Phaxio co-founder here. Thanks for the write up, Pete! Really great to see the product we've been bootstrapping for 3 years on the front page of HN. We're devoted to making developer faxing as easy as possible. If you have any comments or questions about the service, feel free to contact me directly at josh at phaxio dot com.
what i dont understand is, why would any one want to START with a VM that has some one elses data on it? Forget people wanting their data scrubbed on delete.
i'm a PHP developer. just clicked on the comments to see the usual negative PHP wrath... this time there are no comments at all. not sure which is worse :)
I can tell you for a fact that this is not true when you're dealing with enterprises or software that is vital for the operation of your business. These types of customers demand to have products hosted internally.
what happens if 1 shard contains a whole slew of large companies (macy's, gap, etc), or over time users on one shard grow to the point that they cannot be contained within one physical machine? Are they just assuming that this will be very unlikely?
2 questions:
1) What do they do with the Pinterest-generated ID? Do they store it with each row in addition to the local ID?
2) Why randomly select a shard? Shouldn't you do this based on DB size across all boxes, or at least based on physical space left across all boxes?
Perhaps. Or have multiple domains and DNS providers and point both status subdomains to statuspage. (We created status.phaxio.com and status.phaxio.co after the whole Zerigo fiasco last year. co is on zerigo, com is on Route53 )
Interested to know what people think about the market for something like this. While it definitely serves a purpose, is this something that is sustainable and that people will pay money for (vs building it once, and setting it up internally)?
Not being skeptical, just wondering what people think... I've had ideas similar to this, but am still trying to figure out the threshold for payment on things that companies fully need but can justify building internally.
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