One I found last week, FullHost, is Victoria-based with multiple datacentres in Canada and the US. I'm not sure if they support everything you're looking for.
https://www.fullhost.com/cloud-paas/
I gave OVH a try a couple weeks ago. It's difficult to explain what the user experience is like. It's like a byzantine interpretation of what cloud computing is all about. Beyond that I tried both their VPSs and the Cloud instances. The VPSs are very well priced but there's no private network so each instance is on its own. I read (but didn't verify myself) that the firewall rules only apply to inbound connections so any other VPS can connect to any port on any other VPS (of any customer). It seemed plausible. So I got a refund on those and tried the Cloud Instances. I could get any to boot up. Just a long delay and a few minutes later an error message and a failed state.
So I've been working with DigitalOcean this past week. Literally 20 minutes ago figured out that my app's verification emails stop sending b/c they now block all SMTP ports. Incoming I can understand to prevent people running their own mail servers, but it seems to also apply to connecting to remote SMTP servers. Wild. I opened a ticket and I'm hoping I just missed something.
https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/why-is-smtp-blocked/
Anyway, that's what brought me to HN today. Overall, I'm just really surprised their aren't cloud hosting options in Canada right now. There used to be a few but at least two of them were acquired and absorbed.
https://docs.onetimesecret.com/blog/2024-09-12-ddos-day-4
https://docs.onetimesecret.com/blog/2024-09-09-denial-of-ser...
Hi HN, I'm Delano, the creator of Onetimesecret.com. We're currently facing a severe DDoS attack that's been ongoing for four days, with traffic reaching up to 4 million packets per second (packets per seconds isn't something we've kept track of, but I'd estimate around 50-100 pps -- to put it a completely different way, we do about 250k+ secrets a month). Our site has been more down than up,...
This feels a bit like that time we saw Etherpad playback for the first time. I'm just not sure if I've grokked the big picture yet.
> [The chief coroner] said almost 14,000 people have died since the province declared toxic drugs a public health emergency in April 2016.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-sets-gri...
Even if they never got around to automating it and were highly laissez-faire, manually checking that account with those testcases say once a month would have caught this within 30 days. That still sucks but it's at least an order of magnitude less suck than the situation they're in now.
It's an interesting problem. Like, what's the point of conception for a work of art?
I can't speak for mike_d specifically, but there is a concern with having (potentially significant) modifications made to the codebase that aren't surfaced in the release notes. I imagine closed-source projects do this on a regular basis whether customers know (or care) or not.
The expectations for opensource projects are different though, particularly when it comes to system-level or near system-level components. So not being able to access the functionality is a great default but it doesn't address side effects of the changes or the desire to know about changes being made in our environments.
Quantified Citizen is a Canadian-based mobile health startup developing solutions to disrupt the clinical and health product research markets. We give professional researchers a way to easily create their own scientific studies, while building a movement towards more timely insights into the latest health research for citizens of all kinds, with a particular emphasis on psychedelic research and therapy.
https://www.quantifiedcitizen.com/
We're hiring experienced engineers to help us build out the latest version of our mobile and web app products. We're looking for product-minded people that are comfortable both leading/mentoring a team and working independently, and have an interest contributing to product decisions.
Some of the technologies we use: Elixir/Phoenix, Dart/Flutter, Python/Pandas/NumPy/SciPy, QuickSight, Power BI, ggplot2, D3, even Excel spreadsheets from time to time.
Positions we're currently hiring for: Data Analyst QA Engineer Director of Research Backend Engineer UI/UX
More information about the positions and how to apply is available here: https://www.notion.so/quant/Work-at-Quantified-Citizen-a298b...
For technical positions, you can also apply here: https://github.com/qcitizen/qc-apply
In general, what is IP and how it's enforced are two separate things. Just because we've used copyright and patents to "protect" an organization's unique advantages, doesn't mean we need to keep using them in the same way. Or maybe it's the best we can do for now. That's why BSD style licences are so great.
Quantified Citizen is a Canadian-based mobile health startup developing solutions to disrupt the clinical and health product research markets. We empower professional researchers to easily create their own scientific studies, while building a movement towards more timely insights into the latest health research for citizens of all kinds, with a particular emphasis on psychedelic research and therapy.
We are hiring experienced engineers to help us build out our mobile and web app products. We love product-minded engineers that are comfortable both managing a team and working independently, and love to contribute to product decisions. Our tech stack is built from the ground up on Elixir/Phoenix and Flutter/Dart.
We launched our flagship mobile research app [1] in November 2019 on the Joe Rogan Experience [2] and have since had over 35,000 iOS app installs with a 4.8 star rating. Among our flagship studies, we've partnered with world-famous mycologist Paul Stamets [3] on a UBC research ethics approved 12,000+ participant correlational study [4] on the effects of microdosing psychedelic substances on cognitive performance and mental health. We've also partnered with award-winning cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg on a 5,000 participant Gratitude Study.
Apply here: https://github.com/qcitizen/apply
More information about working at QC: https://www.notion.so/quant/Work-at-Quantified-Citizen-a298b...
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[0] https://www.quantifiedcitizen.com/
[1] https://apps.apple.com/app/quantified-citizen/id1485884140
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ6Ym719urg&feature=youtu.be...
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