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Innovation Nation: WePay is the anti-PayPal

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Re: Innovation Nation: WePay is the anti-PayPal

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably the author means anti- in the sense it's used in anti-matter, not the sense it's used in anti-globalization.

When WePay & PayPal touch they'll annihilate eachother with a huge burst of energy? :) Too bad headlines need to be clickable rather than accurate.

Obviously I mean in the sense of a complement. And it is an accurate use of the word in that sense. WePay is the other half of online payments: PayPal is for businesses, and WePay is for people who need to collect money but aren't businesses.

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I really hope WePay destroys PayPal. They have screwed myself and my friends too many times. The homepage layout is all wrong though. Poor element placement, messy typography, and the color scheme is off. It looks amateur and unpolished. All those SEO'd subpages are worthless if they don't convert. Also: - Upgrade to Nginx 0.7.67, there was a lot of bug fixes in 0.7.65 and 0.7.66. - Limit the number of login attempts…

Wow, "ssh wepay.com" works. Turn that off. Once again, "cloud" doesn't mean "lol, we don't need to know about servers!"

I must admit I didn't know the big domains disabled ssh. Naive/beginner's question: how do programmers work remotely at these companies (if it's allowed at all)? Do they ssh into other (safe) servers, from which a safe transfer is eventually made into the production servers?

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I really hope WePay destroys PayPal. They have screwed myself and my friends too many times. The homepage layout is all wrong though. Poor element placement, messy typography, and the color scheme is off. It looks amateur and unpolished. All those SEO'd subpages are worthless if they don't convert. Also: - Upgrade to Nginx 0.7.67, there was a lot of bug fixes in 0.7.65 and 0.7.66. - Limit the number of login attempts…

Wow, "ssh wepay.com" works. Turn that off. Once again, "cloud" doesn't mean "lol, we don't need to know about servers!"

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, "ssh wepay.com" works. Turn that off. Once again, "cloud" doesn't mean "lol, we don't need to know about servers!"

I must admit I didn't know the big domains disabled ssh. Naive/beginner's question: how do programmers work remotely at these companies (if it's allowed at all)? Do they ssh into other (safe) servers, from which a safe transfer is eventually made into the production servers?

You could set it up by allowing sshing to a server on a subdomain something like ssh.xyz.com or vpn.xyz.com and from there can ssh to production servers, which are set up to only allow ssh internally.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, "ssh wepay.com" works. Turn that off. Once again, "cloud" doesn't mean "lol, we don't need to know about servers!"

I must admit I didn't know the big domains disabled ssh. Naive/beginner's question: how do programmers work remotely at these companies (if it's allowed at all)? Do they ssh into other (safe) servers, from which a safe transfer is eventually made into the production servers?

It's a matter of setting up VPNs and IP-restricting where you can SSH in from. You can also set up port knocking and other SSH-related security measures. It depends how much convenience you're willing to trade for security.

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I really hope WePay destroys PayPal. They have screwed myself and my friends too many times. The homepage layout is all wrong though. Poor element placement, messy typography, and the color scheme is off. It looks amateur and unpolished. All those SEO'd subpages are worthless if they don't convert. Also: - Upgrade to Nginx 0.7.67, there was a lot of bug fixes in 0.7.65 and 0.7.66. - Limit the number of login attempts…

Wow, "ssh wepay.com" works. Turn that off. Once again, "cloud" doesn't mean "lol, we don't need to know about servers!"

Thanks for catching that. We've spent the last week moving into a new office and it must have slipped by as we were getting everything reconfigured. It's been locked down again.

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I really hope WePay destroys PayPal. They have screwed myself and my friends too many times. The homepage layout is all wrong though. Poor element placement, messy typography, and the color scheme is off. It looks amateur and unpolished. All those SEO'd subpages are worthless if they don't convert. Also: - Upgrade to Nginx 0.7.67, there was a lot of bug fixes in 0.7.65 and 0.7.66. - Limit the number of login attempts…

thanks for the feedback!

can you be more specific about how we can improve the home page? we're constantly trying to improve it, but our oldest (and admittedly ugliest) one always converts the best. tell me the dominant page color and i'll know which version you're looking at.

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Question: So my adult (beer league) hockey team is trying to start a slush fund so that we can pay for things like new jerseys, water bottles, shared resources type stuff. We are looking at trying to get a group account for this, and WePay looks like its exactly what we need. But the accounts we talk to say that we would have to pay taxes on this account, if its in a bank account. Would WePay be a way to get around p…

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Re: Innovation Nation: WePay is the anti-PayPal

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, "ssh wepay.com" works. Turn that off. Once again, "cloud" doesn't mean "lol, we don't need to know about servers!"

Thanks for catching that. We've spent the last week moving into a new office and it must have slipped by as we were getting everything reconfigured. It's been locked down again.

One part of me wants to pat you on the back and say, "It's okay, everybody makes mistakes."

The other part of me wants to say, "You have nine million dollars in funding. Figure shit out. This isn't a game."

Re: Innovation Nation: WePay is the anti-PayPal

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for catching that. We've spent the last week moving into a new office and it must have slipped by as we were getting everything reconfigured. It's been locked down again.

One part of me wants to pat you on the back and say, "It's okay, everybody makes mistakes." The other part of me wants to say, "You have nine million dollars in funding. Figure shit out. This isn't a game."

seiji, an open ssh port also isn't that big a deal. Every large network has an ssh entry point somewhere. I did a quick check before and at least it only accepted ssh-2. But yes, I agree with you that having that entry point on the main domain is a bad idea, but realistically we are talking about security through obscurity here. With enough guessing you can find the ssh entry point for any large site. The trick is whether you can get through it. They tend to all have 2-factor auth behind them making it extremely hard to bypass. I have no idea whether wepay has 2-factor auth behind theirs though.
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