Skip >ATM Amazon is not particularly high on my list. Afaics you get 100MB of >storage and an unknown amount of compute and bandwidth (after their time limit >of 12 mo). For which one has to commit a CC. Kind of risky, a pig in a poke.
>Amazons intentions appear to be getting paying customers, and all my >intentions are towards unmonetized stuff. Not likely to yield a good fit. >Their may yet be a crevice through which this ghost can scamper. Eg i do have >10GB of ~dropbox_account which houses my ~pics and ~plans. But that is rather >dumb, html5, stuff. A server would be nice and it may be that one can cobble >such together from Amazon... but it would take a lot of investment from me to >find out. >In theory i should be able to get a free service on which one could load a >server, perhaps even get DNS, with storage elsewhere when demands are low. It >seems though that the gotchas are particularly tricky around compute servers. >i expect they expect anyone smart enough to use servers are smart enough to >make them money. ---~ http://i.tgu.ca/dropbox_account http://pics.tgu.ca http://i.tgu.ca/bright_plan_f http://allpoetry.com/poem/8441927-Im_nobody__Who_are_you_-by-Emily_Dickinson greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: Skip Cave <[email protected]> to: [email protected] date: 9 September 2013 08:43 subject: Re: [Jbeta] jsoftware JUM >Why not just grab a free virtual machine from Amazon >(http://aws.amazon.com/free/) and put the JUM on that? Skip ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
