markwillis82

I spent many hours with the cost calculator going through with our support company trying to find a _rough_ estimate of what our bills would be compared to Rackspace.

It's not easy initially but things like http://www.ec2instances.info/ definitely help.

As a recently new customer to AWS. This service sounds really useful.

Quite possibly one of the best pricing pages[1] I've seen in a while too.

[1] https://www.s3stat.com/Pricing.aspx

We are in the middle of migrating from Bitbucket to our self hosted CE version and apart from a few permissions issues on SSH keys we have had no issues with the whole process and updating our deployment system was just a case of changing git urls.

Well done Gitlab :)

Sounds interesting. Only problem is your site is quite difficult to use on a mobile.

Will bookmark and view later on a desktop though.

Running 6 days a week training for marathons. The high from endorphins puts me in the right mood.

3 hour run on a Sunday evening gets you ready for the Monday morning

I only have 50 karma, however I have been here for quite some time. I don't normally comment but now that all my comments will be pending it makes my comments on new stories less likely to appear.

Unless they get more coverage and land on the front page.

Shame :(

I've already got this set up. Looks like New Relic are going to be monitoring all the things! Soon

This is such a shame.

Having used the OSM data to generate our own tiles. It takes a lot of time and resource to manage them well (let alone updating the OSM data)

I understand it must be tough to provide such a service at low cost. Hopefully something will come up from the ashes.

I try to stay away from databases run by other companies, for this reason. Seems to be safer to run my own and block access than the convenience of db as a service.

Obviously if you don't have the experience in this, your susceptible to this kind of leak.

Maybe a new language and data model? Could anyone suggest things like Hadoop or other big data bits I could get my teeth into?

Scala looks interesting especially with Lift.

Would be good to play with larger datasets too.

I want to get into something completely new, which is why I was looking at c++.

But getting into the bare bones c could also be interesting.

Hopefully it will remain here - unchanged forever: https://web.archive.org/web/20131105002953/http://www.micros...

We scale based on load, so rather then having dedicated boxes being unused during quiet times we can scale our infrastructure down and then up when we need to. Going to a hybrid platform maybe in the future

Having used rackspace for the past 5 years, I'm happy to see some more performance machines in the cloud.

We have quite a CPU intensive infrastructure so will be benchmarking the new performance servers against themselves to see if it is still cheaper to scale out then scale up.

I read alot of articles on HN that involve startup culture and work-life balance.

I felt that this article is a reminder that children need as much time with dads as possible. I'll be the first to put my hands up and say I need to work less and spend more time with mine

Just refused geolocation and got stuck in a "user denied geolocation" loop had to kill safari to get off site

I've had 3 kids and juggling work, family and hobbies is a challenge. I tend not to think about work out of hours (unless overtime / something crashes during the night)

I work on my hobbies 2/3 nights a week (about 6-9 hours a week) and then the rest is family and kids. Trying to leave the weekends for them.

With my commute I see the kids for about an hour and a half on weekdays (45 mins in morning and the same in the evening before they to to bed) so the weekends are when we make it up. Out all day, the park/beach anywhere outside.

My pet project at the moment is programmatic battleships. Write your own client - play against other users running automatic games and see how we'll your client fairs up in the leaderboard