Wait? People actually run their own home servers nowadays for development and filesharing? I thought that went away several years ago. Kind of kidding but not really. ;)
I use www.openshift.com for all development (disclaimer: I work on this project so I am biased). Free to use. I use dropbox for photo sharing amazon cloud player premium for music storage (up to 200,000 tracks for 25.00 a year) Movies, I stopped storing and just use netflix and hulu. Total cost: 45.00 a year. On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Charles Curley < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:56:17 -0700 > Levi Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > To restate my point a bit more clearly, buying a refurbished top-spec > > machine with a bunch of noisy fans for a low up-front purchase price > > means that you've probably bought a power-hog of a machine and over > > its remaining lifetime the power budget is likely to play a > > significant part in its ownership costs. > > I agree with your analysis, but will take it a step further. You are not > the only person in the world to make it. I suspect the market has > already discounted the discounted future cost of power to run the > things. > > In a sense, buying cheap power hog equipment is a bet that fracking and > coal will continue to be legal. > > -- > > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, > and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be > violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, > supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the > place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. > -- U.S. Const. Amendment IV > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
