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I'm just a webdeveloper hosting some of the people/companies website I work for. Since from time to time I have to get my hands dirty with their projects again, I prefer to do so in an environment I know because I set it up personally. If I had to let them decide, most of them would go for crappy inexpensive hosting providers and additionally I would have to deal with a lot of passwords when I get to deal with their stuff again.

The money I live with comes from me coding stuff, not from the hosting. Since I am trying to get a personal project up and running I am trying to cut all the expenses (time/money) I can possibily cut or reduce; that's all.

Never used it myself

Heh, nice article, and accurate when it comes to temperatures. However you can obtain great results even without all of this effort :-) ... all you need is an oven that can reach 350C and a few bricks. When they reach that temp you turn the grill on at full power and cook the pizza like that. It takes 3-4 mins instead of the "right" 90 secs, but the result is great

Sweet, thank you I'll give it a try :-)

> There are a lot of reasons to hand your DNS to a third party but cost of servers/internet isn't one of them.

Alright: it's USD480/year (plus administrating those two servers) vs. USD58/year but no, "cost of servers/internet isn't a reason". Ok, great.

Thank you guys, I'll try it out

It's about paid customers and not only friends. Paid customers expect a smooth service. At the moment I have multiple (virtual and physicall) servers around the world to both host and deal with nameservers. This solution is time and money consuming, so I am moving to a different approach.

A single shared nameserver does not grant a 100% uptime and costs 2x the price of the business plan that company I linked earlier is offering. I call this an expensive and badly implemented solution.

A single self-hosted nameserver does not grant a 100% uptime and requires a fitting internet connection and an old box to run bind on. At the moment I do not have an old box or server to run bind on, and even if I had it, the box could die and I would have to deal with the downtime (single nameserver), buy spare parts, lost time to fix the box and at the moment I do not have a fitting internet connection.

Godaddy's dns hosting is utter crap, it seriously hurts my eyes and needs a bazilion clicks to accomplish a simple task so I am looking for valid alternatives providing more than one nameserver, with uptimes close to (better yet: matching) 100%, to save money and time and keep paid and free customers happy.

I gave a look at the screencast and it looks pretty nice, I don't have much to suggest on that side.

However I went to github to give a peek at the code and I notice there's no LICENSE file (and I couldn't find any reference to the license anywhere obvious), so may I suggest picking one up? Technically you can't define your code Open Source unless you apply a proper license to it -- actually, I don't think anyone could legally use your code as of now, because even if you wanted it to be under the public domain, you should state it clearly (I could be wrong on this last statement, if so someone please correct me).

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You can read it through google's cache: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:EP3z1pmfq1EJ:arxivblog.c... "Human eye could detect spooky action at a distance".

Trying to sum it a bit: laptop's facial-recognition systems suck. They really do.

Those 4 diagrams should be printed out by everyone trying to deliver a product, because it's too easy to forget about it when you are focusing on launching your app.

I'm guessing "war games" wouldn't help :-)

Sometime it makes you wonder if going for a properly sharpened straight razor and a real soap is really worth, or if you should start manifacturing disposable blades and crappy foam so that the people will keep on having to buy them and items to deal with the side effects of your bad products -- for the whole duration of their life

Yeah indeed... .5TB is huge for bookmarks (title, url, tags, description). I have never had the chance to build anything this big but if you imagine the amount of text you could fit in 500GB, it makes you wonder.

I gave a look at your comments and found this one which replies to my question perfectly (I didn't follow that thread, discovered it right now): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459000 -- thank you for sharing your experience!

Mark Zuckerberg's blog post on the TOS change: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=54434097130

Yeah, I use a similar approach. However, for ma.gnolia we are talking about a database reaching half a terabyte (unless I misunderstood), so my question was more like: what do you people consider the best way to approach database backup so that it's sustainable, scalable and the most disaster proof? Got any testimoniance (whether personal or of public companies), or case study?

If you were to start a web application from scratch, how would you deal with important database backups?

> The purpose of a system is what it does

Therefore the purpose of the internal combustion engine is to waste the 82% of energy? :-)

A kernel is part of the operating system, but the operating system is not composed by the kernel only. Take MacOSX: it is an operating system, its kernel is XNU. Linux itself is a kernel, not an operating system, etc.

UNIX is a proprietary operating system (not a kernel) and GNU aims to be quite the opposite, hence that acronym (GNU is Not UNIX). As for the decision to leave the kernel at last, well just give a look at how long is it taking for HURD to be completed... also I am guessing he needed other stuff to be created first (compiler, etc)

Too bad the tor server for elettra looks dead -- or is it just me?

A few months ago the so called "iphone dev team" posted a video starring Woz on their blog where he talked about iphone hacking and whatnot. The video can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7741472.s... -- gives you another POV on iphone "hacking". I loved his enthusiasm.

Beside the other URLs suggested may I point you to http://developer.apple.com/webapps/ ?

I tried explained you it is about epistemology, instead.

You are probably missing the point that agnosticism is about knowledge and not beliefs (sp?)... and frankly I am tired of keep on hearing people telling me I am an atheis, shy atheis or whatever -- so I am giving up.

How about no? I don't say "maybe", I say it is impossible to prove or disprove. Frankly reducing it to a "yes or no" question is really reductive, and pretty much a christian way to put things, if you will. Q: "Do you believe in god?" A: "I cannot know whether a god exists or not."

Agnostic theism

I am a strong agnostic... or strongly agnostic, I don't know what's the proper grammatical form. But I DO know strong agnosticism is what sums my own thoughts on god. :-)

(I don't get why you've been downmodded to -1, I have just +1'd you)

I am agnostic, so I can't vote, apparently.