[NBLUG/talk] Cloud idea

Zack Gold zzatkin at gmail.com
Thu May 3 09:29:02 PDT 2012


I wish I had spare change to pay for a cheap server around all my college expenses. :(

On May 3, 2012, at 8:49 AM, Steve Johnson <fratm at adnd.com> wrote:

> Personally,  I think this is just a poor excuse to steal services.
> The free offering is there to entice you to pay for the full service,
> not for you to exploit it..  Man up, and just pay for the service..
> It's cheap.
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Zack Gold <zzatkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> EC2 micro = poor man's website hosting.
>> 
>> On May 2, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Scott Doty <scott at ponzo.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 04/27/2012 07:12 PM, Aaron Grattafiori wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> You could use FUSE to link them all together, but you would have to
>>>> write a fair amount of code and the system would probably be very slow.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hmm, just saw this...it's not a bad idea for nearline storage, esp. if
>>> you were to build it with some kind of RAID redundancy...
>>> 
>>> If you did use RAID, you would have to export your dataset from another
>>> system, though, unless you were to use some kind of clustering fs...I
>>> dunno, seems like it would be easier to just bring up an EC2 instance. ;)
>>> 
>>> -Scott
>>> 
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