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Apoplectic

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About Apoplectic

I haz the codz

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #8608759

    Ain't a 'server' boss. They're running a segment of code. When someone hits your PHP page on an oversubscribed DreamHost box with 4000 other sites contending for resources, it's pr…

  2. comment
    Comment #8605033

    Huh? Shared server infrastructure? That's really what this sounds like. Welcome to web hosting in 1999 guys. Most of the point of AWS was that you have your own dedicated resources…

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    Comment #8604224

    Sounds like a poor deal. Given that open, I'd forego the 4 weeks severance which appeared to be in exchange for the NCA.

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    Comment #8604173

    And yet, they don't. Compare that to Oracle. Plus, when Amazon makes a new cloud architecture that gets popular, others copy it. OpenStack will have this if need be in a year or tw…

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    Comment #8604147

    To be fair, you have to pay per unit for these services, so as long as people are using them, Amazon is making money. Putting a service out to pasture in maintenance mode probably …

  6. story
    Wordpress Hashcash Hacked

    Cracking Wordpress Hashcash has never been easier. Like many Wordpress plugins, WPHC provides little to no protection. Use this drop in class to see how primitive WPHC is. Hopefull…