Unfortunately this occurred at the exact moment I was deploying some changes. Makes me think that being so dependent on GitHub for a production code repo is a little big dangerous.
Redundancy would certainly solve this issue, though.
There's already built-in redundancy. Wherever you pushed to Github from has a complete copy of the current state of your repository. Github is effectively just a publicly accessible mirror, but you can always push to a different remote elsewhere, push directly to your production instance, or even host your repo in an s3 bucket, all while Github is down.
I've been in some development environments where the GitHub master branch is what the build system pulls from in order to deploy to dev, staging and production. With that setup, it's more challenging since the build process probably involves more steps and potentially ssh keys that are only allow the build server to deploy.
Depending on how many repos you need, I would say set up an alternative remote on bitbucket.org.
Right, I get that...I meant a separate remote when I said redundancy. GitHub has just been so reliable I haven't even needed other remotes for the past 8 or so months we've been using it like joeblau mentioned.
Some pretty good passive suggestions! My personal favorite is iOS app sales, which seem to bring in a couple of extra bucks per day if you have something people use.
I personally use SmartGit for committing and visualizing projects, and sometimes use Github for Mac if I'm just quickly cloning a repo off of their site.
The ads and interface have always been a pain, yes. But I wouldn't call their domains overpriced...I've used coupon codes from RetailMeNot and other sites for years and have gotten domains for 7.99/yr (at most). And that's renewals and new domains.
I'd say I'm not the typical GoDaddy customer, with about 8-10 annual domains from coupons...but I'm not dissatisfied.
Gandi.net domains are $15 and come with whois privacy and an SSL cert valid for a year. Name.com domains are $10 always, with frequent no-coupon-code sales at around $7. Namecheap domains are $10 and come with a one year valid SSL cert and whois privacy.
By comparison, without coupons, a godaddy domain is $12, and from looking at their site it appears to be an additional $12 for whois privacy, and i couldn't find their SSL certificates start at $50.
It's true that godaddy runs a ton of promotions that make their domains cheaper, but you're spending a lot of time to get the price down to their competitor's normal prices, and without the extra goodies you get with them.
I do not recommend name.com. They have really sleazy DNS practices. They setup parking pages for all of your domain names if they aren't overridden with your own records and wildcard subdomains as well.
Not a bad how-to...he mentioned the mod_wsgi route and that's the one I'm most fond of. You can still use Nginx to handle all static files and proxy all other requests to Django.
Totally agree on your tea assessment, and I also greatly prefer Oolong tea. We'd only ever drink Oolong if we were in a teahouse or other formally prepared setting, as I can't recall a single we (me and my wife) made it successfully.
I've lived in China for nearly a year and completely agree with your budget, but I'm really curious about the 20,000RMB meals you've had. I'd say I've had quite a few meals with governmental officials and company board members, but nothing even close to that type of budget. Mind if I ask which city and/or what circumstances led to such an outing?
I was in Shanghai, and Tianjin. They were 12+ people or so, and a lot of the cost was attributed to alcohol and tea. An original Da Hong Pao, for example, will put you well over the 20k RMB mark, but restaurants won't serve it so you need to make special arrangements.
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Redundancy would certainly solve this issue, though.