Christopher Baus wrote:
I'll always choose more bandwidth and reliability over RAW CPU speed. I honestly don't expect to pay more that $500 for a workstation ever again.
There is definitely some wisdom in that statement. But I have to ask the question - what do all of you (not just Chris) need that expensive bandwidth for?
I have two old laptops - one catches email for me and about 5 others and then serves it up IMAP style, the other is my web server. I run quite a few things on the web server including about 10 dynamic web sites for various people and companies as well as an instance of bugzilla for three different projects.
All of this is done with my ADSL connection - which only has 256kbit upstream, and 512kbit downstream.
I am never going to survive a slashdotting or anything, but as much as I want to justify $30/month for a machine with more bandwidth, I just can't do it. I am getting by far too well running servers off of my home connection. Perhaps I should start advertising for co-location, or virtual servers!!
If I could increase my outgoing bandwidth for a reasonable cost I would go for it, but the ISPs (at least here in the UK) don't even offer it. Perhaps dual DSL connections would do it, or figuring out how to create a wireless mesh network with my neighbors.
So please justify it to me - why should I shell out way too much money in order to host my stuff elsewhere (if you say reliability, tell me why you need it to be reliable!)
Curious, Mike
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