A/B Testing Gone Awry

It looks like RapidSSL is doing A/B testing with prices per browser. They aren’t filtering this by IP address however, so loading the site in different browsers back-to-back gives you wildly different prices.

IE9: $79.00 Firefox 5: $49.00 Chrome: $19.00

$60 price swing depending on your browser. Occasionally you get in-between prices as well; after [...]

End of an Era

For the past decade, I had been using DynDNS to give me a memorable hostname for my home network. I signed up in either 99 or 2000, hard to tell at this point, and picked a hostname on the .ath.cx domain; it was free at the time and I liked the sound of it.

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