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Running a business means contact with reality

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Re: Running a business means contact with reality

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Post by svieira »

kragen wrote: post #19
monarchwadia wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose one could argue that both are equally real.

I remember one time at summer camp in the teen dorm I claimed that pain was an illusion, because it was subjective. A girl named Lisa picked up a wooden block and threw it at me. It hit my lip, which started bleeding, and she was immediately horrified at what she had done; but I had to acknowledge that subjective "reality" has an importance to me that objective reality does not.

She objectively caused you to transition to an objective state which you both experienced subjectively!

Re: Running a business means contact with reality

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Post by renewiltord »

cpursley wrote: post #7
zkmon wrote: post #6

Seems the page is down. So, yes, Reality is where money is. For money to reach you, you need to setup the pipelines, or poke a hole in an existing pipeline. Maybe that's old-school. Youngsters seem to argue that they don't need to move out of their den, to start and run a business. And they were right some times.

This is why I build static astro sites now for marketing and blog type pages. Cheaper to run, too - it's just html/css with optional js/ts sprinkles. Another biz lesson I learned luckily through observation (WP sites being down too often and a nightmare to configure and maintain).

I wonder how many decades the advice “use WP-cache; WP-supercache” has endured. Is it still the advice? Why knows. It’s been 20 years of WP (last week) and seeing that error message.

Re: Running a business means contact with reality

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Post by oakashes »

mlhpdx wrote: post #20
victorbuilds wrote: post #9

After 20 years building software for other companies, I started my own thing a few weeks ago. The reality check hit fast. When you're an employee, you can hide behind process and blame the market. When it's yours, every signup or lack of one is direct feedback. No buffer.

Bad business people have been blaming outside forces for their failings forever. Taxes! Regulations! China! The Algorithm! It’s a symphony out there.

Yes, and none of that matters when the money runs out and you can't convince investors that your business will bring them a worthwhile return in an environment that includes all of those outside forces.

Re: Running a business means contact with reality

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Post by rstupek »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #30
inglor_cz wrote: post #10

I haven't been someone else's employee for 20 years, so the title immediately drew my attention. One click later, "Error establishing a database connection". HN seems to have hugged this guy's site to death.

Reality - a simple blog should hardly ever need a database server for content.

The problem is wordpress does require a database server by default.

Re: Running a business means contact with reality

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Post by crop_rotation »

kragen wrote: post #18
j45 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contact with paying customers, or eyeballs who refuse to pay is reality. Contact with curious internet traffic crippling a non cloudflared webserver might not be.

Computers are fast now. You can serve five million hits a day with a webserver that's a shell script running from inetd. You don't need Cloudflare unless you're getting DDoSed.

I don't understand such comments. Obviously the people having trouble serving HN traffic have no clue what inetd is. Most of them might not even know about using varnish/nginx and that too is fine. It is good that internet is so accessible that you don't need to write shell script from inetd to express your opinions on your own domain and website. A random php running blog will be able to serve far less than 5M hits/day and that too is fine. Most people can't run curlftpfs too and it turned out to be fine

Re: Running a business means contact with reality

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

rstupek wrote: post #35
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reality - a simple blog should hardly ever need a database server for content.

The problem is wordpress does require a database server by default.

And reality is most blogs could be better served by a static web host platform with lower maintenance and less security risks.

Re: Running a business means contact with reality

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Post by kragen »

crop_rotation wrote: post #36
kragen wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Computers are fast now. You can serve five million hits a day with a webserver that's a shell script running from inetd. You don't need Cloudflare unless you're getting DDoSed.

I don't understand such comments. Obviously the people having trouble serving HN traffic have no clue what inetd is. Most of them might not even know about using varnish/nginx and that too is fine. It is good that internet is so accessible that you don't need to write shell script from inetd to express your opinions on your own domain and website. A random php running blog will be able to serve far less than 5M hits/…

Oh, I was using a shell script spawned from inetd as the lowest-tech, most primitive, worst-performance simple way of running a web server. A random PHP-running blog will easily handle tens of millions of hits a day unless you way overcomplicate it.
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