[GRLUG] Speed test

[john-thomas richards]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 01:40:22PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
[snip]
> Web hosting sites have similarly started to
> provide vast amounts of storage space.  35GB
> to 100GB according to their web sites.  I think
> most outfits have simply discovered that they
> can safely offer large rates and large amounts
> of storage space because in practice people
> can't use them any in general.  Other than test
> sites,  few ( but some ) servers go all that fast,
> and who has even 35GB of kah-kah to put on
> their web site?   So one ends up with vast
> capacities and no real way to use them.  Good
> advertising, but little practical effect.

I am sure there are a number of folk on this list who could fill up 35GB of
space with music and/or movies.  One could store one's music collection online
and access it from anywhere.
-- 
john-thomas
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the
end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher
(1749-1832)