[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - broadband

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 06:01:10PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > 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.

I don't want to administer my own machine like that.  I'm an end-user;
I've never been a sysadmin (well, except for an already well-setup SCO
UNIX box that required nothing more than switching backup tapes every
week).  I've no real desire to be a sysadmin.  I'm happy letting the
Dreamhost crew do it.
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john-thomas
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