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jrod2121

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jrod2121··on eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce
Seems like every day I am now seeing multiple companies laying off X% of its workforce.
jrod2121··on Massive Dyn DNS outage
looks like they are all back online now.
jrod2121··on Massive Dyn DNS outage
bigcommerce, volusion, new relic, optimizely, wistia, volusion, aweber, cnn, campaign monitor, all down for me. The biggest thing is seeing that ALL shopify stores are offline, so much $$$ being lost right now.
jrod2121··on Ask HN: Best alternative for image hosting/scaling for high traffic site?
I'm looking to be able to have all those features on a platform that doesn't charge us $500+ a month.

We have users uploading images to our system. We use cloudinary to automatically resize/compress those images down, and then they are served up through their CDN.

Our issue is we have too much traffic, so we use a lot of bandwidth.

jrod2121··on Ask HN: How to stop bots/spammers in their tracks on an entry form?
Isn't this basically the honeypot captcha or invisble captcha method? I don't think it would work as well since we our forms are submitted via ajax request, but I could be mistaken?
jrod2121··on Ask HN: Do you have insurance for your SaaS?
What about something like hiscox?
jrod2121··on Ask HN: Do you have insurance for your SaaS?
Where would we go to get these types of insurance? We are a LLC (2 members, no employees).