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It was my second week on the job, not a fun way to start things off... I don't know if we'll have UK dedi offerings (power + space are at a premium), but we're looking at rapidly p…

> I'm running a pair of L5639's in my main server. Perfectly usable. Disclaimer: I run Delimiter That's absolutely what we're going for with our offerings. Gear that's off lease an…

It's the only downtime we plan to have. I get Nam flashbacks just thinking about it.

~50% of customers were back online within 14 hours. 96% were online within 24-28 hours. There were a few that stretched approximately 3.5 days due to disk/psu failures, etc. It was…

That's correct, we offer largely older gear. We had a stack of E3-1225v3's at $39 recently though. We primarily offer services in Atlanta right now, but we're expanding to Los Ange…

Incero Instant would probably be a good place to look. Dedicated servers with per-minute billing: http://incero.com/instant E3 w/ 32GB ram or dual E5 with 384GB ram.

My guess: exit nodes are responsible for a number of attacks against CloudFlare-protected sites so it makes sense to question each visit from those IPs.

My last full time job I got by leaving a comment on Fred Wilson's blog. He shared my info with a bunch of investors in my area and they connected me with people in their portfolio …

12: Started selling pirated software and DVDs to classmates. 13: Illegal firecrackers to friends in high school (they're illegal where I live in Canada) 14: First internet venture …

I have a site that gets ~12 visitors/day and I make about $55/mo through that site all from the Amazon Associates program. Referring someone through an Amazon link doesn't just cre…

You mentioned the service on Twitter and I signed up immediately and added my Twitter account. Within 2 hours of signing up I had used the service no less than 3 times to dig up li…

Have you ever considered setting up an affiliate program and letting other people risk their own ad spend? Also gives the teaching blogs incentive to promote it to their readers/em…

It's a push notification platform for anything you can build it into. Load up your HN profile and there's a Notifo box to get notified when someone responds to your comment. Apps t…

Learn on someone else's dime. Find a job at a company that has an interesting product, try to pick the smallest company possible. You'll learn a lot of stuff, work on something tha…

For a separate project I've worked on (non-YC), we negotiated 50% off bandwidth and somewhat reduced server rates. You just need to ask for it. Not sure what the YC deal is, but I …

I'm a huge fan of WebFaction.com for hosting. I host my personal stuff and sites I'm tinkering with on there, it's shared hosting but acts like a VPS (gives you application memory)…

I'm 19, dropped out of school in grade 12 to work at a startup and continue my freelance career (internet marketing) that I had been doing throughout high school. I spent 7 months …

Size: Vancouver is a "big" city (or at least tries to be), but it's still pretty small. Small in a good way though, the population is ~2m in the metro area but the city itself is ~…

Hopefully Rackspace starts getting competitive sometime soon.

I've had clients with sloppy dev teams who decided to change the URL structure of all landing pages without letting me know (I was managing their PPC campaigns). Google stops servi…

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