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its shared hosting and so you're probably looking at /home.

its should be okay. Just make sure you have a strong password

Just use the right tech for the job. Javascript is not new cool, its already cool.. its just the pitch you're getting.

Congrats on the startup.

I'd lose the enter site thing. Im already there, and its not porn right so I don't need to consent.

Design and copy. You need both. Best of luck

I've used opera for ever. On my old symbians, my win boxes and even on my netbook (ubuntu)

but since I read that they moving off their own engine to webkit who cares.

I wrote my own CMS that can do a few things really well and was marketing it. Found a client and I'd been charging a client a few South African Rand every month to host a website for their business. Really low cost, in my error.

Then i started getting asked to do more work on the site.

Then they wanted a site design and they were complaining they needed more business from the site so I didnt charge. I went out of my way to redo their design, meet with them, find the correct demasque background, logo redesign and content updates.

Then another small site I was running for them at a lower cost suddenly needed changes. So I barked a bit and they backed off.

Then they came back and said that on the first website they needed more business because another channel was failing them. someone had suggested they setup a blog to get new clients. Would I help?

I replied back and said for the monthly fee I was being paid i couldnt support more work or blog integration, not at that rate. We could discuss a retainer for that kind of work...

They turfed me on both websites - Gone to someone cheaper they say that also allows them to update the website as they choose and setup a blog.. So can I give them a backup of the sites? Sure cuz it was in my terms of service.

So I thought I was doing them a favour- low costs, possibility of self maintaining the site, a new theme design, managed hosting and email.

Turfed. My wife is pissed at the time I put into them.

I on the other hand have realized this - 1. Small business dont want to pay a lot of money for anything 2. Small business dont want to pay anything for services. If you ask for payment they will balk and possibly not enter an engagement 3. Small business will want everything done, plus the clothes off your back. And when you cant anymore they'll say you suck and move on.

Im now not even marketing the web dev side of my skills anymore.

Yeah I've had weeks be normal. And days too. Sometimes its company procedure, sometimes it's just normal for things in either scenario.

Agreed - top posting is how corporates do it.

Don't try to be the kid who doesn't play the game like everyone else. And noone in corporates will use mutt. Hell why do that, its 2013 for crying out loud

I do both. For fun is to learn and grow. For money cuz, well, I need money. Sometimes the two overlap.

Premise 3 is true for me. Too intensive is how I usually state it.

you will not beat instapaper.

Getting a 404 on that sage.org link..

Komodo Edit is pretty good too. Have you tried it?

a quick look over cnnmoney or bbc.co.uk will give you enough

Walk past a jewelery store slowly, see if she sees a style in the window that she likes. or just take her along and let her choose, but set the budget with her early.

Congrats!

No ways, I disagree.

Now you may debate the status of South Africa as either developing/developed, but I work in South Africa and since 98 I have worked on C/Cpp, VB, Python and mixtures of DB backends. Country does not determine the tool.

The solution determines the toolset.

Even for me, as a South African considering my options overseas, the comments were extremely useful.

Remote work sounds like a good idea. I plan on trying that out in the new year before committing to immigration.

Just 1?

What happens when you want the associated .net or .org? Trademark rights been checked?

You could've gotten a .com, net, .org and like 10 years registration for each and been in a good position. And been in a position where you'd still have a lot of cash in the bank.

Lost interest half way..

Lead by doing. Show what you're doing and why, and get others to support your vision. Then it may be easier to get others do tackle some of the challenges with you.

If you find you still need a chat, my email in my profile.

May the Lord bless you and keep you, and give you peace.

Agreed, it renders fine.

Time, lack of time really, because man o man i can get caught up and obsessed once I'm trying to learn something new

Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Sudan... I don't think I'd side with them either.

This sucked and was the reason i stopped using them. I dont care enough to try them again now, purely because I lost mail this way

thanks, kuler is quite neat. I want to test foreground over background though

I started on shared hosting, moved to webfaction, but grew into VPS. It's just easier if you want to install software that they probably wont install in shared environments.

Sounds too good to be true. And you know what they about that

Been here, my wife too. I will not respond to calls like this nor phone offers for financial services. Especially not when they say they do not have any info that can send to me beforehand.

Ill stick with apt and yum than you. They've proved themselves enough to me

"...why it’s essential that the internet remains free of government regulation"

The internet just gets switched off or blocked in some instances, we've all seen it before. China, Iran, Egypt.

You don't control the infrastructure or the pipe in, the government does.

Even here in South Africa, I wonder at which point they will switch it off. It's not ours.