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Xeround (pronounced see-round) is a Database-as-a-Service provider.

Backup! Even though harddisks have meanwhile become extremely inexpensive, and you can build raid arrays with them for little money, this does not protect you against e.g. file system errors. So backup is necessary. As should be well-known by now, I am a big fan of cloud services. My backup too resides in the cloud.

By now, I have registered several domains for myself and for customers. Until about half a year ago, I also ran two DNS servers of my own. But this effort is rather a bit too much, and, to be honest, also too tedious. Since I am a fan of *aaS (Infrastructure|Platform|Software as a Service), I …

What is the freelancer’s favourite pastime? Right: writing invoices! But what comes before the invoice in most cases? Exactly, the offer. And then there are also the reminders. But why should one always have to write all that oneself?

For a freelancer, it is important to have an eye on the clock. Not only to know how long it takes one to do something, no, of course also to know how much one may charge the customer.

When I was young (OMG now I’m also going on like that…) I had a NES box. And almost every game from the house of Konami had a back door that always worked after the same principle.