A company sent me a "debit card" with a Visa logo with a balance of several thousand dollars to use as I please. The text on the front of the card is "usbank managed spend". How can I withdraw the balance while paying the least in fees?
posted by anonymous on May 10, 2009 - 16 answers

Are there any managed Fast Ethernet switches that are quiet enough to share an office with? [more inside]
posted by Skorgu on Jan 28, 2008 - 3 answers

How can I work with an unmanaged C++ API from within C#? [more inside]
posted by PuGZ on Dec 28, 2007 - 6 answers

Aperture or Lightroom? And do I let them manage my library? It's been a year since it was addressed and both applications have come a long way. So... have opinions been changed? Critical features added? Achilles heels revealed? And regardless of which I pick, should I suck it up and let them manage my library or stick with my hierarchical self-managed structure? [more inside]
posted by phearlez on Nov 12, 2007 - 4 answers

I am completely clueless about web hosting. Let's say I wanted to start a web business. And let's say that web business relied on a variety of different web technologies. At this point, I am technologically agnostic. For the sake of this question, let's pretend those technologies could be a combination of anything, i.e. .Net, Cold Fusion, PHP, Ruby On Rails, Lotus/Domino, Perl, Python, Real Media, Flash, Oracle, SAP, MySQL, etc. etc.
Are there managed hosting companies that will essentially rent you a beefy server in a cozy and secure data center with a clean install of Linux/Windows/etc, which will in turn let you install whatever technology you want as long as you have the requisite software licenses.
I could just host this out of my house, but I would prefer not to purchase my own enterprise server(s), T-1, diesel generator, fireproof room, and requisite Red Bull I will need to stay awake just in case it all falls down.
What are my options?
posted by jasondigitized on Oct 13, 2005 - 18 answers

Managed Fund, too good to be true? [more inside]
posted by amigasteve on Aug 18, 2005 - 13 answers

How do I choose an MS Exchange hosting company? [more inside]
posted by jeb on Jun 9, 2005 - 4 answers