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spicer-matthewson What is your prefered VPS host?

At Cloudmanic Labs (http://cloudmanic.com) we use Linode for production stuff. Mainly it is worth the extra money to give our customers even a few milliseconds faster response times.

Our apps make a fair amount of concurrent calls to the server. So the 8 cores at Linode really helps.

For all our non-customer production stuff we use Digital Ocean. DO is great. If your site does not have lots of concurrent connections DO is a great option.

spicer-matthewson Is it OK to steal a customer?

Yes. You're not stealing if you provide a better service or product and convince them to switch.

spicer-matthewson Ask HN: How do you manage your photos?

http://cloudmanic.com/photomanic

I like to leverage Evernote for the storage engine. Unlike other cloud-based photo storage solutions if you stop paying for the storage you lose it. You "pay" once for lifetime storage. If you are a paid Evernote user you get 1 Gig of storage per month. Use it or lose it.

http://cloudmanic.com/blog/57/the-digital-photo-conundrum-a-...

http://cloudmanic.com/blog/58/photomanic-a-photo-gallery-for...

Yes, My company is the marker of Photomanic.

spicer-matthewson Bitbucket passes one million users

We use Bitbucket at Cloudmanic Labs we are pretty happy with it. GitHub almost has too many bells and whistles. We do use Github for public stuff as that is what everyone uses.

spicer-matthewson Google will make critical security exploits public after seven days

This is great. I am glad Google is doing this. In fact everyone should do this. I know many companies discover security issues and do not disclose them or give the project too much time to fix them.

spicer-matthewson Parsing PDFs at Scale with Node.js, PDF.js, and Lunr.js

Great write up. Just what I was after. Thanks for the share.

spicer-matthewson How I use Up, NginX, and fabric to run Node.js apps

Great share. Thanks!