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    Amazon drops Glacier pricing and releases new cheap S3 storage option - Infrequent Access

    https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-option-glacier-price-reduction/ Amazon's Glacier is cheap (1 cent per GB per month) but it comes with long waits to retrieve data, and retrieval costs can jump quite high if you pull a lot of your data at once (like...
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    Mozilla announces the death of unencrypted HTTP

    https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non-secure-http/ Mozilla has posted an announcement to their security blog that they are deprecating plain HTTP without encryption. They plan to do that by: Presumably nothing will happen until after Let's Encrypt's free certs are...
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    Do you think brands are important in the VPS market?

    I was reading an interesting New Yorker piece about a consumer shift away from loyalty to brand names and towards seeking reviews and other information instead. It got me thinking: if you accept the premise that people don't give much weight to branding any more, how would/does that affect...
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    Your WHMCS link sucks

    This issue pops up from time to time (especially amongst us lowly non-providers, but occasionally even in offer threads) so I figured it'd be good to have a Google-able thread for it. Since WHMCS is a bit odd, to link to a product: GOOD...
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    RHEL 7 beta released

    Red Hat have announced that RHEL 7 beta is now available for those with subscriptions. I doubt too many people here have Red Hat subs but this is stuff likely to be in the final RHEL 7 and thus the next major releases of Centos, Scientific Linux, etc. Some interesting changes: dropped 32 bit...
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