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mark merrens wrote: Recently changed web hosting to Arvixe but they are proving to be very unreliable: getting constant outages with 503 and 404 errors which they try to dismiss with "other users causing a heavy load on the server". Right now I can't even get my email using their own web client.
Just today I learnt of a good opensource product called 'Gallery Server Pro' whose site has a very tall recommendation for Arvixe here:
http://www.galleryserverpro.com/webhosting.aspx[^]
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I can't recommend anybody, but I can't recommend who NOT to use: GoDaddy and PlanetSmb. I have reliability issues with both of them.
mark merrens wrote: $240 a year is too much for a small site with little traffic
Do you have many of these types of sites? If so, you can make a project out of each of them in a single Visual Studio solution, then deploy them to a single extra small web role instance in Azure. You can setup the cloud project so that a single web role is used to run multiple websites (so, site1.com points to ProjectA and site2.com points to ProjectB). It's a little complicated, but Azure is extremely reliable. Cost is around $240/year or so (depending on features you choose). Nice thing is you can keep adding sites at no extra cost.
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I would really enjoy studying a CP article on the scenario you just described, a step-by-step guide.
thanks, Bill
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I will see what I can do. 
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BillWoodruff wrote: I would really enjoy studying a CP article on the scenario you just described, a step-by-step guide
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the idea; I wrote an article on this for the Azure contest. Here it is: Umbrazure: Limitless Websites with Umbraco on Azure. Be warned, it's a bit long.
Hopefully you have notifications turned on, or I may have to spam the Lounge to get your attention.
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I've used gate.com for years with absolutely no issues.
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Funnily enough I'm with 123-reg.co.uk, just recently I'm getting intermittent 503 on www.software-kinetics.co.uk, support and 123-reg.co.uk have no idea whats going on.
In the past 123-reg.co.uk have been pretty reliable (owned by webfusion), but it seems my honeymoon period is over 
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Quote: Arvixe
Never do business with a company whose name you can't pronounce.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yesterday (or was it the day before?) was the first time I've had a problem with them, and it lasted all of a few hours. Not gonna change...for now.
If you don't need Windows, pair[^] is reliable.
FreeBSD or Linux.
Not cheap.
Been with them 14 years and can't remember if/when they were ever down except for scheduled maintenance.
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I was with Arvixe.
Everything was working very well, until they switch me to another server.
Then, it was really really bad. ( like not being able to access my emails for 2 days ... And of course, when it came back, I lost old emails)
Now, I'm using HostGator, so far, so good.
BTW, be carefull with Arvixe. IF you use the "free domain for life", they will ask you to pay 10$ if you want to transfer to another registrar ...
just my 2 cents.
Stephane
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Absolutely not!
If we let other people in on such secrets, they'll cause a heavy load on the server!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Good point well made.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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I just celebrated my 10 yr. anniversary with my company.
I've been very pleased with everything up to this point.
We recently had significant management changes.
A co-worker of mine, whom I'm not at all hesitant to admit is the hardest working person I know, recently served notice that he's moving to a different department. After a year of formal notices about his workload he's tossing in the towel and moving on to an identical job that pays more but has half of the responsibility - again, within the same company.
This guy regularly works weekends and evenings keeping over 200 people's computers in order along with email, 20 servers, and additional responsibilities.
He's leaving because he just doesn't feel he's capable of doing a good job with that work load - he's always putting out fires - he's quality conscious and running around like a crazy person doesn't work for him.
Here is the kicker: They're thinking of hiring two guys to replace him.
I'm saddened by all of this because I consider the loss of a hard working, knowledgeable, peaceful fellow who respectfully asks for help being forced out of his position because management didn't care to be a MAJOR RED FLAG that our change in management may very well destroy what was once a great work environment.
Obviously, the change in management has been a switch from proactive to reactive - and after 10 years of never even considering looking for another job I'm starting to see the writing on the wall. I've had bad management before. I won't subject myself to that again.
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MehGerbil wrote: and after 10 years of never even considering looking for another job
So you got lucky for 10 years.
MehGerbil wrote: I won't subject myself to that again.
I haven't worked anywhere for 20 years where the work load was such that it was easy to do it in 40 hours a week. So I just don't play that game anymore.
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jschell wrote: I haven't worked anywhere for 20 years where the work load was such that it was easy to do it in 40 hours a week. So I just don't play that game anymore.
That is an attitude that comes with experience.
That is why I'm all sad face now.
Management that doesn't view over working an employee until he leaves the company means high turnover and continual chaos. I'd feel differently if the guy was a screw off, unreasonable, over paid, or a constant whiner. He's none of those things.
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I have seen this before. One person is ask to leave and it takes two to replace them. A friend was fired then they had the nerve to ask him to come back to teach his replacement.
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I'd be happy to train under those circumstances.
My fee is $250.00 per hour with an 80hr. minimum.
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MehGerbil wrote: Here is the kicker: They're thinking of hiring two guys to replace him.
Always the way.
Twice, I've quit because they "couldn't afford to give me a pay rise", and both times was I later informed that more than one person had to be hired to replace me.
The one job, I really enjoyed, so it really pissed me off. Damn, it still makes me angry now.
It's the "Oh, but then he'll be paid more than me!" thing. People don't like to accept that you're actually worth more to the company than they are.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I recently read a discussion that GPLv3 is being rejected by Codeplex quite surreptitiously. GPLv3 seems to have more safer points for the developer right (http://www.linuxfordevices.com/files/misc/GPLv2_vs_GPLv3.pdf[^]).
Is there a justified reason for Microsoft to act in a weird and eerily style?
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Judah Himango wrote: CodePlex is not owned by Microsoft.
Check out http://www.codeplex.com/site/help[^] which states "CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. "
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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Interesting. But their about page and copyrights show otherwise!
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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Yeah, I noticed that. Seems contradictory.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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