Extra vote for this, my company prefers to keep the data inhouse whenever possible
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I think an even nicer solution would be a custom tier generator that allows you to drag a slider with the planned quantity Then just a fixed over usage surcharge
I would like to read a postmortem, should be no less exciting than a gitlab's one
Well, you're right, though I've seen data in there for domains with about 10k emails per month.
Still, that's probably way over the home email setup threshold.
Have you tried to check https://postmaster.google.com/? You _may_ get an insight on what went wrong those 3 months ago
Dang, I should go try and reapply, also e-resident, also got rejected pretty quickly. Good to know the guys are open to re-evaluation.
Works for me too, false alarm
Finding customers is always a tough task. We started from μ-ISVs with simple Windows applications to probe the market and see whether people are ready to buy tests and QA as a service and then slowly expanded the offered services list.
We have great customer retention (excluding some specific one-time projects, like a penetration test), I hope due to our dedication :)
I would say manual tests are most popular, and then load tests, then automation. Often customers start from a tiny manual test and then use our services more and more, in other QA areas, being happy to receive all of those from one window in a unified manner.
I actually run a small QA-as-a-service company (for 3+ years) and I should say that we strive to distance ourselves from "freelance" word as much as possible.
As most other cheap labors in a remote freelance mode — it is discredited. I think it would be just hard to build a personal brand strong enough to compete with tons of people, who can look like a diamond on a pre-sale phase and then just disappear.
Something similar was offered by connex.io but unfortunately they've closed recently.
Take a look at 2checkout, they have some recurrent billing functionality out-of-box.
google apps
dnspark
maxcdn
evernoteWe use KPMRS.com, pretty satisfied.
I've got a few filing folders with binders, each with different color of cover: red for bills, green for hardware guarantee docs, yellow for various (mostly government) docs.
Shameless plug: if anyone needs a quality assurance engineer - feel free to contact me, I'm currently looking for a remote QA job.
I hope remote (telecommute) ones exist too.
There's a simple straight alternative called YMLP (http://ymlp.com). They're dirt cheap and they're more than 10 years on a market.