Nice idea of future! :)
Btw as side question - I heard transfer rates from S3 are capped badly. Something like 5-10Mbps. Is that true? Anyone of you ever came across such cap? On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Astrodog <astro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This gives me an idea. The vending machine could also sell hosting. > > Sometimes, the box just won't come back to life and you need somewhere > > to stuff the data. *grin* > > How about a vending machine, where you insert a hard drive, swipe your > card, > and it either gets vaulted to S3 or an EC2 intance is spawned on the > cloud, and the data on the drive becomes the instance's boot media and > gets streamed to the instance storage over a 10-gigabit connection > from the vending machine, until all the data's uploaded. > > That solves the problem of end users getting their data to the hosting > provider quickly, with no need to stress out their low-speed WAN. > > -- > -JH > > -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com or simply - http://[2001:470:26:78f::5] if you are on IPv6 connected network! Twitter: @anurag_bhatia <https://twitter.com/#!/anurag_bhatia> Linkedin: http://linkedin.anuragbhatia.com