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What a brutal deal for startups. The government has got to be able to find a better way to funnel money to startups than through these guys, who charge cash-strapped startups $3k to pitch (!!!) and then take 8% for themselves personally.

I only ran the test against the first name server listed. It would have been more complete to test again all/several, but I thought this would be sufficient.

LuiLui.com has changed its name servers since I ran the test. I just used the first domain that I found that used them.

Regarding Anycast, all 3 providers advertise as such, so I assumed that all their name servers would use it

My reason for publishing this is that I couldn't find any data comparing providers, or even any good ways to compare them.

I haven't heard of djbdns... did you measure performance before and after? How did you measure it?

Yeah... guess I should have explained it that way. Good feedback, thanks.

Hopefully the point remains: review as much code as you can, and don't be shy of asking them to demonstrate their skillz.

I wouldn't specifically ask for friends and family of course. The moral of the story is to try to collect as many perspectives as you can on the candidate.

Call it what you will, but as a hiring manager you really should review as much code as possible before hiring. Usually they can't show you proprietary code from their last company, so unless they've already done open source contributions, there won't be much to look at unless you give them a project.

In the past I've given candidates projects that we've come up with together. Check out the ones mentioned in the article... fairly straightforward Rails plugins. One of the was particularly successful, and included in the Advanced Rails Recipe book.

Totally agree! and so does the article... See point #5, the second bullet.

The 10-15 includes all references of all kinds, professional, friends, even family.

I spoke to one of my hire's father, one time, because he worked for him for 2 years. You'd be surprised, family members are often the most honest. The point is to get to know the candidate as quickly as possible and make a good decision. Speak with as many people that know them as possible.

references can/should be really fast. can get them all done in a couple hours... worth it, given all the good stuff you can discover. You are going to work and pay this person for months/years.