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I find it hard to believe that they siphoned money from another business to wreck book retailers, because they started doing it before they had any other business. Where they are doing that, I agree with you: it is anti-competitive. Have you looked at Amazon in enough detail to identify which...

It is not terribly useful plotting revenues and net profit on the same scale when margins are low. In any case Amazon's profits are low because they are investing in growth. What is their free cash flow like? That is how free markets are supposed to work. People who supply what consumers do...

@drmike why are you so sceptical about financials? There are legal consequences if they are materially inaccurate and I would expect them to be a reasonable indicator. Maybe a lot of companies you have looked at do not have much business, or are shell companies etc? I used to know guy who...

A CDN may not be the best solution. have you done these: Minimise and combine JS files (there are tools for that) Minimise and combine CSS files (there are tools for that too) Optimise images, reduce quality of JPEGs (on must sites no one will notice), use SVG where possible (especially...

What does the upgrade change or fix that they are so anxious to get everyone to participate?

I agree with @willie that the €24/32GB config is the most attractive. More for your money that the nearest OVH VPSs (Cloud VPS3, SP-30 or EG-7) except that the OVH cloud VPSs all give you triple redundant Ceph storage. Are OVH also not supposed to have a better network? Incidentally, is there...

There are plenty of small companies whose service is terrible and big companies whose customer service is good. How much customer services does an unmanaged VPS need? As long as it keeps working, very little. The differences from a customers point of view are that 1) you can find out whether a...

I picked those three companies because, far as I know, they are good. Here is what I can see missing: Ramnode: no information about who runs it or how big a team they have. The legal name of the entity is correctly given, but not where it is registered not any registration number (most...

They would also have to remove all financial assets: bank accounts, money owed to them, etc. Look up a granishee order They would be unable to enforce contracts or the authorities would seize any money due to them as a result of that. They just could not do business. So where are they going to...

@KnownHost-ChrisM Are you suggesting that Google should just sacrifice all its EU revenues? Perhaps stop accepting European advertisers in adsense. Perhaps Microsoft should stop setting Windows and Office in Europe? I cannot see it happing, somehow.

There has been a lot of media attention recently. The governments are quite happy for big companies to dodge tax, the public are not.

Microsoft is another huge tax avoider. They have got off the radar by switching to an unlimited liability Irish subsidiary, which has no public annual accounts, so no-one knows how much is going through it (probably mots non-US revenue) You mean just like the EU?

@drmike It might work with Mint KDE, and running Shashlick's VM inside another VM does not sound ideal.

I  have a .info, which I use because it sounds better than the matching .com (which I also own, and which redirects to the .info). I have to have the .com because some people assume it is a .com. One guy first repeated it as [name].com, and when we corrected him, repeated it as [name].info.com

Just getting an AWS instance will not get you high availability: you need to do some work (and spend more money) to build high availability on AWS.multiple instances behind a load balancer, RDS databases with failover etc. I have been looking for solutions to a similar problem (somewhat...

I have a question for providers: why are you not doing the things @DomainBop and I suggest? It may be a deliberate business decision - for example if your target market is geeks who want somewhere to test stuff, or backup servers, or for hobby stuff. A lot of good providers do not do not...

Ben Goldacre's book Bad Science is an excellent debunking of homeopathy and alternative medicine in general. It is also worth realising that the principles of homeopathy are just a slight variation of the commonest type of witchcraft, sympathetic magic.

Not Godaddy, lots of people seem to have had issues with them. Worst registrar I ever used as UK2. Gandi are OK.  I have bought SSL certificates from Namecheap and they were OK for that.

Not sure if it is true for VPS businesses, which have a relatively sophisticated customers, but in most businesses you will scare off more customers by having SSL issues (self signed SSL, certificate authorities that are not recognised by all browsers, and an awful lot of things that can go...

Should read If a company contracts without revealing its real name it is breaching obligations under company law, but contracts are still usually enforceable.