Ever since Slicehost got bought, I've been less and less impressed with them - their customer service isn't as responsive as it used to be, and they seem to have spent more time rewriting their support chatroom than making any improvements to the actual service that they offer. If you're looking for the same thing(but cheaper), Rackspace's Cloud Servers is essentially a re-branded version of Slicehost. You end up paying $10/mo for the same system, except that outgoing bandwidth is no longer bundled - but until you're pushing >40GB of bw/month, Cloud Servers will be cheaper for the same thing.
If you're okay paying the price for Slicehost's services, Linode did better than both of them in this benchmark: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison, and offers more resources at the same price point - but your mileage may vary.
This sounds like the coolest way to keep everything running ever. I don't suppose you'd be willing to share some scripts or point me in the right direction to set this up for myself?
Right now I'm working on making myself look more attractive to a potential employer who works with the LAMP stack. When I asked him what he was looking for, he mentioned Rails, Django, and CakePHP - 3 different frameworks, in 3 different languages. I'm talking to him in about a week, and I aim to have built at least something in all three by then - but I definitely won't be able to achieve specialization.
Agreed - but having to worry about redundancy is still scary.
I'm designing a server box for a project, and thus far for the sake of as much redundancy as possible, we've narrowed it down to 3 drives in RAID5, 2 more in RAID0 for the OS/bootables, and 2 more in RAID0 for backups - if we don't just use the first pair for that.
The thoughts of having any of those drives fail scare me. A lot. I'm hoping that one day I'll feel good enough about hard-drive failure rates to settle for something like two drives - data, and backups. It's a dream, but it'd be nice.
He's got a point here, and this presents a simple solution:
1) allow Google to pay you to display ads.
2) Teach all your friends to install and use Adblock, thus ensuring they don't actually see the ads.
3) Profit!
This sounds like a pretty good idea to me - you'd probably easily catch students who were cheating, especially if you made sure to bid lowest(students are cheap, generally).
It might not work out so well after a while, as students who had been caught might start to drop the name and warn other students - but it could work for a little while.
He has a point here. I managed to get a programming job about 8 months out of high school with no papers - but it was a very lucky break, and I only got in because I knew their accountant. More and more businesses(at least around here) are looking for that piece of paper, and won't even look at you without it - experience be damned.
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Also, if Ruby's your bag - Heroku is kind of like App Engine, for Rubyists.
Ever since Slicehost got bought, I've been less and less impressed with them - their customer service isn't as responsive as it used to be, and they seem to have spent more time rewriting their support chatroom than making any improvements to the actual service that they offer. If you're looking for the same thing(but cheaper), Rackspace's Cloud Servers is essentially a re-branded version of Slicehost. You end up paying $10/mo for the same system, except that outgoing bandwidth is no longer bundled - but until you're pushing >40GB of bw/month, Cloud Servers will be cheaper for the same thing.
If you're okay paying the price for Slicehost's services, Linode did better than both of them in this benchmark: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison, and offers more resources at the same price point - but your mileage may vary.
You TERRORIST.
This sounds like the coolest way to keep everything running ever. I don't suppose you'd be willing to share some scripts or point me in the right direction to set this up for myself?
Haha, I've been working through that one already. :)
I'm inclined to agree - I've found that out of all my programming books, it seems the Perl-oriented ones have the most enjoyable tone.
You like your emphasis, don't you?
He said obscure, not obtuse. :)
Windows 7?
That just means you should aim for those first. Sheesh.
I think that there are definitely too many tools.
Right now I'm working on making myself look more attractive to a potential employer who works with the LAMP stack. When I asked him what he was looking for, he mentioned Rails, Django, and CakePHP - 3 different frameworks, in 3 different languages. I'm talking to him in about a week, and I aim to have built at least something in all three by then - but I definitely won't be able to achieve specialization.
Just get a EEE with Skype - that's what I did. :)
I started up a twitter account for some of the weirder ones I got: http://twitter.com/spamtitles
Whoops! I always get RAID0 and RAID1 mixed up - the 'RAID0' drives would be 'RAID1'.
I realized that hard drive manufacturers really have no incentive to make drives that don't fail, but it would still be a nice to have.
Agreed - but having to worry about redundancy is still scary. I'm designing a server box for a project, and thus far for the sake of as much redundancy as possible, we've narrowed it down to 3 drives in RAID5, 2 more in RAID0 for the OS/bootables, and 2 more in RAID0 for backups - if we don't just use the first pair for that. The thoughts of having any of those drives fail scare me. A lot. I'm hoping that one day I'll feel good enough about hard-drive failure rates to settle for something like two drives - data, and backups. It's a dream, but it'd be nice.
Really? I've got a linux version, and I didn't know that. Good to know for the next one I pick up, I suppose.
He's got a point here, and this presents a simple solution:
1) allow Google to pay you to display ads.
2) Teach all your friends to install and use Adblock, thus ensuring they don't actually see the ads.
3) Profit!
You know, that reminds me of a game I played once. The memory's a bit hazy, but I remember that the game was sweet.
There was also a micro-application that I used once...if I recall correctly, it took it about 4 tries to convert a document.
This sounds like a pretty good idea to me - you'd probably easily catch students who were cheating, especially if you made sure to bid lowest(students are cheap, generally). It might not work out so well after a while, as students who had been caught might start to drop the name and warn other students - but it could work for a little while.
He has a point here. I managed to get a programming job about 8 months out of high school with no papers - but it was a very lucky break, and I only got in because I knew their accountant. More and more businesses(at least around here) are looking for that piece of paper, and won't even look at you without it - experience be damned.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
O RLY?
I'm from Canada too, and it was fractions in grade 3 or 4, in the early-mid 1990s.
It's because the urinals won't run Linux.