Hello list, I currently get Internet through my cable company (Astound in SF) where I get 18MB down and 2MB up. Realistically speaking, I get 14MB down and 1.8MB during peak hours. Believe it or not, my service has never been down - or at least I have never noticed. I run syncing processes with my Amazon-cloud-hosted servers every hour through cron on my Ubuntu home server. I've never had a need to do anything remotely close to having to flashing my router with VMs running Windows 3.1. I play games and stream high definition content all the time on my PS3, XBOX 360, Wii, Google TV and other Internet-enabled devices. I use Dropbox to sync data with my clients, skype to do video conferencing with them and Facetime through my iPhone to talk to my gf. Two of my development Android-based phones periodically grab updated vectors of crowdsourced street data for the entire world through wifi every week. I can ssh to most of my servers through dynamic DNS services and whenever I am in Europe, I can use that functionality to stream content to my hotel room. Whenever I am not at home, I use my Rovio ( http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/tech/telepresence/rovio/rovio) to move around the house and check that everything is OK - no matter where I am in the world.
I do all of this for $45/month and no contract. Is there a valid, *reasonable*, argument why I should be looking at datacenters or other ISP solutions?
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