will definitely look for a replacement. what id he finds a replacement before i find a new job?

For side projects I have found App Engine to be the best choice. The free quota gives you time and space to develop and explore if this project is of any worth. And if suddenly there's an explosion you really don't need to do anything other than enable billing... (of course, giving that the design of the model is scalable)

In my site (http://alephz.com) I separate subscribers and just people with an email for password reset and important notices.

I am totally honest with user that subscribe and let them know that they will receive a daily update on new content in the site. It works pretty well, actually. A Relatively good amount of users sign up, and I get almost no unsubscribers.

I feel really sorry for you situation. I first suggest talking to the hosting provider and explain what happened. Any decent service will give some discount in this case.

Unfortunately, I can't think of anything else. I wish it was realistic to tell you to go to the police.

Also, if you would give your email, I would definitely consider sending a donation through paypal... Hopefully other readers here will do the same.

Everything from google.com is extremely slow or not working for me too

I would love to hear your feedback!

I know the design is not top notch for now, I'm planning to give it some more thought. Any suggestions?

There's really no disadvantage to using BitBucket...

It would have been nicer if there would be comments or chat on the results page

I most certainly do not intend to collect email addresses!

Regarding annoying people, however,...

I don't know if it's illegal. I do know that it's perfectly moral. I mean, it's just email... It's not like I'm tricking people into giving me money...

I think responses in this thread are somewhat lacking a sense of humor

I hear what you are saying. I'll think about adding another confirmation screen after the authorization.

There's no scraping going on. I'm using Google's Contacts API, with authorization from the user who clicks the button.

Currently the email is plain-text, but in the future paying customers can customize the email sent

You can opt-out simply by filtering out emails sent from your past contacts, who you do not wish to receive emails from.

But you gave the person your email address. He wants to send you an email. I just help him fulfill his wish...

You need to think about it from the perspective of site-owners, not of email recipients ;-)

Is it really so different from sharing something on facebook?

From my experience regular users sometimes prefer sharing with everyone instead of taking the time to select specific contacts. They don't really care, it's just email...

you're right, thank you!

I would love to hear your feedback.

Would you consider putting this on your site? If not, why?

If you are worried about installing, why not use https://wordpress.com/? Hell, even techcrunch are using it!

+1 for wordpress & themeforest. This really is the high-way to get a good-looking site with a simple CMS. No designer or programmer needed.

It's stated pretty clear on the page, isn't it? But if you are asking if there is an approval screen, than yes, there is. It's a regular OAuth2 token, and I make use of Google Contacts API. Naturally, I don't really have access to your Gmail...