I don't know about anyone else, but that is very impressive to me. I'm sure that most of the members on this list could handle something like that, but I'm not there yet. I would love to be able to do something similar to that, but it may be a couple years before I am confident enough to feel that my data will be secure, let alone the capability to do it. I have to learn how to do reliable backups before I can even start to do something like that, let alone security. Since I am working on web design, web marketing, programming, database and php, it will be a while before I can get to backups, but I know I have to start working on that soon. So I think I'll have to stick with the datacenter for now.
If I'm not mistaken the free Amazon-cloud-hosted servers will only be free for about a year, and on a first come first serve basis, so I might have to miss out on that one. Paul On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Ragi Burhum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > I currently get Internet through my cable company (Astound in SF) where I > get 18MB down and 2MB up. Realistically speaking, I get 14MB down and 1.8MB > during peak hours. Believe it or not, my service has never been down - or at > least I have never noticed. I run syncing processes with my > Amazon-cloud-hosted servers every hour through cron on my Ubuntu home > server. I've never had a need to do anything remotely close to having to > flashing my router with VMs running Windows 3.1. I play games and stream > high definition content all the time on my PS3, XBOX 360, Wii, Google TV and > other Internet-enabled devices. I use Dropbox to sync data with my clients, > skype to do video conferencing with them and Facetime through my iPhone to > talk to my gf. Two of my development Android-based phones periodically grab > updated vectors of crowdsourced street data for the entire world through > wifi every week. I can ssh to most of my servers through dynamic DNS > services and whenever I am in Europe, I can use that functionality to stream > content to my hotel room. Whenever I am not at home, I use my Rovio > (http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/tech/telepresence/rovio/rovio) to move > around the house and check that everything is OK - no matter where I am in > the world. > I do all of this for $45/month and no contract. > Is there a valid, *reasonable*, argument why I should be looking at > datacenters or other ISP solutions? > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
