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    WeLoveServers Sold to HostWinds

    Oh, absolutely. I've done my share of ranting towards ZPanel and Sentora. I just feel that these events reflect very poorly on HostWinds, and they were the topic of the thread :)
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    WeLoveServers Sold to HostWinds

    Depends on how you define "hostile takeover", I suppose. The way things played out certainly leaves a sour taste in my mouth. And yes, this is absolutely the place to discuss this. EDIT: By the way, I don't know what exactly you believe you've purchased, but it's certainly not ownership of...
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    iClickAndHost has quadrupled it's VPS RAM upgrade quotas

    This is advertising, not news.
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    WeLoveServers Sold to HostWinds

    This seems to be missing from this thread: HostWinds are the guys involved in the hostile takeover of the ZPanel project (leading to the Sentora fork).
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    RA4W LLC|UK|Voxility 500Gbps DDoS Protected|1 Gbps|SSD|Starting from $2/month

    Are the servers themselves hosted with Voxility? Or are you tunneling?
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    Who uses Stripe for payments? Beware, they seem to not validate cards.

    It was true then as well :) Anyhow, hadn't realized this was grave-dug.
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    Who uses Stripe for payments? Beware, they seem to not validate cards.

    This is a red flag. If they are still "fixing SQL vulns", that means they are not using parameterized queries. That's really not acceptable in 2015, and makes them negligent. The entire concept of "SQL vulns" doesn't exist when using parameterized queries.
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    RA4W LLC|UK|Voxility 500Gbps DDoS Protected|1 Gbps|SSD|Starting from $2/month

    Footer states 500gbps mitigation, About page states 700gbps. Also, Voxility doesn't operate in the UK, does it?
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    NodeJS Async function help!

    Basically, you'd use Promises. Any kind of looping or conditional asynchronous work is very hard to get right with callbacks alone. I've put together a reading list about Promises here, that should get you started - Promise.map is most likely what you're looking for in particular :)
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    When should you use SSL?

    $5/year for a rubber stamp is a significant cost if you run many non-commercial projects. It gets far more expensive if you need eg. a wildcard certificate for dealing with subdomains. As for complexity, you are overlooking many aspects of SSL/TLS configuration (think HSTS and HPKP, for...
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    Programming Language

    Nearly every modern language works cross-platform, many of them out of the box. Qt is a cross-platform solution for building graphical interfaces that has bindings for just about every language. There are JS runtimes for mobile platforms as well - Cordova and PhoneGap come to mind. There's...
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    Programming Language

    You don't need Java for any of those things, except for perhaps Blu-ray.
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    When should you use SSL?

    Well, no, it's not easy (yet) - at least not to do it correctly. And it isn't exactly cheap either. I'm hoping that Let's Encrypt will resolve both of those issues.
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    When should you use SSL?

    Always. No exceptions. Let's Encrypt (which should be launching next month) will make this more feasible for free.
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    want a VPS 100% DDOS Protected

    Pay Prolexic an ungodly amount of money, and have them fix it for you. Or if you can't afford that, settle for less than 100%, get something cheap with reasonable DDoS mitigation, and hope it holds up.
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