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Wondering what do you guys use for hosting PHP web apps? Scalability is the main concern here.

I am guessing everyone just start with shared hosting services, and switches to VPS and finally dedicated as things take off.

I've used hostmonster and dreamhost, and there are some very peculiar things I need to follow as far as their DB names and such things are concerned.

So, it would be great to have most freedom to tweak certain settings, such as PHP params, and ability to choose DB names for now.

It's not such a big PITA...but changing DB names between production and development is not my favorite task....it's just one more thing to remember always....

I am not such a big fan of AWS and such services, esp for LAMP.....where you can save a few bucks in the beginning, when it's most important.

Ohh....I am using MySQL, for now, but would love to have an option to use MongoDB later on as well, since it looks like it might scale much better for what I am planning.

Ideas please. :)

I am more interested in Web related stuff. Have been for a year now. But my full time job is in Java. And it is not web related, although we make the UI using GWT. Interesting company here.

I have also been working on my startup for almost a year now.

Been a Java programmer, C# programmer, novice PHP programmer, and much more. (Check out "Little history" towards the end.)

Just wondering, if it might be a good option to start learning PHP and JavaScript on the side, after I am done with version 1 of my startup's software, so that sometime next year I can apply to some startup in CA, and move there. Also that gives me a chance to work on web programming, serious web programming, hopefully with millions of users, kind of stuff. I guess my question is:

1. Do I jump into PHP and make that my career? Do people get good paying jobs in CA doing that?

2. What about JS? Is that an absolute requirement for a web related job? I don't think so. But I would like to know from "real" web programmers who are doing jobs in PHP or JS, out there in CA, preferably in startups, but not necessary. I just want to work somewhere interesting, in CA.

3. What's the money like for web development jobs in PHP/JS in CA?

4. Keep in mind, I would love to learn both PHP and JS, so that I can make at least one complete application before applying for a job.

P.S. - Little HISTORY Grew too much, so pushed towards the end.

LITTLE HISTORY

I graduated with a MS last year and founded my startup here in Dallas, Texas, last September. Applied for a couple of funds, tried YC twice, never really got anything. Realized I practically ran out of money and into debt, took a contracting job, one thing let to another, they loved me, and offered a position , Java related.

I got that, and I loved it. Since the job mostly involved tools like GWT, Java , Spring, hibernate and more. It was big enough so I wouldn't get bored. Small enough that I can probably learn it inside out in a few months. Turned out to be deeper, so still having fun learning it. Oh yeah, immigration issues started creeping in too.

I found out you can only do your startup for so long, before they would deport me. Or at least that was one option. Some lawyers say true , some say not. So, picked up a job.

My startup involves making a generic solution for a lot fo NP complete problems, and making it fast enough, and simple enough for non-expert users to use it. Well towards the end of version 1. (Hoping to launch it to HN users first when it is ready.)

Hi,

I guess simply put, does anyone know if Google lets us make add-ins for Google spreadsheets yet?

Just curious.

Looks like google bookmarks is down. Tried logging in and grabbing my bookmarks.

<p> Nope. It says there are no bookmarks. <p> Did it loose my data? Hoping not. <p>This sucks. I trusted them with all my links, and now I can not retrieve them. <p> I know this sounds bad, but I really find it hard to believe that google has outages of that sorts still. <p> I used to see all those posts about twitter being down, or gmail being down and used to think, "why people are making such a big fuss over that? It's only a matter of time before the service comes back on." <p> But now I know, how uncomfortable it feels, when you NEED the service and it's down.