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I'm going to be in the Redmond/Seattle area on Feb. 20-24 for some local events and would love to meet some local HN'ers while I'm there who work in security, game development, or …

OVH monitors customers' servers and investigates if they stop responding to pings, unless you opt out of this. I'm guessing they were looking at this system to make sure all their …

In Canada, we have a debit card network called Interac and can use it to send an "e-Transfer" to anyone else with a Canadian bank account using nothing more than their email addres…

What would a spam-resistant successor to today's email protocols look like? Is such a thing in the works by someone?

Not all hosts are US-based, though; some hosts in other countries prefer to get a court order in their own jurisdiction before taking action against a customer.

I highly recommend Seafile for this purpose. It was far more performant and reliable than ownCloud when I tried it, and more self-contained.

The terms "nonprofit" and "not-for-profit" are unfortunate misnomers. Like any other company, nonprofits can offer gainful employment and will eventually bankrupt if they never tur…

AFAIK, Mozilla has the structure they do because the IRS frowns upon charities (which is shorthand for "tax-exempt corporation") engaging in business-like activities but is fine wi…

That's exactly what a nonprofit is. Nonprofits are corporations like any other, with a few key differences: - Instead of shareholders, nonprofits have members. Members don't own th…

I'm in the same boat. My self-taught experience inspired me to pursue a CS degree. The degree did put me in a serendipitous position that led to a number of great industry opportun…

I see federal incorporation as a "sane default" but this is what I know that favours provincial incorporation: - The bureaucratic details differ between the various provincial juri…

American bank accounts are the only way to get USD out of a PayPal account; PayPal will refuse to send anything but CAD to a Canadian bank account, regardless of what currency the …

> obligatory "IANAL" note There's no equivalent to LLC's in Canada so you'll need to create a corporation up here. You can incorporate in the federal jurisdiction or a provincial o…

I'll vouch for OVH as a great choice - I've been a customer there for several years. Their phone support is awesome and you get a ton of hardware and bandwidth for your dollar.

Nope - it is a fee for money that travels between PayPal users in different countries. It's about 1% for Canadian accounts, depending on the payment's source or destination [1]. [1…

+1 for "running your own". I have a cPanel license on a personal server and it handles a lot of the rigamarole. Once you have DKIM and SPF set up, it practically runs itself. The n…

OVH specializes in dedicated servers ( https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/dedicated-servers/ ) but they offer an API for ordering them and can deliver many of them within a couple of minute…

I empathize and find your weekend activities relatable. Answer a question about your weekends with that and you might just find someone else who spends their free time "being produ…

If you like the idea of self-hosting your transactional email server, check out Cuttlefish[1][2] - it's a slick open-source solution for this. We spun it up with a dedicated IP and…