Altek
A blog about entrepreneurship focusing on the internet, web 2.0, start-up's & making a lot of money!Keep Pesky Shell Alive
July 18, 2009 on 7:11 am | In Other | No Comments
while date ; do sleep 10 ; done
pretty self explanatory way of keeping ssh alive.
VideoEgg Advertising Network Review
July 14, 2009 on 10:28 pm | In Case Study | No Comments
1. Very Low Fill Rate.
2. Over Net 30 Payments.
3. Not recommended.
Paypal
July 10, 2009 on 6:18 am | In Internet | No Comments
Paypal seems to be in their own currency exchange business.
1 Usd to cad currently: 1.169
paypal’s “live current rate” 1.1300
e.g.
$5000 usd = $5650 should be $5845 = $195 pocketed.
PayPal Sucks
February 25, 2009 on 10:31 pm | In Internet | No Comments
If you are doing e-biz on a larger scale you will realize how much paypal sucks.
This is especially true if you are offering a virtual service or virtual goods as you will almost always have to refund the money as you have not shipped anything to the user. How awesome a internet company not supporting internet transactions for services….
We need to move to a new service at a massive scale so paypal is no longer the largest tranaction agent online.
Also there are more reasons then one why paypal sucks, check out the other reason in our archive.
HostGator Sucks
December 31, 2008 on 4:18 am | In Internet | 1 Comment
HostGator is a bad bad web host that promises low prices.
Firstly they are a reseller for ThePlanet, so just go there instead and get your server.
Secondly, if they suspect you have content that is not licensed, you get sent a email notifying you and when you reply with “what? huh?” they reply with “no worries my jolly good friend, we have taken it upon ourself to DELETE your databases without your consent, but hey here is access to your account again”
Thanks HostGator.
LeaseWeb Hosting (Dutch Hosting Provider) sucks, leaseweb bad webhost!
December 30, 2008 on 4:14 am | In Internet | No Comments
4 Days downtime.
Very slow email replies.
It took them over 4 days to basically, restart my computer, figure that the filesystem was corrupt and reinstall the OS.
Over 25 emails and still they did not get cPanel loaded nor did they recover any files…on top of that the charge is $200/hr…or for the the mathematically inclined they state “24.75 euro per 15minutes”.
Do not sign up with them no matter what.
Paypal Withdrawl Exchange Rate
December 5, 2008 on 7:40 pm | In Internet | No Comments
Paypal is a business we understand, but the withdrawl exchange rate is always horrifically purposely always very low.
Currently the CAD is trading for: 1 USD = 1.29 CAD, paypal offers: 1 USD = 1.213
This is not a new issue, it has been around since paypal was launched, and there is nothing we can do about it.