Searching for a Satellite Pager?

mcolgin asks: "I need a satellite pager! Why? I own a dot-com and as the only technical person responsible for the 7 servers needed to run the site and it's automated delivery systems, I've got to find out about any problems, before my customers/suppliers do; no matter where I am, especially when I'm: camping in Eastern-Washington; back-country skiing in Whistler; or driving down to Oregon for Mother's Day. I've tried every type of cellphone and pager I can find, but nothing gets a message to me once I get out of populated areas and away from freeways. So, I started looking into Satellite pagers; but I swear, I can't find anything in the local Seattle, WA area and only a couple listings online from Google searches. This has got to be a problem that the Slashdot community has run into, before. Any suggestions?"

Comments

Lackey.

[technos]

Hire a lackey. Find a guy/gal down at your local LUG. Seattle has lots of underemployed, overqualified geeks at the moment. Show him the ropes.

Sure, he (please substitute she if appropriate) won't know how to fix everything. But he will call your customers to let them know a technical person *is* on site, ring your cell incessantly till you pick up, put your pager on the wardialer.. And for simple stuff, IE, service didn't come up on restart, or UPS warning some of the batteries just went south, you just saved yourself a trip back to Seattle.

Re:Holy cow.

[Council]

Sounds like he runs a spamming farm. He fits the profile.

He does run a spamming farm, as far as I can tell. Here's the site in his info:

http://www.digitalcandle.com/

You've developed a high-quality software product and now you need to sell it, but where to begin? DigitalCandle provides the e-commerce mechanism - we'll securely process your customers' credit card, Paypal and purchase order payments for your shareware, with low 10% transaction fees, no minimums and fast payouts.

And with our Level 2 Internet marketing and search engine submission services, we'll make sure your software is on the top shareware download sites and search engines. From website promotion to press release writing, our comprehensive Level 2 marketing services help shareware developers promote their software to the world.

So mostly search engine spam.