Monthly Archives: February 2004

Confessions of a car salesman

What really goes on in the back rooms of car dealerships across America?

What does the car salesman do when he leaves you sitting in a sales office and goes to talk with his boss?

What are the tricks salespeople use to increase their profit and how can consumers protect themselves from overpaying?

To answer these questions, edmunds.com hired a guy to go to car dealerships and work for them and write back his experiences.

Long but interesting reading:

http://edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/article.html?tid=edmunds.a.landing.buying..4.*

Virtual Server Hosting

Researching for cheap webhosting provider with root access:

http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/uses.html

jvds.com $20 a month Linux/FreeBSD 1G+20G
bytemark-hosting.co.uk #15 Linux 3G+15G+1G (backup)
(^ domain #7.75 pa vserver includes DNS hosting. ipv6, backup mx, local mirrors etc)

rimuhosting.com $20 + 10 setup linux 4G+30G
http://www.tektonic.net/ $40 for 3 months linux 3G+50G 64M memory.

Redwood Virtual $100 per year (or $10 pm) for personal.