[email protected] wrote: > I know this is a little bit off topic, but why would you set up a machine > to be a server? Nobody does that any more.
1. I want to own my own data. Sometimes the government decides to raid a data center and impound the machines that hold the evidence. In a cloud environment, I don't know whether that's the same machine I'm on or the one below it in the rack or what. 2. When something goes down, I can assign the priority I place on getting it back up. I will never be big enough for anyone at Amazon to say "let's get Dan's service up first!". 3. If you size your service properly and have some reasonable forecasting of growth, owning it yourself can be cheaper. 4. LAN speeds are still faster than WAN speeds, and more consistent. 5. If I have to have hardware for some other reason, I might as well have it do as much as possible. I can't hook up a mouse and keyboard and monitor to the router. (Well, I can, actually, but most people can't.) 6. Ease of troubleshooting. If I can't play the music from the media fileserver on the laptop feeding the living room stereo, I can debug that. If a Chromecast box stops feeding music from the cloud, I can try poking the power switches and grunting like a caveman. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
