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I've used Godaddy a number of times for LAMP-stack applications (I'm not totally sold on them).

I'm looking to downgrade my linode vps to shared hosting on another platform - no need to pay $20/month if I'm hardly using the resources of the server.

As mentioned, I'm looking to decrease that $20 per month bill and use some cheap shared-hosting, to host my existing apps (> 100 hits per month currently) .

I'm specifically developing in Python and need a shared web host to support Python.

Anyone have any good recommendations?

Thanks!

I found a startup on Craigslist that I've been doing freelance work for, for about a week now.

I just got paid last week but now the startup wont sign my contract listing things like hourly rate, payments, and so on... Pretty basic stuff no crazy clauses or anything.

They refuse to sign my contract but want me to sign theirs... Much much longer (10pages)

As freelancers - how have you dealt with a client who won't sign your contract but wants you to sign theirs?

Thanks

I'm developing an android app to detect spam phone numbers, does anyone know of a curated or crowd-sourced list of spam phone numbers that are available to the public?

(I cannot stand receiving spam calls)

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For freelancers... Do you specify your hourly rate upon being asked (early on in process), or do you say you set a fixed budget (based on a proposal) for new clients?

I've read that specifying the hourly rate upfront can weed out deadbeats, and/or clients you don't want to work with, is this true?

Overall how do you, as freelancers, work through this process?

Thanks!

I'm trying to decide between these two companies: Linode vs Digital Ocean for a new VPS.

My needs are: potentially heavy CPU, and heavy memory usage.

I'm using a Amazon EC2 (Micro) instance right now - and paying ~$25/month for it (its never shut down) - which seems pretty non-cost effective for a VPS from Amazon that never is shutdown.

One of my biggest gripes right now about Amazon is its slowness (via Micro instance which makes sense having only like a .5gb of raw) where i could get a lot more hardware for potentially the same amount at Linode or DO.

Does anyone have statistics on the number of nodes (e.g. other client accounts) running on the same VPS for linode or DO?

I'll be running Ubuntu, with python stack

Thanks

I've been meaning to ask this on here and wondered what your thoughts were on this.

I live (currently) on the east coast, but visited the west coast (SF to get to the point).

After 25 years of living on the east coast, I've started to see a trend of folks here regarding joining/starting a startup venture.

I talk to countless individuals (tech and non-tech) would refuse to leave a cushy 9-5 job to start something awesome.

I recently spoke to an advisor of my startup who mentioned individuals living on east coast (generally speaking) are very risk adverse as compared to SF Bay area (and surrounding areas).

Is this a location thing? e.g. East coast being disproportionally risk adverse as compared to its west coast counterparts? Or have I just met overly risk adverse east coasters?

I'm looking to move from the northeast US to San Francisco - I'm totally pumped.

My background is primarily in development and application security - what are the best sites to use to find startup jobs?

I currently have applied to some on Indeed, but there has to be better sites.

I've talked to 30-40 recruiters over the past few months about various jobs in IT.

I wondered why so many companies use 3rd party recruiters as opposed to in-house recruiters? Is it just the money or what is it?

Other developers on here - what are you thoughts on communication with 3rd party recruiters?

Recently I've found in-house to be far more effective in communicating the company, position, etc. than 3rd party recruiters (who are after just the "finder's fee")

I've been working on an IT-Sec company for some 6 months now, solo founding it. I recently met a guy at a networking event who advises startups - we met 1:1 for coffee, and then he sent me a really lengthy email basically being really frank on what I was doing.

I have a number of years of IT experience already (primarily in programming) and some IT-security (some of the experience hands-on out in the world)

He stated he thought that I:

   " didn't have enough experience in the field I was creating a startup in"

and also stated I should:

    "Go back into the working world for a number of years to gain more real world experience"

I'm just really trying to distinguish out what said whether its signal (frank, legitimate feedback) or just noise.

Do you have to BE AN EXPERT in a field to really make a nice dent in it?

Personally, I just think its noise more or less, but wanted some other opinions.

Thanks

There seems to be an abundant number of vulnerability scanners out there for web applications and I'm wondering of the market potential left for new vulnerability scanners with some differentiation (not so much on the technology side)?

Thanks for your input fellow hackers

I'm new(er) to freelancing.

I just had a personal contact (known him about 1.5 years now - met at network event) he reached out to me about a really cool software project he needed done for this recruiting business.

So what I did is : 1) Spend 30-45 mins (2 times) talking on phone to him about it. (1-1.5 hrs total)

2) About 3-4 hours mocking up his proposed solution in a flow chart.

3) Another hour or two over the course of a few weeks about minor details.

4) It seemed like all was set.

I sent him this and then he tells me some silly response like "I need to have a new employee look this over and I'll get back to you"

Its been 10 days now and this guy just posted on quora : "How to do <x> subfunctionality of this project? (he is non-technical)

How should I take this? That the guy isn't interested in my work and is likely using the diagrams I made of the process with someone else?

Thoughts?

Additionally, any good reads on (software) freelancing books you may have could be helpful too.

Thanks

I quit my job 6 months back to set out on my own doing my own startup idea. This idea hasn't panned out quite the way I thought it would.

How have you or would you convey that your startup failed and you are interested in <x> job now?