Unless I'm misunderstanding, this isn't what I'm looking for. I'm looking for expandable storage - the ability to add GB/TB by adding disks. Replication is important, yes, but if I can't grow the volume, I'll just plain cry.
"Many consumers have enjoyed the falling price of fuel in the form of lower petrol prices; several UK supermarkets have begun selling petrol at below £1 per litre - which they last did in 2009."
It feels as though prices haven't fallen relatively here in Canada, at least not on the west coast.
I can only assume that you are not using any mainstream *nix-based operating system. Installing through package management is easy for both MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Partner with indirectly related products, services, websites, bloggers in your space. Reach out with a carrot to many of them - and there are _many_ - some of them will likely want to work with you.
You'll likely need to offer something tantalizing in return...
Surprisingly, I get this fairly often on my mobile. I'm not quite sure what's changed with the last version (or couple) of Android to trigger this. Over-secure, perhaps?
I've dealt with outsourcing to India before and share many of the same headaches mentioned in these comments.
I know it's a generalization, but I believe it's fairer to generalize about Indian outsourcing businesses than about Indian individuals: these businesses are doing their best to maximize profits, like any business does. They hire very low, mark up quite a bit and (in my experience) misrepresent their talent pool.
Conversely, I've worked with a number of brilliant Indians at a large corp here in North America.
The good individuals leave after a couple of years or less. The turnover is really high. They leave for the same reasons anyone would: better opportunities, mentorship, culture, money, etc.
In reality, it's a smoke and mirrors game where the outsourcers mostly win. Indian individuals get a bad rap.
The only thing that I can come up with is that I happened across a malicious page that did a drive-by install of some malware that magically disappeared upon browser restart (which both the lastpass installer and uninstaller force in order to get their extensions registered).
At least, that's what I'm hoping, or I've still got malware on my system!
I absolutely agree - a reputation is easily shattered, which is why it seems incredulous that you guys were actually knowingly behind this.
Like I said, however - the issues disappeared upon uninstallation of the lastpass browser extension pack for OSX, and it certainly seemed to appear on its installation.
For everyone's sake, let's all hope I was idiotic at some prior point and somehow had a different drive-by install...