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Amazon FBA is even worse

Amazon is in free fall, it is not only their AWS service, but their seller central apparatus too: Here we go, a billion dollar company and they are not able to give a proper link: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/mario/inpvMeeting/appointment/global?mons_sel_locale=en_US returns: What else needs to be said?… Oh yes: it takes an average of 20 days to become a… read more »

The journey to close an Amazon AWS® account

Even if you close your Amazon AWS® account: your EC2 reserved instances will continue to be billed (that is nice!). However you can register as a seller on the Amazon AWS® marketplace to sell your EC2 reserved instances. There is a requirement for this: to enter a US bank account. This can be achievable: especially… read more »

8 days for Amazon AWS® to allow outgoing emails

It took 8 days for Amazon AWS® to allow emails flowing out of the server. They did not want to unblock the port 25 and forced the usage of Amazon SES® upon their new customer. Not only that: but it took 2 days to switch Amazon SES® from sandbox to production. They have more than… read more »

It is time to leave Amazon AWS®!

That is too much: you think you enjoy your Amazon AWS® EC2 instance that you are paying each hour?… You are not: Amazon AWS® refuses to open the port 25. Amazon AWS® was supposed to give productivity and time gains to its customers, now you are just wasting their time. You cannot force your customers… read more »

Amazon AWS® is becoming a pain

Thanks to our support service many new customers are converted to Amazon AWS® every month. However a new painful feature from Amazon AWS® is to block outgoing port 25 on EC2 instances. This can usually be lifted within 48 hours of completing a request form. After 3 requests, the same answer came back: “Rejected“, with… read more »

The blockchain technology is not new

People eat myths and lies like never before. You just have to repeat a false mantra one thousand times: once you get the lie spread and being repeated by others you have won. The number one lie about the blockchain technology is that it is new. Yet it is simply a W.O.R.M. database: Write Once… read more »

How to recover a domain from Freenom®

I have talked already about Freenom® previously: if they mark your domain as FRAUD and cancel it, you will see this in the WHOIS: Your selected domain name is a domain name that has been cancelled, suspended, refused or reserved at the Registry If you try to register your domain it will say “Not available”…. read more »

The SolusVM IPv6 bug that is costing hosting companies millions

SolusVM is a virtualization software from a company called Plesk. It is popular with hosting companies (because it is cheap), and it gives the ability to manage VPS. Typically an offer will include a limit on the bandwidth (for example: “1TB/month traffic”). However there is a little dirty secret that most hosting companies do not… read more »

A review of sandstorm.io

Sandstorm.io is a manager of self-hosted applications. Managers of self-hosted applications are getting a huge interest lately. Quantum Hosting® has tried sandstorm.io for you. It was installed on this server: The installation is eating all the RAM and swap file and the server is not responding during 8 minutes. Once you recover control of the… read more »

Where are the servers of Binance.com located?

Binance.com is a very controversial business: a scam for some, or the best crypto-currencies trading platform for others. But where are the servers of Binance.com located?… Their domain name gives those NS servers (as of today): They are using Amazon AWS Route 53 service! The IP addresses returned are (as of today): Those IP addresses… read more »

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