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Re: "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

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Post by DuoSRX »

lell wrote: post #68
jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #50

View source is so 2006, cool kids use the Javascript console to modify web pages as they please. document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(/ /g,'')

What's the js to make a site editable with your cursor (you can click on text in a and then you get a cursor in it where you can insert more text, also changes your mouse cursor to indicate that you can edit, over text)? I saw it here on hn once in the comments, but then I couldn't find it again later when I needed it. (I had also saved it in a vim window but forgotten to save it, ugh!)

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true';document.designMode='on';void 0

Re: "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

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Post by aangjie »

lsc wrote: post #66
aangjie wrote: post #57

Hmm.. Am a little confused with the payment page options. Do i have use the purchase additional package option to pay ? I just registered and was asked to the billing/payment page to pay. But there doesn't seem to be a simple pay button/link/tab.

I've got to manually tell the billing system to make you a bill. Sorry.

Ah.. assume the paypal link will be on the bill. ok no problems. had dropped a mail too. Will pay once i get the bill. :-P

Re: "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

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Post by redslazer »

WiseWeasel wrote: post #9
venkyk wrote: post #5

I rather wish they had worded it as 'We assume you are not stupid'. Or they are assuming wrong in my case?

As a stupid person, I was offended.

The fact you understand what the page is even about, means that you are not in anyway a stupid person.

Re: "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

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Post by _delirium »

moconnor wrote: post #67

"Please note; this means all plans come with $4/month worth of support." I can't help wondering how much support that is.

I take that to be a coy way of saying "not very much at all". If the person responding is making even $20/hr, then $4/mo of support is 12 minutes/month of support. :)

That said I've had no complaints with support from them when needed. It just has to clearly be about things on their end; they aren't going to help with sysadmin issues on your box.

Re: "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

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Post by jerico2day »

peterwwillis wrote: post #53

I don't care how reliable the hoster is, $5 for those specs is excessive in this market. Go to http://www.lowendbox.com/ and look at all the deals. Almost all of them are $5 or less a month at twice the specs. Concerned about reliability? The cost of one beer at a restaurant will buy you a second box at a different hoster.

That's true. I bought a 128 meg box for 2.25 from another provider. I run my primary postfix server on it, and prgmr runs a backup postfix server among other stuff.

Anyway, 6 months in my cheaper box is mysteriously reset, postfix config gone, but it's still accepting (and rejecting all) email because the default instance runs sendmail out of the box. Emailed support, they apologized and gave me a month. Still REALLY ANNOYING. PRGMR doesn't pull that kind of crap, so I'm happy to pay the extra for it.

Re: "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

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Post by dpritchett »

Maxious wrote: post #41
slug wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would prefer more disk per dollar though. Besides that I'm a happy customer.

Agreed. I am constantly playing package management musical chairs.

Same here. I have found myself using Rackspace Cloud for my newer projects because I get more disk for my $11 and their Ubuntu provisioning is very low effort on my part. KVM offers a bit more control than I need.

I still have a soft spot for my first prgmr box though.

Re: "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

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Post by stcredzero »

redslazer wrote: post #73
WiseWeasel wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a stupid person, I was offended.

The fact you understand what the page is even about, means that you are not in anyway a stupid person.

Just because one can be smart, doesn't mean one has lost the chance to be stupid.

Re: "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

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Post by peterwwillis »

lsc wrote: post #46
nknight wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of bandwidth... Are you really not losing money on $1.15/mbps overage? How many 10gbps ports did it take before you got Cogent down that low?

5 gigs on a 10G port. $5000 one time setup for the 10G port. $0.65/mbps on the commit, $1.15/mbps on overage. That's my cost, so i guess I'm losing a tiny bit on my time, setup fees and equipment, but right now, I just want someone to split some of the monthlies with me. I really, really want that 10G port, though, as at those overages, I can oversubscribe my own commit, and if I oversubscribe too aggressively or one…

So if I understand that correctly, the reason other providers seem to provide a lot more bandwidth per subscriber dollar (ex. my Linode has 200G transfer/month at $19.95) is most of their customers probably don't push the pipe into an overage so they're basically overselling the bandwidth?

p.s. I just noticed your $20 plan provides double the RAM and 4gb more disk than my Linode... i'll do a little more research but I might just switch since I don't get anywhere near that bandwidth cap.

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