New Server Comments/Bugs

[admin]

One week later, after a few dozen requests. nice to see technology working at the speed of light.

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[admin]

After a few months am pleased to say new server setup is quite wonderful and stable and fast and I have a great support person when I need technical fixes. We're up 44 days non-stop and all is working well. Thank you for those donations, they go to monthly payments for the server and the tech guy.

[Paul Herrington]

How do you know you can 'trust' the people like the guy you hired for all the work described in the previous page?

How much better is the current reliability/performance than the site/servers you were on previously?

I'm not looking for talent - just curious. A couple years back, I helped someone define the requirements of a forum system environment. It took way longer to implement than I expected. I think timing was driven by the person I was helping but I kept thinking this should be quick, cheap and easy (for the folks you could hire like you did.)

[admin]

These days, sites are up in less than an hour operationally and then content can take some time but design is way faster than even a few years ago. I'm doing one now for documents for a TBM 700 owner which will contain a library of all the materials for reference online and dates of upcoming items so he can view them from anywhere, anytime.

This server site today is stable and the prior Azure site was also exceptional. I chose the current location at the suggestion of my server admin guy. The difference now is that I have complete and full control over a machine and software compared to shared or VPS servers. The cost is quite reasonable and I have a virtual server admin who is fast and inexpensive with a lot of skill.

How do I "trust"? Good question. This particular fellow I hired on UPWORK.com, a freelancer site. I occasionally will do special projects there (as a freelancer) and I hire expertise that I don't have(trademark, server, legal). There are reviews of each freelancer including earnings and hours and clients. This particular fellow had over 100k earnings at $18/hr and essentially a perfect score all of which must put him in the top 1% of freelancers so I deemed there was zero risk. Work is covered by a tight UPWORK contract and all work product belongs to me, the contractor. Disputes can result in clawback or non-payment and loss of future work to the freelancer. With his rating, it was a no-brainer, I just hired him and did not even bother with an interview. If I send a request, it is usually done in 30 minutes and we get along very well. Conversations and documents are recorded and monitored and I can call on UPWORK to fix a problem quickly. Private materials like passwords are sent on privnote.com which are destroyed after receipt.
Billings are done weekly automatically via paypal and you can see how many minutes have been spent on your project at any time. You can limit hours per week also. The saying about going to the busiest guy to get something done has merit in this instance.

[Paul Herrington]

Thanks for the explanations.