I agree with 100% The cloud is just someone else's computer. I was referring to local machines and the use of VMs.
> [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
