Leigh Porter wrote:
You dudes need to get with the times and put all this stuff in the cloud. Ok so I joke a little..
The "cloud" seems to be a more modern implementation of the mainframe "paradigm" (and now I feel soiled having used 2 such words in one sentence). It has its uses, though it's interesting to see how things go full circle. I predict a move away from "the cloud" in about a decade, give or take.
The only thing I keep at home now is storage.
I do have a few virtual private servers (and use them) and have set up a few VPS serving servers myself. However it's fun to tinker with hardware and if I'd migrate as much as possible to VPS systems it'd take a big chunk of the fun out of it. As a side note, the main reasons for me to have a more energy efficient setup is not to "go green" (there are better ways for that) but because it is a fun challenge, I dislike paying bigger bills, and I hate the clutter and the noise a big setup brings. Greetings, Jeroen -- Earthquake Magnitude: 3.2 Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 22:00:06 UTC Location: Central Alaska Latitude: 62.0453; Longitude: -152.4945 Depth: 10.90 km