> Linode is a good example of how we're different. As per my knowledge, you can have your own kernel, that's true, but you need to make a special request to support & then wait for them to modify your server. It's not included out of the box.
Nope you just compile it yourself set up grub right and choose 64bit or 32bit pv-grub for your kernel
It wasn't just the popup for me it was the stock photos that turned me off (you have a bunch of suited guys and gals on the about page but scroll down to what looks like comments of all guys names and descriptions.
Linode and prgmr give you pretty much full access unless you are somehow offering something else?
Some tips for your homepage, get rid of that popup it is the bane of many internet users. Maybe show some pictures of your admin if it looks alright, and stay away from stock photos. State where the hell your servers are located.
If you are going to go the terminal way with ssh-agent I highly recommend using keychain (http://www.funtoo.org/en/security/keychain/intro/ ) which is quite easy to setup and use, and much easier than having to do ssh-add and so on every time you want to use a specific key.
One of the sad things though is that hp has really declined in quality calculators, if you look around you'll find quite a few problems regarding accuracy in the new 35s close to critical values. (Though they may have updated the software version since my purchase a few years ago)
I do like my giant hp50g for anything that doesn't need matlab though, and the 35s is still pretty good despite its errors (especially since I know where the errors exist).
Speaking from a younger persons point of view: what about being 26 would make you worse than say a 21 year old at starting a startup?
If you are supporting other people it may be quite a bit harder but if you are basically only supporting yourself I would see age as an advantage as you have more experience in dealing with problems and more solutions available.
Age to me seems like a silly thing to prevent you from starting a business it is the other things in like that should be taken into consideration.
I started out with python doing project euler (http://projecteuler.net/) though that really won't give you that good of a background in python for the web and I mostly learned by going through the tutorial on the python website and going through the docs.
If you want a book I think apress begginning python is among the more recommended books after you have started out, and for the sake of time and your wallet avoid oreily's python books as they are about 700 pages over length.
You might want to give the Python Essential Reference a try instead as it is quite a good reference and something like the first 6 chapters are a nice quick tutorial, though it probably is more high level than you want (probably read it in a store first).
The django book (http://www.djangobook.com/) is available for free and is good for learning the internals though it can be a bit dry and there a some screencasts for django around if you look.
Is rvm commonly used for production or just development environments? I can see where having a script to get your production (or testing) environment up and running with minimal user work would be useful, but if this is meant for just development I agree with your point.
