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by webvet 13y ago
I believe Junko Tabei - the first woman climber of Mt. Everest - did it (i.e. climb Mt. Everest) at the age of 36. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Tabei All the best. :)
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by webvet 13y ago
Not exactly a freelancer; more like a small web development company. Will build a few web MVPs (fast and) for free if there are any suitable and willing takers here on HN forums. Check out the URL below for further information: http:/
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by webvet 13y ago
Just submitted one here - fairly quick and easy :)
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Ask HN: Your wish list for a site map generator app
1 points by webvet 13y ago|0 comments
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by webvet 13y ago
Clickable link: http://httpd.co/damn_quick_mvps/
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Ask HN: Damn quick (and cheap) MVPs - anyone?
1 points by webvet 13y ago|1 comments
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by webvet 13y ago
Nice - posted one of ours. Bug report/suggestions: 1) Can't find a way to edit our project listing 2) Consider more rigorous client-side validation on submission form (e.g. I accidentally entered a non-numeric character in the Pri
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by webvet 13y ago
Thanks to all who have responded. We've decided to try each one- DigitalOcean - already ordered, up and running (very well too) Linode - will order soon OVH - already ordered (per my comment below), now trying to figure out a way to pa
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by webvet 13y ago
@AznHisoka: Thanks for the reminder. Are you associated with/use them? After you told me about them in my previous thread, we checked them out and actually ordered a server there. Turns out the only payment option they have is PayPal.
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by webvet 13y ago
After you found out about this, did you find his page in your Likes list? If you did, could it have been that you somehow - inadvertently - clicked Like on his page/ad? If your answers are yes and no respectively, I'd say this is
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by webvet 13y ago
Clickable previous thread links: 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6348903 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6367198
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Ask HN: Going the cloud way - Linode or DigitalOcean?
9 points by webvet 13y ago|18 comments
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by webvet 13y ago
> 3) it's not a fear, a critical mass of users won't pay for content. Spot on!!
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by webvet 13y ago
As an aside, pitcher.io looks cool... congrats :) If you don't mind, I'd suggest toning down the 'Our' side of the copy a bit... e.g. 'Our amazing content. Your expert knowledge.' sounds too boastful (no offens
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by webvet 13y ago
Wow!!! Didn't know about this - took a quick look and found it very interesting. Thanks.
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by webvet 13y ago
We've suspected that our problem is mainly of I/O, very close to what you've described above. >I would just post the output from top and iostat during one of the spikes here and see what people say rather than hiring an ex
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by webvet 13y ago
What I meant was feature development... that's what got frozen long ago... code revision exclusively for performance optimization has been ongoing continually.
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by webvet 13y ago
>I can't really see how your code or queries could cause mysql or apache to gradually slow down and then speed up... Actually, we've ascertained that it is not the code or queries that cause this per se, but it is the traffic p
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by webvet 13y ago
Yes, we did investigate MySQL's internal partitioning option briefly before deciding to roll our own scheme (which, after working quite well initially, is now beginning to create problems of its own). Perhaps, it is time for us to revi
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by webvet 13y ago
Will try and post within a few hours. Thanks.
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by webvet 13y ago
For now, we're making our code/queries/optimization take the blame rather than the hardware.
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by webvet 13y ago
>so call in some help. As is being discussed in the other thread.
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by webvet 13y ago
Paying way more than $10/mo for the VPS, close to 200 - and hey!! thanks for the ovh.com link - looks very interesting, will certainly try them out soon. Thanks.
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by webvet 13y ago
>What is the actual bottleneck? As mentioned in OP, it is MySQL. >you can't run a massive database on crappy hardware and expect it to work smoothly. Absolutely... but we do wish to milk the VPS for every cent of its worth and we
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by webvet 13y ago
Thanks for your in-depth reply and suggestions. MySQL performance tuning and table structure/query optimization-wise, we've left few stones unturned (but I'm sure there still is a scope for further improvement - isn't th
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by webvet 13y ago
Yes, as mentioned in the other thread, we're way ahead of this - but thanks for your input all the same.
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by webvet 13y ago
>You need to examine the restart process and analyze Like I said in OP, we've identified MySQL to be the primary bottleneck and are already working on resolving this. >whose transactions are abandoned. At least some saving grace
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by webvet 13y ago
We are actually more than worried too, because we _know_ we're losing plenty of requests daily so trying to cut down the losses temporarily while we figure out a more long-term solution. For the rest, this thread might give you some mo
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by webvet 13y ago
Good call - thanks :)
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Ask HN: Server under heavy load. Any downside to this hack?
8 points by webvet 13y ago|31 comments

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