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I would be surprised if you could sell it, Free pieces of code are often distributed with a GNL Open Source License meaning you must make it freely available.

As they are not responsible for the business, they are classified as an employee meaning it is your responsibility to deduct tax and National Insurance.

I don't think you understand, it is a law that needs to be followed.... You MUST pay tax!

Anyway, I think that is fair although at £10 per hour or less depending on working hours, and the tiny time frame that has been set I don't think you shall get many takers.

I believe that is what a_bertrand is saying, so you don't actually get free accommodation, as you are still paying for yours that you aren't using.

I think what a_bertrand is asking is whether they would still be paying for their flat which is seeing no use? So they would be paying for their accommodation regardless, just not the one you are offering. Flat They Rent - X Per Month Flat You Rent - Free Whilst living in your flat, they are still paying X per month for their flat.

£10.00 isn't much, it would buy you four bus tickets in London (about £2.30) so you wouldn't have much left over, especially if you had to pay for two tickets to get to and from the meetings etc.

Ok, I've taken a bit of a break due to a complete lack of ideas but I'm back with another crazy idea that I am sure shall make you laugh and question my sanity! I am creating a PHP, HTML, CSS and some JavaScript/JQuery game engine that shall serve up a tile based map. I've done some stress testing and managed to load 75 000 images simultaneously with ease in four seconds at a size of 70 kB. I am planning on creating a tile map which is considerably smaller, which I am sure my server can handle and to which the bandwidth shouldn't be too high. The map would be 30 X 30 which would bring it to a little bit over the average resolution in terms of width and 1500px downwards. This would be 900 cells (tiles), my question is: Do you think it would be better to store each persons map in a .txt file and then read it once and store it (still working on this) so that it doesn't need to query it again and only needs to scroll through and update once at the end when they click 'Save' (security concerns with reading and writing to text files?) or Do you think it would be better to store each persons map in a table in a MySQL database and read it once and store it so that it only needs to be queried once? Do you see any problems with creating 900 tiles for a map, they won't be displayed all at once and instead would be scrolled through with JavaScript. From my tests, I think my server can handle it providing there aren't too many players online at the same time, and providing I monitored it correctly I got a download of about 48 B from a randomly generated map.   Thanks and hope I made sense! (Forgot to mention, this is also prior to compression so the pages should be even smaller)

Did it require your $50, 000 or whatever it was you where asking for then? Rather slow loading though?

I was going to say one, but only because the binary value of 10 is 2, so 2 - 1 bird shot = 1.

How are you planning on doing SEO? (Obviously without giving too much away about your business plan) The most basic method for your registration/login is to use a PHP script and then query against a MySQL database.

Six cores for a server.... a waste of money to start with. Secondly, as the others have stated you are claiming unrealistic facts. My server went down just the other day, nothing to do with a DDOS attack... these things just happen. Wikipedia also was down yesterday, SERVERS GO DOWN REGARDLESS OF SIZE! If you're offering 'unlimited everything' then I suppose you wouldn't mind me uploading a couple of GB of photos and then streaming them every couple of minutes... oh wait, you would reach a bandwidth cap within minutes. Let's talk about security, what security measures do you have in place? And please don't say, 'It is Linux, you don't need security'. Questions for you: What security do you have? What OS is it running? Why waste money on a six core CPU when it would of been better to use a 4 Core and upgrade RAM? What's your bandwidth Cap? What ports do you allow?

lol, I explained it to them twice and finally gave up. In truth, I'm not sure whether a sales assistant would understand what a directory index is.

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

What would happen if for example someone filed a DMCA claim though? If you're hosting someones website on your servers, but the Cloudflare servers are serving it from their servers.... then I am guessing you would contact Cloudflare who would then contact you?

No, but you would also have that issue if there was a legal claim. If you are re-routing the traffic then you introduce another person into it, so by re-routing through cloudflare where do they stand?

Just wondering, where does the law stand on this? Rulerofzu has brought up an interesting point, is the content classed as being server from the UK or US and how does this cloudflare re-route thing affect it? As you should be aware (considering you are in the hosting business), you have three things... where the person is viewing the content, where the servers hosting the content are and where the person who uploaded it is.

Yeah, the Cloudflare business confused me a bit. Sorry, looks like you may be telling the truth :p I guess there is no need to call in the IWF, lol

Ok, found you on some kind of conspiracy website, suggesting cloudflare to be used by hackers. Cloudflare-watch.org Your IP and site was listed as just being added to the cloudflare service (so I apologise).

That might be the quickest way to solve this, for we can be a very stubborn bunch :p Although, that is the final IP, and it certainly isn't any of the ones cloudflare gave. The IP of your site according to my pings are 108.162.197.24 where as Cloudlfare has the following: 204.93.240.0/24 204.93.177.0/24 199.27.128.0/21 173.245.48.0/20 103.22.200.0/22 141.101.64.0/18 108.162.192.0/18 190.93.240.0/20 https://www.cloudflare.com/ips

I also pinged your website to find it being hosted in America, surely you would host your own website on your own servers? Equally, google street viewing the address on your website led me to a high street with the only thing I could find being fast food takeaways (no offence to anyone living there).

Good luck with the project, looking forward to playing it!

Nope, that is very believable. The Game Engine I'm developing for my game (PiE Engine) is all in PHP, the name suggests it... PHP Indie Engine. So will the graphics then load depending on the position, top down sort of thing? Click on the buildings to enter them idea?

Interesting, sounds like a very good project! I'm doing a similar sort of thing with the map, I'm interested to know how you're doing your version and also what languages you are using?

I asked them that on their live chat support, it took them ten minutes to reply and they said 'I don't understand a single work you said'.