[NBLUG/talk] Cloud idea

[Steve Johnson]

Being broke is no excuse for stealing.. *shrug* if you can't afford
it, just live with out it.

Google is offering 5 gigs with your gmail account.. That's a lot of
storage, and its free.  You should be happy with that.

-Steve


On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Zack Gold <zzatkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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