I was about the say the same. I installed Google's Keep just this week.
Also, a former coworker of mine works at Keep.com, so that also came to mind.
I guess it's a popular name. His web site does say "Keep – a new, free iOS app" so perhaps it will not be confusing within the scope of Apple's app store and there is no intention for an Android release.
That all said, it looks very nice from the screenshots and I was able to understand the utility being provided from the description. Congrats on the release.
Keep has no relation to Google's app keep or the keep shopping app that is also in the app store. We realize that there are other apps that use the word keep but we decided that we wanted to go with it.
We started off with a few servers in the Netherlands and just hosted the Mini NAT only range which took off really well. We've now bought a server in France to start a dedicated IPv4 range. We plan to expand this range into more countries and more places as it grows. Obviously then we will need a few more techs to manage the servers and it would become less bootstrapped.
It's interesting to see people using NAT to solve the problem of restricted IPs. It is probably too late for a newcomer to claim an allocation of IPs from RIPE,etc.
Are you considering IPv6 support? Several people are out there offering IPv6-only hosting, (as well as the traditional folk who offer both), which is nice to see.
As a final question how are you planning to detect and deal with spammers, or copyright infringers? Both are drawn to cheap plans..
NAT is an interesting solution and we offer 20 ports which helps people still host websites, apps and services on our servers without needing a dedicated IPv4 address (reverse proxy).
We have IPv6 support, you just need to submit a ticket after ordering and we add 20 native IPv6 addresses!
We have a rate limited SMTP port and if people go over this we will give 1 warning, ask for the reason and if it's valid then we will either just let it continue or lift the limit. Repeated offences will have services terminated immediately. Same goes for copyright offences. The resources are fairly small (HDD/SSD, BW) so it is not too hard to detect.
You may be interested (since you appear to offer DNS Hosting) that many of these Mini plans are used as DNS slaves because of their cheap price. An interesting use I've found.
Good news we've got IPv6 support coming by the end of tomorrow (hopefully). All existing clients will get an IPv6 address and all new clients will obviously get one.
Thanks for the advice, I'll get someone to proofread it however at this price I can assure you that we have to dedicate the majority of our budget to technicalities.
We offer it for £4/year not month. SO significantly cheaper.
A Raspberry Pi would not provide better performance than the E3 we have.
Anyway an idea: it's fun. Trying to run a whole LAMP stack or a RoR stack on 64MB RAM is more fun than not using all your resources. Also we're cheap and people like that. We might not always beat them in performance but we don't break the bank either.
