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adamowenon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2016)

MARKETER SEEKING WORK

Location: REMOTE (Based in UK)

Expertise: PPC (Google AdWords) - Keyword Research, New Account Setup, Audits, Ongoing Optimisation, Reporting

Email: hn@adamowen.co.uk

I'm a 21 year old marketer with over 3 years' experience working on SEO, PPC and copywriting. I'm Google AdWords certified and focus on increasing conversions.

adamowenon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

Spiral Media (Magento eCommerce Developers) | Lincoln, United Kingdom | Full Time | ONSITE

We're going through a period of fast growth, and looking for a full-time, on-site PHP developer to join our team of devs working on new-builds and with existing clients.

We specialise in Magento, so looking for someone with Magento experience, or at least an interest in learning and working with the platform.

https://www.spiralmedia.co.uk

Contact: adam@spiralmedia.co.uk

adamowenon Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS

The lesson here is you should always keep your own off-site backups - especially if you don't pay for a 'managed' server.

There will always be rare occasions such as this, but considering how many customers Namecheap handle, I don't think we should be seriously concerned. I'm pretty confident lessons will be learned.

adamowenon ASCIImator: Online ASCII Animator

Worth signing up for CloudFlare's free plan, and setting a page rule to 'Cache everything'. That should help you a lot!

adamowenon Lessons Learned from a Year of Elasticsearch in Production

+1. Algolia rocks. (https://www.spiralmedia.co.uk/implementing-lightning-fast-al...)

adamowenon HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet

For comparison, I enabled HTTP/2 via CloudFlare on a dev site. Results: http://blog.adamowen.co.uk/deploying-http2-using-cloudflare-...