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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com> wrote: > > I gave up my home servers a couple years ago and went with > virtual servers in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Advantages: > - Much cheaper: 15ドル/month total instead of 120ドル/month for > just the DSL line, plus costs of server, UPS, etc. > - Much faster: Amazon connection speeds instead of just 768K. > Agreed. Amazon's datacenters have STUPID amounts of bandwidth. Not to mention that you can treat servers as "throwaways", and build a new one whenever you want. That's great for learning new distros and trying odd disk partitioning schemes. -- Doug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug