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Man you can't be a very busy CEO if you keep popping up on forums all the time.

Freelancer is terrible for hiring people compared to Odesk, just like Warriorforum is a bunch of "guru's" are trying to sell you ebooks claiming you will make $1352523 a day for "only $79". If the method was that good, why aren't you doing it yourself?

This thread is a good laugh about the sale: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/blackhat-lounge/66...

They use Edgecast's CDN (which is now owned by Verizon?)

https://www.edgecast.com/company/news/edgecast-powers-imgur

Off the top of my head, I think they offer their bigger clients pricing of $0.02-0.04 per gigabyte. I could be wrong though.

44040192gb *0.02 = $880,803 / 12 = $73,400/month.

Seems like a cool site but from anyone in NZ, the name doesn't seem fitting.

The word 'Kiwi' in a brand name is almost exclusively used by the Asian population here. Eg. Cheesy souvenir shops and Chinese takeaway shops.

http://www.skykiwi.com/ is a good example.

Just a heads up for anyone wants to put 'kiwi' in their brand name and wants to target New Zealand.

PS. We call the fruit Kiwifruit here, not just Kiwi by itself.

I remember reading a while ago that Imgur uses Edgecast as their CDN and not Cloudfront. See: http://readystate4.com/2012/08/14/great-post-on-imgurs-stack...

My guess is that they are only using AWS for serving the site and handling the uploads, resizing etc. and they are using another provider for the storage of the images (or they are just directly hosting everything with Edgecast and not using them in Pull mode).

Like people have mentioned above, you can get a bunch of dedicated servers with heaps of storage for a fraction of the price of S3. You loose the flexibility and instant scaling, but the fact is these servers would be used more of a backup and would only be hit by Edgecast to upload them to the CDN.

Would this benefit you if you ran a large Wordpress site for example?

For example if you already had nginx/varnish setup and optimised, would it be worth setting this up to squeeze some more performance out of it?

Guessing you live in a apartment? Not really much you can do, it's up to the landlord to sort out wiring which probably won't happen unless your building was built with fibre initially.

I live in Ponsonby and we have had fibre available here for over a year now. I thought the plan was to have most of it done by the end of 2015?

100 megabits = 12.5 megabytes. Close enough.

I don't solely have fibre just for netflix. I was assuming using a 3rd party dns server to unblock Netflix they are actually proxy'ing some of the content, so it's really their server that limits the download speed (I mostly watch on my Apple TV so not many options there).

I might try that on the desktop version even though I don't use it much.

I'm paying $170/mo for 500gb on Telecom fibre. I never seem to go over 300gb even when I try so it suits me. I always see people complaining about international speeds on Orcon unlimited. I can max out 11mb/s with torrents on a Sunday night no problem.

I have Netflix setup as well, super convenient but you never seem to get HD.

Where's the protein? Sure you might loose some weight, but will it actually be fat your loosing or muscle tissue?

While fruit and fish oil are good for you, that amount of cream (4 tbsp all up) probably isn't the best. Cream/Butter is fine in moderation, but I don't think this much on a daily basis.

"You have reached the limit of 5 free articles a month"

Don't think I've ever been to this site before.

I love what.cd but the problem is their tracker has been non stopped ddos'd for the last few weeks that it's almost impossible to download anything.

A similar sort of thing happened in New Zealand, ISP's ruled and weren't doing much to upgrade internet speeds. Then the government stepped in and said you gotta get your crap together then forced Telecom (which is now split into multiple companies, Chorus and Visiontek I believe) to build a nationwide fibre network. I believe it's meant to be finished by the end of next year, but it's actually pretty cool how most people who live centrally can get 100mbps (and now 200mbps) fibre from virtually any ISP that offers it.

People say the NZ government is pretty useless (which is still is depending on what topic/area) but I was surprised they actually got it together and got something right for once.

Haha yup, my spelling and grammar is usually pretty crap.

From the looks of it they are just using Ubquiti wireless gear.

http://www.ubnt.com/airmax#nanobridgem That is the ariel in the picture on their site.

Crazy how they charge you $350 though, they cost $79 to buy individually (they are probably getting a wholesale discount).

I'm guessing for business accounts they are using the Airfiber which is pretty cool and fast. They can't do 10gbps though, don't think their fibre lines can even handle that much.

Speaking of which, I noticed there's not many Data centers in SF which probably because there isn't much fibre around. My Digital Ocean box in SF is really quick however, even less hops to New Zealand than it is from LA which is weird since the Southern cross cable lands closer to LA.

I remember my friend moved to London a couple years ago. He said that tube tickets were taking up a large chunk of his income and barely had enough to pay for rent in his flat. He eventually moved back home to NZ 6 months later cause he was sick of being broke.

I know a few other of my friends have moved to London with great success, but I think the trick is to lock-in a well paying job before you move over there.

Correct from Auckland. The advertising company DraftFCB is actually on the other end of the street where I work as well. I told the staff at the gym last night about how this had blown up in the news and they were very happy that they were 'beta testers' for this marketing experiment.

Gah can't believe I missed this!

They were in a vending machine at my gym last month! Apparently the promo was only for 30 days, but in that time they did sell a few (according to the guy that works there). I saw some guys wearing them (since the gym is above the swimming pool so you can look down) and it works without a smartphone. I'm pretty sure the water is drinkable as well.

Pretty bizarre that people had to put cash in to buy it though. I don't remember there being a Eftpos terminal at all.

Strange this just popped up today though, since I haven't seen any of these vending machines around in the last few weeks.

ChicagoVPS are terrible. If you Google ChicagoVPS the suggest searches are "ChicagoVPS down" and "ChicagoVPS hacked".

There's 10 million threads on Lowendtalk bitching about ChicagoVPS. Here's one from last year. http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/7668/chicagovps-has-lost-th...

I imagine these will be popular with CPU based mining such as primecoin?

I've heard there's a shortage of Xeon L5639 servers (6 core CPU, usually ex-lease) as people are using them to mine cryptocurrencies. I tried out a primecoin mining calculator and it claimed it was pretty profitable (don't think the calculator is very accurate however).

According to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255782.msg3025191#ms... a dual L5639 server does 3.77730295 chains per day, which actuates to 19XPM which is 58.55USD a day. I've seen these server being rented for $85/month, so it could be worth it.

Can't find out much about mining with the 6300 series, but I'm guessing it would be around the same, so I'm guessing if you built a mining box for under $1500, you can break even in under a month.

Wow so 259684 BTC at $939 (current buy price as I post this) is 243185236.74 = $243,185,236.74 :o

Hmm StackDock.com is hosted on a server at Hetzner in Germany.

I don't 100% know if the containers themselves are hosted by Hetzner or not, but Hetzner is more of a budget provider than something you host production sites on.

I've heard many mixed review about their network and mostly their support which isn't up to scratch. We'll see what happens but from what I see, if someone decides to abuse the service, Hetzner might just take down the whole server without warning just like OVH do.

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/px120ss... (I'm guessing they are using something similar to this).It's a pretty powerful and cheap server but if you search hard enough you can find something equivalent in the States for around the same price.

Hahaha do you seriously think he's gonna give up the keywords these guys are making money off.

Spamming sites still worked pre-hummingbird and infact it works even better now.

Even Negative SEO works just as well. Have a competitor you don't like? Give him 100k blog comments with "Buy Viagra" and suddenly he will be de indexed in 3 months or less.

I think half the reason she quit is that SEO is so damn unpredictable now. You can make a spammy site and might rank or might get de-indexed. But at the same time you can make a 100% whitehat site and it probably won't even rank and can get just as easily de-indexed as a blackhat spam site.

You need to read up on BlackHatWorld a bit more Mr Cutts.

I do get it. In theory you would think that a bigger screen with pixels further apart would be cheaper to produce than a small mobile screen with double the ppi.

I figured out this Dell screen is 235 ppi so pretty similar to Macbook and other 'retina' equivalent laptop displays.

And I was comparing the current 27" 2560x1440 Cinema Display to the 30" 2560x1600 Cinema Display. The ppi increased a bit, but it is essentially "pretty much the same resolution".

What I still don't get is how the 30" Cinema Display was released in 2004, and almost 10 years later we still have pretty much the same same resolution screens.

I know 4k is slowly hitting the market, but you think about 10 years ago in the mobile world, we were using 84px monochrome screens on our Nokia 3315's.

And also why is the price difference between a laptop screen and a desktop screen so massive? You can buy a 4k screen complete with a whole computer for $1500, where a 4k desktop screen is going to cost you almost twice that.

Ok, this guy is using a couple of methods off BlackHatWorld (Probably the biggest SEO forum around if you haven't heard of it)

So essentially this guy is building this site, ranking it in Google using the churn 'n Burn method, then once its ranking well he'll contact local business saying he can link to them in return for a fee.

Even though the domain is 6 months old, if you look at ahrefs this guy has 33k backlinks to the homepage. Google had a major SEO update on October 4th which essentially fucked up their algorithm more than it already was. This churn 'n burn method means that you spam out a zillion backlinks and you will rank really well until the next Google update comes along (which is around 3-4 months) You could do this in the previous Google update (Penguin 2.1) and I thought Google would fix this but they just made it easier. This is a good example of the method: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/5769... (This was the one of the guys that essentially figured out this method from what I can tell)

So with this new Google update, they are getting rid of some of the spammy sites, but more spam sites just taken their places in the rankings. Now they are focusing on the amount of content on your site rather than the backlinks. So now 10 year old sites with hundreds of legitimate, high authority backlinks are getting outranked but spammy sites with 14 backlinks and 300 gibberish articles.

I've also been reading that with local Google searches, you get results from completely different countries. For example, people in the UK were reporting that they were getting results from sites in Russia, Argentina and New Zealand instead of UK results. I don't think this happens as much in America from what I know.

So I'm guessing Google is eventually going to iron out these problems, but it's a battleground at the moment.

If you do get outranked by this guy, make a video with your keywords in the title, same with a Facebook and LinkedIn page and then buy a bunch of backlinks off Fiverr. They should outrank pretty much any other website in a matter of days.

lol do people still read that?

Sure maybe 20 years ago it might of been alright, but you can tell APN is going down the drain as no one is buying newspapers anymore, hence they post utter garbage articles that gain peoples attention for 2 seconds in hope that someone will actually buy it.

A good example is a friend of mine got mentioned on a headline of sharing naked pictures of some celebrity in a Facebook group. They mentioned all the companies he worked/associated as well to make it more juicy.

The article was complete BS as it was actually someone else and the picture itself wasn't even that bad (no naked bits). He basically got sacked from all his employers since they mentioned them.

He got his lawyer to send down a takedown notice, and they removed the article off their website and had to post a following article in the paper saying that the article was a load of BS.

Still better than NZ Herald.

I remember the headline for the Herald on Sunday last week was along the lines of:

"EXCLUSIVE: X-RAY REVEALS CELLPHONE FOUND IN INMATE'S BUM"

"DC-based author Tim Shorrock revealed ThinThread was sent to New Zealand for testing in 2000-2001"

This is news? It happened 12 years ago.

I would also note to whoever posts these NZHerald links, they are basically like the Fox News of New Zealand. None of the reports have a clue what the talking about when it comes to technology subjects, and they are known for writing about complete garbage which half the time isn't true at all.

Stuff.co.nz (Fairfax Media) is a more credible news source IMO.

Using the term 'blackhat' is pretty darn vague. It's just as vague as using the word 'cloud' (Basically a buzz word).

I wouldn't call this guy Blackhat though, if he's stealing credit cards then that's straight up fraud.

Usually when people use the term 'blackhat', they are referring to someone who breaks companies terms of service but just below actually breaking the law.