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I can definitely see this misused in the hands of wrong people.. heck, even the government or corporate world, like rejecting some candidates during the interview cause they look like criminals or smth? I'm sure it sounds like a cool tech but feels like a disaster to me.


What's wrong with my smartphone... damn episode won't start downloading. A lot of work was put into transcribing this one, it must be good.


> I would estimate that only 25% of the Xamarin project I manage is cross platform code.

Yep, you will keep hearing this from people complaining of Xamarin. A huge problem indeed, and I'd say enough for it not be worth learning.


Vs what? Native would be the same? And with native you have different languages. So which cross platform gives you that but with more code sharing? 25% (which is low, we are well over 60% in general) is more than 0% and you can work in F# to boot.


For whoever doesn't know what Enigmail is... it's a security add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows you to use OpenPGP to encrypt and digitally sign your emails and to decrypt and verify the messages received.


I love reading your weekly digests!


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Our cPanel uses self-signed certificates. Self-signed certificates work exactly like a certificate purchased through an SSL Certificate Authority, except that they are NOT signed by a Certificate Authority. Instead they are signed by your server; hence the term “self-signed”.

At OneSite, your data is always safe


Self-signed certificates are not secure as they are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8110/what-are-t...

With free/cheap certificates widely available through e.g. Let's Encrypt and AWS Certificate Manager, there's absolutely no reason to use self-signed certificates.

The cPanel login page linked to in the footer isn't using any HTTPS, self-signed or otherwise. This means that anyone controlling the network can inject javascript to steal your users' passwords.


Hello, We've developed a sustainable business model. Without the free hosting, OneSite wouldn't make sense. Our main objective is becoming a high quality cheap web hosting. To do this, instead of spending a lot of money on advertising, we are providing free hosting, to reach the same point, at a lower cost. Free hosting is what will make OneSite make sense. We will make a profit with AdSense in our website and with paid upgrades. But we do not plan to discountinue free hosting, and I even believe it would be illegal to do so.


No, but this has been the most helpful comment so far! Do you think we should implement it?


Definitely.


Do you have any examples so that we can base it on these?



Yep, we do. You can set it up through cPanel :)


Hello, What we want to prove is that in this industry, paid customer acquisition costs are so high, that it's better to save these by increasing your server costs. We offer free web hosting, which essentially gets promoted alone. We have higher server costs, true, but it's still worth it. We earn money through Google AdSense on our site and through paid upgrades we'll soon be offering.


If it's "unlimited everything for free", then what sort of things could be upgradable with a fee?


We could very well provide VPSes, cloud services, domains and/or SSD web hosting where you could also host unlimited domains (now you can host one domain per account)


You have no idea, don't you ? :)


Well, I've been in the management of the biggest free web hosting provider for quite some years already. I do know what I am doing


If you did know that you would give us an answer with some more content.


True


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