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I just had this happen to me with the new Beatles rock band. Gave the card to a friend as a gift a month ago. Game released yesterday and they had no copies for him today. Supposedly 7 days. Target staff didn't seem to care or offer any sort of resolution.

Originally I would have said that the lack of paid support options would have stopped me, but looking at their site now it looks like they havea 3rd party taking care of that... I would have to read some reviews on that company before I would commit... I probably wouldn't hesitate for something simple like a web site running Wordpress or something, but using it like as a EC2 Image, I would probably stick with something more tested.

I am not 100% on this, but AFAIK hosts doesn't support wildcards which means for each client I would need to edit my hosts... not so much a pain on one machine, but I have 5 or 6 machines... some with multiple operating systems... a real management nightmare to sync all the clients.

Second I am not sure how Apache would handle that... I dunno if it can resolve name based virtual domains without a full domain name... if you try it, i would love to know how to comes out.

As far as I know hosts does not support wildcard... this means I would have to manage the hosts file every time I added another client, which isn't a huge problem but I have over 6 machines I use here at home (desktops, laptops, netbooks) and some of them have multiple OSes. Keeping the configuration on the server means that my clients "just work" and I don't have to go around trying to sync host configurations... to me worth the 7 bucks.

Also, honestly I have no idea how Apache would recognize it if it was in the hosts file. If you try it, let me know!

I wouldn't use ubuntu as a production web server either, but it works just fine for a development environment.

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Thanks for the comment. Yeah I think the intense debate plugin could use a little UI tweaking!

I think freelancing should be whatever you can make of it that works for you... honestly if coworking is what works for you, that is fine... but if you are having to read articles that tell you how to get focused and make your freelance life into an office life, you are just better off with an office life.