One can only imagine the other beginner mistakes made by this operator.

Well, you're responding to him, so questions or suggestions are probably better than speculation.

My comment about vitriol was more directed at the HN commenters than Eric himself. Really, I think a discussion about web infrastructure is more interesting than a hatefest on Google. Thankfully, the balance seems to have shifted since I posted my top-level comment.

> Well, you're responding to him, so questions or suggestions are probably better than speculation.

I suspect the author is unaware of their other blindspots. It's not 2001 anymore. Holding yourself out as a hosting provider comes with some baseline expectations.

> baseline expectations

Do you have more details? That sounds interesting.

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Everyone learns somehow.