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mahmud on Sept 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Force Multipliers and Japanese Programmers

Why are you using a "hosting" company? Get a $20 VPS or spend more, or any of your inhouse boxen or whatever.

Sheesh.

jbm on Sept 28, 2011 [–]

Not my call, brought in at end. Even then, I wouldn't have suggested it either. Managing servers is not a cheap or fun job; if their site was successful it would have made future sense and migrating was easy.

Regardless, setting PHP4 as the default in 2009 is idiotic.

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