Instead of putting all of your eggs in (yet another) one basket, for a site with critical availability requirements I would distribute DNS over multiple providers. If any one provider goes down it is less likely to hurt overall site availability.
Yep. I had been hesitating on moving more domains over to Route53 because I thought the per-zone pricing was fixed at $0.50 per domain, but it actually scales really well. I'm going to move the rest over to Route53 as soon as I have a chance.
We're using Route 53 in production to handle hundreds of millions of queries per month. We're happy with it, and the price is reasonable. Also, service checks with failover is heavenly.
If you don't use namecheap's dns servers, dns requests for your domain do not go to namecheap for redirection. They don't go to namecheap at all. Your specified dns servers get registered with the top level domain servers.
No. The zone file lives on the nameserver (DNS server) which Route 53 provides. Namescheap registers a list of nameservers for your domain with the TLD.
An over simplified example for looking up "news.ycombinator.com":
1. First query the TLD nameserver for all ".com" domains asking for the authoritative nameserver(s) for "ycombinator.com".
2. Next query that nameserver for "news.ycombinator.com".
But, the first entry point is namecheap. The domain is at Namecheap, so it will not find the zone file at Route 53, if Namecheap does not send it there. Right?
No, registrar's are your portal to updating data in TLDs, but those TLDs are each operated separately. .com and .net are operated by Verisign, for example.
The only thing I can come up with is that someone, probably Mayer, thinks it's a hipster cool throwback to the late '90s when everyone was using Photoshop's default bevel and emboss filters like there was no tomorrow.
I can't begin to tell you how much this bugs me. It's not about how many hours it takes to do something, it's about the value created from the service or product. Is the answer the author has given worth more or less because his knoweldge and expertise allow him to provide an answer quickly? With hourly billing, it's always less. The client sees it as trivial and the employer sees little or no value.
I see it the other way. Being able to provide an answer or solution quickly shouild be rewarded. Being held accountable for correct and timely results are much more important than simply clocking hours.
Billing hourly, paying employees hourly, etc. are all counter-productive to incentivising knowledge workers to excel. Even the honest ones.
"As time progressed, we wanted to provide our customers with even better Maps including features such as turn-by-turn directions, voice integration, Flyover and vector-based maps."
There's the MVP for Apple Maps. Doesn't mean it's the must useful for everyone, but it's the feature-set that Apple set it's sights on with the new Maps app.
I do think it was stupid to punt on business listings and use Yelp, but I haven't heard of any better options.
Actually the Yelp move is very, very smart but a little premature.
Yelp is building relationships around the world with the key "business listings" companies in each country. For example in Australia they have a relationship with Yellow Pages. The problem is that Yelp isn't in every country but they will be now that they are flush with cash.
So Apple can leverage the work they are doing rather than duplicate efforts.
Let me preface this with saying I long for the day IE6 is completely irrelevant.
The fact is, when doing client work I have a responsibility to design the site in a way that when their customer visits they get the information they need. If the website is broken, for whatever reason, that looks badly on my client and on me.
When I do a site I code and design for modern browsers. However, I make sure even IE6 users can get the information they need or order products or whatever the case is with the website.
True, the IE6 users are small in number, however in some cases they can make up an older or important demographic to a client.
That's like wishing for all cars to be as good as Porsches. While I share your sentiment, The Deck is high-end advertising for a small batch of high-end advertisers.. people won't/can't/don't want to pay those rates everywhere.
