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Michael Bely
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Michael Bely writes Research As A Hobby, a personal blog at researchasahobby.com about science and business. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Beware of EIG Hosting: Expansive List of EIG Companies and Brands”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a Rackspace thread about ending discounted services for open source projects. The only comment quotes a passage warning that private-equity-owned software and hosting firms get stripped down and resold.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Michael Bely's ResearchAsaHobby blog
Most-linked posts?
- Beware of EIG Hosting: Expansive List of EIG Companies and Brands3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-18
What Hacker News says?
> I keep saying this but: if your company has been acquired by private equity firms, consider moving asap. Most of these firms will strip the company bare, cut expenses to the bone and try to sell the company to someone else for a profit. While this strategy may work very well for traditional manufacturing firms, I'm highly skeptical of software/tech companies. For anyone in a web hosting role, I suspect the same wo…
Comment linking /full-list-eig-hosting-companies-brands/
on “Rackspace to discontinue discounted services for open source projects”Submitted Beware of EIG Hosting: Expansive List of EIG Companies and Brands as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted List of EIG Companies and Brands (Beware EIG Hosting) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion