I'm a successful bootstrap entrepreneur looking for short term contracting work to help provide seed capital for another start-up. I have a degree in electrical engineering and 10 years experience designing electronics and writing firmware. I have about 5 years experience in full stack web development though my "full stack" experience is better described as Linux SysAdmin or DevOps securing and optimizing LAMP stacks and integrating / hacking open source web apps and CMS with as little coding as possible.
Ideally I'm looking for companies with significant 3-12 month projects in the next year, but I am willing to work shorter durations down to a minimum of about 1 month. Part time contracts are also preferable, though I can swing full time contracts. Also, I would like a company that understands I have another business to run and that by also working for them I will probably be working about 60 hours per week if their work is full time.
Thanks. That's actually more than enough to help me understand and compare. For completeness you may want to mention in your original review that you used a default wordpress install for the tests which is ~250-500kB downloaded and listed as "Bytes In" in a webpagetest.org result. Maybe you did and I missed it.
I started my tests with a default install too, but found that the actual sites I deal with are in the 1-2MB range so I imported "dummy content" I found somewhere to get more representative data and test different stacks of my own creation.
I decided to go with a $40/mo un-managed VPS 6 months ago partly because managed would have been hundreds of dollars more per month and partly because I wanted to learn how to do it myself. After approx 6mo of testing and optimizing various stacks with similar results to these managed hosts I have to say they represent a tremendous value. Configuration management, back ups, maintenance, security and disaster recovery of a high performance stack is a lot of work and I am not sure if I want to keep doing it.
That said, I could probably start my own managed hosting company that would compete well at this point!
Could you please at least update this version of the article with a link to the demo page that you blitz'd? Or, at least one public link to a webpagetest.org result that shows the number of requests, grades and total amount of data downloaded per page requested?
This is a great writeup and a real gem among a sea of junk hosting reviews out there, but I am having a hard time couching these results against my current service because blitz.io, and webpagetest.org results obviously vary to a HUGE degree depending the site / page tested and how it has been optimized.
My regular testing includes webpagetest.org and blitz.io as well, so I just need a little more of a frame of reference to decide whether or not I want to use one of those coupon codes and make a switch. Thanks!
Im an electrical engineer with 10 years FPGA and circuit design experience which includes teaching a few new-hires how to do hardware development.
The key to getting a synthesizer to produce a good circuit from any HDL, especially Verilog, is to understand that there is a synthesizeable subset of the language that should be used to describe the RTL (Register Transer Level) of abstraction. The rest of the language's constructs should be limited to simulation only.
The synthesizable subset tends to be a very small number of constructs and once you know and understand them you will be one big step closer to much "easier" hardware development.
One should strive to understand RTL as a level of abstraction first though IMHO. I have some thoughts on how best to do that if anyone cares I can continue.
Stack: Digital / Analog Electronics, PCB, FPGA, uP, SoC, C/C++, LAMP, open source CMS
Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0i9_ZoFPAv6anVKV3c5VkFKNFE...
Contact: see resume
I'm a successful bootstrap entrepreneur looking for short term contracting work to help provide seed capital for another start-up. I have a degree in electrical engineering and 10 years experience designing electronics and writing firmware. I have about 5 years experience in full stack web development though my "full stack" experience is better described as Linux SysAdmin or DevOps securing and optimizing LAMP stacks and integrating / hacking open source web apps and CMS with as little coding as possible.
Ideally I'm looking for companies with significant 3-12 month projects in the next year, but I am willing to work shorter durations down to a minimum of about 1 month. Part time contracts are also preferable, though I can swing full time contracts. Also, I would like a company that understands I have another business to run and that by also working for them I will probably be working about 60 hours per week if their work is full time.