and...
https://bluevm.com/about.php
That doesn't reflect this fellow or reality.
Ishaq left, ahh how long ago? He's two jobs removed.
This sounds like our guy:
http://no.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-isaksen/3b/a71/177
Ishaq was a BlueVM volunteer I believe. When I had services with x4b for a month I noted him responding to my tickets, looks like he's working for Arvixe now. Arvixe, when I worked for them years ago paid pretty darn well and I am sure Ishaq did not enter as L1 drone like I did, so I would expect his compensation with them to be quite decent. I got a dollar an hour raise after like a month too, which was quite nice. They seem to reward you financially frequently. Any amount of time you work beyond 8 hours in a
day is billed at 1.5X your normal rate so there is great incentive to work more than 8 hours a day, if you wish. It's a good and busy company. I love how they handle overtime as most places only dish out overtime pay for any hours worked beyond 40 in one work week. For example, if you only worked 12 hours a week for them and it was done in one day, 4 of those hours you'd be paid time and a half. To those of you who work in the lowend VPS industry,
Overtime is the amount of time someone works beyond normal working hours. This may be a foreign concept to you...
Just don't miss work like I did... (long story)
Lot of lowend based hosts pay shit or don't pay at all. It's not greed, it's just the only real way to remain sustainable long term. Lot of these companies do
no planning what so ever so when extra help is
needed they can't realistically afford to pay. That's why most have one or two paid employees and then either outsource to India or share teen employees with other companies. (Kind of like how Rallias and others work for several companies under alliases).
The low-end industry, from an employee's point of view, is only good to get enough experience so that you can dump it for a regular M-F 9AM - 5PM type job. Clock in, work, then clock out. You don't have to worry about work until the next day. It's quite nice
EDIT: Not knocking BlueVM, just knocking the lowend industry as a whole. There may be a few exceptions, but generally speaking, it's not the best industry for fair compensation for the amount of hours worked and as companies grow, their staff does not grow proportionally to accommodate more customers.
