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I've used Godaddy a number of times for LAMP-stack applications (I'm not totally sold on them).I'm looking to downgrade my linode vps to shared hosting on another platform - no need to pay $20/month if I'm hardly using the resources of the server.As mentioned, I'm looking to decrease that $20 per month bill and use some cheap shared-hosting, to host my existing apps (> 100 hits per month...

I found a startup on Craigslist that I've been doing freelance work for, for about a week now.I just got paid last week but now the startup wont sign my contract listing things like hourly rate, payments, and so on... Pretty basic stuff no crazy clauses or anything.They refuse to sign my contract but want me to sign theirs... Much much longer (10pages)As freelancers - how have you dealt with...

I'm developing an android app to detect spam phone numbers, does anyone know of a curated or crowd-sourced list of spam phone numbers that are available to the public?(I cannot stand receiving spam calls)Thanks

For freelancers... Do you specify your hourly rate upon being asked (early on in process), or do you say you set a fixed budget (based on a proposal) for new clients?I've read that specifying the hourly rate upfront can weed out deadbeats, and/or clients you don't want to work with, is this true?Overall how do you, as freelancers, work through this process?Thanks!

I'm trying to decide between these two companies: Linode vs Digital Ocean for a new VPS.My needs are: potentially heavy CPU, and heavy memory usage.I'm using a Amazon EC2 (Micro) instance right now - and paying ~$25/month for it (its never shut down) - which seems pretty non-cost effective for a VPS from Amazon that never is shutdown.One of my biggest gripes right now about Amazon is its...

I've been meaning to ask this on here and wondered what your thoughts were on this.I live (currently) on the east coast, but visited the west coast (SF to get to the point).After 25 years of living on the east coast, I've started to see a trend of folks here regarding joining/starting a startup venture.I talk to countless individuals (tech and non-tech) would refuse to leave a cushy 9-5 job to...

I'm looking to move from the northeast US to San Francisco - I'm totally pumped.My background is primarily in development and application security - what are the best sites to use to find startup jobs?I currently have applied to some on Indeed, but there has to be better sites.

I've talked to 30-40 recruiters over the past few months about various jobs in IT.I wondered why so many companies use 3rd party recruiters as opposed to in-house recruiters? Is it just the money or what is it?Other developers on here - what are you thoughts on communication with 3rd party recruiters?Recently I've found in-house to be far more effective in communicating the company, position,...

I've been working on an IT-Sec company for some 6 months now, solo founding it. I recently met a guy at a networking event who advises startups - we met 1:1 for coffee, and then he sent me a really lengthy email basically being really frank on what I was doing.I have a number of years of IT experience already (primarily in programming) and some IT-security (some of the experience hands-on out...

There seems to be an abundant number of vulnerability scanners out there for web applications and I'm wondering of the market potential left for new vulnerability scanners with some differentiation (not so much on the technology side)?Thanks for your input fellow hackers

I'm new(er) to freelancing.I just had a personal contact (known him about 1.5 years now - met at network event) he reached out to me about a really cool software project he needed done for this recruiting business.So what I did is : 1) Spend 30-45 mins (2 times) talking on phone to him about it. (1-1.5 hrs total)2) About 3-4 hours mocking up his proposed solution in a flow chart.3) Another hour...

I quit my job 6 months back to set out on my own doing my own startup idea. This idea hasn't panned out quite the way I thought it would.How have you or would you convey that your startup failed and you are interested in <x> job now?