About 1 - This is why you pay yourself 40k and take the rest as profit distributions. As long as your salary stays above 25% of total income you're fine.
I ran into the same issue. Not a fan of godaddy, but you're going to pay considerably more for a wildcard certificate elsewhere. The 2 year + coupon is a great deal.
Not a YC company but I have sites on Slicehost and FDC Servers. Slicehost was nice for setting up my first Linux server - now that I've done it, I'll be using FDC as it's hard to beat FDC for the price/bandwidth.
If you can stay under 3 TB/month 1and1 also has some decent servers for the money.
This is the approach I try to take. I explained it poorly, but that's what I meant when I said "setup situations where they can win". But just letting them win so they don't have to feel sad about losing? Not with me.
One of my boys will call a foot race to the car when he's close enough to where he thinks he can beat me. When he says go, I'm coming full tilt. Or when we practice baseball I'll set up a contest - hit a ball past me and we go for ice cream.
I very rarely let my kids win anything. You can play games of chance or setup situations where they can win. In the situation described in the blog post it's really a judgement call for the father - if the child was able to present a good argument, then she wins.
Kids whose parents let them win consistently have their world views shattered when they find out that they aren't the best at everything. These children are usually poor sports at winning and losing.
My boys are pretty happy when they beat their old man and I'm proud of them when they do.