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I believe Junko Tabei - the first woman climber of Mt. Everest - did it (i.e. climb Mt. Everest) at the age of 36. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Tabei All the best. :)

Not exactly a freelancer; more like a small web development company. Will build a few web MVPs (fast and) for free if there are any suitable and willing takers here on HN forums. C…

Just submitted one here - fairly quick and easy :)

Before anybody gives me a rap on the knuckle, I'll clarify our position directly: Like most (if not all), we're aware of the fact that there are many (good) site map generators alr…

Clickable link: http://httpd.co/damn_quick_mvps/

Please check out: http://httpd.co/damn_quick_mvps/ If not you, could someone you know be interested?

Nice - posted one of ours. Bug report/suggestions: 1) Can't find a way to edit our project listing 2) Consider more rigorous client-side validation on submission form (e.g. I accid…

Thanks to all who have responded. We've decided to try each one- DigitalOcean - already ordered, up and running (very well too) Linode - will order soon OVH - already ordered (per …

@AznHisoka: Thanks for the reminder. Are you associated with/use them? After you told me about them in my previous thread, we checked them out and actually ordered a server there. …

After you found out about this, did you find his page in your Likes list? If you did, could it have been that you somehow - inadvertently - clicked Like on his page/ad? If your ans…

Clickable previous thread links: 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6348903 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6367198

Having struggled a lot with our current VPS, finally decided to go the cloud way. [Those interested to know more about what we've been facing can refer to my two recent threads: 1.…

> 3) it's not a fear, a critical mass of users won't pay for content. Spot on!!

As an aside, pitcher.io looks cool... congrats :) If you don't mind, I'd suggest toning down the 'Our' side of the copy a bit... e.g. 'Our amazing content. Your expert knowledge.' …

Wow!!! Didn't know about this - took a quick look and found it very interesting. Thanks.

We've suspected that our problem is mainly of I/O, very close to what you've described above. >I would just post the output from top and iostat during one of the spikes here and se…

What I meant was feature development... that's what got frozen long ago... code revision exclusively for performance optimization has been ongoing continually.

>I can't really see how your code or queries could cause mysql or apache to gradually slow down and then speed up... Actually, we've ascertained that it is not the code or queries …

Yes, we did investigate MySQL's internal partitioning option briefly before deciding to roll our own scheme (which, after working quite well initially, is now beginning to create p…

Will try and post within a few hours. Thanks.

For now, we're making our code/queries/optimization take the blame rather than the hardware.

>so call in some help. As is being discussed in the other thread.

Paying way more than $10/mo for the VPS, close to 200 - and hey!! thanks for the ovh.com link - looks very interesting, will certainly try them out soon. Thanks.

>What is the actual bottleneck? As mentioned in OP, it is MySQL. >you can't run a massive database on crappy hardware and expect it to work smoothly. Absolutely... but we do wish t…

Thanks for your in-depth reply and suggestions. MySQL performance tuning and table structure/query optimization-wise, we've left few stones unturned (but I'm sure there still is a …