I'm surprised A-GPS didn't get a mention. There must be data leaked when your phone uses MSA to obtain higher resolution for the rough GPS location that it has. (less so with MSB)
I use OVH and Ubiquity for dev'ing; with servers in Europe and the US. Both very cheap and cheerful; my aim is to sync/load balance. Just looked at Cloudatcost - sounds great, I'll have to get one of those too!
Could you use a check constraint of FALSE on the parent table to prevent rows from being erroneously inserted there instead of the actual partition tables?
Someone just skyped me and the office.com tab is now flashing with their name in my browser. I'm not sure how to acknowledge the notification or read the message - any ideas?