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This has really been a long time coming. X11 is very old and a lot of people have been trying to figure out how to get this replaced. Probably makes sense that Google really just took the lead on this.

@Aaron-Studer said:

Theses link aren't helping:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/15/hosting_outfit_nodeki_breaks_lifetime_promise/

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=278412

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/08/17/1734250/joyent-drops-lifetime-account-holders

l think that it is important to not judge one vendor by the bad behavior of others. There will always be badly behaving vendors who pull a fast one, cheat you, steal your data or what have you. But you can't assume that everyone will do that or you would be unable to do business. If we looked at it that way, we would assume that because AMC went belly up that all car companies are going to go out of business and we would stop buying new cars because we are assuming that warranties are worthless because we are not evaluating the existing car companies based on their own merits but evaluating them based on the failure of an unrelated company.

Nice. @QuixoticAndy and I were just talking about AngularJS and TypeScript this week. Perfect timing.

I'm building a small MongoDB server there so that I can follow along with the MongoDB training that I am doing on PluralSight.

Hey everyone? Just found this community and wanted to say Hello! This is the QDesk team from Quixotic Software. We are a new software startup just getting the ball rolling.

Digital Ocean has a really interesting portfolio with stuff like MEAN and LEMP baked into a single instance, ready to go.

Who knows when we will have a demo of QDesk available, would be awesome to have someone testing us out when we are ready for a private release. Going to be completely free and completely hosted, so other than a nice web browser, no performance worries.

@MattSpeller said:

@QDesk said:

Who knows when we will have a demo of QDesk available, would be awesome to have someone testing us out when we are ready for a private release. Going to be completely free and completely hosted, so other than a nice web browser, no performance worries.

When you do I happen to know a forum full of cool people who'd likely be interested in it....

LOL. Thanks. Getting rapid feedback from potential users is exactly why we are looking to do our development "out in the open" here in the community! We hope to get lots of rapid feedback, ideas and testers

Nothing public to show yet, maybe as some progress is made Andy's team can post some screenshots of what is coming.

@Aaron-Studer always a nice feature.

I am getting up to speed on MongoDB because it looks like we are going to likely be using it extensively on some of our products so I want to be as familiar with it as possible before I have to work with it all of the time. I am watching PluralSight's "Introduction to MongoDB" videos.

We were considering Google Apps for Quixotic, but the team is small and everyone was already very used to Microsoft tools. So, at least for now, we went with Office 365 instead. But Google Apps was a strong contender. It's a great product.

Our Principle Engineer came from a strong Microsoft background so that played a big role, even though we are not focused on Microsoft development tools.

Glad to see that they at least resolved things in the end.

I have heard good things about DreamHost. They seem like a good place to look.

For us we need special hosting that most of those cannot offer. So we look at hosts like Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, Joyent and OpenShift.

Data prisoning is a big deal. You need companies with clear paths to data migration. Something very important to ask when getting into a situation where a vendor holds your critical data.

Absolutely, very different disciplines. Different skills, different training, different job responsibilities. There is cross-over, of course, but it is limited.

Hey guys, welcome. I'm pretty new too, but nice to see even newer people arriving.

That is pretty cool. I would like to get my hands on one of these and see how it is. I'm skeptical but interested.

Amazing how much performance you can get from these "last gen" servers. The Intel world has gotten incredibly powerful and cheap.

What makes you happy is pretty much always the answer. You need to get up every morning and be excited about what you do.