i agree. i can't figure out this pricing. a simple slider like Heroku or Pagodabox would be much easier.

I can't get the examples to come out right. Looking at the 3rd one for $172.80, if i get out my calculator and crunch, it looks like it should be $112.32 to me.

(256 x 1) + (448 x 1) + (128 x 1) = 832 total MB RAM

at $0.006 per 32MB ram per hour you get $4.32 per month per each block of 32 MB

832 / 32 = 26 blocks of 32 MB RAM

26 x 4.32 = $112.32

what am i doing wrong here?

You're right the math is wrong on that one, but it isn't the only thing wrong. SSL is 160MB not 128MB. We will double check the numbers and fix it.

Thanks for pointing that out.

our app is actually hosted on a mixture of phpfog and Amazon AWS. if you find a paas that runs on amazon like heroku or phpfog, then you can actually use any other amazon aws product like RDS w/o any latency by setting it up in the same region as the paas web server(s).

why such a small list? there's so many more.

it really varies from place to place and company/industry. Which probably means its fading out. I recently went through a few rounds of interviews with several people at a large software company and i did not send thank you emails. I was given the job but it was brought up over beers later on with boss and peers how i did not send thank you emails. they mentioned how during their interview process that most people were not doing that and it seemed to them that was becoming outdated.

Now i was briefly a hiring manager before and i hated getting follow up emails from people i interviewed. It is so obvious that people know it's something they have to do and just kicked out these canned scripted thank you messages. Most people's inboxes are already full and they are busy why would they want this?

And my personal opinion is that, honestly they should be thanking you. I mean, they need help. They put out a "Help Wanted". You have skills that can help them. They asked if you wouldn't mind taking 3 hours out of your work day so you could go down to meet several of their team members so they could evaluate you and help them make certain they are hiring the right person. Maybe they should be thanking you?? It's a two-way street.

depends on what type of site/app you have and what type of traffic you expect. your shared hosting acct is on a server with 100 other sites. you can't rely on dedicated resources or bandwidth. shared accts are good for more static brochure sites or low traffic blogs.

You need to do both. dump the report to a page in html with pagination and have an export to excel button. For file export do it as tab delimited with a .xls extension.

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The problem is I usual select what to read by the number of points and/or comments. I don't want to click through every item to see those things.

unreal. I had same experience and comments. -thought it was a blog (because it is) - didn't get it - watch the video for half a minute - bailed

To jamesvisto, I don't mean to to be negative. I just think you need real feedback. good luck with it!