I've been very happy with service at prgmr.com for the year or so I've been there. Only two minor issues; both were hardware faults (so fairly unavoidable -- service was restored quickly though). Support is at the "$5/month" rate as stated on their site. They're very knowledgeable, and will help, but yes it is only a handful of guys and they may take some time to respond to tickets on anything that isn't "host machine 100% down".
I'm glad someone had a good DH VPS experience. I've had many sites hosted on their shared hosting for years with near zero issues. My VPS with them was a NIGHTMARE.
Things were gravy to start, but after a few months everything I ran on the VPS suffered large random latency spikes. Even my terminal sessions would hang. Between my own investigating and many support tickets it was noted there was one use on the host machine hammering the disk/CPU. So they moved me to a newer (faster) server and dealt with their problem customer. Except they didn't move me during the window I provided to them (and that they agreed to); and when they DID move me they moved me to a box that was "oh, sorry, our mistake, it wasn't ready for live customers yet" and was WORSE than the one I came off of. So then I was (again, outside my agreed window of "please fix my stuff during these hours") moved to a third box -- which still sucked. That was enough to drop their VPS service after the good two weeks it took me to convince them that it was NOT my own processes "having low RAM" and getting a free bump to max RAM to prove it.
I've been with prgmr.com ever since and never been happier.
Must be a local issue for you then. I've got the same choices here in my area and Charter is faster and cheaper. Had it for 2 years and working great. Low latency, full throughput (25mbit or 60mbit when I had that plan). I did have issues "initially" for 3 months or so, but I took it to the "Charter Direct" forum @ DSL Reports and got right to a plant manager who ended up having local construction re-run the mainline to my tap. No issues since! Never waste time calling their phone support, though.
Sorry, didn't realize I wasn't logged in earlier, re-posting:
T-Mo actually does charge for tethering, $15/mo. It is easy to bypass, but they do charge for it claiming it is a "feature" to "protect your phone" when you tether. I know this because I pay for it on my MIL's line on my account. She is happy to pay the $15/mo extra and I'm happy to not change her useragent string and have to deal with impromptu tech support calls about it.
How is this different from Active Directory with SMS and WSUS? I'm not trying to be facetious; I'm genuinely curious. I mostly do optical fiber link work but have had to dabble in the PC/Software side of running things more than once, and last I did, was using SMS and WSUS to do most of what this seems to offer (to me).
Is this plan new? I signed up for the "free monthly trial" of OnLive awhile back but it still required me to purchase (at retail prices) games in addition to the waived monthly fee.
Why would I want to pay retail and a continuing monthly maintenance fee for a game, exactly?
You can pick up a used G1 for $50 or less and hop on almost any carrier network you prefer. ConnectBot is free, works like a champ. The G1 has a full hardware keyboard, with numerals on their own row. I've gotten quite a bit of use out of mine with this setup until I finally upgraded to a newer phone.
Didn't realize this; it must be a fairly new change. I remember when I first signed up in 2003 or so I had to verify I was military just to open a checking account. Nobody can beat Deposit@Mobile:)
But the trick behind this is that it only works with an active data plan. Broken much? There is still no way to use a BB on T-Mobile functionally without paying for a data plan (except making calls, but who does that?). I can use 100% of the features on my G1 over WiFi only; no data plan needed.
Dumping tickets aside, what about for memorabilia sake? Growing up I sure kept every ticket stub I had since it was the only memorabilia I could afford and I was never lucky enough to snag a pick/drum stick/shirt/etc. I've also had a problem of buying tickets for a group and having 1 or more people back out last minute -- it seems silly to waste seats to a good show, so I've always ended up just giving them away to anybody who will take them.
For those of you complaining about this, please note that it was "per the ToS". Don't like it? Don't use the (Android) software, then. It's a free market -- vote with your money elsewhere.
Until this remote nuke feature is used on something I've PAID for, and I'm left without my app or my money, I'm not too bothered by it as, again, I AGREED TO THE TOS.
So 100/50 is cool all within the mainland for them, but how much content is actually native (ie: how much will this really benefit people)? The bottleneck is still the pipe(s) that feed the island.
I don't see all the hype about electric vehicles. While I agree we need to move from our dependence on fossil fuels, electric vehicles simply move the pollution from the highway back to the power plant. All that energy has to come from somewhere...
Vista and Win 7 both worked out of the box with zero issues for me; Win 7 even on my 2006 laptop (which it detected the brand/model correctly, to boot). No problems with my Linux Samba shares at all -- looks like user error on your part.
Then you take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBIOS and write your own. I'm serious, people like to complain that features aren't supported when the only thing stopping them is there own faith. Sure you can do ALOT of damage but just be careful and test it in a VM first. I've written several bios firmwares for my current MOBO and they all out preform the stock.
Comments like this are what turn a lot of people off from Linux. "Oh you don't like xyz? Go write it yourself." We're not all xyz devs (or devs at all, in most instances).
TXU rolled this out in Texas when I lived there starting in 2008 or early 2009. You got a free programmable thermostat that connected to a ZigBee adapter which plugged into your LAN/router someplace.
They would cycle 15 on/15 off at peak as needed, but you were able to override at any time and manage everything online so you could even turn the A/C on/off remotely from work, a hotel, etc, if you forgot to.
Never had any problems, and the thermostat was much nicer than the old (nearly) broken one that came with the home.
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I've been very happy with service at prgmr.com for the year or so I've been there. Only two minor issues; both were hardware faults (so fairly unavoidable -- service was restored quickly though). Support is at the "$5/month" rate as stated on their site. They're very knowledgeable, and will help, but yes it is only a handful of guys and they may take some time to respond to tickets on anything that isn't "host machine 100% down".
I'm glad someone had a good DH VPS experience. I've had many sites hosted on their shared hosting for years with near zero issues. My VPS with them was a NIGHTMARE.
Things were gravy to start, but after a few months everything I ran on the VPS suffered large random latency spikes. Even my terminal sessions would hang. Between my own investigating and many support tickets it was noted there was one use on the host machine hammering the disk/CPU. So they moved me to a newer (faster) server and dealt with their problem customer. Except they didn't move me during the window I provided to them (and that they agreed to); and when they DID move me they moved me to a box that was "oh, sorry, our mistake, it wasn't ready for live customers yet" and was WORSE than the one I came off of. So then I was (again, outside my agreed window of "please fix my stuff during these hours") moved to a third box -- which still sucked. That was enough to drop their VPS service after the good two weeks it took me to convince them that it was NOT my own processes "having low RAM" and getting a free bump to max RAM to prove it.
I've been with prgmr.com ever since and never been happier.
Must be a local issue for you then. I've got the same choices here in my area and Charter is faster and cheaper. Had it for 2 years and working great. Low latency, full throughput (25mbit or 60mbit when I had that plan). I did have issues "initially" for 3 months or so, but I took it to the "Charter Direct" forum @ DSL Reports and got right to a plant manager who ended up having local construction re-run the mainline to my tap. No issues since! Never waste time calling their phone support, though.
T-Mo actually does charge for tethering, $15/mo. It is easy to bypass, but they do charge for it claiming it is a "feature" to "protect your phone" when you tether. I know this because I pay for it on my MIL's line on my account. She is happy to pay the $15/mo extra and I'm happy to not change her useragent string and have to deal with impromptu tech support calls about it.
How is this different from Active Directory with SMS and WSUS? I'm not trying to be facetious; I'm genuinely curious. I mostly do optical fiber link work but have had to dabble in the PC/Software side of running things more than once, and last I did, was using SMS and WSUS to do most of what this seems to offer (to me).
Is this plan new? I signed up for the "free monthly trial" of OnLive awhile back but it still required me to purchase (at retail prices) games in addition to the waived monthly fee. Why would I want to pay retail and a continuing monthly maintenance fee for a game, exactly?
"Get more comments" now actually does something for me on FF at work now.
You can pick up a used G1 for $50 or less and hop on almost any carrier network you prefer. ConnectBot is free, works like a champ. The G1 has a full hardware keyboard, with numerals on their own row. I've gotten quite a bit of use out of mine with this setup until I finally upgraded to a newer phone.
Didn't realize this; it must be a fairly new change. I remember when I first signed up in 2003 or so I had to verify I was military just to open a checking account. Nobody can beat Deposit@Mobile :)
Except you need some form of US military affiliation for this. I do agree they're great, though (very happy customer of 7 years :).
But the trick behind this is that it only works with an active data plan. Broken much? There is still no way to use a BB on T-Mobile functionally without paying for a data plan (except making calls, but who does that?). I can use 100% of the features on my G1 over WiFi only; no data plan needed.
Google Apps for your domain offers a bulk-import feature from Outlook and other clients.
:)
Gmail offers all that you wish for. Take the free premium trial for GApps, bulk import, then cancel. Problem solved?
Does everything you want and more; including Netflix support.
http://wdtvlive.com/
Dumping tickets aside, what about for memorabilia sake? Growing up I sure kept every ticket stub I had since it was the only memorabilia I could afford and I was never lucky enough to snag a pick/drum stick/shirt/etc. I've also had a problem of buying tickets for a group and having 1 or more people back out last minute -- it seems silly to waste seats to a good show, so I've always ended up just giving them away to anybody who will take them.
I have an Android phone myself, if it adds any credibility to how I feel over this all :).
For those of you complaining about this, please note that it was "per the ToS". Don't like it? Don't use the (Android) software, then. It's a free market -- vote with your money elsewhere. Until this remote nuke feature is used on something I've PAID for, and I'm left without my app or my money, I'm not too bothered by it as, again, I AGREED TO THE TOS.
IANALBIFWI
...What did you call my mother?
So 100/50 is cool all within the mainland for them, but how much content is actually native (ie: how much will this really benefit people)? The bottleneck is still the pipe(s) that feed the island.
I don't see all the hype about electric vehicles. While I agree we need to move from our dependence on fossil fuels, electric vehicles simply move the pollution from the highway back to the power plant. All that energy has to come from somewhere...
Vista and Win 7 both worked out of the box with zero issues for me; Win 7 even on my 2006 laptop (which it detected the brand/model correctly, to boot). No problems with my Linux Samba shares at all -- looks like user error on your part.
Then you take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBIOS and write your own. I'm serious, people like to complain that features aren't supported when the only thing stopping them is there own faith. Sure you can do ALOT of damage but just be careful and test it in a VM first. I've written several bios firmwares for my current MOBO and they all out preform the stock.
Comments like this are what turn a lot of people off from Linux. "Oh you don't like xyz? Go write it yourself." We're not all xyz devs (or devs at all, in most instances).
An Associates degree is already worthless; it says "I went to college, but dropped out after it got too hard."
Mine says "I spent 6 years active duty in the military. I learned a solid trade and spent the extra time to get the paper to back it up."
My work experience helped me get my current job far more than any education; the A.A.S. was just a kicker for extra money.
TXU rolled this out in Texas when I lived there starting in 2008 or early 2009. You got a free programmable thermostat that connected to a ZigBee adapter which plugged into your LAN/router someplace.
They would cycle 15 on/15 off at peak as needed, but you were able to override at any time and manage everything online so you could even turn the A/C on/off remotely from work, a hotel, etc, if you forgot to.
Never had any problems, and the thermostat was much nicer than the old (nearly) broken one that came with the home.
Yep, 3 USAA. Old news for us, even on Android platforms. Been using Deposit@Home with the scanner even longer though :)
Can I have your stuff?