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I agree with everyone that this should be open-source, but at least this has one benefit over the other proprietary solutions out there: This is not just a secure messenger, but al…

I think it could work. The set of users who would pay is a completely different demographic than those who are following Justin Bieber. You're only devaluing the market for the adv…

It's a good point that we probably shouldn't seed the values just to avoid someone from accidentally using "deadbeefdeadbeef" in their production environment. I'll also investigate…

You get more than just the instance. We take care of keeping the servers alive, patching them and such. We also load-balance your traffic, which is usually something you have to ad…

2 workers will always be on two different machines. We're probably going to reuse machines when you scale to more than that and increase process limits instead (this could yield be…

You should probably set the example by avoid using "@farfaraway.uk" in your blog posts. It's invalid right now, but that could change too... ;-)

How wouldn't paying back authors be a recurring cost? It's quite simple actually; how do you divide your $20 between publishers? You can't (before you either die or stop reading th…

It is: http://aws.amazon.com/security/

What would you pick: lose a dollar or lose the cost of a domain? (the cost of a domain is still more than dollar)

I'm thinking about proposing to buy it for an amount covering his cost except a dollar. He will still lose money (which should serve as a valuable lesson), but not as much as if I …

On AppHarbor, you also get piggyback SSL by default, as well as you can add custom certificates for free. To be fair - we don't charge anyone yet, but saying nobody else does it is…

Who should bear the risk for your startup - DotCloud or yourself? If you're creating a product you believe in, $100 (or more for that matter) should by no mean be out of reach - no…