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I'm guessing "Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google" but with a "_" for some reason

I helped one of my clients swap from their "bespoke" solution (dodgy bash scripts and an S3 bucket) to Snapshooter which made our lives a lot easier. Looking at Backupsheep's website it seems like it is very similar to Snapshooter, so I think that would be your best replacement.

>PHP6 was some kind of abortion

IIRC, the initial development was in the mid 2000s but it was abandoned several years later because they couldn't get Unicode support working correctly. By the time it was abandoned there was already a lot of material referencing it like books and conference talks. So when the PHP team decided to do a new major version most of the planned PHP 6 features were already added to 5.3 and 5.4 so they thought it best to just skip 6 to avoid confusion.

Call me cynical but for those prices I don't expect amazing service or stability, so I don't run any production stuff there.

>Such biscuits are still popular with Afrikaaners in South Africa.

"Rusks", if anyone is curious. You dunk them into your tea or coffee to soften them before eating.

Well, I guess they now know how effective the cannon is...

This is going to be one hell of a rough couple of days for the technician(s) involved.

That's 4chan. The other big site is 8chan, where users can create their own boards and there are less rules, which makes it much harder to moderate. Then you also have all of the smaller chans which tend to get spammed by bots posting illegal stuff like child porn.

Chans allow anonymous users to upload images and historically this leads into a lot of illegal content, especially stuff like child porn, to be uploaded unless you have strict moderation.

zimpenfish mentioned that there are 2500 people working at the company so 160 hiring managers makes much more sense now.

Ah, 2500. That's ~15 people per hiring manager so you're right, that does seem more reasonable.

>Approximately 160 people, all the hiring managers at Riot at the time

Just how big was Riot Games that they need 160 hiring managers? The only big game they made was League of Legends, right?

And before. Most people were still on dialup until I think maybe 2010-2012. Wireless ISPs became really popular during all of this because they could offer better service, better uptime, better speeds, and QOS for things like VOIP. Bandwidth and data usage management became so important that ISPs were also selling managed proxy servers and on-premise email servers to businesses because it was cheaper than having to pay for additional 1GB data caps.

The two primary causes for this situation was that the sole wireline telecomms company in SA and there were only 2 undersea data cables connecting SA (and I think Africa) to the rest of the world. Telkom was semi-private and state-owned so they had no incentive to improve things and also had to pay through the nose for access to the two undersea cables.

However, things started to improve when more undersea cables got laid down (lowering bandwidth prices and improving international bandwidth) and the government started lowering entry barriers so that Telkom stopped being such a monopoly.

When I started my IT career in South Africa the internet situation was pretty horrendous. ADSL/Broadband speeds were 384kbps and you had hard bandwidth caps of ~$7 per gigabyte of traffic on top of your line rental.

Companies and universities could, however, cough up for expensive alternatives, such as a diginet line which the ISP I worked for at the time offered. These guaranteed uptime (which was very appealing as ADSL outages were very common) but you paid a hell of a lot of money per 64kbps of uncapped bandwidth. You were looking at something like $400-$500 a month per 64k for the cheapest support package. And we weren't even the most expensive. There was a law firm that was paying something like $30k a month for their pimped out 2048kbps line.

Thank God things have improved dramatically there in the last decade (at least in terms of internet speeds).