Blog Entries tagged 'Outsourcing'

Destructive Self Funding versus VC

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I was reading a very sad, frank, and wise notice from Russell Beattie about the death of Mowser, his mobile browser project. I know, and you know, that most startups die young, the ones that don't mostly become zombies living on consulting, and the small remaining percentage are bought for peanuts by larger companies lusting after their IP and management team.

Bu [...]

More Almost Good Cari.Net Customer Service

admin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Sigh. Once again they almost avoid being the rotten apple of my eye. My not so snarky comments in red.

This evening Cari.net will conduct an emergency maintenance window to provide additional protection and redundancy for the C2 Data Center. [Planned emergency maintence window. Nice!] Every attempt is made to provide advance notice of these windows; however, in the inter [...]

Speaking Of Needing A Utility To See if Your Site is Down

admin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0100

Well, when I wrote about this handy utility to see if your site was really down, little did I know that I'd really need to know it right away:

Hmmm, could it be the hosting company:

Well, yes it is. I am soooo disappointed in cari.net right now - year [...]