[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - broadband

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > I honestly do not know what I would do with more bandwidth.  Faster
> > upload would be great, but I don't run a server.  Backing up to my
> > online backup would be more convenient, that's all.  I have the basic
> > speed (8Mbps?) from Comcast and my wife and I can both watch something
> > from hulu.com just fine.  I'm not sure what more speed would get me.
> > Not that I wouldn't love it, mind you, I just don't know what I'd do
> > with it.
> Imagine a network where the norm would be for your "internet
> appliance" to not be just a web browser connecting to the rest of the
> world, but be the end SMTP target for your email, the hosting of your
> private section of your social network, and the place you share your
> pictures, video and recordings from.  Where the single point of
> failure is under your control, and not shared by tens of millions of
> people.

I can imagine it (for ~$20 a month - http://www.linnode.com/) but I'm
pretty sure almost nobody wants it.

The vast majority of people don't want to host their content from their
house.  It is just too inconvenient;  there is a wonderful economy of
scale for data-centers.

But I do want control - the VM-cloud (vs. the Google-Amazon-Cloud
[thinly veiled vendor-lock-in-cloud]) provides the best of both worlds.