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"The first challenge in putting together the big box was getting internal SAS connectors properly seated into the backplane adaptor sockets"

Excuse me?

As a customer I'd feel slightly uncomfortable about my data by now. You make it sound like stuffing 24 disks into a box is rocket science to you, all the while SuperMicro and others sell plug&play chassis for up to 45 disks[1].

Also, you didn't mention it in the post, but you do have at least two of these in two physically distant racks, right?

[edit: deleted snarky comment about people running windows on a fileserver]

[1] http://www.supermicro.com/storage/
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If you can make some time to go meet some homeless people, I'm sure they'd appreciate it. Merry Christmas!
I think people are missing the point of Codesprint. The point is not that 48 hours is too long etc. etc. (enough coders spend 54hrs at Startup Weekend) or that you are working for free for a big co.

The main point is that tech talent is extremely hard to find. Therefore it is valuable for companies to find someone who walks the talk.

For someone who is a good hacker and is just entering the job market, this is the real shit. No BS, no fake answers, no "i-want-to-change-the-world crap" - just being able to solve the problems at hand. And, these are the kind of people who end up changing the world by being part of sexy startups and maybe even starting up on their own later. Heck, if you are real hacker, 48hours of challenges is the best way to spend that time.
I did not say SOPA was merely circuitously related to YC. I said it was merely circuitously related to YC's relationship with the blacklisted company.

On the one hand, we may have:

A) Avoiding a business arrangement because the counter party has behaved unethically.
or
B) Avoiding a business arrangement because it would make poor business sense.

On the other hand, we may have:

C) Avoiding a business arrangement because the counter party has expressed views you disapprove of.

I am advocating against (C) on the grounds that it is an attempt to intimidate people into silence.

Your scenarios are all of the form (A) or (B). Hunters and clothing manufacturers have acted in ways which some judge to be unethical, and hence they may be ostracized for their actions (A). Anti-evolutionists have demonstrated by their words a misunderstanding of science, and hence their participation in NAS would make poor "business sense" (B).

All GoDaddy and others have done, in this case, is express an opinion. Now, if the reason were, as Paul Graham says, that "these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, [so they cannot] be good investors", then this would be an example of avoiding an arrangement for making poor business sense (B), rather than punishing others for expressing their views (C). But do you really believe this is what's going on here, as opposed to merely a post-hoc rationalization? I'll certainly concede that support for SOPA reasonably calls into question an organization's understanding of the Internet and therefore their merit as a business partner, but an outright boycott, as opposed to mere caution, clearly goes beyond what is warranted by simple concern for one's own business, and becomes an attempt to silence others.
Name another registrar that is cheaper and comes with DNS?
I simply stated my opinion on the matter.
Also, Firefox users are far more likely to be using AdBlock than Chrome or Internet Explorer users. (yes, Chrome too. Ever since Google featured it on their homepage for a while, average Joes have become fairly likely to be using it)
Bob Parsons probably recognises he was being somewhat immature when he killed the elephant.

We, however, spare no thought about eating caged animals that were raised to be killed.

What's worse?
I hate to say it, because I don't like the direction the ecosystem is heading, but if I were you, I'd launch on the Mac App Store first. You just can't ignore the boost you're going to get from that avenue.

If it turns out that your plugin system is actually a big win, then you can change your mind later. And it's not an absolute kiss of death. For example, almost all of Rogue Amoeba's apps can't be made App Store compatible, but they don't seem to be hurting too much because of it.
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I switched the last of my domains over to name.com (already had one there). Bunch of the registrar's have discount codes at the moment to. (name.com's was "nodaddy")
Just adding a shout for Hover. They've been opposing SOPA for a while now:

https://www.hover.com/blog/hover-opposes-sopa
I like Gandi's motto ("no bullshit"), but their support is - for lack of a better word - exactly that. It's now hovering at 36 hours without a response after repeated emails to them. No excuse. I'd rather pay the $10 extra and get real phone or live chat support from anyone else. Avoid.
lol sorry, i'll take the blame for that.

The link was originally just a placeholder for our awesome designer @dhg (who rocked the site in like an hour).

I missed the link before it got pushed, and forgot to swap it out.

When first published it didn't even point to an actual js page. :(

Anyways, I've fixed the redirect, but should have just removed the link all together. I've updated it now to point directly to github.

The main reason that we're using github to host this (and bootstrap) rather than a proper cdn is because it makes publishing new versions super fast and easy.

Of course we don't recommend that you hotlink from github for any serious application. You should bundling these with your other assets :)
I don't think markbao was referring to their morality in his post, simply their terrible, terrible usability. I think also cost is not the reason, especially for the low numbers we're talking about. I would say people use GoDaddy because of GoDaddy's successful online and on air advertising campaigns.
I certainly understand your point but the point of the poll is to find out if GoDaddy users are actually taking actions (to find out if there will be a mass exodus).
Do you have anything to back this up? Because all you've done so far is spread unsubstantiated FUD. It'll take more than a pointer to "PayPal Sucks dot com", please. Despite PP's 232 million registered accounts, and millions more unregistered buyers, that site's only found 887 people in 12 years with a negative experience to share.

I'm sure people have their accounts frozen every day. Most of them will have them unfrozen as soon as they fax over an ID and a bill, while the rest were actual fraud that needed to be stopped. When you're dealing with more total users than the population of the United States, that's to be expected.

Probability says that if PayPal were as irrational as you paint them to be, they would have no high volume merchants paying the bills at all, as 99% of them would be terminated for no reason. Is that really what you're selling?

As for me, I've been through everything PayPal can throw at you. I've been through everything the merchant processing industry can throw at you. I learned about risk and fraud management early when one of my businesses was targeted by a credit card scam ring that lost me my first merchant account. I had thousands of dollars held for, you guessed it, 180 days... while I was still on the hook to provide product and service to customers without their payments to cover it.

My PayPal account's had its ups and downs, I've seen every type of dispute, complaint, escalation, chargeback, and reversal possible. I've dealt with the risk department, faxed in documentation, argued over inane policies and seen the boilerplate autoresponse system first level customer support can feel like. But in the end, 11 years and 6 months after first signing up, I'm still with them, because they're no worse than anyone else in the industry. Hell, they're better than most of the industry, certainly less deceptive when it comes to fees. And I've managed my own fraud problem to the point that, as I said in an earlier post, they now send me mails starting with "as your chargeback rate is so low...".
I transferred mine a couple years ago after the last ridiculous thing GoDaddy did.
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fyi, my anti-virus (avast) goes nuts on that site

since it's a WP install, it might have been hacked

hmm maybe it's a false positive since it thinks it's a bad gif file
But wouldn't that be worse for the users?
Why so many cosmetic companies? And Tiffany and Co? Actually kind of curious do they have parent companies on the list?t
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That's a really interesting video; I asked about this on math.stackexchange, and it already has one response about why φ is optimal for your color spacing.

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I've used http://name.com too. It's cheap and I like its simplicity and usability.
Perhaps off-topic, but after reading GoDaddy's letter, I am surprised that our discussions against SOPA don't focus on the root -- the fact that the legislation is presented in an incredibly misleading and vague manner.

At face value, its purpose is to stop the foreign counterfeit drug/goods sellers -- you know, the same guys who spam us with "enlarge your..." and such offers. The same guys who pollute Google search results with "buy handbags" trash. Now suppose someone had asked you: "do you want legislation against these foreign illegal drug sellers?" Surely you'd say yes. Heck, I'd say yes. What reasonable person would oppose this?

But the problem is that the legislation is presented as this, but is actually likely going to be used for other things (censoring online content, special interests of the movie industry, etc.)

So when we write to our congresspeople and explain our concerns with SOPA, I wonder: do they think "Hmm, I am just protecting the internet from so-and-so baddies selling drugs. Why are all these tech people suddenly up in arms about this? Do they somehow not want to stop those baddies?"

When we write, we say that we oppose SOPA. Would we be more effective if we asserted that we do hate those sellers and oppose SOPA because of its specific implications? Unless of course, the bad "side effects" are actually the main purpose and the "good" cause is just a very clever gimmick.
> Obviously, Yandex outbid Google in the Russian market. The switch from Google was based on money.

I find that very hard to believe. How can Yandex possibly outbid Google? Google's revenue is 60 times bigger. If Google wanted to win, it would have won.

Since Yandex was chosen, clearly there are other factors than money here. Perhaps Yandex is better for Russian users? I don't know, I don't speak Russian.
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yeah we felt the same way, but we're trying to move off of mustache.js for performance reasons (also for size in our new tweet embeds projects).
Just to be a jerk (not really, but sort of), I did:

while True:
print "foreverrrrr"

Of course it looped quite persistently, and then proceeded to ignore my ctrl+c's. Any chance you could catch those to kill a runaway program?
Why do people equate registrars with DNS? Wherever you're hosting your site is where you should be handling DNS.
Off site backup conveniently left out of the write up?
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I transferred everything to NameCheap today, but I should say, I've been wanting to transfer away from them for a while now for a variety of reasons, and this is what finally convinced me to do it.
He says it's 1/10 of the price, so assume 10 Colo.

enough with people defending s3. Go buy a IBM mainframe already :)
I transfered all of my domains from Godaddy to Namecheap.com I couldn't transfer my country specific domains like .de and .in and they seem to have only a sub-set of TLD's godaddy supports.
This is honestly pretty scary. There are a lot of single points of failure in this solution.

1) Single Box

2) Single Location

3) Single 40TB RAID 6 Array on single RAID card with 22 Drives (assuming 24 2TB drives, 2 parity, 2 hot spare = 40TB)

4) Single bonded network link means single switch, no redundancy against switch / network device failure

Honestly this may have been cheap but your getting what your paying for: An unreliable backup solution.

Also: Norco? Really? I wouldn't be trusting anything they produce with your company's critical data. Supermicro isn't much more expensive all things considered.
this was switched up a bit today. That said - for the ladies out there - girls can be bros. total bros.
i am not signed it, and I still read the article. I keep hearing this complain all the time with google groups. Is it specific to only few or are they based on assumption that it's a google group?
Yes, but may envolve loosing state. Will push a fix sometime this weekend. Thanks!
A different visualization: http://www.popvox.com/blog/2011/house-judiciary-committee-an...
I can't say enough good things about DNSimple (and I've had lots of bad things to say about other registrars). Are you guys still reselling enom for all of your TLDs? Pretty please will you get your own setup for at least .com/.org/.net addresses? And when/if you do can you make a big stink about it so I know to transfer all of my domains to you guys? I'd love to give you more money...
The article is behind a paywall? I could only read the first two paragraphs.
It is registered way back in 2003. may be not many popular alternatives then.
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I don't think it's off-topic at all. What you are describing is how the topic is "framed", and is why companies pay large sums to lobbyists and PR firms.
Do any non godaddy registrars offer bulk discounts?
More like "Los Angeles and the entire east coast vs. San Francisco"
The actual POPVOX page for SOPA: https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3261

You can see what some of the constituents are saying: https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3261/report#nation

Note: POPVOX has an iPad2 app that seems to be filtering its way through lawmakers. The comments supporting and opposing a particular bill gets streamed into the app.
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pg, this makes me uncomfortable. While I strongly oppose SOPA, this seems like an attempt to intimidate people for expressing views we dislike.
Ask!

Many do not advertise it but will do a bulk discount if you ask. I'm pretty certain Namecheap is one of them (if you have more than 50 I think).
Check out Hover: https://www.hover.com/

FYI: https://www.hover.com/blog/hover-opposes-sopa
I've thought about doing this but I think my landlord only takes a check.

How are you able to charge rent to a card? Did you sweet-talk the guy?
You presume that the point about them being greedy or immoral is invalid

Yeah, I am presuming it—because I just laid out how what they’re doing is not necessarily driven by greed or immorality but defensible motives from their point of view. You’re simply saying they’re bad people and that’s probably not true in the vast majority of cases. I’m not vouching for anyone’s integrity, but you are so down a rabbit hole of fundamental attribution bias I don’t have any interest in attempting to change your mind.
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It's a weird bug with Google Groups. As far as I can tell, if you aren't signed into any Google service at the time, it will let you in. But if you are signed into another Google service, Groups will demand you re-authenticate.
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I have recently switched to uberspace.de (German based, and German speaking website). But, in my opinion, it really is the best service, if you have a slight technical understanding, when it comes to servers.

having my own full ssh capabilities, cronjobs, php, python, ruby, et al support, databases, being able to make my own spam-filter, et al, is just great.

the price? the price is, what you want to pay. it is a minimum of 1 euro/month for space and 0,50Euro per month and domain. moving a domain cost 5 euro once.

you can pay more, if you are happy with these guys (and a lot of people do), but that iss the minimum.
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Well, yes, but the RIAA and MPAA aren't "pro-copyright". Nor are those who oppose them "anti-copyright".
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I have been using Dreamhost for years and I am very happy.
And it is against SOPA http://blog.dreamhost.com/2011/11/22/dont-drop-the-soap-drop...
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Do you guys actually have any products available or is this just an email harvesting launch? I ask because I tried a lot of items and they were all sold out. :-)

I'm impressed by your courage to launch with a half-baked product like this. I wish I could do the same.
StackOverflow didn't exist until 2008, so I doubt Jeff & Joel registered the name in 2003. When they bought it off whoever first registered it, they could have easily moved it to someone else. ServerFault.com (by which I mean the domain, not the site) has only existed since 2009. Clearly they had the option not to go with GoDaddy then as well, just as they did with all the other SX domains.
At least for this website it isn't your data but it is their data.

They are backing up their curated photos (which seems to pretty much be the whole business as they say in the article).

It appears they are using Akamai services to server their images so hopefully their is some extra redundancy there already.

Other than that it seems like it would be a steal to use s3 as a backup system at this point because from this article it looks like they need to hire another employee to tell them why this backup solution seems a bit silly (I mean having trouble setting up the hardware).
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Excellent. That's a few down. I think the next one to focus on should be the Entertainment Software Association. It strikes me that, like the BSA, many of these companies would only have agreed to support some broad, generic, fight against piracy and not SOPA in particular. Let's put the pressure on them to withdraw their support.

Also, the UFC might be a good target. I know Joe Rogan has spoken out against SOPA, so he might be a good place to start.
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also http://www.intovps.com - but it very seldom is working slow
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Wow. I can actually afford HAM gear now. How does one decide where to start?
See here for back story:
http://www.petzl.com/us/outdoor/news-2/2011/02/11/warning-re...

I think this counterfeit gear is petzl's main concern though their have been several cases of other companies producing gear that is remarkably similar in design to petzl gear. The new black diamond cobra and fusion closely mimic the geometry of the petzl quark and nomic and many companies have copied elements of the spirit carabiner (black diamond positron, trango smooth). Only the keylock gate was covered by 5357657 and I think it expired recently as I recall a bunch of new keylocks being introduced though those may have been licensed.
> How are you able to charge rent to a card? Did you sweet-talk the guy?

I was renting a townhome in a community owned by a large rental agency that did both residential and short-term business rentals, fully furnished homes at a higher rate. I'd guess accepting credit cards was more to cater to the business side, but they'd take them from any tenant that asked.

Most landlords won't because they'd lose 1-3% of the rent to the transaction fees.
We did 10x the inbound xfer volume on the 22nd vs. the 21st. So far on the 23rd, we're at 80% of the volume we saw on the 22nd. This only counts completed transfers, and there are a ton more in process as people fiddle with the Godaddy knobs and dials.

One of our customers wrote a great transfer how-to that can be found here... https://twitter.com/technologypoet/status/150084142577623042

...and to head off any bandwagon jumping criticisms, we've been publicly opposed to this sort of legislative gerrymandering long before Godaddy stepped out in favour of it... https://www.hover.com/blog/hover-opposes-sopa
Because removing search results for SOPA supporting organizations would be censorship, just as much as SOPA is censorship if it gets accepted AS-IS today.
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We had something similar but smaller (~8 TB) at a place I worked, and it was a nightmare. Migrating from that to S3 was one of the best things to happen to that project.

Being a single big box, it had a bunch of single points of failure, and boy did they fail; we probably had 5-10 hours per month of downtime due to the photo server falling over (flaky RAID controller firmware, mostly).

Also, since the big box was expensive, we only had one in production. There was code for taking a newly-uploaded photo and copying it over to the photo server that only executed in production, which meant the only way to functionally test it was to ship it and hope.

We switched to S3 about a year ago with different buckets for prod, staging, and dev; the production-only code paths went away, and there hasn't been any photo-related downtime since. Definitely worth it.
Their DNS/domain service is nothing to complain about, and their support is in fact excellent. I had to call support several times, to revert "accidental" auto-renewals and what not and the support people do their best to compensate for the bad impression created by GoDaddy's sales tactics. Zero hold time, settled all issues just as I asked no questions asked.

That being said I still switched two dozen domains from them to Gandi over a year ago. One can tolerate their obnoxious sales pressure only that much.
"I think also cost is not the reason, especially for the low numbers we're talking about."

While I agree that their campaigns have been effective, I tend to disagree that cost isn't an issue. Heck, even I was informed of other registrars a few years back when I was first starting to host my own sites but GoDaddy was cheaper than my webhost for domain registration. Plus easy to find coupon codes also give additional value. Why bother paying an extra 5-10 dollars when, for most people, there isn't much difference after the initial registration? (I ask that rhetorically)