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Silvrback performs well under stress. It's setup to autoscale when a traffic surge is detected so the platform can easily handle articles making the front page of HN. Unicorn and memcached also really help.

You chose a really nice place to move to. I'm jealous. Be sure to visit Abel Tasman national park.

Really good book. I recommend it as well.

I had the same strategy as this but I realized one important thing: I was spending all of my time looking at the damn charts.

The opportunity cost of being constantly distracted and worried about your investment might be higher than the profits you're realizing. Especially if you are a developer and command decent hourly rates.

It's also not enjoyable to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, worrying about what the current price is.

Thank you for this explanation. I'm always telling people the same thing. We should respect the name which the discoverer gave to it.

Just not possible in the sense that a hosted solution has the expectation that everything is managed for you. An open-source solution requires you to do the work of setting it up, configuring, handling traffic spikes, backups, etc...

I apologize if I've missed an email. The last couple of weeks have been really hectic for me. Please send it to me again.

Yeah, you're right. There's always going to be a group of people that want to configure everything themselves and setup their own servers. I'm not really targeting this group with silvrback. Open source ghost would be the best route for you.

However, there are a number of people looking for hosted solutions so they don't have to waste any time with config issues. This is where Silvrback comes in. Also, Silvrback should really only be compared to the hosted version of Ghost (which isn't out yet). Comparing it to open source isn't really possible.