[NBLUG/talk] Cloud idea

Steve Johnson fratm at adnd.com
Thu May 3 08:49:03 PDT 2012


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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