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Out of curiosity, what do you use for mail?

Interesting - is webfaction doing some kind of Linux containers thing?

I can't see any pricing - I'd like to use you guys for a project, but I don't want to invest time writing a bunch of custom software to send our metrics to you, if you're going to disappear in 12 months... What's the roadmap re pricing and sticking around?

How do you achieve this - ie. what kind of phone/software?

Thanks for the tips - I've worked as a freelancer for the last 10 years, and have now run my own company for the last 2.5 years, so doer-of-everything is in my nature, and its just a matter of making the decision to really knuckle down with study and hard work.

For me, it's really about being frank with myself and rapidly addressing the areas of my knowledge and experience that are lacking, even if part of me doesn't want to. I'm surviving in my own business though, and my stronger concentration on sales and marketing is what will push me to the next level. Thanks again.

Nice piece - as a coder turned entrepreneur, the sales and marketing side of things has been exceptionally hard for me. It's a battle everyday, and if I could turn back time I would have ensured I worked in a marketing department, or with people skilled in the area before embarking down my current path...

That said, I'm in the hole now, learning as fast as I can, solo. Can anyone make some current/and also seminal marketing book must-haves?

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this... I don't trust Drobo/Synology etc because if the unit dies I need another one to retrieve my data. Jungledisk adds up if you have 100+GB, Backblaze is the best of these services, however they are proprietary, and imagine if either were cracked and your life ended up on on a torrent server somewhere... In the end I decided upon a HP Microserver running Ubuntu with disks in RAID5 + a cheap UPS. I then have an rsync cronjob on my laptop. I tried FreeNAS but it was slow. I may consider an offsite backup of the Ubuntu server (critical files (photos etc)) to AWS with Duplicity and PGP... So far I feel the safest and happiest I've been in awhile about my backup situation.

I appreciate it, thank you.

My dad has been a huge coffee drinker his entire life - He was recently been diagnosed with early onset alzheimer's. Obviously this doesn't rebuttal any large-scale scientific study, but this topic is of particular closeness to me.

Heh, I noticed that too. Yay!

I couldn't agree more. I need a quiet place alone to program, and I've just recently moved into a coworking space. Total loss of productivity. I'm going to start working from home again, at least 2-3 days a week...

While the article is a bit lacking, in my own observations traveling extensively around the globe, I encountered very few Americans, considering their population numbers, wealth, etc. I realise the article is more about interstate travel for work, etc, however it always just really surprised me about how few young American kids were out there bumming it around the world with backpacks on. I met more Israelis out there than North Americans, and they have a population of what, 6 million? Or Australians? Those guys are everywhere.

I think there were concerns the LoseThos guy might be worse off by seeing it, and the OP removed it. Really interesting to read about him though, and see his extraordinary work. I hope he is around people who can help and that he'll be ok.

Which part of the ToS are you referring to?

Hey, congratulations on not taking the advice of others, and going with your heart - The project looks fantastic, and I'm really excited to migrate my photos!

No, I'm in my thirties and have also lived in Berlin, and am also a German citizen. Thanks though

Well, don't you sound bitter and boring.

There are others outside of Sydney too - OrionVM, Dynomesh / Serversaurus off the top of my head.

But you were able to do this before SmartOS... I'm curious about this too, and how Joyent have architected their cloud arrangement. I feel like perhaps hypervisors have local ZFS storage, as opposed to large SAN-backed virtual machines, but I can't really find much useful information on how Joyent/SmartOS implement/architect storage...