A sure way to kill several hours coloring old family pics :)

A lot must depend on the average salary they pay cleaners. If it's around or under $20K/year, then probably doing quite well despite having 100 cleaners on payroll.

Large number of login emails seem to be from asdasd.ru domain. Googling one of these emails I find a site that resembles a public inbox with emails from Facebook in it, like this one - http://asdasd.ru/read/414831.

It does not do clock sync/accuracy determination. Time.is is rather unique that way. However, I'm skeptical over the importance of that feature.

disclosure: worldtimebuddy founder.

This piece blew me away - thank you for posting it! I wonder if many people find the main message difficult to relate to. I certainly would have just 2 years ago while in a corporate world.

It is a clever (accidental?) marketing, but will the traffic stick?

Naturally, after reading the post, I went to check what fetchnotes is all about and... could not figure it after 30 seconds of scanning the homepage and left.

Anyone else had that problem?

I had the opposite reaction: this smacks of amateurishness, leaving me skeptical of the overall product.

I recommend giving PHPFog a try.

I've been running a good-traffic site on PHPFog for about 6 months on the $29 plan. The product has some issues but, overall, I'm quite fond of it, the site speed, newrelic monitoring that they bundle in, and responsiveness of support.

Here are a few subtleties you may uncover. These may or may not be deal-breakers for you - they weren't for me (at least, yet):

1) No control over client-side caching policies via .htaccess. Though, I've heard it's in the works. 2) $5 subdomains seem highly priced. I would be using them if not for that. 3) No SLA (i.e. availability) which makes me a bit jittery. 4) Documentation is murky on MySQL resource usage limits (other than disk space). 5) Flashy error pages from PHPFog when/if the service is down make no secret about where the site is hosted and instance status. Some discretion is probably in order.

There's always room to improve ;)

Keep up the good work, PHPFog!

It's $5 for the subdomains. Still, a bit pricey.

It's HN + LifeHacker.

Working with hosting company to resolve...

Who's your host? You need to tell them to have a better message to display. This one makes it sound like you're some kind of criminal.

it's the default message from cpanel which makes it look like you use some very bad hosting :)

Finding good hosting is a challenge :) Any recommendations on an affordable hosting (PHP/MySQL) that can easily scale with traffic and takes care of server maintenance/patching?

Thnx!

P.S. The situation is resolved for now.

P.P.S. We've got so much great feedback here and via our site that it'll take some time to go through it all and get back to folks. Thank you!

Just came back from a concert to x10 traffic on world time buddy, which tracks back straight to here :)

Really glad to see a lot of positive feedback - thanks guys! The UX indeed took a long time to get right (?), with multiple (failed) versions over a couple of years. Simple things are hard to make.

Love the suggestions/ideas as well. Will consider for upcoming features.

Can folks elaborate what they mean by "slow". Feel free to do so in private, over email -- [email protected]

P.S. Why didn't I think of posting here myself? :)

It takes 5+ seconds to auto-complete the city, and then 10+ seconds to reload the page after I click on the city. That's pretty slow in my opinion.

BTW, that's a great UI, much better than timeanddate.com (which I normally use)

Thanks felipe,

I can repro this quire regularly now. Will look into the right way to fix.