mikeyur

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by mikeyur 11y ago
It was my second week on the job, not a fun way to start things off... I don't know if we'll have UK dedi offerings (power + space are at a premium), but we're looking at rapidly pushing out our cloud offering.
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by mikeyur 11y ago
> I'm running a pair of L5639's in my main server. Perfectly usable. Disclaimer: I run Delimiter That's absolutely what we're going for with our offerings. Gear that's off lease and long paid for, which allows us
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by mikeyur 11y ago
It's the only downtime we plan to have. I get Nam flashbacks just thinking about it.
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by mikeyur 11y ago
~50% of customers were back online within 14 hours. 96% were online within 24-28 hours. There were a few that stretched approximately 3.5 days due to disk/psu failures, etc. It was our first (and hopefully only) large outage. We releas
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by mikeyur 11y ago
That's correct, we offer largely older gear. We had a stack of E3-1225v3's at $39 recently though. We primarily offer services in Atlanta right now, but we're expanding to Los Angeles & NYC this month. We have a few custo
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by mikeyur 12y ago
Incero Instant would probably be a good place to look. Dedicated servers with per-minute billing: http://incero.com/instant E3 w/ 32GB ram or dual E5 with 384GB ram.
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by mikeyur 12y ago
My guess: exit nodes are responsible for a number of attacks against CloudFlare-protected sites so it makes sense to question each visit from those IPs.
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How WPEngine Is Failboating Your SEO and Leaking Your Information(auditwp.com)
21 points by mikeyur 13y ago|11 comments
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The Ultimate Guide to Scrapebox SEO(jacobking.com)
3 points by mikeyur 13y ago|2 comments
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500 Startups' Dave McClure Flames Startup Canada's "1000 Startups": Srsly, Guys?(techvibes.com)
1 points by mikeyur 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikeyur 15y ago
My last full time job I got by leaving a comment on Fred Wilson's blog. He shared my info with a bunch of investors in my area and they connected me with people in their portfolio who were hiring. About 3 weeks from comment to my first day
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by mikeyur 15y ago
12: Started selling pirated software and DVDs to classmates. 13: Illegal firecrackers to friends in high school (they're illegal where I live in Canada) 14: First internet venture - started a hosting company with a good friend of mine 15: S
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by mikeyur 15y ago
I have a site that gets ~12 visitors/day and I make about $55/mo through that site all from the Amazon Associates program. Referring someone through an Amazon link doesn't just credit you if they purchase that product you linked to - it cre
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by mikeyur 15y ago
You mentioned the service on Twitter and I signed up immediately and added my Twitter account. Within 2 hours of signing up I had used the service no less than 3 times to dig up links I wanted to share with other people. So damn useful.
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by mikeyur 15y ago
Have you ever considered setting up an affiliate program and letting other people risk their own ad spend? Also gives the teaching blogs incentive to promote it to their readers/email lists.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
It's a push notification platform for anything you can build it into. Load up your HN profile and there's a Notifo box to get notified when someone responds to your comment. Apps they put together like Push.ly to notify you when someone DMs
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Learn on someone else's dime. Find a job at a company that has an interesting product, try to pick the smallest company possible. You'll learn a lot of stuff, work on something that kinda/sorta interests you, meet new people (possible co-fo
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by mikeyur 16y ago
For a separate project I've worked on (non-YC), we negotiated 50% off bandwidth and somewhat reduced server rates. You just need to ask for it. Not sure what the YC deal is, but I assume it's similar.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I'm a huge fan of WebFaction.com for hosting. I host my personal stuff and sites I'm tinkering with on there, it's shared hosting but acts like a VPS (gives you application memory), and they also have a bunch of 1-click installers for Wordp
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I'm 19, dropped out of school in grade 12 to work at a startup and continue my freelance career (internet marketing) that I had been doing throughout high school. I spent 7 months at a startup and the 9-5 burnt me out, it's pretty sad. I ca
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Size: Vancouver is a "big" city (or at least tries to be), but it's still pretty small. Small in a good way though, the population is ~2m in the metro area but the city itself is ~600k. The downtown core is completely walkable. It's always
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Hopefully Rackspace starts getting competitive sometime soon.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I've had clients with sloppy dev teams who decided to change the URL structure of all landing pages without letting me know (I was managing their PPC campaigns). Google stops serving ads after getting 404 errors - unfortunately I don't thin
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by mikeyur 16y ago
...playing HD flash video
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I just use Viscosity which is a menubar app that lets you easily connect to an OpenVPN connection (you punch in the address, authentication type, etc and it lets you just click the server name from your menubar to connect). I don't host my
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by mikeyur 16y ago
This is what I've experienced. Bought Air Display and haven't used it more than once or twice because of the choppiness/delay.
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I've had to break into a ridiculous amount of vehicles for friends that have locked their keys in. Pretty much every car window will give you at least an inch or two of room with enough wiggling/pushing. And then at that point you just need
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by mikeyur 16y ago
These free tiers do not expire after 12 months and are available to both existing and new AWS customers indefinitely Did they tell you something different or just update the page with this? EDIT: I pulled the wrong quote. Either way, suck
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by mikeyur 16y ago
Anyone else looking forwards to iAds in every free app they use on their Mac? Just me?
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by mikeyur 16y ago
I like the idea of the product (haven't played with it yet though) and the pitch. Paraphrasing here, since I only watched the first half of presentation earlier: "companies spend a lot of money on people and their knowledge, but people leav

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