[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - broadband

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Adam Tauno
Williams<awilliam at whitemice.org> 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.

http://www.linode.com/

Hm.  That might be a good place to bounce to from Slicehost.  A
significant performance improvement for a very small increase in
price. (If you haven't been following, RC has been having severe
growing pains these last couple weeks, thanks to what amounted to a
quarter-slashdotting from StumbleUpon.)

>
> 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.

Perhaps.  I'm of the mind that I'd like to have more say over whose
hands touch the hardware my system sits on, if only because I don't
necessarily trust those hands not to touch the software and data on
the system. (Though let's not get into another massive thread about
privacy concerns and control over one's own local software.)


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